Mainly concerns his school career, 1936-9, and training as a naval cadet, 1939.

Wells describes his role in the compilation and maintenance of the Home Office War Book. He also relates anecdotes about key figures such as Warren Fisher as well as staff including Sir Joseph Ball and Lawrence Burgis.

Second World War Identity Card; driving licence 1938-50; motor fuel ration book; headed notepaper, calling cards etc.

Subjects covered by the papers include the campaign for Protection and the Empire Industries Association, the National Party, India, the Spanish Civil War and the First and Second World Wars.

Photographs of the conferences in Egypt and Iran.

British Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee and Combined Intelligence Objectives
Sub-committee reports on German and Japanese war industry.

Consisting of intelligence from intercepted enemy communications, forwarded from the Admiralty to Allied Commands, "Cairo Series", June 1942-September 1943.

Generally being decrypts from the Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, using the Enigma machine. The Enigma signals were given a special security classification, "MSS" (Most Secret Source) or "ULTRA".

Includes: reports on Corbett's visits to Egypt and the Western Desert; papers on armoured tactics; intelligence reports; Corbett's proposals for reorganization of Armoured Divisions in the 10th Army; correspondence between Corbett and General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; analysis of operations at Cyrenaica [Libya]; Corbett's notes on tank operations in Egypt and Palestine; letters and papers on Corbett's departure from the Middle East.

This collection consists of the papers of the Ministry of Defence Chronometer Department (series 1), based at Bradford on Avon (1939-1948) and then Herstmonceux Castle. Also catalogued here are two donated collections: papers relating to marine chronometers by John Hobden who worked at the Chronometer Department (series 2); and papers and photographs from George W. Rickett (1903-1978) who ran the Chronometer Department while it was based at Bradford on Avon (series 3).

The archive consists of unpublished personal accounts of prisoners of war held in Italy at the time of the Italian Armistice in 1943. The accounts variously detail the individuals' war service, capture and captivity, escape from captivity, and attempts to evade recapture with the assistance of members of the Italian civilian population.

Newsreels and uncut footage of Winston Churchill, including: Churchill’s visit to Bradford [Yorkshire], 1942; arriving back from the Soviet Union, Sept 1942; Quebec [Canada], Aug 1943; MS at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia [United States], Sept 1943; MS christening a bomber, May 1944; Churchill visiting MS’s anti-aircraft battery, Edenbridge [Kent], Jun 1944.

Extract from the Times containing the text of WSC's broadcast (30 September 1940, BBC) to the people of Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia] including Germany's breach of the terms of the Munich Agreement, Hitler's ambitions to incorporate Czechoslovakia, admiration for the Czechs. Ends by stating: "Be in good cheer. The hour of your deliverance will come. The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish."Carbon typed copy. Filing envelope present.

Covers the outbreak of war.

Manuscript and typescript diaries kept by Cooper, including some typescript copies of the manuscript diaries.

Annotated typescript, covering: the Munich Crisis; the build-up from Munich to the outbreak of the Second World War; the formation of the War Cabinet, early months of the war and fall of [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain.

Text, including annotations by Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to LSA as Secretary of State for India], covering: the war effort; LSA's Indian policy; the war in the Middle East; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States; the Churchill Government, 1940-41.

Text, including annotations by Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to LSA as Secretary of State for India] on LSA's Indian policy.

Material relating to those with a surname beginning 'W'.