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Original political cartoon of McKenna in a "Trick-Hat", by Edward Reed, Parliamentary Caricaturist to Punch.

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Original political cartoon of McKenna as a boxer, "graceful but effective", by Francis Carruthers-Gould for the Westminster Gazette.

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Original political cartoon of "P C McKenna on Duty at the Home Office", by Francis Carruthers-Gould for the Westminster Gazette.

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One original drawing for a press cartoon of JA [as Minister of Aviation] by Stephen Roth, for the London Evening News, 1960s, and one original drawing for a press cartoon by Emilio Coia on JA [as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Financial Secretary at the War Office] and the future of Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow [Scotland], c 1958.

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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

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The collection comprises a wide variety of material from a number of different sources which have been deemed too small to be considered individual collections in their own right and have been grouped together under the heading "miscellaneous". Subjects covered include First and Second World Wars, the Falklands Campaign, and recollections of Sir Winston Churchill.

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Presentation copies of political cartoons, mainly by "Tom Merry" [William Mecham] for the St Stephen's Review, but with some unsigned earlier cartoons, some relating to Lord Randolph Churchill.

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Includes: photograph of the rowing eight for Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, 1883, including McKenna; originals and prints of political cartoons of McKenna by Francis Carruthers-Gould for the Westminster Gazette, 1907-1915; commemorative picture album from the launching of the battleship HMS Vanguard by Pamela McKenna, 1909; cartoon of "Midland Bank Sports".

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The 'Churchill Additional' collection is distinct from Sir Winston Churchill's own papers because the 'Churchill Additional' material has a different provenance (it was not maintained with Sir Winston's own archive) and cannot be considered as having been generated by the same processes as Sir Winston's papers. Much of the collection was not generated, accumulated or received by Churchill, but came from various different sources. It includes a diverse range of material: correspondence, with...

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Print of a Lord Randolph Churchill political cartoon from Punch.

Scope and Contents The collection includes material relating to Hynd's spell as Minister for Germany and Austria from 1945 to 1947 and his consequent life-long interest in Germany and in promoting good relations between Germany and Great Britain. There are several files of papers in the collection illustrating this aspect of his career as well as his involvement in other aspects of foreign relations. Having started his career as a railway clerk in his home town of Perth, Hynd kept some of his early...