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20 de nov. de 2019 · Harold Wilson smoked a pipe. He wore a blue-collar Gannex raincoat and retained a Yorkshire accent. Though the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1964 to 1970, Wilson was a man of the people.
7 de sept. de 2016 · Harold Wilson sought to enhance his political image, in part by wearing a Gannex mac which made him seem ordinary, and also by puffing at his pipe, as memorably expressed in Ruskin Spear's 1974...
3 de nov. de 2022 · Prime Minister Harold Wilson was rarely seen in public without his signature pipe. Perhaps the most indelible public image of Wilson comes along with a pipe in hand or in his mouth.
Other features of this persona included his working man's Gannex raincoat, his pipe (the British Pipesmokers' Council voted him Pipe Smoker of the Year in 1965 and Pipeman of the Decade in 1976, though in private he preferred cigars), his love of simple cooking and fondness for popular British relish HP Sauce, and his support for his home town ...
21 de nov. de 2019 · The story that Harold Wilson prefered cigars, but smoked a pipe for his public image is quite well known over here. In the UK, the cigar has always been the smoke of the wealthy - a single cigar costing the same as 1 or 2 tins of tobacco (nowadays £15-£30).
Depicted with his trademark pipe, and wreathed in tobacco smoke, the twice-elected British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is depicted in this portrait by Ruskin Spear (1911–90) as many of his detractors saw him: a populist politician with a down-to-earth style yet with an elusive, even evasive personality.
David Cannadine explores how Harold Wilson's pipe and Gannex mac came to define him.
