A letter from Lord Hankey (1st Baron), about the growing discontent at the Prime Minister's dictatorial management of the war, exemplified in his treatment of General Wavell

• HALIFAX/A4/410/4/5
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• 1 May 1941

Part of Hickleton Papers

An account of the diplomatic exchange preceding the outbreak of War, by M. Dahlerus, of Sweden

• HALIFAX/A4/410/3/10/i
• file
• c 1939

Part of Hickleton Papers

Typescript. With comments by F.K. Roberts and E.L. Woodward, and correspondence of Lord Halifax and Sir A. Cadogan.

Correspondence about Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt; John Winant; Averell Harriman; Lease of bases to the United States; Lend-Lease; American intentions; Progress of the war

• HALIFAX/A2/278/26/1
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• 14 April 1941

Part of Hickleton Papers

Correspondence about Mr Churchill's visit to Washington; Sir John Dill; Loss of Singapore, and strategy in the Far East; Mr Churchill's conduct of the war; Cabinet changes; Russia; India; the Duke of Windsor

• HALIFAX/A2/278/26/2
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• 1 March 1942

Part of Hickleton Papers

Correspondence concerning political and war news

• HALIFAX/A2/280/32/7
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• 14 May 1943

Part of Hickleton Papers

Sir A. Harris and Bomber Command, R.A.F.; victor Cazalet; Sir E. Grigg and the Defence Committee; Randolph Churchill; General de Gaulle.Enclosing a typescript Journal, 27 Feb to 4 March 1943, about the effect In England of Lord Halifax's spee...

Correspondence with P .Lorraine and A. Eden about publication of Italian War Despatch

• HALIFAX/A4/410/45
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• 1954-1955

Part of Hickleton Papers

Correspondence with Professor J.R.M. Butler about his volume on Grand Strategy in the Official History of the Second World War

• HALIFAX/A4/410/44
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• July-October 1954

Part of Hickleton Papers

Correspondence written from London & Washington

• HALIFAX/A4/410/4/12
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• December 1940-March 1946

Part of Hickleton Papers

Correspondence with Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service (until July 1945), and afterwards Foreign Secretary.

Hickleton Papers

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Family papers, comprising Grey family papers, 1748-1894; Wood family personal papers, 1716-1998; Courtenay family papers, 1806-1902; Wood family official and professional papers, 1772-1959; records relating to household management, 17th century-19...

Wood family, Earls of Halifax

Letters from her brother Edward, while he was ambassador to the United States

• HALIFAX/A2/276/4
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• January 1941-May 1946

Part of Hickleton Papers

For his views on American feeling see: 6 Mar, 22 May, 25 Oct , 10 Dec 1941.Example: "The feeling of people here is no doubt overwhelmingly in our favour, and a great many of them are genuinely ashamed at not being already in the war, but ther...

Memoranda and telegrams for the Prime Minister, about the inevitability of U.S. participation in the war, and the reasons for the president's delay in committing his country

• HALIFAX/A4/410/4/4
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• 13-15 June 1941

Part of Hickleton Papers

Memorandum by the 1st Earl of two observations made by his father in the course of an argument over rations and rules in the First World War

• HALIFAX/A2/278/34
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• c 1958

Part of Hickleton Papers

Typescript, dated 1958.

Notes concerning Lord Halifax's contribution to E.L. Woodward's collection of documents on "The Immediate Origins of the War"

• HALIFAX/A4/410/3/10/ii
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• 1943

Part of Hickleton Papers

With relevant correspondence with Sir Orme Sargent.

Papers relating to the Yorkshire Dragoons (World War II)

• HALIFAX/A2/283/9
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• 1939-1945

Part of Hickleton Papers

Notes 1942, 1943, 1944.Newspaper reports from The Times, The Star, Sunday Telegraph, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Sheffield Telegraph. 1941-1944.

Printed. Official paper. "A record of events before the war, 1939"

• HALIFAX/A4/410/3/10/iii
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• [20th century]

Part of Hickleton Papers

Being a diarised summary of his part in events, by Lord Halifax, with copies of supporting documents.

Sir Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax: Admiral Charles Richardson: War medals

• HALIFAX/A4/47
• subseries
• July 1849-February 1850

Part of Hickleton Papers

Speech broadcast by the B.B.C.: On the aim and effort in war of Britain, a Christian nation. Printed, with typescript copy

• HALIFAX/A4/410/1/10
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• 22 July 1940

Part of Hickleton Papers

Speech delivered at the unveiling of the War memorial to British and Commonwealth dead at Athens, typescript

• HALIFAX/A4/410/1/30
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• April 1952

Part of Hickleton Papers

The Lansdowne Letter

• HALIFAX/A4/410/24
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• November 1917

Part of Hickleton Papers

A copy of a letter from Lord Halifax to Lord Henry C. Bentinck about the 'Lansdowne Letter "The Lansdowne Letter", written by 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, had appeared in The Daily Telegraph in Nov 1917. In it Lord Lansdowne advocated...

Two letters (One from Sir Charles Peake) about Lord Halifax's intention of publishing his own account of events leading up to the outbreak of war

• HALIFAX/A4/410/3/10/iv
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• c 1946

Part of Hickleton Papers