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BAX, Clifford (1886-1962)

  • K/PP191
  • Collection
  • 1924

Letter to The Times , with covering letter, in reply to an article by the paper's dramatic critic, Arthur Bingham Walkley, concerning Expressionism, 1924.

Bax, Clifford, 1886-1962, author and dramatist

BAYNHAM, Brig Derrick Hubert (1924-2006)

  • BAYNHAM
  • Collection
  • 1939-1942

Memoir of Brig Derrick Baynham, 1939-1942, including descriptions of assisting in the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940; work in the Local Defence Volunteers, 1941; Special Operations Executive (SOE) training, including resisting interrogation and handling explosives; preparation for mission to support agents in occupied France and identify targets for sabotage; account of the mission including encounter with Milice (Vichy police), liasion with sympathetic French locals in Limoges, recovery of radio transmission equipment from the Milice, establishment of permanent base station in Perigueux and return to England, 1942. Also accounts of the attempted rescue of the surviving crew member of a crashed British bomber off the coast of Anglesey, 1941, for which Baynham was awarded the George Medal, and account of his capture by German troops and subsequent escape, Germany, April 1945.

Baynham, Derrick Hubert, 1924-2006, Brigadier

BBC audio broadcast recordings, [1991-1992], relating to the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands and the British political reaction

One ¾ inch U-Matic video cassette containing audio recording of material from the BBC sound archive including news reports of the unconfirmed Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands; reports by Laurie Margolis and Peter Marshall; and statements in the House of Commons [by Rt Hon Francis Leslie Pym, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1982-1983, and Rt Hon John Silkin, Opposition Spokesman on Defence and disarmament 1981-1982], (2 Apr 1982). Previous Ref: FF2

BBC audio recording, [1991-1992], of a speech by General Leopoldo Galtieri

One ¾ inch U-Matic video cassette containing audio recording of material from the BBC sound archive including a speech by Gen Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, President of Argentina, 1981-1982 and recording of the music of the Argentine national anthem, (1982). Language: Spanish. Previous Ref: FF1

BBC audio recordings, [1991-1992], relating to the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands

One ¾ inch U-Matic video cassette containing audio recording of material from the BBC sound archive including interview with Bill [Greerson] former Falkland Islands and South Georgia customs officer discussing previous incidents involving Argentine challenges to British sovereignty of the Falkland Islands in 1948 and 1966 (1982); Harold Brilley's report on Anglo-Argentine talks in New York (1982); comments by Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, Sixth Baron Carrington (Lord Carrington), Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1979-1982, on the incident involving the raising of the Argentine flag on South Georgia (1982); Harold Brilley's report of British decision to send HMS Endurance to the Falkland Islands (1982); and comments by Rt Hon Sir John William Frederic Nott, Secretary of State for Defence, 1981-1983, on the preparations of the British Navy for the defence of the Falkland Islands (1982). Previous Ref: FF3

BBC documentary, 'Plunder: the stolen Kanakaria mosaics', 1990

BBC television documentary (broadcast 1990 in the arts documentary series Omnibus), 'Plunder: the stolen Kanakaria mosaics', on the looting, sale, and subsequent return of sixth century mosaics from the Church of Panagia Kanakaria, Lythragkomi village, northern Cyprus (duration: 50 minutes). In English.

BBC Timewatch documentary, Woolly Al walks the kitty back, about US diplomatic efforts to avert the Falklands War, broadcast 11 Mar 1992

One VHS (Vertical Helix Scan) video cassette of the BBC Timewatch documentary broadcast on BBC2, 11 Mar 1992, entitled Woolly Al walks the kitty back, examining the diplomatic efforts to prevent the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982.

BEARNE, AVM Guy (1908-2005)

  • BEARNE
  • Collection
  • [1980]-1985

Copy of detailed memoir, 'From air to chair', covering his RAF career, 1929-1961, including sections on his RAF training, bomber squadron service, 1930-1933, armament training and duties, 1933-1944 and service in Iraq, 1937-1939, Bomber Command, 1939-1940, the Air Ministry, 1940, 1947-1949 and 1954-1956, Malaya, 1946, Joint Services Staff College, 1947, Central Gunnery School, 1949-1951, Rhodesian Air Training Group, 1951-1953 and Technical Training Command, 1956-1961, written in 1985. Copy of chapter of personal family history giving an account of his father, Lt Col Lewis Collinwood Bearne, during the period 1878-1918, including his service in the Boer War and World War One, [1980-1985].

Bearne, Guy, 1908-2005, Air Vice Marshal

Beat Scene, 1990-[1993]

Beat Scene 9 (Coventry, 1990), edited by Kevin Ring: includes work by Charles Bukowski, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs;

Issue 10: includes work by Gregory Corso, Charles Bukowski, Carolyn Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, second copy at MOTTRAM 5 / Ginsberg;

Issue 11: includes features on Anne Waldman, Charles Bukowski, Herbert Huncke;

Issue 12: includes work by Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Charles Bukowski (including a gramophone record), Ken Kesey, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Paul Bowles;

Issue 15: includes work by Neal Cassady, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, with accompanying letter from editor to Mottram

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