British Oral Archive of Political and Administrative History, 1920-1980

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This study is available via the UK Data Service QualiBank, an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service. This is a qualitative data collection. British Oral Archive of Political and Administrative History (BOAPAH) was a pilot project conducted by the British Library of Political and Economic Science in 1979-1980, and financed by a Social Science Research Council grant. The aim of the project was to collect a systematic oral archive of interviews with key figures from politics, the civil service and the armed forces. Interviewees were selected predominantly from former Permanent Secretaries or former Cabinet Ministers, and were asked questions relating to the whole period of their official life, concentrating on the post-war years. The subject matter of the interviews covers the period from 1920 to 1980, and includes details of the lives and work of the following interviewees: Derick Heathcoat Amory, Viscount Amory; Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley; Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde of Barskimming; Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of The Hirsel; Lt Gen Sir Edward Ian Claud Jacob; John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel; Sir Frank Cyril Musgrave; Sir Anthony Alexander Part; Rt Hon John Enoch Powell; Sir Arthur Hilton Poynton; Robert Lowe Roberthall, Baron Roberthall; Sir Robert Heatlie Scott; Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton; Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield The interview tapes were transcribed, corrected by the interviewee, and retyped into a clean copy. All four versions of the interview were kept, though the clean copies were bound into individual volumes organised by interviewees. Main Topics: Central Government, Civil Service, Government, Historical Methods, History, Oral History, Political Science, Politics, Public Administration