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Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, personal affairs and travel, and a series of letters published in the press dealing with Japanese expansion and international peacekeeping, fish and animal welfare, the Loc Ness monster, cruelty to animals in film, and seventeenth-century administration of Saint Kitts (circa 90 sheets).

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Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, personal affairs and travel; spiritualism; and letters to the press on the League of Nations, disarmament, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, and the administration of justice in Africa (circa 80 sheets).

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Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, personal affairs and travel; spiritualism; comments upon the deteriorating international situation; and letters to the press on the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, witchcraft, the Spanish Civil War, traffic congestion in London, and Dominica’s Caribs (circa 95 sheets).

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Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, personal affairs and travel; the composition of ‘Glimpses of a Governor’s Life’; comments upon the abdication of Edward VIII, the coronation of George VI, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia and the Spanish Civil War; and letters to the press on the training of colonial officers, witchcraft, and cruelty to animals in film (circa 60 sheets).

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A diary of time spent in France (1927), Belgium (1928), Germany (1929), Holland (1930), Scotland (1930-1931), France (1931), Northumberland (1932), Malvern (1932) and Stratford-upon-Avon (1933).

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Jackdaw No. C8 concerning the Dieppe raid during the Second World War.

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Material relating to H.C.E. Childers' daughter Emily (b. 1866).

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120 x 183 mm. A half-length studio portrait of a bare breasted New Caledonian woman.

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Photographs from 5 Squadron R.F.C., France, 1917; the British Aviation Mission, U.S.A., 1918; the R.A.F. School of Navigation, Andover, 1919; and the Cape Flight, January-March 1920.

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Material relating to H.C.E. Childers' daughter Emily (b. 1866).

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190 x 145 mm.

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Minutes of 20 and 24 Nov 1939, mentioning Hore-Belisha's visit to France and British defences there, with covering letter to Hore-Belisha from [George] David Roseway, Hore-Belisha's Principal Private Secretary at the War Office.

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Includes notes appended by Hilde Sloane.

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The collection, though small, is interesting as no other papers appear to have been left by Hore-Belisha. It comprises letters, diaries, some photographs and documents (mainly copies) covering most of Hore-Belisha's career but concentrating on his most important position as War Minister from 1937-1939 and particularly the events surrounding his dismissal by Neville Chamberlain.

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258 x 325 mm.

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192 x 145 mm. The four soldiers walk down a muddy road away from the front lines. They are wearing sleeveless leather jerkins, and the three on the right are equipped with respirators.

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66 x 42 mm. A view of the coast from the airship R36.

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80 x 55 mm. With Cathedral Tower in the background.

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80 x 55 mm.

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210 x 160 mm.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a private album, measuring 260 x 230 mm, containing photographs of various formats taken by an amateur, supplemented by landscapes bought from commercial studios. Most images are captioned in white ink and captions have been recorded as found. They may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. The captions have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. A number of photographs are missing, although their captions remain. The...

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206x154mm. Similar view to Y30448D/1 but a more general view taken from a greater distance and showing all of the double arch which frames that photograph.

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70 x 49 mm.

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190 x 145 mm.

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49 x 70 mm.