Andrew S. Crines - Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister?: A Reappraisal of Harold Wilson

David Coates holds the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, having previously held chairs at the universities of Leeds and Manchester. He has written a number of books on Labour Party politics, including Prolonged Labour (2005).

Andrew S. Crines is lecturer in British politics at the University of Liverpool, having previously taught at the universities of Leeds and Huddersfield. He has published extensively on British politics and specialises in the politics of rhetoric and oratory. He tweets at @AndrewCrines.

Theodore Dalrymple is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who now writes for several national newspapers, as well as for The Spectator and the Salisbury Review. He is the author of several books on British culture.

Peter Dorey is professor of British politics at the University of Cardiff and has specialised in British politics since 1945. His extensive list of publications includes (ed.) The Labour Governments, 196470 (2006) and The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform: A History of Constitutional Conservatism (2008).

Mark Garnett is senior lecturer in politics at the University of Lancaster, where he teaches and researches British politics and contemporary political history, especially in relation to the Conservative Party and think tanks.

Kevin Hickson is senior lecturer in British politics at the University of Liverpool, where he has taught since 2003. He specialises in British political ideologies and has published on the political thought of the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberals/Liberal Democrats.

George Howarth is Labour MP for Knowsley, Merseyside, having first been elected to Parliament in 1986. He was previously a Labour councillor and deputy leader of Knowsley Borough Council.

Kevin Jefferys recently retired as professor of contemporary history at Plymouth University and is the author of a dozen books including Anthony Crosland (1999) and Politics and the People (2007). Sport and Politics in Modern Britain: The Road to 2012 (2012) was winner of the 2013 Lord Aberdare Book Prize for sports history.

Sir Gerald Kaufman MP is the current Father of the House of Commons, having been first elected in 1970. He was previously a journalist and, from 1965 to 1970, was Harold Wilsons press liaison officer.

Dennis Kavanagh is emeritus professor at the University of Liverpool and a recognised authority on British politics. He has published extensively, including as co-author of every Nuffield study of every general election since February 1974, and on the office of Prime Minister.

Jane Martin is professor of social history of education and head of the department of education and social justice at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely on educational development in Britain and is currently conducting research on Caroline Benn and the campaign for comprehensive education funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust.

Shaun McDaid is a research fellow in the centre for research in social sciences at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of Template for Peace: Northern Ireland, 197275 (2013).

Catherine McGlynn is senior lecturer in politics at the University of Huddersfield, where she teaches and researches on conflict resolution and identity politics. She has published widely on the politics of Northern Ireland.

Jasper Miles is a PhD student at the University of Liverpool, researching the Labour Party and Electoral Reform. His research interests include the wider debates on constitutional reform in the United Kingdom and political ideologies in Britain. He teaches on both the British Politics and Foundations in Politics modules at the University of Liverpool.

David S. Moon is lecturer in politics at the University of Bath. His publications cover devolution in the UK, the Labour Party, and political ideologies, rhetoric and oratory.

Kenneth O. Morgan is a Labour peer, a Fellow of the British Academy and former vice-chancellor of the University of Wales. His thirty-five books include biographies of David Lloyd George (1974), Keir Hardie (1975), James Callaghan (1997) and Michael Foot (2007); Labour in Power 194551 (1984) and Labour People (1987).

Jeremy Nuttall is senior lecturer in modern British history at the University of Kingston. His monograph is Psychological Socialism: The Labour Party and Qualities of Mind and Character, 1931 to the Present (2006).

Robert M. Page is reader in democratic socialism and social policy at the University of Birmingham and specialises in British socialism and social policy in historical and contemporary perspectives.

Gillian Peele is fellow and tutor in politics at Lady Margaret Hall and associate professor of politics in the department of politics and international relations at the University of Oxford, where she specialises in comparative UK and US politics. She has published widely, including works such as the Developments in British Politics and Developments in American Politics series, designed to make politics more accessible to a larger audience.

David (Lord) Steel is a Liberal Democrat peer and former leader of the Liberal Party, first elected to Parliament in 1965. He was also a Member and first presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament. His memoirs were published as Against Goliath: David Steels Story (1989).

Robert Taylor