British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
The British Diplomatic Oral History Programme records the recollections of former diplomats. Through these oral histories, which are conserved at the Churchill Archives Centre, the Programme aims to go behind the official documents to explore how diplomats experienced significant events as well as providing valuable insights into the daily workings of diplomacy. Highlighted here are the transcripts of oral history recordings with former diplomats.
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Transcript of interview: Sir Crispin Tickell
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Reference Code : - DOHP 36
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Date : - 1999 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: David Burns
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Reference Code : - DOHP 104
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Date : - 1999 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Michael Palliser
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Reference Code : - DOHP 37
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Date : - 1999 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Richard Tallboys
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Reference Code : - DOHP 39
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Date : - 1999 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir David Gore-Booth
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Reference Code : - DOHP 49
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Date : - 1999 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir John Boyd
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Reference Code : - DOHP 60
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Date : - 1999-2005 (creation)
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Description : - Includes an edited version of the Anniversary lecture by Sir John Boyd on China and Japan delivered at the Annual General Meeting of The Royal Society for Asian Affairs, June 2005.
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Roy Denman
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Reference Code : - DOHP 61
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Date : - 1999 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Rodric Braithwaite
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Reference Code : - DOHP 30
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Date : - 1998 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Nicholas Henderson
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Reference Code : - DOHP 32
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Date : - 1998 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Lord Renwick of Clifton
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Reference Code : - DOHP 33
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Date : - 1998 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Michael Alexander
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Reference Code : - DOHP 34
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Date : - 1998 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Laurence O'Keeffe
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Reference Code : - DOHP 31
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Date : - 1998 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Ewen Fergusson
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Reference Code : - DOHP 35
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Date : - 1998 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Dennis Amy
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Reference Code : - DOHP 45
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Date : - 1998 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Brian Barder
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Reference Code : - DOHP 22
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Date : - 1997-2009 (creation)
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Description : - Also includes recordings of the 45-minute BBC Radio 4 programme 'The Reunion', broadcast on 30 August 2009, and also of the longer discussion from which the programme was taken, where five people who were closely involved in the international Ethiopia famine relief programme in the mid-1980s were reunited to discuss their memories of those events. The participants were: Sir Brian Barder; International Red Cross nurse Claire Bertschinger; the BBC reporter Michael Buerk; Dawit Wolde Giorgis, former head of the Ethiopian Relief and Rehabilitation Commission; Hugh Goyder, former head of Oxfam's Ethiopia programme.
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Leslie Shiers
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Reference Code : - DOHP 21
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Date : - 1997 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Percy Cradock
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Reference Code : - DOHP 26
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Date : - 1997 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Harold Smedley
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Reference Code : - DOHP 23
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Date : - 1997 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Reginald Hibbert
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Reference Code : - DOHP 24
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Date : - 1997 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Christopher Mallaby
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Reference Code : - DOHP 28
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Date : - 1997 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Donald Maitland
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Reference Code : - DOHP 27
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Date : - 1997 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Michael Butler
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Reference Code : - DOHP 25
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Date : - 1997 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Horace Phillips
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Reference Code : - DOHP 20
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Date : - 1997 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Richard Best
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Reference Code : - DOHP 7
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Lord Gillmore of Thamesfield
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Reference Code : - DOHP 8
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Harold Walker
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Reference Code : - DOHP 16
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Herbert Tucker
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Reference Code : - DOHP 11
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Derek Day
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Reference Code : - DOHP 29
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Robin McLaren
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Reference Code : - DOHP 15
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: James Cross
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Reference Code : - DOHP 19
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Mervyn Brown
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Reference Code : - DOHP 18
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir John Fretwell
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Reference Code : - DOHP 4
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Alan Campbell
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Reference Code : - DOHP 2
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Description : - Also includes a later paper by Sir Alan Campbell, "Embassy to France - an account of Anglo-French relations, 1968-72" (1982). See also GBR/0014/SOAM 10/6.
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Leonard Allinson
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Reference Code : - DOHP 6
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Stephen Miles
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Reference Code : - DOHP 58
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Ronald Bailey
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Reference Code : - DOHP 12
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Rex Browning
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Reference Code : - DOHP 9
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Lord Greenhill of Harrow
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Reference Code : - DOHP 3
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Frank Roberts
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Reference Code : - DOHP 14
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: John Hutson
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Reference Code : - DOHP 5
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Anthony Parsons
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Reference Code : - DOHP 10
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Oliver Wright
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Reference Code : - DOHP 17
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Alan Munro
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Reference Code : - DOHP 13
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: John Hickman
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Reference Code : - DOHP 1
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Date : - 1995 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Paul Dimond
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Reference Code : - DOHP 248
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Date : - 2025 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Bill Murray
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Reference Code : - DOHP 249
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Date : - 2025 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Nicholas Westcott
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Reference Code : - DOHP 247
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Date : - 2025 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Colin Munro
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Reference Code : - DOHP 122
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Date : - 2009 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme