'Making a Reality of Collective Responsibility': The Lord President's Committee, Coalition and the British State at War, 1941-42
'Making a Reality of Collective Responsibility': The Lord President's Committee, Coalition and the British State at War, 1941-42
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“实现集体责任”：勋爵总统委员会、联盟和战争中的英国国家，1941-42 年
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10.1080/13619462.2015.1011389
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发表时间：
2015
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0.7
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Crowcroft R
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Crowcroft R
最近，人们对第二次世界大战期间英国国家和政党政治的历史重新产生了兴趣。这篇文章对此做出了贡献，首次详细分析了一个成为白厅战争机器的关键组成部分的机构--总统勋爵委员会。该委员会成立于1940年，由几位资深政治家组成，负责国内动员的许多方面。约翰·安德森爵士曾是一名公务员，后来成为国民政府议员，他将其转变为处理数据和完善政策的强大工具。然而，令人惊讶的是，没有将总统勋爵委员会整合到相关的史学中，政治历史学家忽视了它庞大而重要的档案。这篇文章描绘了安德森将委员会转变为国家行政机构的时期，加深了我们对战时政府和跨党派合作的理解。
There has recently been renewed interest in the history of the British state and party politics during the Second World War. This article contributes to that, representing the first detailed analysis of a body that became a crucial part of the Whitehall war machine, the Lord President's Committee. Established in 1940, and comprising several senior politicians, this committee had the responsibility for many aspects of domestic mobilisation. Sir John Anderson, a former civil servant turned National Government MP, converted it into a powerful vehicle for the processing of data and refinement of policy. Yet, surprisingly, there has been no integration of the Lord President's Committee within the relevant historiography, and political historians have neglected its large and important archive. Charting the period where Anderson transformed the committee into an executive arm of the state, the article enhances our understanding of the wartime government and cross-party co-operation.