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Britain and Rhodesia: The Route to Settlement

Edited by Michael D. Kandiah and Sue Onslow.
Published 2008, CCBH.
ISBN: 1-905165-23-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-905165-23-0
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These seminars were held at The National Archives on 5 July 2005, organised by the CCBH, The Cold War Studies Centre, LSE and The National Archives. The chairs were Professors Terence Ranger and Arne Westad, and the chronology and questions were prepared by Sue Onslow.

Witnesses (with their position at the time) were:

SIR BRIAN BARDER KCMG, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Head of Central and Southern, later Southern African Department, 1978–82.
R. A. C. BYATT, CMG Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Head of Rhodesia Department, 1972–75; HM High Commissioner in Zimbabwe, 1980–83.
THE Rt. Hon. THE LORD CARRINGTON, KG GCMG, CH, MC, PC, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1979–82.
SIR DEREK M. DAY KCMG HM Ambassador to Ethiopia, 1975–78; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, 1979, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, 1980.
JOHN F. DOBLE, OBE HM Diplomatic Service, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Commonwealth Department, 1977–78; HM Ambassador to Maputo, 1978–81.
SIR JOHN GRAHAM BART., GCMG Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, 1977–79; HM Ambassador to Iran, 1979–80.
ROBERT JACKSON Member of European Parliament (Conservative) Upper Thames, 1979–84. Special Adviser to Governor of Southern Rhodesia
(Lord Soames), 1979–80.
THE Hon. PETER JAY HM Ambassador to the USA, 1977–79.
DAME ROSEMARY SPENCER, DCMG First Secretary (Economic), Lagos, 1974–77; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Assistant Head of Rhodesia Department, 1977–80.
THE Rt. Hon. THE LORD STEEL OF AIKWOOD KBE, PC, DL, MP (Liberal 1965–88, Liberal Democrat 1988–97) for Roxburgh Selkirk and Peebles, 1965-82 and for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, 1983–97. Leader of Liberal Party, 1976–88. President, Anti-Apartheid Movement of Great Britain, 1966–69.
DAVID M. SUMMERHAYES, CMG Minister, Pretoria/Cape Town, 1974–78.
WILFRED TURNER CVO & MRS TURNER, CMG High Commissioner to Botswana, 1977–81.
SIR PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE, KT, Daily Telegraph, 1953–61; Deputy Editor, Sunday Telegraph, 1961–76, Associate Editor, 1976–86, Editor, 1986–89.
From the floor
DR RICHARD COGGINS, Magdalen College, Oxford
DR PETER HENSHAW, University of Western Ontario, Canada
DR DONAL LOWRY, Oxford Brookes University
DR DAVID MOORE, University of KwaZulu-Natal
DR PHILIP MURPHY, University of Reading
BRIAN OLIVER, Assistant Secretary and then Under-Secretary to the Rhodesian Cabinet
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS, University of Cape Town
PROFESSOR VLADMIR SHUBIN, Russian Academy of Sciences

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