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Pamphlet entitled, 'Kenya 1960', describing the political system of Kenya, with information on Kenya's political parties and the Mau Mau rebellion. 1 pamphlet.

Council for Education in World Citizenship: information material.

Information relating to the Russo-Japanese War [possibly gathered by Maj Hugh Archie Dundas Simpson Baikie, Hamilton's Staff Officer, for an unpublished book by Hamilton], comprising typescript list of fourteen questions relating to Russian military actions during the Russo-Japanese War; typescript answers in Russian from unnamed Russian source, with transcriptions of several telegrams from the Russian General Staff to unit commanders; English manuscript translation by Capt Charles Henry Fortnom Cox, Royal Artillery; three typescript copies of the translation. 1 file

Notes and copy articles relating to spirals, including: typescript draft text, ‘Note sur des Limnaea Stagnalis L Var Lacustris Stud elevees dans une mare du plateau Vaudois’, by Jean Piaget, 1929; lecture text, ‘Form and function in the littoral gastropod’ by Alastair Graham, Apr 1948; typescript draft, ‘Stockhausen’s musical notation’, by Jill Purce, 1973; article, ‘A better way to construct the sunflower head’, by Helmut Vogel, published in Mathematical Biosciences, Jun 1979; ‘Galaxies: the origin of spiral structure’ by M G Edmunds, published in Nature, Jan 1980

Photocopy notes and reading lists relating to Manchester University Department of Liberal Studies in Science, with a covering note to Wilkins from Prof Michael Gibbons, Oct 1978. Photocopy reading list for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology course ‘American science since the 1930s’, 1984. Also photocopy reading list on ‘form’ in science, art and mathematics. Possibly collected as background information for the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS)

Articles, press cuttings, pamphlets and notes relating to theological and philosophical attitudes to death and dying. File includes sermons, notes on published texts and seminar papers, including 'Concerning ministerial service to the dying' by Alfred Worcester, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, 1925, and 'A course entitled 'The medical attitude': an orientation in the foundations of medical thought' by Otto E Guttentag, published in The Journal of Medical Education, October 1960.

Material collated by Brooke-Popham for a lecture on events in the Near East, at the RAF Staff College, Andover, Hampshire, on 10 Dec 1936, notably a copy letter from Brooke-Popham to the Air Ministry, 25 Jul 1936, on the final draft of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty; Brooke-Popham's notes for the Air Ministry on the introduction of martial law in Palestine; letters, newscuttings and notes on the general situation in Palestine, Sep-Nov 1936; newscutting from The Times, 25 Nov 1936, on the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty and the future defence of the Suez Canal; précis of Brooke-Popham's lecture, with manuscript additions, chiefly describing recent events in Egypt, Palestine, and Abyssinia, and their effects on the rest of the Middle East; notes on the Egyptian Royal Family, the Egyptian Cabinet, and the Combined Staff in Palestine, 1936; map of Libya and Egypt printed by the Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, 1918, and 1932, on a scale of 1:3,000,000, with annotations showing the range of various aircraft into Libyan territory from bases at Alexandria, Mersa Mutrah and Sollum; map of the Middle East and East Africa on a scale of 1:11,500,000, showing 1000 mile radii from various air bases in British and Italian territory; diagrams showing the structure of British Forces and the RAF in Palestine and Transjordan under Lt Gen John Greer Dill, Commander in Chief, British Forces in Palestine. 1 file, 20 items.

Reports, articles and booklets on geriatric care, including a booklet, 'Caring for the elderly' by Thomas Rudd (London, Catholic Truth Society, 1956), and 'Mental health problems of aging and the aged: sixth report of the expert committee on mental health', produced by the World Health Organization, 1959.

Published articles and notes on clinical trials, assessments and use of tranquilisers and sedatives, including articles 'Pharmacology of tranquilising drugs' by Marthe Vogt, British Medical Journal, October 1958, and 'Trials of perphenazine in the prevention of post-operative vomiting' by C F Scurr and D S Robbie, British Medical Journal, April 1958.

Published articles, press cuttings and related papers on religion and medicine, including: manuscript notes by Saunders; typescript text of lecture, 'Healing and religion', given by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the National Hospital, Queen Square, 1964; article, 'Church and doctor in the welfare state' by H Wallace Bird, published in Nursing Times, 1959; issue of Methodist journal Contact, entitled 'Pastoral encounter', 1964.

Background notes, correspondence, articles and publicity material relating to charitable trusts, foundations and religious communities, including: correspondence with other UK charitable trusts; text by Cicely Saunders on her sources of inspiration, both religious texts and individual patients, for the development of the hospice, 1959-1964; notes on funding application discussions, 1964; correspondence with the Sister Superior of the Hostel of God (now Trinity Hospice), Clapham, south London, 1964, concerning the history of the hospice, with extracts from its 1922 annual report.

General Arab related publications including on rural development and agriculture, economic research and Arab-British Chamber of Commerce publications, 1959-1984.

Correspondence, notes, lists and press cuttings relating to charitable trusts in the UK and elsewhere as potential funding sources. File includes correspondence between Cicely Saunders and Hooker Craigmyle & Co Ltd, fund raising consultants, April-May 1967, and a poster advertising a BBC television appeal for St Christopher's Hospice, September 1970.

Manuscript notes and articles by other authors relating to Wilkins’s research on nerve endings, membranes and lipid bilayers. Also copy of articles, ‘The control of humidity by saturated salt solution’ by F E M O’Brien, published in Journal of Scientific Instruments, Vol 25, 1948, and ‘An electrostatic focusing system and its Application to a Fine Focus X-ray Tube’ by Werner Ehrenberg and Walter Spear, published in Proceedings of the Physical Society Vol 64 No 1, 1951. Original file title ‘Recent research notes or reprints’

Charlie Company general notes'. File of general information relating to members of C Company, 1st Bn 20th Inf, US Army, including copies of list of members with criminal record, 16 Mar 1968; newspaper article, 'Charlie Co.'s 1st day of horror', The Sunday News, 17 May 1970; US Army memoranda on the background of enlisted personnel in C Coy, 12 Jan 1970, and the phased training schedule for the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, 7 Dec 1967; researcher's typescript notes on personality of members of 2nd Platoon, C Coy [1989-1992]; Unit Roster for C Coy, 1st Bn 20th Inf, 11th Light Inf Bde, Americal Division, 18 Apr 1968; list of witnesses in the court martial of Capt Ernest L Medina, 26 Jan 1971; and resume of large scale operations conducted by US FW and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in Quang Ngai province, Vietnam, Jan-Mar 1968.

Notes and published articles relating to the defence industry’s funding of research projects in British universities, including: typescript notes on the definition of academic freedom, 1972; article by Stanton Glantz and Norm Albers, ‘Department of Defense R & D in the university’, published in Science, 1974; Zoe Fairbairns, ‘Study war no more: military involvement in British universities and colleges’, pamphlet published by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1974); article by Fairbairns, ‘University liaison, the army for the use of’, published in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1975; brief manuscript notes on research projects at King’s College London linked to defence institutions, 1970-1974, with covering note from Felix Pirani, Professor of Mathematics, to Wilkins, 1975; article by Fairbairns, ‘No official secrets at Southampton?’, published in New Scientist, 1975; copy list of UK university research projects that received Ministry of Defence funding during 1980, with copy covering letter from Geoffrey Pattie, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence Procurement, to MP Frank Allaun, 1982; article, ‘The MRC and the armed services’, published in MRC News, 1988; issue 2 of newsletter Defence Employment Briefing, 1992. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review 2072

Background Research-Programme 3'File of material covered in Programme 3 of the documentary The Fifty Years War, Israel and the Arabs, including photocopies of articles and sections from published works, and typescript notes on events relating to activities of the Palestinians, in Jordan, 1967-1970, and Lebanon, 1973-1982, including Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) terrorism at the Munich Olympics (1972); 'Black September' and the PLO conflict with Jordan, (Sep 1970); PLO involvement in the civil war in Lebanon (1976); Israeli military operations in Lebanon, the massacres at Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon, and departure of the PLO from Lebanon 1982.Language: English and Hebrew

Background Research-Programme 1'File containing photocopies of articles and sections from published works, and typescript notes relating events covered in Programme 1 of the documentary The Fifty Years War, Israel and the Arabs, for the years 1948-1956, including US recognition of the State of Israel; Israel's War of Independence; Palestinian refugees; attack on village of Deir Yassin; assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator (Sep 1948); the 'Lavon Affair', operations of Jewish underground movement in Egypt, (1950-1954); 'Gaza raid', Israeli attack of military outposts in Gaza, (Feb 1955); secret talks between Egyptian Abdul Rahman Sadeq and Israeli Ziamah Divon (1941); road to Suez War (1956). Language: English and Hebrew

Background Research-Programme 2'File containing photocopies of articles and sections from published works, and typescript notes on individuals involved in events and story ideas relating to events of the Six Day War (1967), covered in Programme 2 of the documentary The Fifty Years War, Israel and the Arabs and including: false Soviet reports of Israeli troop concentration; Israeli meetings with US government administration; Israeli military advice; Jordan's involvement in the war, and phone call to Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt; Israeli operations in Gaza; ceasefire and peace talks.