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Subjects include: the naval building programme; training for engineers and officers; HMSS Dreadnought and Invincible; battleship speed, armaments and design.

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Subjects include: naval estimates; training of cadets, midshipmen and junior officers.

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Subjects include: French naval estimates for 1904; Admiralty and War Office administration; the New Scheme of naval training, particularly relating to nucleus crews; invasion and submarines.

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Subjects include: Fleet auxiliaries; State education in the Navy.

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Subjects include: the new system of entry, training and employment of Royal Marine officers; entry and training of naval officers; the transfer of Gibraltar from the War Office to the Admiralty; the defence of colonial and Indian ports.

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Subjects include: criticism of naval reform; education of Royal Marine officers and engineers; British manoeuvres in German commercial waters; the navigation school at Portsmouth [Hampshire]; recruitment of engineers; future shipbuilding arrangements; the dangerous division of responsibility between the War Office and Admiralty over ordnance of the Fleet.

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Subjects include: a proposed increase in the numbers of ships used in non-fighting services; the position of engineer and Royal Marine officers under the new scheme of training; general war plans.

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Subjects include: the New Scheme of training for engineer and Royal Marine officers; the revived naval scare; comparison of the Channel Fleet with that of 1906 and with the German High Sea Fleet.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on cadet mountaineering courses supported by the Army League, between LSA (as Chairman of the Army League) and correspondents including: Major-General 2nd Lord Bridgeman, Chairman of the Army Cadet Force Association (6); George Dummett, British Mountaineering Council (5); W F L Newcombe, Secretary of the Army Cadet Force Association (4); Emanuel Shinwell, Secretary of State for War; Thomas Brocklebank (3); Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish Centre of Outdoor Training,...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence, mainly between LSA (as Chairman) and other representatives of the Army League, including Edward Beddington-Behrens (4) and 1st Lord Iliffe, President, with other correspondents including: General Sir Montagu Stopford, Chairman of the Army Cadet Force Association (2); Major-General John Latter, Chairman of the Combined Cadet Force Association, on mountaineering courses (2); Major-General 2nd Lord Bridgeman, Deputy President of the Army Cadet Force Association, on...

Scope and Contents Personal, academic and military correspondence, with correspondents including: Norman Baynes; A E Housman [Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge]; Andrew Burn; Captain Ronald Buck, on subjects including his experiences in the Norwegian Campaign, and publishing JEP's Dancers End in the United States (3); Brigadier Frank Brayne (8); Harry Champion, Professor of Forestry, University of Oxford; R H Hide, Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Forestry (3); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [Government...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: A. Acland Hood, on plans for the General Election campaign; General Sir Robert Adam on Croft's proposed paper on army cadets; 1st Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff, on subjects including Croft's proposal on army cadets and the shortage of aircraft and divisions for a proposed airborne invasion; 17th Duke of Alba, Spanish Ambassador to Britain, on subjects including the Spanish Government's refusal to give up any territory or allow foreign-controlled...

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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 Documents and correspondence on subjects including: JEP's release from active service; results from JEP's examinations in Urdu; the transfer of Captain [Henry] James Wickenden from New Delhi [India] to the Fourteenth Army Headquarters; JEP's promotions to Captain, Major and Lieutenant-Colonel; JEP's transfer to India from the Middle East, including notes from Colonel William Abraham, General Headquarters, Middle East Forces, on JEP's attempts to transfer to the Far East (2) and a report on...

Scope and Contents Letters from JEP to his parents, mostly from India. Subjects include: JEP's affection for A W J Thomas; hunting and learning to ride; broadcasts; Wolverhampton [Staffordshire] affairs; speaking engagements, including trying to make his maiden speech in Parliament; JEP's return to Cambridge; the writing and publication of JEP's poems in Dancer's End; the illness of Ellen Powell; JEP's return from India; taking an examination in Urdu; [Henry] James Wickenden; JEP's report on the post-war...

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Subjects include: the need for a general staff for the navy; the strategical distribution of the fleets; cable communication; the protection of commerce; naval education; battle and cruising formations; the submarine and the Whitehead torpedo.

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Subjects include: the possibility of action against Germany; naval education; the future of Marine officers; the comparative strength of Britain and Germany.

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Subjects include: recent naval developments, including training, the formation of the Home Fleet, the establishment of the Naval War College at Portsmouth [Hampshire] and a navigational school, and the division of responsibility at the Admiralty; shipbuilding policy and the fleet's fighting efficiency; measures to be taken in the event of war with Germany.

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Subjects include: estimates for additional dreadnoughts and extra men; the status and training of officers and the revision of the War College curriculum.

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Subjects include: the Super-Active class; naval education, and the likelihood of widening the basis from which the officer class is drawn; the supplementation of the naval estimates to meet new German developments; plans for the reform of the Committee of Imperial Defence; sources and supply of oil fuel.

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Subjects include: lessons from the tactical games worked out at the Royal Naval College; the use of HMS Leander as a depot ship for the Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean; criticism of new training schemes; Fisher's appointment as 1st Sea Lord; Portsmouth dockyard [Hampshire]; the simplification of signalling systems.

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Subjects include: the shipbuilding programme, 1908-09, and the increase in naval estimates to match German shipbuilding plans; fleet exercises for a state of war between Britain and Germany; the continuation of the Selborne scheme for naval training.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the bad relations between Admiral Lord Charles Beresford [Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet] and the Admiralty and Fisher's view that Beresford should be removed from his command; fleet exercises in the North Sea; the performance of sea-going submarine flotillas during recent exercises in the North Sea; results from the new training scheme for officers; the new arrangement of fleets at home; qualifications and training for Admiralty staff officers; the scope of naval war...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: John Selwyn-Lloyd, Speaker of the House of Commons (2); John Peyton; Douglas Kennedy (13); J Lunt (6); Edward Short, Lord President of the Council [later Lord Glenamara] on subjects including the Select Committee on Procedure (5); [Charles] Patrick Wall; Herbert Pickering, Agent-General for Alberta, Canada; Ian Gow (4); Barbara Stonehouse 4); Andrew Freeth on his latest portrait of JEP; Lord Pannell on his view of [James] Harold Wilson [Prime Minister]; 7th Lord...

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Includes examination certificates for the rank of Lieutenant, and Dartmouth's "The List", Jan 1919.