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The Autobiography of Captain Hank Rotherham
This autobiography is typed with some handwritten annotations. Rotherham deals with his early years in the opening pages and briefly summarises his life after leaving the navy in the last pages. The core of his autobiography is about his life in the British Royal Navy.
The Bickersteth War Diaries and the Papers of John Burgon Bickersteth
The 17 volumes cover both World Wars and comprise letters home from the front, accounts of particular events by individual family members, photographs and postcards as well as newspaper clippings and telegrams. They provide a unique perspective on the war years both from those who fought abroad and those who remained at home in Canterbury.
The papers of John Bickersteth are photocopies of correspondence and reports to Maurice Hankey on Canadian affairs (1932 - 1940).
The Broadwater Collection
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 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 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 Journal of Major H. A. Fowle
The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-18.
Annotated typescript.
The Memoirs of Admiral Sir Manley Power
Annotated typescript covering Power's career, particularly on his work with Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Admiral Sir John Cunningham [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, from 1943] on the invasion of Sicily and Italy, his work with Admiral Sir Philip Vian and with Admiral 1st Lord Mountbatten. Includes further notes on Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham.
The Memoirs of Oliver Woodward
"My Story of the Great War 1916-18" is an early collection of memoirs about Woodward's experiences in the Australian army during the First World War.
The Memoirs of Sir Walter Crocker, 1902-1975
An unpublished volume of Crocker's memoirs covering his life up to retirement.
The Memoirs of Stanley J Sime
Naval memoirs, 1928-46
The Memoirs of the Reverend Evelyn Chavasse
The Memoirs of Vice-Admiral Sir William Robson
"My naval life", with photocopies of photographs of Robson's family and the ships he served on
The Naval Radar Trust Associated Papers
These are papers and photographs which were created and collected by those associated with the Naval Radar Trust.
The Noble Family Papers
"The Onslows and the Royal Navy"
The Other Club
Club register, volume II, 1945-2003. Please note that volume I has not been deposited at Churchill Archives Centre. Also includes a file of loose papers, including the club rules and membership list, 2007, a menu, and a note on a special dinner for Winston Churchill in 1946.
The Papers of 1st Baron Mancroft
Newspaper cuttings books, copy speeches etc
The Papers of 1st Lord Fisher of Kilverstone
The Papers of 1st Lord Gladwyn
The Papers of 1st Viscount Margesson of Rugby
Lord Margesson appears to have preserved very few personal papers. As John Hill put it "I found it extremely difficult to come across any record by or about him since almost all his whole political activity as Chief Whip was done on a verbal basis for fairly obvious reasons and no records were kept." (letter to Correlli Barnett, 28 February 1984). The small collection of Margesson's papers comprises correspondence and biographical material.