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Volumes of notes with loose pages inserted compiled from research notes for The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) from archive and secondary sources, arranged by source or subject. 2 volumes

Graphs, diagrams and manuscript research notes relating to x-ray diffraction experiments, chiefly relating to the positions of electron density marks on x-ray diffraction photographs. File includes geometric sketches of the molecular structure of proposed models for the A and B configurations of DNA

Research materials relating to drug use and drug addiction, including report, 'Ataractic and hallucinogenic drugs in psychiatry', World Health Organisation 1958; eleventh and thirteenth report of the World Health Organisation committee on addiction-producing drugs 1961 and 1964; article, 'The problem of barbiturates in the United States of America', by Joel Fort, Bulletin on Narcotics, 1964; article, 'The Government's stake in psychiatric drug research' by Stanley F Yolles, Psychiatric Drugs, 1966; article, 'Cannabis - a toxic and dangerous substance - a study of eighty takers', by P A L Chapple, British Journal of Addiction, 1966; pamphlet produced by SOMA, foundation for research on psychotropic drugs, 1967; pamphlet, 'What we can do about drug abuse', by Jules Saltman, United States Public Affairs Committee, 1967; pamphlet, 'Drug addiction', Office of Health Economics, Oct 1967; report, 'Research in psychopharmacology', World Health Organisation Report, 1967; magazine, 'World Health: the magazine of the World Health Organisation', Jul 1967; pamphlet, 'Drug dependence', by Dr. Antony J Wood, Department of Public Health, Bristol, 1967; pamphlet, 'Arrest: a guide to the citizen's rights', The National Council for Civil Liberties; pamphlet, 'About drugs', the Health Department, drugs advisory leaflet 1968; article, 'Drug dependence - a socio- pharmacological assessment', by Prof W D M Paton, Advancement of Science, Dec 1968; article, 'Rehabilitation of the addict', by M M Glatt, _British Journal of Addiction,_1969; booklet, 'Narcotic Drug Addiction', US Department of Health, Education and Welfare; pamphlet, 'The drug subculture: a Christian analysis', by Kenneth Leech, The Church of England Council for Social Aid, Mar 1969; report, 'Acute Adverse Reactions to LSD in Clinical and Experimental Use in the United Kingdom', by Dr. Nicolas Malleson, for consultation by the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence Amphetamines Sub Committee, Jun 1969; copy of report of the Medical Research Council Working Party on the Epidemology of Drug Dependence, 1970; copy of letter from Dr David Hawks of the Addiction Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, to Dr A Sippert of Department of Health and Social Security, about details of projects being undertaken by the Addiction Research Unit relating to 'soft' drug use, 3 Aug 1970; letter from G E Godber, Ministry of Health, to Aubrey Lewis, thanking Lewis for his memoranda for the Standing Advisory Committee on Drug Dependency, 26 Nov 1968.

Papers concerning the history of 43 Wessex Div, of which the 7 Bn, Hampshire Regt, constituted one of the Division's brigades. Including pamphlet The Wyvern in North West Europe. Being a short history of the 43rd Wessex Division 24 June 1944-8 May 1945 [1945] 26 pp; Article 'The Wessex warriors'in an unidentified published work, [1945] 4 pp; '7th. Bn. The Hampshire Regt in the North West European campaign during the period 13th July 1944 to 17 June 1945' draft by Talbot, 27 Mar 1952, 11 pp; photocopied map (unidentified source), with annotations in red pen showing the movement of paratroopers in Normandy, France during July and August 1944 entitled (also in red pen), '7 Hamps report. NW Europe campaign 1944/45', [1952] .1 file

Copies of research articles and offprints from published books relating to the history, sociology, and culture of the Hellenic migrant community in Australia, including:

Article by Anastasios Tamis, 'Cultural, historical and socioeconomic factors affecting the language loyalty of Greek Immigrants in Victoria' in Journal of Intercultural Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, 1985. In English.

Article by Anastasios Tamis, 'Modern Greek in Australia' offprint from Language in Australia, ed. Suzanne Romaine, Cambridge University Press, 1991. In English.

Article by Nicholas Doumanis, 'The Greeks in Australia' offprint from The Greek Diaspora in the Twentieth Century, ed. Richard Clogg, Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. In English.

Article by Paul Watkins, 'The Greeks in Australia' in The Anglo-Hellenic Review, Issue No 19, Spring 1999. In English.

Typescript research bulletins summarising the progress of the Isle of Wight educational and medical survey, 1964-1969.

Draft research application by Jenny Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry, University of Manchester, for a study of the risk of violence among psychiatric patients, with related correspondence with John Gunn

Assistant Director-General of Training (3) Third Army Headquarters. Extract from Army Orders. Army Routine Orders No 1107, light railways, dated 19 Sep 17. Army routine order No 806 cancelled and the following substituted. Requisitioning instructions for transport with list of sidings and stations on the light railways in the forward area, issued with Third Army Railway map. SECRET. Printed. 10 pp

Letter from Capt E W Brown at the US Naval Medical School, Washington DC, USA requesting permission to reproduce photographs from "Gas!", and from F A Hessel, regarding quotations from "Gas!" to be published in his Chemistry in War (Hastings House, New York, 1940). 3p

Letters to Brooke from historians and writers, notably from John N Hart, Jan-Feb 1960, asking for information about US Gen Joseph Warren Stilwell's service in China, 1942-1944; letter from Charles Burton Burdick, Associate Professor of History at San Jose State College, California, 22 Aug 1960, requesting information about British High Command's attitudes to Malta, 1940-1941; typescript comments by Brooke on Grand strategy...June 1941-August 1942 by J M A Gwyer and Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler (London, 1964), vol 3 of official history of World War Two, and related letters from Gwyer, Butler, and Michael Eliot Howard, 1961-1962.

Letters to Brooke from historians and writers, notably from from Ian Playfair, Cabinet Office Historical Section, 22 Oct 1957, and from John Connell (pseudonym for John Henry Robertson), Jul 1959, concerning Lt Gen Bernard Law Montgomery's appointment to 8 Army, Aug 1942; from Capt Stephen Wentworth Roskill, RN, Cabinet Office Official Naval Historian, and AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Mar 1959, concerning Mountbatten's appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, 1943; from Riley Sunderland, 30 Nov 1959, concerning US Gen George Catlett Marshall's attitude toward China during World War Two, 1941-1945.

Letters to Brooke from historians and writers, notably from Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, 9 Sep 1946, asking for details of action fought near Ypres-Menin road during retreat to Dunkirk, May 1940, with typescript account by Brooke, [1940], of operations of 2 Corps during retreat from Louvain to Dunkirk, May 1940; from Dr Forrest Carlisle Pogue, 28 Jan 1947, concerning organisation, administration and operations of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, 1944-1945.

Requests for reprints (not indexed).

Request to Joyce for spare parts for cars. (Arabic date 1337 1. 1.) Ms, 1p

Letter to Charrington from Lt Col E[dwin] E[rnest] Rich, Historical Section, War Cabinet Offices, asking for his help in the preparation of a narrative of the operations of 1 Armoured Bde in Greece in 1941. Annotated by Brig Henry Beveridge Latham of the Historical Section, War Cabinet Offices. It is likely that items 4/2-6 were sent by Charrington to Rich to aid his work. 2pp.

Letter to Charrington from H Foster, Librarian of the Imperial War Museum, requesting a copy of Where Cavalry Stands Today (Hugh Rees, London, 1927). 1p.

Request form issued by Publications Division to General Production Division Studio specifying the purpose and cost of the Italian edition of The Battle of Egypt. 1 p.

Message from Ismay, bottom of OK Pass, to Officer Commanding Lasdwich requesting rations to be sent to Eil Dur Elan, Somaliland and including details of the country. Manuscript carbon 1p