became somewhat disillusioned with the cause of Irish Unionism. He famously moved a motion in Westminster calling for a tunnel to be constructed between County Antrim and the Scottish coast. He spent 40 minutes outlining its advantages. Echoing Jules Verne, he pronounced: "The dreams of yesterday are the realities of today". In 1970, Hyde wrote the first social history of homosexuality in Great Britain and Ireland, The Other Love, perhaps his most memorable and long-lasting work. With its rich and detailed narratives, "fusing legal knowledge with illustrative anecdotage," it was the most extensive book to date on the subject. Antony Grey, secretary of the Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) provided case histories and cuttings from the society's files for its contemporary section. Academia He was an extension lecturer in history at the University of Oxford in 1934, and professor of history and political science at the University of Lahore from 1959 to 1962. He also wrote a number of biographies of legal and political figures and books on spying, notably Room 3603 (1963) about Sir William Stephenson and the wartime efforts of British Security Coordination. He also wrote a biography of the Allied wartime spy Betty Thorpe with the British Security Coordination code name "Cynthia". Hyde also wrote extensively about the Oscar Wilde trials and Wilde's immediate circle, the trial of Sir Roger Casement, and about T. E. Lawrence. His involvement in progressive and controversial issues did not cease after he left parliament. He continued his work opposing capital punishment while he published two articles in May 1965 in the Sunday People to advance the cause of homosexual law reform. The second entitled "The Million Women", appeared after the House of Commons had rejected Leo Abse's first Bill, showing "itself more reactionary than the Lords", as he stated. That article dealt with lesbians whose "association" was not regarded as an offence, and "Sappho the poetess who wrote passionate verses about the lovely maidens who gathered round her." Hyde was awarded an honorary degree by Queen's University Belfast in 1984. He lived at Westwell House, Tenterden, in Kent, in a house once inhabited by Horatio Nelson's daughter. Hyde was earlier a tenant of Lamb House in Rye, once home to his distant cousin, Henry James. He worked up until his death on 10 August 1989, just short of his eighty-second birthday. His third wife, Rosalind, survived him. Many of his papers