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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 ...
- Mark Peikert
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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...
- Jesse Norman
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.
29 de mai. de 2024 · Channon does his best to support his hero, Prime ...more. For our April meeting, the Earl of Essex returned with his third talk on the diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon. "In the second...
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- The New Sheridan Club
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.
31 de mar. de 2021 · 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
