FORA.tv Speaker - Philip Murphy

Dr. Philip Murphy is the author of Party Politics and Decolonization: The Conservative Party and British Colonial Policy in Tropical Africa, 1951-64 (1995), and Alan Lennox-Boyd: A Biography (1999). He is also co-editor of Macmillan: Cabinet Papers 1957-63 on CD-ROM (1999). He is currently editing the Central Africa volume in the British Documents on the End of Empire series. In addition to his work on the Conservative Party and British imperial policy, he maintains an interest in the politics of post-colonial Africa and the history of the British intelligence community. He has recently produced an article on intelligence operations in Central Africa from 1945-63.