The Final Days of British Rule in Cyprus: Dispatches and Diaries of Consul General Taylor Belcher and Edith Belcher (Sources for the History of Cyprus)

This volume presents the diaries of Taylor and Edith Belcher, who frequently travelled to Cyprus and also had close links to the University at Albany. Indeed, the University Library has a room commemorated as the Taylor and Edith Belcher Cyprus Room. The diaries of the Belchers document Cyprus at a critical time and provide witness accounts of contemporary Cypriot history. A respect and affection for the Cypriot people is conveyed. Also included are the official dispatches of Taylor, the Consul General, to the State Department.