Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Reconstruction Secretariat and the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS); a meeting with Mary Glasgow to discuss the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA); her experiences of air-raids and bomb damage near her flat in Chelsea; Ministry of Information Planning Committee meetings; Myra Curtis and the principalship of Newnham College; a visit to Eton College; reflections on the role of economists in wartime; the departure of...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work at the Reconstruction Secretariat; her work on salvage, refugees, and rationing for the Women's Voluntary Service; Ministry of Information Planning Committee meetings and a discussion on 'American Understanding (publicity)'; a lunch with Storm Jameson; bomb damage in central London; the emotional and psychological impact of the war and her fear of invasion; writing, including the impact of war on the modern novel; her move to Richmond Terrace; a...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's participation in the Brains Trust, including with Florence Horsburgh; Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Reconstruction Secretariat, including on child welfare, USA-UK cooperation, and demobilisation, and her comments on the new minister, Sir William Jowitt; the Beveridge Committee, including discussion of 'spinsters' and means tests; her writing, including revisions to a novel and her journalism; a visit to a London County Council hospital to see...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Ministry of Information and her satisfaction with the American Division; Erwin Schuller and his past; news of the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of France and Belgium; a PEN conference, at which E. M. Forster gave an address; the Dartington Hall Arts Enquiry; reflections on the need for a new guiding philosophy and the meaning of life; Mary Agnes Hamilton's broadcasts for the BBC and the Brains Trust; her work on salvage for the...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work at the Ministry of Reconstruction and her dissatisfaction and possibility of a transfer; the death of George Ridley; news of Hugh Dalton's work at the Board of Trade and his separation from Ruth Dalton; her writing, including preparing her memoirs for publication as 'Remembering My Good Friends', and reflections on the purpose of autobiography; discussions with Erwin Schuller about Mary Craig McGeachy and the work of the UNRRA Welfare Division;...

Scope and Contents Includes: notes and briefing on the launch of Labour’s arts policy document; copy of a letter from Roy Hattersley [home affairs spokesman] on discussions with the BBC about which ministry would be responsible for television under a Labour Government; memorandum from British Sky Broadcasting on the development of satellite television services; information pack from Independent Television Publications Limited on programme schedules and licensing arrangements; note on cultural diplomacy;...

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Indexed. Containing AHP's art criticism and 'Round the Courts' and 'Round the Theatre' articles from various publications, with annotations. Including A.H.P.'s reviews of fine and decorative art exhibitions at the Grafton Gallery, The New English Art Club, the Guildhall, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Royal Academy, the Fine Art Society, the Burlington Fine Arts Club, the New English Art Club, and other galleries.

Scope and Contents Includes: material from the Arts for Labour campaign; copy of a letter from Chris Smith, Treasury and economic affairs spokesman, on the income tax regime for performers; papers on the establishment of the London Arts Board; comments on Labour’s arts policy document and the policy document "Design the 90s" from John Newbigin [policy advisor to NK]; proposals from Anthony Everitt [Secretary-General of the Arts Council] for restructuring the Council; letter from Sir Richard Attenborough,...

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Comprises: Preface; Chapter 1, Early Memories; Chapter 2, Into Parliament; Chapter 3, The House of Commons; Chapter 4, The Soviet Union; Chapter 5, Henry Moore, By-Election Songs, and Waterloo Bridge; Chapter 6, The Spanish Civil War; Chapter 7, Collapse of MacDonald's Government; and Chapter 8, Wartime.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Papers comprising manuscripts of books, articles, lectures, research data, diaries, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs, video and audio tape recordings. The bulk of the collection is formed by Michael Young's correspondence subject files about organisations he was involved in starting up or with existing organisations who collaborated in his ventures. There is also substantial correspondence with individuals, including family, friends, colleagues and financial backers. A...

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The Open College of the Arts provides arts education using distance learning methods.

Scope and Contents Working papers grouped by Abrams under the headings 'Mass Culture: Criticisms' and 'Taste of the Arts', covering subjects such as the mass media and its critics; escapism; libraries, paperback books, and reading; the impact of American entertainment in Britain; popular leisure activities; theatre; music; arts patronage and funding, and marketing for cultural industries. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's notes. Including copies of Mark Abrams's...

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Photograph album (with photographs in colour and black and white) of MS's visit to New Orleans [United States] for the unveiling of a bronze statue of Churchill by Ivor Roberts-Jones.

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the Foreign Office, War Cabinet, and Special Operations Executive; Cadogan's role and interventions in ongoing strategic discussions between Churchill and Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Stalin, and De Gaulle; Cadogan's opinions on the Allied negotiations over future Soviet frontiers and the second front; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits, and the hosting of Soviet diplomats in Edinburgh and London; plans for an Allied...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relations with members of United Nations committees; discussions surrounding China and Kashmir [region in China, India and Pakistan]; Cadogan's reflections on his diary-writing and personal archive, including scrapbooks; Cadogan's retirement from the United Nations; the family's relocation to London and notes on interior decoration, shopping, and household provisioning; Cadogan's appointment to the boards of the National Provincial Bank and the Phoenix...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: Cadogan's relationship with Anthony Eden; meetings of the London Regional Council of the United Nations Association, with discussions on the rearmament of Germany and NATO, and comments on attendees, including Barbara Castle; Chatham House meetings on Anglo-American relations; Suez Canal Company business; English Speaking Union meetings; National Provincial Bank business; Cadogan receiving the Order of Merit; and trips to Portugal and Switzerland. Also...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business; National Provincial Bank business; the death and funeral of King George VI; Cadogan's refusal of the Secretary-Generalship of NATO; Cadogan's appointment as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC; Cadogan's reaction to the installation of his television set, at the BBC's request; meetings at Broadcasting House; comments on BBC departments, staff, and the printing of an issue of "Radio...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; United Nations Association meetings; English Speaking Union events; Suez Canal Company business in Cairo and Paris; discussions regarding the Drogheda Committee and Report; BBC Board of Governors' meetings and social engagements, including discussions with Lady Rhys-Williams and Barbara Wootton; remarks on television programming; Cadogan's first-hand experience of the Coronation...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business; Chatham House meetings on Anglo-American relations; discussions regarding Drogheda Report; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's relationship with the government, secret intelligence, and the Independent Television Authority, the BBC's responses to the government White...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on audience research and the BBC's relationship with the government and the Independent Television Authority; religious programming; arrangements for the installation of television transmitters at Crystal Palace; the BBC's role during the...

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; private meetings with Foreign Office officials including Ivone Kirkpatrick; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business, including news of crisis and responses to nationalisation by Gamal Abdel Nassar; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's relationship with the government, competition with commercial television,...

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Letters to Pollen regarding portrait busts and paintings, including of Maud Pollen. With historical note by Anne Pollen and photocopied extract from biography of Max Beerbohm, with reference to AHP.

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Correspondence and papers relating to the ink sketch of the 'Madonna del Gatto' [The Virgin and Child with a Cat], purchased by AHP at Christie's in 1902 and sold by Arthur J. L. Pollen and Daphne Baring at Sotheby's in 1963.

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Typescript copies of correspondence between AHP and various individuals, including Revd. Joseph Bacchus; Hilaire Belloc; Gertrude Bell; Algernon Cecil; G. K. Chesterton; the Editor of the Times Literary Supplement; Earl of Kerry; Ronald Knox; Stephen Leacock; Desmond MacCarthy; Ambrose McEvoy; Alfred Noyes; Sir Claude Phillips; Oscar Wilde; and copies of poetry by AHP. Compiled by Maud Pollen. With Anthony Pollen's editorial notes and annotations on the letters.

Scope and Contents Proofs and newspaper cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "I was conscious through it all" and "My New York [United States] misadventure" on WSC's accident in which he was hit by a motor car; "The Academy reveals Britain's brave gaiety" on the Royal Academy exhibition (including a draft of the article by Edward Marsh); "My happy days in the Bahamas "; "Words on the Irish Treaty" on the announcement by [Eamon] De Valera of the abolition of the Oath of Allegiance; "Lord Oxford [and...