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Lady Margaret Bullard – Diplomacy from the Passenger Seat
6th October 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Margaret Bullard met her husband, Sir Julian Bullard, when they were both in their final year at Oxford, reading PPE. She accompanied him in his diplomatic career in Germany, the Middle East and Russia. Her book, Endangered Species: Diplomacy from the Passenger Seat (2021), on which her talk is based, covers world events from 1954 to 1990 and gives a personal and revealing behind-the-scenes insight into diplomatic life. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-life-of-an-ambassadors-wife