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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 82373-82578 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts Level [36] Series

1. Add MS 82373-82405

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Add MS 82373-82405
Title:
Special Correspondence
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1900-1945]
Extent:
33 items

2. Add MS 82406-82446

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Title:
Keyes Papers. B. General Correspondence. Vols. xxxiv-lxxiv. 41 volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[between 1872-1945]
Extent:
41 items

3. Add MS 82447-82450

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Title:
Keyes Papers. C. Diaries. Vols. lxxv-lxxviii. Four volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1914-1943]
Extent:
4 items

4. Add MS 82451-82516

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Title:
Naval Papers
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1886-1943]
Extent:
66 items

5. Add MS 82517-82519

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Title:
Keyes Papers. E. Fleet Air Arm Papers: Vols. cxlv-clvii. The subject of Royal Navy control of its own air forces had exercised Keyes since the early days of World War One. In the 1920s he had co-authored, with his brother-in-law Chief of the Air Staff Hugh Trenchard, a scheme for joint control between the Admiralty and the Air Ministry. Ultimately Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, decided the Admiralty should retain control of carrier-borne aircraft while the A...
Scope & Content:
Fleet Air Arm: Adm. Keyes's papers on the Fleet Air Arm: 1918-1940, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1918-1943]
Extent:
3 items

6. Add MS 82520-82524

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Title:
Keyes Papers. F. Parliamentary Papers: Vols. cxlviii-clii. Keyes was elected M.P. for Portsmouth North in a by-election in February 1934 and held the seat until elevated to the peerage in 1943.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1934-1944]
Extent:
5 items

7. Add MS 82525-82526

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Title:
Keyes Papers. G. Belgium: Vols. cliii-cliv. With the outbreak of World War Two in 1939 Belgium maintained its policy of neutrality but requested that an unofficial emissary to the British government be appointed. Keyes was given the role and travelled to Belgium in October 1939, November 1939, and January 1940. In May 1940 Churchill appointed Keyes as his personal liaison to the Belgian monarch, King Leopold III. Keyes was in Belgium as the Germans over-ran the country and escaped as Bel...
Scope & Content:
Belgium General: Adm. Keyes's papers on the Belgian Campaign in World War Two: 1939-1945.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1939-1945]
Extent:
2 items

8. Add MS 82527-82530

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Title:
Keyes Papers. H. Director of Combined Operations Papers: Vols. clv-clviii. Director of Combined Operations; 22 Oct. 1940– 27 April 1942, n.d. Partly printed. Contains papers relating to Keyes’s appointment, remit, and eventual departure; detailed plans for commando operations; Chiefs of Staff committee minutes and memoranda; memoranda by Keyes proposing operations and commenting on decisions made by the Chiefs of Staff; notes made by Keyes during his tenure as DCO; some reports on operati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1940-27 Apr 1942
Extent:
4 items

9. Add MS 82531-82534

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Title:
Keyes Papers. I. Pacific Tour: Vols. clix-clxii. In July 1944, at the suggestion of the Minister of Information, Brendan Bracken, and with the approval of Winston Churchill, Lord and Lady Keyes (as they now were, Keyes having been elevated to the peerage in January 1943) undertook a goodwill tour of Australia and New Zealand. They flew out via Canada and the United States. Whilst in Australia Keyes took advantage of the contacts he had made in the United States to witness the United State...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1944-1945]
Extent:
4 items

10. Add MS 82535-82538

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Add MS 82535-82538
Title:
J. Speeches and Lectures 82535-82538. Keyes Papers. Vols. clxiii-clxvi. Texts, drafts, and notes of speeches, lectures, and broadcasts given by Keyes; 14 Dec. 1918– 28 Feb.1944, n.d. For Keyes’s parliamentary speeches see Add. 82521-82522. Four volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1918-28 Feb 1944
Extent:
4 items

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