Edna May (née Edmunds), Lady Healey; Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey
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Edna May (née Edmunds), Lady Healey; Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide print, March 1974
10 in. x 8 in. (253 mm x 202 mm) image size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2013
Photographs Collection
NPG x194100
Sittersback to top
- Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey (1917-2015), Labour politician; Secretary of State for Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sitter in 17 portraits.
- Edna May (née Edmunds), Lady Healey (1918-2010), Author, radio and television writer and broadcaster; wife of Denis Healey, Baron Healey. Sitter in 4 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Keystone Press Agency Ltd, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 190 portraits.
Events of 1974back to top
Current affairs
28 people are killed and hundreds injured in the IRA pub bombings. Two pubs in Guilford popular with army personnel were attacked with gelignite bombs, followed by a pub in Woolwich and then two in Birmingham. 17 people, known as the Guilford Four, the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six, were arrested for the bombing but all were eventually found to have been wrongfully imprisoned.Art and science
John Le Carré publishes his classic spy thriller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The novel was later made into a BBC miniseries starring Alec Guinness.International
A one party communist state is established in Ethiopia after a committee of military officers known as the Derg depose Halie Selassie from power.Greek Cypriot officers depose President Archbishop Makarios III in a coup d'etat sponsored by the Greek Government. Taking advantage of the situation, Turkey sent troops to occupy half the island, proclaiming the Turkish Federal State of Cyprus the following year.
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