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Typescript transcript of Cold War Seminar, Session 5, including lecture by Jerome Kuehl, film documentary maker specializing in television histories, and David Thaxton, historian and film archivist, Washington, and related discussion. 33pp

Typescript transcript of Cold War Seminar, Session 4, relating to the years 1980-1989, including lectures by John Lloyd, former correspondent for the Financial Times, London and author of Rebirth of a Nation: an anatomy of Russia, and Vladeslav Zubok, historian and research fellow at the National Security Archive, Washington, and related discussion. 55pp

Typescript transcript of Cold War Seminar, Session 3, relating to the years 1968-1981, including a lecture by Neal Ascherson, British journalist and writer, and related discussion. 47pp

Typescript transcript of Cold War Seminar, Session 2, relating to the years 1953-1968, including lectures by Thomas Blanton, Executive Director, National Security Archive, Washington, and Lawrence Freedman, Professor or War Studies, King's College London, and related discussion. 51pp

Typescript transcript of Cold War Seminar, Session 1, relating to the years 1917-1953, including lectures by John Lewis Gaddis, Professor of History at Ohio University, Prof Aleksandr Tchoubarian, Director, Institute of Universal History, Moscow, and related discussion. 59pp

Typescript transcript of Brian Lapping Associates Timewatch television documentary entitled 'Woolly Al walks the kitty back', 1991, including extracts from interviews with Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr, US Secretary of State, 1981-1982; Brig Gen Basilio Lami-Dozo, Commander-in-Chief, Argentine Air Force, and member of the ruling Military Junta, 1982; Ambassador Gustavo Figueroa, First Secretary, Argentine Foreign Ministry, 1982; Sir (John) Nicholas Henderson, British Ambassador the US, 1979-1982; James M Rentschler, US Special Advisor to US President Ronald Wilson Reagan, and National Security Council Western European Department, 1982; R Adm Roberto Moya, Chief of the Argentine Military Household, and Naval member of the Malvinas Working Group, 1982; Dr Nicanor Costa Méndez, Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1982; Dr Jeane Duane Jordan Kirkpatrick, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 1981-1985; Caspar Willard Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense, 1981-1987; Rt Hon Sir John William Frederic Nott, Secretary of State for Defence, 1981-1983; Gen Vernon Anthony Walters, US Ambassador-at-large, 1981-1985; Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym of Sandy, Bedfordshire, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1982-1983; Rt Hon Cecil Edward Parkinson, Paymaster General and Chairman of the Conservative Party, 1981-1983, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1982-1983; AF Terence Thornton Lewin, Baron Lewin of Greenwich in Greater London, Chief of the Defence Staff, 1979-1982; and Thomas Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, US State Department, 1982. 50 pp

Typescript transcript of BBC Radio Four documentary, ‘The dark lady of DNA’, on the contribution of Rosalind Franklin to the discovery of the structure of DNA, recorded 23 Sep 1986 and broadcast 22 Feb 1987. Presented by Lewis Wolpert and produced by Stuart Kerr, with contributions from Francis Crick, Raymond Gosling, Aaron Klug, Charlotte Franklin and Wilkins. Not to be quoted in publication without permission from the BBC

Transcript of BBC Newsday interview with FM Sir Michael Carver, Chief of the Defence Staff; the role of British forces and defence expenditure.

Transcript of interview with B. Wignall concerning McClare's muscle model, produced by BBC Overseas Regional Services, n.d.

Transcript of an unpublished scenario for an opera libretto composed by Ivan Turgenev for Brahms, c1868. Extract from auction catalogue.

Interview with Robert E Walters on tank warfare, Panzer tactics and the Maginot line, recent nuclear and missile development, and the effects of the development of nuclear weapons, on tank warfare

Transcript of an interview of Liddell Hart by Dan Pahter, an Israeli correspondent, on the role of the tank in warfare, and nuclear strategy

Transcript of an interview made by Hutton for the Imperial War Museum Department of Sound Recordings entitled 'Mechanisation of the British Army 1919-1939', including correspondence concerning the recording. 35pp.

Text of an interview of Liddell Hart for the Dutch Broadcasting Corporation, which was broadcast on 31 Oct 1960, on NATO forces and the role of nuclear weapons

Transcript of an interview with Liddell Hart by Robert E Walters published in Marine Corps Gazette, on strategy, developments in military equipment, and the possibility of atomic war

Text of an interview involving Liddell Hart and Major R D Owen at the Swedish Staff College, on troop mobility, tank design and tank obstacles

Typescript transcript of discussion of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) conference attended by the 'Deputies Committee' and key allies including Lawrence S Eagleburger, Deputy Secretary of State, 1989-1992; Richard N Haass, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director, Near East & South Asian Affairs, National Security Council, 1989-1993; John Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1989-1991; Robert M Kimmitt, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1989-1991; Sir Charles Powell, Private Secretary to the British Prime Minister, 1980-1991; Dennis B Ross, Director, Policy Planning Staff, US Department of State, 1989-1992; Sheikh Saud Nasir Al-Sabah, Kuwait Ambassador to the US, 1981- present; Joseph Charles Wilson IV; Charge d'Affairs, US Embassy, Baghdad, 1988-1991; and Paul Dundes Wolfowitz, Under Secretary for Policy, US Department of Defense, 1989-1993. The conference was divided into three sessions, facilitated by Arthur Miller, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Richard Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, 1981-1987, and Charles Wheeler, former BBC Washington Bureau Chief, respectively. Participants were led through events day by day and asked to explain events in the development of US policy and response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and their particular activities and responsibilities during this period. The first session chaired by Miller, begins with participants describing their whereabouts on first hearing of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 Aug 1990, and describing events up to 6 August 1990 when the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 661 imposing trade sanctions on Iraq. The second session, chaired by Perle, covers events beginning with the Iraqi violation of trade sanctions imposed by the UN, leading to a further resolutions involving the use of force; meetings of US President George H W Bush and his advisors during his holiday at Kennebunkport, Maine; continuing negotiations between the US and members of the coalition; the situation of US citizens trapped in Iraq; financial implications of the coalition military operation; and the 'last mile for peace' meeting between US Secretary of State, James Baker and Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Foreign Minister in Geneva, 9 Jan 1991. The third session, chaired by Wheeler, covers the coalition air strikes on Iraq; Iraqi SS-1 SCUD B missiles landing in Israel; provision of US Patriot missile defense equipment for Israel; so called 'Soviet peace plan' and diplomatic activity of Soviet negotiator Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov; communication between the leaders of the coalition; final ultimatum before the beginning of the ground war; the ceasefire decision, and the objectives achieved by the coalition military operation. 332pp, missing p142

Typescript transcript of a telephone conversation between Lt Gen Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, President of Argentina, 1981-1982, and Dr Terry Fernando Belaúnde, President of Peru, 1 May 1982, relating to the Falkland Islands crisis and the discussion of peace initiatives between Belaúnde, the Argentine Military Junta, Rt Hon Francis Leslie Pym, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr, US Secretary of State, 1981-1982, Apr-May 1982. 2pp

Typescript of recording made by Dunbar for the Airborne Forces Museum, Aldershot, Hampshire, relating to his experiences as Brig Maj of 16 Independent Parachute Bde Group during operations against the Egyptian Army at Port Said, Egypt, during the Suez Crisis, Nov 1956. This copy submitted by Dunbar to the Ministry of Defence and returned with covering letter, classifying Dunbar's recollections as 'Restricted'. 9pp

Typescript of recording made by Dunbar for the Airborne Forces Museum, Aldershot, Hampshire, relating to his experiences as a Company Commanding Officer of 8 Bn The Parachute Regt, and as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General and Quarter Master General of 3 Parachute Bde in Palestine, 1945-1948, including riot control and the finding of an illegal radio transmitter operated by the Stern Gang in Tel Aviv; the loss of senior non commissioned officers due to the reduction of the army after World War Two. 5pp