Rt Hon Tony Benn
Anthony "Tony"
Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925),
Tony Benn, is president of the Stop the War
Coalition. He is a former chairman of the Labour Party, the
longest serving Labour Member of Parliament and served for
nine years as a Cabinet minister. He is also a diarist and
campaigner.
With his successful campaign to renounce his
inherited title, a landmark case in British politics, Benn was
instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act
1963. Later, in the Labour Government of 1964-1970 under Harold
Wilson, he served first as Postmaster
General and later a notably 'technocratic' Minister of
Technology
He is known as one of the few UK politicians to have become more
left-wing after holding ministerial office. Since leaving
parliament, Benn has also become more interested in the grass-roots
politics of demonstrations and meetings, and less in parliamentary
activities. He has been a vegetarian since the 1970s.
Bibliography
Diaries:
- Tony Benn The Benn Diaries, 1940-90, Arrow Books Ltd
(2005)
- Tony Benn Years of Hope: Diaries, Letters and Papers,
1940-62, Arrow Books Ltd (1995)
- Tony Benn Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67,
Arrow Books Ltd (1988)
- Tony Benn Office Without Power: Diaries, 1968-72,
Arrow Books Ltd (1989)
- Tony Benn Against the Tide: Diaries, 1973-77, Arrow
Books Ltd (1990)
- Tony Benn Conflicts of Interest: Diaries, 1977-80,
Arrow Books Ltd (1991)
- Tony Benn The End of an Era: Diaries 1980-90, Arrow
Books Ltd (1994)
- Tony Benn Free at Last!: Diaries, 1991-2001, Arrow
Books Ltd (2003)
- Tony Benn More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007,
Hutchinson (2007)
Essays/ Biography etc
- Tony Benn Levellers and the English Democratic
Tradition, Spokesman Books (1976)
- Tony Benn Why America Needs Democratic Socialism,
Spokesman Books (1978)
- Tony Benn Prospects, Amalgamated Union of Engineering
Workers, Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section
(1979)
- Tony Benn Case for Constitutional Civil Service, Inst.
for Workers' Control (1980)
- Tony Benn Case for Party Democracy, Inst. for Workers'
Control (1980)
- Tony Benn Arguments for Democracy, Jonathan Cape
(1981)
- Tony Benn European Unity: A New Perspective, Spokesman
Books (1981)
- Tony Benn Parliament and Power: Agenda for a Free
Society, Verso Books (1982)
- Tony Benn & Andrew Hood Common Sense: New Constitution
for Britain, Hutchinson (1993)
- Tony Benn Free Radical: New Century Essays, Continuum
International Publishing Group Ltd (2004)
- Tony Benn Dare to Be a Daniel: Then and Now, Arrow
Books Ltd (2005)
This event has now taken place. The below images show
Right Honourable Tony Benn delivering his lecture at York Minster
on Wednesday 24 March.