Harold Wilson and European Integration

Abstract

Introduction - the historiography of Wilson's attempt to take Britain into the EEC, Oliver J. Daddow. Part I The domestic context: the Labour Party, public opinion and the try in 1967, Anne Deighton the Conservatives and the Wilson application, Philip Lynch gone native - the Foreign Office and Harold Wilson's policy towards the EEC, 1964-67, Helen Parr technological cooperation in Wilson's strategy for EEC entry, John W. Young the Confederation of British Industry and European integration in the 1960s, Neil Rollings. Part II The external context: a short-term defeat - the community institutions and the second British application to join the EEC, N. Piers Ludlow John Bull v. Marianne, round two - Anglo-French relations and Britain's second EEC membership bid, Anthony Adamthwaite dealing with de Gaulle - Anglo-American relations, NATO and the second application, James Ellison from imperial power to regional powers - Commonwealth crises and the second application, Philip Alexander we too mean business - Germany and the second British application to the EEC, 1966-67, Katharina Bohmer Ireland and Britain's second application to join the EEC, Jane Toomey conclusion - the ironies of successful failure, Peter Catterall. Appendices: Labour Cabinet members, October 1964 - June 1970 chronology of European integration and the British approach, 1964-1970.