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The Cabinet Office, 1916-2016 : the birth of modern government / Anthony Seldon ; with Jonathan Meakin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seldon, Anthony, author.
- Meakin, Jonathan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cabinet system--Great Britain.
- Cabinet system.
- Cabinet officers.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Cabinet officers--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Cabinet officers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Biteback Publishing, 2016.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Cabinet Government Before 1916 1
- Chapter 2 The Creation of the Cabinet Office: The Cabinet Secretariat and the First World War, 1916-18 25
- Chapter 3 Maurice Hankey and the Interwar Years, 1918-39 41
- Chapter 4 Edward Bridges and the Second World War, 1938-45 73
- Chapter 5 Norman Brook: Commander of the Mid-Twentieth Century, 1946-63 105
- Chapter 6 Housing the Cabinet Office, 1916-2016 141
- Chapter 7 Burke Trend and John Hunt: Adjusting to the Modern Era, 1963-79 153
- Chapter 8 Robert Armstrong and Robin Butler: The Last of the Traditionalists, 1979-98 195
- Chapter 9 New Labour, New Challenges: Wilson, Turnbull and O'Donnell, 1997-2010 235
- Chapter 10 Coalition and Beyond, 2010-16 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-343) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781785901737
- 1785901737
- OCLC:
- 964297688
- Publisher Number:
- 99969721687
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