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Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant
Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant
Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant
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From the tragic massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, to signing the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there.
This is the story of a Cornish scholarship girl with no contacts who ended up in the corridors of power. It is also the very personal story of her struggle with her sexuality as a bewildered teenager, and as a young woman in the 1950s, a time when being gay could mean social ostracism.
Born during the General Strike in 1926, Barbara Hosking worked her way through London's typing pools in the 1950s to executive posts in the Labour Party, then to No. 10 as a press officer to Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. Between working on a copper mine in the African bush, pioneering British breakfast television and negotiating the complexities of government, hers has been a life of breadth and bravery.
Looking back at the age of ninety-one, this is Barbara Hosking's unheard-of account of the innermost workings of politics and the media amid the turbulence of twentieth-century Britain.
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Release dateNov 21, 2017
ISBN9781785903564
Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant
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Barbara Hosking

Barbara Hosking was born in Cornwall in 1926, moving to London in 1946 to pursue a career in journalism. After quickly learning the ropes in typing pools, Barbara studied at Hillcroft College and worked for three years at an African copper mine before beginning her ascent into politics and executive posts in the Labour Party. After serving as a press officer to Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Barbara was deputy chairman of Westcountry Television, an ITV company and was involved at the birth and early years of British breakfast television.

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