Clovelly welcomes Lord Hennessey of Nympsfield FBA, the 12th political speaker at Clovelly’s Forum on World Affairs, International Relations, Security & Defence and Science & Technology. A platform for providing information for informed choices.
Now in its 5th year, Clovelly Lectures has found in Devon a responsive audience. A curiosity and interest in listening and discussing matters that affects our lives in a fast changing and confusing economic and political world.
On the 1st October 2016, Lord Hennessey will be tackling the subject of:
“BRITAIN’S PLACE IN THE WORLD AND IN THE AFTERMATH OF A HISTORIC EUROPEAN REFERENDUM”
Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, the London School of Economics and St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, Lord Hennessy has been a regular contributor to the Press, Radio and Television since 1987 including a regular presenter of ‘Analysis’ on BBC Radio 4 and guest editor of the ‘Today’ programme.
In 2010 Lord Hennessy became a life peer taking the title Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield and sits as a cross bencher in the House of Lords. Lord Peter Hennessy started his career in Journalism writing for the Times, The Financial Times and the Economist, where he found a love of the constitution and specialised in the history of the British Government. Lord Hennessy moved into academia in 1992. He became Professor of contemporary history at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. From 1994 – 1997 he gave public lectures as Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London. In 1986 he co-founded the Institute of Contemporary British History. Since 2001, Lord Hennessy has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary. The themes of the constitution and the power of the machinery of Government in Britain have stayed at the heart of Lord Hennessey’s research.
Lord Hennessy has written several contemporary history books most notably ‘Never Again: Britain 1945–1951 which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the NCR Book Award and ‘Having it so Good: Britain in the 1950’s which won the Orwell Prize.
In 2010 Lord Hennessy became a life peer taking the title Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield and sits as a cross bencher in the House of Lords. Lord Peter Hennessy started his career in Journalism writing for the Times, The Financial Times and the Economist, where he found a love of the constitution and specialised in the history of the British Government. Lord Hennessy moved into academia in 1992. He became Professor of contemporary history at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. From 1994 – 1997 he gave public lectures as Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London. In 1986 he co-founded the Institute of Contemporary British History. Since 2001, Lord Hennessy has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary. The themes of the constitution and the power of the machinery of Government in Britain have stayed at the heart of Lord Hennessey’s research.
Lord Hennessy has written several contemporary history books most notably ‘Never Again: Britain 1945–1951 which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the NCR Book Award and ‘Having it so Good: Britain in the 1950’s which won the Orwell Prize.
Clovelly Lectures:Speaker Lord Hennessey 1st October at Clovelly Visitor Centre
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