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Arena of Ambition: The History of the Cambridge Union
Stephen Parkinson
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Hardback. Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in 1815. This work charts the history of the Union from its nineteenth-century origins, focusing on the turbulent Second World War and post-war years. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16-page b/w photo section. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 191. .
Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in 1815. Ex-Presidents have included John Maynard Keynes, Robert Harris, Arianna Huffington and Douglas Hurd - as well as an Olympic medallist, an Oscar nominee, and two winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Generations of undergraduates have flocked to its celebrated debating chamber and spoken as equals with its distinguished guests; Prime Ministers like Baldwin and Churchill, Presidents like Roosevelt and Reagan, and controversial figures like Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell. Stephen Parkinson, an ex-President of ... Read more
Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in 1815. Ex-Presidents have included John Maynard Keynes, Robert Harris, Arianna Huffington and Douglas Hurd - as well as an Olympic medallist, an Oscar nominee, and two winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Generations of undergraduates have flocked to its celebrated debating chamber and spoken as equals with its distinguished guests; Prime Ministers like Baldwin and Churchill, Presidents like Roosevelt and Reagan, and controversial figures like Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell. Stephen Parkinson, an ex-President of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Icon Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848310612
SKU
V9781848310612
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About Stephen Parkinson
Stephen Parkinsongraduated from Cambridge in 2004, and was President ofthe Union in Lent Term that year. He spent two years in theConservative Research Department before becoming Directorof Research at the Centre for Policy Studies. In late 2007 hereturned to Conservative Central Office, where he works on theparty's target seats campaign.
Reviews for Arena of Ambition: The History of the Cambridge Union
'Stephen Parkinson has written a hugely impressive history of the Cambridge Union; scholarly, nuanced and well written, with a perceptible fondness for the institution. As a nursery for some of the most talented, witty, intelligent and cringe-makingly precocious of our future leaders, the Union Society chamber was consciously based on that of the House of Commons. As an insight onto ... Read more