Publications
(with R.K.Middlemas): Baldwin. A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
1969.
(with A.Thompson): The Day Before
Yesterday. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.
"The Record". Part I of C.Cook and D.McKie
(eds): The Decade of Disillusion. Macmillan, 1972.
Editor (with D.J.Nicholson): The Leo Amery
Diaries. Volume I 1896-1929. Hutchinson, 1980.
"From Eden to Macmillan", in P.Hennessy and A.F.Seldon
(eds): Ruling Performance. Blackwell, 1988.
Editor (with D.J.Nicholson): The Empire at
Bay. The Diaries of L.S.Amery. Volume II. Hutchinson, 1988.
(with N.A.Barr): Strategies for Higher
Education. The Alternative White Paper. Aberdeen University Press, 1988.
"Should we trust the market in Higher
Education?" in S.Sexton (ed): Funding and Management of Higher
Education. Institute of Economic Affairs, 1989.
(with N.A.Barr): "Policies for Access,
Expansion and Efficiency" in R.Watts and J.Greenberg (eds): Post
Secondary Education: Preparation for the World of Work. Gower, 1990.
(with S.Edwards, J.Henry & Dilys Milward): Report
of the Management Enquiry into West Lambeth District Health Authority. S.E.T.R.H.A.,
1990.
Commentary on E.Hobsbawm, "Britain: a comparative
view" in B.Brivati & H.Jones (eds):What Difference did the War
make? Leicester University Press, 1993.
(with R.Cockett) "Conservative
policy-making" in A.Seldon & S.Ball (eds): Conservative Century.
The Conservative Party since 1900. Oxford University Press, 1994.
"Ideology and Factions" in A.Seldon
and S.Ball (eds): Conservative Century. The Conservative Party since 1900.
Oxford University Press, 1994.
"Education - the changing balance of
power" in David Gladstone (ed): British Social Welfare. Past,
present and future. UCL Press, 1995.
State, Markets and Education. LSE Public Policy
Paper No. 10, 1996.
Federal Britain. No Longer Unthinkable? Centre for Policy
Studies, 1997.
"Finance and university Autonomy" in M.Henkel
& B.Little (eds): Changing Relationships between Higher Education and
the State. Jessica Kingsley, 1998.
"The Prime Minister's role in Foreign Affairs
and Economic Policy: creeping bilateralism in action?" in Simon James &
Virginia Preston (eds): British Politics since 1945. Macmillan, 2001.
"What if the Conservatives had won in 1964?" in D.Brack & I.Dale (eds):
Prime Minister Portillo and other things that never happened. Politico's, 2003.
"Viscount Eccles", "Jean Denton" et al. in I.Dale (ed): Politico's Book of the Dead. Politico's, 2004.
A Guide to the Parish Church of The Assumption of Blessed Mary and Saint Nicholas, Etchingham, and its History, 3rd edition 2013.
"Stanley Baldwin" in I.Dale (ed): The Prime Ministers. Hodder and Stoughton, 2020.
"King Edward I" in I.Dale (ed): Kings and Queens. Hodder and Stoughton, 2023.
"1935" in I.Dale (ed): British General Elections. Hodder and Stoughton, 2024.