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Civil Defence, leaflet no. 1, 'Some things you should know if war should come', concerning air raid warnings, gas masks, lighting restrictions, fire precautions voluntary evacuation, identity labels, food supply. The series was issued by the Lord Privy Seal's Office. 4 pp, 1 item

Civil Defence, leaflet no. 2, 'Your gas mask. How to keep it and how to use it', and 'Masking your windows'. The series was issued by the Lord Privy Seal's Office. 4 pp, 1 item

Civil Defence, leaflet no. 5, 'Fire precautions in wartime'. The series was issued by the Lord Privy Seal's Office. 4 pp, 1 item

Typescript transcripts of interviews with high-ranking members of the Civil Service conducted by Dr W Scott Lucas of the University of Birmingham and Professor Anthony Gorst of the University of Westminster for an Institute of Contemporary British History oral history archive project, 1989. The purpose of the project was to trace the career development of key Civil Service officials and included questions relating to their childhood, education, involvement in World War Two, and most notably their positions during some of the most pivotal events of the Cold War. Topics covered include the post-war European Recovery Programme; the Berlin Airlift, 1948; British relations with the USSR, 1946-1982; the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949; the Suez Crisis, 1956; and British arms procurement, 1945-1982. Interviewees include Ian Powell Bancroft, Baron Bancroft of Coatham, Head Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary to Civil Service Department, 1978-1981; Sir Harold Beeley, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1955, Assistant Under Secretary, Foreign Office, 1956-1958, Deputy United Kingdom Representative, United Nations, 1958-1961; United Kingdom Representative, Disarmament Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1964-1967, Ambassador to the United Arab Republic, 1961-1964 and 1967-1969; Rt Hon Sir Frank Cooper, Ministry of Defence, 1964-1968, Deputy Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, 1968-1970, Deputy Secretary, Civil Service Department, 1970-1973, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1973-1976, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, 1976-1982; Sir Frank (Kenyon) Roberts, Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1947-1949, Deputy High Commissioner in India, 1949-1951, Deputy Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1951-1954, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954-1957, United Kingdom Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council, 1957-1960, Ambassador to the USSR, 1960-1962 and to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1963-68. Also includes typescript lecture by Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, relating to the Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR) decision, 1963- 1964, presented to the Institute of Contemporary British History, 25 Oct 1989.

Three audio tapes of the proceedings of the Civilian Defence Study Conference, St Hilda's College, Oxford University, including lecture entitled 'Lessons from resistance movements-guerrilla and non-violent' by Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 'Resistance in the Soviet zone of Germany' by Dr Rainer Hildebrandt, and 'How to meet measures of the occupying power against civil resistance' by Dr Lars Porsholt, 10 Sep 1964. The proceedings of the Civilian Defence Study Conference, sponsored by the United World Trust, St Hilda's College, Oxford University, 6-14 Sep 1964, were recorded by (Edward) Adam Roberts, Assistant Editor, Peace News Limited, on 10 Sep 1964. The recording was used by Professor Alex Danchev in his research for Alchemist of war: the life of Basil Liddell Hart (Cassell, London, 1998).

Clare Hollingworth: correspondence with Liddell Hart

CMR (Clare Market Review: Magazine of the L S E (London School of Economics) Students' Union, no issue number (London, Spring 1963): includes articles on Berthold Brecht, 'The English suburb' and poems by Roy Fisher and Gael Turnbull

Clare Martin-Bates, (wife of James Patrick Martin-Bates): correspondence with Liddell Hart

Flying log books covering service in Egypt, UK and South Africa, 1928-1958, and obituary by Gp Capt George Roberts Montgomery, 1985.

Typescript draft of 'The memoirs of a professional soldier in peace and war', an unpublished account of Clarke's career in the army, including service in Gallipoli and Palestine during World War One, 1968; various papers and pamphlets collated by Clarke, mainly relating to the training and performance of the Royal West African Frontier Force, 1923-[1960]; articles written by Clarke and published in British and African journals and periodicals, 1926-1959; printer's transparencies of maps used by Clarke in Part Two of the History of the Royal West African Frontier Force (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1964).

Papers of David Clarke, 1931-2014, relating to Clarke’s career as Pageant Master, 1967-2000, including programmes and publicity materials, correspondence, financial and legal documents, press cuttings, drawings, photographs and notes documenting pageants directed by Clarke, for example Pageant of England, 1968, Carlisle Pageant and Silver Jubilee Pageant, 1977, as well as speculative and cancelled projects; papers relating to Clarke’s interest in pageant history, 1905-2014, including research, photographs and press cuttings relating to the work of well-known pageant masters and their pageants, including Frank Lascelles, Gwendoline Lally and Louis Napoleon Parker, programmes, postcards and other ephemera relating to 77 different pageants, 1905-1990, publications about pageant production including books, English Pageantry, 1918, Brother Copas, 1928, Our Modern Orpheus, 1932, How to make a pageant, 1936, Pageants: Their presentation and production, 1954, and general historical research; Clarke’s writings, exhibition and talks including two unpublished book manuscripts, documents relating an exhibition of Clarke’s collection at the Harvey Gallery in Guildford, Surrey, 2005 and notes for three talks about pageant history; Clarke’s personal items including a photograph, financial document, and general correspondence, 1960–1979.

Copy of manuscript memoir relating to Clarke's life and career, 1909-1957, especially to his service as a signals officer in the Middle East, Sicily and Italy, 1942-1945.

Class War (London, (1984)), no issue number or date: features photographs of miners' demonstration outside Parliament (outsize)

The records of the Department of Classics at King's College London consist of correspondence and photographs, 1946-1984; notably concerning the London Summer School in Classics, including lecture timetables, enrolment and finances, 1980-1984; framed and loose photographs of students and staff, 1946-1978.

Claude L Piesse: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Claude Frederick Parry: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Claude John Perceval: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Clear Creek 1/4 (San Francisco, 1971): includes Michael McClure essay, 'Wolf Net pt. 2', 8-10;

Issue 2/2 (1972), environmental matters, with section of photographs of American Indians

Typescript text of doctoral thesis entitled 'The birth of Strategic Arms Control during the Johnson Administration, 1964-1969', King's College London, 1996, with copies of US Government documents, 1964-1972, used by Clearwater in his research. Also, typescript transcripts of interviews with US politicians and foreign policy advisers, including Walt Rostow, Butch Fisher, Paul Warnke, (David) Dean Rusk, Clark McAdams Clifford, Alain Enthoven, Bus Wheeler, John McConnell, John Davis, Robert Strange McNamara and Paul H Nitze. Newspaper cuttings and articles, 1982-1983, relating to the Falklands War, 1982, from US, Argentinian and Canadian sources. Canadian and US newspaper cuttings, articles and copies of official documents relating to the USSR, 1943-1990.

Cleft, vol1, no 1, Edinburgh University Quarterly, June 1963, includes Norman Mailer, Eugene Ionesco, William Burroughs, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Anselm Hollo. Vol 1, no 2, May 1964, includes Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Ian Hamilton, and Jonathan Williams [see 7/145/1 for Cleft 1, 1964].