Abstract
This chapter covers the period from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 until the death of Sir Philip Gibbs in 1962. It discusses his support for Appeasement and his despair at the outbreak of another war. Gibbs worked as a correspondent in France before Dunkirk but then remained in England for the majority of the remainder of the conflict. He wrote about the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, V-1 and V-2 attacks, and the defeat of Germany, and then his writings ranged widely over the state of post-war Britain, fear of Communism, the National Health Service, rising taxation, West Indian immigration, and the impact of technology.
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P Gibbs (1946) The Pageant of the Years (London: Heinemann), p. 456.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 27.
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A Gibbs (1970) In My Own Good Time (Boston: Gambit Incorporated), p. 159.
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P Gibbs (1942) America Speaks (London: William Heinemann), p. 26.
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M Gibbs (2000) Seven Generations-Our Gibbs Ancestors (London: Martin Gibbs), p. 7.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, pp. 457–8.
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Daily Sketch, 13 November 1939.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 461.
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P Gibbs (1949) Crowded Company (London: Allan Wingate), pp. 168–9.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 496.
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Gibbs, In My Own Good Time, p. 209.
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P Gibbs (1957) Life’s Adventure (London: Angus & Robertson), pp. 40–1.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 488.
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Martin Gibbs (2003) Wartime Convoy to America (London: Martin Gibbs), p. 6.
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Gibbs, In My Own Time, p. 216.
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Gibbs, Seven Generations, p. 9.
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Interview with Martin Gibbs, 7 April 2009.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 1.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 3.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 8.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 16.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, pp. 10–11.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 17.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 17.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 18.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, pp. 19–20.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 23.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 96.
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Gibbs, America Speaks, p. 116.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 505.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 189.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 208.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 507.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 508.
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C Hamilton. Undated letter to his brother Henry in Argentina. Gibbs Family Archives.
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C Hamilton. Undated letter to his brother Henry in Argentina. Gibbs Family Archives.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 509.
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Gibbs, In My Own Good Time, p. 133.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 510.
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Philip Gibbs (1942) The Amazing Summer (London: Hutchinson & Co), p. 236.
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Gibbs, Crowded Company, p. 95.
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Gibbs, Crowded Company, p. 94.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 517.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 517.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 518.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 517.
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Sir Percy Alfred Harris, 1st Baronet (1876–1952).
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Sir James Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth, KCMG, CB (1876–1951).
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 519.
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Sir Andrew McFadyean (1887–1974).
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Dr Gilbert Murray (1866–1957).
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 519.
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 519.
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William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (1879–1963).
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Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury DBE (1887–1969).
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Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years, p. 520.
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J Philips and P Phillips (1978) Victorians at Home and Away (London: Croom Helm), p. 191.
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AN Wilson (2005) After the Victorians 1901-1953 (London: Hutchinson), p. 500.
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P Gibbs (1939) Across the Frontiers (London: The Right Book Club), p. 89.
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P Gibbs (1931) Since Then (London: William Heinemann), p. 329.
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B Harrison (1996) The Transformation of British Politics 1860-1995 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 137–8.
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Harrison, The Transformation of British Politics, p. 76.
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P Gibbs (1953) The New Elizabethans (London: Hutchinson and Co), p. 133.
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Gibbs, Since Then, p. 320.
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P Gibbs (1950) Thine Enemy (London: Hutchinson and Co), Cover.
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Gibbs, Thine Enemy, p. 301.
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P Gibbs (1951) The Spoils of Time (London: Hutchinson and Co), p. 254.
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Gibbs, The Spoils of Time, p. 252.
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Gibbs, The Spoils of Time, p. 254.
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Gibbs, The Spoils of Time, p. 255.
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Gibbs, The New Elizabethans, p. 17.
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Gibbs, The New Elizabethans, p. 216.
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P Gibbs (1952) The Cloud above the Green (London: The Book Club), p. 243.
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Personal correspondence with Michael Harding, 31 March 2008.
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Gibbs, Seven Generations, p. 30.
- 76.
P Gibbs (1958) How Now England? (London: Angus and Robertson), pp. 15; 16; 47.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 37.
- 78.
R Skidelsky (1975) Oswald Mosley (London: Macmillan), p. 508.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 44.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 43.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 18.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 25.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 25.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 14.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 51.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 51.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 57.
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Gibbs, How Now England? p. 60.
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P Gibbs (1958) The Curtains of Yesterday (London: Hutchinson), p. 87.
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P Gibbs (1960) The Riddle of a Changing World (London: Angus and Robertson), p. 15.
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Gibbs, The Riddle of a Changing World, p. 9.
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Kerby, M.C. (2016). The Pageant of the Years: 1939–1962. In: Sir Philip Gibbs and English Journalism in War and Peace. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57301-8_6
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