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Known for. Biographies of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Website. francisbeckett.co.uk. Francis Beckett (born 12 May 1945) is an English author, journalist, biographer, playwright and contemporary historian. He has written biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Gordon Brown [1] and Tony Blair.
It told the true story of a British women, Rose Cohen, who in the 1920s was courted by the future Communist leader Harry Pollitt. She left him for Lenin’s agent in Britain, with whom she went to Moscow and had a baby – just in time to be caught up in Stalin’s purges. As a foreigner and a Jew, she was naturally suspected of being in league ...
12 Mar 2009The 1984 Miners' Strike and the Death of Industrial BritainFrancis Beckett discusses the dramatic events of the miners strike and consider their l...
Profile of Francis Beckett. Francis Beckett is an author, journalist, broadcaster, playwright and contemporary historian. His nineteen books include biographies of four Prime Ministers, and he edited a series of 20 biographies, Prime Ministers of the Twentieth Century.
1 de jun. de 2009 · David Hencke, Francis Beckett. Little, Brown Book Group, Jun 1, 2009 - History - 288 pages. A controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike and how it changed Modern Britain. The...
15 de jun. de 2012 · Francis Beckett savours a new edition of a classic. – By Francis Beckett – Friday, 15th June 2012. The Communist Manifesto. by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, with a new introduction by Eric Hobsbawm (Verso) No philosopher’s reputation has plummeted in my lifetime as dramatically as that of Karl Marx.
7 de jul. de 2010 · Francis Beckett - What did the baby-boomers ever do for us? RSA. 774K subscribers. 36. 5.2K views 13 years ago. Journalist and contemporary historian Francis Beckett explains why he...
