Mark Garnett is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University and author of many books and articles covering post-1945 British politics.^[1]

Garnett was educated at Gosforth High School, Newcastle, and Durham University (Grey College).

With Ian Aitken, he was the authorised biographer of Conservative politician William Whitelaw.

Works

• (with Ian Gilmour), Whatever Happened to the Tories? (London: Fourth Estate, 1997).
• (with Andrew Denham), Keith Joseph: A Life (London: Acumen Press, 2001).
• (with Ian Aitken), Splendid! Splendid! The Authorised Biography of Willie Whitelaw (London: Jonathan Cape, 2002).
• (with P. Lynch), UK Government and Politics (London: Philip Allan, 2005).
• Principles and Politics in Contemporary Britain (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2006).
• From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975 (London: Jonathan Cape, 2007).
• Exploring British Politics (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2007).
• (with K. Hickson), Conservative Thinkers: The Key Contributors to the Political Thought of the Modern Conservative Party (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009).
• (with P. Dorey and Andrew Denham), From Crisis to Coalition: the Conservative Party, 1997-2010 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
• (with P. Lynch), Exploring British Politics. Third Edition (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2012).
• (with M. Johnson and D. Walker), Conservatism and Ideology (London: Routledge, 2015).
• (with Paul Wetherly), Political Ideologies (Oxford University Press, 2017).
• (with S. Mabon and R. Smith), ' 'British Foreign Policy Since 1945' ' (London: Routledge, forthcoming).