Lord Hennessy to deliver Aberystwyth lecture
Professor Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield, the Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London, will be talking about British intelligence at 6.00 p.m. on Thursday 3 May 2012 at the Old College at Aberystwyth University. Lord Hennessy will be giving the University’s Centre for Intelligence and International Security Studies annual lecture. The title of the lecture is ‘Tasking and Using: the Coalition, the National Security Council, the Joint Intelligence Committee and the Rhythm of British Intelligence.’ Lord Hennessy was Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary and Westfield College from 1992 until 2000, before being appointed Attlee Professor in 2001. One of the founders of the Institute of Contemporary British History, he worked as a journalist for twenty year on The Times, The Financial Times and The Economist before joining Queen Mary in 1992. Lord Hennessy is a regular panelist on BBC1’s Question Time and was a regular presenter of ...