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.
Transcript of interview: Richard Tallboys
Reference Code:
DOHP 39
Date:
1999 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir David Gore-Booth
Reference Code:
DOHP 49
Date:
1999 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir John Boyd
Reference Code:
DOHP 60
Date:
1999-2005 (creation)
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.
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Roy Denman
Reference Code:
DOHP 61
Date:
1999 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Rodric Braithwaite
Reference Code:
DOHP 30
Date:
1998 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Nicholas Henderson
Reference Code:
DOHP 32
Date:
1998 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Lord Renwick of Clifton
Reference Code:
DOHP 33
Date:
1998 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Michael Alexander
Reference Code:
DOHP 34
Date:
1998 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Laurence O'Keeffe
Reference Code:
DOHP 31
Date:
1998 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Ewen Fergusson
Reference Code:
DOHP 35
Date:
1998 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Dennis Amy
Reference Code:
DOHP 45
Date:
1998 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Brian Barder
Reference Code:
DOHP 22
Date:
1997-2009 (creation)
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.
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Leslie Shiers
Reference Code:
DOHP 21
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Percy Cradock
Reference Code:
DOHP 26
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Harold Smedley
Reference Code:
DOHP 23
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Reginald Hibbert
Reference Code:
DOHP 24
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Christopher Mallaby
Reference Code:
DOHP 28
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Donald Maitland
Reference Code:
DOHP 27
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Michael Butler
Reference Code:
DOHP 25
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Horace Phillips
Reference Code:
DOHP 20
Date:
1997 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Richard Best
Reference Code:
DOHP 7
Date:
1996 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme



Transcript of interview: Sir Harold Walker
Reference Code:
DOHP 16
Date:
1996 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Herbert Tucker
Reference Code:
DOHP 11
Date:
1996 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Derek Day
Reference Code:
DOHP 29
Date:
1996 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme