Second World War (1939-1945)
Found in 2728 Collections and/or Records:
"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material, 1937 - 1952
"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material, 1939
Documents relating to the visit to the Maginot Line in France by Winston Churchill with ELS, including correspondence between Churchill, General Alphonse Georges, General Maurice Gamelin and ELS.
"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material, 1939 - 1948
Correspondence with Winston Churchill on subjects including: ELS’s liaison role; the French view that defeat was inevitable; Churchill’s own memoirs and the accuracy of Charles de Gaulle’s account of events as a source.
"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material, 1939 - 1952-08
Rough notes on "The Opposition", mainly comparisons between the French and German forces.
Atlantic Meeting, 1941-08
Photographs of the meeting between WSC and Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States [at Placentia Bay] off the coast of Newfoundland [Canada].
Battle of the Atlantic, 1943-10-06
Lecture by N. A Prichard [?], Director of Anti-Submarine Warfare on the Battle of the Atlantic.
BBC Propaganda Research, 1940 - 1948
Analyses of foreign broadcast propaganda and miscellaneous papers relating to Mark Abrams's work for the BBC Overseas Research Unit during World War II.
BBC TV, Churchill, 1941-08 - 1950-08
BBC TV, Churchill 2, 1940 - 1945
BBC TV, USA, Churchill 2, 1944
'Benito's booty', 1998-08-07
Photocopy of an article from The Times reagrding Beck's recent death and a collection of Mussolini's papers he had gathered at the end of the Second World War whilst flying in and out of Villa Carpena.
British Naval Intelligence Papers, mainly of Donald McLachlan and Patrick Beesly.
The collection includes: McLachlan's papers for "Room 39"; Beesly's papers for "Very Special Intelligence" and for "Very Special Admiral"; and papers of Commander Lloyd Hirst, an intelligence officer.
British Parliamentary delegation to Russia, 1945
This series contains correspondence, photographs, cuttings, and reports about the parliamentary delegation in 1945. Members of the group included Colonel Walter Elliott (Conservative MP), Mr Wilfred Roberts (Liberal MP), Lord Farrington, Mr Tom Fraser (Socialist MP), Mr PW Jewson (MP), Major RE Manningham Buller (Conservative MP), Mr John Parker (Socialist MP), Colonel CE Posonby (Conservative MP), and Commander Stephen King-Hall (Independent MP).
Broadcast by Hore-Belisha on the progress of the war, 1939-10-21
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.
Broadcasts, 1931-11 - 1952-07
Charles Bernard Denston: Papers
Autobiography, short stories, poems, personal recollections of working at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Duckworth Laboratory of Physical Anthropology in Cambridge, press cuttings and printed material on the experiences of former prisoners of war held by the Japanese.
Chartwell Display Items, 1941 - 1942
Original documents deposited in the Churchill Archives Centre in 1980 from Chartwell [Kent] where they had been on display since Sir Winston's death.
Chartwell Record Collection, 1909-08 - 1970-08
Gramophone record collection (plus other sound recordings) owned by Sir Winston Churchill. Includes large metal deed box marked 'The Rt Hon Winston Spencer Churchill' on the outside, containing the following items 12/1-3.
Christopher Hassall: Letters to George Benson and related papers
Correspondence written by Christopher Hassall to his friend George Benson, together with related items including a diary volume with entries by Hassall, literary texts by Hassall, notes by Benson, letters between other correspondents, and printed items.
Churchill archive, Imperial War Museum, 1900-08 - 1945-08
Churchill, BBC footage (Pathé), 1939 - 1944
"Churchill Days": George Allen's recollections of working for Sir Winston Churchill, 1970
"Churchill in Carthage 1943: Dr Evan Bedford's War Diary", 2000
Copy of a paper by Dr Alex Sakula on Churchill's attack of pneumonia while he was in Tunisia in December 1943. The paper is based on the 1943-45 war diaries of Brigadier [Davis] Evan Bedford, the cardiac specialist and Consulting Physician to Middle East Forces, who helped to treat Churchill (and was later one of Sakula's teachers). Copies of Bedford's diaries are also included, together with some correspondence on the publication of Sakula's paper.