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Sir Henry Channon (7 March 1897 – 7 October 1958), often known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation.
Feb 14, 2022 · Channon, pictured here in 1934, was an American-born member of the British Parliament and an expert social climber whose recently released diaries are causing a stir in elite circles on both...
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Mar 9, 2021 · Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon’s diaries — a cuckoo in the aristocratic nest The unexpurgated writings of the Conservative MP show him to be well-connected and well-informed — and utterly wrong
- Jesse Norman
Mar 13, 2021 · Henry ‘Chips’ Channon review – the celebrated diaries, unredacted. Sex, scandal, kinks and queens … edited by Simon Heffer, these interwar diaries by the Tory MP are a masterpiece of...
Apr 4, 2021 · Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries 1918-38 review – priceless interwar gossip. Editor Simon Heffer brings us the first, sensationally unexpurgated volume of the musings of the Chicago-born ...
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Jan 20, 2023 · Bookshelf. The Diaries of Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: Snob’s Progress. In hundreds of diary entries, the Chicago-boy-turned-wealthy-English politician dropped names, recalled slights and...
May 27, 2021 · Alan Hollinghurst. A new edition of Henry “Chips” Channon’s diaries gives fascinating glimpses of homosocial desire in a hectic narrative of aristocratic and political life. May 27, 2021 issue. Reviewed: The Diaries: 1918–38. by Henry “Chips” Channon, edited by Simon Heffer. London: Hutchinson, 1,002 pp., £35.00.
