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'''Helen Szamuely''' (25 June 1950 – 5 April 2017) was a [[historian]] and [[Euroscepticism|Eurosceptic]] who was a researcher for the [[Bruges Group (United Kingdom)|Bruges Group]] and founder of the [[Anti-Federalist League]].<ref name=times-obit/><ref name=telegraph-obit/> After the [[Maastricht Treaty]] was signed in 1992, she organised monthly meetings at the [[Red Lion, Westminster|Red Lion]] near Parliament to discuss Europe.<ref name=ECBP>{{citation |page=88 |title=Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics |first=Anthony |last=Forster |publisher=Routledge |year=2003 |isbn=9781134445516}}</ref>
==Early life==
Szamuely was born in Moscow, daughter of Hungarian [[Tibor Szamuely (historian)|Tibor Szamuely]] and Russian Nina (née Orlova, 1923-1974), both academics.<ref name=times-obit>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helen-szamuely-qlskd9qwp |title=Helen Szamuely |newspaper=The Times |location=London |url-access=subscription |date=20 April 2017 |access-date=12 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="oxforddnb.com">{{Cite book|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-90000380363|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380363|chapter = Szamuely, Helen (1950–2017), historian, translator, and political activist|title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2021|last1 = Taylor|first1 = Rosamund}}</ref> The family moved to [[Ghana]] in 1963, where her father taught until they moved to Britain the next year, settling in West London. Szamuely was educated at a Willesden grammar school, then did her A-levels at [[St Paul's Girls' School]] before attending the [[University of Leeds]] in 1970 to read History and Russian, in which she took a First. She was a research student at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]], from 1975 to 1979, and in 1984 was awarded D.Phil. for her thesis "British Attitudes to Russia 1880-1918".<ref name=telegraph-obit>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/05/14/helen-szamuely-ardent-eurosceptic-obituary/ |title=Helen Szamuely, ardent Eurosceptic – obituary |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url-access=limited |date=14 May 2017 |access-date=12 April 2023}}</ref>
==Career==
A prolific writer and translator, Szamuely had articles published in literary and political journals, contributed to ''The Reader's Companion to Twentieth Century Writers'', and was an interviewer and scriptwriter for the [[BBC News Russian|BBC Russian Service]]. She was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies from 1997 to 2017. For many years Szamuely was a researcher and political brief writer in the [[House of Lords]], working with peers on EU issues regarding Russia and Turkey. She was a campaigner for release of political prisoners in the [[Soviet Union]], including the poet Nizametdin Akhmetov, whose work she translated.<ref name=telegraph-obit/><ref name=times-obit/><ref name="oxforddnb.com"/> In later years she worked several years for the [[Countryside Alliance]] on local food campaigns.<ref name=telegraph-obit/><ref name=times-obit/>
She was a founder member of the [[Anti-Federalist League]], the forerunner to the [[UK Independence Party]] (Ukip). She was expelled from Ukip in 1993, soon after it was founded, [[Nigel Farage]] later writing this was "a sore loss to the party". She was head of research for the [[Bruges Group (United Kingdom)|Bruges Group]] from 2002.<ref name=telegraph-obit/>
==Personal life==
Szamuely had a daughter of whose father "she never spoke".<ref name=telegraph-obit/> She never married. She died of multiple organ failure on 5 April 2017.<ref name=times-obit/>
== Publications ==
Her articles on history and politics have appeared in publications including [[History Today]],<ref>{{Cite web
Publications include:
* ''A "Coming Home" Or Poisoned Chalice?''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Szamuely, Helen.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40673569|title=A "coming home" or poisoned chalice?|date=1998|publisher=Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies|others=Jamieson, Bill, 1945-|isbn=0-948027-28-2|location=London|oclc=40673569}}</ref> - Helen Szamuely, Bill Jamieson
*''Alien Thoughts: Reflections on Identity''<ref>{{Cite web
*''A Delayed Homecoming: An Update on European Union Enlargement''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Szamuely, Helen.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59445319|title=A delayed homecoming : an update on European Union enlargement|date=2000|publisher=Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies|others=Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies.|isbn=0-948027-33-9|location=London|oclc=59445319}}</ref> - Helen Szamuely
*''Samizdat: Based on a Discussion at the CRCE''<ref>{{Cite book|last=O'Keeffe, Dennis.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57230558|title=Samizdat : based on a discussion at the CRCE|date=2004|publisher=Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies|others=Szamuely, Helen., Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies.|isbn=0-948027-43-6|location=London|oclc=57230558}}</ref> - Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Szamuely
*"What if Lenin's 'sealed' train had not reached Petrograd in 1917?" in ''Prime Minister Portillo and other things that never happened''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56645800|title=Prime Minister Portillo, and other things that never happened|date=2004|publisher=Politico's|others=Brack, Duncan; Dale, Iain|isbn=978-1-84275-111-4|location=London|oclc=56645800}}</ref> - edited by Duncan Brack and Iain Dale
*"What if Czechoslovakia had fought in 1938?" in ''President Gore and other things that never happened''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70882535|title=President Gore-- : --and other things that never happened|date=2006|publisher=Politico's|others=Brack, Duncan.|isbn=1-84275-172-7|location=London|oclc=70882535}}</ref> - edited by Duncan Brack
Translations include:
==References==▼
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* ''Moving the Mountain: Inside the Perestroika Revolution<ref>{{Cite book|last=Aganbegı͡an|first=Abel Gezevich.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001840292|title=Moving the mountain: inside the perestroika revolution|date=1989|publisher=Bantam Press|isbn=978-0-593-01818-7|location=London ; New York}}</ref>'' - [[Abel Aganbegyan]] translated by Helen Szamuely from Russian to English
* ''Choices and Decisions: A Life''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Haraszti-Taylor, Eva.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38339963|title=Choices and decisions : a life|date=1997|publisher=Haraszti-Taylor|isbn=0952371715|location=London|oclc=38339963}}</ref> - [[:de:Eva Haraszti-Taylor|Éva Haraszti-Taylor]] translated by Helen Szamuely from Hungarian to English
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