Published and unpublished articles on Roy Dean's diplomatic career.
Reference Code:
DOHP 66
Date:
2002-2003 (creation)
Description:
Subjects include: reaction in Nigeria to the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe and Zambia]; relations with India and meeting Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India; winning the propaganda war on arms control; meeting Jerry Rawlings, Head of State, Ghana; the difficulties in building a new British High Commission office in Ghana, 1984.

Also includes: accompanying correspondence.
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: Nicholas Cocking
Reference Code:
DOHP 97
Date:
2004 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Simon Fraser
Reference Code:
DOHP 172
Date:
2018 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme



Transcript of interview: Sir Graham Fry
Reference Code:
DOHP 151
Date:
2016 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Lord Hannay of Chiswick
Reference Code:
DOHP 38
Date:
1999 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Donald Cape
Reference Code:
DOHP 42
Date:
2001 (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: Sir John Margetson
Reference Code:
DOHP 131
Date:
2007 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir John Leahy
Reference Code:
DOHP 52
Date:
2001 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Dame Mariot Leslie
Reference Code:
DOHP 162
Date:
2017 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir David Reddaway
Reference Code:
DOHP 213
Date:
2022 (creation)
Description:
David Reddaway was born 26 April 1953, the son of George Frank Norman Reddaway, CBE and Jean Reddaway, OBE (née Brett). He was educated at Oundle School (Scholar.) and Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (Exhibitioner; MA History). In 1981 he married (1st), Roshan Taliyeh Firouz (marriage dissolved 2019), having two sons and one daughter; and (2nd), 2020, Gabrielle O’Driscoll. Reddaway joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975 and his diplomatic career included: language student, SOAS, 1976 and Iran, 1977; Tehran: Third Secretary, later Second Secretary (Commercial), 1977–78; Second Secretary. later First Secretary (Chancery), 1978–80; First Secretary: (Chancery), Madrid [Spain], 1980–84; FCO, 1985–86; Private Secretary to Minister of State, 1986–88; (Chancery), New Delhi [India], 1988–90; Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran, 1990–93 (Counsellor, 1991); Minister, Buenos Aires [Argentina], 1993–97; Head, Southern European Department, FCO, 1997–99; Director, Public Services, FCO, 1999–2001; UK Special Representative for Afghanistan, 2002; Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, 2002–03; High Commissioner, Canada, 2003–06; Ambassador: to Ireland, 2006–09; to Turkey, 2009–14.
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Kieran Prendergast
Reference Code:
DOHP 137
Date:
2012 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Ivor Lucas
Reference Code:
DOHP 93
Date:
2005 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Thomas Richardson
Reference Code:
DOHP 182
Date:
2019 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme



Transcript of interview: David Snoxell
Reference Code:
DOHP 111
Date:
2007 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: John Sankey
Reference Code:
DOHP 134
Date:
2010 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Crispin Tickell
Reference Code:
DOHP 36
Date:
1999 (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


Recollections of Jeremy Varcoe CMG
Reference Code:
DOHP 202
Date:
2021 (creation)
Description:
This is an edited version of a personal memoir which Jeremy Varcoe wrote for his family.
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: Sir Christopher Audland
Reference Code:
DOHP 138
Date:
2012 (creation)
Description:
The majority of this interview deals with Britain's relations with Europe.
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme


Transcript of interview: Sir Nicholas Bayne
Reference Code:
DOHP 150
Date:
2016 (creation)
Collection:
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme