The Less Secret State
Peter Hennessy looks back to his 1994 Longman-History Today lecture, delivered just as a revolution in British contemporary history was beginning to bear fruit.
Revisiting my 1994 lecture on The Pleasures and Pains of Contemporary History is pure pleasure. Why? Because, though I scarcely sensed it at the time, we historians of post-1945 Britain, especially those of us with an itch to reconstruct the Cold War secret state successive British governments constructed from the late Forties to the late Eighties, were on the rim of a boom.
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