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31 de mar. de 2024 · Simon Heffer is an author, historian and biographer. He also writes about cricket for The Telegraph and is the editor of Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries.
Hace 4 días · I am a great Anglophile and reader, lately of the ‘Chips’ Channon Diaries and Andrew Roberts’ works on Churchill’s life and times. Also I enjoy rugby and cricket, though I don’t really understand the latter.” (Lord Roberts replies, “Not to worry, the British don’t understand it either.”)
15 de abr. de 2024 · Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, TD, PC (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time, most notably ...
12 de abr. de 2024 · The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries.Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable.
19 de abr. de 2024 · Sir Henry (Chips) Channon was born in Chicago in 1897 (although he claimed 1899 as the year of his birth, until the true facts were exposed - to his embarrassment - in the Sunday Express). The son of a wealthy businessman, he accompanied the American Red Cross to Paris in 1917, was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, and then settled in London where he mingled with society and enjoyed ...
12 de abr. de 2024 · It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles.Throughout these final fourteen years Chips assiduously describes events in and around Westminster, gossiping about individual MPs' ambitions and indiscretions, but also rising powerfully to the occasion to ...
12 de abr. de 2024 · It would need to be a long one, so I am going to cheat and take the three volumes of Chips Channon’s Diaries, edited magnificently by Simon Heffer. They’re each more than 1,000 words long, so I wouldn’t mind if it took a long time to rescue me.
