Alan Johnson: Harold Wilson - Part of Summer Derby Book Festival
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23 May 2025
7.30pm
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Former Labour cabinet minister and best-selling author Alan Johnson returns to the Festival with his latest book, a Westminster Book Award-winner, which chronicles one of the most successful politicians of the 20th century: Harold Wilson.
Prime Minister from 1964-70, and again from 1974-76, he won four elections as well as a referendum on UK membership of the European Community. The achievements of the Wilson Era – from legalising homosexuality to protecting ethnic minorities, from women’s rights to the Open University – radically improved ordinary people’s lives for the better.
Alan presents a portrait of a truly 20th century man, whose ‘white heat’ speech proclaimed a scientific and technological revolution – and who was as much a part of the sixties as the Beatles and the Profumo scandal.
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