Acknowledgements
This book could never have been written without the kindness and generosity of other scholars. I am especially grateful to all those who gave up their time to advise on reading, share their research or comment on draft chapters. My particular thanks to Sam Brewitt-Taylor, Jo Byrne, Saul Dubow, James Ellison, Martyn Frampton, Matthew Grimley, Ben Jackson, Martin Johnes, Helen McCarthy, Alex Middleton, Richard Moore-Colyer, Marc Mulholland, Glen O'Hara, Barbara Taylor, David Torrance and Martin Wilcox, all of whom read and commented upon sections of the text. They are, of course, not responsible for the hash I may have made of their advice. I am also enormously grateful to Alwyn Turner and Philip Williamson, who generously shared their own research on changes in prices and incomes and on days of prayer.
The unsung heroes of any research project are the librarians and archivists without whom researchers would peer gibbering into the void. I am especially grateful to the staff of the Bodleian Library; the British Library; Cardiff University Library; the Church of England Record Office; Churchill Archives Centre; the Conservative Party Archive; the John Sainsbury Archive; the Labour History Archive and Study Centre at the People's History Museum, Manchester; Lambeth Palace Library; the London School of Economics (LSE); the Linen Hall Library, Belfast; the Museum of London Docklands; the National Archives; the National Library of Scotland; the Parliamentary Archive; the Women's Library at the LSE; and the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. My thanks to all those who gave permission to reproduce material, including the Confederation of British Industry; the Literary Executors of Roy Jenkins; the Trustees of the Literary Estate of the late J. Enoch Powell; the Conservative Party; the Labour History Archive; the Parliamentary Archive; and the John Sainsbury Archive.
A number of those who were involved in the campaigns in 1975 gave generously of their time to answer my questions, including Lady Kina Avebury, Sir Tony Baldry, Baroness Betty Boothroyd, Gyles Brandreth, Lord Deben (John Selwyn Gummer), Donald Hardie, Erskine Holmes, Sir John Mills, Berrie O'Neill, David Peter, Fiona Ross-Farrow, Jim Sillars, Diana Villiers Negroponte and Gordon Wilson. I would like to pay special tribute to Lady Avebury and Gordon Wilson, who died before the completion of this book. They were among the most generous and helpful of my interviewees, and it was a privilege to be able to draw on their expertise.
This book was begun at Oxford University, researched and largely written at Queen Mary University of London, and completed back at Oxford as a Visiting Researcher. I am grateful to both institutions for keeping the wolf from the door and for asking only the right number of times when the book was likely to be finished. I have been exceptionally fortunate with my colleagues in both universities, and am thankful to Tim Bale, Saul Dubow, Alex Gajda, Peter Ghosh, Sara Hobolt, Ben Jackson, Reuben Loffman, Helen McCarthy, Alex Middleton, Grant Tapsell and many others for expressing enthusiasm for the book at times when my own was running low. I am particularly grateful to my three Heads of School at Queen Mary – Miri Rubin, Colin Jones and Julian Jackson – for their support throughout the writing of this book. My thanks, too, to Ross McKibbin, William Whyte and St John's College, Oxford, and to the Oxford Centre for European History, for hosting me as a Visiting Researcher.
The key to any book lies in the support of friends and family. I am more grateful than I can say to my parents, Andrew and Penny Saunders, for all their love and support, and to my siblings, Patrick, Timothy and Sara. My warmest thanks are also due to Patrick Porter and Jane Rogers for their friendship, fine cooking and long hours gassing away about the state of the world. Will Thomas showed extraordinary patience in enduring me as a flatmate for three years, even as the tide of books on British and European politics surged inexorably across the communal areas of the flat. Special thanks go to my friend and colleague James Ellison, who read a substantial chunk of the manuscript and provided invaluable feedback. His generosity, encouragement and unflagging enthusiasm for the book contributed enormously both to its (sometimes glacial) progress and to the pleasure I had in writing it.
Finally, I would like to dedicate this book to my godson, William Smith. He will be relieved to discover that there is a cricket match towards the end.
