PEACE-TIME HISTORIES

HC Deb 05 July 1978 vol 953 c194W

Dr. M. S. Miller

asked the Prime Minister whether any further official histories of peace-time episodes have been commissioned since 1974.

The Prime Minister

Yes. Two further works in the series of official histories covering selected periods of episodes of peace-time history have been commissioned, as follows:

1. (i) "The British Contribution to the Korean Campaign", to be written by Lieutenant-General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, KCB, DSO, MBE, MC.
2. (ii) "The Health Services since the War", to be written by Dr. Charles Webster, DSC, MA. FRHistS, Reader in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford.