The American Connection: Hugh Seton-Watson's Lecture on Czechoslovakia at Oxford in 1968
The American Connection: Hugh Seton-Watson's Lecture on Czechoslovakia at Oxford in 1968

Summary/Abstract: Two months after the Warsaw Pact armies invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Hugh Seton-Watson, professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) of the University of London, lectured on "Fifty Years of Czechoslovakia" at St. Hugh's College, Oxford. He spoke at the invitation of Agnes Headlam-Morley, the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St. Hugh's. The lecture hall was packed; the lecture was never published. It may have been broadcast over the BBC. Neither Seton-Watson's widow, Mary, nor his brother, Christopher, both of whom were in the audience, know what happened to the manuscript. The circumstances under which it was located are sketched below. [...]

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