Index

Acton, Lord, 10n, 36

Admiralty, 36

Afghanistan, 63

Air Ministry, 35–6

Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (AAPD), 50n, 64n

Aldrich, Richard, 2

All Souls College, Oxford, 5–6

Andrew, Christopher, 57

Defence of the Realm, 57

Anglo-French Soviet negotiations (1939), 31

Annan, Noel, 42

Anschluss, German-Austrian (1938), 6

Auslandsorganisation (of Nazi Party), 10

Austria, 8n, 11, 37

Bahamas, 18

Baumont, Maurice, 11n Behrens, Betty, 4–5

Bennett, Gill, 59–62, 67n

Bentley, Michael, 1–2, 5, 34, 40

Berlin, 7, 9–11, 19

Bevin, Ernest, 10, 19, 26

Bew, John, 62

Bew, Lord (Paul), 55

Blaxall, Rev A.W., 43n, 69–73

Bletchley Park, 3, 7

Boer War (1899–1902), 69

Bonn, 49

Brexit, 63

Bridges, Sir Edward, 54n British Academy, 41, 43

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1

British Documents on the End of Empire (BDEEP), 52n

British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898–1914 (BD), 5, 35, 37, 39, 50n, 61

Brook, Sir Norman, 47

Bullen, Roger, 58–9

Bury, Patrick, 25, 47

Butler (Sir) James (J.R.M.), 4, 32n, 45, 48

Butler, Rohan, 6, 14, 19, 43, 47, 51–2, 57–8, 61

Butterfield, (Sir) Herbert, ix–xi

academic career, 1, 41

and German historians, 7, 10n

and official historians, 1–8, 25–33

and official history, 1–8, 33–40, 43–5, 64–73

and Harold Temperley, ix–xi, 3, 5, 6, 8, 34–5, 41

and Desmond Williams, ix–xi, 8–13, 15–22, 32–33, 42–4

Christianity and History, 1, 41

George III, Lord North and the People, 1

History and Human Relations, viii, 2, 19–20, 23–4, 33, 37, 43, 69

Man on His Past, viii, 37

‘Official history: Its pitfalls and

criteria’ (1951), viii, 1–3, 24, 33–34, 36–40

‘Official history: Its pitfalls and its criteria’ (1949), xi, 1–3, 13–16, 18, 21–3, 25, 32–4, 36–7, 39, 44

The Origins of Modern Science 1300–1800, 1

The Peace Tactics of Napoleon, 1806–1809, x, 35

The Whig Interpretation of History, x

Cabinet Office, xi, 4, 26, 28, 51, 53–7, 62–3. See also Official History of the Second World War; Peacetime Official Histories

Historical Section, 51

Histories, Openness and Records Unit, 53–4

Cabinet Secretary, 47, 54, 54n, 56, 62

Cabinet, 67

minutes, publication of, 29–30

Cambridge Historical Journal, 1

Cambridge Journal, 33

Cambridge, 9, 16

Cambridge, University of, 1, 4–5, 8–9, 17, 35, 41–2

Divinity School, 12

Cameron, David, 47

Cannadine, Sir David, 63

Canning, George, 14

Cannon, John, 41

Cape Town, 73

Carroll, Malcolm, 20

Case, Simon, 62

Chamberlain, Neville, 9, 62

Cherry, G.E., 53

Environmental Planning, 1939–69 (with J.B. Cullingworth), 53

Chester, Sir Norman, 53

The Nationalisation of British Industry, 1945–51, 53

Chilcot Inquiry, 63

Churchill, Winston, 22

Clark, Grahame, 36

Clayton, Geoffrey, 73

Cold War, 10, 57, 59, 61

Colonial Office, 52

Common Market (EEC), 52

Commonwealth Office, 52

Commonwealth Relations Office, 52

Connolly, Father P.J., SJ, 13–14

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 25

Cowling, Maurice, 41–2

Crawley, Charles, 8n

Cruickshank, Charles, 52

SOE in France, 52

SOE in Scandinavia, 52

Cullingworth, J.B., 53

Environmental Planning, 1939–69 (with G.E. Cherry), 53

Dacre, Lord. See Trevor-Roper, Hugh

Dakin, Douglas, 47

Department of Transport, 57

Derry, T.K., 46

The Campaign in Norway, 46

Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland, 61

Documenti Diplomatici Italiani, I, 64n

Documenti sulla Politica Internazionale dell’Italia, 64n

Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919–1939 (DBFP), 6, 13–16, 20, 25–32, 38, 45, 47–9, 57, 61

Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO), 57–62

Berlin in the Cold War 1948–1990, 60

Britain and the Soviet Union, 1968–1972, 60

The Conference at Potsdam, July–August 1945, 58

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe 1972–1975, 60

Détente in Europe 1972–1976, 60

The Year of Europe: America, Europe and the Energy Crisis 1972–1974, 60

Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918–1945 (DGFP), 7, 9, 13, 15–16, 19–24, 45, 48–50

Series D, Vol. x, The War Years, June 23–August 31, 1940, 22–3

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, 63

Douglas-Home, Sir Alec. See Home, Earl of

Dublin, 9, 11–12, 23, 33, 44

Eden, Anthony, 6, 26

Einstein, Albert, 40

Eisenhower, President Dwight D., 22

Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen, 21

Elton, Geoffrey, 41

Ferris, John, 57

Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, 57

Financial Times, 59

First World War, 29–30, 37, 39

Foot, M.R.D., 52–53

SOE in France, 52

SOE in the Low Countries, 53

Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). See Foreign Office (UK)

Foreign Ministry (Turkey), 64

Foreign Office (Germany), 6, 10, 19, 49–50

Foreign Office (UK) (FO, FCO), xi, 5–6, 9–10–11, 13–20, 26–9, 31–2, 38–40, 48–51, 53, 57–62, 65–7

FCO Historians, 59–61

Historical Branch, 57–59

Historical Advisory Committee, 49–50

Permanent Under-Secretary’s Department (PUSD), 62

minutes, publication of, 6, 13–15, 23, 29–30, 38–9, 48, 62, 67

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 61

Fox, Charles James, 1, 37n, 41

France, 7, 11, 18, 45n, 49, 64n

Frank Cass, 53

Frankfurt am Main, 19

Frankland, Noble, 36n, 46–7

The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany (with Sir Charles Webster), 46–7

Frederick the Great, 37

Freedman, Sir Lawrence, 54

The Falklands Campaign, 54

Freedom of Information Act, 57, 61

George VI, King, 22

Germany, vii–viii, 7

Federal Republic, 22, 49–50, 59

Nazi regime, 8n, 10, 17n, 40, 45n, 48

Weimar Republic, 49–50

Goebbels, Josef, 8n

Goltz, Rüdiger von der, 30

Gooch, G.P., 5, 7, 13–14, 29, 32, 59

Gourvish, Terry, 54

The Channel Tunnel, 54

Gouzenko, Igor, 62

Gowing, Margaret, 5, 51

Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939–1945, 51

British War Economy (with Keith Hancock), 46

Grey, Sir Edward, 14

Grosse Politik der Europäischen Kabinette 1871–1914, Die, 5, 7, 11n, 25, 50, 63–4n

Gulf War (1991), 63

Gwynn, Father Aubrey, SJ, 17

Halifax, Viscount, 9, 12

Hamilton, Bill, 55–56

Hamilton, Keith, 50n, 59–60

Hancock (Sir) Keith (W.K.), 4–5, 43, 45–6, 51

British War Economy (with Margaret Gowing), 46

Harris, Jose, 46

Harris, Sir Arthur, 47

Headlam-Morley, Sir James, 39

Healey, Lord (Denis), 54

Helsinki Conference (1975), 60

Hennessy, Lord (Peter), 55, 62

Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), 53

Hess, Rudolf, 59

Hinsley, (Sir) Harry, viii, 52

British Intelligence in the Second World War, 52

History and Policy, 57

Hitler, Adolf, 8n, 11, 30, 48

Home Office, 57

Home, Earl of (Sir Alec Douglas-Home), 52, 58

House of Lords, 54–6

Howard, Sir Michael, 52

Strategic Deception, 52

Howe, Sir Geoffrey (Lord), 54, 59

Hurd, Douglas, 59

Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, viii

International Committee of Historical Sciences, vii

International Conference of Editors of Diplomatic Documents (ICEDD), 59, 63–4

International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 33

Iraq War, 63

Ireland, 1–2, 8, 12–13, 70

Italy, 63

Jeffery, Keith, 57

MI6, 57

Joint Intelligence Committee, 62

Joll, James, 7

Kenya, 66

King’s College London, 57

Know How Fund, 60

Koht, Halvdan, vii, 33

Krupp papers, 59

Lambert, Margaret, Hon, 22–3, 42–3

Lambert, Margaret. See Pelly, Margaret (née Lambert)

League of Nations, 35

Lexden, Lord, 55

Lisbon, 18

Listener, The, 1

London School of Economics (LSE), 36

Lower Saxony, 19

Macmillan, Harold, 47

Manchester Guardian, 2

Mansergh, Nicholas, 52

The Transfer of Power, 1942–7, 52

Marburg, 7, 19

Marshall Plan (1948), 61

Marshall-Cornwall, Sir James, 7, 16n

Mau Mau campaign, 66

McIndoe, W.I., 51

Medlicott, Norton (W.N.), xi, 25–6, 29–32, 36–8, 47, 49, 65

The Economic Blockade, 25, 30

Mehta, Ved, 41–2

Meinecke, Friedrich, 10

Mercury, Perihelion of, 40

MI5, 65

Migrated archive, 66

Mile End Institute, 57

Milward, Alan, 54

The Rise and Fall of a National Strategy 1945–1963, 54

Ministry of Defence, 53, 62

Ministry of Economic Warfare, 25, 30

Ministry of Information, 5, 13, 27

Morgan, D.J., 53

The Official History of Colonial Development, 53

Morison, Stanley, 6

Munich Agreement (1938), 21, 30, 62

Mussolini, Benito, 30

Namier (Sir) Lewis, 1n, 7, 25, 45, 49

National Archives, The (TNA), 53, 61

Nazi–Soviet Relations 1939–1941, 10–13

Netherlands, 63

Newnham College, Cambridge 4

No. 10 Downing Street, 26, 62

Noack, Ulrich, 10

North Atlantic Treaty (1949), 61

Northern Ireland Department, 55

Norway

alleged British invasion 1940, vii, 33

German invasion 1940, vii, 33

O’Donnell, Sir Gus, 56

O’Sullivan, John, 17

Official Cabinet Office Committee on Official Histories (OH), 54

Official History of the Second World War Civil Series, 4, 45–6

Military Series, 4, 45–7, 52–3

Official Secrets Act, 32, 65

Ording, Arne, 34

Oxford University Press, 52

Oxford, University of, 35–6n

Palmerston, Viscount, 14

Passant, James 9, 17, 20–2

Peacetime Official Histories, 51–7

Pelly, Margaret (née Lambert), 47, 58–9

Peterhouse, Cambridge, vii, 1, 4, 8–9, 34–5, 41–2

Pilling, Sir Joe, 55–6

Pilling report, 55–6

Poland, 45n, 63

Polish Diplomatic Documents, 63

Portal, Viscount, 47

Portugal, 18

Postan, Michael, 4

Potsdam Conference (1945), 62

Presnell, L.S.

External Economic Policy since the War, 53

Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, 1, 33, 42

ProQuest, 61

Public History Programme (proposed), 55

Public Record Office (PRO), 31, 58–9

Public Records Act, 51

Queen Mary University of London, 57

Quisling, Vidkun, 10n

Raven, Charles, 17

Renouvin, Pierre, 11

Richards, Sir Brooks, 53

Secret Flotillas, 53

Ritter, Gerhard, 10

Rodgers, Lord (Bill), 54–6

Routledge, 53, 61

Royal Family, 65

Royal Historical Society, 42–3

Russia, viii, 2, 12–13, 31, 37, 39–40. See also Soviet Union

Schmitt, Bernadotte E., 23

Second World War, 2, 5, 25, 28, 31, 37, 39, 44, 52. See also Official History of the Second World War

Seldon, Sir Anthony, 63

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 9

Simms, Brendan, 41

Smyth, Denis, vii

Society of Jesus, Irish Province of, 13

Sontag, Raymond J., 10–12, 21

South Africa, 43, 69, 73

Soviet Union, 7, 9, 12, 19, 40, 62, 70.

See also Russia

Spain, 18

Spencer, Frank, 49

St John’s College, Cambridge, viii

State Department (USA), 11–12, 19

Steiner, Zara, 59

Strand Group, 57

Strang, Sir William, 23

Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, xi, 13–14, 32

Suez crisis (1956), 52

Sweet, Paul W., 19–20, 24

Taylor & Francis, 53

Taylor, A.J.P., xi, 2–3, 6, 25, 27, 35, 40, 45–6

English History 1914–1945, 45–6, 62

Temperley, Harold, ix, xi, 3, 5–8, 13–14, 26–7, 29, 32, 34–5, 41, 59

Thatcher, Margaret, 52, 61–2

Margaret Thatcher Foundation, 62n

thirty-year rule, 45, 51–2, 57–8, 60

Thuringia, 19

Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 2, 6

Titmuss, Richard, 46

Problems of Social Policy, 46

Treasury, 57

Trevor-Roper, Hugh (Lord Dacre), 42n

Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 8n

Turkey, 64

twenty-year rule, 57

Ultra, 3, 52

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 51

United States of America (USA), 22, 39, 49–50, 72

University College Dublin (UCD), vii, 3–4, 8, 12–13, 17–18, 33, 42

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 59

Vansittart, Sir Robert, 10, 31, 38, 67

Vellacott, Paul, 8, 17, 34

Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 35

Vienna, Congress of (1814–15), 35

Vincent, John, 42

Waldegrave, William, 59

Watt, Donald Cameron, 50

Webster (Sir) Charles, 34–5, 46–7

The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany (with Nobel Frankland), 46–7

Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 19

Welch, Colin, 8

Whaddon Hall, 7, 9, 11, 19–20

Wheatley, Ronald, 50

Wheeler-Bennett, (Sir) John, 7, 9, 11, 19, 21–2, 49

Whitehall History Publishing Group, 53, 56n

Whitehall, 55

Wiles Lectures, viii

Wilhelmstrasse. See Foreign Office (Germany)

Williams, T. Desmond, ix–xi, 4, 8–13, 15–23, 32–3, 36, 42–4, 48–9

Wilson, Harold, 51–2

Wilson, Keith, 2

Windsor, Duchess of, 18

Windsor, Duke of, xi, 18–19

‘Windsor papers’, 18–23, 40, 66

Winterbotham, F.W., 52

The Ultra Secret, 52

Woodward (Sir) Llewellyn (E.L.), xi, 5–7, 10–12, 14, 16, 19–20, 25–32, 36n, 37–8, 42–3, 48–9, 61, 65

British Foreign Policy in the Second World War, 28, 47

Yasamee, Heather, 59