Sir Anthony Seldon

Sir Anthony Seldon is one of the country's top political historians and acknowledged national authority on all matters to do with the government and No. 10. His book Churchill's Indian Summer: The Conservative Government, 1951–55 (1981) was published forty years ago, and since then he has written or edited many books, including The Blair Effect, 2001–5 (Cambridge, 2005), The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 (Cambridge, 2015), The Conservative Effect, 2010–2024 (Cambridge, 2024) and The Impossible Office (Cambridge, 2024). He has been the honorary historian at No. 10 Downing Street and chair of the National Archives Trust, and has interviewed virtually all senior figures who have worked in No. 10 in the last fifty years.