page_title: Peter Hennessy
section_title: Academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Hennessy / Career / Academic career
caption_attribution_description: Giving a public lecture at LSE&#160;: The British Constitution: A Health Check, LSE Society Annual Special Lecture IMAGELIBRARY/96 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&amp;a...
context_page_description: Peter John Hennessy, Baron Hennessy of Nympsfield, FBA is an English historian and academic specialising in the history of government. Since 1992, he has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary University of London.
context_section_description: He co-founded the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1986. From 1992 to 2000, he was professor of contemporary history at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. From 1994 to 1997, he gave public lectures as Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London. From 2001, he has been Attlee professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary, University of London.
  His analysis of post-war Britain, Never Again: Britain 1945–1951, won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1992 and the NCR Book Award in 1993.
  His study of Britain in the 1950s and the rise of Harold Macmillan, Having It So Good: Britain in the 1950s, won the 2007 Orwell Prize for political writing.
caption: Professor Hennessy giving a public lecture at LSE in 1989
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