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Political memoir and contemporary history I was recently asked for some reading about the utility of political memoirs, especially, although not exclusively, in relation to Thatcher. Here are some key items: Begin with the series of papers in Contemporary British History, 10.4 (1996). The library cannot locate this issue of the journal: O’Brien, P.K. (1996) [...]
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Political memoir and contemporary history
I was recently asked for some reading about the utility of political memoirs, especially, although not exclusively, in relation to Thatcher. Here are some key items:
Begin with the series of papers in Contemporary British History, 10.4 (1996). The library cannot locate this issue of the journal:
O’Brien, P.K. (1996) ?Is political biography a good thing?? Contemporary British History, 10 (4), pp. 60-66. RM
Croft, P. (1996) ?Political biography: a defence (1)?, Contemporary British History, 10 (4), pp. 67-74. RM
Derry, J. (1996) ?Political biography: a defence (2)?, Contemporary British History, 10 (4), pp. 75-80. RM
Hamilton, N. (1996) ?In defence of the practice of biography?, Contemporary British History, 10 (4), pp. 81-86. RM
Two key items on Thatcher are:
Clarke, P.F. (1999) ?The rise and fall of Thatcherism?, Historical Research, 72 (3), pp. 301-322.
Clarke, P.F. (2002) ?Margaret Thatcher’s place in history: two views?, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 24 (3), pp. 357-368.
see also:
Garnett, M. (2007) ?Banality in politics: Margaret Thatcher and the biographers?, Political Studies Review, 5 (2), pp. 172-182.
Gilmour, I. (1994) ?The Thatcher memoirs?, Twentieth Century British History, 5 (2), pp. 257-277.
Porter, B. (1994) ??Though not an historian myself …? Margaret Thatcher and the historians?, Twentieth Century British History, 5 (2), pp. 246-256.
and more generally:
Alderman, K. (2001) ?Setting some records straight?, Parliamentary Affairs, 54 (1), pp. 134-139.
Beattie, A. (1993) ?Biographies of 1992 and the limits of biography?, Parliamentary Affairs, 46 (3), pp. 430-434.
Gamble, A.M. (1994) ?Political memoirs?, Politics, 14 (1), pp. 35-41.
Gamble, A.M. (2002) ?Political memoirs?, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 4 (1), pp. 141-151.
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