Background
Sendall grew up in the town of Worcester where he attended the Royal Grammar School.
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Bernard Sendall
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He studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree at the age of 20. After leaving Oxford, he studied as a postgraduate at Harvard University.
Career
However, he is probably best known as the author of the first two books in the six-volume Independent in Britain series, widely regarded as the definitive history of the first 37 years of the Independent Television service. Sendall joined the British in 1935 and from 1941 to 1945 was Private Secretary to Brendan Bracken, the Minister of Information during the Second World War. After the war, the defunct Ministry of Information was re-established as the Central Office of Information.
Sendall helped with the transition and became the Central Office"s first Controller between 1946 and 1949.
He then went on to act as Controller of the Festival of Britain until 1951 a job for which he was honoured with the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1952.
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