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| GWDA |
Photographs from World War II |
| HAIL |
The Papers of Lord Hailsham |
| HAIS |
The Papers of Patrick George Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes of Prestonkirk, PC, GBE, CH 1901-1974 |
| HALL |
The Papers of Admiral Sir (William) Reginald Hall |
| HALY |
The Papers of Sir William John Haley |
| HAMB |
The Papers of Grace Hamblin |
| HARD |
The Papers of Russell Hardy |
| HARS |
The Diaries of Fedor Minorsky (alias Theodor Harris) |
| HART |
The Papers of Sir Harold Hartley |
| HARV |
The Papers of Sir George Harvie-Watt |
| HATN |
The Papers of Sir William Hawthorne |
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The Papers of Russell Hardy
| Title |
The Papers of Russell Hardy |
| Reference |
GBR/0014/HARD |
| Creator |
Hardy, Russell, c 1900-1982, theatrical impresario |
| Covering Dates |
c 1910-c 1991 |
| Extent and Medium |
4 files |
| Repository |
Churchill Archives Centre |
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| Content and context |
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The Anglo-American impresario Russell Hardy was brought up in New York and was one of the first to volunteer for service when the United States entered the First World War. As an impresario he produced and presented "The All Nations Cavalcades", each with over a thousand performers, in Britain and the United States, and also several major concerts including "The Ivor Novello Story" and "The Mario Lanza Story". He was in London during the Second World War, experiencing the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, and from about 1968 campaigned for an International Churchill Remembrance Day. During his campaign he interviewed many resistance agents from France, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Britain. He died on 1 September 1982.
Material relating to Russell Hardy's campaign for a National Churchill Day, including material on Second World War Resistance movements and a memorial to Ivor Novello.
The papers were given to Churchill Archives Centre by Lynn Maury in October 2003 and May 2004.
The papers are owned by Churchill College, Cambridge.
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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.
Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holders and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.
Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Russell Hardy, HARD
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| Further information |
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More of Russell Hardy's papers were given to the Imperial War Museum, London, in 1983.
Copies of this finding aid are available at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, the National Register of Archives, London, and on the Janus website http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk.
This catalogue was prepared by Katharine Thomson of Churchill Archives Centre in December 2005. Biographical information was obtained from the papers themselves and notes provided by Ms Maury.
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| Index Terms |
| Hardy, Russell (c 1900-1982) theatrical impresario |
| Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965) Knight, statesman and historian |
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National Churchill Day. Material relating to Russell Hardy's campaign, including: a souvenir silk scarf featuring Ivor Novello's song "Keep the Home Fires Burning", with score (sung to Winston Churchill by Novello); publicity material for the Churchill Story tribute concert; cuttings, photographs and correspondence on the Churchill Day campaign, with correspondents including Clementine Spencer-Churchill and David Ben-Gurion, former Prime Minister of Israel. . Also includes: copy of lecture by Martin Gilbert, "Churchill and Zionism"; material on the memorial to Ivor Novello, with dedicatory address by Sir Douglas Bader; filmstrip on Churchill; copy of a memorandum from the Free Ukrainians in Britain to Sir [Robert] Anthony Eden asking for support for the Ukraine; copy of reply from Emmanuel Tsouderos, Prime Minister of Greece, to Churchill's tribute to the Greek people, 1941; press cutting of article on his early career by Churchill in the Sunday Dispatch, 1939; photographs of Clementine, Lady Churchill at the naming of the ship M/S Winston Churchill, 1967, with a Captain McKenzie.
2 files. |
c 1910-c 1991 |
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National Churchill Day: Resistance material. Material collected by Russell Hardy during his campaign, relating to Resistance movements in the Second World War, including: letters to Hardy from Donald Caskie and Sir Colin Gubbins; notes on a memorial to the Norwegian Resistance fighters who trained in Scotland (dedicated by Caskie); article on the Danish Resistance movement by Ebbe Munck, with letters from Munck to Hardy; notes on Winston Churchill's help to the Danish, Dutch and Norwegian Resistances; note on the formation of the Special Operations Executive, SOE; photographs of occupied Norway and of secret equipment . used during the occupation, from Sverre Midtskau, "The Great Escaper", and Gunnar Sonstaby.
1 file. |
c 1973-c 1974 |
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Transcripts of interviews with Resistance agents. Interviews conducted by Russell Hardy with Resistance agents from Norway, Denmark, France and the Netherlands, including Barbara Yeo-Thomas, widow of Wing-Commander Forest Yeo-Thomas, "The White Rabbit".
1 file. |
c 1973-c 1974 |
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