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Dean's master copy of The Royal Air Force and Two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979), typescript prepared for the printers and annotated by Dean's personal editor, Toby Buchan. 1 file

Graph, marked appendix 9 (and 2 copies) showing estimates of German first line air strength 1934-1939 with manuscript notes. 6pp

Strathclyde University lecture and seminar papers on 'The high command in the Battle of Britain' 11 Jun 1976; 'The future of university education', 13 Feb 1976; discussion paper on 'Graduate recruitment'; undated speech by Dean on 'Efficiency in the Civil Service'. With manuscript notes by Dean and press cuttings relating to the differences between universities and polytechnics, the structure of the higher education system and the funding of overseas students; Roehampton Institute of Higher Education handbook, 1976/77. 1 file

Strathclyde University lecture and seminar papers on 'Government and industry', 14 Feb 1975; 'industrial democracy', 9 May 1975; 'Universities and polytechnics', 28 Nov 1975; 'The outlook for higher education-discussion with university administrators', 28 Nov 1975. With correspondence between Dean and Sir Bernard Lovell, Professor of Radio Astronomy, University of Manchester relating to the Ministry of Technology and Prof Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Professor of Physics, London University; address to the Second National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Advanced Education (Australia) Jul 1975 by Sir Alexander [Rowland] Smith. 1 file

Strathclyde University lecture and seminar papers on 'Government intervention' 1 Feb 1973 (with Prof Frank MacFazean); 'Some problems of university administration 1971-1981', Feb 1973 ( 2 papers); 'Graduate unemployment' to Wimbledon Literary and Scientific Society, 17 Nov 1973; 'The control of public expenditure', 6 Dec 1973; 'The management of professional skills in industry and the Civil Service', 24 Jan 1974; 'Accountable management revisited'; 'Robbins in retrospect'. 1 file

Strathclyde University lecture and seminar papers on 'Universities and industry', 19 Feb 1971; 'Science technology and society: the effect on government'; 'Some problems of university administration', as part of a seminar series for university administrators'; manuscript notes by Dean on a discussion with the Department of Administration, Strathclyde University; 'The Civil Servant and his relationship with ministers and Parliament', 11 May 1971; 'The university as a community', 3 Nov 1971; 'The Civil Service and Parliament', 14 Feb 1972; manuscript notes of a talk by Dean with staff in the Department of Administration, Strathclyde University, 15 Feb 1972; 'The Civil Servant and his relationship with ministers and Parliament', 2 May 1972; papers relating to a conference on university governance at Strathclyde University, Sep 1972; discussion paper on a report of the University of Birmingham Review Body, 29 Nov 1972. 1 file

Strathclyde University lectures and seminar papers by Dean on 'The work of a Permanent Secretary', 26 Feb 1970; seminar paper on 'Selection, training and job progression of administrative class entrants to the Civil Service', 26 Feb 1970; 'Civil servants and ministers', 27 Feb 1970; 'International symposium on management and economics in the electronics industry', 17 Mar 1970; 'Developments on Fulton', 30 Apr 1970; lecture on 'Government control in the fields of education and health', 12 Nov 1970; 'Accountable management in the Civil Service', 13 Nov 1970. 1 file

Strathclyde University lecture and seminar papers by Dean including speech on 'Industry and government', 20 Feb 1969; paper from Strathclyde University's Procedure Committee, 5 Mar 1969; address on 'Accountable management' at senior management seminar, Sunningdale, Berkshire 10 Mar 1969; lecture to the Imperial Defence College on 'Management meetings in the government service', 14 Jul 1969; typescript notes for speech on 'Life in the print biz' for the British Printing Corporation, comparing the workings of the board room and the Permanent Secretary's Office, with related correspondence, Oct 1969; seminar paper on 'Industrial relations' at Strathclyde University, 14 Nov 1969;

Strathclyde University lectures and seminar papers by Dean on 'The formation of the Ministry of Technology' 19 May 1967; 'Central organisation for defence', 23 Feb 1968 ;'The expert in the Civil Service', 8 May 1968; seminar on industrial training, 8 May 1968 text of speech and related papers ; working party conference on the 'Post Fulton Home Civil Service', 28 Sep 1968; 'Attitudes to change in the Public Service', 19 Nov 1968; 'The Fulton report: accountable management in the Civil Service'. 1 file

Speeches and lectures by Dean and others including Royal Society Anniversary Dinner Speech, 1966 by Prof Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Fellow of Manchester and London Universities; 'Symposium on the advantages to education of the Metric system' at the Institute of Mathematics, 12 Jan 1966; speeches at Strathclyde University, 1967 on 'Central government', 'The formation of the Ministry of Technology', 'On being a Permanent Secretary'. 1 file

Speeches and lectures by Dean includes speech at the Civil Service Club 10th annual dinner 1 Mar 1963; speech on 'Management in the Civil Service at conference for senior civil servants Nov 1963; reception for Fulbright international exchange students, Bedford College, University of London 16 Sep 1963; University of London special presentation ceremony for higher degrees 28 Jan 1964; speech to British Council United Nations Day reception, 23 Oct 1964; Working Men's College, distribution of prizes 29 Oct 1965; The Ditchley Foundation Anglo-American conference on the social and economic consequences of automation, sessions 1 & 2 'Present stage of development in the introduction of automation-the attitude of government', 1965; talk on education and science at Rugby School, Warwickshire 29 Jan 1965 (2 copies); Speech at 75th anniversary of Woolwich Polytechnic 27 Apr 1965; speeches on the Ministry of Technology at the Institute of Public Administration, London and at Oundle School, Northamptonshire; speeches to the Institution of Production Engineers on science and industry and the engineering profession; to Institute of Nuclear Engineers on nuclear energy and technology; 1 file

Speeches and lectures by Dean includes speeches on 'Air power and parity'; 'The role of the air force in national defence' to 600 Squadron, 14 Jan 1937; notes for lecture to Royal Air Force Staff College, 3 Aug 1942 on 'Air Ministry organisation'; speech at the opening of new factory of the Klinger Manufacturing Co. Ltd Margate, Kent 8 Apr 1954; Address to Air Ministry Society, Bracknell, 13 Oct 1956 on the future of the Air Ministry; 'Management in the civil service' Mar 1959. With a paper on the 1932 Import Duties Act and the need for its revision produced by the Board of Trade, 1955. 1 file

Volumes of notes with loose pages inserted compiled from research notes for The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) from archive and secondary sources, arranged by source or subject. 2 volumes

Third supplement to The London Gazette, 20 Feb 1942 with a report on the air operations during the campaigns in Malaya and Netherland East Indies from 8 Dec 1941 to 12 Mar, 1942 submitted to Secretary of State for Air by AVM Sir Paul Maltby, Assistant Air Officer Commanding Far East Command, RAF. Printed pamphlet

Press cuttings relating to ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris. 2 pp

Air Ministry News Service bulletins, Sep 1945 issued to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Jul-Oct 1940; press cuttings on various subjects, 1961-1975 including the conflict over bombing policy between Dr Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell of Oxford, personal assistant to the Prime Minister, 1940 and Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, Chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence; press cuttings, 1974-1977 relating to the Battle of Britain, including reviews of books on the battle; press cuttings relating to MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton; press obituaries 1974-1977 of Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, ACM Sir John Wakeling Baker, Professor Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Professor of Physics, London University, ACM Hon Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane, ACM Sir Basil Edward Embry, Sir Horace Ernest Philip Wigglesworth, Group Capt Stuart Douglas Culley, AVM Forster Herbert Martin Maynard, Sir Donald Banks, Gen Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, ACM Sir Keith Rodney Park, Sir James Barnes, ACM Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, Sir Walter Pretty, ACM Sir John (Walter) Cordingley; press cuttings of reviews of books about World War Two and / or the RAF including reviews of Winston Churchill compiled by Martin Gilbert (Jackdaw Publications, London, 1969) with copies of correspondence from 1976 between Martin Gilbert and Sir Folliott Herbert Sandford regarding Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's sources of information at the Air Ministry before World War Two; photocopies from and relating to Bodyguard of lies by Anthony Cave Brown (WH Allen, London, 1976); press cuttings of reviews of From apes to warlords [the autobiography of Solly Zuckerman] (Hamilton, London, 1978); press cuttings from 1977 and notes on ENIGMA and ULTRA intelligence; press cuttings, 1976-1977 relating to the German air raid on Coventry, Nov 1941 and the extent that ULTRA Intelligence could have been used in its defence; press cuttings and notes on Most secret war by Reginald Victor Jones (Coronet, Sevenoaks, 1979) and the BBC's broadcast 'The secret war', Jan 1977; press cuttings of newspaper correspondence relating to Stanley Baldwin, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, rearmament and the 1935 General Election. 1 file

Papers produced by Air Historical Branch of the Air Ministry relating to aircraft spinning and in particular the legend of Dr Frederick Alexander Lindemann (later 1st Viscount Cherwell of Oxford) and his pre-1916 experiments on 'spinning'. With articles 'the spin' by Wg Cdr Norman Macmillan in Aeronautics, Jul 1960; 'spins and things' by Frank T Courtney in Aeronautics Nov 1961; 'Lindemann's work on aerodynamics' by Sir William Scott Farren. 1 file

Papers relating to the R101 airship disaster, 1930, including, telegram to Dean from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; copy of the Pilot's report on the endurance flight of the R101 on which Dean was a passenger; The Air Force Department Society Journal, no.6, May 1966 containing Dean's article 'The loss of the airship 101' and duplicate copy of the article; Report of the R101 inquiry (HMSO, London, 1931); printed text of a lecture on 'the airship: a technical history' by E Mowforth, lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Surrey at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Nov 1973; 'R101 and other airships-the process of development' by Wg Cdr Thomas Reginald Cave-Browne-Cave, reprint from The Royal Aeronautical Society, vol.66, Aug 1962; note by Dean 'for record' on a recording made for Granada Television on the R101, 1967 and related correspondence; correspondence relating to the R101 with Cave-Browne-Cave, Sir Peter Gordon Masefield, Wg Cdr Ralph S Booth, Peter John Hudson, Ministry of Defence. With 8 photographs of the R101. 1 file