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"My Political Life", volume IV, 1923 - 1975-08

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/5

Scope and Contents

Leo Amery had written and published the first three volumes of his autobiography, "My Political Life", in the 1950s, covering the period up to 1940, and in 1955 produced ten draft chapters of a fourth volume. However, his death in 1955 meant that this final volume was never completed. JA intended to finish his father's work himself, following the completion of his own memoirs ["Approach March"] but other work intervened. At about the same time, David Nicholson was working on the edited version of Leo Amery's diaries, and it was decided that he should finish the volume, but unfortunately this plan doesn't appear to have ever got beyond the draft stage. The papers include original source material, particularly some of Amery's wartime correspondence and speeches, drafts (almost all Nicholson's, rather than Leo Amery's) and Nicholson's rough notes.

Dates

  • Creation: 1923 - 1975-08

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.

Extent

12 archive box(es)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

These files were originally described as part of "The Diaries of Leo Amery" (AMEJ 8/4), but on investigation proved to be David Nicholson's continuation of Leo Amery's memoirs instead.

Related Materials

See Leo Amery's papers, GBR 0014/AMEL 8, for his own work on "My Political Life", including volume IV.

Finding aid date

2006-01-17 13:10:33+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

Contact:
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 336087