A leading historian forced to hide from Red Army agents as he fled the Hungarian Revolution in the 1950s has criticised the climate of “illiberal thought and intimidation” at his alma mater Edinburgh University.
Gabor Gabriel Ronay, who graduated in 1960 and went on to write several books on medieval history, has told how the university allowed him to restart his life in Britain after being chased out of Hungary with the “Red Army’s GRU [military intelligence agency] hot on my tail, following our fight for national freedom, free elections and multi-party democracy in the 1956 Revolution”.
However, in a letter to The Times, the historian accuses the university principal Professor Peter Mathieson of allowing an “illiberal culture to take root, lecturers to be
