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Report entitled 'Training instructions for the B E F', circulated by Lt Gen Henry Royds Pownall, Chief of the General Staff, British Expeditionary Force on 10 Nov 1939, and amended [by Bartholomew] at a later date. Includes appendices on existing training facilities, points singled out for particular attention by the Commander in Chief (such as man management, reality in training, mobile warfare, mechanical transport, and night training), training for the artillery and the Royal Armoured Corps, signal training, training for units recently converted into divisional cavalry regiments, and rules for the acquisition of training grounds and ranges in France. 35pp.

Official training instructions for 13 Infantry Bde, by Bde Maj Thomas Herbert Shoubridge, on the employment of fire, musketry training, and fire and movement. 9pp.

Training papers on topics including weapon training, boat pulling, night operations, consolidation after an attack, bayonet use and lessons learnt from Operation ADDITION (the evacuation of British troops from Bardia, Libya, Apr 1941); briefing of a training exercise simulating a night raid on an aerodrome and railway, May 1941; training timetables; training instructions for 6 Div (to which LAYFORCE was assigned); special order to the Scottish 'C' Bn on secrecy, 29 Mar 1941; training-related signals and correspondence; training directive of First Special Training Unit, US Army, 10 Apr-2 May 1942; training directive for 10 Commando, 1 Sep-31 Dec 1942; report on Exercise SEAWEED, 25 Mar 1943 and plan for training 26 Div in Europe. 1 file

Official training instructions and memoranda relating to the British Army's anti-communist operations in Malaya, including instructions and related correspondence underlining the importance of psychological ware fare, and how to use psychological tactics when briefing Malayan villagers, 1953-1955. 1 file

Training in fieldcraft and elementary tactics, military training pamphlet 33', issued by the War Office (William Clowes and Sons, London, Mar 1940). 1 booklet

Papers relating to a divisional training exercise held at Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, the scenario being the invasion and defence of a neutral country. Includes preliminary orders from Maj Henry Lewkeno Knight, Manchester Infantry Bde. 3pp.

Memorandum from Maj Henry Lewkeno Knight, Manchester Infantry Bde, giving preliminary orders for a divisional training exercise on 26 Feb, 1915. 1p.

Papers relating to a divisional training exercise on the protection of a large army, at Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, written by Lt Col Arthur Wyndham Tufnell, General Staff, East Lancashire Div, Territorial Force. Includes preliminary orders from Maj Henry Lewkeno Knight, Manchester Infantry Bde, an outline of the aims, objectives and special instructions for the exercise, and operation orders. 7pp.

Instructions for a divisional training exercise held at Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt, on 24 Feb, 1915, given by Lt Col Arthur Wyndham Tufnell, General Staff, East Lancashire Div, Territorial Force, the scenario being a landing at Suez and an advance on Cairo. 3pp.

Manuscript and copy typescripts of 10 Infantry Bde training circulars 1 and 2, dated 9 and 15 Jun and education circular 1 [Jun], written by Liddell Hart. 6pp

Booklet entitled 'Army Training Memorandum No. 32: War', notably on the officer and morale, leadership skills, tactics including the use of tanks and the advance, the possible landing of parachute troops, and unit administration. 1 vol.

Booklet entitled 'Army Training Memorandum No. 33: War', notably on the need for training, anti-aircraft action in France, the collection of intelligence, defence against tanks and attacks, the conduct of the defence, and notes on arms. 1 vol

Training and manoeuvre regulations, 1913' issued by the General Staff, War Office (Harrison and Sons, London, 1913). 1 booklet

Descriptive specification by Schneider and Company entitled Tracteur à chenilles. Notice descriptive conduite et entretien, (Paris, 1918).

Tract 24 (Lewes, Sussex, [1977]: includes article by George Grant, 'Can we think outside technology?';

Issue 28, not dated: essays on the 'crisis in the visual arts'

Tracing paper marked with towns and cities of Vietnam and Cambodia.

Papers, 1899-1937, and 1964-1966, including personal letters to Alice Townshend, Lady Townshend, and to Comtesse Cahen d'Anvers from FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, 1906-1911, also single personal letters from Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, Assistant Private Secretary to Queen Victoria, 1899, FM Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, 1901, Brig Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, Bt, 1906, Christian Rudolf de Wet, Minister of Agriculture, Orange River Colony, South Africa, 1909, FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, 1911-1912, Rt Hon George Nathanial Curzon, Lord Privy Seal, 1915, Rt Hon Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister, 1916, Paul Cambon, French Ambassador to Court of St James's, 1916, Lt Gen Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 7th Bt, Military Secretary, War Office, 1919, and others; letter from Alice Townshend, Lady Townshend, dated 1916, to Mrs Morland, mother of Capt Walter Edward Thomson Morland, Aide de Camp to Townshend and captured with him at Kut el Amara, Mesopotamia, with information on the safety of her son, with three photographs of Townshend and the POW accomodation in Constantinople, 1916; scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, 1916, on the Mesopotamian campaign and the defence and siege of Kut el Amara, with signed printed portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1937; file of research correspondence by Lt Col Arthur James Barker for The neglected war (Faber, London, 1967) and Townshend of Kut (Cassell, London, 1967), 1964-1966, including correspondence with Capt Sir (Thomas) Noël Arkell, FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Maj Gen George Osborne de Renzy Channer, Sir Reader (William) Bullard, Brig Kenneth Bredin Shakespear Crawford, Sir Ernest (William) Goodale, Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Maj Gen Henry Hampden Rich, Col Clive Woodes Rogers, Col Eric Lechmere Stephenson, Countess Audrey de Borchgrave-Townshend, Brig Louis James Woodhouse.

Towards design in poetry (Writers Forum, London, 1977), by Eric Mottram with manuscript note from Bob Cobbing as publisher

Towards a state of independence, the Palestinian uprising, December 1987 – August 1988, FACTS Information Committee Jerusalem, Sep 1988. 268pp

Tourist guide to Les Eyzies, France. 1 item