USE OF BENN ARCHIVE FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Over the past 20 years the Benn Archive has been consistently used as a reference tool by academics, students, writers and other interested individuals and institutions, from all over the world, seeking to gain a better understanding of the events and issues surrounding both Tony Benn as well as the wider British and world political history over the last 75 years.

As the archive is housed in a number of different locations it is often difficult to accommodate requests for access. Please note that at the moment the archive is not accessible for research purposes.

Despite this, it has rapidly become one of the most internationally renowned and authoritative archives on British political history.

Listed below is a tiny snapshot of some of the interested parties that have made use of the archive during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s and these have included academics from the United States, Canada, China, Soviet Union, India and Greece as well as all over the U.K..

It serves as a reminder of the interest the Benn Archive has generated throughout the world.

Professor Leo Panitch, Toronto University History of the Labour Party
Mark Hollingsworth, London Role of the Mass Media
Vernon Jones, NUM Energy Policy
Prof. Dhirendra Sharma Pandit, University India Nuclear Policy
Philip Whitehead, Brook TV Role of the Premiership
Anne Chariot, University of Sorbonne Work of the Ministry of Technology
National Film Board of Canada British Political Situation
Ruth Winterton, Sheffield Polytechnic 1984-5 Miners strike
Prof. Glen Toner, Canada Work of the International Energy Agency
Grampian TV Oil Policy 1969-79
Dr John Papadatos, Greece PASOK and the Labour Party
Councillor Helen Jackson, Sheffield Local Economic Planning
Prof. Ran Longbo Peking, China International Relations
John Hendy, London Development of International Computers UNESCO
Soviet Press and TV, Moscow Anglo-Soviet Relations 1941-1986
Alan Thornett, Oxford British Leyland
Geoffrey Foote, London The Labour Party since 1945
Laurie Flynn, Granada TV Policy for Television
John Lloyd, Financial Times 1984-5 Miners strike
Sharon Genasci, Portland, Maine, USA Police nd Civil Liberties
Bulgarian Embassy Anglo-Bulgarian Relation’s
Mark Schreiber, The Economist Chesterfield Labour Party
Miriam Gold, School Student Hungarian Uprising 1956
Roland Carroll, London Broadcasting Policy
Ben Schoendorff, Oxford University Socialist Policy
Bernard Spies, Hamburg, Germany British policy towards Engineering
Dr Kevin Morgan, Sussex University GPO procurement policy 1964-70
Anthony Howard, Observer Life of R. A. Butler
David Milliband, Oxford University 1984-5 Miners strike
John de la Mothe, Engineering Research Council Post Office Engineering
Philip Ziegler, London Biography of Harold Wilson
Brian Mack, Polytechnic of Central London Wapping dispute
Daniel Litvin, Oxford University Suez Crisis
Mark Pythian, Liverpool University Arms sales to Third World
Radhika Oesai, Queens Univ., Ontario Canada Labour Economic Policy in the 1970’s
Mark Harmon, Yale University IMF crisis
Mark Wickham Jones, Bristol University Labour Party 1980-83
Prof. Douglas Pjtt, Strathclyde University BT Privatisation
Tony Shaw, Oxford University Suez crisis
Stephen Koerner, Warwick University Triumph Meriden Co-op
lOr Alan Tuckman, Humberside H.E. College Closure of Imperial Typewriters
Andrew Thomas, Oxford University Labour Party 1959-70
Andrew Richards Princeton University 1984-5 Miners strike
Jane Hosking, Polytechnic of Wales The Peerage system
Simon Rippingdale, Leeds University Labour and the Suez crisis
Carol Godridge, BBC Radio Scotland Alternative energy sources
Gerard Daly, Birkbeck College Crisis in the Labour Party 1974-81
Jeremy Beale, Brighton Advanced Technologies and European Integration
Glenn Segell, London University Military Industry/Government Relations
Philip Taylor, Glasgow University British Shipbuilding History
Dr Charles Wolfson, Glasgow University UK Oil Industry