Francis Beckett (born 12 May 1945) is an English author, journalist, biographer, playwright and contemporary historian. He has written biographies of...
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Emma Beckett (born 1987), Irish footballer Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe (1856–1917) Ernest Beckett (1869–1952), footballer Francis Beckett (born...
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faith to marry Beckett. According to his son Francis, he was christened Jack William Beckett but assumed the name John Warburton Beckett in 1918. He was...
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February 2010. Temple dropped 'General' from her job description, see Francis Beckett Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party, London: John...
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2007. Francis Beckett and David Hencke, The Survivor: Tony Blair in War and Peace, 2005, Aurum Press Ltd, ISBN 978-1-84513-110-4 Francis Beckett and David...
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Conservatives 4.8 (median of 4.1). In a 2006 issue of BBC History, historian Francis Beckett ranked the 20th-century prime ministers with points out of five in...
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Margaret Mary Beckett, Baroness Beckett, GBE, PC (née Jackson; born 15 January 1943), is a British politician. She was a Member of Parliament for more...
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Times. Associated Press. 28 July 1991. Retrieved 12 September 2020. Francis Beckett, Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer (London: Haus Publishing, 2015)...
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Lehrer"), with German versions of some of his best-known songs. In 2024, Francis Beckett wrote a play Tom Lehrer Is Teaching Math and Doesn’t Want to Talk to...
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2014 that he was worth "less than £20 million". A 2015 assertion, by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan, concluded that Blair had acquired $90...
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Simon Beckett (born 20 April 1960) is a British journalist and author. His books, in particular the crime series around forensic anthropologist Dr David...
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George F. Beckett (15 April 1877 – 21 November 1961) was an Irish architect. George Francis Beckett was born in 7 Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, Dublin on...
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quarrels with the director, Orson Welles, who according to the biographer Francis Beckett suffered the "appalling treatment" that Olivier had inflicted on Gielgud...
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The Communist Party and the War. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1984. Francis Beckett, Enemy Within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party. London:...
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2017-06-19. Francis Beckett: Stalin's British victims, United Kingdom, 2004, p.55 The Central Archive, Federal Security Service, Russia Francis Beckett: Stalin’s...
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Labor Leaders, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995; vol. 2, p.284 Francis Beckett Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party, London:...
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Keir Hardie to Tony Blair, Abacus, 1996 Clem Attlee: A Biography By Francis Beckett, Richard Cohen Books, ISBN 1-86066-101-7 Teddy J. Uldricks, "Russian...
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Oxford English Dictionary, "Limehouse". Beckett, Francis. (1997) Clem Attlee: A Biography Francis Beckett (Richard Cohen Books) ISBN 1-86066-101-7 Campbell...
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location of pits in 1984 and the closures each year up to 2004. Beckett, Francis; Beckett, David (2009). Marching to the Fault Line: The Miners' Strike...
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Galloway, Tony Benn, Tom Morello and Howard Zinn, and features by Francis Beckett and István Mészáros. Socialist Workers Party, Post Conference Bulletin...
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defended Arthur Scargill in a review of Marching to the Fault Line by Francis Beckett and David Hencke, which criticises the NUM leader's role in the miners'...
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Thursday 31 May 2001". Archived from the original on 13 February 2009. Francis Beckett and David Hencke, Marching to the Fault Line. The Miners' Strike and...
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people: leaders and lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock (1987) pp 289–300. Francis Beckett and David Hencke, Marching to the fault line: The Miners' Strike and...
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Attlee: An unromantic hero". New Statesman. Retrieved 16 March 2017. Beckett, Francis (20 June 2014). "Clement Attlee, the original Ed Miliband". New Statesman...
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"No. 29202". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 June 1915. p. 6116. Francis Beckett (1997). Clem Attlee. Richard Cohen Books. ISBN 1-86066-101-7. "No....
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Nicholas Timmins, The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State Francis Beckett, Clem Attlee Jefferys, Kevin The Attlee Governments 1945–1951 Pimlott...
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daughter Dora, who was by then married to Carlo, Marchese di Rudini. Beckett, Francis (2000). Clement Attlee. Politico's Publishing Limited. p. 199. ISBN 1-902301-70-6...
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over 'anti-Semitism'". BBC News. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019. Francis Beckett (1 October 2001). "New Labour and proud of it". New Statesman. Archived...
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detectives. David Hencke (1976) Colleges in Crisis David Hencke and Francis Beckett (2004) The Blairs and their court David Hencke (2004) Marching to the...
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written with the help of Keele University alumni Malcolm Clarke and Francis Beckett, was published in hardback by John Blake in August 2015. A stage version...
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