Scope and Contents Includes MT's correspondence with Air Vice Marshal Sir Edward Chilton, Brian Crozier, and George Younger MP Also includes a briefing note for MT on "BAOR offset arrangements", by Peter Joynes (Conservative Research Department), January 1977; and other CRD briefings on: the Government's statement on the defence estimates for 1976, March 1976; the Parliamentary defence debate on 12 January 1977, January 1977; the Government's statement on the defence estimates for 1977, March...

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Diaries covering Colville's time as Assistant Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, and Clement Attlee.

Scope and Contents Annotated papers, including: Conservative and Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on disarmament; copy of the Government's declaration on disarmament policy (1932); draft disarmament convention (1933); Government memorandum for the 1934 Disarmament Conference; exchange of notes between Britain and Germany on the limitation of naval armaments; copy of a treaty between Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, the United States and France on the limitation of naval armaments...

Scope and Contents Notes for WSC's broadcast (BBC) on subjects including: the night bombing of London; the Battle of Britain and the successes of British fighter squadrons; the possibility of invasion and German deployment of barges, ships and troops in readiness; a call for every man and woman to do his duty; and the strength of British fleets and flotillas, air power, fortification and the million and a half men of the Home Guard. Includes the phrase "This wicked man [Adolf Hitler]...this monstrous product...

Scope and Contents Draft speaking notes for WSC's broadcast (BBC) on subjects including: the night bombing of London; the Battle of Britain and the successes of British fighter squadrons; the possibility of invasion and German deployment of barges, ships and troops in readiness; a call for every man and woman to do his duty; and the strength of British fleets and flotillas, air power, fortification and the million and a half men of the Home Guard. Includes the phrase "This wicked man [Adolf Hitler]...this...

Scope and Contents Notebook kept by LSA while on the staff of General Sir Henry Rawlinson [commander, 4th Corps]. Contains conversations and messages between Rawlinson and officers including Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War], Colonel William Fairholme and Marshal Joseph Joffre [Chief of French General Staff] on the German advance towards Antwerp [Belgium] and the need for more troops to relieve the city, getting troops out from Ghent, sending the Belgian forces out of the front...

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Journal kept by LSA during the defence of Antwerp [Belgium] and the subsequent Allied retreat, including LSA's later written account of events.

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Journal kept by LSA during and after the first battle of Ypres [Belgium], including extracts from accounts by other soldiers.

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Notes kept by LSA during and after the first battle of Ypres [Belgium], including: messages to and from the 7th Division; written narrative of events by Major-General Thompson Capper [7th Division]; war diary of the 7th Division; operation orders of the division; brigade reports and staff diaries, particularly of the 22nd Brigade [of the 7th Division]; notes of a talk with Major-General Sydney Lawford [22nd Brigade].

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Notes kept by LSA during and after the first battle of Ypres [Belgium], including: accounts of the battle by other soldiers; orders and messages of the 20th Brigade [of 7th Division]; accounts of actions by individual soldiers.

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Loose notes kept by LSA, including: note on LSA's wartime employment; notes on operations of the 4th Corps; guidance notes on trench warfare.

Scope and Contents Notes and reports by LSA and others on subjects including: positioning of trenches; French troop movements; general orders to German infantry; LSA being attached to the 1st Birmingham Battalion; instructions for General Staff, 4th Army Corps; Allied forces lined up against the German 4th and 6th Armies and projected Allied advances in the Ypres area [Belgium]; operations of the 4th Army Corps (December); German reinforcements on the Western and Eastern fronts and the advantages of an...

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Annotated reports by LSA and others on operations including: the defence of and withdrawal from Antwerp [Belgium], with a report by Major-General Julian Byng, Commanding 3rd Cavalry Division on an action fought by his troops, and figures of German strengths and positions; operations of the 4th Army Corps (November-January).

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Reports by LSA and others including Captain John Stansfeld, Gordon Highlanders, and Captain Charles Foss, 2nd Bedford Regiment, on the first battle of Ypres [Belgium].

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Notes by LSA, including: notes of Cabinet discussions on subjects including the Eastern and Western fronts and home defence; notes on peace proposals; notes on the situation in the Balkans.

Also includes: correspondence with Leonard Stein [Vice-President, Jewish Historical Society of England] on meetings leading up to the Balfour Declaration on Palestine in 1917.

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Printed. Detailed information about the French army including French history, France, army conditions and recruitment, organisation, administration, military education, uniform, and the French navy.

Scope and Contents Correspondence (mainly consisting of letters written by LSA while Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet) between LSA and correspondents including: Professor William Adams [Secretary to the Prime Minister], on LSA's memoranda about Ireland (2); Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction], on LSA's idea for extending postal rates to Empire trade; Waldorf Astor [Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister], on LSA's ideas on proportional representation; Lieutenant-Colonel John...

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Letters from LSA to his mother Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner] on subjects including: her travels in Europe; his visit to South Africa for the Times; army reform, particularly on keeping troops in South Africa, including LSA's dealings with Winston Churchill, Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton, General 1st Lord Kitchener [Commander-in-Chief], Arthur Balfour [Prime Minister] and Joseph Chamberlain [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; tariff reform meetings.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on War Office and army reform following LSA's series of articles for the Times, "The Problem of the Army". Correspondents include: Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Armstrong on subjects including the war between Japan and Russia, and the unpreparedness of the army (2); Hugh Arnold-Forster [Secretary of State for War] on LSA's suggestions (5); Mary Arnold-Forster (5); Major-General Robert Baden-Powell [Inspector-General of Cavalry] on improving cavalry horses and equipment...

Scope and Contents Proofs and newspaper cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "I was conscious through it all" and "My New York [United States] misadventure" on WSC's accident in which he was hit by a motor car; "The Academy reveals Britain's brave gaiety" on the Royal Academy exhibition (including a draft of the article by Edward Marsh); "My happy days in the Bahamas "; "Words on the Irish Treaty" on the announcement by [Eamon] De Valera of the abolition of the Oath of Allegiance; "Lord Oxford [and...

Scope and Contents Includes proofs and cuttings from Collier's for: "Let the Tyrant Criminals Bomb" (British title "The Balance of Air Power") on German and British air strength in the 1930s, the threat of air attacks on ships, and the use of bombing against civilians; "War - Now or Never" (British title "Will There Be War [in Europe - and When?]") on the nature of the Nazi and Italian regimes, their financial needs, the growth of the German army and munitions programme, and the state of the RAF (with some...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: ?Robert Chapman; Michael Wilford and Frederick Leishman [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary]; Francis Fisher on confusion between Monte Camino and Monte Cassino [Italy]; Oswald Frewen on the role of "gooseberries" in artificial harbours; Ross Geddes on supplying petrol from Britain to France; Charles Wood [WSC's proof reader] on Admiral Sir Max Horton's role; Randolph Churchill (2) and 2nd Lord Jellicoe on the SAS' (Special Air Service) role; French...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [George Gordon] Allen (6); William Deakin (5); Prime Minister Clement Attlee on House of Commons' questions on German invasion plans in 1940; Eva, Lady Keyes, on 1st Lord Keyes and King Leopold of Belgium (2); Arthur Birse [one of WSC's wartime interpreters] on WSC's talks with Marshal Stalin in 1942; Alfred Bossom; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the Cabinet until 1946] (4); Sir Philip Morris [later 1st Lord Morris of Kenwood]; Sir George Bull; Ronald Fraser,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: R V Jones on bombing science (4); Lieutenant-General Wladyslaw Anders [former Commander, Polish forces in Iran and Palestine] on the Katyn [Soviet Union] massacre; Denis Kelly [WSC's literary assistant] (7); William Deakin (10); Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine]; Frank Rye on the Westminster by-election [1924]; "Bill", 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Telegraph]; 1st Lord Portal [of Hungerford, earlier Sir Charles...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Ian Fraser, Chairman of St Dunstan's; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; Sir Thomas Moore (2); Lord Mountbatten of Burma (3) including (2) on Canada and the Dieppe raid [France]; 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Telegraph]; Cecil Aspinall-Oglander on 1st Lord Keyes and King Leopold of Belgium; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (3); William Deakin (2); Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Staff [to...