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This special seminar to explore the controversy surrounding the Yesterday's Men programme of 1971, and its subsequent significance in the history of British political documentaries, was held at the Institute of Historical Research, London, on 26 January 1994. The seminar opened with a re-screening of the programme, which featured interviews with Harold Wilson, the then leader of the opposition to Edward Heath's new Conservative government, front bench opposition spokesmen including Roy Jenkins, Tony Crosland and Denis Healey, and the political correspondent Peter Jenkins. The discussion was introduced by Dr Jean Seaton and chaired by Professor Peter Hennessy. The principal participants were Joe Haines (Chief Press Secretary to Harold Wilson 1969-76), Brian Wenham (editor, Panorama 1969-71, Head of BBC Current Affairs Group 1971-78) and John Grist (Head of BBC Current Affairs Group 1967-71, Controller, BBC English Regions 1972-77), with further contributions from Philip Whitehead, Professor Ben Pimlott, Peter Rose, David Benn, Professor Colin Seymour-Ure, Joanna Kayford, Rosaleen Hughes, Hugh Purcell, Murray Weston and Chloe Miller.

JOHN ZAMETICA British Officials and British Foreign Policy, 1945-50 (Leicester Univ. Press, £29.50)BILL WILLIAMSON The Temper of the Times: British Society Since World War II (Blackwell, £30)DENNIS KAVANAGH Politics and Personalities (Macmillan, £14.99 pbk)

Citizens and Subjects: An Essay on British Politics. By Tony Wright. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp.vii + 157; £9.99. ISBN 0 415 04964 4After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain. Edited by Susan Pedersen and Peter Mandler. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp.265; £40. ISBN 0 415 07056The Welfare State in Britain Since 1945. By Rodney Lowe. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp.x + 382; £10.99. ISBN 0 333 44256 3What News? The Market, Politics and the Local Press. By Bob Franklin and David Murphy. London: Routledge, 1991. Pp.vii + 229; £37.50 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 415 06172 5 and 04049 3Working-Class Cultures in Britain 1890-1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity. By Joanna Bourke. London: Routledge, 1994. Pp.275; £12.99. ISBN 0 4150 9898 XDaring Hearts: Lesbian and Gay Lives of 50s and 60s Brighton. Edited by Peter Dennis, Beccie Mannall and Linda Pointing. Brighton: Delta Press, 1992. Pp.122; £5.95. ISBN 0 904733 31 9LEO: The First Business Computer. By Peter J. Bird. Wokingham, Berks: Hasler Publishing Ltd., 1994. Pp.272; £15.95. ISBN 0 9521651 0 4.Milton Keynes: Image and Reality. By Terence Bendixson and John Platt. Cambridge: Granta Editions, 1992. Pp.301, illus; £14.95. ISBN 0 906782 72 4British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion 1688-1914. By P.J.Cain and A.G. Hopkins. London and New York: Longman Group UK, 1993. Pp.xv + 504; £16.99. ISBN 0 582 49176 2British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction 1914-1990. By P.J.Cain and A.G. Hopkins. London and New York: Longman Group UK, 1993. Pp.xiii + 337; £12.99. ISBN 0 582 20965 X

This witness seminar on the events in the East End of London of 4 October 1936, traditionally known as the 'Battle of Cable Street', was held at the Institute of Historical Research on 1 May 1991. It was chaired by Professor Geoffrey Alderman and introduced by Noreen Branson. The participants were Sid Bailey (former member of the BUF), Dr David Cesarani, Tony Gilbert, Charlie Goodman, Joyce Goodman, Professor Colin Holmes, Frank Lesser, Kevin Morgan (biographer of Harry Pollitt), Phil Piratin (Communist MP for Mile End 1945-50), Michael Quill, Jack Shaw, Harold Smith, Ronald F. Webb (former member of the BUF) and Len Wise (former member of the BUF). Yvonne Kapp was unable to attend but she sent a short account of her recollections of the event and this has been included with this transcript.

A witness seminar on Britain's decision to withdraw from East of Suez was held by the Institute of Contemporary British History at King's College London on 16 November 1990. It was introduced by a short paper by David Greenwood of the Centre for the Study of Defence Economics, University of Aberdeen. Those participating were Professor Lawrence Freedman (Chairman), David Greenwood, Sir Frank Cooper, C.W. Wright, Sir Patrick Nairne, Richard Hastie-Smith, J.K. Wright, Sir Ewen Broadbent, Peter Hudson, Sir Robert Andrew, Sir George Leitch, Sir Arthur Drew, Lord Thomson of Monifieth, Lord Zuckerman, Lord Mayhew and Field Marshal Lord Carver. The Institute of Contemporary British History would like to record its thanks to BP for its sponsorship of this event.

Wilson's premiership is in the process of re-evaluation, Ben Pimlott's biography was published at the end of 1992 and this autumn sees official biography by Philip Ziegler. In the interviews that follow Dr Peter Catterall and Dr Anthony Seldon of the ICBH explore the approaches these authors made to their subject, analyse the problems Wilson presents to the biographer and discuss the art of the contemporary biography.

Bob Boothby: A Portrait. By Robert Rhodes James. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. Pp.467; £20. ISBN 0 340 49118 3A Life at the Centre. By Roy Jenkins. London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp.658; £20. ISBN 0 333 55164 8Time to Declare. By David Owen. London: Michael Joseph, 1991. Pp.822; £20. ISBN 0 718 13514 8Northern Ireland since 1945. By Sabine Wichert. London: Longman, 1991. Pp. 248; £21 (hardback); £8.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 582 023912 and 023920Lancashire on the Scrapheap: The Cotton Industry 1945-1970. By John Singleton. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Pasold Research Fund, 1991. Pp.xiii + 256; £35. ISBN 0 199 21061 6Women in Britain since 1945: Women, Family, Work and the State in the Post-War Years. By Jane Lewis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992. Pp.149; £29.95 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 631 16975Women and the Women's Movement in Britain 1914-1959. By Martin Pugh. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp.347; £35 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 49440 7

Conflicts of Interest: Diaries 1977-80. By Tony Benn. London: Century Hutchin-son, 1990. Pp.675; £20. ISBN 009 174 3214The People's Peace: British History 1945-1989. By Kenneth O. Morgan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp.558; £17.95. ISBN 019 822 7647The End of the British Empire: The Historical Debate. By John Darwin. Oxford: BasilBlackwell, 1991. Pp. 128; £29.50 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback). ISBN 0631 164 278 and 164 286Our Age: Portrait of a Generation. By Noel Annan. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990. Pp.479; £20. ISBN 0297 811 290

BERNARD CRICK Political Thoughts and Polemics (Edinburgh, £25)WILLIAM MILLER et al. How Voters Change: the 1987 British Election Campaign in Perspective (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £35)FRANK CONLEY General Elections Today (Manchester University Press, £5.95 pbk)

ARTHUR MARWICK British Society since 1945 (Penguin, £5.99 pbk)ANDREW ADONIS Parliament Today (MUP, £4.95 pbk)

Clive Ponting 1940: Myth and Reality (Hamish Hamilton, £15.99)Stephen George An Awkward Partner: Britain in the European Community (Oxford University Press, £8.95 pbk)H.L. Smith War and Social Change (Manchester University Press, £13.95 pbk)

Churchill. By Clive Ponting. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. Pp.xii + 900; £30. ISBN 1 85619 270 9Eminent Churchillians. By Andrew Roberts. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. Pp.354; £20. ISBN 0 297 81247 5Churchill. By Keith Robbins. London: Longman, 1992. Pp.viii + 186; £25 (hardcover); £9.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 582 031370 and 031362Political Memoir: Essays on the Politics of Memory. Edited by George Egerton. London: Frank Cass, 1994. Pp.370. £38 (hardback), £22.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 7146 3471 9 and 4093 XTrue Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership. By Paul Whiteley, Patrick Seyd and Jeremy Richardson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp.xiii + 303; £37.50 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 19 8277 857 and 865Politics and the Mass Media in Britain. By Ralph Negrine. London: Routledge, 1994. Second Edition. Pp.235; £10.99. ISBN 0 415 09468 2The Twentieth Century Newspaper Press in Britain: An Annotated Bibliography. By David Linton. London: Mansell, 1994. £70 (hardback). Pp.xx + 386. ISBN 0 7201 2159 0From Reconstruction to Integration: Britain and Europe since 1945. Edited by Brian Brivati and Harriet Jones. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1993. £39.50. ISBN 0 7185 14823A Modern Guide to the European Parliament. By Martin Westlake. London: Pinter, 1994. Pp.302. £45 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 1 85567 200 6 2 and 201 4Britain's Emerging Euro-Elite? The British in the Directly-Elected European Parliament 1979-92. By Martin Westlake. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1994. Pp.319. £35 (hardback). ISBN 185521 5292Anticolonialism in British Politics. The Left and the End of Empire 1918-1964. By Stephen Howe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp.373. £40. ISBN 0 19 820423 XColonial Wars and the Politics of Third World Nationalism. By Frank Furedi. London: I.B. Tauris, 1994. Pp.338. £34.50. ISBN 1 85043 784 X

The Major Effect. Edited by Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon: London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp.xi + 500; £20. ISBN 0 333 62273 1State and Society: British Political and Social History, 1870-1992. By Martin Pugh. London: Edward Arnold, 1994. Pp.352; £12.95. ISBN 0 340 50710 1Ministers and Parliament: Accountability in Theory and Practice. By Diana Woodhouse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp.321; £35. ISBN 0 19 827892 6Religion in Britain Since 1945: Believing Without Belonging. By Grace Davie. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Pp.xiii + 226; £40 (hardback). £11.99 (paperback). ISBN 06311 844 30 and 844 49Don't Mention the War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media. By David Miller. London: Pluto, 1994. Pp.368; £14.95. ISBN 07453 083 68The Struggle for Nuclear Partnership: Britain, the United States and the Making of an Ambiguous Alliance 1952-1959. By Jan Melissen. Groningen: Styx Publications, 1993. Pp.153; £00. ISBN 90 72371 68 2The End of Superpower: British Foreign Office Conceptions of a Changing World, 1945-51. By Stuart Croft. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1994. Pp.225; £35. ISBN 1 85521 449 0The Longman Guide to Sources in Contemporary British History 1: Organisations and Societies. Compiled by CHris Cook and David Waller. Harlow: Longman, 1993. Pp.xii + 372; £48. ISBN 0 582 20971 4The Longman Guide to Sources in Contemporary British History 2: Individuals. Compiled by Chris Cook, Jane Leonard and Peter Leese. Harlow: Longman, 1994. Pp.xii + 383; £48. ISBN 0 582 20972 2BBC Vacher's Biographical Guide 1995, BBC News and Current Affairs/Vacher's Publications, 1995. Pp.776; £55. ISBN 0 9515208 4 9, ISSN 0968 1531