Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1988 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
3 audio cassette tapes
Scope and content
Three audio cassette tapes of the proceedings of the conference on the Sandys White Paper on Defence, 1957, King's College London, 1 Jul 1988, mostly relating to the proposed purchase of an independent nuclear deterrent, including contributions from Sir Richard (Royle) Powell, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, 1957; (Thomas) Cecil (Garside) James, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry, 1957; Rt Hon George Nigel Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1957; Sir Richard (George Kitchener) Way, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence, 1957; Rt Hon Julian Amery, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Financial Secretary, War Office, 1957-1958; Professor Robert John O'Neill, Chairman, British Committee of the Nuclear History Project; Nicholas J Wheeler, Department of War Studies, King's College London; Dr Michael Dockrill, Department of War Studies, King's College London; Anthony Seldon, Director, Institute of Contemporary British History; Martin S Navias, Research Student, King's College London.
System of arrangement
3 audio cassette tapes
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Professor Lawrence David Freedman, Department of War Studies, King's College London, in 1988.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Publication note
The British origins of nuclear strategy 1945-1955 by Ian Clark and Nicholas J Wheeler (Clarendon, Oxford, 1989); Nuclear weapons and British strategic planning, 1955-1958 by Martin S Navias (Clarendon, Oxford, 1991).
Note
Compiled Nov 1999
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Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.