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)

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Title (A-Z) Title (Z-A) Year (ascending) Year (descending) Reference Code (A-Z) Reference Code (Z-A)
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Miniature of Diary
Diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/4
Date:
1917-1918 (creation)
Description:
Loose diary pages for 31 Oct-17 Nov, 26 Nov-2 Dec 1917; 21 Jan-4 Feb, 22 Mar-3 Apr, 31 May-4 June, 1-5 July 1918.
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Diary
Diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/5
Date:
1918-07-20-1922-12-03 (creation)
Description:
Diary Vol. 3
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Diary
Diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/6
Date:
1918-1922 (creation)
Description:
Loose diary pages for 3-10 Oct, 25 Oct-27 Nov 1918; 20 July-17 Sept 1920; 26 Feb-4 Mar, 6-9 Mar 1921; 12-21 Dec 1922.
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Diary
Diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/7
Date:
1923-01-07-1942-08-31 (creation)
Description:
Diary Vol. 4. No entries for 1926-1928, 1930, 1936, 1940. See also HNKY 1/9.
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Diary
Diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/8
Date:
1923-1944 (creation)
Description:
Loose diary pages for 3 Feb. 1923; 12 Dec. 1927-13 Jan. 1928; 3-17 Dec. 1928; 26 Jan., 30 May, 4-28 Aug. 1929; 26 Sept.-3 Oct. 1931; 12-14 Jan. 1935; 19 & 20 Jan. 1936; 2 Oct. 1938; 7 & 25 May, 2 June 1944
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Egypt diary
Egypt diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/9
Date:
1939-01-11-1939-02-02 (creation)
Description:
Diary during visit to Suez Canal. Covers every aspect of the Company's organisation and work. Also describes all the leading personalities he met during the trip.
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Egypt diary
Egypt diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/10
Date:
1945-12-31-1946-02-18 (creation)
Description:
Diary during Hankey's visit to Egypt
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Egypt Diary
Egypt Diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/11
Date:
1947-1948 (creation)
Description:
Diary during number of visits to Suez Canal. 4 Jan-25 Feb 1947 and 11 Dec 1947-1942 Feb 1948. Notes of a visit to West Sussex by [Lady Hankey], 14-17 Apr 1936.
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Egypt Diary
Egypt Diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/12
Date:
1948-1950 (creation)
Description:
Diary during visits to Egypt. 18 Dec 1948-7 Mar 1949 and 2 Jan-7 Feb 1950.
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Letts' diary
Letts' diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/13
Date:
1954 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Letts' diary
Letts' diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/14
Date:
1955 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Letts' diary
Letts' diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/15
Date:
1956 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Letts' diary
Letts' diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/16
Date:
1957 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Letts' diary
Letts' diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/17
Date:
1959 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Letts' diary
Letts' diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/18
Date:
1960 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Collins' Paragon Diary
Collins' Paragon Diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/19
Date:
1961 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Engagement diaries
Engagement diaries
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/13A
Date:
1941-1943 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Engagement diary
Engagement diary
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/13B
Date:
1944 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Engagement diaries
Engagement diaries
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/13C
Date:
1945-1949 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Engagement diaries
Engagement diaries
Reference Code:
HNKY 1/13D
Date:
1950-1952 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Miniature of Ian Jacob's notebook
Ian Jacob's notebook
Reference Code:
JACB 1/1
Date:
1917-1931, 1917-31 (creation)
Description:
Including lists of personal possesions, 1919; accounts of insurance, 1920-6; accounts of investments, 1919-27; a list of significant dates in his life, 1917-31; accounts of income and expenditure, 1920, 1927; accounts of the running costs of a car, 1923-5; and a list of wedding presents, [1924]
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian and Cecil Jacob's diary
Ian and Cecil Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/2
Date:
1924-08-27-1925-11-19, 1924-5 (creation)
Description:
Mainly written by Ian Jacob, with a small number of entries by Cecil Jacob, beginning with their wedding day on 27 August 1924 and including their honeymoon in Devon and Cornwall, August-September 1924; their daily life in Cambridge and Woodbridge in Suffolk, September 1924-August 1925; a visit to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, September 1924; visits to the theatre, concerts, ballet, and sporting events, September 1924-November 1925; Ian Jacob playing golf, hockey, cricket and tennis, September 1924-November 1925; various occasion at King's College, Cambridge, where Ian Jacob was a student, September 1924-June 1925; a golfing holiday in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France, December 1924-January 1925; the purchase of a radio 'crystal set', January 1925; a conversazione at Cambridge University Engineering Department, March 1925; Ian Jacob's exams in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos at Cambridge University and his graduation ceremony, June 1925; the birth and baptism of their son, John Claud Jacob, June-July 1925; a tennis holiday in Aldeburgh in Suffolk, July-August 1925; moving to Gillingham Green in Kent and Ian Jacob starting at the Royal School of Military Engineering at Chatham, September 1925 Also including black-and-white photographs of Cecil Jacob, Stafford House in Aldeburgh, and 'John, Connie + Binks' at the Bungalow in Gillingham Green. With press cuttings, black-and-white and colour postcards, theatre, concert, ballet and sports programmes, and other printed ephemera.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian and Cecil Jacob's diary
Ian and Cecil Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/3
Date:
1925-11-20-1927-06-12, 1925-7 (creation)
Description:
Written by Ian Jacob about his and his wife Cecil Jacob's daily lives, including his work at the Royal School of Military Engineers at Chatham and their domestic life at Gillingham Green in Kent, November 1925-September 1926, and Woodbridge in Suffolk, November 1925-June 1927; visits to the theatre, ballet, comic opera, exhibitions, cinema and sporting events, November 1925-June 1927; a backstage tour of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, with a friend of Cecil's who was in the cast, January 1926; Ian Jacob playing hockey and Ian and Cecil Jacob playing golf and tennis, December 1925-June 1927; a visit to RAF Halton for a sporting fixture, January 1926; a levée at St James's Palace where Ian Jacob was presented to King George V, February 1926; King George V's visit to the Corps of Royal Engineers at Chatham, March 1926; the General Strike, May 1926; a military exercise and a holiday on Dartmoor in Devon, June-July1926; a holiday at Glangrwyney Court near Abergavenny in Wales and at Swanage in Dorset, August 1926; moving to Farnborough in Hampshire, where Ian Jacob had been posted to the 12th Field Company of the Royal Engineers, September 1926; a demonstration of tanks at Camberley, November 1926; a New Year's Eve party on board HMS Revenge at Portsmouth, December 1926; a skiing holiday at Grindelwald in Switzerland, January 1927; acting as A.D.C. to his father, Field Marshal Claud Jacob, at the presentation of colours to the 2nd Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment at Colchester in Essex, March 1927; moving to another house in Farnborough, April 1927; and a flight in a Bristol fighter, May 1927. With theatre, ballet, comic opera and sports programmes, press cuttings, and other printed ephemera.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian and Cecil Jacob's diary
Ian and Cecil Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/4
Date:
1927-06-13-1928-10-25, 1927-8 (creation)
Description:
Written by Ian Jacob about his and his wife Cecil Jacob's daily lives, including his work with 12th Field Company of the Royal Engineers, June 1927-; Ian Jacob playing cricket, rugby and hockey and Ian and Cecil Jacob playing tennis and golf, July 1927-; visits to the theatre, cinema and sporting events, July 1927-; domestic life at Woodbridge in Suffolk, July 1927-, and Farnborough in Hampshire, July 1927-June 1928; a military exercise near Didcot in Oxfordshire, August-September 1927; the theft of a suitcase from their car in London, October 1927; Ian Jacob fox cubbing and hunting, September 1927-March 1928, and riding in a point-to-point, April 1928; car maintenance, December 1927 and February 1928; heavy winter snowfall, December 1927; Ian Jacob's grandparents' diamond wedding anniversary in Cambridge, February 1928; a tour of the battlefields of Mons and Le Cateau in Belgium, March 1928; With theatre and sports programmes, a menu, press cuttings, and other printed ephemera. Also with press cuttings of stills from the film "Chang: a Drama of the Wilderness", about wildlife in Thailand, January 1928; and a black-and-white photograph of the competitors in the point-to-point, the Royal Engineers' Light-Weight Challenge Cup, April 1928.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Illustrated personal diary
Illustrated personal diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/5
Date:
1928-10-26-1930-07-08 (creation)
Description:
Of both Ian and Cecil Bisset Jacob (written by Ian Jacob)
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
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