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Interview on the American bombing of Libya.

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Copy of Peel's diary, kept during an expedition to Libya and Egypt led by Brigadier Ralph Bagnold, in areas including Wadi el Aqaba and the Gilf Kebir Plateau.

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'The Libyan Desert. A journey into the home land of the earliest Nile Valley settlers' by Bagnold, 5pp ms and typescript account of archaeological expedition to the Gilf Kebir for publication in Scientific American, with account as published, November 1939; correspondence with publishers.

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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Seeking Bagnold's advice on burying an oil pipeline across the Calensio Sand Sea in Libya. On verso is a brief typescript note by Bagnold on the background to the request.

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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 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...

Scope and Contents This section presents documentation of the history and activities of the LRDG. Bagnold intended to write a history of the LRDG from an early date and assembled material likely to be of interest. This includes original instructions for and reports of many LRDG operations and draft chapters of a 'war diary and narrative'. A lecture by Bagnold on 'Early Days of the Long Range Desert Group' was published in The Geographical Journal 105. nos. 1 and 2 (1945), but the contemporary history of the...

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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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Subjects include: visit to Cyprus and Libya, May-Jun 1961; an Iraqi threat against Kuwait; holiday in Spain, Aug 1961; flying a Lightning jet fighter aircraft; a speech by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton] in a debate on the United Nations, Feb 1962.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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Briefings for meetings, including: note from Walid Joumblatt [President of the Libyan Progressive Socialist Party]; briefing for and rough notes of a meeting with Prince Hassan of Jordan; briefing for a meeting with German Riesco, Chilean Ambassador to Britain; briefing for a meeting with Janis Jurkans, Foreign Minister of Latvia, including notes on Lithuania.