SZ/CSA/116/5/10-11 - [Letter, SZ to Burke Trend, 5/7/65]
Reference code
SZ/CSA/116/5/10-11
Level of description
Item
Title
[Letter, SZ to Burke Trend, 5/7/65]
Date/s
1965
Quantity & Format
1 leaf Letters (typescript)
Personal name
Watson-Watt, Robert,
Postan, M. M.
Webster, Charles, 1886-1961.
Postan, M. M.
Webster, Charles, 1886-1961.
Subject
Radar
Creator
Zuckerman, Solly, 1904-1993Creator
Trend, Burke St John,Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
SZ/445/65
SZ realises the difficulties in allowing Watson-Watt access to radar papers but feels that "good could come of the exercise." SZ believes that history does not derive from one source and while Postan may have had access to official papers his conclusions and interpretation may differ from people who were involved in the work. SZ does not have much faith in history "written by people who were outside the events of which they write" and gives the example of Webster and Frankland's work on the strategic air war.
SZ realises the difficulties in allowing Watson-Watt access to radar papers but feels that "good could come of the exercise." SZ believes that history does not derive from one source and while Postan may have had access to official papers his conclusions and interpretation may differ from people who were involved in the work. SZ does not have much faith in history "written by people who were outside the events of which they write" and gives the example of Webster and Frankland's work on the strategic air war.
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SZ - Zuckerman Archive
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SZ/CSA - [Chief Scientific Adviser's papers]
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SZ/CSA/116 - [CSA. Correspondence - Correspondents T]
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SZ/CSA/116/5 - [CSA. Correspondence with Burke Trend]
- SZ/CSA/116/5/10-11 - [Letter, SZ to Burke Trend, 5/7/65]
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SZ/CSA/116/5 - [CSA. Correspondence with Burke Trend]
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SZ/CSA/116 - [CSA. Correspondence - Correspondents T]
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SZ/CSA - [Chief Scientific Adviser's papers]