Lord Peter Hennessy: Writing the history of one’s own times

Lord Peter Hennessy is a journalist, professor and researcher. He is widely recognised as one of the country’s leading historians of British politics and an acclaimed expert on the inner workings of government machinery, from the complexities of constitutional arrangements to the role of the secret state. In this thought-provoking lecture, he draws on his vast experience, and his book Distilling the Frenzy: Writing the History of One’s Own Times, to offer an insight into the challenges of researching and writing about contemporary political history.