Talk:Margaret Lambert

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 23:24, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Margaret Lambert was the British historian responsible for examining the Marburg Files and deciding when they should be published?

• Source: "she would not welcome an attempt by one of the three Governments to limit the discretion which they had previously accorded to the historians to decide on objective historical grounds which documents should be published. But she had herself made the suggestion that the publication of this correspondence might be delayed" "she dealt directly with Churchill over the delay in publication of the "Windsor file""

• • ALT1: ... that historian Margaret Lambert and her partner Enid Marx wanted to preserve English folk art and left their collection to Compton Verney Art Gallery? Source: "She and her long-term partner, the historian Margaret Lambert, were concerned to preserve English material heritage. They published books on popular English folk arts and left their own collection to the public at Compton Verney, Warwickshire."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Saraswati enthroned

Converted from a redirect by Zeromonk (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

Zeromonk (talk) 16:30, 25 February 2025 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, referenced and well-written. QPQ done. However ALT0 is IMO not in the article as it stands. The brief statement "discussed with Churchill access to the Marburg Files" is rather generic and can mean a lot of things (especially to readers who won't know why access was important here), the proposed hook is far more specific. Constantine ✍ 18:32, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the review @Cplakidas: you're absolutely right about how it was written in the article! I've rewritten to clarify.
    • Good to go now! Constantine ✍ 20:40, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
• Zeromonk I want to promote the first hook, but a citation is needed directly after the hook fact in the article. SL93 (talk) 18:10, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
  • SL93 I've added the citations in directly after the hook fact as well as being after the related facts of the next sentence - thanks! Zeromonk (talk) 14:21, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Questionable interpretation: "Foreign Ministry's Historical Advisory Committee"

The statement:

Lambert was also a member of the Foreign Ministry's Historical Advisory Committee, discussing the return of documents to West Germany from 1956.

seems clearly derived from the source's:

She was a member of the Historical Advisory Committee on the return of the Foreign Ministry documents to West Germany, which finally began in 1956.

The "Foreign Ministry" in the source is, I would assert, the German Foreign Ministry, and it's unlikely that it was the sponsor of the Historical Advisory Committee, which was presumably an undertaking of the British Foreign Office or an ad-hoc British or Allied committee. I think the source's meaning has not been correctly conveyed in the article. PaulBetteridge (talk) 22:22, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

@PaulBetteridge: thanks for flagging this, I think you are right that I jumbled the source information! I have changed the sentence - please take a look and edit if you think it needs further adjusting - I've left the dubious flag for you to remove when you think this is resolved. Zeromonk (talk) 13:38, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

@Zeromonk: I'm happy with your change. Thank you. --PaulBetteridge (talk) 08:58, 9 April 2025 (UTC)