Includes some transcripts. Also includes correspondence re libel suit by Mister H.Q. Gidney, 1962 (/117-43); and BBC audience research report on Politics and Television, in which RHSC took part, 1968 (/164-6).

Includes some correspondence with viewers/listeners of broadcasts, especially This Week, regarding Northern Ireland, 1972 (/73-89), and also with other participants.

Includes some transcripts.

See also MSS.154/4/BR for transcripts of programmes.

Includes photocopies of RHSC's poetry, published in Oxford Poetry, 1929 (/8-23). Participants included A.J.P. Taylor, Enoch Powell, Harold Wilson, W.H. Auden, Cecil King, Lord Hailsham and Lady Sharp, in the first series, and Roy Jenkins, Jeremy Thorpe, R.A. Butler, Jack Jones, Mrs G. Wyndham Goldie and Ralf Dahrendorf (in the second series). The file includes transcripts of the first series (/31-192).

Viewers included other Member of Parliaments and friends.

CLOSED FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Includes: analysis of voting, 1951-1952 (/1); some correspondence with Albert Rose, secretary, Coventry East CLP; and Betty Healey [also of local party] (/118-22); correspondence with and about Colin Jordan regarding his conviction under the Race Relations Act 1965 (/160-6); correspondence regarding RHSC's decision not to stand for membership of Labour's N.E.C., 1967 (/200-6);

CLOSED FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Arranged alphabetically.

CLOSED FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Includes correspondence regarding waste reduction unit, Shortley Road, Coventry (/21-37); and proposed amalgamation of Coventry and Warwickshire probation services (/139-51).

Arranged alphabetically.

CLOSED FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Arranged alphabetically.

CLOSED FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Includes correspondence and petition against Common Market entry (/169-79); some correspondence with M. Edelman, especially regarding industrial development and renewal in Coventry, and machine tool agreement (/247-8, 254-9).

Arranged alphabetically.

CLOSED FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Includes correspondence with Peter Archer, QC, Member of Parliament regarding race relations in Coventry (/11-14); anti-immigration petition (/308-10, 330-1); effects on charities and small businesses (including football clubs and cinemas) of value added tax (/7-8, 86-9, 141-2, 228-34, 367-72, 400-10, 489-90, 497-508, 531-3, 560-7); affiliation of Asian Welfare Association to Labour Party (/600-5).

Arranged alphabetically.

CLOSED FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Includes correspondence regarding camp sites for gypsies (/15-18, 198-207); help for thalidomide victims (/176-83); local government reorganisation (/214-20); comprehensive schools in Coventry (/252-6, 259-66); mental health provision (/640-6); petition for traffic lights in Walsgrave (/888-922).

Arranged alphabetically. All correspondence with Coventry City Council put together at 'Coventry' and filed by separate departments, i.e. Town Clerk, Assistant Town Clerk, Education Officer, Mayor, etc.

CLOSED FOR THIRTY YEARS.

Including correspondence regarding retirement as Member of Parliament for Coventry, especially correspondence with Albert Rose (/146-53); hospital provision for mentally handicapped in Coventry (/62-4); youth employment service (/65-9, 71-2); Children's Bill, 1974 (/154-7).

Arranged alphabetically. All correspondence with Coventry City Council put together at 'Coventry' and filed by separate departments.

CLOSED UNTIL 1999.

Gives name, address, subject, action taken, result.

Arranged in alphabetical order of case name.

CLOSED FOR FIFTY YEARS.

Includes: brief on Anglo-Maltese relations compiled by the Ministry of Overseas Development, administrative files, and report by RHSC on his meetings with Maltese politicians.

Includes party political broadcasts.

Mainly regarding reorganisation of the National Health Service, esp. drafts for Green Paper on the central management of the service [Department of Health and Social Security, The future structure of the National Health Service, 1970].

CLOSED FOR THIRTY YEARS.

[Including some personal correspondence with correspondents B-D while Lord President]

Correspondents include Gilbert Baker (stepson) and Dorothy, his wife, 1967-1968 (/3-21).

The files include some constituency correspondence and also some departmental papers (for example individuals writing on particular aspects of the Health Service).

The correspondence was arranged alphabetically and then filed in reverse chronological order. When a file became too thick, a further file was started. No attempt was made to keep correspondence with the same person together. A list of contents was kept at the front of each file. The lists show that the files have been considerably reduced but by whom and when is not known. Filing seems to have been done at a low level, for example letters from George and Carrie Hodgkinson are filed under 'C' for Carrie.

In reverse chronological order.

On the supply of teachers, agenda, minutes, and report.

Includes: memorandum by B. Thwaites and J. Wrigley, University of Southampton, 'In-service training for teachers of mathematics' (/1-20); correspondence between George Brown and John Vaizey (/82-8); correspondence about the report with Lady Simon of Wythenshawe (1883-1970) (/293-8).

The group was particularly concerned with encouraging the return to teaching of married women and with the shortage of mathematics and physics teachers.

Includes: evidence from NUT (/1-2); and LCC (/27-84).

Mainly leaflets from various Local Education Authorities, but also including correspondence re proposed changes in secondary education in Barnstaple (/5-23).

Mainly leaflets and pamphlets for various London schools, but also correspondence re two visits to London comprehensives made by RHSC, June and July 1964.

Also includes correspondence re meetings with George Brown and members of the Head Masters' Conference; correspondence with Shirley Williams, then General Secretary., Fabian Society; and correspondence with Harold Wilson re Labour Party policy for secondary education (/90-2).

Correspondence and memoranda re part-time university education.

Committee papers, pamphlets and some correspondence Includes: correspondence etc., especially from the Workers' Educational Association, re industrial training and adult education.

A working party on further education was established by the Labour Party's Science and Industry Sub-Committee, 21 November 1963; RHSC was a member.

Includes bill as introduced in House of Commons, [Bill 10], as amended in Committee, [Bill 16], as introduced in the Lords, (/15) and final act. Also includes departmental notes on the clauses, copies of Hansard for the various debates, and notes on the amendments.

Includes press-cuttings and annotated menu.

Includes: RHSC, 'What do we mean by socialism?', paper for Buscot Park conference, September 1948 (/1A-H); letter to The Times re UN resolution on Chinese aggression (/28); notes of a meeting at the National Assistance Board, 7 December 1949 and 23 May 1951 (/25-32); press release re Keeping Left (/34-5); and a 'digest from the report of the [U.S.A] President's materials policy commission' (/37-52).

Topics include: 1950 Budget (/1-6); National Assistance Board scales (/7-12); teachers' salaries (/16-18); forthcoming election (/19-26); wages policy (/28-32); Anglo-American relations (/33-6); Uganda (report of visit by Fenner Brockway) (/37-46); Pandit Nehru on negotiations with Chinese (/47-8); Parliamentary and world situation, January 1951 (/49-54); prices of gilt-edged shares (/55); social costs of rearmament (/56-9); Gold Coast: economic situation (/62-71).

Topics include: pensions and the health service by RHSC (/1-5); economic consequences of the budget by T. Balogh (/6); draft policy statement by T. Balogh (/7-8); National Assistance scales and the cost of living (/9-10); synopsis of Tribune pamphlet, British socialism and the international situation (/11-13); plan for Bevanite group mutual aid at the general election (/14-17); the economic position by T. Balogh (/18-20); American inflation by T. Balogh (/21-2); Buscot conference., 1951 (/23-35); European co-operation by I. Mikardo (/37-41); 'functional finance' by Dudley Seers (/42-5); draft letter to Attlee on defence (/46); notes on the budget, 1952, by D. Seers (/47-8); proposals for pamphlet by T. Balogh (/49); a socialist opposition budgetary policy by T. Balogh (/50-2); Colombo plan by Richard Acland (/53); group's income and expenditure account (/54); activities of group's 'brains trust' (/55); development finance by T. Balogh (/56); West African marketing boards by D. Seers (/57); defence expenditure by D. Seers T. Balogh (/58-66); British balance of payments by T. Balogh (/67-8); American financial outlook by T. Balogh (/69-70); reason for resignations, January-April 1951 (/71-83); German rearmament by RHSC (/84).

Subjects include: 'Social Services' by Barbara Castle (/1-2); 'Economic points' by T. Balogh (/3-4); 'British aircraft industry', by John Freeman (/5-14); 'Subsidies and social services' by T. Balogh (/15-18); 'German re-armament and E.D.C.' by RHSC (/19); '[work of Labour Party's] social services sub-committee', by RHSC (/21); comments on 'Ideas for policy statement' by Ian Mikardo (/22); 'Ideas for policy statement' by RHSC (/23-31); 'The structure of the final draft policy statement' by Ian Mikardo (/32-51); report on NEC meeting to consider the policy statement and draft statement (/52-132).

Mainly typescript drafts of small pieces (articles, reviews, including articles in various Coventry publications, for example Humber Clarion). Includes agreement with Hamish Hamilton for Palestine Mission, 1946, and royalty statements re same, 1957-9 (/1-12); article on 'the Labour rebels,' for Maclean's Magazine, 1946 (/13-22); some correspondence re a history of the Psychological Warfare Division, edition Dan Lerner (/119-22; see also Manuscripts.154/3/PW/2 below).

Includes letters from Henry Kissinger, then (1954) editor of Conference, re an article by RHSC on the ethics of loyalty (/88-102). Also includes letter of contract from Hugh Cudlipp for a column in the Daily Mirror, 1955 (/171-3; see below, Manuscripts.154/10/39B).

Includes correspondence re revised edition of Plato Today, including original contract (copy) (/17-36); correspondence 1961-1962 with Alastair Hetherington, editor, The Guardian, including letter with terms for RHSC's weekly column (/89-96); correspondence re a revised edition of The God that failed, 1962 (/97-105); correspondence with Charles Wintour, re proposed column in the Evening Standard (declined), October 1962 (/118-22); correspondence with Hugh Cudlipp re a column in the Sunday Mirror, October 1962 (/123-4; see below, Manuscripts. 154/10/48); two photographs of Sir Stafford Crossman (RHSC's father) (/129-32; see below, Manuscripts. 154/10/25 for Sunday Telegraph article by RHSC re relations with father, 16 December 1962).

Includes correspondence with Isaiah Berlin re modern political philosophy, 1963 (/1-18); correspondence re RHSC's introduction to W. Bagehot, The English Constitution (1963; /19-21, 40) (see also Manuscripts.154/4/BAG and Manuscripts. 154/10/26); contract and correspondence re The politics of socialism (the American title of Planning for freedom), 1965 (/77-86); correspondence with A. Goodman re various legal matters, 1963-1964, including threat of libel suit by Sir Winston Churchill (/35-7, 60-2); correspondence with Helga Greene re contract and appointment of literary executors for memoirs and study of government, 1966 (/119-35); RHSC, 'Democracy and government' [typescript lecture delivered to Fabian Society, ?1968] (/136 b-cc); royalty statements from Hamish Hamilton, 1957-1963 (/137-63) and from Christophers, 1956-1962 (/164-77).

Some correspondence, typescript and printed reviews, especially reviews of books re Palestine and Anglo-Jewish relations.

Includes modern copies of memoranda by RHSC reporting a visit to Washington, September October 1942 (/1-10); lectures to Royal United Service Institution, 1952, 1953, 1961 (/49-87); NATO Defence College, 1955-1957 (/90-247); and Staff College, Camberley, 1960 (/248-84). See also Manuscripts.154/3/LIT/1 and Manuscripts.154/3/PW.

Transcription of lectures and following discussions, and some related correspondence, 1962-1963. Includes correspondence with G.R. Strauss and Emanuel Shinwell on whether the development of the atomic bomb was authorised by the Cabinet, 1963 (/126-33).

Files re 1970 Godkin lectures at Harvard University, and their publication: Inside view: three lectures on Prime Ministerial government, the 1970 Godkin lectures (1970); published in the USA as The myth of cabinet government. See also Manuscripts.154/6/7 below.

RHSC's ill-health forced him to abandon the project in January 1974 and it was taken up by Walter C. Laqueur. Laqueur also failed to finish the work and the biography was not finally published until 1985: Jehuda Reinharz, Chaim Weizmann. The making of a Zionist leader (OUP, 1985).

The New Statesman and Nation archive, 1944-1980, is available at the University of Sussex Library, ref. Sx.Ms.60, and includes files from RHSC's period as editor. See also Manuscripts. 154/6/14, Manuscripts.154/6/213, and Manuscripts.154/10/17 below.

Drafts and working papers, 1961.

Includes: memo by RHSC on 'political education' within the LP, 1951 (/1-2); memo by 'Member of Parliament' on NEC and 1953 policy statement, 1952 (/4-5); note on Cyprus by RHSC, 1955 (/6-8); note by RHSC on Middle East, 1955, (/8-12); note by RHSC of a conversation with Col. Nasser, 1955 (/13-18); memorandum for LP Defence Sub-committee by RHSC and G. Wigg, 'Manpower and defence', 1956 (/19-23); notes by RHSC for LP's foreign affairs group '...on labour's foreign policy', 1956 (/24-7); memorandum by RHSC for the LP Home Policy Sub-committee, 'Security regulations and personal freedom,' March 1957 (/28); 'Some notes on the paper on defence policy drafted by the office' by RHSC for the Defence sub-committee of the International Committee, May 1957 (/29-30); 'Some notes on elite education with special reference to the problem of universities' by RHSC for the LP Study Group on Education, October 1957 (/31-3); 'Suggested framework of a section of the education policy statement dealing with the private sector', by RHSC for the same, November 1957 (/34-6); 'Note on national service' by RHSC for the International sub-committee of the NEC, February 1958 (/39); correspondence re use of Ministry of Education film in Conservative Party political broadcast, February 1959 (/42-8); 'The state of the party,' memorandum for NEC, 13 July 1960 [incomplete] (/49-67); letter, Frank Barlow-RHSC, 23 February 1961 re evolution of PLP Liaison Committee and PLP Standing Orders, with copies of Standing Orders (/68-73); LP press release: RHSC on the supply of teachers, 7 May 1964 (/74-85); The new Britain, LP election manifesto, 1964: draft, heavily annotated by RHSC (/86-100); suggested outline for party political broadcast, 11 September [1964] (/101-7); press release, RHSC re press attacks on H. Wilson, 10 May 1968 (108-112); press release, RHSC re Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, 25 August 1968 (/113-15); press release, A. Wedgwood Benn, 'The role of broadcasting in a participating democracy,' 18 October 1968 (/116-30); press release, RHSC re social policy, 12 June 1970 (/131a-j); draft papers for the Social Policy sub-committee, the Machinery of Government Group (Stuart Holland, 'Planning and Policy co-ordination', March 1972, /145-58; Derek Robinson, 'Machinery of Government', August 1972, /160-2); Home Policy committee on communications, May December 1973 (/170-4, 194-212); Social Policy sub committee on pensions, October-November 1973 (/176-93).

Includes: correspondence and memo from Peter Jay re Civil Service reform (/2-16); John Yudkin re relationship between universities and research bodies (/19-22); Denzil Freeth, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Science, re research council secretaries etc. speaking to Parliamentary Party committees and visits to Atomic Energy establishments (/41-9); Noel Adams re reform of higher education (/53); M. Zvegintor (National Research Development Corporation) re Labour's science policy (/60-5); John Morris re mature students' access to university (/66-72); Christopher Hawkes re 'an establishment for cultural services' (/80-125); G.S. Claridge re clinical psychology in the National Health Service (/127-34, 153-9); Max Born, 'What is there left to hope for?', Bull. of the Atomic Scientists, April 1964 (/178-80). See also MSS.154/4/LP/1.

The working party was set up after the Bloomsbury Science Conference, to consider the establishment of a Department of Scientific Intelligence by a Labour government. Includes: correspondence with Maurice Goldsmith (Director, Science Information Service, and chairman of working party), report, February 1964 (/83-90), and article by RHSC 'Scientists in Whitehall', Encounter, June 1964 (/95-8).

Esp. re Industrial Training Bill and redundancy following technological changes. Secretary was T.J. Pitt. Includes: British Iron Steel Federation, Training in the British iron and steel industry [circa 1963] (/6); and the group's report 'Manpower policies in a changing world', 1964 (/97-114).

RHSC was Labour's spokesman on science.

Includes: Correspondence and memorandum by C.H. Waddington (a committee member) (/1-24); Dennis Simms, Institution of Professional Civil Servants (IPCS) (/33-9, 55-65); Alexander Kennaway, BTR Industries Ltd. (/45-53); William McCall, General Secretary, IPCS (/66-88, 95-134, 141-4, 149-60, 204-7); P.M.S. Blackett, Imperial College, London (/89-94, 175-80, 203, 212-19, 254-5); W.T. Wells Member of Parliament (/161-8); Fabian Society, Science Group, 'Research council or executive department,' (/170-3); Richard Davies, Political Economic Planning, Attitudes in British industry, 'the application of science,' and RHSC's comments on same (/181-202); Sir Robert Robinson (/241-53); Harold Wilson (/203, 256-65); National Research Development Corporation, memo on its future (/267-76). See also MSS.154/3/SP/1-4 and MSS.154/3/ED/1-7.

Correspondents include A. Faulds Member of Parliament (/4-5); Sir Dingle Foot (/8-11); and G. Fowler Member of Parliament (/14-16).

Correspondents include J.K. Galbraith (/1-2); Alfred Gollin re the Thomas Jones diaries and Cabinet confidentiality (/9-26); Lord Goodman (/27-8); Harman Grisewood re relations between the BBC and the Labour government and including a memo to H. Wilson (/36-42).

Correspondents include Douglas Houghton Member of Parliament (/2-3); Lord Hill (/8-10); L.H.M. Hilliard (agent, Fulham Division LP) re local government in London (/11-32); Anthony Greenwood (/33-5); Leslie Hale Member of Parliament (/38-49); Hamish Hamilton (/51-2); Sir William Hayter, re new site for British Museum Library (/61-3).

Including Ronald Kerr-Muir, Chairman CBI Social Security Committee (/4).

Correspondents include Melvyn Lasky, edition of Encounter, esp. re CIA funds to Encounter (/2-13); Sir Sidney Littlewood re Rent Assessment Committees (/22-3); and Evan Luard Member of Parliament re his book about election manifestos (/30-3).

Correspondents include John Mackintosh Member of Parliament re regional government (/2-4); Richard Marsh re timing of Meriden by-election(/10-12); Kingsley Martin re book on Keep Left movement (/15-19); Peter Mayer re parliamentary reform (/27-8); Golda Meir re UN involvement in Tiran Straits (/35-6); Lucy Middleton (widow of J. Middleton, secretary of the Labour Party) re pension (/40-9).

Correspondents include Nigel Nicolson re politics and broadcasting (/10-12).

Correspondents include Laurie Pavitt Member of Parliament re relations between the government and the Co-operative Movement, including correspondence with H. Wilson (/19-32).

Correspondents include Anthony Sampson re a biography of Harold Macmillan (/1-45); Scottish Law Agents Society re its benevolent fund and 'disregards' for calculating national assistance benefits (/52-70); Sam Silkin, QC, Member of Parliament re a proposed new Cabinet (/82).

The only correspondent is Richard Titmuss, re a reply to an article by Arthur Seddon, Institute of Economic Affairs, on the 'Crisis in the welfare state'. See also Manuscript(s) 154/3/TM/1-19 below.

Correspondents include Reg Wallis re the Labour Party's refusal to pay his superannuation (/5-29); Meyer Weisgal (director, Weizmann Institute) (/48-52); E.T. Williams, edition Dictionary of National Biography, re article on Aneurin Bevan (/63-72).

Correspondence re financial assistance for the widow of K. Zilliacus Member of Parliament (/1-5).

Including formal notification of declaration of office (/1-3); notes and bibliography for Granada lecture, 1967 (/5-26); Foreign Office reports on May 1968 upheavals in Paris (/27-36) and Czechoslovakia in August 1968 (/37-8); and press-cuttings re RHSC's ministerial activities, August-September 1968 (/39-65).

Notes for secretary on how to deal with constituency work, with details of Coventry hospitals, street index, council house rents etc.; departmental background notes on more general issues, for example fees for overseas students.

Correspondents include Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta (/117-19).

Correspondents include Gilbert Baker, RHSC's stepson (/57-9); Lord Balogh (including commentary on Sir Burke Trend) (/62-6); Sir Isaiah Berlin (/135).

Correspondents include Barbara Adams re 1965 gypsy census (/76-8).

Includes memorandum by Tam Dalyell on H. Wilson as Labour leader, 1973 (/4-5); Nicholas Davenport on a pen-portrait of RHSC, 1974 (/21-6).

Correspondents include Stewart M. Ewing [husband of Winifred Ewing Member of Parliament] on the allocation of broadcasting time to the Scottish National Party (/61-72).

Correspondents include Michael Foot re use of Crossman's diaries for his biography of Aneurin Bevan (/33-46).

Correspondents include Lord Gladwyn re Europe (/62-9).

Correspondents include W. Hamilton Member of Parliament, re references to the Queen in RHSC's diary (/16-25); Tom Harrisson re RHSC's early wartime activities re morale (/30-7); Eric Heffer re Northern Ireland (/83-4); Ellic Howe re the Psychological Warfare Executive (/162-5).

And see MSS.154/3/MIS/26/100-14 below.

Correspondents include Robert Rhodes James re his Ambitions and realities (/14-16) and Mrs Peggy Jay re her non-appointment to Regional or Area Health Authorities (/20-32).

And see MSS.154/3/MIS/21 below

Correspondents include Christopher Hall, Secretary, Ramblers' Association, re commercialisation of the Ordnance Survey's map producing work (/72-81).

And see MSS.154/3/OS/1-47 below.

Correspondents include John P. Mackintosh Member of Parliament, re applications for jobs and Green Paper on Health Service (/36-50).

[Original file arrangement.]

Correspondents include Robert Melville, analysing party politics (/71-7); Mrs Barbara Maude for the Midland Motorways Action Committee (/105-19); Frau Lilo Milchsack re Knigswinter Conference (/120-42).

Includes first number of Young Fabian Group, Plebs, March 1973 (/58).

Correspondents include Robert Rhodes James re his book Ambitions and realities, British politics, 1964-1970 (London, 1972) and RHSC's comments on H. Wilson as a back bench Member of Parliament (/45-8; see also MSS.154/3/MIS/13 above); C.H. Rolph re his book Kingsley. The life, letters, and diaries of Kingsley Martin (London, 1973) (/108-9); and Dora Russell re the export of Bertrand Russell's papers (/168-9).

Correspondents include John Silkin, on RHSC's retirement as an Member of Parliament (/113-14).

Correspondents include Philip Whitehead Member of Parliament, re family planning and vasectomies (/83-95); William Whitelaw and RHSC's comments on the political scene (/96-97b); Simon Wiesenthal and Ellic Howe re forged wartime Polish stamps (/100-14); Harold Wilson: RHSC's comments on local government and RHSC's recollection of Wilson's devaluation speech (/139-43).

Mainly correspondence re speaking engagements, but private correspondents include Richard Acland (/1-2), Lord Bowden (/25), James Callaghan (/33-5), and Bernard Crick (/53-4).

Correspondence with N.D. Ouvry, Public Trustee, re RHSC's mother's will, 1960-1961 (/35-9); correspondence re RHSC's will, 1961 (/41-9), 1973-1974 (/219-20, 223-4, 229, 237-8; see also MSS.154/3/LIT/31 above); correspondence re Patrick's education 1962-1966 (/50-67); correspondence re the introduction of STD telephone dialling, 1963 (/94-101); papers relating to RHSC's appointment as a Privy Councillor, 1964 (/114-20) and as Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, 1968 (/121-2); correspondence re family trust, 1971 (/139-41), 1973-1974 (/194-6, 225-8) and other trusts, 1963-1970 (/78-93); correspondence when RHSC was in hospital, 1972, including a letter from J. B. Priestley (/144); correspondence re Crossman genealogy (/158-63, 191-3, 214-18; and see below, MSS.154/6/9/4-6); correspondence re appointment of secretary, 1972 (/164-77); correspondence with accountant, 1971-1973 (/153-7, 178-81, 197-202).

Not arranged in strict chronological order: original groups of papers on related subjects have been kept together, for example correspondence with the Public Trustee re the income of Patrick Crossman (RHSC's son; 1957-1975), 1958-1966 (/13-32).

See also MSS.154/8/204 for papers used in the editing of RHSC's diaries.

Mainly re negotiating new lease and assessing a 'fair' rent, 1971 (/60-97). [RHSC had been responsible for passing into law the Rent Act, 1965, which governed the assessment.]

File arranged in reverse chronological order.

9 Vincent Square was RHSC's London home.

Includes correspondence with A. P. McDougall (father-in-law) re testing of cattle against TB (attestation), 1958; bank, accountant, farm manager re terms of employment, solicitor re purchase of additional land and changes to partnership arrangements.

Reports of visits and interviews, 1944-1945. Includes reports of visits to concentration camps, May 1945, extracts from German publications, 1943-1945, and interviews with German civilians and prisoners, 1944-1945. Also includes RHSC's diary of a visit to Germany, November 1944 (/173-7) and extracts from reports of conditions in Germany, for example evacuation of civilians from the war zone (/201-11).

An account of its operation in the Western European Campaign, 1944-1945 (Bad Homburg, Germany, October 1945). Inscribed to RHSC by R.A McClure. Encloses note by RHSC on his work vis--vis the BBC (no date).

See also MSS.154/3/LIT/1 and 7.

Original file. Subjects include: old age and sickness insurance, and 'family income' (/147-87). Authors include Tony Lynes, Hilary Marquand, Brian Abel-Smith, and Richard Titmuss. Also includes Peter Townsend, 'The home and welfare services for the aged: 1945-1958 and their future', 1958 (/188-325).

Original file. Memo by the Life Offices' Association on national pensions, comments by Government Actuary's Department, and related correspondence

Includes: RHSC, 'National superannuation,' [Labour Party Statement, 1957] (/1-3); correspondence re Ralph Harris, 'Choice in Welfare,' (Institute of Economic Affairs, 1963) and threatened libel suit against RHSC (/9-41); unattributed [?RHSC] memo on future expenditure on health and welfare services (/42-59); Tony Lynes, 'Charges and means-testing in the social services,' 1971 (/71-86); draft social security scheme for Mauritius, 1972 (/104-15); correspondence re Mental Welfare Officers, 1972 (/116-19); correspondence re proposed RHSC article in journal of Institute of Mental Sub-normality, Apex, 1972 (/123-40); correspondence with Phoebe Hall re her study of the Seebohm committee and the Social Services Act, 1970 (/155-203); Rudolf Klein and Phoebe Hall, Caring for quality in the social services', options for future policy. Centre for Studies in Social Policy, 1974 (/204-5).

Notes for a debate at London University, 1965 (/3-15) and for a speech to an area conference, 1965 (/18-26). Includes: Labour Party background paper, 'Health and Commonwealth immigrants' (/27-31); Labour Party, The integration of immigrants (?1964) (/42-5).

Mainly RHSC-ZB, especially when he was in Germany, July-August.

See also MSS.154/6/11 for broadcasts made by RHSC then.

[Most of the letters were written when ZB accompanied Naomi Mitchison on a tour of the U.S.A.] Includes letters discussing ZB's proposal of RHSC as a prospective parliamentary candidate to the Oxford Constituency Labour Party (/90, 182-4); and syllabus for RHSC's lectures for Oxford University Extension Lectures Committee, 'How Hitler came to power' (/170).

The letters are mainly RHSC-ZB. Includes a letter to Naomi Mitchison, 3 May 1935, re her book (/238-41); an undated letter refers to driving to Churt to dine with Lloyd George (/273-5).

They cover the period when ZB left her first husband. A lot of the letters are only dated 'Wednesday' etc. and are not dateable from internal evidence. They have been put at the end of the two series. The file also includes an undated [?late 1936] incomplete letter from Naomi Mitchison to ?ZB (/427).

As above, mainly RHSC-ZB. They cover the period of ZB's divorce (17 February), and their marriage (18 December). They include a good series relating to the Birmingham bye-election, April (/503-20); letter, Cyril Joad-RHSC re a review of RHSC's Plato Today, 23 May (/543).

As above, all RHSC-ZB letters. They include RHSC's letters from Vienna and Prague, May 1938, when he was reporting the Sudetenland crisis for the Daily Herald (/759-80). They also include A.D. Lindsay's election address for the Oxford bye-election, 27 October, and a presscutting showing RHSC campaigning with Lindsay (/781-3).

RHSC-ZB letters include several written during the 'phoney war' period, 1939 (/786-802), and one describing his appointment to the Ministry of Information (/798). There are also several letters written during his work for the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry regarding the problems of European Jewry and Palestine (the Palestine Commission), December 1945-April 1946 (/803-15); and RHSC's letter re an attack on the Labour government's foreign policy, 14 November 1946 (/876). ZB's letters 1945-1946 include a lot of information about his Coventry constituency while he was away on the Palestine Commission (/822-66).

More of RHSC's Palestine Commission papers, including diary entries enclosed with some of these letters, are deposited in the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford, ref. DS126.4. See RHSC, Palestine Mission. A personal record (1947). See also MSS.154/8/3 for Zita Crossman's diary, 1946.

Probably collected in connection with the Crosstalk series, 1972-1974. Including articles printed in the Listener based on the broadcasts. Includes RHSC's If Plato lived again series, broadcast in 1936.

See also MSS.154/6/1 and 11.

Includes some correspondence re the broadcasts.

Includes some correspondence re the broadcasts.

See also MSS.154/3/LPO above.

Notes on cover by RHSC.

The Labour Party's manifesto for the 1970 General Election.

Two copies, /9 heavily annotated by RHSC.

Including /11 above.

Including foreword by RHSC.

[RHSC's contribution is 'The politics of television'.]

Including /17 above.

Includes RHSC, 'Labour and Compulsory Military Service'.

See above, MSS.154/3/LIT/18, for related correspondence.

See above, MSS.154/3/LIT/17, for related correspondence.

See above, MSS.154/3/LIT/26, for related correspondence.

Includes chapter by RHSC.

Collected by his Ministry of Housing and Local Government civil servants; press releases and press-cuttings.

The file includes correspondence with RHSC and publishers about the content, contract, royalties, etc. of various books. The books include the Diaries; Planning for freedom (1965) (including discussion re inclusion of 'The lesson of Dresden', first published in Esquire, November 1963; /409-36); and (edition RHSC) Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1963 and 1964). Correspondence relating to proving RHSC's estate includes copies of several publishing contracts, including If Plato lived again (1937) (/86-127); some correspondence and invoices re transcribing and editing RHSC's diaries (/153-6, 165, 283, 529-31).

[Artificial file, arranged in reverse chronological order.]

Mainly correspondence with Messrs. Paisner Co., RHSC's solicitors, re the royalties from his literary estate.

Mainly correspondence with Mrs A. Crossman re copyright requests and re re-publication of Palestine Mission. Also includes obituaries of RHSC (/61-70).

Includes transcripts of radio interviews by RHSC of Arthur Koestler and Stephen Spender in 1961 (/19-60 and /61-127).

As well as correspondence with Hodgkinson, the file includes press reviews (/21-2, 29, 52-6); publishers' reviews (/193, 209-12, 215); and comments by RHSC (/219-21).

See also MSS.154/3/LIT/9-12 above.

Mainly correspondence with solicitors re the contract, but also includes vouchers for transcribing/typing the diary tapes (/64-137).

And see above, MSS.154/3/LIT/31.

W.A.F. Davis and H.G. Nanson [?parents of Zita Baker], 1899 (/1); RHSC and Erika Gluck, 1932 [modern certified copy] (/2); RHSC and Zita Baker, 1937 [modern certified copy] (/3); letter re Crossman family history, 1972 (/4-6); poems [photocopies], including three by RHSC, 1929 (/7-11).

Also includes printed 'An open letter to the citizens of Oxford' [?1930s, Oxford City Labour Party's manifesto] (/13); Labour versus the caucus. The real struggle in the Oxford City Council, [photocopy; annotated as written by RHSC; 1936] (/15-22).

See also MSS.154/4/BR/1 for RHSC's earliest broadcasts.

Memo by RHSC to Mister Wheeler-Bennett re various meetings, 28 September 1942 (/1-2); notes for lecture to Royal Naval War College, 16 March 1953 (/3); letter, RHSC-Tom Harrisson, 20 June 1973, re civilian morale during air raids (/4-5).

And see MSS.154/3/PW above.

Correspondence between RHSC and Kingsley Martin, John Roberts, John Freeman and Hugh Cudlipp, July 1955, re RHSC's departure from the New Statesman for a column in the Daily Mirror (/1-14); also includes RHSC's letters to Michael Foot, as editor of Tribune, re accusation that RHSC had supported a conspiracy to displace C.R. Attlee as Labour Party leader, December 1955 (/15-18); undated memo by K. Martin on why he thought RHSC would make a disastrous editor of New Statesman, n.d., late 1950s (/19-22).

See also MSS.154/3/LIT/3/89-96 and MSS.154/3/POL/374-9, 414-20 above.

Location of Originals

[photocopy of the original held in the University of Sussex] (/1-48). Letter, Raymond Mortimer-Rolph re the K. Martin biography and re RHSC, [photocopy] (/49-50).

Arranged in a scrap book, re agriculture etc.

Press-cuttings of McDougall's column 'on farming and other topics', The Oxford Mail, February 1927-April 1929.

Mainly articles, book reviews, and letters to the press by APM [arranged in chronological order].

Including article by APM and resulting letters and leader column in The Times, March-April 1940, re wartime food production. Also includes Ernest O. Hauser, 'Socialism comes to Banbury', Saturday Evening Post, 1 June 1946.

The land and the nation. Rural report of the Liberal Land Committee, 1923-1925, Hodder Stoughton, 1925. Inscribed 'Presented to A.P. McDougall, Esq., with deep appreciation of his help and assistance as a member of the Liberal Land Committee, 1923-1925 [sig.] D. Lloyd George.'

Anne McDougall was RHSC's third wife; they married 3 June 1954. Includes: AC-RHSC, 5 January 1954 [RHSC was on a tour of Africa and had just proposed marriage to her] (/1). RHSC-AC, April 1973, when he was at the Weizmann Institute, working on his biography of Weizmann (/2-14); RHSC-Virginia, his daughter, from the Weizmann Institute (/15-16). Also includes letters of sympathy following RHSC's death (arranged in alphabetical order) and correspondence relating to RHSC's memorial service, with copy letter to H. Wilson, refusing a life peerage, 29 March 1974 (/824); and printed copies of speeches at memorial service by Brian Abel-Smith, Thomas Balogh, Harold Wilson and others (/840).

Deposited by Jonathan Cape

Hugo Young, The Crossman Affair (Hamish Hamilton and Jonathan Cape, in association with The Sunday Times, 1976): setting copy of typescript and author's corrected proofs and final printed version.

Also includes some rough drafts of poems, 1930; reversed at end: accounts for German trip, ?1930; notes of concerts, films, etc., seen; notes from reading.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 19-30, 33-100.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 101-200.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 201-68, 284-300.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 301-400, plus 8 pp insert

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 401-74, 483-500, with letter to Helen, Lady Cohen [wife of Governor of Uganda], 23 February 1954, inserted at gap.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 501-48, with letter (copy) to H. Wilson, 24 April, inserted, between ff. 503-4 and letter (copy) from H. Cudlipp, 14 May, between ff. 514-15.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 549-58, 560-600, with letter (copy) to A. Bevan, 12 October, inserted between ff. 578-9.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 601-700, with extract from Hansard, 4 April, re Turco-Iraqi Pact, inserted between ff. 655-6.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 701-15, 719-800, with extracts from Hansard, 7 November, re disappearance of Burgess and Maclean, between ff. 745-6, and 24 January, re export of arms to the Middle East, ff. 790-1.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 801-887, 895-900, with extract from Hansard, 20 March 1956, re unemployment, inserted between ff. 816-17.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 901-55, 969-1,000. Inserted: letter (copy) to A. Wedgwood Benn, 25 January, between ff. 918-19; correspondence (copy) with Lord Hailsham, 21-2 May, between ff. 942-3; Labour Party Conference resolutions, at end.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 1,001-1, 100 [ff. nos. 1056-65 not used].

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 1,111-1,144, [ff. 1,145-1,209 not found]. Inserted: notes (copy) of interviews with Jules Moch, 15 June, and Pierre Mendes-France, 14 June, between ff. 1,113-14; letter (copy) from [unidentified of Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands], 23 June, and newspaper extract, between ff. 1,118-19; extract from Hansard, 26 June,re Cyprus, between ff. 1,118-19; extract from Hansard, 16 July, re Lebanon, between ff. 1,131-2; extract from Hansard, 28 July, re Defence supply, and letter (copy) to H. Gaitskell re national service, 29 July, between ff. 1140-1; letter (copy) to RHSC from Harold Peake (Steel Company of Wales), 29 July, and letter (copy) to RHSC from H. Gaitskell re conscription, 1 August, between ff. 1,142-3.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 1,210-1,236, 1,238-1,300. Inserted: extract from Hansard, 16 December, re Suez, between ff. 1,244-5; letter (copy) to B. Castle re 'Into Action' campaign, 5 February, between ff. 1,274-5; correspondence with H. Gaitskell re relations with Italian socialists, 20-3 February, between ff. 1287-8.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 1,301-35, 1,337-1,399. Inserted: correspondence with Frank Cousins re nuclear armament policy, 14-16 July, between ff. 1,333-4; letter (copy) to L. Milchsack re recognition of German Democratic Republic, 25 January, between ff. 1,396-7.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 1,200-1,300 bis [incorrectly foliated; should be ff. 1,400-1,500].

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 1,301-1,377 bis [incorrectly foliated.] Inserted: letter (copy) to T. Balogh re Indian election campaign, 24 March, between ff. 1,339-40.

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 1-71, 73-100. [compare RHSC's introduction to this section: the diary tailed off in the summer of 1961 with frustration illness and was revivified by the death of Gaitskell. In the published version Janet Morgan says that the diary was revivified in October 1962 with the purchase of a tape recorder. The actual diary entries do not begin until February 1963.]

[clean copy, no annotations], ff. 101-46. 148-62. Inserted: correspondence with Iain Macleod and George Wigg re Profumo affair, 7-10 October, between ff. 123-4.

[clean copy, no annotations, not included in published version]; report to International [illegible] of annual conference of Austrian Socialist party, 5-7 November 1949 in Vienna; visit to Poland, 27 July-5 August, and East Germany, Vienna; visit to Poland, 27 July-5 August, and East Germany, 6-9 August 1962.

[clean copy, no annotations; not included in published version], visit to China, 26 August-16 September 1958 (/1-64). Also includes articles (photocopies) about the visit published in New Statesman, 27 September 1958, 10 and 17 January 1959 (/66-75); and 'Chinese notebook', published in Encounter, March 1959 (/76-87).

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations for the printer

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations for the printer

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations for the printer

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations, pages 71-230/5 or pages 1835-2102 (extra pages: 1865a, 2102a; no pages 1944, 1957, 2093-4).

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations, pages 231-307/5 or pages 2103-2238 (extra pages 2158a, 2163a; no pages 2111, 2152, 2234).

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations, pages 1-168/6 or pages 2239-2471.

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations, pages 1-71/7 or pages 2472-2569.

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations, pages 72-169/7 or pages 2570-2763.

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations, pages 170-261/7 or pages 2764-2901.

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations, pages 1-162/8 or pages 2902-3225.

Marked up for printer, with linking passages and publisher's annotations, Pages 162-209/8 or pages 3226-3369.

Includes cabinet lists, biographical notes etc. included at end of book.

Editor's marked set.

Editor's marked set. Also includes editor's proof-reading

Author's marked set. Also includes editor's proof-reading.

Includes some suggested illustrations (cartoons).

Typescript (top copy), marked up for printer.

Author's marked set of galley proofs.

Editor's revised proof.

Passed proofs.

Draft fns and corrections; correspondence between Janet Morgan and Pat Newnham re editorial decisions.

Draft fns, draft index of biographical footnotes; date sheets (dates and days of the week for the period covered by the diary).

There were three stages in compiling the published version of the diary: 1. transcription from the original tapes, including asides to his secretary (MSS.154/8/60-4); 2. RHSC dictated on to tapes a first revision from the typed transcripts (see below, MSS.154/8/205, for the only surviving audio tape for this revision); those revision tapes were then transcribed (MSS.154/8/65-74); and 3. a final version was typed out (MSS.154/8/75-84). The final proofs and various oddments are contained in MSS.154/8/85-91.

For the corresponding ministerial engagement diaries, see MSS.154/8/197-8 below.

As before, there were three stages in compiling the published version of the diary: 1. the original transcription, including asides to his secretary and with some holograph annotation (Manuscripts. 154/8/92-107); 2. RHSC dictated on to tapes (Manuscripts. 154/8/206-7) a first revision from the original transcription; those revision tapes were then transcribed (Manuscripts. 154/8/108-22); 3. a final version was typed (Manuscripts. 154/8/123-36). Some files of draft footnotes etc. come from the publisher, Jonathan Cape Ltd, and include galleys, page proofs, and correspondence between Janet Morgan and Cape's editor (Manuscripts. 154/8/137-47).

For the corresponding ministerial engagement diaries, see Manuscripts. 154/8/198-200 below.

As before, there were three stages in compiling the published version of the diary: 1. transcription from the original tapes, including asides to his secretary (MSS.154/8/148-73); 2. RHSC taped a revision (MSS.154/8/208-12) from the typed transcription. In her 'Editor's Note' to volume 3, JM says that she had to finish this stage of revision. The revision tapes were transcribed as a final text submitted to the printer (MSS.154/8/174-92). 3. galleys and proofs (MSS.154/8/193-6). Some of the files of draft footnotes etc. came from the publisher, Jonathan Cape Ltd.

For the corresponding ministerial engagement diaries, see MSS.154/8/200-2 below.

These typed diaries were compiled in RHSC's Private Office, for distribution to RHSC himself, his official secretaries, his official driver, and Mrs Crossman. Duplicate copies have been weeded unless they were annotated. Internal evidence suggests that RHSC took the obsolete engagement diaries home, to use as an aide-memoire when he was taping his diary entries. The engagement diaries were later re-used again when the diary transcriptions were being edited for publication, hence their arrangement here with the diaries, rather than with RHSC's official papers.

/A original tape; /b-c working copy; /d-e master copy.

/A original tape; /b-i working copy; /j-q master copy.

/A original tape; /b-h working copy; /i-o master copy.

/A original tape; /b-i working copy; /j-q master copy.

/A original tape; /b-h working copy; /i-o master copy.

/A original tape; /b-g working copy; /h-m master copy.

/A original tape; /b-i working copy; /j-q master copy.

/A original tape; /b-i working copy; /j-q master copy.

Not published [refers to RHSC's time as editor of New Statesman].

/a original tape; /b-f working copy; /g-k master copy.

Mainly miscellaneous press-cuttings about RHSC's activities but including some Sunday Pictorial columns and other articles by RHSC.

Mainly miscellaneous press-cuttings about RHSC's activities but including some Sunday Pictorial columns and other articles by RHSC.

Mainly miscellaneous press-cuttings about RHSC's activities but including some Sunday Pictorial columns and other articles by RHSC.

Mainly miscellaneous press-cuttings about RHSC's activities but including some Sunday Pictorial columns and other articles by RHSC.

Mainly miscellaneous press-cuttings about RHSC's activities but including some Sunday Pictorial columns and other articles by RHSC.

Mainly miscellaneous press-cuttings about RHSC's activities but including some Sunday Pictorial columns and other articles by RHSC.

Includes some press releases, 'letters to the editor'.

Includes some press releases, 'letters to the editor'.

Includes some press releases, 'letters to the editor'.

Includes some press releases, 'letters to the editor'.

Includes some press releases, 'letters to the editor'.

Subjects, source and date on sheet at front of file. Not all refer to RHSC.

Subjects, source and date on sheet at front of file. Not all refer to RHSC.

Subjects, source and date on sheet at front of file. Not all refer to RHSC.

Subjects, source and date on sheet at front of file. Not all refer to RHSC.

Especially re dismissal as editor of New Statesman. Also includes reviews of Inside view.

Including article on relationship with his father, The Sunday Telegraph, 16 December 1962.

Includes some texts of party political broadcasts.

See also MSS.154/3/LP above.

Including Vernon Bogdanor, 'The Crossman diaries', review article from Political Studies, volume xxv, no. 1, March 1977, and programme for opening of Dick Crossman House, Dunsmore Avenue, Coventry, March 1975.