Scope and Contents Miscellaneous correspondence on Germany, on subjects including: secret Anglo-German industrial contracts, negotiated in 1911, and the hope that these would help to avoid war; post-war reparations; avoiding another war with Germany through the League of Nations and an alliance with France; MAR's concern about pro-German sympathisers in Britain and the Polish Corridor; MAR's introduction to Edgar Dugdale's edition of German diplomatic documents, 1871-1914.Other correspondents...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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Broadcast by Bevin following the third session of the Council of Foreign Ministers in New York [United States] on finalising peace treaties after the war. Subjects include amendments required to the United Nations, particularly the use of the veto, the future of Trieste, Germany and of the Allies, and the direction of British foreign policy.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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Frome created a series of sketchbooks of various formats during his travels. Numbers 1 (Canada) and 4-5 (Mauritius) were missing when the collection came to Cambridge. The RCS sold numbers 2-3 (Australia) to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1970. Numbers 6-7 and 11 had never been presented to the society. The great majority of the contents of the seven sketchbooks listed below had been removed in London, leaving only a few rough pieces.

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An undated report on Heligoland and Sandy Island with reference to a letter of Lord Carnarvon, 27 July 1858. The report is probably a draft.

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Subjects include: NATO's record over 40 years; the Cold War past and present; Anglo-German relations; a story about the Duke of Kent being offered the crown of Poland during the war.

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170 x 105 mm. H.R.H. by the car when visiting troops in Germany.

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Frome's original sketches of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, numbers 187, 189-91 and 196 were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, in 1975. Photographs of these sketches are stored at RCMS 40/3/15-19. Glass plates which had been made from several of Frome’s drawings of the Rideau Canal (missing when the collection arrived in Cambridge) have been reproduced on Cambridge Digital Library as Y3062T.

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Interviews and press conference held by NK on Europe, including the future reunification of Germany and Labour's policy on the European exchange rate mechanism.

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100 x 75 mm.

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This section includes archives received at a later date from Hugh Bryson and some items acquired directly by the Royal Commonwealth Society.

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269 x 202 mm.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the growth of Fascism; forms of government; reform of the second chamber [? possibly for "House of Lords or senate?" by Cuthbert Headlam and Alfred Duff Cooper, later 1st Lord Norwich, 1932, which AHM helped to research]; the aftermath of the Versailles Conference, particularly relating to Belgium, Luxembourg and Poland; German disarmament and twentieth century political history.Also includes: pamphlets on "Mines, owners and mysteries" and "Have the small...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the German Revolution of 1918-19; reform of the Second Chamber [? possibly for "House of Lords or senate?" by Cuthbert Headlam and Alfred Duff Cooper, later 1st Lord Norwich, 1932, which AHM helped to research].Also includes: first chapter of a work on the history of 19th century Germany; report of an international student conference at the University of Oxford on nationalism and minorities in Central Europe, 1937; notes for Conservative Party workers, 1937,...

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Subjects include: reform of the Second Chamber [for "House of Lords or senate?" by Cuthbert Headlam and Alfred Duff Cooper, later 1st Lord Norwich, 1932, which AHM helped to research]; reparations paid by Germany after the First World War; the development of Parliamentary government in Germany; the German Revolution of 1918-19.

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Lectures on "Mittel Europa", or public opinion in Central Europe, particularly in Germany, Austria and Hungary, and "Little Ships and Torpedoes", on the importance of small naval ships and their use of torpedoes.

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A long letter from Rice to his mother describing conditions, notably the level of inflation.

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Seventeen letters from Rice in Germany, where he was with the Control Commission, written to his mother.

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Originals and transcripts of letters between MAR and his mother, and later between him and his wife, Gladys.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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100 x 80 mm.

Scope and Contents Memoranda from the German section of the Political Intelligence Department on subjects including: the situation in Austria-Hungary, particularly the future of Hungary; a message from Count Mihály Karolyi, Prime Minister of Hungary, on the difficulties Hungary was facing; the future of the foreign press unit at Watergate House; a conversation with Otto Bauer, Austrian Foreign Minister, advising sending a British mission to Vienna with food aid to counter Bolshevik influence; the canalisation...

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Includes: later letters from their guide from Berlin containing a detailed description of the situation in Germany; account of a visit to a political prison at the invitation of Hermann Göring's invitation; and notes on Danzig [later Gdansk] and the Polish claim on the city.