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First World War Collections in the UK
A preliminary horizon-scan
Holding
institution
King’s College
London: Liddell
Hart Centre for
Military Archives
(specific)
King’s College
London: Liddell
Hart Centre for
Military Archives
(specific)
King’s College
London: Liddell
Hart Centre for
Military Archives
(specific)
University of
Leeds
University of
Leeds
University of
Leeds
University of
London: Royal
Veterinary
College
Item/ collection Link to website Brief description Region Type of
organisation
Papers of Maj
Gen Sir Edward
Louis Spears
(1886 - 1974)
Papers of Maj
Gen Sir Ernest
(Dunlop) Swinton
(1868 - 1951)
Private papers
of Brig Gen John
Walter Edward
Douglas-Scott-
Montagu, 2nd
Baron Montagu of
Beaulieu (1866-
1929)
www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/sp30-001.
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www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/sw50-001.
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www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/montagu/do70-0.
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Liddle Collection www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/liddle/
sumguide.htm
Leeds Russian
Archive
Marks and
Spencer Archive
Historical
collections of the
Royal Veterinary
College
Papers of Maj Gen Sir
Edward Louis Spears
(1886 - 1974). 15 boxes, 2
albums and a collection
of maps.
Papers of Maj Gen Sir
Ernest (Dunlop) Swinton
(1868 - 1951). In three
boxes: SWINTON B
printed books, manuals,
pamphlets; SWINTON C
correspondence, letter
books; SWINTON P
photographs.
Papers covering the life
of Brigadier General
Douglas-Scott-Montagu,
Member of Joint War
Air Committee (Inter-
Departmental Committee
on the Air Service) in 1916.
Private papers of over four
thousand men and women
who lived through the
First World War, grouped
by geographical area in
which they served, or by
the nature of their military
service.
www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/ A small number of
collections in this archive
relate to experiences
of men and women
during the First World
War. More broadly the
archive consists of
some 500 collections of
manuscripts, photographs
and other archival
material and a number
of printed books, which
document Russian history,
literature and culture and
Anglo-Russian contacts
in the 19th and 20th
centuries.
http://corporate.marksandspencer.com/
aboutus/ourhistory
Company archives
charting the history of
Marks and Spencer’s
business since 1884.
www.rvc.ac.uk/About/Museums/Museum.cfm Institutional records of the
Royal Veterinary College,
instrument and specimen
collections.
London region University
archives
London region University
archives
London region University
archives
Yorkshire University
archives
Yorkshire University
archives
Yorkshire University
archives
London region University
archives
Subject area Status Medium Key individuals Highlights or Detailed Description Hours of access Social Networking Online access Link to website Terms of use
Government and
politics
Government and
politics
Highly
significant
Highly
significant
Aerial warfare Highly
significant
Military service
(British)
Military service
(non-combat
experience)
and cultural
responses
Industries and
business
Highly
significant
Private papers Edward Louis Spears (1886
- 1974)
Private papers Ernest (Dunlop) Swinton
(1868 - 1951)
Private papers John Walter Edward
Douglas-Scott-Montagu
(1866-1929)
Private papers,
oral testimony,
photographic
collections,
newspapers and
works of art
Regular Private papers Leonid Andreev (1871-1919),
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)
Born 1886 as Edward Louis Spiers and gazetted to 11 Hussars, 1910. At the
outbreak of the First World War he was appointed liaison officer between
British C-in-C Sir John French, and General Charles Lanrezac of the French
5 Army. He was the Head of the British Military Mission, in Paris, in the years
between 1917-1920. He changed the spelling of his surname from Spiers to
Spears in 1918. He later became a Member of Parliament, first as a National
Liberal (1922-1924) and then as a Conservative (1931-1945). During the Second
World War he was the personal representative for the British Prime Minister
with the French Prime Minister, Paul Reynaud, May-Jun 1940, Head of British
Mission to General Charles de Gaulle, Jun 1940 and Head of Mission to Syria
and Lebanon, 1942-1944. Related papers: LHCMA holding include: Liddell Hart
papers: correspondence with Sir Basil Liddell Hart, 1931-1963, 1/649, 10/1968
and others; Alanbrooke 5/2/40; Fifty Years 4/15; Hamilton 13/103; numerous
correspondence with Gen Hastings Lionel Ismay in Ismay 4/31. St Antony’s
College Oxford, Middle East Centre; correspondence, diaries and papers relating
to the Middle East, 1940-1951; Cambridge University, Churchill Archives Centre:
correspondence, diaries and papers, [1915-1973]; House of Lords Record Office:
correspondence with Rt Hon William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook,
1940-1964 (Ref: BBK C/301); Liverpool Record Office: correspondence with the
17th Earl of Derby, 1918 (Ref: 920DER); Imperial War Museum, Department of
Manuscripts: correspondence with Sir Henry Wilson (Ref: HHW).
Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, (1868-1951), a long-serving officer
in the Royal Engineers, served as Deputy Director of Railway Transport in
1914. Between 1914 and 1917 he was an Assistant Secretary (Military) to the
Committee of Imperial Defence and War Cabinet. He was made a Lt Col in
1915 and a temporary Col, 1915-1917. In the long term, his most important
contribution to warfare was the idea of the tank. He raised Heavy Section,
Machine Gun Corps, 1916 and was made a Brevet Col in 1917. He was awarded a
CB, 1917 and retired in 1919, the same year he was made an Honorary Maj Gen.
(Later, he was the Controller of Information at the Department of Civil Aviation,
Air Ministry, 1919-1921. He was the Director of the Citroen Company in the years
between 1922 and 1951. He was created a KBE in 1923. Between 1925-1939
he was the Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University, whilst
simultaneously serving as Col Commandant of the Royal Tank Corps between
1934-1938.) Related papers: The papers of Brig Sir James Edward Edmonds
include correspondence with Swinton, 1919-1950 (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Edmonds).
The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with
Swinton, 1925-1949 (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Liddell Hart 1/670).
The Brynmore Jones Library, Hull University, have 62 letters and cards from
Swinton to O A Forsyth-Major, 1925-1947 (Ref: DFM). The papers of Maj Gen
Edward Louis Spears at the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College,
Cambridge University, contain correspondence with Swinton, 1922-1940 (Ref:
SPRS 1/323). The papers of Rufus Daniel Isaacs Reading, 1st Marquess of
Reading, include letters from Swinton, 1917-1925 (Ref: MSS Eur E 238, F 118).
Other papers can be found at the Royal Armoured Tank Museum
Member of Joint War Air Committee (Inter-Departmental Committee on the Air
Service) in 1916; Civil Aerial Transport Committee chaired by Alfred Charles
William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, 1917; President, Air Conference,
Guildhall, London, 1920. Related papers: National Motor Museum and Beaulieu
Palace House Archives.
Betram Ratcliffe (1893-1992) Personal papers of men who served in Aden, Africa, Burma, China, Egypt/
Palestine, India, Mesopotamia, the Pacific, Russia, Turkey, at Gallipoli, on the
Western Front, in Germany during the post-war occupation and in the Salonika
campaign. Personal papers of men who served in the Air Force, ANZAC
(Australia), ANZAC (New Zealand), Dunsterforce/ Caspian Naval Force, Royal
Navy/ Merchant Navy and women who served overseas. Papers of French and
German men who fought in the First World War. Personal papers of soldiers who
became prisoners of war and civilians who were interned at Ruhleben camp,
Germany. Also includes the personal papers of men who were Conscientious
Objectors or who worked in the Friends’ Ambulance Unit. Papers of men
and women active on the domestic front during the war and at the armistice
Papers and objects relating to Bertram Ratcliffe (1893-1992), nephew of Leeds
University Library’s great benefactor, Lord Brotherton. He was among the first
British soldiers to be wounded, at the Battle of the Marne in September 1914,
was captured by the Germans and imprisoned at Ingolstadt in Bavaria. A friend
in London attempted to send him this map of Bavaria soldered into a sardine
tin, but the workman asked to do the soldering informed the police and the map
was never sent. However, his mother succeeded in sending him a compass in a
tin of Harrogate toffee, and he made use of it when a chance to escape arose in
1917, becoming the first British PoW to make his way back to England, where
he received a hero’s welcome, including lunch with George V and the award of
a Military Cross.
Papers of Leonid Andreev (1871-1919), a successful writer in the decade before
the Russian revolution. In 1914 he wrote The Sorrows of Belgium, a play that
dramatised the pluck of the Belgian army in response to the German invasion.
Papers of Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature (1933). Archive of Zemgor, an organisation founded in 1915
and made up of local government officials. During the First World War, Zemgor
helped Moscow coordinate the war effort. The organisation was officially
disbanded by the Bolshevik government in 1919 but it was re-established in
Paris to support Russian emigrants.
Regular Company papers The archives holds more than 60,000 pieces includes clothing, toys, household
items, business papers, advertising materials and merchandise. A proportion
of this material relates to the First World War and the way that the high street
store and its customers responded to a dramatic change in lifestyle.
Medical science Regular Institutional
records,
objects - small,
photographic
collections,
works of art
Records of the Royal Veterinary College. Objects relating to the Army Veterinary
Services that treated horses injured in the theatre of war.
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