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Elisabeth Barker (22 March 1910 – 19 March 1986) was an English journalist, historian and civil servant.'Miss Elisabeth Barker', ''
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'', 28 March 1986.


Life

Elisabeth Barker was born in
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, the daughter of Emily and
Ernest Barker Sir Ernest Barker (23 September 1874 – 17 February 1960) was an English political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927. Life and career Ernest Barker was born in Woodley, Cheshire, and educated at Ma ...
. She was educated at
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and
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more forma ...
where she read mods and greats. In summer 1932 she visited her brother Arthur, then ''
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'' correspondent in
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, and continued traveling across Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In 1934 she joined the
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, working in the news library and later as a sub-editor in overseas news.


Works

* ''Truce in the Balkans'', 1948 * ''Macedonia: its place in Balkan power politics'', 1950 * ''Britain in a Divided Europe 1945-1970'', 1971 * ''The Cold War'', 1972 * ''Austria: 1918-1972'', 1973 * ''The Common Market'', 1973 * ''Churchill and Eden at War'', 1978 * ''The British between the Superpowers (1945-1950)'', 1983


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barker, Elisabeth 1910 births 1986 deaths English journalists English historians English civil servants 20th-century British writers Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford