Poster featuring Spitfire AA810 with details of the aeroplane and those who flew her, including Gunn.

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

Includes: 1. "Royal Wedding", 1949 film with Sarah Churchill [also Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley]; 2. London Blitz, 29 Dec 1940, St Paul’s Cathedral; 3. Winston Churchill and MS, 1940; 4. Fall 1943, MS, while in the ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Service], visits Kitchener CWAC [Canadian Women’s Army Corps] camp; PBS programme on Kitchener camp.

Footage of [?] the VE Day celebrations.

This autobiography is typed with some handwritten annotations. Rotherham deals with his early years in the opening pages and briefly summarises his life after leaving the navy in the last pages. The core of his autobiography is about his life in the British Royal Navy.

The 17 volumes cover both World Wars and comprise letters home from the front, accounts of particular events by individual family members, photographs and postcards as well as newspaper clippings and telegrams. They provide a unique perspective on the war years both from those who fought abroad and those who remained at home in Canterbury.

The papers of John Bickersteth are photocopies of correspondence and reports to Maurice Hankey on Canadian affairs (1932 - 1940).

General Series, G. 52. Pamphlet produced by the Historical Association, London. First published in 1963.

This collection consists of notebooks containing diaries of the Atlantic Meeting, Washington, Quebec, Cairo and Yalta conferences. Green tends to record events from his own day but when relevant these include encounters with Churchill and other key figures.

These files mostly consist of drafts, in French and in English, of Minorsky's account of his escape in 1942.

Includes news footage of Winston Churchill during the war, documentaries about him, many featuring MS as an interviewee, footage of Churchill's funeral, interviews with MS about her own books, and various events in which she took part.

Notes for WSC's speech (County Hall, London) on: civil defence forces in London and Civil Defence Review [in Hyde Park]; conditions in London; the German bombing of London; the prospects for the future; improvements to defence and shelters; and British bombing of Germany.Typescript laid out in "psalm style" with manuscript annotations in black ink and red crayon by WSC, and with pencil notes of changes suggested by Herbert Morrison [Home Secretary].

Annotated typescript covering Power's career, particularly on his work with Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Admiral Sir John Cunningham [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, from 1943] on the invasion of Sicily and Italy, his work with Admiral Sir Philip Vian and with Admiral 1st Lord Mountbatten. Includes further notes on Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham.

Naval memoirs, 1928-46

"My naval life", with photocopies of photographs of Robson's family and the ships he served on

These are papers and photographs which were created and collected by those associated with the Naval Radar Trust.

Papers comprising correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to military history

The papers of A V Alexander include personal papers; parliamentary and political papers and correspondence; material relating to the Protestant movement and the Co-operative movement; literary material (including speech notes), plus film and photographic material.

Churchill Archives Centre holds a small collection of Turner's naval papers. It includes material relating to his training and naval career and include some files on aspects of naval engineering and planned maintenance.

Admiral Crooke's papers chiefly consist of a long series of pocket diaries belonging to himself and his wife, and photograph albums which cover most of Crooke's naval career, also including assorted items of memorabilia.

The Drax Papers mainly consist of naval files. These date mostly from the First World War and before, and also include a large number of intelligence reports, some from the First World War, but the majority dating from the Second World War. The papers also include articles and lectures by Plunkett on naval themes, with some publications.