How the Troubles Came to Northern Ireland

Peter Rose is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster. He was born in Harrogate and trained as a journalist in Yorkshire. For 15 years he worked as a parliamentary lobby correspondent at Westminster and in the 1970s was co-author with Robin Oakley, now the BBC's political editor, of two books about Parliament. In the mid-eighties he left journalism to become a full-time mature student at London University and graduated in modern British history. From 1993 to 1996 he was a part-time teacher at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. In 1997 he was awarded a PhD by London University for a thesis on the Northern Ireland policy of the first Wilson government. He has contributed to several books including The Northern Ireland Question in British Politics (1996) and By-Elections in British Politics (1997).Rose, Peter is the author of 'How the Troubles Came to Northern Ireland' with ISBN 9780333949412 and ISBN 0333949412.