Articles
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- "Beatty and Jellicoe" in Cambridge Review 1963.
- "Haig - a reply" in Cambridge Review 1963
- "Taylor's England" in Swinton Journal. Spring 1965
- "Wily Tory" in Sunday Telegraph, May
1965.
- "Hurrah for the media men". Crossbow,
April-June 1967.
- "Tory Trade Unionists" (note). New
Society, 1967.
- (with D.E.Regan): "Why Greenwich Switched". New
Society, 10
August 1967.
- "Politics and the Novel". Crossbow,
January-March 1968.
- "Reform at the Centre". Swinton
Journal, 1968.
- "Baldwin. Man of Integrity" in Solon,
October 1969.
- "Teaching and Research in Contemporary
British History" in D.C.Watt (ed): Contemporary History in Europe.
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
- "Building the Air Force. Lord Swinton talks to
John Barnes" in Swinton Journal 15.3 Autumn 1969.
- "Baldwin after 50 years" in Crossbow, May 1973.
- Review of C.Hazlehurst & C.Woodland: Guide
to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1951 in English
Historical Review XCI No 358 January 1976
- Editor (with D.J.Nicholson): The Leo Amery
Diaries. Volume I 1896-1929. Hutchinson, 1980.
- "Taking Education off the Rates" in Economic
Affairs, October 1981.
- "Education Vouchers ... For" in County
Councils Gazette, February 1983.
- "Political Pressures and Government
Inaction" in Economic Affairs, April-May 1986.
- "Books and Journals", in A.F.Seldon (ed):
Contemporary History. Practice and Method. Blackwell, 1988.
- (with N.A.Barr): "Ways out of the Half-Way
House" in The Times Higher Educational Supplement, No.816, 24 June 1988.
- (with N.A.Barr): "Student Loans: the Market
way to University Freedom" in Sunday Times, 6 November 1988.
- "Whitehall Laid Open" in LSE, No.77, June
1989.
- "Would you credit it?" in Times
Higher Educational Supplement, No.885, 20 October 1989.
- Articles on L.S.Amery, R.A.Butler, D.Heathcoat
Amory, and Sir W.Monckton in K.Robbins (ed): Blackwell's Biographical
Dictionary of Twentieth Century British History. Blackwell, 1990.
- "Putting power in the hands of the
parent" in Samizdat February/March 1991.
- Review of P.Catterall: British History 1945-87.
An annotated bibliography in Contemporary Record 5.3 Winter 1991
- "Seismic Issues in British Politics"
in Modern History Review Vol.3 No.4 April 1992.
- "Euro fee bursaries and national loan
schemes: towards a level playing field in European higher education". Paper for
the 14th EAIR Forum, Brussels. September 1992,
published in the Proceedings.
- Co-contributor to ICBH Witness Seminar on
Editing Political Diaries in Contemporary Record 7.1 Summer 1993.
- "A Patten of Spending" in Parliamentary
Brief 2.3 August 1993.
- "The State, Markets and Education". Paper
for the 4th International Symposium of OIDEL in conjunction with the European
Democratic Forum, Geneva. November 1993.
- "The Patten Inheritance" in Parliamentary
Brief 2.4 November/December 1993
- "Having Power, but Not Much Control"
in Parliamentary Brief 3.2 November 1994
- "Nine rebels, and the future of the Tories" in Parliamentary Brief 3.3 December 1994
- "Markets and Education" in Final
report of the 4th International Symposium. Europe, United and Plural: the
role of public authorities in education. OIDEL, 1994.
- "The Cabinet and Europe" in European
Brief February 1995
- "Neue Show auf dem Spielplan" in Der Spiegel
27 November
1995
- "Clarke on cabinet government. Kenneth Clarke
talks to John Barnes" in LSE Magazine 11.2 Winter 1999.
- "Clarke concludes" in LSE Magazine 12.1 Summer
2000
- "A good innings on a very sticky wicket" in The
Conservative. An independent political commentary. May 2000.
- Review of P.Dorey (ed): The Major
Premiership in International Affairs 2000
- Interview for video The Story of the Conservative Party featuring interviews with Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Heath, Lord Carr and John Barnes. WH Smith, 2000
- "How the Tory Party Got That Name" in Conservative History Journal Summer 2003
- "Party Colours" in Conservative History Journal Summer 2004
- "Four among equals", review of S.Ball: The Guardsmen in Conservative History Journal Spring 2005
- "Edward Heath: A Personal Recollection and Appraisal" in Conservative History Journal Autumn 2005
- "Kenneth Clarke talks to John Barnes" in Parliamentary Affairs Autumn 2005.
- "Coming Close to Greatness", review of Philip Ziegler: Edward Heath in The Tablet 21 August 2010
- "Foremen of a work in progress", review of R.Quinault: British Prime Ministers and Democracy in The Tablet 2 July 2011
- "Blue Thinking", review of R.Harris: The Conservatives: a history, Bantam Press 2011, in The Tablet 7 January 2012
- Interview for podcast The Prime Ministers, Iain Dale talks to John Barnes about Stanley Baldwin
- Obituary of Nigel Fisher for The Guardian
- Several obituaries for The Independent - listed here