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School of History

Professor Peter Hennessy

Peter

Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History

Email: p.j.hennessy@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

As journalist for over 20 years – with spells on The TimesThe Financial Times and The Economist – I unearthed the hidden wiring of the constitution and the power of the machinery of government in Britain.

Those themes remained at the heart of my research and teaching at Queen Mary when I moved from journalism to academia in 1992. Since then, it has been my aim to write the history of my own country, in my own times, for academic and public audiences alike.

I have been a member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom since 2010.

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