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1 May 2001John Charmley is, of course, no stranger to controversy.... How tempting it would be to begin a review of his latest book in this vein.
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12 Dec 2019The consular official has often been a derided figure in the historiography of foreign services, often seen as uneducated, involved in commerce, and corrupt, perhaps personified in the figure of ‘Charles Fortnum’ in Graham Greene’s spy novel The Honorary Consul.(1) Such criticisms were often levelled at consuls.