Peter Hennessy - Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

States of Emergency (with Keith Jeffery)

Sources Close to the Prime Minister (with Michael Cockerell and David Walker)

What the Papers Never Said

Cabinet

Ruling Performance (edited with Anthony Seldon)

Whitehall

Never Again: Britain 19451951

The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution

Muddling Through: Power, Politics and the Quality of Government in Postwar Britain

The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders since 1945

The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War

Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

The New Protective State: Government, Intelligence and Terrorism (edited)

Cabinets and the Bomb

The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst, 19452010

Distilling the Frenzy: Writing the History of Ones Own Times

Establishment and Meritocracy

The Kingdom to Come: Thoughts on the Union Before and After the Scottish Referendum

The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945 (with James Jinks)

Reflections: Conversations with Politicians, volumes 1 and 2 (with Robert Shepherd)

For my teachers at St Johns College, Cambridge, 196669 With gratitude
the late Hugh Brogan, the late Harry Hinsley, Peter Linehan, the late Henry Pelling and the late Ronald Robinson

My thanks to Matt Lyus, whose careful and discriminating eyes are always the first to read my manuscript; and to that prince among copy-editors, Trevor Horwood.

Huge gratitude to Stuart Proffitt, my editor sans pareil at Allen Lane and to the exceptionally helpful team at Penguin: Rosie Glashier, Rebecca Lee, Corina Romonti and Ben Sinyor. Cecilia Mackay is a brilliant picture researcher and a delight to work with.

The staff at the House of Lords Library are one of the glories of Parliament and superb providers of assistance. And thanks to the officials of my favourite government department, The National Archives.

Gratitude to the Trustees of the Harold Macmillan Book Trust for permission to quote from unpublished passages of the Macmillan diaries and to the staff of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, where they are preserved. Thanks also to Faber and Faber Ltd for permission to quote from Philip Larkins Homage to a Government and Annus Mirabilis, both collected in High Windows.

. Terry Thomas and Peter Sellers in Im Alright Jack, 1959. Alamy.

. Front cover of Michael Youngs The Rise of the Meritocracy, Pelican, 1961 edition.

. Tony Hancock in The Bedsitter, 1961. Getty Images.

. Harold Macmillan and President John F. Kennedy meet at Key West, Florida, March 1961. Getty Images.

. General Charles de Gaulle and Macmillan at the Chateau de Rambouillet, December 1962. TopFoto.

. Aldermaston marchers, Easter 1961. PA Images.

. Bertrand Russell at a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, February 1961. Roger Mayne Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library.

. The opening session of the Constitutional Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, 28 March 1961. TopFoto.

. Governors of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika at the commissioning of a new steamer, Lake Victoria, 1961. East African Railway & Harbours.

. Cartoon by Cummings in the Daily Express, 4 August 1961. Michael Cummings Express Syndication Ltd.

. Hugh Gaitskell speaking at the Labour Party Conference, Brighton, October 1962. TopFoto.

. Edward Heath with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Werner Schwarz in Bonn, December 1962. Getty Images.

. Front cover of Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August, pub. Scribner & Sons, 1962.

. Aircrew scramble aboard a Vulcan bomber at RAF Scampton, August 1960. TopFoto.

. The Soviet freighter Volgoles carries Russian missiles away from Cuba monitored by an SP-2 Neptune aircraft, November 1962. Science Photo Library.

. Selwyn Lloyd and David Hubback on their way to the first meeting of the National Economic Development Council, March 1962. Mirrorpix.

. Reginald Maudling as Chancellor, August 1963. Getty Images.

. Front page of the Daily Mirror, after The Night of the Long Knives, 13 July 1962. Mirrorpix.

. Hugh Gaitskell, George Brown, Harold Wilson and Len Williams on Brighton promenade, September 1962. TopFoto.

. Macmillan at Nassau, December 1962. Getty Images.

. Piccadilly Circus during the Big Freeze, New Years Eve 1962. AP/Shutterstock.

. Cartoon by Franklin in the Daily Mirror, 9 January 1963. Stanley Franklin/Mirrorpix.

. De Gaulle holding a press conference, Elysee Palace, Paris, 14 January 1963. Getty Images.

. The opening day of the University of Sussex, October 1962. TopFoto.

. Loughborough College of Advanced Technology students working on a Hawker Hunter F4 aircraft, 1960s. John Gay / Heritage Images / TopFoto.

. The M1 motorway in Hertfordshire, 1959. Mirrorpix.

. Calder Hall nuclear power station, Cumberland, 1962. Getty Images.

. Enoch Powell on a pogo stick with his wife, Pam, and their two daughters, January 1962. Getty Images.

. Anti-smoking poster issued by the Ministry of Health, June 1962. TopFoto.

. The Matron of St Thomas Hospital, with a model of the new hospital, January 1963. TopFoto.

. Residents on the Stifford Estate, Stepney, welcome the Queen, July 1963. TopFoto.

. Opening of a supermarket at Thurnscoe near Barnsley, 1963. Getty Images.

. The refurbished Gresley Class A4 Pacific Union of South Africa leaves Doncaster Works, 1963. Mirrorpix.

. Dr Richard Beeching launches his report, March 1963. TopFoto.

. Gresley Class A4 Pacific Sir Nigel Gresley, in a siding at Ferryhill, Aberdeen, April 1966. Roger Colbeck.

. Colin Cowdrey of Kent and England, comes to the wicket during the last over of the England v West Indies Test Match at Lords, 25 June 1963. PA Images.

. The Ballistic Missile Early Warning System on Fylingdales Moor in North Yorkshire, 1963. Mirrorpix.

. John Profumo with police outside his home in Regents Park, London, June 1963. TopFoto.

. Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies during the trial of Stephen Ward, July 1963. Mirrorpix.

. Lord Denning at Whitchurch station, September 1963. Mirrorpix.

. Newspapers react to the publication of the Denning report, September 1963. TopFoto.

. Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore in Beyond the Fringe, 1964. Getty Images.

. Front cover of the Radio Times, 11 July 1964. Copyright 2019 BBC.

. Mods invade Eastbourne, Easter 1964. Getty Images.

. Harold Wilson at the Labour Party Conference in Scarborough, October 1963. Getty Images.

. Front cover of Sir Leon Bagrit, The Age of Automation, pub. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965 edition.

. The Duke of Edinburgh visits the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Chelmsford, 1962.