Judith Curthoys is the archivist nonpareil who enabled me to consult the Dacre papers at Christ Church, Oxford. I also thank the staff of the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Cambridge University Library; the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; King’s College, Cambridge; the National Archives, Kew; the School of Oriental and African Studies, London; the State Library of New South Wales; and the Working-Class Movement Library, Salford. The amenities of the London Library were once again indispensable to my work. My work on various collections of private papers held in the Bodleian was undertaken when I was the beneficiary of the Visiting Fellowship scheme at All Souls College, Oxford.
I am grateful for material or advice furnished by Tom Buchanan, of Kellogg College, Oxford; Youssef Cassis, of the European University Institute, Florence; Patric Dickinson, Clarenceux King of Arms; Simon Ertz, of the University of Stanford at Berkeley; Henry Hardy, of Wolfson College, Oxford; Mike Luft, of Oldham United Against Racism and of the Anti-Nazi League; Jeffrey Hackney, of Wadham College, Oxford; James Howard-Johnston, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Simon Malloch, of the University of Nottingham; Rana Mitter, of St Cross College, Oxford; Francis Pike; Frederic Raphael; Adam Sisman; Tom Stacey; John Tallon, QC, of Pump Court Tax Chambers; Hugo Vickers, Captain of the Lay Stewards of St George’s Chapel, Windsor; Peter Wellby; and Edward Wilson, of Worcester College, Oxford. Above all I am grateful to Graham Perry, for a long, candid interview in January 2019.
I thank Nicholas Garland for his consent to my use of a letter written by his mother Peggy Garland; Sara Holdsworth for permission to quote from the letters of her mother Valerie Pearl; and Jane Reilly, who has once again allowed me to quote from the unpublished memoirs of her father Sir Patrick Reilly. Extracts from the unpublished correspondence of Sir Isaiah Berlin are published with the agreement of the trustees of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust.
This is the fourth collection of Trevor-Roper’s letters and journals that I have edited or co-edited. It has been enriched and honed by the patient criticism of Trevor-Roper’s literary executor Blair Worden. I thank him for trusting me with this work, and for improving it by his careful reading, reflection and reasoning. His temperance has restrained my tendencies to excess. My admiring gratitude to my three friends who have been trustees of the Lord Dacre of Glanton Charitable Trust, †Jeremy Catto, James Howard-Johnston and Sir Noel Malcolm, is hefty, fathomless and the utmost pleasure to acknowledge.
Le Meygris, 15 January 2019