Scope and Contents Subjects include: requirements for the Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, Olivia, Olaf and Olna; oil engines; the Dreadnought and the argument against small slow battleships; the battleship of the future; limitations of naval armaments and the size of battleships; Admiralty orders for fishing vessels; events leading up to the rupture of relations of Turkey; fast battlecruisers with 20 inch guns; the conduct of the war; Fisher's correspondence with Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Oxford...

Scope and Contents The collection sheds light on the Kinglakes's family life, including the lavish amounts spent by William Kinglake on his children's education, and the support he gave his eldest son through his earliest and unsuccessful years as a barrister. They also show A.W. Kinglake developing a taste for the best society and its attendant expense (letters 1/38, 81 and 96) Kinglake's love of travel is seen in letters written on journeys in Wales, 1833 (1/76-9); France, 1834 (1/81-2); North Africa and...

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Compiled by War Office, reprinted by Royal Engineers. Printed on linen-backed paper.

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Account of climbing the Matterhorn during a visit to Zermatt, Switzerland, 1946, visiting the Eastern Vilayets, Turkey, 1948, and visiting Canada with Leo Amery, 1949, which was not included in the published volume. Includes a few original letters from JA to his parents.

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Account of JA's visit to Turkey, 1948, which was intended to be chapter 51, but was not included in the published volume.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Conservatism and the future [by Leo Amery, see AMEL 1/6/45]; resistance by the partisans in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], 1943 (from various news reports); James Burnham's book "The Managerial Revolution"; Winston Churchill's biography of his father, "Lord Randolph Churchill"; JA's visit to the Eastern Vilayets of Turkey, 1948 [see AMEJ 4/1/3], including extracts from JA's diary; Canada's...

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Letters on LSA's visit to the Balkans and his first resulting article, with correspondents including: Sir [Charles] Howard Vincent; William Courtney, Editor of the Fortnightly Review; Count Leon Ostrorog on Russian influence in Turkey and the chances of a more liberal Turkish constitution; Chedomille Mijatovich [Serbian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain] advising LSA on contacts for his trip; Samuel Barnett; James Bryce.

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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin of queries no 1-14 concerning British Museum specimens

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As far then as the principle of gradation throws any light on the steps by which the splendid feathers in the peacocks tail were developed hardly anything more can be desired

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at B[ritish] Museum

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[queries [and answers? by Bartlett?] numbered 5-15 concerning sexual differences in plumage of birds]

Note; by [Elizabeth 'Bessy' Darwin?] pp-and Charles Robert Darwin

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Wild male Turkey all feathers erected - tail expanded like fan showing its brown & black transverse bars

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Z[oological] Gardens

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Scope and Contents Texts of broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: Fairbridge Farm Schools in Australia; Empire defence; the economics of Empire; the 1935 Peace Ballot; the Empire and world peace; the politician versus the businessman; the Jewish settlement in Palestine; the Empire Producers Organisation; the way of peace; Germany's debt to European civilisation; tributes to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; why Italy should not...

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Correspondence and papers about Lloyd's personal business interests and those of the government.

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Subjects include: the deadlock on the Western Front; progress of the war after six months; Russia and Constantinople [later Istanbul, Turkey]; the importance of Alexandretta [Iskenderun, Turkey] as a future base; Mesopotamia [Iraq, and parts of southeast Turkey, southwest Iran and Syria]; lists of war commissions and committees.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Lord Burnham, commenting on LSA's work at the Overseas Settlement Committee; General 1st Lord Birdwood [General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Army in India], congratulating LSA on his Emigration Bill; 1st Lord Blyth; [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain [Leader of the Conservative Party] on the disagreements between himself and LSA over the break up of the Coalition Government (4); [Austen] Neville Chamberlain, congratulating LSA on becoming a Privy Councillor and...

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Includes:
HAP's logbook as Naval Attaché at Athens [Greece], Ankara [Turkey], Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia], with letter to HAP from N Christitch, and HAP letters to JP.
2 letters from Admiral of the Fleet Sir [Alfred] Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff] to HAP.

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Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including those in Czechoslovakia, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Finland and Denmark.

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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.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with various overseas observatories, S-Z, including the following items:Saudi Arabia: correspondence regarding the setting up of a large telescope in Riyadh, and minutes and correspondence concerning a special committee to advice Riyadh University.South America: correspondence with the National Observatory of Argentina.Spain: correspondence regarding the Seville Observatory and its lease by the Royal Greenwich Observatory from the Jesuit...

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Two newspaper reports from the 'Guardian' on Greek-Cypriot relations with Turkey.

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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

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Comprising pencil and pen-and-ink drawings.
Including views of Vigo, Spain; Aden (Yemen); Corfu and Zante (Zakinthos) in the Ionian Islands; Rhodes in the Dodecanese Islands; Suez from the Canal (Egypt); Gibraltar; Malta; Turkey, including Adalia (Antalya); and Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece.