Tony Benn

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. Britain's longest serving Labour MP reminisces about his 50-year career.

Letters to My Grandchildren

The Benn Diaries, 1940-1990

"In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age. With the support of a small circle of friends and his extended family, he continues his activities on behalf of social justice, peace and accountability in public life, to a background of political change and the international economic crisis. Following an illness in 2009 the diaries, kept for over sixty years, cease. Published here alongside these last diaries are Tony Benn's highly personal insights into the challenges of old age and failing health, of widowhood,and of moving out of the family home after sixty years. Finally, we share in Tony Benn's hopes for the future based on his years of experience and his natural optimism."

The Last Diaries

A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine

This volume brings Tony Benn's diaries up to date, including events from the Gulf War to the rise of New Labour, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the war in Afghanistan. He covers British politics during three wars, five party-leaders and two Prime Ministers.

Diaries 1991 - 2001

Free at Last

Ruth Winstone

Covering the Thatcher years of Labour's exile, this final volume of Benn's diaries offers a day-to-day record of an eventful decade in British politics. It includes descriptions of Labour's battles with Militant, the internal strife within the party, with damaging leadership and deputy leadership elections, Benn's loss of his Bristol seat in the 1983 General Election, the miners' strikes, the rise of Neil Kinnock, the Spycatcher debacle, the fall of Margaret Thatcher, and the Falkland and Gulf Wars.

Diaries 1980-90

The End of an Era

Diaries 1977-80

Conflicts of Interest

Diaries 1973-1976

Against the Tide

'The detail of these diaries, and their comprehensive candour, offer unprecedented insights into the personal behaviour of many senior Labour politicians... The most readable political diary of the period' Harold Lever, Spectator Tony Benn's second volume of diaries, which spans the years 1968-72, is a unique record of British politics as observed both from the heart of the Cabinet and the Labour Party. George Brown's spectacular resignation and Cecil King's plot to overthrow Wilson are just two of the events which dominate the opening chapter, and introduce the last years of Labour's increasingly demoralised government. And for the first time in a political diary, Labour's experience of Opposition after the unexpected and shattering defeat of 1970 is revealed. Here, too, are recorded the bitter arguments over the Common Market, in which Tony Benn emerged as the principal advocate of a referendum on Britain's entry - and which foreshadowed the Labour/SDP schism of 1981. The result is a fascinating and invaluable document of the times. 'A fascinating insider's account' Ben Pimlott, Standard

Diaries 1968-72

Office Without Power

This volume of Benn's diaries covers the event for which he is probably most famous, the renunciation of his peerage. It reveals his early career, touching on his schooldays, RAF wartime service and his early involvement with politics.

Diaries, Letters and Papers, 1940-1962

Years of Hope

An account on the author's relations with the industrialists, television and press chiefs, the Palace and the diplomatic world as well as trade unionists, civil servants, and his Cabinet colleagues. It reveals the workings of our political and economic systems at the highest level. It offers a political record of the 1960s.

Diaries 1963-67

Out of the Wilderness

Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years. He has helped reinvigorate national debate through public meetings, mass campaigns and appearances in the media, passionately bringing moral and political issues to wide audiences. This book presents his views, which are human and challenging.

Diaries 2001-2007

More Time for Politics

The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events, arguments and personal reflections throughout Benn's long and remarkable career as a leading politician. The narrative starts with Benn as a schoolboy and takes the reader through his youthful wartime experiences as a trainee pilot, his nervous excitement as a new MP during Clement Atlee's premiership and the tribulations of Labour in the 1950s, when the Conservatives were in firm control. It ends with the Tories again in power, but on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's fall, while Tony Benn is on a mission to Baghdad before the impending Gulf War. Over the span of fifty years, the public and private turmoil in British and world politics is recorded as Benn himself moves from wartime service to become the baby of the House, Cabinet Minister, and finally the Commons' most senior Labour Member.

1940-1990

The Benn Diaries

Massimiliano Gioni

Michael Elmgreen

Ingar Dragset

Elmgreen & Dragset

Amelia Saul

"Since their first project together in 1995, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have created a much-respected oeuvre, as well as a world entirely of their own. Their amazing architectural sculptures and installations have brought them international renown - for example, there is the multifaceted series Powerless Structures, which now includes over one hundred pieces; the duo's witty permanent installation Prada Marfa in the middle of the Texas desert; and their socio-critical traveling exhibition The Welfare Show." "This Is the First Day of My Life introduces the most important works by this artistic duo, as well as previously unpublished creations. Three fictional texts help to expand the Elmgreen/Dragset universe into new, related fields."--BOOK JACKET.

This is the First Day of My Life

Kritische analyse van het democratische gehalte van Britse staatsinstellingen, door de radicale Labourpoliticus

Arguments for Democracy

Tony Benn at the IWC Debate

Industrial Democracy

His only props: a flask of tea, some tobacco and his trademark pipe. Tony Benn brings his unmistakable presence to the stage in this audiobook of his successful stage show. A mix of politics, opinion and debate on various issues is followed by questions from the audience.

An Audience with Tony Benn

Arguments for Socialism

When veteran politician, Tony Benn, retired from parliament to devote more time to politics a career move into the music business was not part of his retirement plan. But now the much loved elder statesman of British politics has teamed up with urban record producer, Charles Bailey - creator of the Don't shoot, Don't forget to vote and Met police rap campaigns - in a unique collaboration that is causing a stir in political and music industry circles. delivered by one of the greatest orators of our time, set to music composed by a 21st century maestro. of Commons debate on war in Iraq before the start of the bombing campaign in 1998 - laid over an ambient groove that mixes elements of jazz, R&B and classical music.

Tony Benn's Greatest Hits

Tony Benn on the Falklands War

Tony Benn's final instalment of diaries centres on a decade which saw the disintegration of Eastern Europe, an unprecedented assault on the labour movement at home, the fall of Margaret Thatcher and the tragic war in the Gulf. It is a period which marks the peak of Tony Benn's reputation as a brilliant parliamentarian. This final volume of diaries gives us insight into an era of extraordinary international and domestic political life making it one of the most important political writings of our time.

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