Peter Hennessy is an English historian of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) (until recently Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and still called that in its charter and occasionally still abbreviated to QMW) is the fourth largest College of the University of London. ... The British Academy is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. ...

From the early 1970s, he was a journalist. He wrote leaders for The Times, for whom he was also its Whitehall Correspondent. He was The Financial Times' Lobby Correspondent at Westminster and he wrote for The Economist. He co-founded of the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1986. He was a regular presenter of Analysis on BBC Radio 4 from 1987 to 1992. From 1994 to 1997, he gave public lectures as professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London. The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ... The Financial Times building The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. ... The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication of The Economist Newspaper Ltd edited in London, UK. It has been in continuous publication since September 1843. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, orator, teacher) is the art or technique of persuasion, usually through the use of language. ... Gresham College is an unusual institution of higher learning in London which enrolls no students and grants no degrees. ...

His analysis of post-war Britain, Never Again: Britain 1945-1951, won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1992 and the NCR Award for Non-Fiction in 1993. The Duff Cooper Prize is a prize which goes to the best work of history, biography, or political science published in English or French. ...

On November 17, 2005, he made a trenchant appearance alongside Lord Wilson of Dinton before the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee on the publication of political memoirs. 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard Thomas James Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton KCB (born 11 October 1942) is a cross bench member of the House of Lords. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Public Administration Select Committee is a Standing Committee appointed by the House of Commons to examine the reports of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and the Parliamentary Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. ...

Bibliography

• Cabinet (1986)
• Whitehall (1989)
• Never Again: Britain 1945-51 (1992)
• The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution (1995)
• The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders since 1945 (2000)
• The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War (2002)
• Having it so good: Britain 1951-64

References

• Guest, Fiona. 'Peter Hennesy FBA', Staff of QMUL Department of History, 2005. Retrieved December 31, 2005.
• 'Corrected Oral Transcript of Oral Evidence presented to the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee on the publication of political memoirs on 17 November 2005 by Lord Wilson of Dinton and Professor Peter Hennessy', 7 December 2005. Retrieved December 31, 2005.

December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• list of Gresham Professors of Rhetoric