No Tradesmen and No Women: The Origins of the British Civil Service

No Tradesmen and No Women: The Origins of the British Civil Service

Michael Coolican
Our Price:  £5.99
List Price:  £20.00
Saving Of:  70%

Availability:  

  

In stock

Author:  Michael Coolican
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  400
Publisher:  Biteback Publishing
Year:  2018
ISBN:  9781785904523

Is our civil service fit for purpose? Michael Coolican takes John Reid's damning statement about the Home Office as his point of departure for a comprehensive overview and evaluation of the machinery behind the government and the people who make public services work on a daily basis.

Beginning with Henry VIII's chief minister Thomas Cromwell, Michael Coolican takes us on an odyssey through the history of the British civil service, starting with a time when public positions were sold and traded through Royal Warrant. Coolican examines the radical reforms of the Victorian era which entrenched a culture of elitism, misogyny and distrust of high-quality data as a basis for decision making, that, in some areas, persists to this day.

A former high-level civil servant with forty years of experience, Coolican has produced a pithy and, where necessary, ruthless analysis of the civil service and its relationship with government, especially at Cabinet level, bringing to bear detailed and extensive research informed by a true insider.

You may also like
British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology
Condition: New
£35.00   £24.99

It fills the persistent need to document women's poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded.


Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations: Challenging or Maintaining the Status Quo?
Condition: New
£18.85

This collection examines the nexus between the emancipation of women, and their role(s) in civil service organisations. It covers the role of social media in organising, the significance of religion in many cultural contexts, activism in Eastern Europe and the impact of environmental degradation on women's lives.


Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States
Teresa Anne Murphy
Condition: New
£21.99

Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States challenges twenty-first-century assumptions of nineteenth-century women's history by tracing the ways women's history was politicized, particularly in light of the growing activism of women and the first woman's rights movement.