Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1989-1991 (Creation)
- 1956 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box (0.01 cubic metres)
Scope and content
Transcripts of interviews relating to political, diplomatic and military aspects of the Suez Crisis of 1956, with Rt Hon Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh; Sir Harold Beeley; Sir Frederick Arthur Bishop; Rt Hon Sir Frank Cooper; Sir Patrick Henry Dean; Sir (Arthur) Douglas Dodds-Parker; Sir William Goodenough Hayter; Rt Hon Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel; Brig Kenneth Hunt; Rt Hon Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, Baron Jay of Battersea; Gen Sir Frank Douglas King; Sir Donald Arthur Logan; Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield; Sir Guy Elwin Millard; Sir David Bruce Pitblado; Sir Richard Royle Powell; (George Frank) Norman Reddaway; Sir (D'Arcy) Patrick Reilly; Sir Archibald David Manisty Ross; Sir (Charles Arthur) Evelyn Shuckburgh; Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright. Copies of the Protocol of Sèvres, 24 Oct 1956, recording the agreements reached between the governments of Great Britain, France and Israel during discussions held in France, 22-24 Oct 1956, on a joint politico-military response to Egypt's nationalisation of the Suez Canal.
System of arrangement
Files of transcripts are arranged in alphabetical order based on the surname of the interviewee.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Custodial history
Transcripts of interviews were presented to the Centre by Dr W Scott Lucas in 1993. Copies of the Protocol of Sèvres, 1956, were presented to the Centre by Sir Donald Logan in 1996.
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
- French
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description and detailed catalogue.
Existence and location of originals
The original Israeli copy of the Protocol of Sèvres is kept within the Ben-Gurion Archives, Sde Boqer, Israel.
Existence and location of copies
Another copy of the Protocol of Sèvres was presented by Sir Donald Logan to The national Archives, Kew, in 1996 (PRO 22/88).
Related materials
Publication note
The interviews of the Suez Oral History Project were used by Dr W Scott Lucas for his Divided we stand, Britain the US and the Suez Crisis (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1991). Several of the interviews refer to the article 'Suez 1956: strategy and the diplomatic process', by Anthony Gorst and Scott Lucas in the Journal of strategic studies (Dec 1988). A number of the interviewees have previously written related memoirs including Political eunuch (Springwood, Ascot, 1986) by Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, The Kremlin and the embassy (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1966) by Sir William Hayter, Change and fortune (Hutchinson, London, 1980) by Lord Jay, and Descent to Suez (Weidenfield and Nicolson, London, 1986) by Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh.
Note
Compiled Oct 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Amery, Harold Julian, 1919-1996, Baron Amery of Lustleigh (Subject)
- Cooper, Sir Frank, 1922-2002, Knight, civil servant (Subject)
- Dean, Sir Patrick Henry, b 1909, Knight, civil servant and diplomat (Subject)
- Hayter, Sir William Goodenough, 1906-1995, Knight, diplomat (Subject)
- Home, Alexander Frederick, Douglas-, 1903-1995, Baron Home of the Hirsel, statesman (Subject)
- Jay, Douglas Patrick Thomas, 1907-1996, Baron Jay of Battersea, politician (Subject)
- Makins, Roger Mellor, 1904-1996, 1st Baron Sherfield, public official (Subject)
- Parker, Sir Arthur Douglas Dodds-, b 1909, Knight, politician (Subject)
- Powell, Sir Richard Royle, b 1909, Knight, civil servant (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.