France
Found in 950 Collections and/or Records:
"Les jeunes nationalistes d’Extrême-Orient", 1946-04-09 - 1946-04-10
Tribune de Paris interview with Leo Amery, JA, Alexandre Varenne, former French Governor of Indochina and André Labouquère, on subjects including self-government for India and on Indochina [later Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam].
Letters and memoranda, 1898-01 - 1919-12
Letters from Archer Geoffrey Lyttelton to Margaret Lucy Becher and photograph of Lyttelton, 1914 - 1916
Lyttelton writes of experiences during the war, of his experience at Ypres in 1914 as Lieutenant Colonel - he writes on a typewriter, missing the P. Includes a letter regarding Archer being fit for service again.
Letters from GJ to his mother, Rose Jebb, 1940-06 - 1960-08
Letters from John Julius to his parents, from Strasbourg, 1947-01 - 1947-06
Letters sent while John Julius was studying languages at the Université de Strasbourg, France.
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1944-01 - 1944-12
Letters from Algiers and Paris [France] on subjects including: life in Algeria; Winston Churchill’s visit to Marrakesh [Morocco], Jan 1944 and Clementine Churchill’s view that he would die after the war; a visit by Mary, Lady Spears [earlier Mary Borden], Feb 1944; a visit from Martha Hemingway [Martha Gellhorn], Mar 1944; Charles de Gaulle ("Charlie Wormwood"); Randolph Churchill’s plane crashing, July 1944 and stay, Aug 1944; going to Italy, Aug 1944; life in Paris.
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1946-01 - 1946-12
Letters from France, chiefly the British Embassy in Paris [France], mainly on entertaining, with other subjects including: the Conference of Foreign Ministers (including Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]); the declining health of "Loulou" [Louise de Vilmorin]; visits from Winston Churchill in Paris and Geneva [Switzerland], July and Aug 1946; Mary Churchill’s engagement to [Arthur] Christopher Soames; the death of Lady Diana’s sister Marjorie, Lady Anglesey.
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1947-01 - 1947-03
Letters from France, chiefly the British Embassy in Paris [France], mainly on entertaining, including visits by Rosamond Lehmann and Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, with other subjects including the wedding of Mary Churchill to [Arthur] Christopher Soames, and the signing of the Treaty of Dunkirk.
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell: transcripts, 1945-08 - 1945-12
Letters from France, chiefly the British Embassy in Paris [France], mainly on entertaining, but also on Winston Churchill’s visit to Paris, Nov 1944, and the death of [?] Maurice Baring. Includes some originals.
Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1944-01-04 - 1945-06-25
Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1946-08 - 1947-12
Letters from Duff Cooper's and Lady Diana's last year at the British Embassy in Paris [France], on subjects including: life at the embassy; various visitors, including Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Rosamond Lehmann and Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]; Duff Cooper's health, Apr 1947; the death of Conrad Russell.
Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1948-01-02 - 1948-11-20
Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1949-01-17 - 1949-11-22
Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1950-01 - 1950-12-11
Subjects include: the film rights to Duff Cooper's life of King David; lunch with Graham Greene; Cooper's health and both of them taking the cure in Aix-en-Provence [France], Jan-Feb 1950; lunch with Danny Kaye [David Kaminsky], May 1950; a visit to Corsica, May 1950; opposition from the Naval Intelligence Division to the publication of Cooper's book ["Operation Heartbreak"], Oct 1950; Lady Diana's health.
Letters from Maurice and Adeline Hankey to Robin Hankey and Ursula Hankey [later Benn], 1919-02-17 - 1919-04
Subjects covered include: a trip to France including visits to St Germain and the battlefield at Chemin des Dames and [Georges] Clemenceau's shooting.
Letters from Maurice to Adeline Hankey, 1917-11-04 - 1917-11-29
Subjects covered include: Maurice's visits to Paris [France] and Rome [Italy], his concerns about the war and positive impressions of the French.
Letters to ELS, 1940-05 - 1941-03
Letters from MS to ELS on subjects including: the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit; ELS finding the right war work; the departure of General Requin; her concern that their son "Peti" [Michael Spears] should not be left alone; her admiration for ELS’s work.
Includes a photograph of MS in her nursing uniform.
Letters to his wife, 1940-05 - 1940-06
Written from Dover.
With an account of the Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo).
Letters to Joan Gridley from Paris, 1944-09-12 - 1944-12-31
Letters to Joan Gridley from Paris, 1945-01-05 - 1945-04-06
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 3 [eventually entitled "The End of the Feudal Age" and included in volume 1, "The Birth of Britain"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 3, "The End of the Feudal Age" [of volume 1, "The Birth of Britain"]: various post-war revises., 1954 - 1955
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 9, "The French Challenge and the Second British Empire" [eventually entitled "Napoleon" and included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various post-war revises., Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 9, "The French Challenge and the Second British Empire" [eventually entitled "Napoleon" and included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": miscellaneous notes, correspondence on the content and production of the book, and other material., 1938 - 1956
The UK Archival Thesaurus has been integrated with our catalogue, thanks to Kings College London and the AIM25 project for their support with this.
