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Manuscript diary relating to Capt Mayhew's service in British North Africa Force (BNAF) and British Central Mediterranean Force (CMF), detailing the invasion of Sicily by British and US forces, Jul-Aug 1943. 15 pages.

Typescript drafts of book reviews and articles written primarily by Mayhew relating to international events and UK foreign policy. Drafts include opinion essays on the role of the UK Labour Party in world affairs; Anglo-Soviet relations; UK policy relating to nuclear disarmament; the Arab-Israeli conflict; UK electoral reform. 1 file.

Election pamphlet for Mayhew as Labour Candidate for South Norfolk during the 1945 UK General Election. Manuscript and typescript research notes, economic figures, graphs and press cuttings relating to the 1951 General Election and the Labour Party television broadcast in which Mayhew discredits UK Conservative Party economic policy. 1 file.

Official reports and parliamentary debates from the House of Commons and the House of Lords relating to UK defence policy, 1981-1996; gender in the armed services, 1995; and, soldiers within the UK armed services, including reports on the Armed Forces Bill, 1996, and defence estimates and contracts, 1996.

Official UK government inquiry reports and debates from the House of Commons and the House of Lords relating to the legislation of the UK War Crimes Bill, 1991. 1 file.

Ledger from HMS Finwhale showing payment to Mayhew for 'duties in submarines'.

Letters and official memoranda from Mayhew as Principal Private Secretary to Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison, Lord President of the Council and Leader of House of Commons, mainly relating to the co-ordination of economic planning in the UK following World War Two and work in the Central Office of Information, 1945-46. 21 letters.

Manuscript and typescript correspondence between Mayhew and members of his family, including his father, Sir Basil Mayhew and his mother, Lady Mayhew, at Felthorpe Hall, Norwich, mainly relating to his service as a lorry driver and gunner in the Surrey Yeomanry, attached to 392 Artillery Battery, 98 Field Regt, Royal Artillery, British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France. Letters relate to Mayhew's experiences during the early stages of the war in France and Flanders, Sep 1939-May 1940, and include several descriptions of the tedium of the 'phony war', relations between British and French troops, his interest in obtaining a commission and subsequent frustration with the British Army, details of marching, gunnery and training exercises, and the publication of his economic theories in Planned Investment (Fabian Society, London, 1939). 1 file.

Manuscript and typescript letters to Mayhew from family members and friends mainly relating to Mayhew's service in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the British Liberation Army (BLA), Labour Party and social events in Norfolk, and greetings from associates and well-wishers. 1 file.

Manuscript and typescript letters from Mayhew to members of his family, including his father, Sir Basil Mayhew and his mother, Lady Mayhew, at Felthorpe Hall, Norwich, mainly relating to Mayhew's service in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France during the Battle of France, May-Jun 1940, and including mention of his dissatisfaction with the capabilities of the British Army in France, the withdrawal of all British forces in France towards the coast and the subsequent evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk, France, May 1940. Correspondence also includes mention of his transfer to the Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU) at Aldershot, Hampshire; his interest in entering the Ministry of Economic Warfare, War Office and his association with Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (later Rt Hon) as Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Economic Warfare; defensive preparations for a possible invasion of Great Britain by German forces; and detailed descriptions of German air raids and bombing attacks on British population centres, Aug-Mar 1941. 1 file.

Manuscript and typescript letters from Mayhew to members of his family, including his father, Sir Basil Mayhew and his mother, Lady Mayhew, at Felthorpe Hall, Norwich, mainly relating to Mayhew's position as a junior in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, War Office, Jan-Mar 1942, and as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1946-1950. Letters also include mention of Mayhew's service in GHQ Liaison Regt, UK Home Forces, May 1942-May 1943; his service as a staff officer in the Phantom Regt, British North Africa Force (BNAF), in Tunis and Bizerta, Tunisia, May 1943-Feb 1944; his service as a staff officer, Headquarters, 2 Army, British Liberation Army (BLA), May 1944-May 1945; and relations with British, French and Canadian allies, and French, Belgian and Dutch civilians. Correspondence after World War Two concerns Mayhew's position as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison (later Baron Morrison of Lambeth), Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons, 1945-1946; Mayhew's plans for economic recovery in Europe as discussed with Rt Hon (James) Harold Wilson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, 1945–1947; work with Prime Minister Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee and with Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Rt Hon Ernest Bevin, primarily concerning political and economic reconstruction in Europe, foreign delegation meetings with US, French, Soviet and British diplomats, 1947, and Mayhew's role as a member of the UK Delegation to the United Nations, Feb 1948. 1 file.

Manuscript correspondence from members of the public to Mayhew relating to his critical publication concerning the Labour Party, Party Games (Hutchinson, London, 1969). 1 file.

Correspondence from members of the public to Mayhew relating to the Labour Party general election television broadcast, 'Twelve Wasted Years', 29 Jan 1964, many of which are critical of Mayhew and his appearance on the broadcast. 1 file.

Papers, 1939-1997, of the Rt Hon Christopher Paget Mayhew, Baron Mayhew of Wimbledon in Greater London, relating to his life and career. The collection includes wartime letters from Mayhew to his family and other letters to Mayhew, 1939-1945; appointment and desk diaries, 1949-1995; files giving details of individuals and organisations relating to his work as an MP; a file on his introduction to the House of Lords, 1981; address books; notebooks, papers and correspondence relating to his work as a politician and peer, 1945-1997. The papers reflect his interests in domestic issues and foreign affairs, with material on broadcasting, commercial and public service television, including the minute book, 1953-1954, of the National Television Council, a pro-public service broadcasting body; relations with the Soviet Union from the late 1940s to the 1960s; international affairs, defence issues and the armed forces up to the 1990s, including press cuttings on his resignation in 1966; Palestine and Israel, the Middle East, and Arab-British relations, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Much of the collection comprises printed material, reports, typescripts and press cuttings, some - for instance, broadcasts and interviews - by Mayhew himself, but much by other authors.

One passport, belonging to Mayhew.

Typescript memorandum from Capt Mayhew, as Special Forces representative, 2 Army Tactical Intelligence Committee, British Liberation Army (BLA), France, to Special Forces Headquarters, relating to the infiltration of agents to small resistance groups in the Canadian and British sectors of occupied France and their training for tactical sabotage against German forces, 5 Aug 1944. 2 pages.

Typescript memoranda and correspondence relating to Mayhew's position as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1946-1950, and his establishment of the Information Research Department (IRD) within the Foreign Office, 1947, including letters from Mayhew to Rt Hon Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and typescript minutes relating to the establishment of the IRD. Papers relate primarily to Foreign Office attempts to curb the spread of Soviet and Chinese communism following World War Two; Foreign Office reactions to de-colonisation in the Far East and on the Indian sub-continent and Britain's role in aiding anti-Communist forces in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Far East. Papers include memoranda expressing concern over the partition of India, Jun 1947; the use of British propaganda newsreels in the USA, Oct 1947; memoranda and minutes relating to the UK's role in the suppression of communist insurrection in Greece, 1947; memoranda concerning the protests of the World Jewish Congress to Foreign Office decisions regarding the future of Palestine, 1947-48; the trial of German officers and civil servants at Nuremburg, Germany, 1947-48; the dismissal of UK civil servants for alleged communist sympathies. Papers also include letter to the Editor of the Times (London) in which Mayhew admits to his hiring of Soviet spy Guy Burgess to a confidential post during his tenure as Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb 1976, and letters to Prime Minister Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher requesting that the Foreign Office reinstate the IRD, May 1980. 2 files.

Bound minute diary for the National Television Council, [1954]. 1 item.

Bound notebook with manuscript notes by Mayhew relating to the television programme 'International Commentary', in which Mayhew was host and political and economic analyst of Africa, 1952. Included are notes relating to race relations, political and social progress and economic industry in South Africa, Sudan, the Nile Basin, Central Africa and British colonies on the continent. 1 item.