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Letters written to Romilly's father describing his military experiences.

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Includes report on the military requirements of the empire as affected by Egypt and the Sudan.

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding the 1952 Solar Eclipse Expedition, including the following items: Correspondence with the bank regarding the transfer of money to Khartoum, 1952.Inventories of equipment, apparatus, food and medicine, and notes and correspondence on packaging, shipment costs and customs dues, 1951-1952. The correspondents include Thomas Cook, the Admiralty and the Sudan Government.Maps of Sudan and Iraq, 1951, showing the path of total eclipse of 25 February...

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Correspondence, particularly with the Foreign Office and Sir Geoffrey Archer and Sir John Maffey [later 1st Lord Rugby], Governors of Sudan.

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Cabinet papers on the Middle East, diary of Lloyd's tour of Sudan and subject files on Egypt.

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This section principally consists of the contents of Bagnold's large map cabinet and includes maps relating to his First World War service in France and Belgium, his explorations in North Africa and the Middle East (the 1932 expedition in particular) and the LRDG.

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This section principally consists of the contents of Bagnold's large map cabinet and includes maps relating to his First World War service in France and Belgium, his explorations in North Africa and the Middle East (the 1932 expedition in particular) and the LRDG.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Philosophy Group; 1st Lord Aldington [earlier Toby Low]; Lord Barber; Sir John Barlow, Chairman of the United Kingdom Falkland Islands Committee, congratulating JA on his letter to the Times on the Falklands; Margaret Douglas, Chief Assistant to the BBC Director-General; Anthony Beaumont-Dark; Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including the British Antarctic Survey, the future administration of the Falkland...

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59 letters to the Duke from various correspondents, mostly soldiers, statesmen and colonial Governors. There are also 27 letters from the Duke to Sir Richard Airey. The letters cover action in the Crimea, the relief of Khartoum and General Gordon, Roberts' relief of Kandahar and a report on the coronation of the Czar by Lord Wolseley.

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Also includes correspondence on Amery's career, including a telegram from his commander on Amery’s departure from the Sudan and letters on LSA's suggestion that he be attached to the Turkish Army as an intelligence officer.

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Correspondence, photographs, diaries and papers of LSA's younger brothers, including Harold Amery's intelligence papers from the Sudan, and a large number of photographs from the Sudan and Malaya [later Malaysia].

Scope and Contents Letters to Amery from correspondents including: Lord Errington [later 2nd Lord Cromer], British Agency, Cairo [Egypt] (2); David Margoliouth [Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford]; Schomberg Eden; Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Edward Cecil [Agent-General Sudan Government and Director of Intelligence, Cairo] on subjects including their poor supervision of the Sinai Peninsula, making use of the British and Colonial Press Agency and repatriating dervish prisoners (2); Roger Owen...

Scope and Contents Letters to Amery from correspondents including: LSA on the superiority of the British Army in the intelligence field, the use of photographs in field survey work, the Times History of the South African War, keeping languages for practical use, intelligence organisation, the use of native explorers, climbing Mont aux Sources [Basutoland, later Lesotho], suggesting that Amery visit India while on leave and discussing his future (10); Percy Machell [Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior,...

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Photographs of: Perak, Malaya [later Malaysia], including work at a hydraulic tin mine at Chenderiang and various rural and social scenes; local people and scenes in Khartoum [Sudan], particularly local women, horses, camel racing, prison gangs, native troops and local sheikhs; popular views of Italian cities and works of art; scenes from Oxford.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers from the council (of which JA was president), particularly correspondence with Louis FitzGibbon (council secretary) on general council business and other subjects including FitzGibbon's family history, his wish to stand as Parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion after JA's retirement and his ideas on Anglo-German relations and a memorial to the Katyn Massacre. Other correspondents include: Baroness Chalker, Minister for Overseas Development, on subjects...

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These papers mainly relate to African and Asian countries.

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Letter written by Churchill in the train on the Sudan Military Railway, to Hamilton [Commandant of the Army School of Musketry, Hythe, Kent] describing the Battle of Omdurman.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This section includes documentation of Bagnold's early explorations with fellow officers in the Middle East and North Africa 1926-32, particularly the expedition of 1932. There is also a little material from other overseas visits 1933-38. Bagnold's scientific research is less well documented; most of the material dates from the post-war period and the work best represented is Bagnold's later research on random distributions. There is also a set of Bagnold's publications. The...

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Subjects covered include: WSC's escape from captivity during the South African War; election campaigns; reviews and illustrations for WSC's writing; WSC's parents, Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill.

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Includes papers about the 10th Indian Brigade's actions in Sudan, 1941, comprising an operation order, 16 January 1941; an operations report, 26 January-2 February 1941; photographs of the Metemma garrison from Gallabat fort; and manuscript and printed maps.
Also with press cuttings about Persia [now Iran], 1941.

Scope and Contents Includes: appeal by John Browne against the House of Commons Members' Interests inquiry, 1990; minutes of evidence from the Foreign Affairs Committee on sanctions against South Africa, 1986; letter from John Wilkinson, enclosing a speech by Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe [Foreign Secretary] on defence in the nuclear age, 1985 and also a report from the Assembly of the Western European Union on the military use of space,1984; report on resistance groups in Afghanistan, 1985; intelligence reports...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Comprises: lectures on various subjects including Old Testament poetry, Old Testament liturgy and general Biblical subjects; notebooks on the Old Testament and other Biblical subjects, and Arabic and Semitic language notes; sermons arranged in canonical order; papers relating to William Robertson Smith's libel trial for alleged heresies and errors; memoranda, including early family correspondence and accounts of family members; assorted newscuttings, rough notes and a small number of...

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Includes: Foreign Office and Cabinet papers on India, Central Asia and Egypt; letters from General Charles Gordon and Lord George Binning on the Sudan; India Office and Committee of Imperial Defence papers on defence, army reform and Indian political representation.

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Includes albums from the Dardanelles, the Arab war, India and Egypt.

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Photographs of JA, on subjects including his Second World War mission to Albania (some used in his book "Sons of the Eagle"), and official visits and ministerial photographs, particularly of JA as Secretary of State for Air, Minister of Aviation and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.