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A private public records office: Tony Benn as a political diarist


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In the latest article for the No. 10 Guest Historian Series, Professor Mark Wickham-Jones, of Bristol University, considers how Tony Benn's diaries add to the official public record of an important Cabinet meeting in December 1976. Read the article on the History of Government Blog: https://history.blog.gov.uk/2014/10/10/a-private-public-record-office-tony-benn-as-a-political-diarist/

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