Books by Andrew Seaton
“This is a very big book about an institution which inspires enormous loyalty and that title, Our NHS, is absolutely on the mark. The story is beautifully told. The author, Andrew Seaton, feels very much part of the story of the NHS, but shows the difficulties of saying whose NHS it is. There is what he describes as a sort of nationalism around the NHS. There’s a great pride engendered by the Labour Party—who created the NHS—in it being a uniquely British institution, and it is often contrasted with the dysfunctional state of US medicine. There are all sorts of ways in which the book reflects on its own preconceptions. ‘Our’ NHS: What about all the immigrants who have made it work since the 1950s? It could not have survived without them.” Read more...
The Best History Books of 2024: The Wolfson History Prize
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Theologians & Historians of Religion
Interviews where books by Andrew Seaton were recommended
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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
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Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
by Nandini Das -
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Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by Nicholas Radburn -
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Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution
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Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
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Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022
by Frank Trentmann
The Best History Books of 2024: The Wolfson History Prize, recommended by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Best History Books of 2024: The Wolfson History Prize, recommended by Diarmaid MacCulloch
To win the Wolfson History Prize, a book must be both original and accessible to the general reader. British historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, one of the prize’s judges, talks us through the six books that made the 2024 shortlist, from the voyage of an English diplomat to Mughal India to the intimacy of a South African marriage, from the barbarity of the slave trade in the 18th century to the history of an institution that provides free health care to all.
