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 (1962) about Sir William Stephenson and the wartime efforts of British Security Coordination. He also wrote a biography of the British spy Amy Elizabeth Thorpe Pack Brousse with the British Security Coordination code name "Cynthia". Hyde also wrote extensively on the Oscar Wilde trials and Wilde's immediate circle, on the trial of Sir Roger Casement, and on 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 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 to his death on 10 August 1989, just short of his eighty-second birthday. His third wife Robbie survived him. Many of his papers are in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). Others were sold to the University of Texas at Austin.
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