On This Day In Politics
Oct
21st

The book

On This Day in Politics is an informative, accessible and opinionated book on key moments in British political history that have occurred on every day from 1 January through to 31 December.

From the first meeting of an elected English parliament on 20 January 1265 to the abolition of the Slave Trade on 25 March 1807; from the Peterloo massacre of 16 August 1819 to Britain voting to leave the EU on 23 June 2016, there is a growing thirst for knowledge about the history of our constitutional settlement, our party system and how our parliamentary democracy has developed. Writing as an observer of political history, but also someone with an opinion, acclaimed political journalist Iain Dale charts the main events of the last few hundred years, with one event per page, per day.

Publisher

Allen & Unwin/ Atlantic Books

Format

Hardback

Pages

370

Published on

6th Oct 2022

Price: £20

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The author

Iain Dale presents the evening show on LBC Radio and is the author or editor of more than 50 books.

In 2022 he was shortlisted for Audio Presenter of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild. He was named Radio Presenter of the Year for 2013 & 2016 at the Arqiva Awards, and was shortlisted for Speech programme of the year at the 2013 Sony Radio Awards. In 2014 he won a Sony Award for ‘Best Interview of the Year’.

He joined LBC in 2010 and presented the Drivetime show for five and a half years, from March 2013 until August 2018. He has presented four LBC General Election Night Shows, two American Presidential Election overnight shows, as well as the stations Scottish and Brexit referendum night shows.

His most recent books are Why Can’t We All Get Along: Shout Less, Listen More (Harper Collins, Hardback, £12.99), The Prime Ministers 1721-2020: Three Hundred Years of Political Leadership (Hodder & Stoughton, Hardback, £25) and The Presidents: 250 Years of American Political Leadership. In October 2022 his latest book, On This Day in Politics (Allen & Unwin, Hardback, £20) was published, followed by Kings & Queens in September 2023 and The Dictators (June 2024).

Iain is a visiting professor of politics and broadcasting at the University of East Anglia, which he graduated from in 1985 with a degree in German and Linguistics.

Iain was a panellist on CNN Talk on CNN International and is a regular contributor to Newsnight, Good Morning Britain and Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine Show.

Iain co-hosts a weekly podcast with former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith called ‘For the Many’, the ‘Iain Dale Book Club’ podcast, the Iain Dale All Talk podcast and also a podcast of his weekly ‘Cross Question’ political panel show, along with The Presidents & Prime Ministers podcast - all available through GlobalPlayer, iTunes, Google Podcasts and all other major podcast platforms.