Full list of publications and other research activity

See full list of Dr Hugh Pemberton's publications in the University of Bristol's IRIS publications database

Selected Publications

Books

Reassessing Britain in the 1970s (edited with Lawrence Black and Pat Thane) (MUP, in press)

Britain’s pensions crisis: history and policy (edited with Pat Thane and Noel Whiteside), British Academy Occasional Paper No. 7 (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Policy learning and British governance in the 1960s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

An affluent society? Britain’s 'golden age” revisited (edited with Lawrence Black) (Ashgate, 2004).

Journal Articles

'The failure of "nationalization by attraction": Britain’s cross-class alliance against earnings-related pensions in the 1950s', Economic History Review (in press)

'Macro-economic crisis and policy revolution', Renewal, vol. 17 (2010), pp. 46-56

'"What matters is what works": from "national superannuation" to "personal accounts"', British Politics, vol. 5, no. 1 (2010), pp. 41-64.

'Strange days indeed: British politics in the 1970s', Contemporary British History, vol. 23, no. 4 (2009), pp. 583-595.

'Reassessing the seventies: the benighted decade' (with Lawrence Black), British Academy Review, vol. 14 (2009), pp. 15-17.

'The ‘winter of discontent’ in British politics' (with Lawrence Black). Political Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 4 (2009), pp. 553-561.

'Taxation and Labour’s modernisation programme, 1964–5', Contemporary British History, vol. 20, no. 3 (September 2006), pp. 423-440.

'Relative decline and British governance in the 1960s', The Historical Journal, vol. 47, no. 4 (2004), pp. 989-1013.

'Learning and change in 20th century British economic policy” (with M. J. Oliver), Governance, vol. 17, no. 3 (July 2004), pp. 415-441.

'Learning, governance and economic policy', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 5, no. 4 (2003), pp. 500-524.

'A taxing task: combating Britain’s relative decline in the 1960s', Twentieth Century British History, vol. 12, no. 3 (2001), pp. 354-375.

'Policy networks and policy learning: UK economic policy in the 1960s and 1970s', Public Administration, vol. 78, no. 4 (2000), pp. 771-792.

Chapters in Edited Books

'Economic policy and practice', in M. Wadsworth and J. Bynner A Companion to Life Course Studies: the social and historical context of the British birth cohort studies (Routledge, 2011).

'Taxation and Labour’s modernisation programme” in G. O’Hara and H. Parr The Wilson governments 1964-1970 reconsidered (Routledge, 2006).

'The transformation of the economy” in P. Addison & H. Jones, A companion to contemporary Britain, 1939-2000 (Blackwell, 2005).