Andrew Boyle: Papers c. 1950-1990

Harris Sir Arthur Travers 1892-1984 1st Baronet, Marshal of the Royal Air Force

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Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922

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Epithet: President of Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x000143 Anglo-Irish author and political leader. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : [n.p.], to Frank Cowper, 1909 Mar. 2 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870521 ...

Budberg, Moura.

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0001cb ...

Spencer, Stanley, Sir, 1891-1959

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Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) was born in Cookham, Berkshire, where he spent much of his life. He attended the Slade School under Tonks, 1908-12; returning in 1923, where he concentrated on drawing. His contemporaries at the Slade included Nevinson, Bomberg, Roberts, Gertler, Wadsworth, Carrington, Allinson, Jacques & Gwen Raverat, Lightfoot and Ihlee; the latter four being his closest friends. In 1912, Spencer exhibited in the 2nd Post-Impressionist exhibition, organised by Roger Fry, and in ...

Muggeridge, Malcolm, 1903-1990

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Writer, social critic, Christian apologist; born Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge, March 24, 1903 in Sanderstead, Surry, England; raised in a Socialist home; graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1924; travelled to India to teach at Union Christian College, 1924-1927; married Katherine (Kitty) Dobbs (niece of Beatrice Webb) September 10, 1927; lived in Egypt, the Soviet Union and India while serving as a correspondent for various newspapers; served as an intelligence officer in World War II in Lisb...

Collins Publishers

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British Broadcasting Company

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The two part documentary ‘No Plan, No Peace: The inside story of Iraq’s descent into chaos’ was produced by BBC Current Affairs and broadcast on the 28th and 29th October 2007. From the guide to the BBC Documentary: ‘No Plan, No Peace’ Collection, 2007, (Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford) In December 1981, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of 13 controversial programmes by its Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland, under the title Priestland's...

Boyle Andrew Philip More 1919-1991

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Andrew Philip More Boyle

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Andrew Philip More Boyle (1919-1991), broadcaster and author, was born in Dundee on 27 May 1919. After war service in the R.A.F. and in military intelligence, he made a career as a writer and producer with the B.B.C., and was founding editor of the current affairs programme 'The World at One'. He published books, notably biographies of public figures such as Leonard Cheshire, Brendan Bracken and John Reith, and articles on religious subjects, especially in Catholic periodicals. His most famous b...

Curtis Brown Ltd literary agents

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Morton, Desmond, Sir, 1891-1971

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White, Dick, Sir, 1906-1993

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Cheshire, Leonard, 1917-1992

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Hutchinson Publishing Group, Ltd.

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Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert 1884-1964

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Knowles, David, 1896-1974

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Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935

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Thomas Edward Lawrence, archaeologist, soldier, and author, popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, was born at Tremadoc, North Wales, on August 15, 1888, the second of five sons. His father, Thomas Robert Chapman, and his mother, Sarah Maden, assumed the name of Lawrence. The family was raised in comfort by private means. Lawrence learned to read at a very early age by observing his older brother being taught to read. At the age of four he read newspapers and books, at six he began the study ...

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30 November 1874. He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before joining the Army in 1895 and serving in India and Sudan. After leaving the Army in 1899, he worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post and the following year was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Oldham. In 1904, Churchill decided to join the Liberal Party, and in 1906, was elected Liberal MP f...

Norman, Montagu, 1871-1950

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Bracken, Brendan, 1901-1958

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Blunt, Anthony, 1907-1983

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Born, 1907; educated at Marlborough College; studied mathematics and modern languages at Trinity College Cambridge, forming close friendships with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, H A R 'Kim' Philby; Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, 1932-1937; invited to lecture at the Courtauld Institute by the director, W G Constable, on submission of his MA thesis, 1932; joined the staff of the Warburg Institute, 1937-1939; recruited by Guy Burgess into the Russian secret intelligence service; Reader in Histo...

Trenchard, Hugh Montague, 1873-1956

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Reith, John Charles Walsham Reith, Baron, 1889-1971

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Director General of British Broadcasting Corporation. From the description of Reminiscences of Lord John Charles Walsham Reith : oral history, [196-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481143 ...

Boothby, Robert John Graham, Baron, 1900-1986

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