Elisabeth Barker

Elisabeth Barker (22 March 1910 – 19 March 1986) was an English journalist, historian and civil servant.

Life Elisabeth Barker was born in Oxford, the daughter of Emily and Ernest Barker. She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where she read mods and greats. In summer 1932 she visited her brother Arthur, then Times correspondent in Vienna, and continued traveling across Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In 1934 she joined the BBC, working in the news library and later as a sub-editor in overseas news.

Works Truce in the Balkans, 1948 Macedonia: its place in Balkan power politics, 1950 Britain in a Divided Europe 1945-1970, 1971 The Cold War, 1972 Austria: 1918-1972, 1973 The Common Market, 1973 Churchill and Eden at War, 1978 The British between the Superpowers (1945-1950), 1983