In 2019, the Information Commissioner found in his favour and ordered the release of the entire collection of 4,500 boxes of documents and photographs – known as the Broadlands Archive archive – but the Cabinet Office appealed and has continued to block access to certain passages in the diaries, some of which date back to the 1930s. Mr Lownie has spent four years fighting the Cabinet Office and the University of Southampton, which bought the archive in 2010 using £2.8 million of public money, for full sight of the documents. He said the documents were "crucial" to biographers and historians but that the case had also raised "very important issues of transparency and abuse of power".
The Cabinet Office lied to MPs in an attempt to keep Earl Mountbatten's private letters and diaries out of the public eye, a tribunal was told on Monday.Īndrew Lownie, the author and historian battling to gain unrestricted access to the archive, said it was "shameful" that it had not been made available to the public in its entirety, 11 years after it was saved for the nation.
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