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Papers of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5120 Box 1(1)—[Additional] Box 20(20)
Dates:
1900-1977, undated.
Personal and literary papers and correspondence of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, with some personal papers and correspondence of Joan Leigh Fermor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13338/1-687
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of extensive correspondence from fans, friends and associates, including the poet Sir John Betjeman, painter Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and Leigh Fermor's principal publisher John 'Jock' Murray. There are also literary manuscripts and typescripts, often with numerous annotations and revisions, diaries, notebooks, photographs, articles and research papers concerning most aspects of his and Joan's life, work and interests, including wide-ranging material on the war, in...
Dates:
1818-2011, undated.
Personal and political correspondence of Walter E Elliot and of Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12267
Dates:
1912-1957, undated.
Personal and political papers of Eustace George Willis, Labour MP and Minister of State for Scotland, with some photographs and memorabilia.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13208
Scope and Contents
Personal and political papers, memorabilia and photographs, 1911–1976, of Labour politician Eustace George Willis (1903–1987). Willis was educated at the City of Norwich Secondary School. He served in the Royal Navy from 1919 until 1930. He was a bookseller and lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges from 1932 until 1964. Willis was elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North in the 1945 General Election but was defeated in 1950. He contested again Edinburgh...
Dates:
1911-1976.
Political and personal correspondence and papers of Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, including some papers of John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11884/1-359
Scope and Contents
These papers provide a very full and extensive record of the political and public career of Lady Tweedsmuir, particularly of Scottish politics from 1945 to 1974, and of foreign policy in the early 1970s in her areas of responsibility as Minister of State, for example, the 'Cod War' dispute with Iceland. Business papers include some relating to her directorship of the transatlantic Cunard Line, and the construction and launching of RMS ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’. Some papers of Lord Tweedsmuir,...
Dates:
Circa 1911-circa 1998.