Brown at 10

BritishGovernment@LSE public lecture

Gordon Brown's three years at No.10 were the most turbulent of any premiership in the postwar history of Downing Street. In Brown at 10|, Anthony Seldon tells for the first time the full, compelling story of the astonishing end of Gordon Brown's tenure, and with it the demise of the New Labour project. This will be a frank, authentic and penetrating account of a remarkable political era by one of Britain's foremost political and social commentators.

Anthony Seldon is the best-selling biographer of John Major and Tony Blair and Britain's leading writer on contemporary premiership and No.10 Downing Street. He is an authority on contemporary British history and headmaster of Wellington College, one of Britain's most famous independent schools. He is also author or editor of over 25 books on contemporary history, politics and education. After gaining an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Worcester College, Oxford, and a PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He founded, with Professor Peter Hennessy, the Institute of Contemporary British History the internationally respected body whose aim is to promote research into, and the study of, British history since 1945.

Anthony Seldon's books include Churchill's Indian Summer, which won a Best First Work Prize; Britain Under Thatcher; The Thatcher Effect; Major, A Political Life, the authorised biography of the former Prime Minister; Conservative Century, the standard academic history of the Conservative Party; The Powers Behind the Prime Minister, co-written with Professor Dennis Kavanagh; Number 10: The Illustrated History; The Foreign Office: A History of the Place and its People; Blair and Blair Unbound, his acclaimed two-part biography of the former Prime Minister; three volumes of edited books on the Blair governments; and Trust: How We Lost it and How to Get it Back, published in September 2009. He has been historical consultant on the memoirs of several former Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries. His education booklets include Public and Private Education: The Divide Must End and Partnership Not Paternalism.

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