John Campbell

In a controversial new study of Labour’s great post-war hero, John Campbell argues that Bevan was both more of a Marxist and a hard-nosed politician than his friends and admirers have portrayed.

What use can historians make of those diaries which politicians keep for posterity – and rush into print? John Campbell considers two viewpoints of the 1964-1970 Wilson government, those of Richard Crossman and of Barbara Castle.

John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement

Essential study of the First World War and how it transformed the machinery of government.

Denis Judd