Alan Johnson on Harold Wilson - in conversation with John Sergeant
Johnson’s concise biography of Harold Wilson won the prize of ‘Best Biography’ at the Westminster Book Awards.
Alan Johnson is in conversation with John Sergeant.
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| Date | Saturday 15th November 2025 | |
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| Time | 10:00 AM | |
| Doors Open | 9:30 AM | |
| Venue | High Street Baptist Church | |
Harold Wilson : Twentieth Century Man: The Prime Ministers Series by Alan Johnson (£16.99)
‘The finest prose stylist in the House of Commons since Roy Jenkins’ Mark Lawson
WINNER OF A WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARD
Harold Wilson was one of the most successful politicians of the twentieth century. Prime Minister from 1964-70, and again from 1974-76, he won four elections as well as a referendum on UK membership of the European Community. The achievements of the Wilson Era – from legalising homosexuality to protecting ethnic minorities, from women’s rights to the Open University – radically improved ordinary people’s lives for the better.
In Harold Wilson, former Labour cabinet minister and bestselling author Alan Johnson presents a portrait of a truly twentieth-century man, whose ‘white heat’ speech proclaimed a scientific and technological revolution – and who was as much a part of the sixties as the Beatles and the Profumo scandal.
ABOUT ALAN JOHNSON
Alan Johnson was a Labour MP for 20 years before retiring ahead of the 2017 general election. He served in five cabinet positions in the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown Governments. Since his political career, the former postman is forging an impressive new career as an author of both fiction and non-fiction books.