[…]sp;Willingdon School, Putney, which enjoyed the distinction of two very distinguished pupils as they became in later life, Liddell Hart, the military historian, and Maurice Bowra no less, warden of Wadham, Oxford and great classical scholar. And my first Latin mistress was one Miss Botting who […]
[…]ut of Paris to cinema. I mean, they were critics first.Christopher Miles 25:27 Yes, they were. Yes.Rodney Giesler 25:28 Historians first and then filmmakers. Second, or a very big second, but consciously influenced. I mean, Truffaut see premium for this Hitchcock […]
[…]ator during the war and had then gone back. He’d interrupted his academic career to fight. He went back to Oxford, and became one of the two official historians for the strategic bombing offensive, and the book that resulted from that was fairly controversial and he was then at either RUSI [Royal Un[…]
[…]ng extraordinarily ponderous way of conducting business. On the other hand I mean if I am anything and I'm not really anything, I like to think I'm a historian I'm very addicted to the study of history and to contributing in some way to history. Now if you look at one of those, if you take one of th[…]
[…] and earn a living, you know, the usual mistake that people make.SF: So you never went to Birmingham University?No. One...SF: They had some very good historians there like Roy Pascal and a whole clutch of very fine historians at Birmingham.Well, the history mistress was very keen I went and it proba[…]
[…]the first place, I went in and Dal [Ian Dalrymple] called me and sort of looked at me and said, "I've just had Owen Rutter who is a very famous Naval historian... he's just come in here and wants us to make a film on the Battle of The Atlantic. And this has come from the Admiral in command of the Ba[…]
[…] just had Owen Rutter who is a very famous Naval historian... he's just come in here and wants us to […]
[…] just had Owen Rutter who is a very famous Naval historian... he's just come in here and wants us to […]
[…] Hargreaves 35:09 yeah. And so on statements of fact, they are not. She, she claims that her these recordings are historical data. And no historian would say that they are two other than round out to confirm and add to atmosphere and impressions. There are several things in the reported […]
Bob Geoghan is interviewerCY My name is so Cy Young I was born in Bristol on the 5th of December 1941. slightly avoiding Pearl Harbour Where did you live. Oh blimey I don't know.Cy Yes. Yeah. Well I went to school in Bristol at the grammar school I went to was called Queen Elizabeth was a grammar sc[…]
