Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] had ‘preferred to deal with Sikorski’s infinitely more intransigent successors’ over the location of the post-war Polish border. 19 A year later, the British prime minister Harold Wilson asked Sir Robin Cooper, a former pilot working in the cabinet office, to review Air Marshal Sir John Slessor’s 1943 inquiry. David Irving had noted the […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] on the other’ that were opening up in the 1960s, one other sign of which was the secret and treacherous right-wing plotting that went on against Harold Wilson at this time. (Not that there’s any evidence that he was involved in that.) So far as Aden and the rest of the Empire were concerned, […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] those individuals as “Communists”, undermined their authority within their respective organisations and they were replaced by hardline militants. It is likely that those anti-Communist activities also helped to colour the population’s attitude to the incoming Labour Government, led by Harold Wilson, in February 1974, and hampered that Government’s political initiatives.’ 8 No such party existed.
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: The crisis: an historical perspective Scott Newton Introduction A s a student at Cambridge in the mid-1970s I was fortunate enough to be taught by a great medieval historian – Walter Ullman. Ullman liked to say that the task of the historian was to explain ‘how and why we came to be where we are […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Hence the scandals and suspicions of scandals – ‘conspiracy theories’ – that plagued them in the inter-war years, from the ‘Cambridge Five’ fiasco to the alleged ‘ Wilson Plot’. One hopes they’ve learned their lesson by now. Our lives may depend upon it. Secrecy is also, of course, the enemy of the historian. It […]