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- Title
The Less Secret State.
- Authors
Hennessy, Peter
- Abstract
The author reconsiders his 1994 Longman-History Today lecture entitled "The Pleasures and Pains of Contemporary History." Under an initiative by William Waldegrave, Minister for Open Government under British Prime Minister John Major, confidential documents held by the government were reviewed, declassified, and made available to contemporary historians beginning in 1992, overturning the policy of restricting documents for thirty years. The materials sparked interest in studies of the Cold War, resulting in the author's 2002 book "The Secret State."
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LECTURES &; lecturing; MODERN history, 1945-1989; COLD War, 1945-1991; SECURITY classification (Government documents); BRITISH historians; BRITISH history sources; 20TH century British history
- Publication
History Today, 2012, Vol 62, Issue 10, p72
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article