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The papers cover every aspect of Lord 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.

Scope and Contents Transcripts of Austrian despatches and minutes of council before and during the Crimean War, taken from originals in the Austrian State Archives and French Foreign Office, in typescript and various hands, 1849-1857, 236 folios: (fos 1-21) Count Buol to Emperor Francis Joseph and General Hess; (fos 22, 55, 63, and 75) protocols drawn up by the Vienna Conference, 1854; (fos 27-45, 72-74, and 81-98) Count Buol to Baron Hübner and Emperior Francis Joseph; (fos 102-110) Count Nesselrode, Baron...

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Prepared for the Comte de Daun, Viceroy of Naples.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] on criticism of convoy commodores and of the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (3); the Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on concerns about the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (2); Sir Walford Selby [former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna] on uniting the anti-Nazi elements in Austria (2); 1st Lord Sankey; Sir John Anderson [Lord President of the Council,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents (mainly congratulating LSA on his appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies) include: Sir William Allardyce, Governor of the Bahamas (2); Brigadier-General Sir Hugh Baikie; Henry Birchenough; General Sir William Birdwood; Reginald Brock; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; Lionel Curtis on the British colonial section in the peace negotiations; Lord Curzon; Thomas Comyn-Platt, offering to work as LSA's Private Secretary (2); Alison Cuninghame; Violet...

Scope and Contents Correspondence on the rates of, repairs to, trials of, sales of, regulations of, requests on, and ownership of chronometers. The volume covers chronometers for ascertaining a ship's speed; regulations for the testing of chronometers at Liverpool Observatory; mail guards' watches; accounts for chronometers and relevant charges; chronometers for the Indian Department and the Austrian government; the Burdett-Coutts prize for the best essay on balance-springs; and a Swiss report on chronometers...

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Originally stored in small brown files, some of which were parcelled up in brown paper, and numbered in Roman numerals.
Correspondence between Quintin Hogg and government departments, mainly comprising correspondence about concerns or complaints of his Oxford constituents, 1938-50.
With some later correspondence in response to letters from members of the public, 1973-7.

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Pembroke holds five volumes and one draft volume of Montague Garrard Drake’s travel diaries, written on paper with vellum limp binding and leather ties.

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Annotated galley proofs from JWHM’s entries on various German and Austro-Hungarian politicians and the history of the Vatican for the [? 10th edition] of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Annotated galley proofs from JWHM’s entries on the history of Germany and Austria-Hungary and various German and Austro-Hungarian politicians and writers for the [? 11th edition] of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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8 letters written by Bertrand Hallward to his father Norman Hallward during the former's travels in Greece and Austria during 1923. A typescript transcription of the correspondence undertaken by Ruth Chadwick and Christabel Sworder, together with photocopies of maps of the regions in which B. L. Hallward travelled in 1923

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Visits and meetings, mostly relating to European transport policy and trans-European network issues.

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Visits and meetings, mostly relating to European transport policy and trans-European network issues.

Scope and Contents Canadian and North American Papers relating to Universal Time:Printed notice from the Royal Society of Canada drawing attention to matters of time determination and nomenclature, 1890.Letter from Wilhelm Prealt of Hamburg, in German, 1890.Letter from Sandford Fleming, Ottawa, enclosing a Bill to be laid before the United States Senate regarding the reckoning of time in the United States, 1891.Letter from [J.P. Sohiham] of Vienna sending a copy of a booklet by...

Scope and Contents Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: protection of manufacturers and the removal of the McKenna Duties on luxury imports; Benjamin Disraeli [1st Lord Beaconsfield]; the silk industry; Imperial Preference; unemployment; the economics of Empire; the monetary crisis; the Representation of the People Bill; the meaning of politics; the National Government; disarmament; Cabinet reform; the future of Europe; the Peace Ballot; uprising in Austria (1934); the 1935 General...

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Journals and notebooks of Hoare's extensive European tours, mainly through Italy.

Scope and Contents The core of the collection consists of the series of reports by Christie and his manuscript notes, mainly in German, the reports of his informants and his letters to Vansittart. The papers of more general interest are Christie's notes of interviews with various notable Nazis, particularly Goering, information about the German resistance and German peace workers in 1939-1940. There are also large quantities of related press cuttings. The obvious gaps are in the records of Christie's relations...

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...

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Papers and correspondence of Professor Max Born, his wife and children, and material concerning their family history. Including photographs and artefacts.

Scope and Contents A series of letters written by Brand while travelling on the Continent, some of which are incomplete. 38 of the letters are to Brand's sister Susan, addressed until October 1788 as Miss Brand of Newmarket, thereafter, from Nov. 1789, as Miss Carr of Hadstock, near Lincoln. There is one letter from Brand to the Rev. Joseph Hall, Rector of Bartlow, who was Brand's brother-in-law, and another from G. Pretyman to Miss Brand, apparently about the possibilities of preferment for Thomas. Most of...

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.