Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives Information for potential donors & depositors

 1 Trustees

Professor Michael S Goodman FRHistS Geoffrey Browell BA MA PhD FSA Chairman, Head of Department of War Head of Archives and Research Collections Studies, Dean of Research Impact, King’s College Kate O’Brien BA DipArch Archives Collections Manager Professor Edward Byrne AC Vice-Chairman, Principal and President of Catherine Williams BA PGCE MSc King’s College London Archives Services Manager

Lord Geidt GCB GCVO OBE QSO PC Jessica Borge BA MA PhD FKC Digital Collections (Scholarship) Manager Chairman of Council, King’s College London Frances Pattman BA MLitt Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman KCMG Archives Collections Coordinator OBE BA (Econ) BPhil DPhil FBA PC FKC Diana Manipud BA MA DipARM Senior Archives Assistant Nik Gowing Katrina DiMuro BSc MA DipARM Professor Sir David Omand GCB Archives Assistant

Norma Percy BA FRTS

Brigadier Zac Stenning, Head of Military Strategy, MoD

Professor Andrew Stewart FHEA FRHistS

Lis Hannon Director, Libraries & Collections, King’s College London

2 themed presentations and seminars for What is the groups of students and external visitors. An annual Liddell Hart lecture has been Liddell Hart Centre for given since 1988 by notable speakers including Sir Max Hastings, Gen Sir Military Archives? Michael Rose, Professor Richard Holmes and Sir Jeremy Isaacs. The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives serves as an archive repository for the papers and associated digital archives of senior defence personnel, Why King’s College authors and commentators on international security and defence policy. The Centre London is an also collects archives relating to television documentaries made by independent appropriate place for production companies. Founded in 1964, the Centre was in the vanguard of military archives repositories and museums which actively sought out private papers in the defence Established in 1829 King’s College field, following early discussion with the London is one of the oldest and largest Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office colleges in London, with a staff of 8,000 about how it should operate with regard to and nearly 30,000 students. Military official secrecy. Studies have been taught in the College Since that time over 800 officers and/or since 1927, and in 1953 a Department of their families, including several Chiefs of War Studies, the first in the country, was Staffs, have entrusted papers to established. It now enjoys an international the Centre's care and about 30 new named reputation for excellence in scholarship collections are added each year. The and research. The Centre works with War Centre actively collects material relating Studies, the History Department, the to events from the late nineteenth century Department of Political Economy and the to the present day. cross-disciplinary internationally based The Centre is regularly used by African Leadership Centre, Lau historians, analysts, students and members Institute and King’s India Institute, of the public from all over the world and supporting undergraduate and postgraduate has a reputation for excellence in the field teaching and research in subjects including of military archives. traditional military history, the history of The Centre also undertakes a number of empire, analysis of the arms trade, strategic outreach activities to promote knowledge theory, and international relations. and use of the collections, including digitisation of selected original material to allow online access worldwide, and

3 Why you should What are the benefits consider placing to me, my family, or archives in the my organisation in Liddell Hart Centre for placing archives in the Military Archives Centre?

Archives are the raw material of history, Apart from the confidence of knowing that the contemporary witness. As such they archives will be well cared for and will be serve as the source to which generations of available for study in perpetuity, there are scholars, writers and others with a simple several potential benefits for you and your interest in what happened may return time family. Disordered archives will be and time again to seek understanding and catalogued and information contained to judge the appropriateness of made more readily available to both you or interpretations offered by their peers and your family. Access to papers may be predecessors. As a unique and provided without inconvenience to you, irreplaceable part of our national heritage and letters from enquirers may be they deserve the highest quality of forwarded directly to the Centre for professional care. response. Both gifts and permanent loan At King's this means that the archives arrangements are possible and the terms of will be carefully arranged and catalogued both, including the handling of copyright, to facilitate the easy identification of are set out plainly in deposit agreements. information, including internet access, and These are available for review, discussion will be stored in conditions which broadly and amendment by donors, depositors and/ meet the British Standard PD5454 for the or their solicitors. preservation of archives. They will also be If you would find it helpful, the made available for consultation in ways Trustees of the Centre are also willing to which ensure that they are not damaged, advise on issues of sensitivity. In some stolen or misplaced. King’s Archives was cases it may be appropriate to close papers awarded Archive Service Accreditation by for agreed periods of time to reflect the The National Archives in 2016. closures of related official papers and/or to Personal data and sensitive personal protect the privacy of named individuals. data in the papers are held and processed The Centre's staff are also available to for archiving purposes in the public assist with transfer arrangements where interest in accordance with the General this would be helpful, including visiting Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and you to provide general advice, preliminary Data Protection Act 2018. sorting in situ, actual collection or making arrangements for van hire.

4 A Mark II male , Cambrai, November 1917 (Lt Col Sir Albert Stern papers)

5 our policy to seek to detach papers which How do I know may form an integral part of a family archive of chiefly local interest. what you might be Where, however, archives are of predominantly military interest (the interested in? majority of cases in our experience) and alsoo c ntain some material relating to an The Centre's brief focuses on the military individual's post-service career or interests, and naval affairs and broader aspects of we would normally suggest that the international security of the twentieth archive should be kept together as a whole century. It includes papers concerning the at King's. nineteenth century junior service of Potential donors and depositors are officers who achieved senior rank after welcome to telephone the Centre if some 1900. It covers all the armed services, preliminary discussion would be useful. including the special services, and all wars, campaigns and peacekeeping initiatives in which British forces were engaged or acted as observers or specialist advisers. Also Who will be able to collected are the private papers of civilians concerned with defence policy and use the archives and can international security as either public I control use? servants or authors. Some indicative lists of our subject strengths and near Excepting closed material, and unsorted contemporary interests are given at the end material awaiting cataloguing, the archives of this leaflet but these are by no means are made available to anyone with a good exhaustive. reason for wishing to see them provided The Centre holds many types of they supply appropriate identification. material: diaries, correspondence, The Centre is open during office hours, including family letters where they contain Tuesday to Friday, except for bank information of military interest, working holidays, a small number of extra days at papers and files, texts of lectures, Christmas when the College is closed, and memoranda, unpublished memoirs, audio for one week each in September and and video tapes of events and January when the Centre closes for recollections, transcripts of interviews, stocktaking. Donors, depositors and their photographs, maps and plans and families will always be welcome to visit collections of press cuttings may all be of the Centre and use the material but we significance and value. It does not would appreciate some notice by telephone necessarily matter that these may have and some evidence of identity from survived as isolated documents since it is members of the family whom we have not often the case that a composite picture will met. emerge when several related items are put The Centre’s website, www.kcl.ac.uk/ together. Archive staff are also developing archives, gives freely available access to a secure preservation service for modern summary descriptions of virtually all the electronic data which will allow us to collections, and approximately 70 detailed accept and provide access to electronic catalogues of the largest and most deposits where these form part of a significant. collection. The Centre does not charge for access We are aware that the subject matter of nor for the provision of guidance about particular collections, on occasion, may sources. It does, however, recover the extend beyond the military field. It is not costs of its reprographic services, and

6 reserves the right to charge for research • Leverhulme Foundation support to commercial companies. • London Centre for Arts and All readers wishing to quote material Cultural Exchange from the archives are required to inform • Museums Libraries and Archives the Trustees of the Centre of their wish to Council do so, with details of the collection and the type of material that they wish to quote. If The Trustees of the Centre and College are the quotation does not run to more than most grateful to all the individuals and 200 words, and does not relate to recent organisations who have supported the events or matters of enduring sensitivity it Centre's work by giving or loaning is now usual for the donor's/depositor's archives and providing support for the permission for publication to be assumed. maintenance and preservation of this Authors will automatically be required to unique resource. seek permission of copyright holders for Further donations to support our work longer extracts. The Trustees will also will always be welcome and put to good wish to see relevant portions of finished use. King's College London is a charity texts whichn i clude recent or sensitive exempt from registration under Schedule 2 material. Whether donors and depositors of the Charities Act 1993. wish to see texts citing older or more recent or sensitive material ois f r them to decide. Liddell Hart Centre for Military As an academic institution our guiding Archives principle is straightforward: that use King's College London should be accurate and fair. Strand London WC2R 2LS

How is the Centre Tel: 020 7848 2015 / 1867 funded? E mail: [email protected] Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/archives The Centre is an integral part of King's 2020 College London and part of Libraries & Collections within Students & Education Directorate. Core funding is therefore provided by the College. Additionally, the Centre has benefitted from the generous support of a number of grant awarding and charitable bodies, notably including:

• Esmee Fairburn Charitable Trust • Ford Foundation • Heritage Lottery Fund • Higher Education Funding Council for Capt Basil Liddell Hart’s autograph, 1951 • John D and Catherine T MacArthur (Gp Capt RB Ward papers) Foundation • Joint Information Systems Committee

7 Topics for which the , 1915 Lt Col E A Bray Centre has major Cdr E A Burrows Capt E W Bush holdings of Brig P H Cadoux-Hudson significance Col Sir Henry Darlington Gen Sir Beauvoir de Lisle Boer War, 1899-1902 Gen Sir Alexander Godley FM Viscount Allenby Gen Sir Ian Hamilton Capt John Archer Lt Gen Sir William Marshall Maj Gen Sir George Aston Brig Sir Hugh Simpson-Baikie Lt Gen Sir Edward Bethune W E Slingsby Col H J Blagrove Capt P A Clive and armoured warfare, 1915 Maj Gen Hubert Isacke onwards Gen Sir Neville Lyttelton Lt Col J M Blakiston-Houston Brig R M Poore Maj Gen J F C Fuller Maj Gen Sir Percy Hobart World War One: High Command Capt Sir Basil Liddell Hart Lt Col Sir Reginald Benson AVM S W B Menaul Lt Gen Sir Sidney Clive Lt Col Sir Albert Stern Brig Philip Howell Maj Gen Sir Ernest Swinton Lt Gen Sir Launcelot Kiggell Adm Sir Frederick Tudor Maj Gen Sir Frederick Maurice FM Sir William Robertson Palestine and Israel, 1917- Maj Gen Sir Edward Spears FM Viscount Allenby Maj Gen J B Churcher Western Front, 1914-1918 Maj Gen C W Dunbar Brig C R Ballard Lt Col Pierce Joyce Gen Sir John Burnett-Stuart Brig G J de W Mullens Lt Gen Laurence Carr Gen Sir Harold Pyman Brig John Charteris Gen Sir Hugh Stockwell Lt Col K H Cousland The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs Col S L Cummins television documentary collection Brig Sir James Edmonds Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs Maj Gen C H Foulkes television documentary collection Gen Sir Francis Gathorne-Hardy Lt Col A L Gracie India, 1897-1947 Gen Sir Charles Grant Gen Sir William Bartholomew Brig H E Hopthrow Col A H Block Lt Col F H Lister Maj Gen I H F Boyd Col Sir George M'Crae Maj Gen Sir Thompson Capper Air Cdre J M Mason Gen Sir Frederick Campbell FM Sir Archibald Montgomery- Maj Gen R B Darkin Massingberd Maj Gen W A Dimoline Lt Gen Sir Lawrence Parsons Brig J W E Douglas-Scott-Montagu Sir Robin Rowell Lt Col Sir Cyril Hancock Col Sir Geoffrey Vickers Maj Gen Hubert Isacke Lt Col W T Willcox Lt Gen Sir Wilfred Lindsell

8 Col H L Mostyn-Owen British operations in Greece, Maj Gen Sir Ronald Penney 1940-1945 Lt Col V E O Stevenson-Hamilton Sir Geoffrey Chandler Capt S J Thomson RN Brig H V S Charrington Maj Gen Fitzgerald Wintour Lt Col J A Dobrski Maj Derek Dodson World War Two: High Command Brig A F Hely FM Viscount Alanbrooke Capt A H Lingen ACM Sir Robert Brooke-Popham Brig E C W Myers FM Sir John Dill Maj P F Nind Gen Lord Ismay Maj Ronald Prentice Lt Gen Sir Henry Pownall Lt Col K F Scott Col C M Woodhouse North Africa, 1940-1943 Lt Gen Sir Charles Allfrey North West Europe, 1944-1945 Maj Gen Sir Alexander Bishop Capt E W Bush, RN Lt Col Herbert Blount Maj Gen Sir Francis De Guingand Lt Col J D Hignett Gen Sir Miles Dempsey Maj Gen Sir Robert Laycock Lt Col W A Ebbutt Maj Gen A R Leakey Col G G Elliott Maj Gen H M Liardet Lt Gen Sir Humfrey Gale Maj Gen J M McNeill Gen Sir John Hackett Wing Cdr James Morton Sir Max Hastings Gen Sir Richard O'Connor Cdr P D Job Maj Gen Sir Michael O'Moore Creagh Brig Derek Mills-Roberts Maj Gen P G B Roberts Brig E E Mockler-Ferryman Brig H M Stanford Cdr Hugh Mulleneux Col J M Sym Gen Sir Harold Pyman Col G M Warrack Far East, 1940-1945 Chester Wilmot Brig W P B Ashton Col A G Woods Gp Capt P H Baldwin Lt Col N A Barber Nuclear weapons and strategy, 1945 Lt Col N R G Bosanquet onwards Lt Col H R Carmichael Sir Frank Cooper Maj Gen R H Dewing E R Drake Seager AM Sir Gerald Gibb Sir Laurence Martin Gen Sir Douglas Gracie Col W L M Messenger Maj Gen Desmond Harrison Col W M McCutcheon Lt Gen Sir Thomas Hutton AVM S W B Menaul Lt Col P F Kuhn-Regnier Sir Michael Quinlan Maj Gen J S Lethbridge Gen Sir William Scotter Gen Sir Frank Messervy The Nuclear Age, interview transcripts Lt Col T H Newey for Central Television documentary Lt Col O B M North series AVM R A Ramsay Rae Lt Col W L Slingsby , 1956 Wg Cdr T S Tull Maj Gen D A Beckett C A Vlieland Maj Gen J B Churcher Maj Gen F W E Fursdon

9 Gen Sir Hugh Stockwell Concentration camps, 1945 Maj Gen N F Vaux War crimes trials, 1945-1949 Control Commission, Germany and Falklands War, 1982 Austria, 1945-1949 Sir Frank Cooper Berlin airlift, 1948 Maj Gen F W E Fursdon NATO, 1949 onwards AM Tim Garden SHAPE, 1951 onwards Gen Lord D J Ramsbotham Malaya, 1951-1959 Kenya, 1951-1955 Former Yugoslavia, 1991-2002 Cyprus, 1955-1960 Death of Yugoslavia television Iran’s relations with the West, documentary collection 1979-2009 Maj Gen F W E Fursdon Anglo-American relations Gen Sir Martin Garrod Army education Lt Col J C G Mackinlay Army field manuals and doctrine publications Boundary commissions and surveying Other topics for which Civil military policing Cold War the Centre holds significant Conscription material Détente Disarmament Medicine Russo-Japanese war, 1904-1905 Psychology of warfare Royal Flying Corps, 1914-1918 Recruitment Royal Naval Air Service, 1914-1918 Training Anglo-French liaison, 1914-1918 Chemical warfare, 1915-1920 Battle of Jutland, 1916 Russia, 1918-1920 Major postwar topics Propaganda in Ireland, 1921 Welfare of ex-servicemen, 1920s and for which the Centre 1930s particularly welcomes Anglo-German relations, 1920s and 1930s further material Spanish Civil War, 1936 Test pilots, 1937-1959 The Centre already holds some collections Somaliland, 1938-1941 in the following areas, notably television BEF in and Belgium, 1940 documentary research material and , 1940 interviews Battle of Britain, 1940 Korean War, 1950-1953 Italy, 1943-1945 Northern Ireland, 1969 onwards Prisoners of war, 1940-1945 Falklands War, 1982 Commandos, 1940-1942 Gulf War, 1990-1991 SOE, 1940-1945 Former Yugoslavia, 1991-1996 Norway, 1940-1943 Battle of Crete, 1941 Arctic warfare training, 1941-1942 SAS, 1943-1945 Madagascar, 1942-1943 Jungle warfare training, 1943-1944

10 SOE personnel in the Alps, December 1944. 11 (Capt P V W R O’Regan papers) © King’s College London August 20D7