Metadata: Suez Oral History Project
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
- Holding institution (official language):
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
- Postal address:
- Strand Building,Strand Campus,StrandLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2R 2LS
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7848 2015
- Web address:
- https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archives
- Email:
- Email: archives@kcl.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- Suez OHP
- Title:
- Suez Oral History Project
- Title (official language):
- Suez Oral History Project
- Date(s):
- 1989/1991
- 1956
- Language:
- English
- French
- Extent:
- 1 box (0.01 cubic metres)
- Scope and content:
- Transcripts of interviews relating to political, diplomatic and military aspects of the Suez Crisis of 1956, with Rt Hon Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh; Sir Harold Beeley; Sir Frederick Arthur Bishop; Rt Hon Sir Frank Cooper; Sir Patrick Henry Dean; Sir (Arthur) Douglas Dodds-Parker; Sir William Goodenough Hayter; Rt Hon Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel; Brig Kenneth Hunt; Rt Hon Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, Baron Jay of Battersea; Gen Sir Frank Douglas King; Sir Donald Arthur Logan; Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield; Sir Guy Elwin Millard; Sir David Bruce Pitblado; Sir Richard Royle Powell; (George Frank) Norman Reddaway; Sir (D'Arcy) Patrick Reilly; Sir Archibald David Manisty Ross; Sir (Charles Arthur) Evelyn Shuckburgh; Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright. Copies of the Protocol of Sèvres, 24 Oct 1956, recording the agreements reached between the governments of Great Britain, France and Israel during discussions held in France, 22-24 Oct 1956, on a joint politico-military response to Egypt's nationalisation of the Suez Canal.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The decision of Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, to nationalise the Suez Canal in July 1956 provoked, in the following October, Great Britain and France to launch an amphibious and airborne assault on Port Said, Egypt, while Israeli armed forces attacked Egyptian forces in the Sinai. Britain, France and Israel, under diplomatic pressure from the UN, USA and USSR, withdrew their forces, to be replaced by UN peacekeepers. The Suez Oral History Project, an initiative of the Institute of Contemporary British History, London, and sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation and King's College London, consisted of a series of interviews with British political, diplomatic and military figures involved at a senior level in the Suez Crisis of 1956. The interviews were undertaken between 1989 and 1991 by Anthony Gorst of the University of Westminster and Dr W Scott Lucas, then of the University of Birmingham. Transcripts of the twenty one interviews were subsequently produced and returned to the interviewees for review and correction where necessary. Some alterations were made, which, apart from a few amendments for security purposes, were mainly for grammar and clarification of expression.
- Access points: locations:
- Suez Canal
- Subject terms:
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Access, restrictions:
- Twenty of the twenty two files are open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form. Access to the transcripts of the interviews with Brig Hunt, and Sir Patrick Reilly is subject to the permission of the interviewees themselves.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/s/xs80-001
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Revised by Alan Kucia July 2003
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London