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Smith (Patrick) Papers
Catalogue reference: PATRICK SMITH
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This record is about the Smith (Patrick) Papers dating from 1942-1970.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PATRICK SMITH
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Title (The name of the record)
- Smith (Patrick) Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1942-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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As received, largely filed by date.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Smith; Stanley Patrick James (1915-1979); BBC foreign correspondent
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- c25 boxes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Closed pending cataloguing. Please contact the UCL Special Collections team for futher information
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- 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.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Uncatalogued.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/1743fd71-10b1-4928-b635-7bff1e06ffe1/
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