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PYLE, Farrier Sgt Richard E (1860-1910)

  • PYLE
  • Collection
  • 1885

Microfilm copy of manuscript narrative diary by Pyle covering the voyage of two Sqns of 5 (Royal Irish) Lancers from Kingstown, Ireland, to the Sudan, and the subsequent Suakin campaign against Dervish forces commanded by the Mahdi (Mohammed Ahmed Ibn Al-Sayid Abdullah), 20 Feb-11 Apr 1885, including an account of the Battle of Tofrek, 22 Mar 1885.

Pyle, Richard E, 1860-1910, Farrier Sergeant

PUTIN, RUSSIA AND THE WEST: television documentary archive

  • PUTIN, RUSSIA AND THE WEST
  • Collection
  • 2011-2012

The collection includes: DVDs of the series as broadcast on BBC2, Jan-Feb 2012: Part 1, Taking control; Part 2, Democracy threatens; Part 3, War; Part 4, New start; transcripts of interviews conducted (chiefly in 2011) with interviewees from France, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Poland, Russia, UK, Ukraine and USA; DVDs of original interviews; final scripts; background information gathered in the course of research. Topics covered include: Russian-American diplomatic relations, 2001-2011; the personal relationship between President Vladimir Putin and President George W Bush, 2001-2009; Russian involvement in Ukrainian politics, 2004; the Orange Revolution, Ukraine, 2004-2005; the Russo-Georgian War (South Ossetia War, Five Day War), Aug 2008; the personal relationship between President Barak Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev, 2009-2011; the relationship between President Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, 2008-2011.

Interview transcripts are arranged by the country where the interview was conducted:

France: Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, French Ambassador to the UK, 2007-2011; Jean-David Levitte, French Ambassador to the United Nations, 2000-2002; French Ambassador to the USA, 2002-2007; diplomatic advisor to President Nicolas Sarkozy, 2007-2012.

Georgia: David Bakradze, Chairman, Parliament of Georgia, 2008-;

Giga Bokeria, Member of Georgian Parliament, 2004-; Deputy Foreign Minister, 2008-2010; Secretary of the National Security Council, 2010-; Nino Burjanadze, Chairperson of the Parliament of Georgia, 2001-2008; Batu Kutelia, Head of Foreign Intelligence, 2006-2008; Georgian Ambassador to the USA, Canada and Mexico, 2008-2011; Deputy National Security Advisor, 2011-; Mikheil Saakashvili, Minister for Justice, 2000-2001; President of Georgia, 2004-2007 and 2008-; Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili, Deputy Prime Minister, 2010-.

Germany: Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany, 1998-2005; Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Vice Chancellor of Germany, 2007-2009.

Israel: Leonid Nevzlin, executive, Yukos Oil Company, Russia, 1996-2003; senator for Mordovia, Federation Council of Russia, 2001-2003; resident in Israel, 2003-.

Poland: Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland, 1995-2005; Radoslaw Sikorski, Minister of National Defence, 2005-2007; Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2007-.

Russia: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Chair of human rights non-governmental organisation Moscow Helsinki Group, 1996-; member of human rights advisory commission to President Vladimir Putin, 2000; Anatoly Antonov, Director of Security and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2004-2011; Deputy Minister of Defence, 2011-; Boris Chochiev, acting Prime Minister of South Ossetia, 2008; Arkady Dvorkovich, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, 2008-2012; Deputy Prime Minister, 2012-; German Gref, Minister of Economics and Trade, 2000-2007; President of Sberbank, 2007-; Igor Ivanov, Foreign Minister, 1998-2004; Secretary of the Security Council, 2004-2007; Sergei Ivanov, National security advisor, 1999-2001; Minister of Defence, 2001-2007; Deputy Prime Minister, 2005-2011; Chief of Staff, Presidential Administration of Russia, 2011-; Grigory Karasin, Russian Ambassador to the UK, 2000-2005; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2005-; Mikhail Kasyanov, Prime Minister of Russia, 2000-2004; leader, People’s Democratic Union party, 2004-; Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Chairman of Yukos Oil Company, 1997-2003; tried and imprisoned for fraud, 2003; Viktor Khristenko, First Deputy Prime Minister, 1999-2000; Minister of Industry, 2004-2012; Yevgeniy Kiselev (Yevgeny Kiselyov), presenter of weekly news show Itogi, 1993-2001; Eduard Kokoity, President of South Ossetia, 2001-2011; Alexei Kudrin, Minister of Finance, 2000-2011; Maj Gen Marat Kulakhmetov, Commander, Combined Peacekeeping Forces, South Ossetia, 2007-; Sergei Lavrov, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), 1994-2004; Foreign Minister, 2004-; Sergei Markov, advisor to the Russian Duma, 2000-; member of the ‘Commission to counter attempts to harm Russian interests by falsifying history’, 2009-2012; Vladimir Milov, Deputy Minister of Energy, 2002; Dmitry Muratov, Editor-in-Chief, Novay Gazeta newspaper; Gleb Pavlovsky, political analyst, advisor to the Presidential Administration of Russia, 2000-; Sergei Prikhodko, Deputy Chief of the Presidential Administration, 1998-2004; Aide to the President, 2004-; Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Chief of Mission, Russian Embassy, USA, 2002-2005; Head of Department of European Co-operation, 2005-2008; Deputy Foreign Minister, 2008-; Viktor Shenderovich, satirist.

UK: Tony Brenton, British Ambassador to Russia, 2004-2008; Alexander Litvinenko, Former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, resident in UK, 2000-2006; poisoned, 2006 (interviewed c 2000); David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 2007-2010; Jonathan Powell, Downing Street Chief of Staff, 1997-2007; George Robertson, Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1999-2004; Alexander Temerko, Vice President, Yukos Oil Company, Russia, 2003-2005; resident in UK, 2005-.

Ukraine: Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine, 1994-2005; Hryhoriy Nemyria, Foreign Policy advisor, 2005; Vice Prime Minister for European and International Integration, 2007-2010; Oleh Rybachuk, Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, 2005; Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine 2005-2010.

USA: Bill Burns, US Ambassador to Russia, 2005-2008; Nick Burns, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, 2005-2008; Eric Edelman, Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, 2001-2003; US Ambassador to Turkey, 2003-2005; Daniel Fata, Policy Director, National Security and Foreign Affairs, Republican Party Committee, 2001-2005; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, 2005-2008; Daniel Fried, Special Assistant to the President, 2001-2005; Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, 2005-2009; Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, 2006-2011; Rose Gottemoeller, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center, 2006-2008; Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, 2009-; Stephen Hadley, Deputy National Security Advisor, 2001-2005; National Security Advisor, 2005-2009; John Herbst, US Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 2000-2003; US Ambassador to Ukraine, 2003-2006; Andrei Illarionov, economic advisor to the Russian President, 2000-2005; Senior Researcher, Cato Institute, USA, 2006-; Gen James Jones, National Security Advisor, 2009-2010; Michael McFaul, Senior Director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council, 2008-2011; US Ambassador to Russia, 2011-; Colin Powell, Secretary of State, 2001-2005; Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor, 2001-2005; Secretary of State, 2005-2009; Stephen Sestanovich, Secretary of State’s special advisor on New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union, 1997-2001; Professor of International Diplomacy, Columbia University, 2001-; Damon Wilson, Deputy Director, Private Office of the NATO Secretary General, 2001-2004; Director of Central, Eastern and North European Affairs, National Security Council, 2004-2006; Temuri Yakobashvili, Minister for Reintegration, Georgia, 2008-2010; Georgian Ambassador to the USA, 2010-.

Brook Lapping

PURDON, Maj Gen Corran William Brooke (1921-2018)

  • PURDON
  • Collection
  • 1993

List the bugle, reminiscences of an Irish soldier (Greystone, Antrim, 1993), a memoir of his life and career, 1921-1976, notably his service in the UK and France, 1942, including the Allied raid on St Nazaire,1942, his experiences as a POW, Germany, 1942-1945, his service in Palestine, 1945-1946, Egypt, 1949-1951, Malaya, 1956-1958, and Cyprus, 1958, and his command of the 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, Borneo, 1963-1964, and of the Sultan's Armed Forces, Oman, 1967-1970.

Purdon, Corran William Brooke, 1921-2018, Major General

PUBLICITY: King's College London printed material

  • K/PUB
  • Series
  • 1910-2014

King's College London general information booklets on the College, scholarships and prizes, College services such as catering, campus guides, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives Guides, Directories of Experts at King's available for interview by the media, style guidelines for College publications, merger celebrations and Millennium festival programmes, 1913-2001.

King's College London, 1829-

PUBLICATIONS: Queen Elizabeth College printed material

  • Q/PBN
  • Series
  • 1919-1986

Queen Elizabeth College publications include a variety of booklets and brochures advertising appeals, careers information for students, descriptions of the work of departments for prospective students, health and safety issues and the facilities of the College Library, and describing the history of the College, 1919-1986 (Ref: Q/PBN)

Queen Elizabeth College, 1953-1985

PUBLICATIONS: King's College London printed material

  • K/PBN
  • Series
  • 1828-2015

King's College London publications including booklets, reports and essays on the history of King's, King's property, staff and particular departments, including early prize-giving, the King's Strand site, King's hostels, Reggie the College mascot and the College Chapel, with some few essays and books by King's staff on subjects unrelated to the College, 1828-2015.

King's College London, 1829-

PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSYOPS) Publications (1915-2002)

  • PSYOPS
  • Collection
  • 1915-2002

Publications on psychological operations, 1915-2002, including books, editions of Falling Leaf (the magazine of the Psywar Society), other publications by the Psywar Society, journals, newsletters, VHS tapes, photocopies and printouts.

International Centre for Security Analysis, Department of War Studies, King's College London

PROCTER, Maj John Harold (1917-1950)

  • PROCTER
  • Collection
  • 1944-1945

Papers relating to his service in the Far East in 1942-1945 and 1950, dated 1942-1945 and 1950, principally comprising two photograph albums of Keijo (Seoul) POW camp, 1942-1944; copy of obituary from The Lancashire Lad, North Lancashire Regt (Loyal Regt) journal (Dec 1950); copy of covering letter to the Centre from Joan Procter (Procter's sister), 1992.

Procter, John Harold, 1917-1950, Major

PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE: Queen Elizabeth College administrative records

  • QAP
  • Collection
  • 1908-1985

Records, 1908-1985, of the Principal of Queen Elizabeth College and heads of its predecessor bodies, comprising general and policy files on administration of the College, 1912-1984, the subjects including buildings, relationship with the University of London, curriculum, relationship with royalty, evacuation and other arrangements during World War Two, granting of the charter and the name Queen Elizabeth College in 1953, financial matters, employees, catering, student relations, the library, and the future of the College (Ref: QAP/GPF1); papers on departmental and academic affairs, 1922-1985, including curricula and academic appointments (Ref: QAP/GPF2); files on arrangements for public lectures at the College, 1925-1968 (Ref: QAP/GPF3); minutes and other papers of College council, academic board and committees, 1915-1985, including staff appointments, salaries, curricula, timetables, safety, finance, and the merger with King's College London and Chelsea College in 1985 (Ref: QAP/GPF4); papers on the relationship with the University of London, 1915-1985 (Ref: QAP/GPF5); papers relating to the University Grants Committee, 1917-1985 (Ref: QAP/GPF6); correspondence and papers relating to other outside bodies, 1908-1985, including government departments, London County Council and other educational and health bodies, the subjects including students, training, and curricula (Ref: QAP/GPF7); papers on College premises, buildings and equipment, 1912-1985, including sports facilities, hostels and academic accommodation, damage sustained in World War Two, and alterations (Ref: QAP/GPF8); papers on the merger between Queen Elizabeth College, King's College London, and Chelsea College, 1982-1985, the subjects including finance, sites, and staff (Ref: QAP/GPF9).

Queen Elizabeth College, Principal, 1953-1985

PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE: King's College London office files of Ronald Montagu Burrows

  • KAP/BUR
  • Collection
  • 1912-1920

The Office of the Principal supports the academic and administrative work of the College's chief officer. Ronald Montagu Burrows was Principal of King's from 1913 until 1920, following a distinguished career as Professor of Greek at University College, Cardiff (1898-1908) and the University of Manchester (1908-1913). The collection comprises Principal Ronald Montagu Burrows' office files including correspondence, memoranda and accounts, 1912-1920. These include correspondence relating specifically to the impact on the College of World War One, including war grants, War Office classes, war-work by staff, lists of student casualties, the Officer Training Corps (OTC), the special constabulary, War Relief Council, erection of a war memorial, lists of refugee students, their status, examinations taken and the hospitality they enjoyed; reports and correspondence relating to the teaching and assessment of individual subjects or departments including Anatomy, Chemistry, Chinese, Day Training, Engineering, Law, Modern Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Theology, 1913-1919; correspondence relating to scholarships, studentships and medals, 1913-1917; correspondence on staff, notably academic appointments and pensions, and the establishment of new chairs, 1913-1918; correspondence relating to public lectures, 1913-1918; correspondence concerning Egyptian students at King's including lists of names, 1914-1915; correspondence and accounts of King's College for Women including the transference of many of its functions to King's College in the Strand, 1915-1917; correspondence relating to the Westminster Training College, Horseferry Road, 1913-1917; typescript accounts of the Plantanes Hall of Residence [King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill], 1913-1915; estimated accounts of King's College London, 1913-1919; incomplete examination pass lists, 1914-1918; framed photograph of Eleutherios Venizelos, Greek Statesman, [1913-1920].

King's College London Principal's Office, 1831-

PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE: King's College London administrative records

  • KAP
  • Collection
  • 1863-1997

The records of the Principal's Office, King's College London, comprise minutes, correspondence and memoranda, 1863-1997. These notably include minutes of the Delegacy of King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1989-1990, and various committee minutes including those of the Health and Welfare Committee, Joint Medical Advisory Committee and the Committee for the London Institutes for Advanced Study, 1974-1990; a run of general correspondence relating to College business including staff salaries, property, events, scholarships and relations with other universities, 1944-1979; but also more specifically, personal correspondence with Principal Richard William Jelf, 1863-1864; correspondence and papers on quinquennia and outlining the strategic direction of the College and constituent academic departments, including merger negotiations and the College Charter, 1933-1992; Principal's files relating to named departments, faculties and schools, including the United Medical and Dental Schools Merger, 1988-1997; correspondence on students including named individuals, the Student's Union and some pass lists, 1946-1979; correspondence concerning staff appointments, including professorial and other senior vacancies such as Secretaryship and Principalship, individual Chairs, salary scales, sabbaticals and staff-student relations, 1920-1997, correspondence concerning scholarships and awards, 1988-1997; papers relating to College property including proposals for the redevelopment of the College in Bloomsbury, expansion into Somerset House, Strand, and student residences, 1920-1985; minutes and correspondence concerning College libraries including the Ronald Burrows Memorial Library, 1931- 1977; correspondence and papers on the management of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, including with donors, 1977-1994; correspondence concerning hospitality and entertainment including Fellows' dinners and graduations, public and inaugural lectures, orations, royal visits and student events, 1946-1997; correspondence and papers charting the relationship of King's with the federal University of London, including Heads of Schools and reports on teaching, post-war reconstruction and the future of Goldsmith's College, 1943-1987; assorted memoranda, 1896-1978.

King's College London Principal's Office, 1831-

PRICE, William Charles (1909-1993)

  • K/PP84
  • Collection
  • 1929-1993

The papers of William Price, chiefly relating to spectroscopic analysis and photoionisation, comprise correspondence, lecture and teaching notes, notes compiled while reviewing scientific articles, original research notes, papers concerning Price's employment as an examiner, obituaries and reprints of journal articles, 1929-1993. These notably include correspondence with colleagues describing projects and experiments and sharing observations and data, 1942-1990; lecture notes and teaching papers compiled by Price on the theory of spectroscopy, theoretical and applied optics, especially microscopy, basic molecular chemistry, electron configurations and bond and dissociation energies of molecules, 1948-1978; notes compiled by Price for the peer review of articles and on Price's own published articles, including on the spectra of halogens, the structure of polyatomic molecules, on water and hydrides, the calculation of ionisation potentials, benzenes and hydrocarbons, the structure of the DNA molecule and natural fibres such as keratin, 1929-1977; original research notes on spectroscopic analysis, especially ultraviolet spectra of rare gases, ethylene, sulphur dioxide and other compounds, 1933-1986; papers relating to Price's work as an examiner including draft and complete examination question papers and correspondence, 1952-1978; papers concerning the membership by Price of various learned societies and attendance at scientific conferences and symposia, 1940-1992; obituaries and newspaper cuttings on Price and other distinguished scientists, 1976-1993; typescript copies and reprints of scientific journals containing articles by Price and others, on topics including spectroscopy, photoionization, ionisation potentials and electron configuration and bond and dissociation energies, 1945-1990.

Price, William Charles, 1909-1993, Professor of Physics

PRESTAGE, Professor Edgar (1869-1951)

  • K/PP74
  • Collection
  • 1881-1949

Papers of Edgar Prestage, 1881-1949, largely relating to his work on the history of Portugal, 16th-19th centuries. Letters to Prestage from various correspondents, 1886-1948 and undated, relate to a variety of subjects pertaining to his work, publications and translations, sources and interpretation, and also to acquaintances and contemporaries, other publications, and some personal matters such as correspondents' health and families, and include six letters from Fortunato de Almeida, 1917-1933 and undated; 24 letters from Joao Lucio de Azevedo, 1914-1933 and undated; 13 letters from Pedro Augusto de S Bartolomeu de Azevedo, 1910-1927 and undated; six letters from Henrique de Gama Barros, 1908-1925; five letters from Carlos Roma du Bocage, 1915-1918; three letters from Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1888-1889, and 12 letters from Lady Isabel Burton, 1894-1896, relating to Sir Richard's translation of Camoens; 22 letters from Julio de Castilho, 1908-1918; nine letters from Harold Castle, 1903-1906; six letters from Fidelino de Figueiredo, 1911-1918 and undated; eight letters from James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, 1905-1919; five letters from Anselmo Braamcamp Freire, 1905-1919; two letters from Pieter Geyl, 1923, 1926; letter from William Ewart Gladstone, 1893, congratulating Prestage on Letters of a Portuguese nun ; ten letters from Edward Heawood, 1922-1933; letter from Benjamin Jowett, 1887, explaining entrance examinations at Oxford; five letters from Margery Lane, 1927 and undated; six letters from Manuel de Oliveira Lima, 1910-1927; two letters, 1928, 1932, from Manuel II, King of Portugal, concerning the monarch's bibliography of early Portuguese books; eight letters from Jacinto Octavio Picon, 1911-1920; seven letters from Jacinto Inacio de Brito Rebelo, 1895-1908; eight letters from Jaime Batalha Reis, 1894-1896, 1904-1905, 1922; 12 letters from Francisco Rodrigues, 1913-1918, 1930 and undated; two letters from John Ruskin, 1886 and undated, on the study of architecture; seven letters from Antonio Maria Jose de Melo Cesar e Meneses, 5th Conde de Sabugosa, 1905-1913; five letters from Luis Teixeira de Sampayo, 1921-1928; letter from Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, 1905, congratulating Prestage on Eca de Queiroz's The sweet miracle ; five letters from Georg Schurhammer, 1930-1936; five letters from Wilhelm Storck, 1894-1895; five letters from Herbert Thurston, 1905-1913; ten letters from Pedro Tovar de Lemos, 2nd Conde de Tovar, 1916-1927 and undated; 13 letters from Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcellos, 1895-1896, 1907-1922, and 11 letters from her husband, Joaquim de Vasconcellos, 1897, 1908-1925; six letters from Afonso Lopes Vieira, 1910, 1914, 1927 and undated; five letters from Tomas Maria de Almeida Manuel de Vilhena, 8th Conde de Vila Flor, 1925-1929 and undated; letter from Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, [1892], regretting he cannot send a copy of his unnamed play (perhaps Lady Windermere's Fan ) as it has not yet been published. There is also a letter of 1881 from Antonio Candido Goncalves Crespo to Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho (father and mother of Prestage's wife). Ephemera includes signatures of Gomes Eannes Azurara, William Wordsworth, [? Isaac] Disraeli and Samuel Wilberforce; Christmas cards; the visiting card of S T P Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, 1903; menus, including the House of Commons Coronation luncheon in Westminster Hall, 1902; a ticket to the coronation of Edward VII, 1902; and an invitation to a party at Windsor Castle, 1912. Otherwise the collection comprises research notes and transcriptions on various subjects and sources, including Restoration period Portugal; Sousa Coutinho; Portuguese in Africa, Brazil and Asia; the War of the Spanish Succession; 17th century Portuguese history, including diplomacy; the sermons of Father Antonio Vieira SJ; Portuguese bibliographies prepared by Prestage; annotated typescripts on the Portuguese in Abyssinia down to 1543, aspects and results of Portuguese colonisation, and Portuguese reminiscences (1948); Prestage's 'The Mode of Government in Portugal during the Restoration Period'; photographs of Portuguese fortresses in Morocco; notebook on 'Analyse das "Cartas Familiares" '; copies of letters of F de Sousa, including his embassies to France and Rome; copies of letters of Sir R Southwell, English ambassador to Lisbon; material relating to relations between Spain and Portugal; pamphlets and articles of Prestage; proofs for a chapter entitled 'L'Intevention Anglaise dans la Peninsule Iberique', in an envelope addressed to Prestage and labelled 'D Fernando & the Holy See by E Perroy'.

Prestage, Edgar, 1869-1951, Professor of Portuguese, historian

PRESS RELEASES: King's College London printed material

  • K/PR
  • Series
  • 1989-2001

King's College London press releases published by King's External or Public Relations Department for the information of the media and public, 1989-2001.

King's College London, 1829-

PRESS CUTTINGS: Queen Elizabeth College printed material

  • Q/PC
  • Series
  • 1908-1986

Queen Elizabeth College bound volumes of press cuttings containing often detailed notices, news stories and features concerning the Department/College from newspapers including <em>The Times</em>, <em>Morning Post</em> and <em>Spectator</em>, covering topics such as the education of women, the teaching of household science internationally, awards, new buildings and wartime disruption, 1908-1986; volumes of cuttings on cooking and recipes from newspaper columns, 1927-1932.

Queen Elizabeth College, 1953-1985

PRESS CUTTINGS: King's College London printed material

  • K/PC
  • Series
  • 1825-2001

King's College London press cuttings in bound volumes and loose folders describing the foundation of University College and King's, staff publications and honours, dinners and public engagements, examination results, and the work of individual researchers or departments, particularly in the scientific field, 1825-2001; cuttings by or about King's staff, including Times Higher articles on university restructuring, 1904-1998; circulated cuttings on a very wide range of King's and Higher Education news such as financial affairs, student numbers, university assessments and grants, 1991-2001; cuttings specifically relating to Higher Education including The Times' Good University Guide and league tables published by other newspapers, 1955-2001.

King's College London, 1829-

PRESS CUTTINGS: Chelsea College printed material

  • C/PC
  • Collection
  • 1895-1984

South-Western Polytechnic, Chelsea Polytechnic, Chelsea College of Science and Technology and Chelsea College Press Cuttings, 1895-1984, comprises one box of loose press cuttings, 1895-1903, and nine volumes of cuttings covering news on the strategic and academic development of the College, on the effects of major events such as the two World Wars, advertisements for Chelsea courses, features on the College with occasional photographs, and relating to individual students and staff, including announcements of prizes and obituaries, 1903-1984.

Chelsea College, 1972-1985

PRENTICE, Maj Ronald R [1913-1980] and WICKSTEAD, Capt H Arthur 1913-1989

  • PRENTICE & WICKSTEAD
  • Collection
  • 1942-1945

Prentice's manuscript diaries, mainly detailing his services at General Headquarters, Middle East Command, Cairo, Egypt, including mention of Long Range Desert Group operations in the Western Desert, 1942; manuscript diaries and notebooks kept by Prentice and Wickstead, mainly relating to SOE operations in West Macedonia, Greece, 1943-1944; reports, mainly compiled by Allied Military Mission personnel, detailing demolition, intelligence and reconnaissance missions in West Macedonia, combined missions with Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) 9 Div, liaison operations with Raiding Support Regiment and US Operational Group 7 personnel, sabotage targets, and administrative and operational procedures, 1943-1944; papers, in Greek, mainly relating to ELAS partisan activities in West Macedonia, including a copy of the 'National Bands Agreement', memoranda to Allied Military Mission regarding struggles with Ellinikos Dimokratikos Ethnikos Stratos (EDES) factions, political proclamations and ELAS propaganda; papers, in Greek, relating to Greek partisan forces not under the jurisdiction of the Allied Military Mission, including memoranda, propaganda and military orders from the Ellinikos Ethnikis Stratos (EES) and Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (KKE) and official Greek government notices, 1943- 1944; maps and photographs of Allied Military Mission areas of operation, 1943- 1944; correspondence between Allied Military Mission commanders and sub-area commanders, 1943-1944, including correspondence between Greek partisan commanders and Prentice, 1944; personal letters from Allied personnel to Prentice, 1946-1955; correspondence between Wickstead, Officer Commanding Signals, Area 1, and Allied personnel, 1944; papers relating to wireless/telegraphy signals, Allied Military Mission, 1943-1944; papers, relating mainly to the administration and supply of the Allied Military Mission; German papers, including German 1 Mountain Div operational orders, propaganda, personal letters from German soldiers to family members and German-language newspapers; Greek political papers, notably including propaganda newspapers and party leaflets, including letters to Maj Gen Arthur Wilmot Wadeson Holworthy, 1941-1946; Wickstead's post-war index of Allied Military Mission signals, [1989]; papers relating to post-war publications about SOE operations in Greece, including the working papers for Lt Col Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond's, The Allied Military Mission and the Resistance in West Macedonia (Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, 1993); post-war Greek newspapers, leaflets and war memorial publications, 1945-[1991]. 3.3.4 Arrangement: Arranged in the following sections: diaries and notebooks of Maj Ronald R Prentice and Capt H Arthur Wickstead, 1942-1944; documents and papers relating to Allied Military Mission operations, West Macedonia, 1943-1944; papers relating to Greek partisan activities, 1943-1944; maps and photographs of Allied Military Mission areas of operations, 1943-1944; correspondence between Allied Military Mission commanders, 1943-1944 and former Greek partisans, 1946-1955; papers relating to wireless/telegraphy signals, Allied Military Mission, 1943-1944; papers relating to the administration, finances and logistics of the Allied Military Mission, 1943-1944; German papers, documents and newspapers during the occupation of Greece, 1943-1944; Greek political papers, documents and newspapers, 1941-1946; Wickstead's post-war partial index of signals, Allied Military Mission, West Macedonia, [1989]; papers relating to post-war publications about the resistance movement in West Macedonia, [1989-1991]; post- war Greek newspapers, leaflets and war memorial publications, 1945-[1991].

Prentice, Ronald R, 1913-1980, Major

PRAIN, Lt Col John Murray (1902-1985)

  • PRAIN
  • Collection
  • [1918]-1959

Papers and maps chiefly concerning the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, [1918]-1959, including typescript copy of war diary, 1 Armoured Reconnaissance Bde, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Belgium and France, 30 Mar-30 May 1940, with typescript recommendations for awards, 1940; typescript account, dated Jun 1942, of dispositions and operations of B Sqn, 1 Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, Belgium and France, 14 May-1 Jun 1940; typescript list entitled '1 Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, nominal roll of casualties sustained in France, 1940'; article by Maj Otho Munton Bullivant, Adjutant, 1 Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, entitled 'With the BEF [British Expeditionary Force] in Flanders', from The Tank [1941]; typescript 'Precis of activities of 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry', British Liberation Army, North West Europe, Oct 1944-Feb 1945, and 'Details of activities of 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry', 1-31 Mar 1945; correspondence with various officers concerning Regimental affairs, 1943-1945, including Col James Younger, 2nd Viscount Younger of Leckie, Honorary Col, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, 1945; correspondence, dated 1944-1945, relating to the return of the Regimental band instruments, abandoned by the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry during the retreat to Dunkirk, 1940, and kept by the local townspeople, France, 1940-1944; official correspondence concerning Prain's Army pension and war disablement compensation, 1946-1956; correspondence, dated 1947-1959, relating to the writing and publication of The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, 1919-1956 by Robert James Batchen Sellar (William Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1960). Twenty five photographs relating to the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, 1923-1945, including group photograph of Armoured Car Company, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, Annesmuir camp, Scotland, Jul 1923; five photographs of Fife and Forfar Yeomanry Vickers Light Tanks Mark VIB and Universal carriers, France, 1940; official photograph of Infantry Tank Mark IV Churchill Crocodile flame-throwing tank, storming of the Senio river, Italy, Apr 1945.

Prain, John Murray, 1902-1985, Lieutenant Colonel

POWNALL, Lt Gen Sir Henry Royds (1887-1961)

  • POWNALL
  • Collection
  • 1933-1945

Twelve detailed, narrative, manuscript diaries, Jan 1933-Aug 1936 and Jan 1938-Dec 1944 (with postscripts added in Jan and Sep 1945), including Pownall's time as Military Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1933-1935, Commandant, School of Artillery, Larkhill, Wiltshire, 1936-1938, Chief of General Staff, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, 1939-1940, Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in Northern Ireland, 1940-1941, and Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, 1943-1944, with aerial photograph of Belfast, Aug 1940, and a group photograph of the officers of South East Asia Command [1945], typescript extracts from reports, letters and typescript extract from the diary of Maj Gen Edmund Archibald Osborne, on the campaign in France, 1940. Also, printed order of service in memory of FM John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, 10 Apr 1946, and related newspaper cuttings. The diaries were published as Chief of Staff. The diaries of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall, edited by Brian James Bond (Leo Cooper, London, 1972).

Pownall, Sir Henry Royds, 1887-1961, Lieutenant General

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