Other Books
All Change: British Railway Privatisation
McGraw-Hill (Publisher), July 2000
ISBN: Unknown
Pages: Unknown
This book tells the inside story of Britain's rail privatisation and provides the first insight into the processes and dynamics behind it. All Change: British Railway Privatisation draws on detailed interviews with key government and industry figures and provides an insider's view of one of the most significant events in British transport history. Containing chapters written by regulators, operators, journalists and academics, including Christian Wolmar, it reveals for the first time the factors influencing the formulation of railway privatisation policy and examines the issues that arose during its implementation.
What they said about All Change...
'While I do not always agree with the points made, the book serves as an excellent starting point for an analysis of the privatisation process. The authors have important, sometimes controversial, but always interesting insights.'
Rt Hon John MacGregor OBE MP, former Minister of State for Transport
'It seems to me an excellent and valuable record of what took place, with sufficient detail and analysis to be essential for both future historians and those wishing to learn from the experience.'
Brian Cox, Executive Director, Stagecoach Holdings plc
Blue Book on Transport
Politico's Publishing, 2002
ISBN: 1842750445
Pages: 220
Christian Wolmar is one of the contributors in this pocket-size book, which contains 21 essays outlining the priorities for a future Conservative Government's transport policy.
Councils in Conflict
The Rise and Fall of the Municipal Left
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher), November 1989
ISBN: 033345412X
Pages: 224 [Buy This Book]
The 1980s saw unparalleled upheavals in local government. From being a political backwater, local councils became the battleground for a clash of ideologies between Left-led local authorities and a Right-wing government intent on limiting their powers. This book details the experience of the Left in controlling several of the biggest local councils in the land and examines both the successes and failures of this experiment in municipal socialism. Christian Wolmar is one of three contributors to this book.
DRUGS: Drugs and Sport
Hodder Wayland (Publisher), March 1992
ISBN: 075020317X
PageS: 48
A title in the DRUGS series, aimed at teenagers, looking at the history of drugs in sport, exposing the personalities and scandals that have tarnished the once healthy image.
Points of View: Censorship
Hodder Wayland (Publisher), September 1990
ISBN: 0750200030
Pages: 48
This book is part of a series aimed to help teenagers make up their own minds on some of the most controversial issues facing people around the world today. Using various arguments and illustrated using examples, it is intended to be a useful supplement to classroom teaching. Christian Wolmar also uses his knowledge of the media industry to discuss the role of tycoons like Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell, and the function of libel laws.
Points of View: Drugs
Hodder Wayland (Publisher), January 1990
ISBN: 1852106492
Pages: 48
Another book written for the educational market under the 'Points of View' series. Christian Wolmar briefly outlines drug use in the past and goes on to explain how drugs work. In the following chapters the author has selected extracts concerning the social and legal controversy surrounding drugs - both those which are legally available and those that are banned: alcohol, tobacco, solvents, cannabis, cocaine and heroin. It also introduces the reader to the wide variety of problems relating to drugs and to the measures that are being put formard to solve them.
Squatting: The Real Story
Bay Leaf Books, December 1980
ISBN: 0950725900
Pages: 240 [Buy This Book]
Squatters are usually portrayed as worthless scroungers hell-bent on disrupting society. Here is the inside story of the hundreds of thousands of people who have squatted in Britain since the war. The country is riddled with empty houses and there are thousands of homeless people. When squatters logically put the two together the result can be electrifying, amazing and occasionally disastrous.
Squatting: The Real Story is a unique and diverse account of squatting. Written by squatters, it covers all aspects including the history of squatting, famous squats, the politics of squatting, the cultural challenge, and facts behind the myths.
Co-edited by Christian Wolmar and Nick Wates, the book was sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
What they said about Squatting: The Real Story...
'The first well-researched, fully illustrated coffee table squatting book... a cheerful celebration of a living movement.'
John Forsyth, Time Out
'lucid, well-packaged, amusing and serious...a cornucopia of excellence.'
Undercurrents
'a really super book on one of the truly moving issues of our time... well written and brilliantly produced.'
Gair Rhydd
'This excellent and thoroughly research book...should be in every housing department in the land.'
Brian Lake, Architects?Journal
'The many facets of squatting...are brilliantly evoked both in the text and the numerous well chosen illustrations... the book is designed with great flair and imagination and has been beautifully produced.'
Nick Raynsford, Voluntary Action