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Diary
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Reference Code : - ACAD 1/9
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Date : - 1940 (creation)
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Description : - Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships within the Foreign Office and diplomatic service, including with Samuel Hore-Belisha and The Viscount Halifax; the work load at the Foreign Office and Cadogan's increasing strain; the crisis with the ice-free harbour at Narvik in Norway in April 1940; the intrigue surrounding a new prime minister and the invasion of Holland and Belgium in May 1940 as well as the general progress of war and the consequences of the fall of France in the summer of 1940.
Diary of Operation "Bracelet", the Middle East & Moscow
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Reference Code : - JACB 1/15
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Date : - 1942-08 (creation)
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Description : - Manuscript diary.
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Collection : - The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
Transcript of interview: Sir Laurence Bristow
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Reference Code : - DOHP 237
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Date : - 2023-2024 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Peter Hall
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Reference Code : - DOHP 89
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Date : - 2002 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Lord Renwick of Clifton
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Reference Code : - DOHP 33
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Date : - 1998 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Nina, Countess of Onslow
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Reference Code : - CHOH 1/ONSL
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Date : - 1986 (creation)
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Description : - Interview with Nina, Lady Onslow [earlier "Jo" Sturdee], former personal secretary (1941-45) and principal personal secretary (1945-53) to Winston Churchill.
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Collection : - Churchill Oral History
Letters from Margaret Malkin to her parents from the Paris Peace Conference
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Reference Code : - MALK 1/1/2
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Date : - 1919-11-1920-02 (creation)
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Description : -
With a letter from William Malkin to her parents, 21 December 1919.
Also with a piece of blue silk.
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Collection : - The Papers of William and Margaret Malkin
Diary
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Reference Code : - HNKY 1/1
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Date : - 1915-03-04-1917-04-29 (creation)
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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.
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Collection : - The Papers of Maurice Hankey
Transcript of interview: Christopher Long
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Reference Code : - DOHP 195
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Date : - 2018 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Stephen Lamport
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Reference Code : - DOHP 190
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Date : - 2020 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir John Holmes
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Reference Code : - DOHP 175
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Date : - 2018 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Dame Judith Macgregor
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Reference Code : - DOHP 192
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Date : - 2019-2020 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Michael Palliser
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Reference Code : - DOHP 37
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Date : - 1999 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Oral history: alumni
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Reference Code : - CCRF/141/6
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Description : - "The Earliest Alumni Reminisce." Recorded on 6 July 1996 at the Reunion Dinner, in the Cockcroft Room, Churchill College. A collection of about two dozen alumni from the earliest years, 1960-64. Interviewed by Mark Goldie. Designed to evoke their recollections of student life. Two 45 minute tapes, recorded on one side only, the first tape full, the second nearly full. Sound quality not very good: a single microphone picking up talk from a large body of people in a large room, with a good deal of coming and going. Also written summary (7pp)
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Collection : - Official Archive of Churchill College
Transcript of interview: Sir Michael Alexander
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Reference Code : - DOHP 34
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Date : - 1998 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Mervyn Brown
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Reference Code : - DOHP 18
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Date : - 1996 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Gill Bennett
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Reference Code : - DOHP 187
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Date : - 2019 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Terence Clark
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Reference Code : - DOHP 64
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Date : - 2002 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: David Colvin
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Reference Code : - DOHP 177
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Date : - 2017-08-2018 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir John Birch
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Reference Code : - DOHP 87
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Date : - 2004 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Ethel Cox
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Reference Code : - DOHP 181
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Date : - 2016 (creation)
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Description : - Mrs Cox's reminiscences, particularly on investigations into the leakage of information from the Embassy to German intelligence, partly by Elyesa Bazna ['Cicero'], the valet of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the British Ambassador to Turkey.
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Dame Anne Pringle
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Reference Code : - DOHP 168
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Date : - 2018 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Peter Ramsbotham
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Reference Code : - DOHP 44
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Date : - 2001 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: David Tatham
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Reference Code : - DOHP 161
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Date : - 2017 (creation)
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Transcript of interview: Sir Stephen Wall
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Reference Code : - DOHP 136
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Date : - 2010-2012 (creation)
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Description : - The majority of this interview deals with Britain's relations with Europe.
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Collection : - British Diplomatic Oral History Programme