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Manuscript and typescript notes, published articles and press cuttings relating to religious writing about death, including: extracts from the works of metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631); pamphlet, 'The relief of pain' by Pope Pius XII (London, Catholic Truth Society, 1957); notes on the religious foundation and work of the chaplain at St Christopher's Hospice; notes on St Luke's House annual reports for 1893-1907.

The city 2: copy of Dialogue 3 (Washington, D. C., 1970), issue on 'The environmental crisis'; booklet Process and product in human society by John Blacking (Inaugural Lecture, Witwatersrand University, 1969); duplicator copy of essay by John Blacking headed 'The myth of urban man'; pamphlet The city (Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, California, 1962) containing interviews by Donald McDonald of Allan Temko, architectural critic, and Arthur Naftalin, Mayor of Minneapolis; booklet The new city: architecture and urban renewal, programme to an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967; newspaper cuttings, 1963-1977, on urban and ecological issues

General background research on the Six Day War, including photocopy communications between the US and USSR governments, and extracts from published histories.

General background research on Syria, chiefly photocopy press articles from Israel, UK and USA.

Background research material on 'Black September', the conflict between the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Jordan, 1970, including photocopy extracts from the memoirs of Henry Kissinger.

Pamphlets and lecture texts by Prof Reginald Victor Jones, professor of Natural Philosophy, Aberdeen University relating to 'scientific intelligence' and Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, Chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence and on the bomber offensive; typescript paper on 'The strategic air offensive against Germany 1939-1940' with comments by ACM Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt; photocopies of articles, 'Services required from the Royal Air Force for the field forces'(1975), 'Readiness for war-a study of some elements in the effectiveness of the air forces on the north east front, Sep 1939-May 1940' by Group Capt E B Haslam, Air Historical Branch, Air Ministry, 1975, 'The Royal Air Force and British military aircraft production 1934-1940', a colloquium paper by Sir Peter Gordon Masefield, Dec 1975; copies of papers on RAF casualties during World War Two. 1 file

Deir Yassin research' Manuscript notes, typescript translations of articles and sections of books relating to the attack on the Arab village of Deir Yassin by Jewish Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL, Etzel) forces, 9 Apr 1948. Also contains transcripts of interview with eyewitnesses to the attack including Meir Pail, (Yisrael) Galili 19 May 1983; testimony of Reuven Greenberg 8 Aug 1957; transcript of interview with David Niv, IZL historian, 5 May 1982, and transcript of Irgun Zvai Leumi radio broadcast reporting the attack 11 Apr 1948.Language: English, Hebrew, Arabic

Miscellaneous Research File'File of material relating to research for the documentary The Fifty Years War, Israel and the Arabs, including notes on a number of published works used as sources; typescript copy of translation of Moshe Sharett's diary, Sep 1953-1954 (also electronic version on disk); lists of Israeli cabinet ministers 1948-1996, US and UK Ambassadors to Middle East nations 1990-1996, Jordanian government members 1994-1996, Egyptian cabinet members 1952-1992, and biographical notes and contact details of participants in the US State Department Conference on the June War (Six Day War, Jun 1967) (1992); correspondence relating to checking of statistical details such as casualty numbers; photocopies of extracts of general articles on Palestine, Egypt and Israel; photocopies of biographical details of eyewitnesses involved in the making of the documentary.

Background material used in preparation of chapter: notes and references from the literature, typescript (with ms. annotations) of 'Structure of insect muscles' and 'Biochemistry of insect muscles', correspondence (1 letter only).

Typescript notes and article offprints relating to the care and social well-being of patients with chronic diseases, including notes on 'Care of the chronic sick' by Professor A P Thompson, in Proceeding of the Royal Society of Medicine, April 1950.

Articles, manuscript notes and press cuttings on general medical topics including: 'The natural history of error', by William B Bean, published in Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, 1959; 'Presidential Address to the British Medical Association' by Prince Philip, published in British Medical Journal, October 1959; 'Psychosomatic medicine and the brain-mind relationship' by Lord Brain, The Lancet, August 1964.

Articles, notes and press cuttings relating to psychiatry and psychology, chiefly in the context of care for the terminally ill, including: 'Psychology applied to nursing', by Doreen Weddell, Nursing Times, 1954-1955; 'The dying patient's grief' by C Knight Aldrich, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, May 1963; 'Psychiatric management of operative syndromes: 1. the therapeutic consultation and the effect of noninterpretive Intervention' by Thomas P Hackett and Avery D Wiseman, published in Psychosomatic Medicine, July-August 1960.

Reports, articles and transcripts of sermons and lectures concerning religion and healing, including 'Non-religious participation in Salvation within the clinical event' by Dr R A Lambourne, (undated), and a report by the Archbishops' Commission, 'The Church's Ministry of Healing', 1958.

Articles and reports relating to the surgical treatment of pain, including '4 years' pain clinic experience' by Mark Swerdow, published in Anaesthia, October 1967, and report, 'Psychological factors influencing the amount of pain after operations' by L D Egbert, S J Lamdin and T P Hackett, (undated).

Notes, articles and correspondence relating to the role of spirituality and religion in the care of the terminally ill, collected in preparation for a 1985 conference, 'The Church's ministry of healing to the dying'. File includes: Cicely Saunders' article 'The working of St Christopher's', published in Medical care of the dying patient (Foundation of Thanatology, New York, 1974); a newsletter of the Assembly of Episcopal Chaplains, reporting on lectures on bereavement, March 1974, by Saunders, Dr Samuel Klagsbrun and Rev Carleton Sweetser; a seminar paper, 'Thoughts on the spiritual component in care of the terminally ill', by Florence Wald, 1985; requests from Saunders for information on the spiritual origins of the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation and the Sue Ryder Foundation, 1985.

Publications: Conference on the June 1967 War, File 1'. Copies of draft chapters of a The Six Day War, a retrospective, interspersed with transcripts of the panel discussions relating to the same topic addressed at a State Department Conference on the June 1967 War, investigating events surrounding the Six Day War between Israel and her Arab neighbours, 5-10 Jun 1967, (1992).Includes: Introduction, L Carl Brown and Richard B Parker; Chapter 1, Origins of the War, L Carl Brown 2 editions; Chapter 2, The United Nations response: conflict prevention and the June war, William Zartman; and Chapter 3, The Israeli response: the view from Jerusalem, Bernard Reich.Members of the panel discussions include: Vitaly Naumkin, Georgiy Kornienko, Robert Freedman, Robert Oakley, Alan Drimmer, William Zartman, David Korn, Red (Granville) Austin, C Ernest Dawn, Bernard Reich, Samit Mutawi, Raymond Garthoff, Meir Amit, William Quandt, Ephraim Evron, Tahsin Basheer, Gideon Rafael, George Tomeh, William Zartmann, Richard Parker, Eugene Rostow, Carl Brown, McGeorge Bundy, Lucius Battle, Richard Helms, Samuel Lewis, Alfred Atherton, Janice, Stein, Andrew Cockburn, Robert Komer, George Tomeh, Talcott Seelye, Shimon Shamir, Brian Urquart, Victor Israelyan, Karen Darwisha.