Managing a giant: Jock Colville and Winston Churchill /Warren Dockter -- Advising the un-advisable: the number 10 private office and the Suez Crisis / Kevin Ruane -- Philip de Zulueta / Peter Catterall -- Oliver Wright / Andrew Holt -- Michael Palliser / John W. Young -- "Sound and comfortable men": Peter Moon, Lord Bridges, and Britain's entry into the EEC / Nick Thomas -- Patrick Wright and Bryan Cartledge / John Shepherd -- Margaret Thatcher's private secretaries for foreign affairs, 1979-1984 / Aaron Donaghy -- Conclusion: the Prime Minister's private office from John Martin to Chris Martin / Anthony Seldon