Collection CIVILIAN DEFENCE STUDY - CIVILIAN DEFENCE STUDY CONFERENCE, 1964: lectures on resistance movements

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Reference code

CIVILIAN DEFENCE STUDY

Title

CIVILIAN DEFENCE STUDY CONFERENCE, 1964: lectures on resistance movements

Date(s)

  • 1964 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

3 audio cassette tapes.

Scope and content

Three audio tapes of the proceedings of the Civilian Defence Study Conference, St Hilda's College, Oxford University, including lecture entitled 'Lessons from resistance movements-guerrilla and non-violent' by Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 'Resistance in the Soviet zone of Germany' by Dr Rainer Hildebrandt, and 'How to meet measures of the occupying power against civil resistance' by Dr Lars Porsholt, 10 Sep 1964. The proceedings of the Civilian Defence Study Conference, sponsored by the United World Trust, St Hilda's College, Oxford University, 6-14 Sep 1964, were recorded by (Edward) Adam Roberts, Assistant Editor, Peace News Limited, on 10 Sep 1964. The recording was used by Professor Alex Danchev in his research for Alchemist of war: the life of Basil Liddell Hart (Cassell, London, 1998).

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3 items

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Name of creator

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre in 1997 by Professor (Edward) Adam Roberts, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University, via Professor Alex Danchev, Professor of International Relations, Keele University.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

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Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related materials

The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include papers relating to the Civilian Defence Study Conference, St Hilda's College, Oxford University, 6-14 Sep 1964, including correspondence with (Edward) Adam Roberts, Assistant Editor, Peace News Limited. on conference arrangements, 1964 (Ref: LH 15/5/14); typescript conference papers for the Civilian Defence Study Conference, Oxford, 6-14 Sep 1964 (Ref: LH 15/5/15); text of lecture given by Liddell Hart at the conference, 'Lessons from resistance movements-guerrilla and non-violent', 10 Sep 1964 (Ref: LH 12/1964/17-19).

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Compiled Nov 1999

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

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