Collection DOUGLAS-HOME - DOUGLAS-HOME, Charles Cospatrick (1937-1985)

Key Information

Reference code

DOUGLAS-HOME

Title

DOUGLAS-HOME, Charles Cospatrick (1937-1985)

Date(s)

  • 1942-1985 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

9 boxes or 0.09 cubic metres

Scope and content

Papers relating to writings, broadcasts and lectures, 1969-1985, including typescripts for Evelyn Baring the last Proconsul, incorporating copy source material from 1942 and correspondence with publishers; newspaper articles, 1971-1985; and memoirs of ... »

System of arrangement

Arranged in sections as above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1937-1985)

Biographical history

Born in 1937; educated at Eton; commissioned into the Royal Scots Greys, 1956; ADC to Sir Evelyn Baring as Governor of Kenya, 1958-1959; military correspondent, 1961-1962 and political and diplomatic correspondent, 1962-1964 for the Daily Express; ... »

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988.

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.

Uploaded finding aid

Note

Compiled Jun 1996

Rules and/or conventions used

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