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	Ben Pimlott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professor Ben Pimlott (4 July 1945 - April 10, 2004) was a leading historian of the post-war period in Britain.
		His studies of the 1930s Labour left, the life of Harold Wilson and the constitutional effect of the monarchy in post-war Britain are said to have made his reputation as a biographer and even bestowed some additional credibility upon the subjects, all of which have received critical accounts under the pen of others.
		Pimlott sincerely believed and argued consistently that the post-war consensus in British politics was a veritable red-herring.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Pimlott (500 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Ben Pimlott
		Professor Ben Pimlott, who has died of leukaemia aged 58, was an outstanding political biographer and historian, a much-respected and widely read public commentator, and a man of great sensitivity, warmth and generosity of spirit.
		Ben's beautifully written study was distinguished both by impeccable scholarship and by a vivid personal insight into the thought-world and practices of the Labour party.
		Ben's reputation as a scholar was crowned by his election to a fellowship of the British Academy in 1996.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,1190388,00.html (2100 words)

	Press Office
		Ben Pimlott, who has died aged 58, was among the best known historians and political commentators of his generation.
		Ben was a highly active Fabian and a major intellectual force within the Society and in the rethinking of Labour and the left in the 1980s and 1990s.
		Ben was Chair of the Fabian Society from 1993 to 1994 and a long-standing member of the Fabian Executive Committee up to the time of his death.
	www.fabian-society.org.uk /press_office/news_latest_all.asp?pressid=312 (325 words)

	Progress - Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ben Pimlott's death is a personal loss to many of us, as is his now rare kind (once more common) to the whole Labour movement.
		Ben showed that the political left of the period was stronger on rhetoric than on policy and was relatively ineffective in the debates on unemployment, public ownership or control and foreign policy.
		Ben seemed the last person in the world to want an arduous seat of power for its own sake, especially when it would inevitably mean giving up any further major political and historical studies.
	www.progressives.org.uk /magazine/default.asp?action=magazine&articleid=706 (1149 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Loved and lost
		Ben Pimlott, Labour historian, biographer and warden of Goldsmiths College, died while everyone else was visiting their families for Easter.
		But she says Pimlott's legacy is not just about his impact on political sciences within the realms of academia.
		Pimlott chose to undertake some fairly radical administrative reform, which stuck in the throat of many established Goldsmiths academics.
	education.guardian.co.uk /obituary/story/0,12212,1195291,00.html (963 words)

	The Queen : A Biography of Elizabeth II (Ben Pimlott) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Ben Pimlott wrote this book in 1996 the year of Her Majesty's 70th birthday, the Royal family's reputation was beseiged during a time when (British, I assume, anti-monarchical) republicanism was at its height and on the rise.
		Ben Pimlott was "absolutely a patriot", his wife declared to the press following his death at age 58, almost a year ago, (he died on April 10, 2004, the day before Easter), after a short travail with leukemia.
		Ben Pimlott wrote two other biographies before The Queen, one about Hugh Dalton, another Labour leader who was Chancellor during WWII and also son of Queen Victoria's chaplain, and Harold Wilson, who was prime minister and also of the Labour party.
	www.mason-defender.net /webstore/us/product/0471283304.htm (1066 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Ben Pimlott
		Pimlott displayed, however, a benevolent respect for the Queen and applauded how she had coped with the social and political changes over half a century.
		Although he did not have access to official Royal papers, he spoke to many who knew the workings of the household and this gave the book a wider appeal: it was almost an analysis of the place of the monarchy at the end of the 20th century.
		Ben Pimlott, who was diagnosed with leukaemia a year ago, is survived by his wife, Jean Seaton, whom he married in 1977, and their three sons.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=418512004 (893 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Harold Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pimlott also draws attention to the ideological tensions with Gaitskell throughout Wilson’s political career, exploring how disagreements developed between the 1949 devaluation crisis to the leadership challenge in 1960, and how this affected his relationship with his party.
		Pimlott is keen to emphasise much of Wilson’s success lay in meeting the centre ground between the right and left, regarding the Labour leader as a great ‘conciliator’.
		Pimlott suggests that Wilson was able to unite the party by giving no concessions to his Bevanite friends, and by placing potential rivals such Brown in places of authority so he could keep them in check.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006379559/thescholsguid-21 (1156 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| \| The Ben Pimlott Prize for political writing
		Mark Hayhurst has won the first Ben Pimlott prize with his examination of the turbulent political life of Aneurin Bevan.
		The first Ben Pimlott prize, awarded in partnership with the Fabian Society, had a theme of biography.
		Professor Ben Pimlott was an outstanding historian, public commentator, distinguished academic and lifelong Fabian.He was also a champion of the political biography.
	www.guardian.co.uk /benpimlottprize (211 words)

	CNN - Chatpage - Q&A
		Ben Pimlott: I doubt whether the monarchy in Britain has brought any wealth to the U.K. I think the evidence on that is very strong.
		Ben Pimlott: Well, I think the main difference is that some of the monarchies in Asia and Africa retain real political power.
		Ben Pimlott: There is no particular sign of a renaissance at the moment although there may be some interest in Eastern Europe.
	www.cnn.com /chat/transcripts/2000/4/11/pimlott/index.html (1099 words)

	BBC News \| BREAKFAST WITH FROST \| SIR EDWARD FORD, GRAHAM TURNER and BEN PIMLOTT
		And Ben Pimlott, the historian whose biography of the Queen is, some say, the definitive tract on the royal family.
		BEN PIMLOTT Yes I do very much and I think I, I saw that programme and I thought that that was very much overstated.
		BEN PIMLOTT Well I think critically she had a great deal to do with it after 1936 and I think a, a sort of great historic role, in a sense was that,.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/858376.stm (2358 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Biographer defends his art after death
		Pimlott, who died of leukaemia last month aged 58, called his treatise on biography Brush Strokes, comparing the biographer's task to that of a painter.
		According to his widow, Jean Seaton, Pimlott was critical of scholars such as Eric Hobsbawm, a good friend who dismissed the role of the individual in serious history, and biographies which combine hagiography with the salacious exposure of sex lives.
		Pimlott gave a "hard-hitting" talk on the subject at Queen Mary, University of London, two years ago, she said.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1225450,00.html (902 words)

	London theatre tickets Royal Shakespeare Company Hamlet play on stage in London's West End Barbican Theatre - ticket ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Director Steven Pimlott reinvents this play so cleverly and casts light on its weider corners (this is culled from the three existing versions of the play), that it's mostly a thrill.
		Pimlott puts power back at the play's centre and, with West, makes it enthrallingly clear that Hamlet's tragedy is that he is the paralysed individual conscience in a world of realpolitik." The Guardian
		Larry Lamb's Claudius and Ben Meyjes's Laertes begin their colloquy at such a distance that they might as well communicate by semaphore.
	www.albemarle-london.com /rsc-hamlet2002.html (973 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Remembering an 'independent spirit'
		Tributes to the political historian Ben Pimlott, who died at the weekend, were today pouring in as universities returned after the Easter break.
		Professor Pimlott was a long-standing member of the Fabian Society's executive committee.
		Sunder Katwala, the society's general secretary, said: "Ben was a major intellectual force within the Fabian Society and in the political debates about how Labour and the left could recover in the 1980s and 1990s.
	education.guardian.co.uk /obituary/story/0,12212,1191712,00.html (879 words)

	eBay - Book: The Queen (ISBN: 047119431X) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pimlott brings an illuminating perspective to the queen's relationship with her prime ministers, and he offers an intriguing view of the phenomenon of the monarchy itself—and of its future.
		In The Queen, Ben Pimlott creates a richly detailed, compelling portrayal of Elizabeth II - the individual, the institution, and the icon.
		He explores the social, political, and psychological influences that shaped the queen's personality and the ideas she represents, Pimlott brings an illuminating perspective to the queen's relationship with her prime ministers, and he offers an intriguing view of the phenomenon of the monarchy itself - and of its future.
	product.ebay.com /The-Queen_ISBN_047119431X_W0QQfvcsZ1389QQsoprZ1063135 (640 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Pimlott, as we were talking there at the beginning, we saw those rather striking pictures of her last public appearance.
		PIMLOTT: Well, she was for many years very much in the public eye.
		PIMLOTT: Well, I think it will play in the sense that there will be revived interest at the moment, just as the jubilee is beginning to take off, and that may affect it.
	www.cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0202/09/smn.07.html (958 words)

	The Independent (London, England) : Obituary: Professor Ben Pimlott; Warden of Goldsmiths College and biographer of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BEN PIMLOTT was one of the foremost centre-left intellectuals of his generation, whose integrity and uncompromising standards of scholarship produced an enduring and varied legacy of work that changed the understanding of 20th- century political history.
		His capacity for friendship, which transcended party boundaries, his generous help to those toiling in neighbouring vineyards, and the rigour with which he analysed complex issues of national importance both in his academic posts and in his writings made him one of the most admired and influential figures of his time across the political spectrum.
		He stands four-square in that great humane tradition of radical questioning that includes such thinkers as R. Tawney and Raymond Williams, and his premature death at the age of 58 from leukaemia is a blow to all those who value originality and honesty in public debate.
	static.highbeam.com /t/theindependentlondonengland/april142004/obituaryprofessorbenpimlottwardenofgoldsmithscolle/index.html (301 words)

	Ben_pimlott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Future historians will sort out her impact on British life and politics, but until then Ben Pimlott offers a good summation of her first seven decades.
		What she is like, what she must do as her position as the Queen, and what she stands for are a few of the questions that are answered in this biography by Ben Pimlott...
		Pimlott has clearly done extensive research on his subject, but is able to provide a highly readable text...
	books.mysic.ca /Author/Ben_Pimlott (860 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ben Pimlott (London, England) is a professor of politics and contemporary history at Birkbeck College, University of London.
		In The Queen, Ben Pimlott creates a richly detailed, compelling portrayal of Elizabeth II--the individual, the institution, and the icon.
		Pimlott brings an illuminating perspective to the queen's relationship with her prime ministers, and he offers an intriguing view of the phenomenon of the monarchy itself--and of its future.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/047119431X/sandrhouseand-21 (1019 words)

	Register with batchmates and find your old school friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Biographer Ben Pimlott's final essay is a posthumous defence of his art, but its also targets salacious and sycophantic peers.
		What Ben Pimlott wrote in hospital before he died, was a final riposte to both "warts and all" biographers and condescending historians.
		Reports in the Guardian state that the Labour peer Kenneth Morgan, a biographer and historian, said that given Pimlott's illness, the essay may not be his friend "at his most normal and measured".
	apsdelhi.batchmates.com /channels/bbunker/news/biblionews26june.asp (2352 words)

	Rheas availible from Ben Pimlott
		Ben’s Eggs is a free range enterprise run by Ben Pimlott, from Loggerheads.
		It is a continuation of Ben’s interest in poultry and ducks.
		Ben’s Eggs have proven very popular with his customers who all say the eggs are like they were when they were children; Golden yolks and a great taste.
	www.foodconnection.co.uk /rheas (582 words)

	SHS Newsletter, September 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His father, JAR Pimlott, was a civil servant and part-time historian, who published works on social history.
		Ben's first book Labour and the Left in the 1930s about left-wing grass-roots activities in the years preceding World War II was interesting in that it was written at the time when history was repeating itself with similar grass-roots activity in the 1970s and the 1980s.
		However in spite of the few differences Ben and I might have had I will always remember him as this highly intelligent slightly shy Labour Party historian who was not averse to hearing a bit of gossip.
	www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk /409nl.htm (1638 words)

	'Queen' is stiff, correct and not just a little gray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Author Ben Pimlott is no Kelley, no muckraker, no seeker of toe-sucking.
		Starting with her birth in 1926 by "a certain line of treatment" (palace code for Caesarean section), Pimlott decorously examines the events of her life, small and great.
		Perhaps the best insight about Elizabeth comes from a passage that Pimlott quotes by a writer for the Guardian newspaper who says Elizabeth is "dull, unimaginative, unoriginal, uninspired, dutiful, a typical and recognizable representative of the rural landed class from which she springs."
	www.jsonline.com /news/sunday/books/1012bkeli.stm (541 words)

	Press Office
		The first Ben Pimlott Prize for Political Writing - organised in memory of outstanding historian, commentator and leading Fabian Ben Pimlott who died last year - has been won by Mark Hayhurst's essay on Aneurin Bevan.
		Professor Ben Pimlott was an outstanding historian, public commentator, distinguished academic and lifelong Fabian.
		The theme of the Ben Pimlott Prize for 2006 will be announced by the Fabian Society and the Guardian late in 2005.
	www.fabian-society.org.uk /press_office/display.asp?id=406&type=news&cat=48 (410 words)

	CNN - Queen reaches royal milestone - June 13, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ben Pimlott, author of "The Queen," described Elizabeth II as an icon for Britain's changing identity and used her growth as a metaphor for the changes Britain has faced.
		Of course, Elizabeth II has had her own, more modern battles, including the media wars carried out in the world media and tabloid press.
		Despite publicized controversies, a recent poll shows 77 percent of Britons still favor the monarchy in general and Queen Elizabeth II in particular.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9606/13/royal.milestone (218 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| Ben Pimlott: Rules didn't give us the Archers
		Which could be one way of saying that the British media are the worst in the world - apart from all the others.
		· Ben Pimlott, the political historian and biographer, died in April.
		This is an edited extract from a speech given to the Audit Commission, which appears in the current issue of the Political Quarterly and was the last major essay he wrote
	politics.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9115,1246180,00.html (1037 words)

	CNN - Queen celebrates 70th birthday Sunday - Apr. 21, 1996
		But by the time she was 27, she would inherit the mantle of a thousand years of monarchy and go on to found her own branch of the Windsor dynasty.
		Biographer Ben Pimlott says she met the challenge with unshakable dignity, duty and devotion.
		But if Elizabeth the monarch is respected by her subjects, the same may no longer necessarily be said of the monarchy as an institution.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9604/21/queen.birthday (455 words)

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