This section of the archive includes some source material, notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs of JA's autobiography. It was written in the 1960s (though not published until 1973), after JA lost first his ministerial office and then his Parliamentary seat after the General Elections of 1964 and 1966. Asked by the publishers Hutchinson Limited to write his political memoirs, JA preferred instead to write about his earlier career (being unable to write about sensitive recent events, and not wishing to damage his chances for future office by offending his former political colleagues). "Approach March", therefore, covers the period from his childhood to the end of the war, ending with his election as MP for Preston [Lancashire]. A sequel was planned, and some notes and an early draft on the later 1940s and 1950s were made, but this second book was never completed.