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Also includes a paper recommending a Jerusalem Institute of Higher Studies.

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He describes Palestine as ‘the Bible country’ and ‘the Land of Oranges’ (as he will remember it). The oranges were scattered on the ground and ‘there are so many that nobody bothers to pick them up’. He describes little boys at train stations who run alongside the train selling passengers oranges.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Bertrand Russell on the change in public opinion over the Absolutists, looking forward to AFB's release from prison, 1917 and expecting more arrests of conscientious objectors, including himself; [John] Bruce Glasier [Independent Labour Party] on his own imminent death, his gratitude for AFB's brave and faithful testimony for the core principles of Socialism and his hopes for a new world order, 1919; Chris Massie on his admiration for AFB, sales of his book "Red and...

Scope and Contents Texts and cuttings of letters from LSA to the press, with related correspondence, on subjects including: the Commonwealth Conference (1952) and the economic imbalance between the Commonwealth and the United States; the place of the Commonwealth in the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; production and exports to the United States; American tariffs; trade within the Empire; the need for a balanced economy; the stability of sterling; Commonwealth membership, particularly relating to the Gold...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover Storrs's early life as well as his civil service career in Egypt, Jerusalem, Cyprus and Nothern Rhodesia. There is extensive correspondence with leading political figures as well as reports and government papers. There is also an extensive series of diaries covering the period 1934-1955 which detail daily activities and significant events.A series of records were lost when Government House in Cyprus was destroyed in riots in 1931. The losses included copies of...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Samuel Wilson, Governor of Jamaica 1924-25, then Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, on subjects including Wilson's visit to Nigeria and the Gold Coast [later Ghana] in 1928, the new constitution and Jamaican elections in 1925, Wilson's difficulties with the Jamaica Imperial Association, Wilson's officials and efficiency measures; Sir Reginald Stubbs, Governor of Jamaica, 1926-32, on subjects including Stubbs's wish to move to Malaya [later...

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Includes: reports on Corbett's visits to Egypt and the Western Desert; papers on armoured tactics; intelligence reports; Corbett's proposals for reorganization of Armoured Divisions in the 10th Army; correspondence between Corbett and General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; analysis of operations at Cyrenaica [Libya]; Corbett's notes on tank operations in Egypt and Palestine; letters and papers on Corbett's departure from the Middle East.

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Includes: presentation by the Palestine National Liberation Movement to the United Nations Conference on Human Rights against the actions of Israel; papers from a seminar on the Middle East, held by the Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East; papers from the British Council of Churches on the Middle East; summary by Sir Anthony Buzzard [British Council of Churches] of a House of Commons debate on the Middle East (Apr 1970); proposal for supplying the Jordanian Army with transports.

Scope and Contents Includes: correspondence with Prince Hassan of Jordan and Zaid Al-Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan, with a paper by Prince Hassan on the situation in the Middle East; briefing for and notes of meeting with Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt; briefings for meetings with Walid Jumblatt [leader of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party], Amine Gemayel, President of Lebanon, Farouk Al-Shara, Syrian Foreign Minister, and Farouk Khadoumi of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO);...

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Papers and correspondence on Palestine and Israel, including comments on NK’s visit to the Middle East in February 1988, and briefings for and notes of meetings with: Yitzak Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel; Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister; Lionel Kopelowitz, of the Board of Deputies of British Jews; Yosef Beilin, Political Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry; Chaim Herzog, Prime Minister of Israel; Haim Bar-Lev, General Secretary of the Israeli Labour Party.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and other papers concerning the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU). Correspondents include: Sir Anthony Buzzard, Chairman of the British Council of Churches Advisory Committee on the Middle East, enclosing notes and copies of his letters to the press on the Middle East peace talks (3); John Reddaway, CAABU Director of Administration, on CAABU's committee structure; Lord Wells-Pestell on his memorandum on the treatment of Jews in Arab countries;...

Scope and Contents General correspondence on subjects including: Israeli practices in the Palestinian Occupied Territories; invitations and requests for help; statements on the Middle East by the British Council of Churches; the inclusion of parents' birth place in the 1971 Census, queried by Ruth Glass, Director of the Centre for Urban Studies, University College London; a disability allowance for the blind; Questions raised by AFB in the House of Lords [Hansards enclosed] on a note from the Soviet Union...

Scope and Contents Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: the report of the Palestine Commission; colonial claims; the Geographical magazine; British agriculture in relation to the Dominions; sugar duties and Imperial Preference; the Import Duties Bill (1932); maintaining naval strength; the worldwide economic depression; Kingsley Fairbridge and the Empire Farm Schools; failures of the League of Nations; Magna Carta and political freedom in the modern era; Dutch policy in the East Indies...

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Memoranda on the strategical problems, importance and potential for development of the Negeb desert [Palestine, later HaNegev, Israel], in relation to the partition of Palestine.

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Opinion by HL on whether the dissolution of the League of Nations and the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations affected the validity of Article 18 of the Mandate for Palestine.

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Copy of HL's Opinion on the interpretation of Article 18 of the Mandate for Palestine and on the question of the participation of Palestine in Imperial Preference. Includes accompanying correspondence, mainly with representatives of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, particularly Moshe Shertok [later Moshe Sharett], and a note of an interview between Shertok and Sir John Shuckburgh [Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office].

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Manuscript draft of HL's Opinion, written for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, on whether a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly of the United Nations was necessary for a recommendation on the future government of Palestine and whether the Assembly had legal competence to partition Palestine.

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Typescript of HL's Opinion, written for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, on whether a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly of the United Nations was necessary for a recommendation on the future government of Palestine and whether the Assembly had legal competence to partition Palestine. Includes a telegram from Abba Eban [Jewish Agency for Palestine, earlier Aubrey Eban] asking for the Opinion.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover every aspect of Philip Noel-Baker's very full and varied career and include constituency papers, Labour Party material, extensive sections on domestic and international affairs, peace and disarmament, sport, books and articles, speeches and correspondence.This collection has an 'Associated' section, consisting of material from one or more sources distinct from the main series, potentially including material about, but not created, accumulated or owned by, the...

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Certificate of gratitude in honour of the European Parliamentary Delegation to Gaza, January 2010, signed by Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of Palestine and introductory guide to the Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR) and information brochure for the CEPR delegation to the Occupied West Bank, October 2010.

Scope and Contents Papers and letters of Frank Stockdale, mainly relating to his work in the West Indies, in particular his appointment in 1905 as Mycologist and Lecturer in Agriculture at the Imperial Department of Agriculture in the West Indies, Barbados, and his transfer in 1908 to the post of assistant director to the Department of Science and Agriculture, and Government Botanist, in British Guiana [Guyana]. This includes correspondence with Sir Daniel Morris, Imperial Commissioner of the West Indies...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and printed papers on chronology, geography and the tides. The correspondents include W. Whewell, J.C. Adams, J.R. Hind, J.W. Bosanquet, W.H. Barlow, P.A. Hansen, J.F. Encke, W.H. Smyth, J.B. Biot, J. Washington, W.H. Miller, M. Corbeaux, J. Lee, R. Fitzroy, J.W. Blakesley, Lord Lindsay, J. Williams, J. Wood, P.S. Stanhope, G. Dawson, J.F. Burgoyne, W. Selwyn and D. Livingstone. There is a paper on the date of the death of Olaf the Fat (Saint Olave); a geometric projection of...

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Loose papers concerned with poetry and mathematical problems. The poetry is comprised principally of notes on the Eumenides and classical Greek poets. There is a review of the Oedipus of Sophocles, a reference to the rules of Aristotle, fluxions, a map of Palestine, a synopsis of writing technique and style, and equations involving parabolas.

Scope and Contents Papers on the declaration by Arthur Balfour, Foreign Secretary, on the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, including: proclamations of martial law in Jerusalem, by Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby; print of a Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies paper on the genesis of the declaration; War Cabinet copy of letters between 2nd Lord Rothschild and Balfour, on a formula which he could present to the Zionist Federation; alternative declaration by 1st Lord...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: During the Second World War, Earl was commissioned to prepare a series of pastel portraits of service men and women from what were then British dominions and colonies (described as 'Empire servicemen'), including Trinida, Newfoundland, Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] and Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka]. The portraits were exhibited at the Royal Empire (late Commonwealth) Society in December 1945 as 'Warriors of the Empire'. The collection also includes a series of portraits of North American...