GB 0103 SMITH, PATRICK - Smith (Patrick) Papers

26 boxes

GB 0103 SMITH, PATRICK 1942-c1970 Collection (fonds) 26 boxes Smith , (Stanley) Patrick James , 1915-1979 , BBC foreign correspondent

Born, 1915; read Modern Languages at University College London, 1934-1937, 1938-1939; foreign correspondent for the BBC from 1942; served in Vienna and later Berlin from the mid-1940s until the early 1950s; stationed in Cairo during the Suez Crisis (1956); served in Cape Town in the late 1950s; served in Rome from the 1960s until his retirement in the 1970s; chief Mediterranean correspondent; OBE, 1969; died, 1979. Publication: A desk in Rome (Collins, London, 1974).

The papers were given to University College London by Smith's children Karen Holden and Nicholas Smith via Professor J A North, Head of University College London History Department, in 1994.

Papers, 1942-c1970, of Patrick Smith, largely typescript dispatches or transcripts for broadcasts for the BBC on foreign affairs from various locations where he was stationed, and including material on World War Two, and on affairs in the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

As received, largely filed by date.

Closed pending cataloguing. Please contact the UCL Special Collections Team for further information

Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Mainly English

Uncatalogued. Please contact UCL Special Collections for further information.

Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. May 2001 Ancient religions Austria BBC , British Broadcasting Corporation x British Broadcasting Corporation Berlin Broadcasting Broadcasting programmes Cairo Cape Town Catholicism Christianity Communication personnel Egypt Europe Germany Holy See International conflicts Italy National broadcasting North Africa Programme content Radio Religions Rome Smith , Stanley Patrick James , 1915-1979 , BBC foreign correspondent x Smith , Patrick South Africa Southern Africa TV/radio personnel Urban Vatican Vienna War Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) Personnel People by occupation People

The papers were given to University College London by Smith's children Karen Holden and Nicholas Smith via Professor J A North, Head of University College London History Department, in 1994.

Papers, 1942-c1970, of Patrick Smith, largely typescript dispatches or transcripts for broadcasts for the BBC on foreign affairs from various locations where he was stationed, and including material on World War Two, and on affairs in the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

As received, largely filed by date.

Closed pending cataloguing. Please contact the UCL Special Collections Team for further information

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

• English

• Latin

Mainly English

Uncatalogued. Please contact UCL Special Collections for further information.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English