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Francis Beckett
English author, journalist, biographer and contemporary historian
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Francis Beckett (born 12 May 1945) is an English author, journalist, biographer, playwright and contemporary historian. He has written biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. He has also written on education for the New Statesman, The Guardian and The Independent and has been the editor of Third Age Matters, the national magazine published by the University of the Third Age.
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🇬🇧 The Peaky Blinders film is pandering to these populist times – I should know, the Nazi in it is my father | Francis Beckett<p>The film-makers would say they’re making drama, not history. But this is not the moment for yet another second world war film with a heroic myth</p...
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