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 Cecil Jacob's diary
Cecil Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/32
Date:
1958-11-19-1959-02-28, 1958-9 (creation)
Description:
Comprising business trips with her husband, Ian Jacob, to Munich, 19-25 November 1958, and to India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada, 24 January-28 Februry 1959. With black-and-white and colour postcards, an opera programme, and other printed ephemera from Munich. Also with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white and colour postcards, pressed flowers, and other printed ephemera from India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada. Including black-and-white photographs of Ian and Cecil Jacob in Singapore, February 1959 (2).
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Cecil and Ian Jacob's diary
Cecil and Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/33
Date:
1959-05-1972-02, 1959-60, 1972 (creation)
Description:
Comprising Cecil Jacob's diary of business trips with her husband, Ian Jacob, to the European Broadcasting Union Conference in Rome, 29 May-1 June 1959, to Lisbon, 19-24 November 1959, and to the European Broadcasting Union Conference in Geneva , 1-12 February 1960. Also including Ian Jacob's diary of a holiday in Spain and Morocco, 15 February-1 March 1972. With black-and-white and colour postcards and other printed ephemera.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Cecil and Ian Jacob's diary
Cecil and Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/34
Date:
1960-1967, 1960, 1965, 1967 (creation)
Description:
Comprising Cecil Jacob's diary entries about a business trip with her husband, Ian Jacob, to the European Broadcasting Union Conference in Vienna, 27-30 May1960, and Ian Jacob's diary entries about motoring holidays to Sauveterre-de-Comminges, in the French Pyrénées, with their friends, Charity and Bob Powell, 9-29 August 1965, to Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset 18-30 April 1967), and to Scotland and the Lake District, 3-15 October 1967. With black-and-white and colour postcards, an opera programme, and other printed ephemera Also with a black-and-white group photograph of Cecil Jacobs and other wives attending the European Broadcasting Union Converence visiting the Shönbrunn Palace in Vienna, [1960].
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Cecil Jacob's diary
Cecil Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/35
Date:
1960-10-28-1961-06-01, 1960-1 (creation)
Description:
Comprising business trips with her husband, Ian Jacob, to the European Broadcasting Union Conference in Geneva, and a holiday afterwards at Lake Lugano and Lake Como, 28 October-8 November 1960, to the European Broadcasting Union Conference in Madrid, 24-28 November 1960, and to Copenhagen, 1-5 June 1961. With black-and-white and colour postcards. Also with a black-and-white photograph of Ian Jacob bowling at the bowling alley at CERN [European Organization for Nuclear Research] during their trip to Switzerland, [1960].
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/36
Date:
1962-08-29-1964-07-09, 1962, 1964 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a motoring holiday to Sauveterre-de-Comminges, in the French Pyrénées, 29 August-25 September 1962, and a sailing holiday in the Netherlands, 2-9 July1964. With black-and-white and colour postcards and other printed ephemera.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/37
Date:
1964-08-19-1969-04-08, 1964, 1969 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a motoring holiday with their friends, Charity and Bob Powell, to Geneva, 19 August-9 September 1964, and a holiday in Florence, 1-8 April 1969. With colour postcards.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/38
Date:
1966-02-15-1973-05-24, 1966, 1973 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a business trip on behalf of EMI [Electric and Musical Industries] to New Zealand travelling out via Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Fiji, and back via Australia and Canada, 15 February-21 March 1966, and a holiday on Sark, in the Channel Islands, 14-24 May 1973. With colour postcards, a press cutting, and other printed ephemera.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/39
Date:
1970-02-21-1975-06-03, 1970, 1971, 1975 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a holiday in Majorca, 21 February-15 March 1970, a trip to Canada to give a lecture to the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Edmonton, 10 May-1 June 1971, and a holiday in Porto Santo Stefano, travelling via Geneva, 25 May-3 June 1975. With colour postcards.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB 1/40
Date:
1976-01-04-1982-10-16, 1976, 1978, 1982 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a holiday at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, 4-11 January 1976, a motoring holiday to Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, 28 June-12 July 1978, a holiday in Gibraltar, 1-6 September 1982, and a motoring holiday to Dorset and Somerset, 8-16 October 1982. With colour postcards and other printed ephemera.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Jacob's autobiography
Jacob's autobiography
Reference Code:
JACB 5/1
Date:
1963 (creation)
Description:
Draft synopsis.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of "Memories"
"Memories"
Reference Code:
JACB 5/2
Date:
1960-1969 (creation)
Description:
Manuscript draft autobiography, mainly about the war with some post-war memories.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Draft autobiography
Draft autobiography
Reference Code:
JACB 5/3
Date:
1970 (creation)
Description:
Typescript.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary of the Atlantic Conference
Ian Jacob's diary of the Atlantic Conference
Reference Code:
JACB II 5/1
Date:
1941-08, 3-18 August 1941 (creation)
Description:
Comprising loose leaf typescript pages, with manuscript annotations, marked 'Unamended copy'.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary of the First Quebec Conference
Ian Jacob's diary of the First Quebec Conference
Reference Code:
JACB II 5/2
Date:
1943-08, 4-28 August 1943 (creation)
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary of BBC visits to Germany and Denmark
Ian Jacob's diary of BBC visits to Germany and Denmark
Reference Code:
JACB II 5/3
Date:
1947-07, undated, 1947 (creation)
Description:
Comprising loose leaf manuscript pages of brief diary entries about a visit on behalf of the BBC to Germany, 2-11 October undated, and typescript pages of brief diary entries about a visit on behalf of the BBC to Denmark, 8-26 July 1947.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB II 5/4
Date:
1975-1978, 1975-8 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a 1976 Letts diary in which Ian Jacob wrote brief daily diary entries mostly covering the years from 1975 to 1978.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB II 5/5
Date:
1979-1982, 1979-82 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a 1979 dataday diary in which Ian Jacob wrote brief daily diary entries mostly covering the years from 1979 to 1982. With a press cutting.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB II 5/6
Date:
1983-1984, 1983-4 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a 1983 Collins diary in which Ian Jacob wrote brief daily diary entries covering the years from 1983 to 1984.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB II 5/7
Date:
1985-1986, 1985-6 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a 1985 Letts diary in which Ian Jacob wrote brief daily diary entries mostly covering the years from 1985 to 1986. With a press cutting.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB II 5/8
Date:
1987 (creation)
Description:
Comprising brief daily diary entries written on loose leaf pages. Written on the reverse of pages used for the address labels of Ian Jacob's copies of the Radio Times and the Listener.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Ian Jacob's diary
Ian Jacob's diary
Reference Code:
JACB II 5/9
Date:
1988-01-01-1988-11-29, 1988 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a 1988 dataday diary used for intermittent brief daily entries.
Collection:
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Miniature of Memoir
Memoir
Reference Code:
KBRM 2
Date:
2019-08 (creation)
Description:
Memoir of Katharine Broome's work with the Churchills, including working at Chartwell [Kent] and various important dinners and events, particularly Churchill's 80th birthday, the presentation of Graham Sutherland's portrait of him as a gift from Parliament, his retirement as Prime Minister the following year and the 1955 General Election.
Collection:
The Papers of Katharine Broome
Miniature of Poland
Poland
Reference Code:
KNNY 1/5
Date:
1918-12-20-1919-01-26 (creation)
Description:
Comprising a diary of the Paris Peace Conference written in Paris, Berne and Warsaw and concerning negotiations over Poland written when Rowland Kenney was Assistant Commissioner in the British Mission to Poland.
Collection:
The Papers of Rowland Kenney and Kit Kenney
Miniature of Admiralty diary of Commander Michael G. Goodenough, 1939-1941
Admiralty diary of Commander Michael G. Goodenough, 1939-1941
Reference Code:
MISC 117
Date:
2023-01-24 (creation)
Description:
Commander Michael Grant Goodenough RN joined Admiralty Plans Division on 28 August 1939. Within barely a week, Britain had declared war on Germany and Winston Churchill had become First Lord of the Admiralty, returning to the position he had been forced to relinquish in 1915. In October 1939, having served for a few weeks at the Admiralty, Michael Goodenough bought a large, soft-back foolscap notebook in which he started a diary that he kept until June 1941. The original manuscript is held by the Goodenough family. This transcript was prepared in 2020 by his eldest son, Sir Anthony Goodenough (born in 1941, a month after the diary ends). Sir Anthony’s brother Simon (born in 1945) contributed to this work. The diary has been edited to remove most family material as well as a few personal remarks on colleagues. This is a full PDF copy of the diary. A published hard copy exists in the Roskill Library at Churchill College.
Collection:
Churchill Archives Centre Miscellaneous Holdings
Miniature of Diary
Diary
Reference Code:
PEAK 1/1
Date:
1941-01-14-1941-12-26 (creation)
Description:
Diary covering Charles Peake’s time as Lord Halifax’s Personal Assistant from 14 January to 26 December 1941. Subjects covered for January include: travelling across America; attending church; Halifax’s love of corduroy trousers; drafting Halifax’s speeches; meeting US President [Franklin Roosevelt] on the destroyer; reflections on the use of oil and electricity in the ship’s kitchen; reviewing a delegation of American admirals; travelling to the US Embassy; Peake’s concern about Halifax’s deafness; Halifax’s frustrations over photographers choreographing him during photoshoots; the subjective nature of his diary-keeping; comparisons between British and American food; Halifax’s remarks on his wife’s [Dorothy Onslow Wood] happiness; Peake finding a new purpose in life; sharpening of Peake’s spiritual qualities; reflections on Dorothy; comments on keeping a diary. Subjects covered for February include: visiting zoo; American women’s party attire; exchanges between Lord and Lady Halifax; receiving Senator Byrnes [James F. Byrnes] and Speaker Rayburn [Samuel Rayburn]; Halifax’s memory of King George V approaching Ramsey MacDonald for wearing orders too far down coat; travelling to Baltimore; reflections on diary-keeping as a discipline inspired by Halifax; travelling to Charlottesville; observations on the architecture of the University of Virginia [United States]; Peake’s amusement at Halifax’s vocabulary; meeting the Crown Prince and Princess of Norway; Halifax’s unhappiness with Lend-Lease bill. Subjects covered for March include: flying to New York and Montreal [Canada]; meeting the Canadian press; discussions with Halifax over the use of Christian names in the family; dining with the mouth organist Larry Adler; arranging for Halifax to travel to Harvard to receive honorary degree; Halifax’s indiscretion with press correspondents in speech to the Pilgrims [Pilgrim’s Society]; travelling to Pennsylvania for Halifax to give a speech; attending meeting of Council of Foreign Relations at the Ritz; meeting film stars at Radio City [New York]; reflections on Halifax’s experiences at the Cheshire Hunt. Subjects covered for April include: Halifax’s difficult mood; Peake’s wife [Catherine] wanting him to return home; row between Halifax and his wife Dorothy over church attendance; reflections on keeping diary; Halifax’s advice to Peake to be more introspective; religion; travelling to New York; Halifax presenting medals to survivors of bomb damage; dining with Cornelius Vanderbilt; visiting housing settlement in Red Hook [New York]; celebrating Halifax’s birthday; writing Halifax’s speeches; visits to Georgia and Atlanta. Subjects covered for June include: inaugurating window in honour of the late Lord Halifax; arrival of Halifax’s family; Halifax dining with Republican senators; dining with Rhoda Clarke and Fanny Holtzman; fall of the British government and suggestion for Halifax to become Prime Minister which he declined; Halifax and Peakes’ low spirits; Halifax’s reading of ghost stories and memories of parents. Subjects covered for July include: preparing speech for Halifax on home defence; meeting Walter Lipmann; meeting journalists at The Telegraph; travelling to Chicago, LA and San Diego [United States]; Halifax briefly driving the train to LA; encountering female anti-war protesters during Halifax’s visit; visiting factories; Dorothy sending the 1000th bomber to Britain; travelling to San Francisco [United States]; visiting shipyards; visiting naval dockyard at Maine Island; travelling to Hollywood and Beverly Hills and meeting film stars; travelling to San Diego; joining Lady Halifax in reluctantly accompanying Lord Halifax on a fishing trip. Subjects covered for August include: Dorothy travelling to Montreal [Canada] in ‘The Liberator’; Halifax’s recollections on his great grand-father’s [Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey] marital affairs and illegitimate children. Subjects covered for September include: Halifax’s memories of Hugh Cecil [1st Baron Quickswood]; travelling to Lisbon and Azores [Portugal]; attending mass in a Portuguese Church; nightmares. Subjects covered for October include: heated argument between Peake and Halifax; travelling to Mirador [historic home in Greenwood, Virginia] and Virginia [United Sates], memories of fighting during the First World War; Halifax meeting with the Duke of Windsor [Edward VIII]; writing a speech on India; reflections on Russia. Subjects covered for November include: arriving into Montreal; staying at Ridean Hall [Ottawa, Canada]; Halifax’s speech to the Canadian Club; travelling to Norfolk county [Canada]; arriving at Old Parish Comfort; visiting Service Co-operative [US equivalent of NAAFI]; travelling onboard the aircraft carrier [HMS Illustrious] and colliding with the Formidable; meeting Arthur Talbot [Royal Naval Officer]; arriving back in Glasgow. Included in the back of this diary is a typescript review of ‘Roosevelt and Churchill 1939-41’ by Joseph P. Lash, ‘A Rendezvous with Destiny’ by Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, and ‘Churchill in America 1895-1961’ by Robert H. Pilpel. Comprising a ring-bound diary, mainly handwritten with a few typed pages.
Collection:
The Papers of Sir Charles Peake
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