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    Alan Sked FRHistS (born 22 August 1947) is a British Eurosceptic academic. He founded the Anti-Federalist League (in order to oppose the Maastricht Treaty)...
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  • Independence Party. The main founder of the Anti-Federalist League was Alan Sked, lecturer at the London School of Economics, leading figure in the Bruges...
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  • Anti-Federalist League, a single-issue Eurosceptic party established in London by Alan Sked in 1991. It was renamed UKIP in 1993, but its growth remained slow. It...
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    2015, 299–302 Alan Sked (2011), Radetzky: Imperial Víctor and Military Genius, p. 202. I.B. Tauris. New York City, United States. Sked, Alan (2010). Radetzky :...
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    Party In office 1998 – 22 January 2000 Leader Michael Holmes Preceded by Alan Sked Succeeded by Mike Nattrass Member of the European Parliament for South...
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    were going bankrupt as a result of soaring interest rates. After hearing Alan Sked, a professor at the London School of Economics, speak on a BBC politics...
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    registered political party in the United Kingdom. Its founder was Professor Alan Sked, who also founded the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Policies of the New...
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  • 1986, when a group of his former students, including Sir Martin Gilbert, Alan Sked, Norman Davies and Paul Kennedy, organised a public reception in his honour...
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    spending programmes, subsidized welfare, and trade union power. Historians Alan Sked and Chris Cook have summarised the general consensus of historians regarding...
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    Bideleux and Jeffries (2007) are among the dissenters to that view and cite Alan Sked's 1989 research that contends that "the Habsburg authorities – despite...
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  • monthly meeting; two speakers are from the Bruges Group - Bill Cash and Alan Sked from the LSE; Marc Glendening believed that the Conservative party should...
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    years starting in 1950 by both Canada and the United States. Historian Alan Sked has commented that, "the U.S. didn't seem to realize that Britain was...
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    Centre Anti-Federalist League (Later became what is now UKIP) 1991–1993 Alan Sked Euroscepticism Right-wing Blaenau Gwent People's Voice 2005–2010 No clear...
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    chairing a debate at the London School of Economics between academic Alan Sked and philosopher Hamza Tzortzis on the topic "Islam or Liberalism: Which...
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    ISBN 978-0-333-39654-4. Palmer, Alan (1972). Metternich: Councillor of Europe (1997 reprint ed.). London: Orion. ISBN 978-1-85799-868-9. Sked, Alan (1983). "Metternich"...
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  • Diplomacy in Peacetime: The Failure of the Congress 'System,' 1815–23" in Alan Sked, ed., Europe's Balance of Power, 1815–1848 (1979), pp 34–53 C.W. Crawley...
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  • Unity's electoral candidates included UK Independence Party (UKIP) founder Alan Sked, independent Fife Councillor Linda Holt and writer Jamie Blackett, who...
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  • Heath government in the face of the 1973–74 strikes. Battle of Orgreave Alan Sked & Chris Cook (1993), Post-War Britain: A Political History. p. 446-47...
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    British History (2003) 1:213-15. Alan Sked and Chris Cook, Post-War Britain: A Political History (4th ed. 1993), p. 324. Alan Bailey, Not all 'the bad old...
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    He led the authority for three years between 2011 and 2014. Councillor Alan McCarthy is also joining the Brexit Party. He's resigned the Labour whip...
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    unions that seriously inconvenienced and angered the public. Historians Alan Sked and Chris Cook have summarised the general consensus of historians regarding...
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    Hazel Blears, Ben Bradshaw, Yvette Cooper, Caroline Flint, Barry Gardiner, Alan Johnson, Ruth Kelly, John McDonnell, Stephen Twigg and Rosie Winterton, as...
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    Diplomacy in Peacetime: The Failure of the Congress 'System,' 1815–23" in Alan Sked, ed., Europe's Balance of Power, 1815–1848. pp. 34–53. Ghervas, Stella...
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    four British general elections, having first been asked by UKIP founder Alan Sked in November 1996. Tolstoy was subsequently UKIP's candidate for the Barnsley...
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    chairman Cecil Parkinson, John Wakeham, Nicholas Ridley and Peter Morrison. Alan Clark also retired from Parliament, though he returned in 1997 as MP for...
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  • Leaders Alan Sked Craig Mackinlay (acting) Michael Holmes Jeffrey Titford Roger Knapman Nigel Farage Lord Pearson Jeffrey Titford (acting) Nigel Farage...
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    textbooks and surveys of the period remains largely negative. Historians Alan Sked and Chris Cook have summarised the general consensus of historians regarding...
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  • Leaders Alan Sked Craig Mackinlay (acting) Michael Holmes Jeffrey Titford Roger Knapman Nigel Farage Lord Pearson Jeffrey Titford (acting) Nigel Farage...
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    Alan Sked of the Anti-Federalist League (the forerunner of the United Kingdom Independence Party) who was standing at the Newbury by-election. Sked went...
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  • Leaders Alan Sked Craig Mackinlay (acting) Michael Holmes Jeffrey Titford Roger Knapman Nigel Farage Lord Pearson Jeffrey Titford (acting) Nigel Farage...
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