A History of the English-Speaking Peoples four volumes are: The BBC produced a series of twenty-six fifty-minute plays loosely based around Churchill's work and entitled "Churchill's People" which were broadcast in 1974 and 1975. However, the quality of the productions was judged to be poor and the series received low ratings. A sequel to Churchill's work, "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900", by Andrew Roberts, was published in 2006. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom because of the diminishing role of the Cabinet Ministers and because of centralisation of the party machine and the bureaucracy. Richard Crossman also alluded to the presidentialisation of British politics in the "Introduction" to the 1963 version of Walter Bagehot’s "The English Constitution". Crossman mentions the World War II, and its immediate aftermath as a water-shed moment for Britain that led to immense accumulation of power in the hands of the British Prime Minister These powers, according to Crossman, are so immense that their study require the use of presidential parallels. The thesis has been most popularised by Michael Foley,