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    Collections information

    Persons (769)

    Diaries (267)

    Families (5)

    Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (76)

    • NRA 39422 Mary Eleanor Allan, journalist and author: corresp and papers
    • NRA 18654 Sir Alexander Anderson: papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28528 Admiral Sir William Andrewes: misc papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 44024 Squadron Officer Vera May Atkins: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28529 Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Barnard: corresp and papers
    • NRA 34781 Lt-General Sir Herbert Belfield: papers as Director of Prisoners of War
    • NRA 28530 Admiral Sir Hugh Binney: diaries and papers
    • NRA 41741 Major General Sir William Henry Alexander Bishop: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 43634 William John Brown MP, trade unionist: journals
    • NRA 44025 Major General Gerald Brunskill: diaries and press cutting albums link to online catalogue
    • NRA 36536 Edith Cavell, nurse: diary, corresp and papers
    • NRA 28532 Vice Admiral Sir Peter Cazalet: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28533 Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode: papers rel to Egyptian Expeditionary F link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28534 Sir Gerard Clauson, civil servant: papers rel to First World War link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28535 Reginald Colby, journalist: corresp and papers
    • NRA 35160 Brigadier General Ernest Craig-Brown: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28536 Sir Ronald Cross, politician: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28537 Major General GP Dawnay: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28538 Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair: corresp and diaries
    • NRA 33857 Admiral Sir Gerald Charles Dickens: diaries, corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28539 Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, Baron Douglas of Kirtleside: civilian corres
    • NRA 28540 Brigadier Sir John Dunlop: misc papers
    • NRA 28541 Vice-Admiral JW Durnford: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 19170 Rear Admiral Brian Egerton papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 23731 Ivor Evans: papers rel to the development of operational research
    • NRA 28542 Sir Roy Fedden, aeronautical engineer: corresp and papers
    • NRA 19169 Henry T Flint, physicist: papers
    • NRA 29546 Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres: corresp, diaries and misc papers
    • NRA 28545 GER Gedge, journalist: corresp and papers
    • NRA 29866 Howell Arthur Gwynne, journalist: First World War corresp
    • NRA 40310 Field Marshal Allan Francis John Harding, 1st Baron Harding: corresp and papers
    • NRA 36537 Major-General Joseph Charles Haydon: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28546 Lt-General Sir Lewis Heath: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28547 Vice-Admiral Harold Hickling: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28548 Vice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett: corresp and papers rel to Second World War
    • NRA 28568 Imperial War Museum: misc accessions
    • NRA 43296 Brigadier General George Napier Johnston: diaries and corresp rel to First World War link to online catalogue
    • NRA 42687 Robert Douglas King-Harman, captain RN: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28549 Air Vice-Marshal EJ Kingston-McCloughry: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 37965 Major-General Harold Victor Lewis: corresp and papers
    • NRA 37962 Major-General David Lanyon Lloyd-Owen: corresp and papers rel to Long Range Desert Group
    • NRA 43203 Major General Edward Douglas Loch, 2nd Baron Loch: corresp and papers
    • NRA 37959 Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, astronomer: corresp and papers rel to radar systems
    • NRA 44026 Brigadier Maurice Stanley Lush: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28551 Sir Frank Markham, politician: military corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28552 Lt-General Sir Giffard Martel: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28553 Lt-General Sir Noel Mason-MacFarlane: coresp and papers
    • NRA 39421 General Sir Frederick Ivor Maxse: corresp and papers
    • NRA 33856 Dame Naomi Margaret Mitchison, writer: corresp
    • NRA 28554 Mountbatten family, Marquesses of Milford Haven: naval papers
    • NRA 28556 General Sir Archibald Murray: corresp and papers
    • NRA 42688 Vice Admiral Sir Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 38810 Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham, biochemist: papers rel to chemical and biological warfare link to online catalogue
    • NRA 43205 Sir Henry Norman, 1st Bt, politician and Lady Florence Priscilla Norman: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28544 Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford: military corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 11929 Lt-Gen AE Percival papers (confidential)
    • NRA 44023 Prichard family: corresp and papers rel to the sinking of the Lusitania
    • NRA 37961 Juliet Evangeline, Lady Rhys Williams, public servant: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28557 General Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster: corresp
    • NRA 20790 Albert Percival Rowe, telecommunications engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28558 Siegfried Sassoon, poet: corresp and papers
    • NRA 43204 Victor Donald Siddons, Methodist minister: corresp and papers
    • NRA 43298 George Richard Storry, historian of Japan: corresp and papers rel to wartime service link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28559 General Sir Peter Strickland: diaries and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28560 Sir Campbell Stuart: papers as chairman of the Department of Enemy Propaganda
    • NRA 15456 Captain Casper Silas Balfour Swinley: diaries, papers and photographs
    • NRA 28561 Major-General GS Szlumper: diaries and papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 40311 General Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne: corresp
    • NRA 24549 Sir Henry Thomas Tizard: corresp and papers
    • NRA 28562 Lt-General Sir Francis Tuker: corresp and papers
    • NRA 42958 Sir Charles Kingsley Webster, historian: corresp link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28565 General Sir Michael West: papers link to online catalogue
    • NRA 28566 Admiral Sir William Whitworth: corresp and papers
    • NRA 33855 Major-General Reginald Henry Whitworth: letters and papers
    • NRA 37966 John Eryl Hall Williams, criminologist: papers rel to Friends Relief Service Team 100 at Belsen
    • NRA 28567 Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: corresp and diaries

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