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Papers relating to the recognition of Egypt as an independent state, consisting of copy of despatch relating to the status of Egypt sent by George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess of Kedleston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, short summary of General Staff views as to the military requirements for safeguarding British Imperial communications in Egypt. With covering letter from Col John Edward Spencer Brind, War Office. Typescript, 7pp

Paper entitled 'Secrets of Crewe House', on the general principles and methods of propaganda. 3pp

Account, probably by Liddell Hart, on the causes of war and principles governing its conduct, with particular reference to loss of human and civil rights to the state, justifications for 'total' war and legality of weapons which are notably inhumane and indiscriminate in their effects including the atomic bomb. 1 file

Lt Gen Sir Launcelot Kiggell, to First-Fifth Armies. Commander-in-Chief finds it necessary to modify provisions of Section 114, Chap IX, Infantry Training, insofar as the attack is concerned. 5 pp + plates

Programme for debate, 'The Europe of Armament: utopia or necessity?', organised by the Confédération Amicale des Ingénieurs de l'Armement. 14pp.

Document in Japanese relating to defence including Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles, Verical/Short Take-Off and Landing, F15, NATO; with attached note from Cornes & Co Ltd, Japan.

Paper by [Danish] Maj Gen Erick Kragh entitled 'The background of Denmark's security and defence policy'. Typescript, 36pp

Paper by Montagu on general air policy. Annotated by Montagu 'Have sent this to Pemberton Billing' (see also Montagu 2/36-37). Typed carbon 1 p

Bound typescript text of Wilkins’ PhD thesis, ‘Phosphorescence decay laws and electronic processes in solids’, University of Birmingham, Oct 1940, including manuscript diagrams and graphs. Two copies

Typescript of 'War', unpublished book by Hamilton, a philosophical argument for war as a necessity to human progress. 203pp

Text of vote of thanks by Hamilton to the honorary workers, Officers' Benevolent Department, British Legion, London. 2pp

Typescript (top copy) of unpublished memoir by Kennedy entitled 'The birth of the Central African Federation', concerning the creation, during his governorship of Southern Rhodesia, of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (or Central African Federation), embracing the colony of Southern Rhodesia and the territories of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, (1953-1963), with correspondence between Kennedy and Curtis Brown Limited, London, concerning the possibility of publication, including a report for the publishers and correspondence concerning deposit of the work with the Oxford University Colonial Records Project. 1 file.

Draft proposal, by Rune Stuvland, UNICEF, for the provision of psychosocial support to Muslim women and children refugees from Srebrenica, Bosnia, displaced to the region around the city of Tuzla after the mass killing of male Muslims by the Bosnian Serb Army, Jul 1995.

Typescript article entitled 'The story of Malcolm Sinclair', taken from the History of the Scottish expedition to Norway in 1612 by Thomas Michell (T Nelson and Sons, London, 1886) and Sketch of the civil and traditional history of Caithness by James Tait Calder (T Murray & Son, Glasgow, 1861). Left unfinished by Hamilton. 3pp

Two quotations relating to Nelson and their verification by the National Maritime Museum. Typescript, 1 p

Cutting of Allenby's tribute to Thomas Edward Lawrence (Thomas Edward Shaw) from the Journal of the Central Asian Society. 1 item

Text of 'Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons' and 'United Kingdom declaration on security assurances' published as annexes to HMSO 38964.

Twentieth Trenchard memorial lecture to the Royal Aeronautical Society at RAF Cranwell: 'Defence and the future of the Royal Air Force' by Menaul.

Text of 'The objectives of arms control' given by Ambassador Paul H Nitze, the 1985 Alastair Buchan memorial lecture delivered to International Institute for Strategic Studies, London.

Two typescripts of 'The millenium' by Hamilton, consequently rewritten as The millennium? (Edward Arnold, London, 1919). With undated manuscript letter from William Butler Yeats [1913?] supplying Hamilton with a quotation of Heraclitus of Ephesus (c544-c480 BC) on war. 1 file