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Concerning a possible exchange of information about Britain's plans for a landing in German occupied Norway and German development of rocket weapons.

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Papers comprising a memoir, correspondence and official papers about his work as Naval Attaché in Stockholm, 1940-5

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Account of a cruise aboard the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, to Danzig [later Gdansk, Poland], Finland, Sweden and Denmark.

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Papers comprising a memoir, correspondence and official papers about his work as Naval Attaché in Stockholm, 1940-5

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Comprises an account of his work and travels in Persia [now Iran], 1919-22, 1933-5 and 1964-5; the United States, 1936-9; Sweden, 1940-5; and Spain, 1945-6.

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Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including observatories in Turkey, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Belgium, Sweden and India.

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Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including observatories in Turkey, Sweden, Egypt and Pakistan.

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Correspondence regarding Swedish and Finnish observatories, including correspondence with Professor B. Lindblad of the Stockholm Observatory and Gustaf Järnefelt, Director of the Astronomical Observatory, Helsinki.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and related papers on the time signal and time ball service, including the failures of the Greenwich time signal; notes and a report on the time signals at Portsmouth Dockyard; questions and answers on the Edinburgh time signals; a list of British time signal stations; enquiries from various individuals and the Norwegian and Swedish governments on time signals; time balls proposed for Calcutta and the West Indies; errors and corrections in the Westminster and Post Office...

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Correspondence with foreign observatories, including those in Finland, Belgium, Mexico, South Africa (the Union Observatory), Italy, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Rome, Argentina and Brazil.

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with Baroness (Diana) Elles, Lord (Michael) Fraser of Kilmorack, Eldon Griffiths MP, Douglas Hurd MP, Sir Peter Kirk MP, Sir Anthony Royle MP and Sir Christopher Soames Also includes briefing note from Nigel Forman (Conservative Research Department), 27 June 1975, in advance of MT's meeting with Mr [Leo] Tindemans [Prime Minister of Belgium], 1 July 1975; with CRD record of the meeting Also includes briefings from Michael Young (Consolidated Goldfields)...

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Emil Boldt-Christmas was Swedish Naval Attaché in London, 1936-9.

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Papers comprising a memoir, correspondence and official papers about his work as Naval Attaché in Stockholm, 1940-5

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Papers on NK’s visit to Sweden, including: programme and briefing; draft new party programme for the Swedish Social Democrats; booklet on the Swedish Labour Movement; notes of NK’s meeting with the Cabinet.

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Briefings for the meeting on subjects including health, housing and Poll Tax.

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Written up by Henry Denham for the Admiralty shortly after the war had ended.
With a graph; press cuttings; a sketch map and two aerial photographs of Kaafjord, Norway, after a British midget submarine attack on the Tirpitz, 28 September 1943; and a photograph of Legation staff.

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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Includes report on Swedish public opinion of the war.

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Includes: Blenheim Palace [Oxfordshire]; Kew Gardens [London]; Liverpool docks, particularly the construction of Bidston Dock and a dredger on the Mersey; visit to Sweden; holiday photographs from Dorset; Cliffe cement works, Kent; family photographs, particularly of Lady Gwendeline Churchill ("Goonie") and Clarissa Churchill [later Clarissa Eden then Clarissa, Lady Avon], and also of Peregrine as a naval reserve officer.