British Prime Ministers From Balfour to Brown - Paperback

by Robert Pearce (Author), Graham Goodlad (Author)

British Prime Ministers from Balfour to Brown examines the personalities and achievements of those twenty individuals who have held the highest political office between 1902 and 2010. It charts both the growing importance of the office of Prime Minister and the continuing restraints on the exercise of power by Britain's leaders. These concise and accessible biographies are an essential resource for students of political history and general readers alike

Author Biography

Robert Pearce, formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Cumbria, is the author of many books on British and European history. The editor of History Review from 1998 to 2012, he is the General Editor of Routledge Historical Biographies. Graham Goodlad is Director of Studies at St John's College, Southsea. He has written widely on nineteenth and twentieth century British political history, most recently an essay in the collection Gladstone and Ireland (2010), edited by D.G. Boyce and Alan O'Day