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'The concept of British Empire Games': PhD thesis
A Ph.D. thesis for the University of Queensland analysing the origin and evolution of British Empire Games from 1891 to 1930, 273 pages.
The Conference Diaries of Flight Sergeant G. Green
This collection consists of notebooks containing diaries of the Atlantic Meeting, Washington, Quebec, Cairo and Yalta conferences. Green tends to record events from his own day but when relevant these include encounters with Churchill and other key figures.
The de Lucy family and Malaya
'The Death of Alexander the Great'.
An anonymous poem in blank verse, with a short preface in prose. There are 24 folios, loose in a paper cover.
'The development of African road transport in Western Nigeria, 1919-1939': MA thesis
An M.A. thesis submitted to the Department of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 119 pages.
The Diaries of 1st Lord Caldecote
These extracts from the Caldecote diaries relate only to the Munich crisis in 1938, the outbreak of the Second World War and its first few months. Certain omissions have been made in this copy and these are usually indicated by a line of dots.
The Diaries of Fedor Minorsky (alias Theodor Harris)
These files mostly consist of drafts, in French and in English, of Minorsky's account of his escape in 1942.
The Dilke-Crawford-Roskill Papers
'The dispossessed': PhD thesis
'A study of changes in African marriage and family systems under the impact of urbanization (with special reference to Eastern Native Township - and to conditions in and around the city of Johannesburg)', a Ph.D. thesis based on a study made in 1950-1953, and including photographs and maps.
The Dracone Project
Photographs, press cuttings and promotional material on the work of Dracone Developments Limited, with an album on the National Research Development Corporation's Mechanical Engineering Group.
"The Early Days of Radar in Great Britain"
A typescript personal account by Wilkins of the origins of radar, the work of Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the Tizard Committee, and the setting up of a coastal chain of radar stations which were important during the Second World War Battle of Britain. Wilkins was asked to write his account by John Ashworth Ratcliffe as a counter to the official account by Watson-Watt "Three steps to victory; a personal account by radar's greatest pioneer" (Odhams, London, c 1957).
The eruption of Mont Pelée, Martinique, 1902
The Expression of the Emotions
'The face in the mirror': autobiography of John Morley
The autobiography of John Morley, written during the 1970s, 122 pages.
The First Edition Club: correspondence and papers
Includes correspondence with the club's founder, A.J.A. Symons, mainly about books to be included in exhibitions and bibliographic information.
The Garland Continued (verses)
A collection of poems addressed 'To Louisa Jane Justamond. The following trifles in verse: the production of a period commencing from the age of 14 and continued to the age of 29'. There are seventy-two numbered pages and a number of blank pages.
The Gentleman's Magazine: letter to the editors concerning a review of the poem 'Stonehenge' (Norwich, 1792)
The Ghost of Memory: sketches, drafts and proof of the novel by Wilson Harris
The Ghost of Memory was first published in London by Faber and Faber Limited in 2006, ISBN 9780571232406. This collection consists of Harris's rough sketches and preliminary drafts in manuscript, together with annotated typed and word-processed drafts and a corrected proof.
'The golden stool': a novel
A novel giving a version of the Ashanti Campaign of 1900, 512 pages. The work was left unfinished at the author's death, but was completed by his widow, Mrs Helen Victoria Montagu Hall. There are inserted illustrations, including some from 'The great drama of Kumasi', and photographs supplied by the Basel Mission, including one of Hall.
'The great farm of the English customs': University of London MA thesis
'The last period of the great farm of the English customs, 1660-71', a University of London M.A. thesis, 1935, 216 pages.
The Himalayas 1932
Framed panoramic photograph made up of two prints joined, 380 x 105 mm. The photograph shows a view of the Himalayas taken at sunrise on a trek from Darjeeling to Kanchenjunga in 1932 by J.P.Perry. The frame measures 453 x 188 mm.
'The history of Newfoundland, 1713-63': MA thesis
A M.A. thesis for the University of London, 306 pages, with maps.
The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, held on the 1st January, 1877
'The history of the tobacco trade in England': thesis
A thesis for Cambridge University, 303 pages.
The Holy Land [i.e. Palestine], Egypt, Constantinople [i.e. Istanbul], Athens, etc. etc. 1865
Printed volume with text by W.M. Thomson illustrated with photographs taken by Francis Bedford. The photographs were taken whilst Bedford accompanied the Prince of Wales on his tour of the Middle East in 1862 and were published as an inexpensive alternative to Bedford (1863). The accompanying text in this volume is described as 'designedly of a popular character'.