Scope and Contents Colonial Office correspondence and memoranda on Malta, with correspondents including: Sir Gerald Strickland [Member of Malta Legislative Assembly] on circulating Empire news to counter propaganda, the new constitution, the influence of Italy, the use of English in Malta and the behaviour of ministers in Parliament (8); Edward Wood [Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Irwin and 1st Lord Halifax]; 1st Lord Plumer, Governor of Malta, on subjects including the Malta...

Scope and Contents Diary kept during ELS's time as First Minister to the republics of Syria and the Lebanon. Subjects include: meeting Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] in February 1943; returning to Tobruk [Libya]; the promise of free elections in Syria; tensions between ELS and the French; a war council in Cairo [Egypt] called by Richard Casey [Minister of State Resident in the Middle East], May 1943; tensions between followers of General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Giraud; ELS's work towards...

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Papers from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951, including: programmes for the visit; report on Mauritian troops in Egypt and Cyrenaica [Libya]; despatch by Sir Hilary Blood, Governor of Mauritius, on constitutional affairs; open letters on the revision of the constitution; letters to JA from various interest groups, including the Muslim community; briefing material, mainly on the economic situation.

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Correspondence on Mauritian affairs, with correspondents including: Sir Hilary Blood, Governor of Mauritius; 2nd Lord Mancroft.

Also includes: correspondence on individual cases referred by JA to Oliver Lyttelton [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Chandos]; a memorandum from the Movement for Mauritian Unity on the political and economic situation.

Scope and Contents Includes: note of JA's visit to King Zog of Albania, 1956 and on Zog's part in a plan to overthrow the Egyptian Government, and of a talk about the plan with John Selwyn Lloyd [Foreign Secretary]; notes by JA on propaganda policy in the Middle East and the general political situation there; draft memoranda on Soviet influence in the Middle East and maintaining British influence abroad, particularly in Cyprus, Aden [Adan] and Hong Kong; proposals for the re-establishment of British influence...

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Includes: Conservative Research Department memorandum on the rise in the cost of living; memorandum by Leo Amery on the gold market; note on biography and history, by Basil Liddell Hart.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, notes and source material, with correspondents including: Sir Stephen Tallents [former Secretary to the Empire Marketing Board]; Violet, Lady Milner [earlier Lady Edward Cecil]; Sir Hugh Thornton [former Private Secretary to 1st Lord Milner] on subjects including Milner's suggestion that Marshal Ferdinand Foch should replace Marshal Philippe Petain as General-in-Chief in 1918 and details of Milner's staff (6); 9th Lord Bessborough [earlier Lord Duncannon] on the War Cabinet's...

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Annotated typescript, covering: economic and Empire policy, 1929-31; the collapse of the Conservative Government and formation of the Coalition Government; Imperial Preference; the India Act; LSA's travels in Europe, meeting with Hitler and LSA's non-political work; pacifism, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] and the drift to war; the abdication crisis; appeasement.

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Includes: speeches of welcome and programmes from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951; later papers and correspondence on Central African federation, particularly relating to Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia]; papers on the Rholanglo Group Bill, providing for the transfer of Rhodesian Anglo American Limited and associated companies, from Britain to Northern Rhodesia.

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Correspondence and notes from Archer Baldwin and William Coldrick on Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland [later Malawi], from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.

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This section of Lady Hankey's papers comprises original letters between Maurice and Adeline Hankey and to their children.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to LSA's chairmanship of the Oversea Settlement Committee, including: press-cutting of an interview given by LSA on emigration to the Dominions; prints of speeches by LSA in support of work by the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf in Canada, and on Empire migration; memoranda by LSA on the Imperial Conference of 1921 and its resolution on state-aided settlement, the effects of emigration on unemployment, emigration facts and figures and migration within the Empire; reports of the...

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Political and personal correspondence and other papers.

CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton

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Political and personal correspondence and other papers.

CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton

Scope and Contents Material on the peace settlement, including: press cuttings; copy of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty between the Central Powers and the Ukraine; memorandum of the Inter-Allied Labour and Socialist war aims; memorandum by LSA on relations with the United States, particularly concerning the future of German colonies; note by 1st Lord Curzon on policy towards German and Turkish colonies; French memorandum on British colonial interests; letter from Chaim Weizmann on the future of Palestine, with...

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Letters written during LSA's tour of the Middle East, on subjects including: meeting the Emir Abdullah of Transjordan [later King Abdullah of Jordan]; conferences in Iraq; accounts of the over-ambitious schemes of 1st Lord Lloyd [former Governor of Bombay, India]; touring ancient sites; improving the Iraqi army; talks with King Feisal of Iraq; negotiations in the League of Nations with the Turks over Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq].

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Including: LSA's visit to New Zealand.

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Including: LSA's tour of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada; invitation to dinner from Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada; seating plan for state dinner in Ottawa; LSA's return to Britain.

Scope and Contents Annual colonial reports for: Jamaica (1921-24); Cayman Islands (1922-25); Trinidad and Tobago (1921-25); Grenada (1922-25); St Lucia (1921-24); St Vincent (1921-25); Leeward Islands (1920-26); Turks and Caicos Islands (1921-25); Barbados (1920-26); Bermuda (1921-24); Bahamas (1920-25). Also includes: report of the West Indian Currency Committee; memorandum on the establishment of a telegraph system in the West Indies; report by Edward Wood, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the...

Scope and Contents This series covers LSA's personal correspondence as Secretary of State for the Colonies, as opposed to the official Colonial Office material in the public and political papers. The correspondence covers a wide range of subjects relating to the colonies and governors' duties, including: the political and economic state of the colonies; colonial development; colonial officials; trade; communications with the home Government; LSA's reorganization of the Colonial Office; the tours of the Empire...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Hugh Arnold-Forster [former Secretary of State for War] on saving the Militia; Robert Baden-Powell on setting up the Boy Scouts; [Charles] Moberly Bell [Assistant Manager of the Times] on the costs of [Robert] Erskine Childers's volume of the Times History of the South African War; Francis Higgins Bernard on local views of Tariff Reform (2); William Bridgeman on Tariff Reform relating to agriculture; Robert Borden [Leader of the Conservative party in Canada] on...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Hugh Arnold-Forster [former Secretary of State for War] on subjects including writing a series of articles on military matters and thanking LSA for writing a preface [? to Arnold-Forster's "English Socialism of To-Day"] (3); Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman [Prime Minister]; Arthur Balfour [Leader of the Conservative Party], on citing trade figures from Wolverhampton [Staffordshire] during a debate (2); Sir Hesketh Bell [Governor of Uganda] on his sleeping...

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Files on Africa and Asia, Egypt, India and general topics.

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Economic papers from the Department of Co-operation, Mauritius, presented to JA during the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.

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Economic reports and memoranda on Mauritius and Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], presented to JA during the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951.