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11. Add MS 82520-82524

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Add MS 82520-82524
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

12. Add MS 82565-82566

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Add MS 82565-82566
Title:
Q. Envelopes 82565-82566. Keyes Papers. Vols. xcciii-xcciv. Empty envelopes addressed to Roger or Eva Keyes; circa 1914 – circa 1945. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1914-c 1945
Extent:
2 items

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Add MS 82564 A-C

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 82564 A-C
Title:
Keyes Papers. P. Indexes and Lists: Vol. xccii a-c. Indexes and lists to the Keyes papers; 1919, 1965-1966, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1966
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 82525-82526

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Add MS 82525-82526
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

18. Add MS 82558

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Add MS 82558
Title:
Keyes Papers. Vol. clxxxvi. Photographs, Postcards, and Illustrations.
Scope & Content:
N. Photographs, Postcards, and Illustrations 82558. Keyes Papers. Vol. clxxxvi. Photographs of naval officers; submarines; Roger Farley as a baby; Comtesse Françoise de la Morandière; Adm. Robert Blake’s memorial plaque; the King and Queen of the Belgians riding into Bruges after the city’s lib...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1914-1925
Extent:
1 item

19. 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

20. Add MS 82570-82578

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Add MS 82570-82578
Title:
Keyes Papers. Vols. xccviii-ccvi. S. Papers of Capt. Charles Boswell Norman: Norman was an officer in the 90th Light Infantry who wrote books on military matters. He was Keyes’s uncle, a brother of Keyes’s mother, Katherine. Another of the Norman siblings was Field Marshal Sir Henry Wylie Norman.
Scope & Content:
Captain Charles Boswell Norman, 90th Light Infantry; uncle of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes: Papers of, including descriptions of the ships of the Royal Navy: 1915-1921, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1915-1921]
Extent:
9 items