Mark Garnett Explained
Mark Garnett is a prolific author and media commentator on British politics, who has taught at several UK universities.[1]
Garnett was educated at Gosforth High School, Newcastle, and Durham University (Grey College).
With Ian Aitken, he was the authorised biographer of Conservative politician William Whitelaw. He was a long-time collaborator with the Conservative cabinet minister, Sir Ian Gilmour, and assisted Sir Edward Heath in the composition of his memoir, The Course of My Life (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998).
Selected Works
- (with Ian Gilmour), Whatever Happened to the Tories? (London: Fourth Estate, 1997).
- (with Andrew Denham), British Think Tanks and the Climate of Opinion (London: UCL Press, 1998).
- Alport: A Study in Loyalty, (Teddington: Acumen Publishing, 1999).
- (with Andrew Denham), Keith Joseph: A Life (London: Acumen Press, 2001).
- (with Ian Aitken), Splendid! Splendid! The Authorised Biography of Willie Whitelaw (London: Jonathan Cape, 2002).
- The Snake that Swallowed its Tail: Some contradictions in modern liberalism, (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004).
- (with P. Lynch), UK Government and Politics (London: Philip Allan, 2005).
- Principles and Politics in Contemporary Britain (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2006).
- From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975 (London: Jonathan Cape, 2007).
- (with K. Hickson), Conservative Thinkers: The Key Contributors to the Political Thought of the Modern Conservative Party (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009).
- (with P. Dorey and Andrew Denham), From Crisis to Coalition: the Conservative Party, 1997-2010 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
- (with P. Lynch), Exploring British Politics. Third Edition (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2012).
- (with David Denver), British General Elections since 1964: Diversity, Dealignment and Diversity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
- (with M. Johnson and D. Walker), Conservatism and Ideology (London: Routledge, 2015).
- (with P. Dorey), The British Coalition Government, 2010-2015: A Marriage of Inconvenience? (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
- (with S. Mabon and R. Smith), British Foreign Policy Since 1945 (London: Routledge, 2017).
- (ed) Conservative Monents: Reading conservative texts, (London: Bloomsbury), 2018).
- (with D. Leonard), Titans: Fox vs Pitt (I.B Tauris, 2019).
- (ed) The Routledge Handbook of British Politics and Society (London: Routledge, 2020).
- The British Prime Minister in an Age of Upheaval (London: Polity Press, 2021).
- (with D. Denver), British General Elections since 1964: diversity, dealignment and disillusion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 2021).
- Conservatism: A Short History (Newcastle Upon-Tyne: Agenda, 2023).
- (with G. Hyman and R. Johnson) Keeping the Red Flag Flying: The Labour Party in Opposition since 1922 (London: Polity Press, 2024).
Notes and References
- http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/ppr/profiles/mark-garnett Dr Mark Garnett
