John Profumo
Standard Name: Profumo, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Sybille Bedford | This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or... |
| Textual Production | Brigid Brophy | After John Profumo
resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons
about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC
commissioned BB
for a talk... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ali Smith | Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent... |
Timeline
4 June 1963
John Profumo
, Secretary of State for War, resigned after he was found to have lied in the House of Commons about his relations with call-girl Christine Keeler
.
19 October 1963
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
(Conservative) became Prime Minister when Macmillan
resigned on health grounds following the Profumo
scandal.
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