# Harold Wilson
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James harold wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (11 March 1916 – c. 23 May 1995), was a British politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Opposition twice from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1970 to 1974, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1983. Wilson is the only Labour leader to have formed governments following four general elections.
419. Britain in 1974: Countdown to a Coup (Part 3)
Following a tumultuous election in February 1974, Labour's Harold Wilson has been re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Wilson, an unpretentious, kind man, has inherited a nation in crisis: train strikes in Norfolk, students fighting in Oxford, inflation, an ongoing oil crisis, a terribl…
418. Britain in 1974: The Crisis Election (Part 2)
Three days after one of the most devastating IRA attacks launched upon British soil, the Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath called an election, in circumstances that had never been more dire. Running against him was the veteran Labour leader, Harold Wilson, now as tired and beleaguered as his…
What Could Labour Learn From Harold Wilson?
In the week of the Labour Party when polls indicate that the party is likely to form the next government, it seems an opportune moment to examine what lessons they might be able to draw from their own history. But why Harold Wilson?Harold Wilson won four general elections. More than Clement Atlee o…
Harold Wilson: Labour's Rising Star, Part Two
In Part Two of The Westminster Ledger’s series on Harold Wilson, we follow his remarkable rise from newly elected MP in 1945 to Leader of the Labour Party in 1963.
Wilson entered Parliament as part of Clement Attlee’s landslide victory and, still only in his early thirties, quickly became one of th…
Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965–66 with David Kynaston
The Sixties are often remembered as a decade of sweeping social and cultural change. But how much really changed for ordinary people? From deindustrialisation and urban redevelopment to immigration, race relations and the shifting attitudes of a younger generation, Britain in the mid-1960s was a fa…
Mini Season — The Up Series — Episode 1 — 7 Up (1964) and 7 Plus Seven (1970)
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Chase and Sam are taking on the ultimate quest — a boomer Epic of Gilgamesh, Shahnameh, Middlemarch, or Buddenbrooks — if you will.
In honour of Michael Apted's decades-long Up series (1964-2026) coming to an end this autumn, DPP thought a mini series working its way through an Englis…
Harold Wilson Part Three: From Triumph to Defeat, 1963 - 1970
In October 1964, Harold Wilson achieved a lifelong ambition. The boy from Huddersfield who had once stood outside Number 10 Downing Street was now Britain's Prime Minister.
After thirteen years of Conservative government, Wilson promised to modernise Britain through the “white heat of the technolog…
Is SNP Energy Policy Two-Faced?
Does the SNP Energy Policy depend on where you live in Scotland? Is it Net Zero or "Drill, baby, drill".
As the UK Government gives the green light to the Jackdaw gas field, the SNP faces difficult questions over its support for North Sea oil and gas and its commitment to Net Zero.
Bernard Ponsonby…
The Book Club: Alan Johnson
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the former Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who joins me to talk about his new biography of Harold Wilson. He tells me about Wilson’s rocket-powered rise to the top, how he learned oratory on the hoof, why he might have been right to be paranoid… and what re…
Lord Soper: Methodist, Socialist, Pacifist... and crank?
In this episode of Since Attlee & Churchill, Richard takes us through the extraordinary life of Donald Soper, the Methodist preacher, Christian socialist and pacifist who became one of the most familiar Christian men in post-war Britain, but is now largely forgotten. A lifelong Methodist, Soper dev…
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