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Jeffery, Keith

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Personal name headingJeffery, Keith
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Birth date1952-01-11
Death date2016-02-02
Place of birthBelfast (Northern Ireland)
Field of activityHistory
AffiliationSt. John's College (University of Cambridge)
Ulster Polytechnic
Queen's University of Belfast
Profession or occupationHistorians
Found inHis States of emergency, 1983: CIP t.p. (Keith Jeffery)
BL AL recd. 3 Aug. 1993 Keith John Jeffery, born 11 Jan. 1952)
Guardian WWW site, viewed Mar. 10, 2016 (Keith Jeffery, historian, born 11 January 1952, Belfast; died 2 February 2016; best known for his exhaustive history of the early years of MI6, but he was also a writer on the British and Irish military and a chronicler of the life of Sir Henry Wilson, the Ulster Unionist and field marshal in the British army who was assassinated by the IRA in 1922; completed his PhD at St John's College, Cambridge, before returning to Northern Ireland in 1978 as a history lecturer at the Ulster Polytechnic in Jordanstown, just outside Belfast)
LC Web site, Mar. 10, 2016: contributor biographical information for The secret history of MI6 (Keith Jeffery is a professor of British history at Queen's University, Belfast)
Associated languageeng