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Transcript of interview: Andrew McHallam

Reference Code:: DOHP 243

Date:: 2025 (creation)

Collection:: British Diplomatic Oral History Programme

Admiralty diary of Commander Michael G. Goodenough, 1939-1941

Reference Code:: MISC 117

Date:: 2023-01-24 (creation)

Description:: Commander Michael Grant Goodenough RN joined Admiralty Plans Division on 28 August 1939. Within barely a week, Britain had declared war on Germany and Winston Churchill had become First Lord of the Admiralty, returning to the position he had been forced to relinquish in 1915. In October 1939, having served for a few weeks at the Admiralty, Michael Goodenough bought a large, soft-back foolscap notebook in which he started a diary that he kept until June 1941. The original manuscript is held by the Goodenough family. This transcript was prepared in 2020 by his eldest son, Sir Anthony Goodenough (born in 1941, a month after the diary ends). Sir Anthony’s brother Simon (born in 1945) contributed to this work. The diary has been edited to remove most family material as well as a few personal remarks on colleagues. This is a full PDF copy of the diary. A published hard copy exists in the Roskill Library at Churchill College.

Collection:: Churchill Archives Centre Miscellaneous Holdings

Transcript of interview: Nicholas Archer

Reference Code:: DOHP 245

Date:: 2024-2025 (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 Colin Budd

Reference Code:: DOHP 155

Date:: 2016 (creation)

Collection:: British Diplomatic Oral History Programme

Transcript of interview: Roger Beetham

Reference Code:: DOHP 63

Date:: 2002 (creation)

Collection:: British Diplomatic Oral History Programme

Transcript of interview: Hugh Carless

Reference Code:: DOHP 55

Date:: 2002 (creation)

Collection:: British Diplomatic Oral History Programme

Transcript of interview: Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles

Reference Code:: DOHP 129

Date:: 2011 (creation)

Collection:: British Diplomatic Oral History Programme

Published and unpublished articles on Roy Dean's diplomatic career.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: Lord Gillmore of Thamesfield

Reference Code:: DOHP 8

Date:: 1996 (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.