Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley, 1881 - 1959 (1st Earl of Halifax, statesman)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1881 - 1959
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
File
1st Lord Halifax, 1942 - 1945
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RBTS 4/2
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with and speech notes for Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] at the British Embassy, Washington.
Dates:
1942 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Copies of the Papers of the 1st Earl of Halifax (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood)
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HLFX
Scope and Contents
Microfilm of part of the "Hickleton papers", now in Borthwick Institute, York; papers and printed notes including meetings with Gandhi, Feb-Mar 1931, and time in Washington.
Dates:
1922 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Diary, 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/9
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships within the Foreign Office and diplomatic service, including with Samuel Hore-Belisha and The Viscount Halifax; the work load at the Foreign Office and Cadogan's increasing strain; the crisis with the ice-free harbour at Narvik in Norway in April 1940; the intrigue surrounding a new prime minister and the invasion of Holland and Belgium in May 1940 as well as the general progress of war and the consequences of the fall of France in the summer of...
Dates:
1940
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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- Archival Object 2
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Foreign policy 1
- France 1
- Germany 1
- Norway 1
- Second World War (1939-1945) 1