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Climbing The Bookshelves

The autobiography of Shirley Williams

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Häftad, Engelska, 2022

137 kr

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'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her father George Catlin, a leading political scientist, encouraged his daughter to have high ambitions for herself - including daring to climb the bookshelves in his library. Elected as MP for Hitchin in 1964, she was a member of the Wilson and Callaghan governments and was also the Secretary of State for Education. As one of the 'Gang of Four' Shirley Williams famously broke away from the Labour Party to found the SDP in 1981 and later supported its merger with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats. This is her story.Praise for Climbing the Bookshelves'Very few politicians are loved, but Shirley Williams was one' Independent'She speaks human, which is a surprisingly rare political talent' Guardian'Decent, sensible, honest and endearing, this book is Shirley Williams to a T' The Times

Climbing The Bookshelves

The autobiography of Shirley Williams

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E-bok

Engelska, 2009

44 kr

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''That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted''Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her father George Catlin, a leading political scientist, encouraged his daughter to have high ambitions for herself - including daring to climb the bookshelves in his library. Elected as MP for Hitchin in 1964, she was a member of the Wilson and Callaghan governments and was also the Secretary of State for Education. As one of the ''Gang of Four'' Shirley Williams famously broke away from the Labour Party to found the SDP in 1981 and later supported its merger with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats. This is her story.Praise for Climbing the Bookshelves''Very few politicians are loved, but Shirley Williams was one'' Independent''She speaks human, which is a surprisingly rare political talent'' Guardian''Decent, sensible, honest and endearing, this book is Shirley Williams to a T'' The Times

Long Road Home

AvShirley Williams

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

158 kr

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Zipper - The Mischievous Kid

AvShirley Williams

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

255 kr

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Shirley Williams

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Ljudbok

Engelska, 2012

79 kr

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With recollections from childhood to the present, written and recorded for BBC Radio 4''s Woman''s Hour, Shirley Williams describes her life as one of Britain''s foremost political women this century. She describes her early life with her pioneering pacifist mother, Vera Brittain; her father, George Caitlin and her mother''s friend, the writer Winifred Holtby. From experiences as an evacuee in the United States and as an undergraduate in a fervent post-war Oxford full of exciting and ambitious contemporaries, she talks about the idealism that led her to decide, as a young woman of twenty, to devote her life to politics. From fighting elections to climbing the ministerial ladder as a woman, she recalls the Sixties when she rose to become one of the most prominent members of Harold Wilson''s government, the Seventies when she served in the Cabinet and the turbulent Eighties when she was one of the Gang of Four, the founders of the SDP.

Climbing The Bookshelves

The autobiography of Shirley Williams

AvShirley Williams

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

174 kr

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The role of women in our society has changed out of all recognition. But it has changed least in the House of Commons. I want to describe those changes and the resistances to them through the magnifying glass of my own life, a life that coincides with our turbulent post-war history.'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittian, her father George Caitlin, a leading political scientist, encouraged his daughter to have high ambitions for herself - including daring to climb the bookshelves in his library. Elected as MP for Hitchin in 1964, she was a member of the Wilson and Callaghan governments and was also the Secretary of State for Education. As one of the 'Gang of Four' Shirley Williams famously broke away from the Labour Party to found the SDP in 1981 and later supported its merger with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats. CLIMBING THE BOOKSHELVES is the voice of strong and passionate woman of luminous intelligence.