From the archive: An oral history of Suez
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The Suez Crisis of 1956 confirmed the UK’s loss of superpower status and undermined Anthony Eden’s premiership. Three decades later, the historian Peter Hennessy wrote a short “oral history” of the political class’s response to its humiliation.
Ben Pimlott, biographer and editor of Hugh Dalton, produced an appealing metaphor the other day to mark the appearance of the third and last volume of his Daltonian trilogy. Compiling an oral archive by taking a tape-recorder to those who knew Dalton o
Ben Pimlott, biographer and editor of Hugh Dalton, produced an appealing metaphor the other day to mark the appearance of the third and last volume of his Daltonian trilogy. Compiling an oral archive by taking a tape-recorder to those who knew Dalton o
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