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Official photos taken after the liberation of the Belsen [Germany] concentration camp by the 2nd Army.

Scope and Contents Letters written mainly while MS was in Belgium and Germany with her ATS unit [Auxiliary Territorial Service]. Other subjects besides MS's ATS work include: a visit to Paris [France]; driving through the wreck of Hamburg; visiting the site of Belsen; reaction in the forces to the General Election campaign; the Potsdam Conference; the success of CSC's visit to the Soviet Union; an inspection by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery; the loss of the General Election; buying 27 Hyde Park Gate...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The most interesting items in the collection are the diaries, interleaved with letters and papers, which Lord Gordon-Walker kept throughout his political career and which shed fascinating light upon his fellow Members of Parliament and Cabinet Ministers and upon the events and personalities involved in international -and especially Commonwealth - affairs. There are numerous articles and speeches by Lord Gordon-Walker together with notes and reviews pertaining to his book ‘The Cabinet’ and a...

Scope and Contents The diary, 100 x 120 mm, is comprised of two notebooks bound together totalling 374 pages, and is lettered 'A.M.W. South Africa 1901-2' on the front board. There are entries on most of the right-hand pages, and notes, photographs, passes, tickets, cuttings and other souvenirs on the left-hand side. The diary describes life on board ship, visits to the Cape, travels in the interior, and events of the period in South Africa, including comments on the ongoing Anglo-Boer war, or South African...

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Includes: letters from Amery to AFA while interned in Germany; correspondence between LSA and the Prisoners of War Department on a possible exchange of prisoners; letters of sympathy and official details on Amery's death.

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Includes: letters of appointment to posts and promotions (1918-55); war data (1946); Hughes-Hallett's naval reminiscences (1955); letter from the Admiralty on Hughes-Hallett's retirement (1955); articles by others; and narratives of British repatriates from Japanese prisoner of war camps (Nov 1945)

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the Yalta Conference, February 1945; the value of Clementine's tour of the Soviet Union for Anglo-Russian relations; revelations about the Nazi concentration camps; Jack [John S Churchill]'s heart attack; the whereabouts of Clementine's nephew Giles Romilly, being kept as a hostage by the Germans; the collapse of the German forces; the Potsdam Conference, July 1945; worries about Churchill's health on his way to Yalta; his depression about the future of India; the hostile...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, Commander, 21st Army Group, on Churchill's visit to his HQ during the Battle of the Rhine, April 1945; Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen [British Ambassador to Belgium] on planning for Churchill's visit to Brussels, October 1945; Commander Stephen King-Hall, Chairman of the Hansard Society, telling Clementine about the work of the Society and also enclosing his memorandum "How to Save Democracy" on future British relations with the...