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BRYANT, Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan (1899-1985)
Catalogue reference: GB99/Bryant
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- GB99/Bryant
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Title (The name of the record)
- BRYANT, Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan (1899-1985)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1877-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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Parents correspondence (private and official) and diaries, 1877-1938; Bryant's correspondence with his parents and brother, 1899-1979; Bryant's correspondence and related papers, 1919-1985, including literary, political and teaching matters; Bryant's correspondence with named individuals, 1925-1985, including historians, academics, literary figures, actors and artistes, publishers and friends, political and military figures; fan mail and correspondence relating to Bryant's literary output, 1931-1984; correspondence relating to pageants, invitations, honours, clubs, societies, committees, 1924-1985; legal and financial correspondence; book manuscripts, 1929-1985; notes; proofs, pamphlets, reviews and articles by Bryant; reviews of Bryant's works, 1938-1985; diaries, notebooks, account books and letters to the press, 1916-1984; film scripts, certificates, miscellanea. Business papers, 1980-1985, including expenses, invoices, bank statements.
A-L Parents' and other early papers; Correspondence; M Manuscripts; N Working Notes; P-R Proofs, Pamphlets, Printed Reviews and Articles etc; S-ADDENDA Other Papers. -
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<p>Buckinghamshire Record Office have papers relating to Crafton Farm, 1964-1972 (Ref: D 207). Bryant's correspondence with military figures, 1933-1970, is held by the Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum, London. Bryant's correspondence with Viscount Davidson, 1936-1943 (Ref: Davidson papers), and with Lord Beaverbrook, 1962-1964 (Ref: BBK C/76), are kept by The House of Lords Record Office, London. Bryant's correspondence with Sir Samuel Hoare is held by the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cambridge University Library (Ref: Templewood papers). Bryant's correspondence with Lord Woolton, 1955-1963, is at the Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford University (Ref: MSS Woolton).</p>
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <persname>Bryant, Sir, Arthur Wynne Morgan, 1899-1985, knight</persname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 795 boxes or 7.95m³
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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Aquired by the Centre in 1990. Second accession presented to the Centre by A G Macfadyen, Messr William Charles Crocker, Solicitors, London, 1991.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- <p>Summary guide entry available on-line and in hard copy in the reading room.</p>
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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 1899; educated at Pelham House, Sandgate, Kent, Harrow School and Queen's College, Oxford; served in World War One, 1914-1918; joined the Royal Flying Corps, 1917; served as a Pilot Officer on the Western Front, 1917-1918; called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1923; Principal, Cambridge School of Arts, Crafts and Technology, 1923-1925; Lecturer in History, Oxford University Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies, 1925-1936; Educational Adviser (later Governor), Bonar Law College, Ashridge, Hertfordshire, from 1929; Watson Chair in American History, University of London, 1935; writer of 'Our Note Book', Illustrated London News, 1936-1985; Chairman, St John and Red Cross Library Department, 1945-1974; President, English Association, 1946; Chairman, Council of Ashridge, 1946-1949; awarded CBE, 1949; Chairman, Society of Authors, 1949-1953; awarded The Sunday Times Prize for Literature for The age of elegance, 1812-1822 (Collins, London, 1950); Chesney Gold medal, Royal United Services Institution; Knighted, 1954; appointed CH, 1967; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; President, Common Market Safeguards Campaign; Hon Freedom and Livery, Leathersellers' Company; died 1985.
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
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Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- <span class="wrapper"><p>Rupert Buxton, a memoir. To which are attached some poems written in his boyhood (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1926); The spirit of Conservatism (Methuen, London, 1929); Syllabus of a course of twelve lectures on biography (John Johnson, Oxford, 1930); King Charles II (Longmans, London, 1931); Macaulay (Peter Davies, London, 1932); Samuel Pepys. The man in the making (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1933); The national character (Longmans, London, 1934); The England of Charles II (Longmans, London, 1934); editor of The man and the hour. Studies of six great men of our time (Philip Allan, London, 1934); Samuel Pepys. The years of peril (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1935); editor of The letters, speeches and declarations of King Charles II (Cassell, London, 1935); George V (Peter Davies, London, 1936); The American ideal (Longmans, London, 1936); Postman's horn. An anthology of the letters of latter seventeenth century England (Longmans, London, 1936); Stanley Baldwin. A tribute (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1937); Humanity in politics (Hutchinson, London, 1938); Samuel Pepys. The saviour of the Navy (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1938); editor of In search of peace. Speeches, 1937-1938 by Rt Hon (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain (Hutchinson, London, 1939); Unfinished victory (Macmillan, London, 1940); English saga, 1840-1940 (Collins, London, 1940); The years of endurance, 1793-1802 (Collins, London, 1942); The summer of Dunkirk (The Daily Sketch, London, 1943); Years of victory, 1802-1812 (Collins, London, 1944); The art of writing history (Oxford University Press, London, 1946); Historian's holiday (Dropmore Press, London, 1946); Trafalgar Day, 21st October, 1948. Alamein Day, 23rd October, 1948 [1948]; The Battle of Britain (The Daily Sketch, Manchester, 1949); The age of elegance, 1812-1822 (Collins, London, 1950); Literature and the historian (Cambridge University Press, London, 1952); The story of England (Collins, London, 1953); The turn of the tide, 1939-1943. A study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke (Collins, London, 1957); Triumph in the West, 1943-1946. Based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke (Collins, London, 1959); Liquid history. To commemorate fifty years of the Port of London Authority, 1909-1959 (Privately published, London, 1960); Jimmy, the dog in my life (Lutterworth Press, London, 1960); A choice for destiny. Commonwealth and Common Market (Collins, London, 1962); The age of chivalry (Collins, London, 1963); The fire and the rose (Collins, London, 1965); Only yesterday. Aspects of English history, 1840-1940 (Collins, London, 1965); The Medieval foundation (Collins, London, 1966); Protestant island (Collins, London, 1967); The lion and the unicorn. A historian's testament (Collins, London, 1969); Nelson (Collins, London, 1970); The great Duke, or, the invincible General (Collins, London, 1971); Jackets of green: a study of the history, philosophy and character of the Rifle Brigade (Collins, London, 1972); A thousand years of British monarchy (Collins, London, 1975); Pepys and the revolution (Collins, London, 1979); The Elizabethan deliverance (Collins, London, 1980): Spirit of England (Collins, London, 1982); Set in a silver sea: the island peoples from earliest times to the fifteenth century (Collins, London, 1984); Freedom's own island: the British oceanic expansion (Collins, London, 1986); The search for justice (Collins, London, 1990).</p> <p>Arthur Bryant: portrait of a historian by Pamela Street (1979); Alanbrooke by David Fraser (1982).</p></span>
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BRYANT, Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan (1899-1985)