Professor Ben Pimlott (4 July 1945 - April 10, 2004) was a leading historian of the post-war period in Britain. He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography. July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Educated at Rokeby school, in Wimbledon, south-west London, Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he took a degree in politics, philosophy and economics and a BPhil in politics. Bill Clinton was a contemporary of his there. In 1970, he was appointed as a lecturer in the politics department of the University of Newcastle, where he also took his PhD. In the February General Election of 1974, Pimlott contested Arundel on behalf of the Labour Party, then Cleveland and Whitby in the October General Election also that year. Having lost on both occasions, he also contested the 1979 election, after which he left the North East to take up a research post at the London School of Economics. In 1987 he became Political Editor of the New Statesman and the following year took on the post of Professor of Contemporary History at Birkbeck College, London. In 1996 his works were recognised with a Fellowship of the British Academy. For other uses see Wimbledon (disambiguation) Wimbledon is an area in the London Borough of Merton, south-west London. ... Marlborough College is a British boarding school in the county of Wiltshire, founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, although it now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... Order: 42nd President Vice President: Al Gore Term of office: January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001 Preceded by: George H. W. Bush Succeeded by: George W. Bush Date of birth: August 19, 1946 Place of birth: Hope, Arkansas First Lady: Hillary Rodham Clinton Political party: Democratic William Jefferson Clinton (born... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... See: University of Newcastle (NSW), a university in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia University of Newcastle upon Tyne, a university in England. ... A general election is an election in which all members of a given political body are up for election. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Arundel is a town in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. ... The name Labour Party or Labor Party is used by several political parties around the world. ... A general election is an election in which all members of a given political body are up for election. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Northeast is the ordinal direction halfway between north and east. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or the LSE, is a specialist university based in London, often regarded as one of the worlds most prestigious social science institutions. ... The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... Birkbeck Birkbeck (sometimes still called Birkbeck College) is a College of the University of London. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The British Academy is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. ...

Aside from his attempts at a Parliamentary career in the 1970s, not to mention his tenure as Chairman of the Fabian Society in 1993/1994, Pimlott is best remembered for his considerable body of work, mostly in the field of political biography. His works include accounts of the lives of Hugh Dalton (1985), Harold Wilson (1992), and a study of Queen Elizabeth II (1996). His study of Dalton won him the Whitbread Prize. His other books include Labour And The Left In The 1930s (1977), The Trade Unions In British Politics (with Chris Cook, 1982), Fabian Essays In Socialist Thought (1984), The Alternative (with Tony Wright and Tony Flower, 1990), Frustrate Their Knavish Tricks (1994) and Governing London (with Nirmala Rao, 2002). This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... Fabian Society - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton, generally known as Hugh Dalton (1887-1962) was a British Labour Party politician, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. ... This article is about the British politician. ... Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing the Sovereigns badges of the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The...

Many of Pimlott's theses have stood the test of time, even if they were marginally controversial when originally published. His studies of the 1930s Labour left, the life of Harold Wilson and the constitutional effect of the monarchy in post-war Britain are said to have made his reputation as a biographer and even bestowed some additional credibility upon the subjects, all of which have received critical accounts under the pen of others. Pimlott sincerely believed and argued consistently that the post-war consensus in British politics was a veritable red-herring. A monarchy, (from the Greek monos, one, and archein, to rule) is a form of government that has a monarch as Head of State. ... The post-war consensus was an era in British political history which lasted from the end of World War Two to the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. ... The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ...

At the time of his death from leukemia in 2004, he was Warden of Goldsmiths College, London (since 1998). He was married to Jean Seaton, who lectures on communications and the media at the college. In January 2005 the college erected a major new Will Alsop-designed building on its New Cross site in his honour and in May of that year the Fabian Society and The Guardian inaugurated the first annual Ben Pimlott Prize for Political Writing. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Goldsmiths College (founded 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) has been a part of the federal University of London since 1904, when it took its current name. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in January • 29 Ephraim Kishon • 25 Philip Johnson • 23 Johnny Carson • 22 Parveen Babi • 20 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański • 17 Virginia Mayo • 17 Zhao Ziyang • 15 Ruth Warrick • 14 Rudolph Moshammer Recent deaths Ongoing events • Tsunami relief... Will Alsop (born 1947) is an English architect based in London, responsible for several distinctive and controversial modernist buildings — most in the United Kingdom. ... New Cross is a district on the north tip of the London Borough of Lewisham. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

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