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    Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968) was a British politician, diplomat, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer...
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  • Benedict Nicolson, British art historian and author, son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West Dan Henry Nicolson, American botanist David Nicolson, 4th...
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    was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the most famous gardens in England...
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    celebrated garden at Sissinghurst in Kent, created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson. Victoria Mary Sackville-West — called Vita, to distinguish her from...
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  • Nicolson OBE (19 January 1917 – 23 September 2004) was an English writer, publisher and politician. Nicolson was the second son of writers Sir Harold...
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    David Nicolson, 4th Baron Carnock. Through his third son Harold, he was a grandfather of Benedict Nicolson, an art historian, and Nigel Nicolson, a politician...
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    Sep 1944) of "the foolish prophecy of that nice ass Harold Macmillan". In October 1942 Harold Nicolson recorded Macmillan as predicting "extreme socialism"...
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  • Lolita (1959) and Nicolson's Portrait of a Marriage (1973), a frank biography of his mother Vita Sackville-West and father Harold Nicolson. In its early years...
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    ex-diplomat and writer Harold Nicolson might be the ideal man to take over the Diary. To The Standard editors, the gregarious, urbane Nicolson seemed perfect...
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    University Press, 1968), p. 206. Harold Nicolson, The Evolution of Diplomacy (New York: Collier, 1962) at 107. Harold Nicolson, The Congress of Vienna: A Study...
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  • written by Harold Nicolson and first published by Penguin Books on 7 November 1939 shortly after the Second World War began. In the book, Nicolson explores...
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    Under-Secretary in the Foreign Office, Sir Arthur Nicolson, 11th Baronet. The Nicolson family descends from Thomas Nicolson. In 1636 he was created a Baronet, of...
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    persisted; sixty years later the official biographer of George V, Harold Nicolson, was told by Lord Goddard, who was a twelve-year-old schoolboy at the...
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  • and Hendrick Terbrugghen (1958). Nicolson was born on 6 August 1914. He was the elder son of authors Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West and the brother...
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  • Portrait of a Marriage (category Weidenfeld & Nicolson books)
    Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson is the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West compiled by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals...
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    by Vita Sackville-West, poet and gardening writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. Sackville-West was a writer on the fringes of...
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  • the resolutely working-class character of the Labour Party and cited Harold Nicolson as a case in point. In April 1935, a volume of essays by five leading...
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    Pegasus Bridge Richard Geoffrey Pine-Coffin 2018 Vita and Virginia Harold Nicolson 2020 Getting to know you Luke Manning Love Sarah Matthew Miss Fisher...
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  • homo-orientation. In some situations, such as that of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, the pair in the beard relationship may have children together despite...
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    the original on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 29 April 2009. Harold Nicolson (1966). Harold Nicolson: Letters and Diaries 1930–1939. Collins. p. 327. "Nancy...
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    Bachelor's Cottage Clay, p. 154; Nicolson, p. 51; Rose, p. 97 Harold Nicolson's diary quoted in Sinclair, p. 107 Nicolson's Comments 1944–1948, quoted in...
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    ). Sceptre. p. 266. Ibid. p. 281. Murray pp. 318–319. Harold Nicolson (1966). Harold Nicolson Diaries & Letters 1930–39. Collins. p. 261. Justin Spring...
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    2007. Nigel Nicolson (1966). Harold Nicolson: Diaries & Letters 1930-39. Collins. pp. 175–176. Nigel Nicolson (1966). Harold Nicolson: Diaries & Letters...
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    Sir Arthur Bryant, Lord David Cecil, Graham Greene, John G. Murray, Harold Nicolson, Max Reinhardt, Dr C. V. Wedgwood, and Vita Sackville-West. Authors...
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    Sackville-West, Vita (1967). "letter of 4 June 1940 to Harold Nicolson". In Nicolson, Nigel (ed.). Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters 1939–1945. London. p. 93...
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    Head. Vita Sackville-West letter to Harold Nicolson, 8 April 1941, reproduced in Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Harold Nicolson: The War Years 1939–1945, Vol. II...
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    Intelligence Service (SVR) Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author, diarist, and politician Harold Norse, American poet Harold I. Panken (1910–1999), New...
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    War Penguin: London, 1991 page 131. Harold Nicolson, The Harold Nicolson Diaries: 1919–1964 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), p. 139. Emmerson, p. 144. Weinberg...
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  • Vita's enduring marriage to the diplomat Harold Nicolson. Based on the biography of the same name by Nigel Nicolson, it features Janet McTeer as Vita, and...
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    brandished." His other works included several biographies, for instance of Harold Nicolson, The Bachelor Duke of Devonshire, and Lord Esher, and an autobiographical...
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