Item 2008/2 - Simpson Notebooks: Foreign affairs

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MCPP/JS/1/4/2008/2

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Simpson Notebooks: Foreign affairs

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  • 29 May 2008 - 16 October 2008 (Creation)

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Simpson, John Cody Fidler (1944-present), journalist, foreign correspondent and Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
(9 August 1944 - present)

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Notebook containing notes and reports on:

(1) Peru, 29 May - 4 Jun

(2) Belgrade, 22-23 Jul

(3) Beijing, 2-6 Aug

(4) Kabul, 15-30 Sept

(5) Samuel Franklin Cody centenary, 1-16 Oct. In 1908 he achieved the first official, powered, sustained flight in Great Britain at Farnborough. He survived a crash at the end of that historic 27-second flight. He was John Simpson's great grandfather.

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