Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Foreword by Jeremy Heywood xiii
Introduction: The Argument xvii
Chapter 1 Cabinet Government Before 1916 1
Chapter 2 The Creation of the Cabinet Office: The Cabinet Secretariat and the First World War, 1916–18 25
Chapter 3 Maurice Hankey and the Interwar Years, 1918–39 41
Chapter 4 Edward Bridges and the Second World War, 1938–45 73
Chapter 5 Norman Brook: Commander of the Mid-Twentieth Century, 1946–63 105
Chapter 6 Housing the Cabinet Office, 1916–2016 141
Chapter 7 Burke Trend and John Hunt: Adjusting to the Modern Era, 1963–79 153
Chapter 8 Robert Armstrong and Robin Butler: The Last of the Traditionalists,1979–98 195
Chapter 9 New Labour, New Challenges: Wilson, Turnbull and O’Donnell, 1997–2010 235
Chapter 10 Coalition and Beyond, 2010–16 279
Endnotes 299
Bibliography 331
Picture Credits 345
Index 347
