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Harold George NicolsonSir Harold George Nicolson (1886-1968) was a British diplomat, historian, biographer, critic and journalist, and diarist of note. Harold Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia (now Iran), on November 21, 1886, where his father was British charge d'affaires. His father eventually became the first Lord Carnock, and as a child Harold visited the estates of his uncle in Ireland ...
Harold Nicolson was a man of extraordinary gifts. A renowned politician, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster and gardener, his position in society and politics allowed him an insight into the most dramatic events of British, indeed world, history.Nicolson's personal life was no less dramatic. Married to Vita Sackville-West, one of the most famous writers ...
Harold Nicolson was an MP from 1935–45 and an exceptionally interesting and revealing commentator on modern British politics. He regarded his political career as a failure, as in some ways it was, but that failure markedly influenced his view of politics, and in particular his attitude to political democracy and its relationship to the ‘educated class’, and especially to Liberalism.
Harold Nicolson. Harold Nicolson, the third son of Arthur Nicolson, first Baron Carnock, and his wife, Mary Katharine Rowan was born in Teheran on 21st November, 1886. His father was a diplomat and his childhood was spent in Turkey, Spain, Morocco and Russia. In 1895, he was sent away to attend The Grange, a preparatory school near Folkestone.
Sir Harold Nicolson (Teheran, 21 novembre 1886 – Kent, 1º maggio 1968) è stato un politico, diplomatico e scrittore britannico. Biografia. Nacque in Iran mentre il padre, il famoso diplomatico Arthur Nicolson, occupava la carica di ambasciatore. Dopo aver studiato al ...
The Harold Nicolson Papers consists of papers of the English diplomat, journalist, and biographer Harold Nicolson (1886-1968). These papers primarily contain correspondence received by Nicolson, but there is also a large series of letters written by Nicolson to Richard Rumbold, as well as a few to others. Also included in the collection are ...
17 de feb. de 2005 · Harold Nicolson established an enviable reputation as a historian and analyst of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. 1 His conclusions concerning the Paris settlement's repercussions for inter‐war European security provide valuable insights into his liberal realism. A study of Nicolson's international thought between 1919 and 1939 reveals a change from an idealist (though never a utopian ...
