Here is another from the #BDOHP today: Sir Stephen Brown, a real trade specialist, who was Ambassador to South Korea, 1997–2000, and took part in negotiations over North Korea, 2000-01.
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Final flurry from the #BDOHP : today's is a real Christmas cracker, with Sir Geoffrey Adams. Cue fascinating stuff on South Africa, Jerusalem, Iran, Libya and Brexit (plus the tricky relationship between Charles Powell and Patrick Wright).
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Remembering the secret diplomacy of Henry Kissinger: 'Operation Hullabaloo' - the time Kissinger sought British help to draft the 1973 US-Soviet Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear Weapons without the knowledge of the State Department. issuu.com/fcohistorians/…

Today's new #BDOHP interview is with Derek Marsh, Consul-General in Seoul, 1997–2001, then Director General of British Trade with Taiwan, 2002-05.
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Delighted to announce a new series of online seminars on hosted by History & Policy Institute of Historical Research in partnership with FCDO Historians. Over the course of 2024 we'll bring together those who've written, studied and used official history to discuss its value. history.ac.uk/seminar/offici…

On #RemembranceDay , I thought I would pull together a thread of the stories of some of the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service officials who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars. 🧵

2 contributors to #BDOHP have sadly passed on recently: Sir John Ure, Ambassador to Cuba, Brazil and Sweden, oa.churchillarchives.libnova.com/view/15796, whose interview has just been opened, and Peter Penfold, High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, 1996-2000, oa.churchillarchives.libnova.com/view/1705.

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We are very sad to hear of the death of Keith Hamilton.

Working with FCDO Historians from 1990-2013 he was a much loved and valued colleague.

A lively one for the #BDOHP today: David Barrie, a junior diplomat in Dublin at the time of Mountbatten's murder; a key figure in the Anglo-Irish Agreement years later (and had a whale of a time as Director of the Japan Festival in 1991).
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🆕️ Jrnl Intel & Nat Sec 'Profiles in Intelligence'.

I talk to former FCDO Historians Chief Historian Gill Bennett OBE (@GillHistory), and cover:

➡️ Intelligence archives
➡️ The Zinoviev Letter
➡️ Intelligence & diplomacy
➡️ Losing the missing dimension

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At the Foreign Office recently for the launch of ‘Britain and the Abadan Crisis, 1950-51’. Sir Geoffrey Adams, UK Ambassador to Iran 2006-9, Ali Ansari Institute of Iranian Studies St Andrews & Gill Bennett FCDO Historians spoke about Butler’s 1962 report on the crisis and the lessons for diplomacy.
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A brand-new #BDOHP interview for this chilly day: Sheila Lyall Grant, who was one of the #FCDO 's first equal opportunities officers: bdohp.chu.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

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What the Butler saw: Britain and the Abadan Crisis, 1950-51 history.blog.gov.uk/2022/12/07/wha…

Take a look at our new online exhibition produced especially for #HistDay22 Institute of Historical Research (which is today). Listen in to everyday stories of science and technology through diaries, letters, photographs, ephemera, polling data, and audio recordings chuarchivestories.uk/stories/listen…

An action-packed one for the #BDOHP today: Sir Robin Christopher, who managed to be on the spot for crises in India (1975), Indonesia (1998) and got in a third shortly afterwards, in East Timor.
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The first new #BDOHP interview in a while, and this time it's with diplomat who was also a diplomatic spouse, Pamela Gordon, recent Chair of the Diplomatic Families’ and Spouses’ Association. (A guaranteed blood-boiler, this one).

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Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev: a view from the Foreign Office archives blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/gillbennett/20…

Remembering the occasion in 2012 when #TheQueenVisited the FCO and met FCDO Historians (with the PUS and Foreign Secretary in attendance).
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Earlier this week, Churchill Archives Centre hosted a great oral history workshop with our current Visiting By Fellow Professor Russell Riley from Miller Center and our friends from FCDO Historians & History Of Parliament. A really good opportunity to discuss how our different programmes have evolved.

Great news for everyone who is willing to get to know more about the international perspective concerning the Polish Crisis of 1980-1982 from the first-hand sources! Just click the link below and download the newest PISM source publication!

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