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Diaries, autobiographies and memoirs

Highlights here include the diaries of Alexander Cadogan who attended major inter-allied conferences and Cabinet meetings during the Second World War, and Jackie Broome’s autobiography (Captain in the Royal Navy)

Showing 26 - 50 of 68 Records

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/26

Date:: 1955 (creation)

Description:: Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on audience research and the BBC's relationship with the government and the Independent Television Authority; religious programming; arrangements for the installation of television transmitters at Crystal Palace; the BBC's role during the newspaper maintenance workers' strike; an account of Cadogan's conversation with Lord Reith about the decline of deference on the BBC; the preservation of BBC impartiality, and the negotiation of the "closed fortnight" or "fourteen-day-rule". Also includes comments on leisure pursuits such as gardening and the introduction of Scrabble; visits to art galleries, concerts, and theatre in London; and various social engagements, including a meeting and invitation from Margot Fonteyn.

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/27

Date:: 1956 (creation)

Description:: Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; private meetings with Foreign Office officials including Ivone Kirkpatrick; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business, including news of crisis and responses to nationalisation by Gamal Abdel Nassar; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's relationship with the government, competition with commercial television, and audience research and viewing figures; Cadogan's response to the production of new talk show "Is This Your Problem?"; negotiations over BBC editorial responsibility in the case of Kathleen Bliss's "Fundamental Debate" project on the philosophy of religion; and Cadogan's sittings for his portrait by Duncan Grant. Also includes comments on leisure pursuits such as watching television and gardening; the progress of Cadogan's lessons in painting; visits to art galleries, concerts, and the cinema, and various social engagements.

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/28

Date:: 1957 (creation)

Description:: Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank and Phoenix Assurance Company business; comments on Anthony Eden's resignation and the formation of a new Cabinet; Suez Canal Company business; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's General Advisory Council and relationship with the government, the future of sound broadcasting, and the White Paper on changes to BBC overseas information services; difficulties with BBC Governors, especially with Thelma Cazalet-Keir; Cadogan's visits to BBC studios, including a viewing of a film on the fashion collection at Eridge Museum hosted by Doris Langley Moore; negotiations over the reorganisation of the Third Programme and Network Three, and Cadogan's meetings and correspondence with members of the Third Programme Defence Society, including Peter Laslett, Vaughan Williams, Laurence Olivier, and T. S. Eliot; notes on an exhibition including Cadogan's paintings at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Cadogan's response to the controversy surrounding Malcolm Muggeridge's criticism of the British monarchy; and Cadogan's perspective on negotiations with the Treasury over pay increases for BBC staff. Also includes comments on leisure pursuits such as painting, gardening, and watching television and listening to the radio, with Cadogan's reviews of programming such as "The Benny Hill Show"; visits to art galleries, concerts, and the cinema; and various social engagements.

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/29

Date:: 1958 (creation)

Description:: Diary. Subjects covered include: account of a trip to South Africa; English Speaking Union committee meetings; Phoenix Assurance Company business; comments on domestic service and household management; notes on an exhibition including Cadogan's paintings at the Chenil Gallery; accounts of holidays in Portmeirion and the Cotswolds; Cadogan's experience of renting studio space for painting at The Slade; thoughts on reading works of art criticism; and preparations for Christmas. Also includes comments on leisure pursuits such as watching television, listening to the radio, and gardening; visits to art galleries, concerts, and the cinema; and various social engagements. Includes illustrated souvenir log from the R.M.S. "Pretoria Castle" voyage from Cape Town to Southampton (February-March 1958) and postcard of the R.M.S. "Pretoria Castle" with Cadogan's annotations.

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/30

Date:: 1959 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/31

Date:: 1960 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/32

Date:: 1961 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/33

Date:: 1962 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/34

Date:: 1963 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/35

Date:: 1964 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/36

Date:: 1965 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/37

Date:: 1966 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/38

Date:: 1967 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Diary

Reference Code:: ACAD 1/39

Date:: 1968 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Alexander and Theodosia Cadogan

Draft chapters for Cadogan's autobiography, up until the outbreak of WW2

Reference Code:: ACAD 7/1

Date:: 1960 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan

Draft chapters for Cadogan's autobiography from WW2 onwards

Reference Code:: ACAD 7/2

Date:: 1960 (creation)

Collection:: The Papers of Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan

Memories and Reflections by AV Hill

Reference Code:: AVHL I 5/4

Description:: Comprising the original typescript

Collection:: The Papers of Professor A.V. Hill

Family papers

Reference Code:: BRME 14/5

Description:: Including a typescript autobiography; an outline, synopsis and drafts of "Spunyarn", reminiscences from Jackie Broome's life and family history; a chronology giving details of the lives of Louis Egerton Broome and Clara Kathleen (Aimée) Lake (parents) and Frederick Napier Broome (grandfather); and other research notes for "Spunyarn".

Collection:: The Papers of Jackie Broome

Joan Bullock-Anderson memories

Reference Code:: CCRF/151/58

Date:: 2023-07 (creation)

Description:: The memories of Joan Bullock-Anderson, the first College Archivist at Churchill College. Memories include her work, colleagues in College and the Archives Centre, Directorship interviews, and work in other Cambridge archives.

Collection:: Official Archive of Churchill College

Diary

Reference Code:: HNKY 1/1

Date:: 1915-03-04-1917-04-29 (creation)

Description:: Maurice Hankey’s diary from March 1915 to April 1917 during which time he worked as Secretary of the War Council and from 1916, Secretary of the War Cabinet. Most of the diary is written by Maurice, but the first month is written by Adeline on Maurice’s behalf, as well as on a few other occasions. Also includes annotations by Stephen Roskill, cross-referencing the diary entries with Maurice Hankey’s ‘The Supreme Command, 1914-1918’. For loose diary pages for 26 Mar-5 Apr 1916 and 2-9 Jan 1917, see HNKY 1/2. Topics for 1915 include: discussions regarding rearmament; proposed Russian attack on Constantinople; the Dardanelles military campaign; accounts of meetings with colleagues (including Arthur Balfour, John Fisher, Herbert Kitchener, King George V; Winston Churchill; Edward Grey, Edwin Montagu; Douglas Haig; Henry Wilson; William Robertson; Arthur Bigge; Reginald Esher; Noel Buxton, Austen Chamberlain); dispute between John Morley and Richard Haldane; visiting the trenches in Ypres; meetings of the Turkey Committee; heated discussions with Mark Sykes; Fisher’s resignation; the Prime Minister's response to the coalition government; attending the First Calais Conference; discussions on National Service with Reginald McKenna; reflections on Cabinet reports; first meeting of the War Committee; George Curzon’s resignation form the Cabinet; helping Bonar Law with military affairs; attending conferences in Paris; suspicions about [Aristide] Briand [French Prime Minister] and French military strategy; the Prime Minister’s dislike for Kitchener; evacuation of Cape Helle; the creation of a separate war committee. Also includes brief comments about Adeline’s movements (such as supporting her mother and preparing Maurice for various trips) and family outings. Topics for 1916 include: meeting with Walter Runciman to discuss financial aspects of military strategy; attending the Military Finance Committee; receiving the Office de Legion d’Honours; preparations for submarine campaign against Germany; work as Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence; receiving the Knight Commander (KCB) from the Prime Minister; meetings with Sir Douglas Haig, David Lloyd George, Harold Baker, Henry Hobhouse, Luigi Cadorna [Italian Commander in Chief]; attending meetings of Lord Derby’s War Air Committee, Prime Minister’s Peace Book Committee; conferences in Paris and Rome; preparing speech notes on the introduction of conscription of married men; coaching Bonar Law for debate; attending meetings of the Reconstruction Committee; frustrations with General Staff; argument with Balfour on international arbitration; seeing trials of Caterpillar tractors; Hankey’s role as intermediary between the Prime Minister [Asquith] and the Admiralty; naval losses; Kitchener’s death; attending conference in France; defending Lloyd George against the King [George V]; visiting ships damaged in the Battle of Jutland; the death of Adeline and Maurice’s daughter during childbirth; working on Dardanelles enquiry; death of Maurice’s brother, Donald who was killed in action; attending conference in Boulogne; frustrations at arranging War Council meetings; discussions about rationing; meeting journalists; political crisis between Asquith and Lloyd George; Lloyd George becoming Prime Minister; setting up of, and thoughts on, new War Cabinet. Topics for 1917 include: Attending the Anglo-French Conference and conference in Rome; frustrations at Lloyd George cancelling meetings; Lloyd George’s anger towards Neville Chamberlain and complaints about Haig; anti-submarine warfare; agricultural policy; attending the Calais Conference; responses to proposal to place British army under French command [under the French General Robert Nivelle]; disagreements between Haig and Nivelle; attack on Hankey by the ‘National News’; Dominion Premiers attending Cabinet meeting; preparations for Imperial War Cabinet; invasion of Palestine; frustrations at War Council meetings; Colonial Office excluding Hankey from King’s Luncheon; travelling to Paris and Calais.

Collection:: The Papers of Maurice Hankey

Diary

Reference Code:: HNKY 1/2

Date:: 1916-1917 (creation)

Description:: Loose diary pages for 26 Mar-5 Apr 1916; 2-9 Jan 1917.

Collection:: The Papers of Maurice Hankey

Diary

Reference Code:: HNKY 1/3

Date:: 1917-04-30-1918-07-19 (creation)

Description:: Maurice Hankey’s diary from April 1917 to July 1918, during which time he worked as Secretary to the War Cabinet. Diary entries for the following periods were bound in a separate volume (HNKY 1/4): 31st October – 17th November 1917; 26th November – 2nd December 1917; 21st January – 4 February 1918; 22nd – 26th March 1918; 2nd – 3rd April 1918; 31st May – 4th June 1918;1st – 5th July 1918. Topics for 1917 include: [David] Lloyd George’s Admiralty Enquiry; War Cabinet Meetings; attending conference in Paris; creation of new department on shipbuilding headed up by [Eric] Geddes (Shipping Controller); articles published on submarine warfare; reflections on the efficiency of his office; suspicions that Hankey had leaked War Cabinet minutes; description of his workload; disputes between Lloyd George, [William] Robertson and [Douglas] Haig over attack on the Belgian Front; [John] Jellicoe’s pessimism over shipping; argument with Geddes over Lloyd George revealing confidential information; Maurice’s interview with the Shipping Controllers Committee; Lloyd George’s invitation to Maurice to become first Sea Lord; Mesopotamia Commission; military offensive in the Balkans; air raids in London; changes to the War Cabinet; Lloyd George calling for attack on Italian Front; writing report on War Policy and line taken at the Inter-Allies Peace Conference; meeting Winston Churchill [Minister of Munitions]; attending Paris conference; movement of troops to Egypt; [Ramsay] MacDonald travelling to Paris; overhaul of War Cabinet work; discussing separate peace with Bulgaria; Flander’s offensive; Maurice’s holiday in Eastbourne; Anglo-French conference; [Arthur] Henderson’s resignation; Lloyd George reporting to War Cabinet about secret peace negotiation between France and Austria; Maurice’s thoughts on women leaking military secrets to the enemy; Mark Sykes’s guarantee to the Seamen and Fireman’s Union; persuading Geddes and Lord Darby not to resign; Italian offensive; drafting letters for Lloyd George to send to President Wilson; [Ferdinand] Foch’s visit relating to the Italian offensive; military action in Turkey; opening peace negotiations with Germany; conference at Boulogne; helping the French to set up War Committe; visiting Haig’s headquarters; discussion with George Buchanan [Ambassador in Petrograd] over peace negotiations; Ursula [Maurice’s daughter] suffering from appendicitis and praise for Adeline’s [Maurice’s wife] response; military developments in Turkey and Syria; receiving the French Legion d'Honneur; attending inaugural weekend at Chequers; Lord Derby’s proposal to make [Herbert] Asquith Ambassador in Paris; split between war generals; criticisms of Jellicoe’s response to Norwegian convoy; evacuating Italian territory; [Luigi] Cardona’s defeat; proposal for Inter-Allied Council; plan for League of Nations International War Cabinet; British response to Bolsheviks; Geddes becoming Director of Allied Transport; 2nd report of the Dardanelles Commission; Maurice’s frustrations with the War Office. Topics for 1918 include: Meeting Sidney and Beatrice Webb; naval policy; Robertson’s resignation; War Council removing Embassy from Petrograd; Japanese intervention in Siberia; giving evidence to Lord Haldane’s committee on reconstruction of government; Haig not providing quotas demanded of Executive War Board; German attacks; conscription in Ireland; [Alfred] Milner’s criticisms of the War Cabinet; Man Power Bill; incorporation of US troops in British brigades; appointment of committee to draw up Irish Home Rule Bill; removal of [Hugh] Trenchard [as Chief of Air Staff] and replacement by Sykes; Adeline feeling run down; Lloyd George’s decision to add Austin Chamberlain to the War Cabinet; possible evacuation of Channel Ports; German peace offensive; newspaper reports on Lloyd George and Bonar Law giving false statements to House of Commons; reflections on Lloyd George’s private meetings alongside that of the War Cabinet; holiday in Whitstable; [John] Seeley’s lack of confidence in Haig; evacuation of Ypres and Dunkirk and possible withdrawal of army from France; outburst from Lord Robert Cecil against War Cabinet’s conduct relating to Japanese intervention; Robert Borden’s criticisms of military efforts in Northern France; Lloyd George meeting the Japanese Ambassador; Italian victory; drafting paper on Allied intervention in Russia; escalation in Palestine; President Wilson’s intervention proposals; [Winston] Churchill’s desire to fight in France; development of relationships with Dominion Prime Ministers and Cabinet; concluding remarks on contents of diary.