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Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, 1888-1960 (Knight, historian)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1888 - 1960

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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Correspondence with Lewis Namier, The majority of folios date from June-Oct 1919.

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/90
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Namier, Political Intelligence Department, on subjects including: Ignace Paderewski, Premier of Poland; the chances of the Poles keeping to the peace terms; the commission to investigate pogroms against Polish and Russian Jews; the Minority Treaty; East Galicia; Polish aggression against Lithuania.

Dates: The majority of folios date from June-Oct 1919.
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Lewis Namier, Political Intelligence Department, 1919-01 - 1919-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/3/8
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: relations with the Poles; the Ukraine; Hungary; the Jews in Poland.

Dates: 1919-01 - 1919-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Namier, 1918-04 - 1919-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/61
Scope and Contents Minutes on articles written by Lewis Namier for New Europe magazine, criticising the National Democratic Party in Poland, while he was also working for the Political Intelligence Department, and retaliatory articles about Namier in The New Witness. Correspondents include Sir Eric Drummond [Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, later 16th Lord Perth], Sir William Tyrrell [Director of the Political Intelligence Department] and 1st Lord Hardinge of Penshurst [Permanent Under-Secretary of...
Dates: 1918-04 - 1919-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

Namier, 1957-1963

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Butterfield 76
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers described in this catalogue date chiefly from the end of the Second World War to the 1970s; from the beginning of this period Butterfield was assisted in his University and college duties by a secretary. The collection documents almost all aspects of his academic life and writings, and provides a record of the wider development of historical studies over the course of his career.

Dates: 1957-1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Peace Conference: Mr Namier, correspondence and memoranda, 1919-01 - 1919-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/70
Scope and Contents Correspondence with Lewis Namier, Political Intelligence Department, and also memoranda by Namier, on subjects including: the future of East Galicia [later parts of Ukraine and Poland]; Polish aggression against Lithuania and White Russia; Polish forgeries on Upper Silesia [later Poland and Czech Republic]; Polish pressure against Jewish language and culture; the Minority Treaty concerning Poland; the expulsion of Jews from Poland; Poland's eastern frontier; the attitude of the Jewish press...
Dates: 1919-01 - 1919-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

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Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 1
 
Subject
Poland (nation) 4
Jews 3
Lithuania 1