Harold Wilson – Alan Johnson

In conversation with Professor Matthew Flinders

Born in Yorkshire in 1916, Harold Wilson was a Labour Party politician who entered Parliament in 1945 as MP for Ormskirk. He was Prime Minister from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976 – times of huge political and social change in the UK. He enacted social reforms in education, health, housing, price controls, pensions, child poverty and more changing the landscape of life in the UK. Join former politician and bestselling author Alan Johnson to take an in depth, new look at the life and premierships of Harold Wilson.

Alan Johnson was a Labour MP for 20 years, serving in five cabinet positions. He is the author of award-winning childhood memoir This Boy and the sequels Please Mr Postman and The Long and Winding Road. His highly acclaimed first novel was The Late Train to Gipsy Hill since when One of Our Ministers is Missing and Death on the Thames have completed his Louise Mangan trilogy.

“Johnson writes wonderfully” – Daily Telegraph

Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre at the University of Sheffield.