Professor Hugh Pemberton
PhD, MA, BA
Current positions
Emeritus Professor
Department of History (Historical Studies)
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Research interests
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Research interests (key words)
Modern and Contemporary British history; British political history; economic policy history; industrial policy and industrial strategy; UK pensions history; pensions policy; pensions crisis; Labour party history; Conservative party history; Thatcher and Thatcherism; ideas and policy; history of government; history of public administration; governance; historical institutionalism; policy and history; history and politics.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
The Official History of the Civil Service since Fulton
Principal Investigator
Description
Finish this project by researching and writing up the John Major administration, 1990-1997Dates
01/07/2013
GOVERNANCE AND THE MARKET: UK PENSIONS, 1946-2001
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/11/2001 to 01/11/2002
Thesis supervisions
Visions of the Teuton
Supervisors
"A free-gift to the city of Bristol"
Supervisors
The Changing Practices of Managing Uncertainty and Risk in Post War British Political Economy
Supervisors
‘I’m a professional businessman not a professional Pakistani’
Supervisors
The Limits of Informal Empire
Supervisors
Public Services, Private Values
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
31/07/2024A Neoliberal Revolution?
A Neoliberal Revolution?
WASPI's is (mostly) a campaign for inequality
Political Quarterly
UK pensions: the making and breaking of a welfare consensus
The state of welfare: comparative studies of the welfare state at the end of the long boom, 1965–1980
UK industrial strategy, redux
Juncture
‘Everyman a capitalist?’ or ‘Free to Choose’?
Historical Journal
Recent publications
31/07/2024A Neoliberal Revolution?
A Neoliberal Revolution?
Thatcher’s Policy Unit and the ‘Neoliberal Vision’
Journal of British Studies
Bad Piano? Bad Music? A Response to Comments on Lowe and Pemberton, The Official History of the British Civil Service, Vol 2: 1982-1997
Political Quarterly
The Official History of the British Civil Service: Reforming the Civil Service, Volume 2
The Official History of the British Civil Service: Reforming the Civil Service, Volume 2
Thatcher's Pension Reforms
Thatcher's Pension Reforms
Thesis
The Keynesian-plus experiment: a study of social learning in the UK core executive, 1960-1966
Supervisors
Award date
01/01/2001
Related people
Professor Mark Wickham-Jones
Professor of Political Science
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Professor David Manley
Dean of Science and Engineering
Science Faculty Office
Dr James Freeman
Senior Lecturer in Political History and Digital Humanities
Department of History (Historical Studies)