Foreign Office

This book was reprinted as no. 6 in Chatto's Landmark Library series in 1968 and again by Virago in 1985. The travel element remained constant (blended with romance or spying) as AB followed her husband's...

A British Foreign Office official warned that what he called the uniform unpleasantness of the Spanish characters (which was news to her: was he responding to the fact that people behave badly in extreme circumstances?)...

Julia's husband, Philip, has died in mysterious circumstances in Soviet Central Asia (possibly Afghanistan), a place of stray bullets and booby-traps, while on a mission for the British Intelligence Service (a branch of the...

Mary Sanders (later AB ) married Owen O'Malley (a member of the British Foreign Office and as he put it himself an autocthonous Irishman, later knighted) at St Mark's Church...

After AB 's husband retired from the Foreign Office they settled, not at first in England but in Ireland: at Rockfleet Castle in Mayo, which they had bought as only a Regency ruin in 1938.

In Permission to Resign,: Goings-on in the Corridors of Power, Ann Bridge provided an account of her husband 's forced resignation from the Foreign Office in 1928 and the successful campaign to re-instate him.

In 1928 Owen O'Malley , with other members of the foreign service, was accused of speculating in francs: what became known as the francs case. His Times obituary suggested that he would have been...

During these years, beginning in the Second World War, she worked in the Ministry of Information (where she became head of the American section), the Committee of Ministers for Reconstruction (from spring 1941), the Ministry...

Production was arranged at Birmingham Repertory Theatre under Sir Barry Jackson , when the Lord Chamberlain's office banned the play. The Foreign Office , MJ learned, thought it most undesirable that anything humorous should be...

EL spent six weeks in Constantinople with her sister and her husband , who was on a political mission for the Foreign Office .

He had been offered either Teheran or Peking (now Beijing). He resigned from his Foreign Office employment in the summer of 1929 in favour of the editorship of the London Evening Standard. Later...

MS began on a top-secret job: writing anti-Nazi propaganda for MI6 , the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office .

After her intelligence work came a succession of temporary office jobs: for a different branch of the Foreign Office , for a tea company, and for the American Red Cross .

JT worked for the Foreign Office for two years from 1965. Her work there concerned China's relations with African and other Third World countries. She then became a teacher. She has taught English literature...

She progressed from her former casual jobs to being a temporary assistant clerk on the Polish desk of the Information Research Department at the Foreign Office at six pounds a week. This was a Cold...