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| BRCO |
Day files of Sir Malcolm Robertson, Chairman of the British Council 1942-5 |
| BRDW |
The Broadwater Collection |
| BREN |
The Papers of Piers Brendon |
| BRGS |
The Papers of Lawrence Burgis |
| BRIG |
The Papers of Asa Briggs |
| BRKR |
The Papers of Sir William Barker |
| BRLW |
The Papers of Professor Harold Barlow |
| BRME |
The Papers of Jackie Broome |
| BRNT |
The Papers of Correlli Barnett |
| BRTS |
The Papers of Mark Bretscher |
| BRUN |
The Papers of Sir Frederick Brundrett |
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The Papers of Sir William Barker
| Title |
The Papers of Sir William Barker |
| Reference |
GBR/0014/BRKR |
| Creator |
Barker, William, 1909-1992, knight, diplomat and Professor of Russian |
| Covering Dates |
1940–1990 |
| Extent and Medium |
1 box (6 files); paper |
| Repository |
Churchill Archives Centre |
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| Content and context |
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William Barker was born 19 July 1909, the son of Alfred Barker. In 1939 he married Margaret Beirne with whom he had one son and one daughter. Barker was employed in Foreign Office in 1943 and held a number of positions including First Secretary, Prague, 1945; Foreign Service Officer, Grade 7, Senior Branch of Foreign Service, 1946; Chargé d'Affaires, Prague, 1947. He transferred to Moscow in August 1947 and was granted rank of Counsellor in December 1948. Barker was then Counsellor and Chargé d'Affaires in Oslo, 1951; Consul-General, Boston, Massachusetts, September 1954; Counsellor, Washington, 1955; Minister, Moscow, 1960-63; Fellow, Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, 1963-64; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1965-66; Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1966-68. He was Bowes Professor of Russian at the University of Liverpool from 1969-76. He died on 8 January 1992.
The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre relate to affairs and events in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union and shed light on British diplomacy during the Cold War.
Acc 943 - The papers were deposited at Churchill Archives Centre in March 1993 by Lady Barker.
The collection is owned by Churchill College.
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Access and Use
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The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.
Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir William Barker, BRKR
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| Further information |
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The collection has been catalogued. A copy of the catalogue is available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre.
The collection was catalogued by Natalie Adams, 20 February 2002, following the provisional arrangement prepared by Tamsin Pert in 1996. Biographical information was obtained from Barker's entry in Who Was Who (A and C Black). Catalogue updated in May 2003 to reflect change in access conditions.
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| Index Terms |
| Communism |
| International Relations |
| Barker, Sir William (1909-1992) Knight, diplomat and Professor of Russian |
| Churchill/BRKR contains: |
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Correspondence. Correspondents include: 3rd Earl Kitchener on case law and Czechoslovakia; Henry Kissinger; William Deakin; Geoffrey White; Professor Sir Cecil Parrott; Paul Gore-Booth; Kenneth Younger, Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; Sir William Harpham, Director of the Great Britain/East Europe Centre; and Dr Rohan Butler of the Foreign Office Library on the British-Czechoslovak conference (1968). Subjects covered include: General Vedral-Sazavsky, affairs and events in Czechoslovakia including invasion by the Soviet Union, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's background. Includes copies of letters sent out by Barker.
1 file; paper. |
April 1967-August 1990 |
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2
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Articles and papers by Sir William Barker. Includes: typescript copy of "HMG and the Czech government during the Second World War"; notes for Barker's lecture "The legacy of [Nikita] Khrushchev"; typescript copy of "The Impact of [Nikita] Khrushchev" (1964); "N S Khrushchev: an assessment"; and a copy of Barker's report summarising events in Czechoslovakia during his period as British Ambassador (1966-1968).
1 file; paper. |
1964–1970 |
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3
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Articles by others. Includes "The Czech Government in Exile during WWII: An Assessment" by Vojtech Mastny (not dated); "A New Look at Oriental Studies" by Geoffrey Wheeler (Feb 1968); "Max Hayward: A Memoir" by Ronald Hingley (1980).
1 file; paper. |
1968–1980 |
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Photographs of Cholmondeley Park [Cheshire]. Includes photographs of President Edvard Benes reviewing the Czechoslovak army in Britain; Winston Churchill's inspection of the troops; Sir William Barker speaking to the troops; and photographs of the Czech troops relaxing and performing various tasks at Cholmondeley Park [where Czech soldiers and aviators were accommodated by the British Military Administration during the Second World War].
1 file; photograph; Gloves must be used when handling material in this file.. |
1940 |
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Visit to United Kingdom by Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin, 1956. Includes an account by Roger Makins [British Ambassador to the United States] of conversations with [John Foster] Dulles [Secretary of State, United States]; accounts by Sir William Barker of the Soviets' opinions and remarks about Queen Elizabeth II, German rearmament, aircraft carriers, of their visit to Windsor Castle, accounts of the characters of the Soviet leaders; and a programme for the visit including a visit to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.
1 file; paper. |
April 1956 |
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Other material. Includes a summary of British intelligence on dissent in Czechoslovakia (1977) and an account of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union (1968).
1 file; paper. |
1968–1977 |
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