Harold Macmillan
Books
- Five Days Without Sky London, 1952, and the Fog That Changed the World · Liszt Think
On December 5, 1952, an anticyclone trapped the smoke of a million coal fires over London. For five days, visibility fell to mere feet.
- The City of a Million Fires…hitis, emphysema, cardiac failure—without reference to the atmospheric conditions that had made these terminations sudden and simultaneous. Harold Macmillan, Minister of Housing and Local Government, lunched at the Reform Club with a delegation from the National Coal Board. The conversation turn…
- The Conductor’s Flare (Evening of 6 December 1952)…all and the borough councils, had filed them in the appropriate folders for consideration at the appropriate level. The Minister of Health, Harold Macmillan, would later deflect parliamentary questions with the assurance that all possible measures were being taken, that the situation was being m…
- The Ministry’s First Tally…ere real. The four-thousand figure established a baseline of expectation that shaped every subsequent political debate about the smog. When Harold Macmillan, as Minister of Housing and Local Government, responded to parliamentary questions in January 1953, he could treat the death toll as a sett…