Appendix III

Cabinet Office Peacetime Official Histories¹

The Nationalisation of British Industry, 1945–51, Sir Norman Chester (1975)

Environmental Planning, 1939–69, J.B. Cullingworth and G.E. Cherry (1975–81)

Volume I, Reconstruction and Land Use Planning, 1939–1947, J.B. Cullingworth (1975)

Volume II, National Parks and Recreation in the Countryside, Gordon E. Cherry (1975)

Volume III, New Towns Policy, J.B. Cullingworth (1979)

Volume IV, Land Values, Compensation and Betterment, J.B. Cullingworth (1981)

The Official History of Colonial Development, D.J. Morgan (Palgrave Macmillan, 1980)

Volume I, The Origins of British Aid Policy, 1924–1945

Volume II, Developing British Colonial Resources, 1945–1951

Volume III, A Reassessment of British Aid Policy, 1951–1965

Volume IV, Changes in British Aid Policy, 1951–1970

Volume V, Guidance towards Self-Government in British Colonies, 1941–1971

External Economic Policy since the War, L.S. Pressnell

Volume I, The Post-War Financial Settlement (1986)

Volume II (Frank Cass, 2002) (?)²

The Health Services since the War, Charles Webster

Volume I, Problems of Health Care: The National Health Service before 1957 (1988)

Volume II, Government and Health Care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979 (1996)

The Official History of the British Part in the Korean War, General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley

Volume I, A Distant Obligation (1990)

Volume II, An Honourable Discharge (1995)

The Official History of Britain and the European Community

Volume I, The Rise and Fall of a National Strategy, 1945–1963, Alan S. Milward (2002)

Volume II, From Rejection to Referendum, 1963–1975, Sir Stephen Wall (2013)

Volume III, The Tiger Unleashed, 1975–1985, Sir Stephen Wall (2018)

The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Sir Lawrence Freedman (2005)

Volume I, The Origins of the Falklands War

Volume II, War and Diplomacy

The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel, Terry Gourvish (2006)

The Official History of Privatisation, David Parker (2009)

Volume I, The Formative Years 1970–1987

Volume II, Popular Capitalism 1987–1997

The Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas, Alex Kemp (2014)

Volume I, The Growing Dominance of the State

Volume II, Moderating the State’s Role

The Official History of the British Civil Service, Rodney Lowe and Hugh Pemberton

Reforming the Civil Service, Volume I, The Fulton Years, 1966–81, Rodney Lowe (2011)

Reforming the Civil Service, Volume II, The Thatcher and Major

Revolutions, 1982–97, Rodney Lowe and Hugh Pemberton (2020)

The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Michael Goodman Volume I, From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis (2014)

Volume II [in preparation]

The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, Matthew Jones (2017)

Volume I, From the V-Bomber Era to the Arrival of Polaris, 1945–1964

Volume II, The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme, 1964–1970

The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, Paul Rock and David Downes

Volume I, The ‘Liberal Hour’, Paul Rock (2019)

Volume II, Institution-Building, Paul Rock (2019)

Volume III, The Rise and Fall of Penal Hope, David Downes (2021)

Official histories commissioned outside the regular series

Churchill’s Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence, Gill Bennett (2007)

Secrecy and the Media: The Official History of the United Kingdom’s D-Notice System, Nick Wilkinson (2009)

The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries, Ian Beesley (2018)

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¹ Compiled from the sources given on p. 53, note 38, and from various library and publishers’ catalogues. There may still be some inaccuracies (particularly regarding publication dates) but (I hope) no omissions. With one exception (Colonial Development) all volumes from 1975 to 1995 were published by HMSO; volumes dated 2002 were published by Frank Cass and all volumes from 2005 onwards by Routledge.

² I have been unable to locate any reference to this second volume apart from the date (given elsewhere as 2005) and publisher. In 2008 the Cabinet Office described this volume as being ‘in preparation’. According to Professor Pressnell’s obituary (The Times, 29 September 2011), ‘His talents as an economist and a historian came to the fore when he was commissioned by the Cabinet Office to write a government official history on Britain’s external economic policy since the Second World War. The first volume – The Post-War Financial Settlement – appeared in 1986, and the second was still in progress at his death.’ So I assume that the volume does not in fact exist.