Newly released Downing Street files record a reassessment of Vlad III; the art of the Whitehall leak; and Douglas Hurds campaign against rural riotersThe files record that Margaret Thatcher was told in 1986 that the role of Vlad Dracula – Vlad the Impaler – had been reassessed “positively” by a panel of Marxist historians in Ceaușescu’s Romania. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com