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The Papers of Sir Edward Spears

Title Press cuttings
Reference SPRS 9
Covering Dates 1915–1974
Extent and Medium 33 archive boxes
Churchill/SPRS 9 contains:
1 Press cuttings: Loughborough and Dundee. Cuttings and constituency leaflets on ELS's election and work as MP for Loughborough [Leicestershire] and his campaign in support of Winston Churchill in Dundee [Scotland].
1 volume.
Jan 1922-Dec 1922
2 Press cuttings: Loughborough II. Cuttings on ELS's work as MP for Loughborough [Leicestershire].
1 volume.
Jan 1923-Jun 1924
3 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Jun 1924-Mar 1927
4 Press cuttings. Cuttings on ELS's unsuccessful by-election campaign at Bosworth [Leicestershire].
1 volume.
Apr 1927-Jun 1927
5 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Jan 1927-Mar 1931
6 Press cuttings: Carlisle Election. Cuttings on ELS's unsuccessful election campaign for Carlisle [Cumberland].
1 volume.
Apr 1929-Jun 1929
7 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
1915-Dec 1932
8 Press cuttings: Hindenburg. Offprint of a tribute to Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg by Sir Andrew MacPhail, with a French press-cutting on the difference between the French and German Presidents.
1 file.
1932–1934
9 Press cuttings: Germany, Hitler's speeches. Cuttings and prints on Adolf Hitler and reporting his speeches, also including: a pamphlet by Robert Ensor discussing Hitler's self-disclosure in "Mein Kampf"; Friends of Europe pamphlets on Hitler's speeches, particularly British and German policy on Poland, the Nazi Party, state and religion, the redistribution of the world, the end of Austria and the racial conception of the world.
2 files.
1933–1939
10 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Jul 1933-Jan 1934
11 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Feb 1934-Dec 1934
12 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Jan 1935-Oct 1935
13 Press cuttings. Cuttings on subjects including ELS's successful campaign for re-election at Carlisle [Cumberland].
1 volume.
Oct 1935-Dec 1935
14 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Jan 1936-Mar 1937
15 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Mar 1937-May 1938
16 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
May 1938-May 1939
17 Press cuttings: Munich Crisis.
1 volume.
Sep 1938
18 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Sep 1938-Apr 1939
19 Press cuttings: Spain. Cuttings on the departure from Spain of Italian and German troops who fought in the Civil War, also including extracts from speeches in Parliament.
1 file.
May 1939–1952
20 Press cuttings.
1volume.
Jun 1939-Jan 1940
21 Press cuttings.
1volume.
Jan 1940-Mar 1940
22 Press cuttings.
1volume.
Mar 1940-Nov 1940
23 Press cuttings: war.
1 file.
May 1939-Sep 1945
24 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Nov 1943-May 1946
25 Press cuttings: Syria and the Lebanon. Also includes cuttings on general Arab affairs.
1 file.
Jan 1945-Feb 1945
26 Press cuttings: Syria and the Lebanon. Also includes cuttings on general Arab affairs.
1 file.
Mar 1945-Apr 1945
27 Press cuttings: Syria and the Lebanon.
1 file.
May 1945
28 Press cuttings: Syria and the Lebanon.
1 file.
Jun 1945
29 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
May 1945-Jul 1945
30 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Jul 1945
31 Press cuttings: Syria and the Lebanon.
1 file.
Jul 1945-Aug 1945
32 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Aug 1945-Sep 1945
33 Press cuttings: Middle East. Cuttings on Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon and general Arab affairs.
1 file.
Sep 1945-Nov 1945
34 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Sep 1945-Nov 1945
35 Press cuttings: Middle East. Cuttings on Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon and general Arab affairs.
1 file.
Nov 1945-Dec 1945
36 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Dec 1945
37 Press cuttings: Egypt Treaty. Press cuttings on negotiations for revision of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty and future of Sudan.
1 file.
Aug 1945-Mar 1948
38 Press cuttings.
1 volume.
Mar 1945-May 1950
39 Press cuttings: Palestine. Subjects include a statement by Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Morgan, Chief of UNRRA [United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration] Operations in Germany, on the exodus of Polish Jews to Palestine.
1 file.
Dec 1945-Feb 1946
40 Press cuttings: Middle East. Press cuttings on subjects including Anglo-French withdrawal from the Levant, the British treaty with Transjordan [later Jordan], treaty between Turkey and Iraq and Arab hostility on Palestine.
1 file.
Jan 1946-Apr 1946
41 Press cuttings: Syria and the Lebanon. Cuttings on the debate in the United Nations Security Council over the complaint by Lebanon and Syria against the presence of British and French troops in their countries.
1 file.
Jan 1946-Mar 1946
42 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Mar 1946-Apr 1946
43 Press cuttings: Middle East.
1 file.
Apr 1946-Dec 1946
44 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
May 1946
45 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Jun 1946
46 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Jul 1946
47 Press cuttings: Muslim World News. Cuttings on Middle Eastern affairs.
1 file.
Jul 1946
48 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Aug 1946
49 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Sep 1946
50 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Oct 1946
51 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Nov 1946
52 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Dec 1946
53 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Jan 1947
54 Press cuttings: Palestine.
1 file.
Feb 1947-Mar 1947
55 Press cuttings: Middle East. Cuttings on Arab affairs in general.
1 file.
1947–1948
56 Churchill's war memoirs. News cuttings and articles on Winston Churchill's "The Second World War" volume II, and also Dwight Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe".
1 file.
1948–1950
57 Press cuttings: general. Cuttings, particularly on business issues.
1 file.
1949–1950
58 The Times Review of the Year.
1 file.
1949–1951
59 Press cuttings: general. Cuttings, mainly on financial issues.
1 file.
1951
60 Press cuttings: general. Cuttings, mainly on financial issues.
1 file.
1952–1953
61 Press cuttings: personal. Subjects include Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
3 files.
1950–1953
62 Press cuttings: personal. Subjects include Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
2 files.
Apr 1953-Dec 1953
63 Press cuttings: personal. Cuttings, mainly on business affairs.
2 files.
1954–1955
64 "Assignment to Catastrophe: Prelude to Dunkirk". Press reviews of volume I of ELS's memoirs of the fall of France in 1940, with loose letters from readers, including Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall, Charles Mott-Radclyffe, Sir Osbert Sitwell, 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton], Sir Frank Baddeley, Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, Winston Churchill and Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Cunningham.
1 volume and 1 file.
Jun 1954-Jul 1955
65 "Assignment to Catastrophe: The Fall of France". Press reviews of volume II of ELS's memoirs of the fall of France in 1940, with loose letters from readers including "Pug" [1st Lord Ismay], 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton] and "Q" [2nd Lord Hailsham, earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone].
1 volume and 1 file.
Jun 1954-Apr 1955
66 Press cuttings: personal.
1 file.
1955
67 Press cuttings: price fixing campaign. Cuttings on ELS's campaign for a price freeze.
1 file.
Dec 1955-Feb 1956
68 Press cuttings: personal. Also includes notes and text for a speech by ELS on leadership, made at the annual dinner of the Bradford Textile Society.
1 file.
1956
69 Press cuttings: personal. Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited, and also including the galley proof of an article by ELS on Cyprus.
2 files.
Nov 1956-Dec 1957
70 Press cuttings: personal. Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited, General Charles de Gaulle and the invitation to Archbishop Makarios to attend the Lambeth Conference.
1 file.
1958
71 Press cuttings: personal. Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1959
72 Press cuttings: personal. Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1960
73 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press.
1 file.
1960
74 Press cuttings: personal British. Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1961
75 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press.
1 file.
1961
76 Press cuttings: personal British. Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1962
77 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press.
1 file.
1962
78 Press cuttings: personal British. Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1963
79 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press.
2 files.
1963
80 Press cuttings: personal British. Cuttings on subjects including the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1964
81 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press, including a serialised account of the fall of France in 1940 by ELS.
2 files.
1964
82 Press cuttings: visit to Ghana. Cuttings on ELS's visit to Ghana, and the opening of the new main gates to the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited mine.
1 file.
May 1964-Jun 1964
83 Press cuttings: personal British. Cuttings, mainly on business issues and the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1965
84 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press, particularly on General Charles de Gaulle and the death of Sir Winston Churchill.
1 file.
1965–1966
85 Press cuttings: personal British. Cuttings on subjects including Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
Dec 1965-Dec 1966
86 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press.
1 file.
1966
87 Press cuttings: "Two men who saved France". English press reviews of ELS's book on Charles de Gaulle and Philippe Petain.
1 file.
Oct 1966
88 Press cuttings: "Two men who saved France". French press reviews of ELS's book on Charles de Gaulle and Philippe Petain.
1 file.
1966–1967
89 Press cuttings: "The Picnic Basket". Press reviews and copies of letters on ELS's book of short stories and also on an article by ELS on Charles de Gaulle.
1 file.
May 1967-Oct 1967
90 Press cuttings: personal British. Cuttings on subjects including Charles de Gaulle and Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1967
91 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press.
1 file.
1967
92 Press cuttings: personal British. Cuttings on subjects including Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited and its takeover by Lonrho.
1 file.
1968
93 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press on subjects including Charles de Gaulle.
1 file.
1968
94 Press cuttings: personal Ghana. Cuttings from the Ghanaian press on Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1968
95 Press cuttings: personal British.
1 file.
1969
96 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press on subjects including Charles de Gaulle.
1 file.
1969
97 Press cuttings: personal Ghana. Cuttings from the Ghanaian press on Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.
1 file.
1969
98 Press cuttings: personal British.
1 file.
1970
99 Press cuttings: personal foreign and Ghana. Cuttings from the French and Ghanaian press, on subjects including Charles de Gaulle and the events of June 1940.
2 files.
1970
100 Press cuttings: personal British.
1 file.
1971
101 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press.
2 files.
1971
102 Press cuttings: personal Ghana. Cuttings from the Ghanaian press.
1 file.
1971
103 Press cuttings: personal British.
1 file.
1972
104 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press, on subjects including Charles de Gaulle.
1 file.
1972
105 Press cuttings: personal, Lonrho. Cuttings on the attempt by ELS and other directors of Lonrho to force out the chief executive, [Roland] "Tiny" Rowland.
1 file.
Apr 1973-Jun 1973
106 Press cuttings: personal, Lonrho. Cuttings on the attempt by ELS and other directors of Lonrho to force out the chief executive, [Roland] "Tiny" Rowland.
3 files.
Apr 1973-Jun 1973
107 Press cuttings: personal British.
1 file.
1973
108 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Cuttings from the French press.
1 file.
1973
109 Press cuttings: personal British. Obituaries for ELS.
1 file.
Jan 1974-Apr 1974
110 Press cuttings: personal foreign. Obituaries for ELS from the French press.
1 file.
Jan 1974-May 1974
111 Scrap-book of newspaper cuttings of articles by ELS.
1 volume.
1932–1967
112 Scrap-book including newspaper cuttings relating to ELS and Mary, Lady Spears. Includes the funeral and memorial service of ELS and obituaries.
1 volume.
1929–1974

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