Ben Pimlott
British historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benjamin John Pimlott FBA was a British historian of the post-war period in Britain. He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography. Background Pimlott was born in Merton, Surrey on 4 July 1945. His father was John Pimlott, a civil servant at the Home Office and former private secretary to Herbert Morrison. His mother, Ellen Dench Howes Pimlott, was American; her ancestors were Pilgrims, and she was a descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials. Pimlott held dual citizenship. He grew up in Wimbledon and was educated at Rokeby School , Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he took a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a BPhil in politics, having originally won a scholarship to study there. In 1970, despite a pronounced stammer, he was appointed as a lecturer in the politics department of the University of Newcastle, where he also took his PhD.
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- Labour and the Left in the 1930s (1977) (42)
- The Myth of Consensus (1988) (35)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s by Ben Pimlott (1977) (34)
- The Political Diary of Hugh Dalton, 1918-40, 1945-60 (1987) (31)
- The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton, 1940-45 (1986) (28)
- The media in British politics I (1987) (23)
- Is the ‘postwar consensus’ a myth? (1989) (21)
- Is Contemporary Biography History (1999) (19)
- The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II (1996) (19)
- Tackling the inner cities : the 1980s reviewed, prospects for the 1990s (1990) (12)
- Local Party Organization, Turnout and Marginality (1973) (11)
- The Future of Political Biography (1990) (10)
- Orwell's England : the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell (2001) (10)
- Trade unions in British politics : the first 250 years (1991) (8)
- Fabian Essays in Socialist Thought (1984) (8)
- New Labour, New Era? (1997) (8)
- Trade unions in British politics (1982) (7)
- Socialism in Portugal: Was it a Revolution? (1977) (7)
- The Englishman's Christmas, a social history (1978) (7)
- PARTIES AND VOTERS IN THE PORTUGUESE REVOLUTION: THE ELECTIONS OF 1975 AND 1976 (1977) (7)
- THE NORTH EAST: BACK TO THE 1930s? (1981) (6)
- Does Local Party Organization Matter? (1972) (6)
- UNEMPLOYMENT AND “THE UNEMPLOYED” IN NORTH-EAST ENGLAND (1985) (6)
- Working-Class Politics (1979) (6)
- The Crossman diaries reconsidered (1987) (4)
- The Socialist League: Intellectuals and the Labour Left in the 1930s (1971) (4)
- LABOUR AND SOCIALISM (1975) (3)
- Accountability and the Media: A Tale of Two Cultures (2004) (3)
- Monarchy and the Message (1998) (3)
- Towards the welfare state (1993) (3)
- Portugal—two battles in the war of the constitution (1981) (3)
- Metropolitan Miasma: Blurred Accountabilities in the Governance of London (2004) (3)
- Portugal: A Survey (1976) (2)
- Some thoughts on the queen and commonwealth (1998) (2)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Labour and the War 1939–40 (1977) (2)
- The Alternative: Politics for a Change (1990) (1)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Introduction (1977) (1)
- The Higher Education White Paper: Views from Around the Sector (2003) (1)
- British Politics (1991) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Radicalism or Socialism? (1977) (0)
- The audit of Thatcherism 1979–89 (1989) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Labour and the Left: the Socialist League (1977) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Fabians and Keynesians (1977) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Parliamentary Alliance? (1977) (0)
- Winnie the two (1993) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Revolution (1977) (0)
- The Impact of Labour: Changing Political Attitudes and Expectations (1995) (0)
- Producing contemporary History (1987) (0)
- Labour and the Left Book Club (1977) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Bibliography (1977) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Cripps and the Petition Campaign (1977) (0)
- Jubilee and the idea of royalty. (2002) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Glossary of initials (1977) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Labour and the United Front (1977) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Outside Left and the United Front (1977) (0)
- IS THERE AN ALTERNATIVE TO A PACT (1987) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Watershed (1977) (0)
- European elections — Portugal (1980) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Contests (1977) (0)
- LABOUR'S CAKE * (1987) (0)
- Labour and the Left in the 1930s: Leadership (1977) (0)
- Sacking the censor (1976) (0)
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