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Friday 7 June

The wonderful material in the combat observer series of reports will take up most of my time, but it is so wide-ranging and rich in detail that I feel I can dispense with almost everything else....

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Saturday 8 June

I stopped at the entrance to the archives to check with the security guard whether the cafeteria was open that day. (Although they are all armed, I love the southern sing-song accent of the black...

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Sunday 9 June

My one day off as the National Archives are closed. (I was amazed the ones in Carlisle operated on a seven-day week). I found an organic foodstore a couple of miles south on US1 and loaded up with...

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Monday 10 June

Only three days left, so a fever of work, counterpointed by a longing to be out of here and home. I must not allow the joyful prospect to distract me. And I really should keep focused on my pre-emptive...

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Tuesday 11 June

Second last day. Once again I started the morning by driving all the way to Starbucks as it seems to be the only place for miles around where one can get a decent cup of coffee which actually gives you...

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Wednesday 12 June

Last day, yippeee! Slight panic in the morning when my pull requests were denied, but another of the archivists went charging off and fetched the right ones for me from the stacks.  I had a chance to...

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Tuesday 25 June

The history of the war is always with us. Sergei Shoygu, the Russian minister of defence, has been provoked into outrage by Leonid Grossman, a liberal deputy in the Duma, who compared the soviet...

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Thursday 12 September

I returned to King’s for the second day of the Waterloo 200 conference, then slipped away at the end of the morning to be in good time for my plane to Portugal. One of the other passengers turned out...

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Friday 13 September

I started the day with two delightful professors of European studies from London – Anand Menon from King’s and Mark Thatcher from the LSE. I had to admit to Mark that I had been horrified to see his...

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Saturday 14 September

Another hot day without a cloud in the sky. I finally met up with Mark Mazower shortly before our midday event, but it was all too brief to hear his news since the last time we had seen each other....

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