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When Richard Crossman began to keep a political diary in 1952 he was a Bevanite activist, a member of the National Executive committee and an Opposition backbencher of the House of Commons without hope of office. Controversy was then tearing the Labour Party apart and he felt that, if no one kept a chronicle of it, future historians would be unable to piece together any coherent picture of what went on inside the Bevan group at that time. In 1960 Bevan died, and three years later so did the Party leader, Hugh Gaitskell. Crossman helped Harold Wilson to gain the leadership and, within a year, the Party found itself once again in office, with Crossman a Cabinet member at the Ministry of Housing. At this point the diary was to become all the more exhilarating and valuable. 'About this job I knew practically nothing,' Crossman writes. 'Indeed, the only preparations I had made which were of any use were those that concerned my diary. Jennie Hall, my secretary, agreed to become my archivist and to look after the tapes on which it would be dictated each weekend at my home in North Oxfordshire. Transcription of the tapes for obvious security reasons would not be attempted till later in the

Author

Crossman, R. H. S. (Richard Howard Stafford), 1907-1974

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241891100

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.11 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14