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Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography of Shirley Williams

Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography of Shirley Williams

Williams, Shirley

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Biographies GeneralPolitical BiographiesBritish History

ISBN10: 0349016313
ISBN13: 9780349016313
Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
Published: Jun 7 2022
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'

Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her father George Catlin, a leading political scientist, encouraged his daughter to have high ambitions for herself - including daring to climb the bookshelves in his library. Elected as MP for Hitchin in 1964, she was a member of the Wilson and Callaghan governments and was also the Secretary of State for Education. As one of the 'Gang of Four' Shirley Williams famously broke away from the Labour Party to found the SDP in 1981 and later supported its merger with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats. This is her story.

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