Showing 5 results

Copies of evidence to the Wolfenden Committee.

Papers of Sir Charles Kingsley Webster, 1901-1962, including diaries, 1918-1949, including details of work at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations, the United Nations, the Foreign Office and the British Academy; correspondence, 1906-1961, with family, friends, students and colleagues, notably relating to his historical research and writings, academic employment and engagements, European politics, work for the Foreign Office during World War Two, and his work for the British Academy, and the United Nations; material concerning his early career, 1901-1914, including examination papers and conference programmes; papers relating to his work at Liverpool University, 1914-1928, including teaching materials; papers concerning Webster's service during World War One, mainly comprising material relating to the Paris Peace Conference and the League of Nations Union; papers concerning the League of Nations, 1920-1931, comprising reports and memoranda presented to various sessions of the Assembly; papers relating to Webster's work at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1924-1932, notably administrative and teaching material, newspaper cuttings and other papers concerning Webster's trips to Germany, Canada and the USA, and copies of articles on reparations and the League of Nations; material concerning his work at the London School of Economics, 1932-1953, including teaching materials such as reading lists, examination papers, lists of students and correspondence relating to funding, and minutes and papers of LSE committees, notably the Editorial Board of Politica; material relating to committees, meetings and visits, 1933-1940, including the International Committee of Historical Sciences, the League of Nations Union, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Bloomsbury Society and the British Council; material concerning Webster's work at the Foreign Research and Press Service, Royal Institute of International Affairs (later the Foreign Office Research Department), 1939-1944, on subjects related to international organisation and post-war settlement, including correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of the Minister of State's Committee on Future World Organisation; papers relating to work at the British Library of Information, New York, 1941-1942; papers on the Dumbarton Oaks Discussions on the organisational structure and form of the United Nations, 1944, mainly comprising memoranda and printed material, with personal notes and official conference papers; papers on the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, San Francisco, 1945, including UK Delegation papers, records of meetings, and conference documents; background papers to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, 1945-1946, comprising conference documents and committee papers; papers on the United Nations General Assembly First Session and the League of Nations Final Assembly, 1946, including memoranda, minutes, committee papers and records of meetings; material concerning other committees and societies, 1946-1958, including UNESCO; lectures and speeches, [1906]-1960, mainly concerning nineteenth century history and European alliance; papers concerning published works, 1911-1962, including research material, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and correspondence; newspaper cuttings relating to Webster's career and general political interest, 1909-1961; photographs, 1919-1961, including official pictures relating to Webster's work regarding the United Nations.

Records collected or created by the Returned Volunteers Association, [1962-1997] including: correspondence and papers relating to VSO, including volunteers reports and papers relating to reorientation weekends; correspondence and papers relating to European Non Governmental Organisations and BOND (British Overseas NGOs for Development), including EVI (Ex-Volunteers International) and European Community projects; correspondence and papers relating to sending agencies, including CIIR (Catholic Institute for International Relations), IVS (International Voluntary Service) and UNAIS (United Nations Association International Service); RVA Policy Group papers; BVALG (British Volunteer Agencies Liaison Group) minutes, November 1986-July 1993; BVP (British Volunteers Programme) Committee papers, c1978-c1983; RVA national conferences, 1979-1990; training courses and events for returners and local groups; publications, c1967-c1997, including VOSA News, RVA London Newsletter, VOSA/RVA Newsletter, Feedback, Comeback, plus handbooks, guides and pamphlets; BVP (British Volunteer Programme) Committee minutes 1969-1983 and Council minutes, 1974-1983, plus Overseas Development Group report on BVP, 1978; Council for Volunteers Overseas minutes, 1964-1972; Lockwood Committee minutes, 1962-1969.

Records of the League of Nations Union, 1918-1971, including minutes of the General Council, 1919-1945, with some background papers; minutes of the Executive Committee, 1918-1946, including some minutes of its predecessor, the League of Free Nations Association; minutes of the Organisation Committee of the League of Free Nations Association and the LNU, 1918-1919; minutes of the LNU Administration Committee, 1936-1939 and 1944; minutes of the LNU Management Committee, 1918-1929; financial material, namely minutes of the Finance Committee, 1922-1938, and accounts, 1945-1975; material relating to specialist committees and sub-committees of the LNU, 1918-1957, notably the Advisory International Committee, 1940-1941, the Appeals Committee, 1930-1936, the Branches Committee, 1930-1939, the National Youth Committee, 1933-1936, the Christian Organisations Committee, 1921-1939, the Council for Education in World Citizenship, 1940-1944, the Economics Committee, 1928-1939, the Editorial Committee and the Publicity Committee, 1925-1938, the Education Committee, 1919-1939, the Industrial Advisory Committee, 1930-1944, the International Policy Committee, 1919-1925, the Overseas Committee, 1931-1939, the Refugees Committee, 1935-1939, the Regions Committee, 1930-1937, the Religious Ethics Committee, 1921-1930, the Research Committee, 1918-1919, the Services Committee, 1931-1932, the Women's Advisory Committee (later Council), 1937-1957, and the Standing Committee of National Youth, 1935-1939; material relating to branches of the LNU, namely the British Universities League of Nations Society, 1926-1936, the Geneva Institute of International Relations, 1925-1938, the Hampshire Federation of the LNU, 1932-1938, and the London International Assembly, 1941-1945; pamphlets, reports and leaflets produced by the LNU, [1918]-1962; miscellaneous material removed from the volumes of minutes and retrieved from the United Nations Association collection, [1919]-1971, including papers relating to the LNU Peace Ballot, [1934-1935], the transfer of the LNU membership to the UNA, [1945-1946], and the LNU Youth Groups.

Papers of David N Deacon, 1998-1999, comprise detailed, semi-structured interviews with representatives from selected extra-governmental agencies (including both 'recognised' and 'non-recognised' quangos) regarding media and publicity issues, and with national and local news professionals regarding their use of quangos as news sources and their relationship with these executive agencies. All the interviews were made between 1998 and 1999. With a file containing interview schedules and 4 floppy disks.