Winds of Change: Britain in the Sixties - Hennessy, Peter
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The presiding figure in this third volume of Hennessy's history of post-war Britain is Harold Macmillan. The cultural climate it taps into is largely shaped by the threat of the Cold War. Looks at the political, economic, cultural and social.

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The presiding figure in this third volume of Hennessy's history of post-war Britain is Harold Macmillan. The cultural climate it taps into is largely shaped by the threat of the Cold War. Looks at the political, economic, cultural and social.
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Peter Hennessy is one of Britain's most celebrated historians, 'who has himself become something of a national institution' (Ben Pimlott). He is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary University of London. His previous books include this book's two immediate predecessors, Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (1992, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the NCR Prize for Non-fiction) and Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties (2006, winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing). His other books include Cabinet (1986), Whitehall (1989), The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 (2000), The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst (2002, 2010) and, co-authored with James Jinks, The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 (2015, winner of the Duke of Westminster's Award for Military Literature and the Mountbatten Maritime Award). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003 and created an independent crossbench life peer as Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield in 2010.