These are the books I will be reading over the next few months. The list does not cover all Education Scretaries as some have not authored or been the subject of a biography. All politicians will nevertheless have their stories supplemented using the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and relevant news stories from their time in power.
- Rab Butler “The Art of the Possible“
- Betty D. Vernon “Ellen Wilkinson: A Biography“
- Fred Blackburn “George Tomlinson“
- Quintin Hogg/Lord Hailsham “Door Wherein I Went“
- Edited Collection “Edward Boyle: His Life By His Friends“
- Michael Stewart “Life and Labour“
- Susan Crosland “Tony Crosland“
- Maurice Kogan “Politics of education: Conversations with Boyle & Crosland“
- Patrick Gordon Walker “Political Diaries 1932 – 1971“
- Edward Short “I Knew My Place“
- Margaret Thatcher “Not For Turning“
- Shirley Williams “Climbing The Bookshelves“
- Morrison Halcrow “Keith Joseph: A Single Mind”
- Kenneth Baker “The Turbulent Years“
- Gillian Shephard “Shephard’s Watch“
- David Blunkett “The Blunkett Tapes“
- Alan Johnson “This Boy“
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