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Sir Henry Channon (7 March 1897 – 7 October 1958), often known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation.
14 de fev. de 2022 · Born in 1897 in Chicago, Channon spent a few years in Paris mingling with the likes of Proust and Cocteau—he purports to be intimidated by the two “wittiest men in Europe” before blithely ...
9 de mar. de 2021 · Such a man was Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, Conservative MP, snob, bigot and social mountaineer, who perfectly embodied the qualities vital to the task: a capacious ear for gossip, a neat turn...
4 de abr. de 2021 · Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries 1918-38 review – priceless interwar gossip. Editor Simon Heffer brings us the first, sensationally unexpurgated volume of the musings of the Chicago-born ...
3 de mar. de 2021 · Sex, scandal and high society in Chips Channon’s uncensored diaries. Channon was a snobbish, sexually voracious Tory who revered Hitler – and a new edition of his journals shines a startling light on interwar Britain.
27 de mai. de 2021 · A new edition of Henry “Chips” Channon’s diaries gives fascinating glimpses of homosocial desire in a hectic narrative of aristocratic and political life.
Henry “Chips” Channon: The Diaries 1918-38 Edited by Simon Heffer (Hutchinson, £35) Chris Mullin is the former MP for Sunderland South, and a former Labour minister. He is the author of three volumes of diaries charting the rise and fall of New Labour
