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Title: Dilks Papers: Conferences

Scope: Documents relating to conferences organised by or attended by David Dilks between

1962 and 1998

Dates: 1962-1998

Level: Sub-fonds

Extent: 27 boxes

Name of creator: David Dilks

Administrative / biographical history:

The collection consists of documents relating to conferences organised by or attended by

David Dilks between 1962 and 1998. The documents include papers presented,

correspondence as well as administrative and organisational records. In most cases the

documents are accompanied by introductory notes by Professor Dilks.

David Dilks is a historian, the official biographer of Neville Chamberlain and author of the

two-volume Curzon in India and The Great Dominion: Winston Churchill in Canada 1900-

1954. He was for many years Professor of International History at the University of Leeds

and subsequently Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull between 1991 and 1999.

Source: Donated by Professor Dilks in 2011

System of arrangement: Chronologically

Subjects: History, Modern--20th century. Europe--History--20th century. Conferences.

Names: Dilks, David, 1938-

Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment

Restrictions: None

Copyright: According to document

Finding aids: Listed

Dilks Papers - Conferences

1. 1962 British and European Resistance Conference (St Anthony’s College Oxford) Set 1:

1/2 Introductory Documents:

1. List of Conference Attendees

2. List of Papers presented, ordered by day of the Conference

3. Introduction to the Conference, unknown author

1/3 December 10:

1. “Britain and France” by M.R.D. Foot. Professor of Modern History at University of

Manchester. Served with the SAS and the French Resistance during WWII. Became

the official historian of SOE.

2. “France and Britain” by M. Baudot. Chief of the French Forces of the Interior from

1944. Historian of the French Resistance during WWII. Paper presented in French, no

translation available.

3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring M.R.D. Foot, M. Baudot, H. Michel,

General C. Gubbins, General Barry, C. Pyromaglou, G. Bonnin, Dr. Beck.

1/4 December 11:

1. “Britain and Holland” by L. De Jong. Historian of the Netherlands during WWII and

the Dutch Resistance.

2. Discussion of the paper presented, featuring L. De Jong, F.W. Deakin, C.

Pyromaglou, H. Michel, General Barry.

3. “Belgium and Britain” by G. Lovinfosse. Historian of the Belgian Resistance during

WWII. Paper presented in French, no translation available.

4. Discussion of the paper presented, featuring H.T. Willetts, G. Lovinfosse, J. de

Launay, M. Baudot, M. Matthews, L. de Jong, C. Pyromaglou, B. Sijes, Chairman A.

Buchan.

1/5 December 12:

1. “Britain and Denmark” by Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins. Commanded the

Independent Companies during the Norwegian Campaign. Seconded to SOE in

November 1940, was appointed leader in September 1943.

2. “Denmark and Britain” by J Haestrup. Actively involved in the Danish Resistance

movement during WWII, became a historian of the movement post-war.

3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring General C. Gubbins, J Haestrup, Mr.

Bennett, Commander R. Hollingworth, G. Cohen, M. Skodvin, C. Pyromaglou, F.W.

Deakin, D.J. Footman, Chairman L. Schapiro, W. Pforzheimer, P. Kluke, E.

Raczynski.

4. “Britain and Norway” by Colonel C.S. Hampton. Historian of SOE activities in

Norway during WWII and the Norwegian Resistance.

5. “Norway and Britain” by M. Skodvin. Professor of History at the University of Oslo.

Historian of the Norwegian Resistance and Anglo-Norwegian relations during WWII.

6. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring Colonel C.S. Hampton, M. Skodvin,

T.K. Derry, J. de Launay, N. Kogan, C. Pyromaglou.

1/6 December 13:

1. “Britain and Poland” by H.T. Willetts. Professor of Russian History at the University

of Oxford. Prolific translator of Russian literature. Writes here on the Polish

Resistance and British relations with Poland during WWII.

2. “Poland and Britain” by Count E.B. Raczynski and General S. Kopanski. Racynski

served as the ambassador of the Polish Government in Exile during WWII. He also

served as Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1941-1943 under the leadership of

Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski. He remained in London after the war, becoming

Polish President in Exile in 1979. Kopanski served as Chief of Staff of the

Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces in the West from 1943-1946. He

was denied Polish citizenship by its post-war Communist government, subsequently

remaining in London.

3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring H.T. Willetts, E. Raczynski, S.

Kopanski, E. Boltin, General C. Gubbins, L. de Jong, N. Kogan, General T.

Pelczynski.

4. “Britain and Czechoslovakia” by F.E. Keary seemingly absent.

5. “Czechoslovakia and Britain” by J. Korbel. Fled to London upon the Nazi invasion of

Czechoslovakia in 1939 and served as an advisor to the exiled President Edvard

Beneš. Subsequently taught International Politics at the University of Denver, fleeing

Czechoslovakia after the Communist coup in 1948.

6. Discussion of the paper presented, featuring J. Korbel, F.E. Keary, E. Boltin, E.

Raczynski, N. Kogan, L. de Jong.

1/7 December 14:

1. “Britain and Albania” by Rt. Hon. J. Amery. Served in the British Army during

WWII, becoming Liason Officer to the Albanian Resistance Movement in 1943. After

the war he became a Conservative politician, serving in the cabinets of Harold

Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home.

2. Discussion of the paper presented, with reason for lack of Albanian paper given.

Discussion features Colonel P. Kemp, Colonel A. Palmer, E. Raczynski, C.

Pyromaglou, J. Marjanovic, F.W. Deakin, N. Kogan, J. Amery.

3. “Britain and Yugoslavia” by F.W. Deakin. Seconded to Special Operations in 1941

and parachuted into Montenegro in 1943 to offer British support to the Yugoslav

Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito. His reporting on the Yugoslav situation was

considered to have a decisive impact on British policy towards Yugoslav resistance

movements. Post-war worked as Churchill’s literary assistant before becoming

Warden of St Anthony’s College, Oxford.

4. “Yugoslavia and Britain” by J. Marjanovic. Fought as a Yugoslav Partisan during

WWII. Became a member of the Yugoslav Communist Party in 1941, playing a key

post-war role in the Central Committee of the Serbian branch of the Party. Professor

of History at the University of Belgrade.

5. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring F.W. Deakin, J. Marjanovic, Colonel

D.T. Hudson, V. Dedijer, M. Howard, M. Beloff, C. Pyromaglou, E. Boltin.

1/8 December 15:

1. “Britain and Italy” by Colonel J. Stevens. Served in the British Army during WWII,

co-ordinating resistance movements in Northern Italy.

2. “Italy and Britain” by G. Vaccarino and F. Venturi. Vaccarino served as the director

of the Resistance Institute in Turin. Venturi was active within the Italian Resistance as

a member of the Action Party and was captured and confined from 1941-1943.

3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring Colonel J. Stevens, G. Vaccarino, F.

Venturi, N. Kogan, J. Marjanovic, S. Watson, V. Dedijer, Colonel A.D. Dodds-

Parker, Chairman M. Howard, F.W. Deakin.

1/9 December 16:

1. “Britain and Greece” by Hon. C.M. Woodhouse. Sent as a member of SOE to Crete in

1941 to organise resistance. Later worked on mainland Greece. Worked at the British

Embassy in Athens immediately after the conclusion of the war, later becoming a

Conservative politician.

2. “Greece and Britain” by C. Pyromaglou. One of the driving forces behind the

National Republican Greek League, the second-largest Greek Resistance organisation

during WWII. Elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 1958 as a member of United

Democratic Left. Paper presented in French with some English segments. No

translation of the French segments available.

3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring C.M. Woodhouse, Colonel B. Sweet-

Escott, A. Andrews, E. Boltin, G. Vaccarino, M. Skodvin, L. de Jong, C. Pyromaglou.

4. Discussion of the Conference as a whole, featuring F.W. Deakin, G. Cohen, E. Boltin,

S. Watson, F. Venturi, W. Pforzheimer, G. Bonnin, B. Sijes, M. Beloff, P. Kluke, N.

Kogan, L. de Jong, J. Marjanovic.

2. 1962 British and European Resistance Conference (St Anthony’s College Oxford) Set 2:

2/3 December 10:

1. “Britain and France” by M.R.D. Foot. Professor of Modern History at University of

Manchester. Served with the SAS and the French Resistance during WWII. Became

the official historian of SOE.

2. “France and Britain” by M. Baudot. Chief of the French Forces of the Interior from

1944. Historian of the French Resistance during WWII. Paper presented in French, no


3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring M.R.D. Foot, M. Baudot, H. Michel,

General C. Gubbins, General Barry, C. Pyromaglou, G. Bonnin, Dr. Beck.

2/4 December 11:

1. “Britain and Holland” by L. De Jong. Historian of the Netherlands during WWII and

the Dutch Resistance.

2. Discussion of the paper presented, featuring L. De Jong, F.W. Deakin, C.

Pyromaglou, H. Michel, General Barry.

3. “Belgium and Britain” by G. Lovinfosse. Historian of the Belgian Resistance during

WWII. Paper presented in French, no translation available.

4. Discussion of the paper presented, featuring H.T. Willetts, G. Lovinfosse, J. de

Launay, M. Baudot, M. Matthews, L. de Jong, C. Pyromaglou, B. Sijes, Chairman A.

Buchan.

2/5 December 12:

1. “Britain and Denmark” by Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins. Commanded the

Independent Companies during the Norwegian Campaign. Seconded to SOE in

November 1940, was appointed leader in September 1943.

2. “Denmark and Britain” by J Haestrup. Actively involved in the Danish Resistance

movement during WWII, became a historian of the movement post-war.

3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring General C. Gubbins, J Haestrup, Mr.

Bennett, Commander R. Hollingworth, G. Cohen, M. Skodvin, C. Pyromaglou, F.W.

Deakin, D.J. Footman, Chairman L. Schapiro, W. Pforzheimer, P. Kluke, E.

Raczynski.

4. “Britain and Norway” by Colonel C.S. Hampton. Historian of SOE activities in

Norway during WWII and the Norwegian Resistance.

5. “Norway and Britain” by M. Skodvin. Professor of History at the University of Oslo.

Historian of the Norwegian Resistance and Anglo-Norwegian relations during WWII.

6. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring Colonel C.S. Hampton, M. Skodvin,

T.K. Derry, J. de Launay, N. Kogan, C. Pyromaglou.

2/6 December 13:

1. “Britain and Poland” by H.T. Willetts. Professor of Russian History at the University

of Oxford. Prolific translator of Russian literature. Writes here on the Polish

Resistance and British relations with Poland during WWII.

2. “Poland and Britain” by Count E.B. Raczynski and General S. Kopanski. Racynski

served as the ambassador of the Polish Government in Exile during WWII. He also

served as Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1941-1943 under the leadership of

Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski. He remained in London after the war, becoming

Polish President in Exile in 1979. Kopanski served as Chief of Staff of the

Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces in the West from 1943-1946. He

was denied Polish citizenship by its post-war Communist government, subsequently

remaining in London.

3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring H.T. Willetts, E. Raczynski, S.

Kopanski, E. Boltin, General C. Gubbins, L. de Jong, N. Kogan, General T.

Pelczynski.

4. “Britain and Czechoslovakia” by F.E. Keary seemingly absent.

5. “Czechoslovakia and Britain” by J. Korbel. Fled to London upon the Nazi invasion of

Czechoslovakia in 1939 and served as an advisor to the exiled President Edvard

Beneš. Subsequently taught International Politics at the University of Denver, fleeing

Czechoslovakia after the Communist coup in 1948.

6. Discussion of the paper presented, featuring J. Korbel, F.E. Keary, E. Boltin, E.

Raczynski, N. Kogan, L. de Jong.

2/7 December 14:

1. “Britain and Albania” by Rt. Hon. J. Amery. Served in the British Army during

WWII, becoming Liason Officer to the Albanian Resistance Movement in 1943. After

the war he became a Conservative politician, serving in the cabinets of Harold

Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home.

2. Discussion of the paper presented, with reason for lack of Albanian paper given.

Discussion features Colonel P. Kemp, Colonel A. Palmer, E. Raczynski, C.

Pyromaglou, J. Marjanovic, F.W. Deakin, N. Kogan, J. Amery.

3. “Britain and Yugoslavia” by F.W. Deakin. Seconded to Special Operations in 1941

and parachuted into Montenegro in 1943 to offer British support to the Yugoslav

Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito. His reporting on the Yugoslav situation was

considered to have a decisive impact on British policy towards Yugoslav resistance

movements. Post-war worked as Churchill’s literary assistant before becoming

Warden of St Anthony’s College, Oxford.

4. “Yugoslavia and Britain” by J. Marjanovic. Fought as a Yugoslav Partisan during

WWII. Became a member of the Yugoslav Communist Party in 1941, playing a key

post-war role in the Central Committee of the Serbian branch of the Party. Professor

of History at the University of Belgrade.

5. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring F.W. Deakin, J. Marjanovic, Colonel

D.T. Hudson, V. Dedijer, M. Howard, M. Beloff, C. Pyromaglou, E. Boltin.

2/8 December 15:

1. “Britain and Italy” by Colonel J. Stevens. Served in the British Army during WWII,

co-ordinating resistance movements in Northern Italy.

2. “Italy and Britain” by G. Vaccarino and F. Venturi. Vaccarino served as the director

of the Resistance Institute in Turin. Venturi was active within the Italian Resistance as

a member of the Action Party and was captured and confined from 1941-1943.

3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring Colonel J. Stevens, G. Vaccarino, F.

Venturi, N. Kogan, J. Marjanovic, S. Watson, V. Dedijer, Colonel A.D. Dodds-

Parker, Chairman M. Howard, F.W. Deakin.

2/9 December 16:

1. “Britain and Greece” by Hon. C.M. Woodhouse. Sent as a member of SOE to Crete in

1941 to organise resistance. Later worked on mainland Greece. Worked at the British

Embassy in Athens immediately after the conclusion of the war, later becoming a

Conservative politician.

2. “Greece and Britain” by C. Pyromaglou. One of the driving forces behind the

National Republican Greek League, the second-largest Greek Resistance organisation

during WWII. Elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 1958 as a member of United

Democratic Left. Paper presented in French with some English segments. No

translation of the French segments available.

3. Discussion of the papers presented, featuring C.M. Woodhouse, Colonel B. Sweet-

Escott, A. Andrews, E. Boltin, G. Vaccarino, M. Skodvin, L. de Jong, C. Pyromaglou.

4. Discussion of the Conference as a whole, featuring F.W. Deakin, G. Cohen, E. Boltin,

S. Watson, F. Venturi, W. Pforzheimer, G. Bonnin, B. Sijes, M. Beloff, P. Kluke, N.

Kogan, L. de Jong, J. Marjanovic.

3. 1976 “The Great Powers and the Nordic Countries” Conference (Oslo):

3/1 Note from Dilks on the conference and the whereabouts of the paper he presented (dated

18/8/12).

3/2 Papers Presented:

1. M. Skodvin on Norway. Professor of History at the University of Oslo. Historian of

the Norwegian Resistance and Norwegian relations with the rest of Europe during

WWII.

2. “Denmark’s Policy 1939-1940” by O.K. Pedersen. Professor of International Politics

at the University of Copenhagen. Historian of political relations between Denmark

and the Great Powers, with additional studies on African Nationalism.

3. E. Lönnroth on Sweden. Professor of History at the University of Gothenburg.

Specialized in Scandinavian history. Notable within Sweden for his polemical works

challenging the traditional liberal consensus.

4. “Finland in International Politics 1939-1940” by T. Polvinen. Professor of History at

the University of Tampere and later at the University of Helsinki. Became chief of the

Finnish National Archives. Historian of international relations within Finland with a

particular focus on the links between Finland and the Soviet Union.

5. “Germany and the Nordic Countries 1939-1940” by H.D. Loock. Historian working

within the Federal Republic of Germany, focused primarily on the Third Reich and its

aggressive expansionism against the Nordic Countries.

6. “The Western Powers and the Nordic Countries” by F. Bédarida. Worked as a

researcher in London in the aftermath of WWII before later continuing the same role

in Paris. Lectured at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. Best known as a

historian of Vichy France.

7. “Zum Platz der Nordeuropaischen Länder in den Aggressionsplänen des Deutschen

Faschismus 1939-1941” by G. Haas. Researched at the Institute of History in the

Academy of Sciences within the German Democratic Republic. Prior to this worked

in the GDR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Generally worked on fascism and WWII in

Europe. Paper presented in German, no translation available

8. “The USSR in the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe on the eve of the Second

World War” by General P.A. Zhilin. Soviet Military Historian, appointed head of the

Institute of Military History. Chief historian of the Soviet Army.

9. List of corrections to certain papers (unknown author)

10. “The Western Powers and the Nordic Countries” by F. Bédarida. Duplicate paper.

4. 1977 Conference on Governments in Exile in London during the Second World War:

4/1 Note by Dilks on the conference papers and copyright.

4/2 Anglo-French Relations:

1. “Les relations entre la France Libre et le Gouvernement britannique” by J.P. Cointet.

Historian of Vichy France and the government in exile of Charles de Gaulle. Paper

presented in French, no translation available.

2. “Le Gaullisme à Londres, 1940 à 1943” by D.W. Johnson. Historian of France, first at

the University of Birmingham and later at University College London. Became an

advisor to Margaret Thatcher on Anglo-French affairs. Paper presented in French, no


4/3 Anglo-Yugoslav Relations:

1. “Relations between Britain and the Royal Jugoslav Government in Exile” by E.

Barker. Worked as a diplomatic correspondent and later as a historian of modern

Europe. Particularly focused on the history of Central and Eastern European states

during WWII.

2. “Yugoslavia” by S.K. Pavlowitch. Fled Yugoslavia along with his family during its

occupation by the Axis powers, seeking refuge in London. Worked as a journalist

post-war before becoming a Professor of History at the University of Southampton.

3. “The Royal Navy in the Adriatic 1940-45” by Commander R.C. Burton. Head of the

Royal Navy Historical Branch.

4/4 Anglo-Greek Relations:

1. “Anglo-Greek Relations and the Question of the Regime in Greece” by J.

Koliopoulos. Professor of Modern Greek History at the University of Thessaloniki.

Has researched widely on 19th and 20th century Greece.

2. “The Greek Government-in-exile: some British perspectives by R. Clogg. British

historian of Modern Greek History. Taught at Kings College London before becoming

senior research fellow at St Anthony’s College, Oxford.

4/5 Anglo-Czech Relations:

1. “H.M.G. and the Czechoslovak Government in Exile during the Second World War”

by W. Barker. Employed in the Foreign Office in 1943, serving in a variety of

locations including Prague, Moscow and Washington D.C. Subsequently taught

Russian at the University of Liverpool.

2. “The Czechoslovak Government in Exile during World War II: An Assessment” by

V. Mastny. American historian of Czech descent, specialising in the history of the

Cold War. Considered a leading American scholar on Soviet affairs.

4/6 Anglo-Polish Relations:

1. “The British and the Polish Government-in-exile 1939-1945” by A. Polonsky. South

African-born historian of modern Poland, with a particular focus on Polish Jewry.

Studied at Oxford before later teaching at the London School of Economics.

2. “Secret Liaison between Poland and Polish Government in London during the last

war” by Józef Garliński. Member of the Polish Resistance during WWII. Arrested by

the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz in 1943. Survived the concentration camps, later

becoming a historian of the Polish experience of WWII.

3. “Relations between Polish and British Government 1939-1945” by B. Wronski.

Served in the Polish Navy during WWII, escorting British convoys across the

Atlantic. Moved to London after the war and subsequently became a historian, taking

on the role of director of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum.

4/7 Anglo-Norwegian Relations:

1. “Britain, Norway and the Atlantic Community in the Second World War” by P.

Ludlow. Historian of European relations. Taught at the University of London before

subsequently becoming a founding director of the Centre for European Policy Studies

in Brussels.

2. “The Norwegian Government in Exile and the Allies 1940-1945” by O. Riste.

Specialised in modern Norwegian History with a particular focus on international and

national security and military history.

4/8 Anglo-Belgian Relations:

1. “Le Gouvernement Belge a Londres 1940-1944” by J. Willequet. Historian of modern

Belgium, taught at the Free University of Brussels.

2. “Legitimacy, Gold and Guarantees: Britain and the Belgian Government in London,

1940-1941” by G. Warner. Professor of History at Brasenose College Oxford,

formerly of the Open University. Acts as a commentary upon Willequet’s paper rather

than a standalone work; the justification for this is provided in the introduction.

4/9 Anglo-Dutch Relations:

1. “The British and the Dutch Government in Exile, 1940-1945” by P.M.H. Bell.

Historian of Modern Europe. Author of a popular history on the Origins of the Second

World War. Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Liverpool.

2. “The Netherlands Government in London, 1940-1945” by L. De Jong. Historian of

the Netherlands during WWII and the Dutch Resistance.

5. 1979 Anglo-Canadian Colloquium (Leeds, hosted by Dilks), Initial Documents:

5/1 Report on the 1971 Anglo-Canadian Colloquium, to which the 1979 Leeds colloquium

was the sequel.

5/2 Conference Attendees:

1. List of conference attendees, contains biographical information and contact details of

each. Also features a conference programme.

2. Series of letters to and from Dilks to various British participants of the conference

including P.W. Bennett, M.S. Berthoud, W.G. Buchanan, H. Bull, J. Chadwick, J.

Ford, J. Johnston, P. Lyon, L. Pliatzky, P. Reid, B. Trend, W. Walsh.

5/3 Conference Non-Attendees:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks to various individuals who were uncertain about

their attendance at the conference, including A.M. Magee, T. Symons, A. Smith, G.L.

Reuber, K. Rose, S. Underwood,

2. Series of letters to and from Dilks to various individuals who could not attend the

conference, including G. Loiselle, D.V. Le Pan, D. Hurd, R. Melhuish, J. Llewellyn,

J. Hunt, D. Nicolson, M. Palliser, W. Wallace, M. Howard, C.J. Small.

5/4 Conference Organisation:

1. Correspondence between Dilks and The Post House hotel, at which the conference

was held. Includes a number of information leaflets and flyers on the hotel, discussion

on prices and material declaring which room each conference attendee stayed in.

2. Further information on the hotel. Includes promotional leaflets and copies of the

menu.

5/5 Post-Conference:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks to various conference attendees discussing the

recently-concluded conference, including P. Martin, A. Gotlieb, P. Reid, N.G.

Lennox, M.S. Berthoud, M.J. Hellyer, W.G. Buchanan, B. Trend, H.K. Pickering, C.

Bissell, P. Lyon, W. Walsh.

2. Series of letters to and from Dilks in the years immediately after the conference acting

as a ‘follow up’, including B. Stephenson, J.H. Eedle, H.G. Weir, G. Robertson, W.

Rodney, M. MacGuigan, P.W. Bennett, H.K. Pickering, A. Warson, E.K.

Hawkesworth, J.R. Rose, D. King, T.R.B. Donahoe, D.H. Amory, J. Roberts, H.

Hannam, P. Lyon, A. Kershaw, P. Thomas, W.D. Barnetson, D. Hurd, T. Symons, M.

Macguigan, J. Chadwick.

3. Letters to various individuals sent alongside a copy of the report of the conference,

dated November 1980. Includes J.C. Wadds, H. Hannam, D.H. Amory, D. Page, A.L.

Boyd, N. Hillmer, H. Lintott, M. Pitfield, H. Pickering, P. Martin, A. Gotlieb, D.

Stairs, M. MacDonald, D. Le Pan, G. Robertson, G.L. Reuber, J. Garner, T.A.

Murray, R.W. Adam, W.D. Barnetson, R.W. Hale-Sanders, A. Christodoulou, J.

Roberts, M. Macguigan, A. Berry, P. Thomas.

4. Various lists of worldwide addresses and locations for the distribution of the report on

the conference. Includes letters between Dilks and W.G. Buchanan.

5. Series of letters to and from Dilks regarding the distribution, finance and publication

of the conference report, including T.H.B. Symons, E. Trewhitt, A.M. Magee, R.

Head, R.P. Throssell, M.J. Hellyer, J. Chadwick, P. Reid, P. Lyon, W. Walsh, G.L.

Reuber, G. Core, B. Danson, A.C. Smith, L.M. Hammond. Includes a number of

invoices detailing payment for the report.

5/6 Introduction to the Report:

1. Letter from Dilks providing an introduction to the conference. Also attached is a

conference schedule and biographical details of the attendees.

2. “Leeds: Discussion or Direction?” by B.J. Danson. Essay on the expected outcomes

of the conference.

3. Letters to and from Dilks regarding the report, including T. Simmonds and E.

Trewhitt.

4. Note from Dilks to the printers regarding the production of the report.

5/7 Report on the Anglo-Canadian Colloquium:

1. Introduction by Dilks and list of papers presented.

2. “Britain and Canada: A Perspective View” by P. Lyon. Secretary of the Institute of

Commonwealth Studies at the University of London.

3. “British-Canadian Literary Relations: Prose” by C. Bissell. Taught at the University

of Toronto and Carleton University, later returning to Toronto as President of the

University.

4. “British-Canadian Economic Relations” by G.L. Reuber. Senior Vice-President and

Chief Economist at the Bank of Montreal. Previously served as Deputy Minister of

Finance under Prime Minister Joe Clarke and taught at the University of Western

Ontario.

5. “The Multilateral Trade Negotiations – A Canadian View” by J.H. Warren. Served in

the Royal Canadian Navy during WWII. Held a variety of ministerial roles post-war,

eventually serving as the Canadian High Commissioner in London and subsequently

the Canadian Ambassador in Washington.

6. “United Kingdom and Canada in the World Economy” by the Department of Trade,

London. Provides an economic perspective on contemporary global monetary

relations. Authored by L. Pliatzky, a Civil Servant who played a key role in the

Treasury during the 1970s and 1980s.

7. “Britain and Canada in the Wider World – The Commonwealth” by A.C. Smith.

Canadian Diplomat, served as the first Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1965-

1975. Previously served as the Canadian Ambassador to the USSR.

8. “Britain and Canada in the Wider World – NATO and the United States” by P.V.

Lyon. Stationed in Sierra Leone during WWII. Studied at Oxford post-war. Later

taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton University. Historian of

Canadian foreign policy with an emphasis on Europe and NATO.

5/8 Discussion of the Papers Presented:

1. Discussion of “Britain and Canada: A Perspective View” by P. Lyon.

2. Discussion of “British-Canadian Literary Relations: Prose” by C. Bissell and “A Note

on Canadian Poetry” by W. Walsh. Walsh’s paper is published in a subsequent

journal, The Sewanee Review 87.

3. Discussion of “British-Canadian Economic Relations” by G.L. Reuber, “The

Multilateral Trade Negotiations – A Canadian View” by J.H. Warren and “United

Kingdom and Canada in the World Economy” by L. Pliatzky.

4. Discussion of “Britain and Canada in the Wider World – The Commonwealth” by

A.C. Smith and “Britain and Canada in the Wider World – NATO and the United

States” by P.V. Lyon.

5. Discussion of academic relations between Britain and Canada, introduced by T.

Symons.

6. Concluding remarks on the Conference.

5/9 Additional Material:

1. “A Note on Canadian Poetry” by W. Walsh. Appointed Professor of Commonwealth

Literature in the school of English at the University of Leeds in 1972, having

previously been Head of the Department of Education. Later served as acting Vice-

Chancellor at the University from 1981-1983.

2. “Cultural Diplomacy: Some thoughts on the Current State of Academic and Cultural

Relations between Canada and the United Kingdom” by T. Symons. Founding

President of Trent University. Includes a handwritten note from Symons and an

alternate concluding section to his paper.

6. 1979 Anglo-Canadian Colloquium, Second Set:

6/1 Note by Dilks on the organisation of the conference (dated 13/8/12)

6/2 “Britain and Canada: A Colloquium held at Leeds, October, 1979” by D. Dilks (ed.).

Final report on the conference, released as a book.

6/3 “Colloquium on British-Canadian Relations held at Leeds, 26-29 October, 1979” by D.

Dilks. Serves as summary of proposals made at the conference.

6/4 Conference Attendees:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks to various Canadian participants of the conference,

including C. Bissell, A. Gotlieb, J.W. Holmes, P. Martin, H. Pickering, G. Robertson,

A. Smith, D. Stairs, T. Symons, G.F. Curtis, M. Pitfield, J. Warren, M.J. Hellyer.

2. Series of letters to and from Dilks to various individuals within the Canadian Institute

of International Affairs discussing both the papers to be presented and the conference

as a whole, including D. Wichmar, M.J. Hellyer, J. Rastoul, J.G. Crean, J.W. Holmes.

3. Series of letters to and from Dilks to various individuals within the Foreign and

Commonwealth Office and the British Council discussing both the papers to be

presented and the conference as a whole, including A. Berry, W.E. Brooke, R.

Melhuish, R.T.L. Watkins, R.A.R. Barltrop.

4. Series of letters to and from Dilks to various individuals within Canada House and the

Canadian Government, including P. Reid, J. Rastoul, P. Martin, J.W. Graham.

5. Biographical Notes on the Conference participants. Includes information on P.W.

Bennett, M.S. Berthoud, C. Bissell, W.G. Buchanan, H. Bull, B.J. Danson, D. Dilks,

J. Ford, A. Gotlieb, J.W. Holmes, J. Johnston, G. Loiselle, P. Lyon, P.V. Lyon, H.N.

Macquarrie, H. Pickering, P.M. Pitfield, L. Pliatzky, A.F.W. Plumptre, G.L. Reuber,

R.G. Robertson, A.C. Smith, D. Stairs, T. Symons, J.H. Warren.

6/5 General Conference Organisation:

1. General documents on the conference. Includes a copy of the Press Release

advertising the conference.

2. Circular letters written to all conference attendees.

3. Pre-Registration material for the conference. Includes a conference programme.

4. Registration material for the conference. Includes detailed information on the

arrangements for the conference.

5. Series of letters to and from Dilks discussing funding for the conference, including

D.J. Gammage, P.R. Holloway, P. Reid, M.J. Hellyer, A. Warson, J.J. Walsh, J.

Chadwick, P. Thomas, E. Trewhitt, S. Mahendra, J. Maddox, A. Tomei, R. Head, A.

Yasin, E. Williams, A. Shaw, R.A.R. Barltrop,

6. Series of letters to and from Dilks discussing conference expenses, including D.P.

Blackstock, P.R. Holloway.

7. 1980 Anglo-American Conference (Imperial War Museum, London):

7/1 Note by Dilks on the conference and its organisation (by F.W. Deakin) (dated 29/8/12).

7/2 Cover letter, featuring a note by the conference secretary.

Papers Presented:

7/3 Italian Relations:

1. “The Italian Campaign: An American View” by M. Blumenson. Served in the U.S.

Army in north-western Europe during WWII, later continuing his service during the

Korean War. After this he worked in the Office of the Chief of Military History,

contributing two works to the official U.S. Army history of WWII. Later became a

full-time military historian.

2. “The Italian Campaign 1943-45: A British View” by N. Nicholson. Conservative MP

from 1952-1959. Served with the Grenadier Guards during WWII, later writing their

official history. Son of Harold Nicholson and Vita Sackville-West.

3. “SOE and the Italian Resistance (1941-1945)” by F.W. Deakin. Parachuted into

Montenegro to aid the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII. Became a noted historian of

WWII post-war having first worked as Churchill’s literary assistant. Received

particular praise for his history of the relationship between Nazism and Italian

Fascism.

7/4 French Relations:

1. “Relations with the French: Britain between Entente Cordiale and Special

Relationship” by P.M.H. Bell. Historian of Modern Europe. Author of a popular

history on the Origins of the Second World War. Honorary Senior Fellow at the

University of Liverpool.

2. “The United States and France in the Second World War” by A.L. Funk. American

Historian of French resistance during WWII, based at the University of Florida.

Served as a naval officer on the destroyer U.S.S. Farquhar during WWII.

3. “OSS and French Resistance (1943-44)” by W.J. Casey. Worked during WWII for the

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), where he became head of its European Secret

Intelligence Branch, earning the Bronze Star for his work in co-ordinating French

resistance forces. Best known for acting as Ronald Reagan’s campaign manager in

1980, with Reagan subsequently naming Casey Director of Central Intelligence.

7/5 Soviet Relations:

1. “Anglo-Soviet Relations 1941-45: The RAF Experience” by H.A. Probert. RAF

education officer and air force historian. Served in the RAF during WWII, later

serving as head of the Air Historical Branch from 1978-1989.

2. “The Wartime Antecedents of Containment” by J.L. Gaddis. Well-known historian of

the Cold War. Founded the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University before

later working at Yale University as the Lovett Professor of Military and Naval

History.

3. “British Attitudes to Russia, 1941-1945” by D. Cameron Watt. Worked for a time as

the Official Historian to the Cabinet Office before teaching International History at

the London School of Economics. Best known for his study of the origins of WWII

entitled ‘How the War Came’.

7/6 American Relations:

1. “Gabble: Churchill and Roosevelt Talk” by W.F. Kimball. American Historian of

Roosevelt, Churchill and WWII, based at Rutgers University.

2. “Churchill and Roosevelt: The background of the relationship and its testing time” by

M. Gilbert. Noted historian of modern Britain. Authored the official biography of

Winston Churchill. Also produced many works on Appeasement and Jewish history.

7/7 East-Asian Relations:

1. “Not so offly-toofly: Britain and China 1942-1945” by L. Allen. Worked in India and

Burma during the latter stages of WWII as an intelligence officer, translating Japanese

documents. After the Japanese surrender Allen helped to persuade Japanese soldiers

serving in the jungle that hostilities had truly ended. Became best known post-war as

a historian of Japan and WWII.

2. “FDR’s East Asian Policy 1942-1945” by R. Dallek. American Historian specializing

in the Presidents of the United States, best known for his popular history of John F.

Kennedy.

7/8 Histories of Science:

1. “Anglo-American Scientific Collaboration in the Second World War” by M. Gowing.

Worked on the official British history of WWII, with a particular focus on the early

history of Britain’s nuclear weapons programme. Taught as a Professor of the History

of Science at Linacre College, Oxford.

2. “Ultra and Some Command Decisions” by R. Bennett. Drafted into the intelligence

corps during WWII and spent four years at Bletchley Park. Taught at Magdalene

College, Cambridge, after the war, producing histories of Ultra.

3. “The Bomb Only Ended the War: Physicists and the War Effort Before Hiroshima”

by D.J. Kevles. Historian of science in America, the interactions between science and

society and environmentalism.

7/9 Oral Histories:

1. “The Status of Oral History Projects in the United Kingdom Relating to the History of

the Second World War” by D. Lance. Historian of WWII and former head of the

Imperial War Museum Sound Archive.

2. “Status of Oral History Projects Relating to the Second World War in the United

States” by S. Proctor. Served in the U.S. Army during WWII. Taught as a Professor of

History at the University of Florida for over fifty years. Founded the ‘Samuel Proctor

Oral History Program’, the official oral history programme of the University of

Florida.

8. 1981 Rome Conference:

8/1 Note from Dilks explaining both the lack of material in this collection and where the

papers presented at this conference can be found (dated 24/9/12).

8/2 Variety of documents organising travel and accommodation at the conference.

8/3 Series of letters to and from Dilks discussing the conference organisation, including A.

Saitta, A. Adamthwaite, G.C. Peden, P. Levillain.

9. 1982 Anglo-Yugoslav Conference:

9/1 Note from Dilks explaining the ‘important material’ in these papers (dated 10/5/12).

9/2 Cover letter, featuring a note from the conference secretary.

9/3 Conference Programme.

Papers Presented:

9/4 British Historians:

1. “ULTRA and Drvar” by R. Bennett. Drafted into the intelligence corps during WWII

and spent four years at Bletchley Park. Taught at Magdalene College, Cambridge,

after the war, producing histories of Ultra.

2. “Crowning the Revolution: The British, King Peter and the Path to Tito’s Cave” by

M. Wheeler. Official historian of SOE in Yugoslavia.

3. “The British Mission at Drvar” by H.W. King. Joined SOE in 1943. Appointed

Signals Officer to Marshal Tito’s GHQ at the end of 1943, communicating with the

Yugoslav Partisans to co-ordinate resistance movements. Present at the German attack

on Drvar on 25 May 1944.

4. “The Churchill-Tito Meeting at Caserta (August 1944): A Provisional Appreciation”

by F.W. Deakin. Parachuted into Montenegro to aid the Yugoslav Partisans during

WWII. Became a noted historian of WWII post-war having first worked as

Churchill’s literary assistant. Received particular praise for his history of the

relationship between Nazism and Italian Fascism.

5. “Yugoslav-Bulgarian Relations through British Eyes 1940-1945” by E. Barker.

Worked as a diplomatic correspondent and later as a historian of modern Europe.

Particularly focused on the history of Central and Eastern European states during

WWII.

6. “The British and the Italian Surrender in Yugoslavia” by F.W. Deakin. Parachuted

into Montenegro to aid the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII. Became a noted

historian of WWII post-war having first worked as Churchill’s literary assistant.

Received particular praise for his history of the relationship between Nazism and

Italian Fascism.

7. “British Aid and Supplies to the National Liberation Army (January 1944-May

1945)” by E.B. Haslam. Former Group Captain in the RAF and head of the Air

Historical Branch, 1971-1978.

9/5 Yugoslav Historians:

1. “The Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its Attitude to England 1939-1945” by D.

Biber. Arrested for protesting against Italian Fascism in 1941 and held in a camp in

Treviso. Fled upon the collapse of Mussolini’s regime in 1943 and joined the

Yugoslav Partisans, working as a war correspondent and propagandist. Taught post-

war at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade and became president of the

Yugoslav Committee for the History of WWII.

2. “The Capitulation of the Italian Army in Yugoslavia” by T. Ferenc. Prolific Slovenian

Historian, specializes in Yugoslavian activities during WWII.

3. “Allied Missions in the Slovenian Littoral 1943-1945” by D. Biber. Arrested for

protesting against Italian Fascism in 1941 and held in a camp in Treviso. Fled upon

the collapse of Mussolini’s regime in 1943 and joined the Yugoslav Partisans,

working as a war correspondent and propagandist. Taught post-war at the Institute of

Contemporary History in Belgrade and became president of the Yugoslav Committee

for the History of WWII.

4. “The People’s Liberation War in Macedonia in 1943 and the Arrival of the British

Military Missions” by M. Apostolski. Served as a commander in the Royal Yugoslav

Army and was captured by the Italians after Yugoslavia collapsed in 1941. Released

with Bulgarian intervention later that year, subsequently entering the Macedonian

Liberation Army. Became the head of the Institute of National History in Skopje in

1965.

5. “The First Military Mission of the National Liberation Army to the British High

Command” by General V. Velebit. Joined the Yugoslav Partisans in 1942. Became

the point of contact for foreign military missions in their dealings with the Partisans,

meeting with Churchill on multiple occasions. Worked post-war as the Yugoslav

Ambassador to London.

9/6 Historians of Other Nationalities:

1. “The Allied Advance on Trieste” by G. Cox. Covered WWII as a journalist, first in

Vienna and Paris then later in Finland. Subsequently enlisted in the New Zealand

Army, serving in Italy. Worked for ITN post-war, starting News at Ten in 1967.

10. 1982 Luxembourg Conference:

10/1 Note from Dilks explaining the context of the conference and its lack of focus on Britain

in the integration of European States. Dilks also considers the British political context in the

time this conference considers (1946-1952), before closing with a remark on the University

of Leeds’s policy towards overseas students.


(The papers presented at this conference are produced in a report, titled “Study of the

Beginnings of European Integration: The Value of Source Material and Records 1946-52”.

They are as follows:)

1. “Opening Speech” by G. Thorn. Engaged in resistance activities against the Nazis

during WWII. Later held several prominent political positions, including Prime

Minister of Luxembourg (1974-79), President of the United Nations General

Assembly (1975) and President of the European Commission (1981-85)

2. “Introductory Paper on the Public Archives” by W. Lipgens. Started his career as a

historian of the Church before writing various major articles and essays on German

unification and the role played by Bismarck. The main theme of his research ended up

becoming the history of European unification.

3. Introductory Paper on the Private Archives” by H. Rieben. Political Scientist and

Founder of the Centre for European Research in Lausanne. Published a thesis on the

establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community. Entrusted with Jean

Monnet’s personal archive in 1978.

4. “Address on the Historical Archives of the European Communities” by J. Van der

Meulen. Ambassador of Belgium to the European Communities.

5. “European Integration as a subject for Contemporary Historical Research – Progress

and Prospects” by H-P. Schwarz. Political scientist and historian based in the Federal

Republic of Germany. Specialized in modern German history, post-war German

politics and policy developments within the context of European integration.

6. “Closing Address” by J.R. Rabier. Worked with Jean Monnet at the European Coal

and Steel Community. Later led the Directorate-General for Press and Information of

the Commission of the European Communities before holding the position of Special

Advisor to the Commission until 1986.

7. The report also includes a full record of the conference featuring information on both

the debates held and the participants involved.

10/3 Other Published Works:

1. “Sources for the History of European Integration (1945-1955)” by W. Lipgens (ed.).

Started his career as a historian of the Church before writing various major articles

and essays on German unification and the role played by Bismarck. The main theme

of his research ended up becoming the history of European unification. Work contains

passages in both French and English; no translation for the French sections provided.

2. “Opening of the Historical Archives of the European Communities to the public” by

H. Hofmann (ed.). Head of the Historical Archives at the European Commission.

10/4 Letters and other Communications:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks organising travel and accommodation at the

conference.

2. List of Academic projects supported by the EEC.

3. List of recently completed works on European foreign policy.

4. Series of documents regarding the consultation of the archive of Jean Monnet,

regarded by many as the chief architect of European unity and the founding father of

the European Union. Includes a list of the material contained within the archive,

regulations regarding its consultation and a form used to petition for access.

Documents presented in French, no translation available.

5. Series of letters to and from Dilks acting as a follow-up to the conference, including

G. Warner and A.P. Adamthwaite.

11. 1982 Leeds Conference on the 200th anniversary of the Foreign Office:

11/1 Two notes from Dilks on the conference, describing both the context of the conference

and the nature of the material available (dated 3/9/12 and 9/11/12).

11/2 Introduction to the Conference:

1. Introduction to the papers presented by M.F. Cullis.

2. List of participants at the conference.

3. Conference programme, outlining the schedule of papers presented.

11/3 Lectures given:

1. “From International Relations to World Politics” by A. Smith is unavailable.

2. “From Power to Influence: Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Policies, 1955 to

1974” by A.D. Home. Former Conservative Prime Minister (1963-1964), Foreign

Secretary (1970-1974 & 1960-1963) and Secretary of State for Commonwealth

Relations (1955-1960).

Papers Presented:

Tuesday 2nd November

11/4 First Session:

1. “The Question of Anti-Germanism at the Foreign Office before the First World War”

by K.M. Wilson. Historian of British foreign and imperial policy in the 19th and early

20th centuries.

2. “The Impact of the Great War on the British Foreign Office” by Z. Steiner. Historian

of British foreign policy and International relations from the late 19th century until the

1950s.

3. “The British Foreign Office between the Wars” by D. Dilks. Former professor of

International History at the University of Leeds and subsequently Vice Chancellor at

the University of Hull. Historian of British international relations during and between

the World Wars, and the official biographer of Neville Chamberlain.

11/5 Second Session:

1. “The German Foreign Office from Neurath to Ribbentrop: The Development of the

Organisation and the Rivalry of official and party diplomacy” by W. Michalka.

Formerly served as the head of the Military History Research Institute (1988-1997)

and subsequently as the head of the memorial to the liberation movements in German

History (1997-2006). Historian of German foreign policy in the 20th century.

2. “The Auswärtiges Amt and the German Foregin Policy Making Process, 1933-1945”

by G. Niedhart. Historian of both Great Britain and German international relations in

the 20th century.

11/6 Third Session:

1. “Le Quai d’Orsay en guerre, 1939-1940 (Plan)” by F. Bédarida. Actively participated

in the French Resistance during WWII. Specialised first as a Historian of Victorian

England before later working on the history of the Vichy regime. Paper presented in

French, no translation available.

2. “L’adaptation du Quai d’Orsay aux nouvelles conditions diplomatiques” by M.

Vaisse. Former Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Reims,

currently a professor at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Has headed the

scientific council for historical research at the Ministry of Defence since 2008.

Specialises as a historian in International Relations and Defence. Paper presented in


Wednesday 3rd November:

11/7 First Session:

1. “Foreign Offices and Codebreakers: The British, French and American Experience”

by C. Andrew. Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of

Cambridge. Specialises in international relations and in the history of intelligence

services. Served as the official historian of MI5, writing an official history for the

services’ centenary in 2009.

2. “The Rise of Cultural Diplomacy” by D.J. Eastment. PhD student of Dilks.

3. “Foreign Office Efforts to Influence American Opinion, 1939-1950” by C. Anstey-

Johnson. Former student of Dilks at Leeds, would later work as editor of the BBC

Radio 4 weekly current affairs program Analysis where she collaborated on a number

of papers with P. Hennessey, a regular presenter on the show. Began working for the

World Bank in 1995, eventually becoming its Managing Director in 2011. Currently

works for UBS.


1. “The Work of the Head of a Modern Major Mission” by R. Hibbert. Seconded to SOE

in 1943, subsequently parachuted into Albania where he served first with Albanian

nationalists and later with the communist partisans. Joined the Foreign Service post-

war, working with foreign secretary Ernest Bevin. Held a number of posts around the

world, eventually becoming the UK Ambassador to France from 1979-1982.

2. “The German Diplomat: His Training and Function, Past and Present” by H.V.

Herwarth. Entered the German Foreign Office in 1927, subsequently stationed in

Moscow (1931-1939) before working at the German Army headquarters upon the

onset of WWII. Provided the Allies with information prior to and during the war,

continually informing on Soviet-German relations. Worked for the government of the

Federal Republic of Germany post-war, becoming president of the Goethe Institue

from 1971-1977.

3. “The Organisation and Work of the Foreign Office since 1945” by G. Walden. Joined

the Foreign Office in 1962, working first in China then later at the Soviet Desk in

London and at the British Embassy in Paris. Later elected as a Conservative MP at the

1983 general election, serving as Minister for Higher Education from 1985-1987.

Thursday 4th November:

11/9 First Session:

1. “Foreign Policy in a Parliamentary Monarchy: The Case of Norway” by O. Riste.



2. “The Canadian Foreign Service at Middle Age” by J. Holmes. Worked as a Canadian

diplomat, appointed Acting Permanent Delegate to the United Nations in 1950.

Became President of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in 1960, where he

remained until his move into academia as a Professor of International Relations at

York University in 1971.

3. “The Belgian Foreign Ministry, 1830-1982” by J. Willequet. Historian of modern

Belgium, taught at the Free University of Brussels.

4. Paper acting as a summary of the various discussions on each session of the

conference, featuring K.M. Wilson, Z. Steiner, D. Dilks, G. Schmidt, K.M. Wilson, R.

Cecil, C.M. Andrew, F. Bédarida, J.W. Holmes, H.V. Herwarth, T. Empson, R.

Hibbert, C Anstey-Johnson, W. Michalka, G. Niedhart, M.F. Cullis, A. Smith, M.

Vaisse, K.M. Wilson, G.G.H. Walden, D. Eastment, O. Riste.

11/10 Other ‘extraneous but relevant’ papers:

1. “The Shoeblack and the Sovereign: Some aspects of the ethics of Foreign Policy” by

G. Walden. Joined the Foreign Office in 1962, working first in China then later at the

Soviet Desk in London and at the British Embassy in Paris. Later elected as a

Conservative MP at the 1983 general election, serving as Minister for Higher

Education from 1985-1987.

11/11 Other documents concerning the conference:

1. Series of documents concerning registration for the conference. Includes a letter from

Dilks to each participant of the conference providing information, documents

providing information to the delegates on events during the conference, multiple

copies of the conference programme and information on the individual participants of

the conference.

2. Letters to and from Dilks concerning accommodation for those attending the

conference.

3. Series of letters to and from Dilks regarding those unable to attend the conference,

including F.W. Deakin, P. Carrington, G. Chodron de Courcel, H. Kissinger, C.L.G.

Mallaby, M. Palliser, E. Serra, J.M. Soutou, E. Streator, D. Stairs, W. Wallace, J.

Willequet.

4. Series of letters to and from Dilks to the participants of the conference concerning

both the organisation of the conference and the papers to be presented, including J.

Adams, G. Fry, O. Hartley, C. Andrew, C. Anstey-Johnson, F. Bédarida, E.C.

Blayney, R. Cecil, M. Cullis, D.J. Eastment, T. Empson, H.V. Herwarth, R. Hibbert,

J. Holmes, A.D. Home, W. Michalka, G. Niedhart, O. Riste, G. Schmidt, A. Smith, Z.

Steiner, M. Vaisse, G. Walden, K.M. Wilson.

5. Series of letters to and from Dilks detailing accommodation and catering

arrangements at the University of Leeds for those attending the conference.

6. Series of letters to and from Dilks acting as a ‘thank you’ in the aftermath of the

conference.

7. Series of letters to and from Dilks regarding funding for the conference. Includes

letters featuring the British Academy, the British Council, Canada House, the

European Cultural Fund, the Foreign Office, the German Historical Institute, the

University of Leeds, the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the United Kingdom and

the Nuffield Foundation.

8. Series of documents concerning expenses for the conference. Includes financial

statements for the Department of History at the University of Leeds, a breakdown of

the individual costs involved in hosting the conference and a number of letters from

Dilks requesting payment from organisations committed to supporting the conference.

9. Further documents regarding financing the conference.

10. Series of general documents regarding the conference and events around it. Includes

information on transport to the conference, discussion of a coach trip for the delegates

to Bolton Abbey, flyers used to market the public lecture by A.D. Home, information

on which delegates would be attending individual events within the conference, letters

to and from Dilks regarding the difficulty of securing publication for the conference

papers and additional letters concerning the organisation of the conference.

12. 1983 Oslo Conference on European and Atlantic Defence 1947-1953:

12/1 Note by Dilks explaining the relative lack of material available for this conference.

(dated 24/9/12)


1. “The British View of Security: Europe and a Wider World 1945-1948” by D. Dilks.

Draft version of Dilks’ final paper, subsequently published in O Riste (ed.), “Western

Security: the Formative Years” (Oslo, 1985).

12/3 Additional Materials:

1. Newspaper cutting providing reviews of two books, “Postwar: the Dawn of Today’s

Europe” by R. Mayne and “The Eye in the Air: History of Air Observation and

Reconnaissance for the Army, 1785-1945” by P. Mead.

2. List of participants at the Conference.

3. Conference Programme, providing information to participants on the organisation of

events.

4. Series of documents concerning accommodation for the conference and affairs to be

discussed during proceedings.

13. 1983 Anglo-French Colloquium, “The Rupture, May-June 1940”:

13/1 Note by the Conference Secretary J.J. Chadwick.

13/2 List of papers presented.

13/3 Biographical profiles of those attending the conference.

Papers Presented:

Wednesday 14 December:

13/4 First Session:

1. “The B.E.F” by A.J. Ward. Member of the Army Historical Branch and Historian of

the Ministry of Defence.

2. “Le Role de la Mission Militaire Francaise pres le Corps Expeditionnaire

Britannique” by Lt. Col. J.L. Mourrut. Head of the French Army archives from 1994-

1997. Paper presented in French, no translation available.

3. “The Royal Air Force in the Battle of France, 1940” by H.A. Probert. RAF education

officer and air force historian. Served in the RAF during WWII, later serving as head

of the Air Historical Branch from 1978-1989.

4. “La RAF dans la bataille de France au travers des rapports Vuillemin de juillet 1940”

by General C. Christienne. Historian of French military aviation. Paper presented in


5. “Naval Planning and Execution 1939-40” by J.D. Brown. Historian of the British

Navy and Naval aviation. Former head of the Naval Historical Branch from 1977-

1999.

6. “Marine Francaise et Royal Navy” by P. Masson. French Naval Historian.


1. “Le contentieux Franco-Britannique et les diplomates francaise” by M. Vaisse.

Former Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Reims, currently a

professor at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Has headed the scientific council

for historical research at the Ministry of Defence since 2008. Specialises as a historian

in International Relations and Defence. Paper presented in French, no translation

available.

2. “Britain, the Fall of France and the Arab World” by G. Warner. Professor of History

at Brasenose College Oxford, formerly of the Open University.

13/6 Third Session:

1. “Dunkirk and its psychological Effects in Britain” by B. Bond. British Military

Historian and Professor Emeritus of Military History at Kings College London.

Served in the Royal Artillery from 1952-1954. Served as a member of the council of

the Society for Army Historical Research.

2. “Apercus sur le moral de l’armée et l’opinion publique francaise, 10 Mai-10 Juillet

1940” by J.L. Cremieux-Brilhac. Member of the Free French Forces during WWII,

directing their propaganda broadcasts to Europe. Helped create France’s state-owned

publishing house, La Documentation Francaise, after the war. Subsequently became a

historian, publishing amongst other works a two-volume history of the fall of France

and a history of the Free French. Paper presented in French, no translation available.

Thursday 15 December:

13/7 First Session:

1. “Le Conseil Supreme Interallie en Mai-Juin 1940: de l’union a la separation” by F.

Bédarida. Worked as a researcher in London in the aftermath of WWII before later

continuing the same role in Paris. Lectured at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

Best known as a historian of Vichy France.

2. “L’armistice et l’Empire” by J.B. Duroselle. French historian of International

Relations. Taught as Professor of History at the Sorbonne from 1964-1983. Won a

Balzan Prize for Social Sciences for his work in 1982. Paper presented in French, no


3. “British attitudes towards the French Armistice, May-June 1940” by P.M.H. Bell.

Historian of Modern Europe. Author of a popular history on the Origins of the Second

World War. Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Liverpool.


1. “Anglo-French hopes of the USA and the USSR” by E. Barker. Worked as a

diplomatic correspondent and later as a historian of modern Europe. Particularly

focused on the history of Central and Eastern European states during WWII.

2. “La France et l’URSS dans le tournant de l’été 1940” by R. Girault. French Historian

of International Relations, with a particular focus on relations with Russia. Taught

History at the Sorbonne. Paper presented in French, no translation available.

Friday 16 December:

13/9 First Session:

1. “Early British Relations with de Gaulle” by D.W. Johnson. Historian of France, first

at the University of Birmingham and later at University College London. Became an

advisor to Margaret Thatcher on Anglo-French affairs.

2. A paper by G. de Courcel is listed on the programme but is not available here.

14. 1984 Strasbourg Conference:

14/1 Notes by Dilks on the paper he presented at this conference. Outlines that this paper is

reproduced in R. Poidevin (ed.), “Histoire des débuts de la Construction Européene”

(Brussels, 1985). (dated 8/10/12).

14/2 Conference Documents:

1. Letter from R. Poidevin to every conference participant outlining the course of events.

Letter in French, no translation available.

2. Conference Programme outlining the papers to be presented. Programme in French,

no translation available.

3. Information on the Conference participants.

14/3 Published Material:

1. “La Naissance de L’Europe Contemporaine” by P. Collowald and F. Fontaine.

Interview with Count Jean Charles Snoy et d’Oppeurs, who signed the Treaty of

Rome for Belgium and later acted as President for the European League for Economic

Cooperation. Report presented in French, no translation available.

15. 1984 Conference on British Political and Military Strategy in Central, Eastern and

Southern Europe in 1944, London:

15/1 Note by Dilks on the papers presented at this conference (dated 1/9/12).

15/2 Conference Programme outlining the schedule of papers presented.

Papers Presented:

15/3 First Session:

1. “Military and Political Planning and Aims in 1944” by D. Hunt. Served in a variety of

theatres during WWII. Later served as Private Secretary to Clement Attlee and

Winston Churchill during their post-war Prime Ministerships. Worked in a variety of

diplomatic posts including High Commissionerships of Uganda, Cyprus and Brazil.

2. “British Political Aims in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, 1944” by D. Dilks.

Former professor of International History at the University of Leeds and subsequently

Vice Chancellor at the University of Hull. Historian of British international relations

during and between the World Wars, and the official biographer of Neville

Chamberlain.


1. “Problems of the Alliance: Misconceptions and Misunderstandings” by E. Barker.

Worked as a diplomatic correspondent and later as a historian of modern Europe.

Particularly focused on the history of Central and Eastern European states during

WWII.

2. “Central and Eastern Europe at the Quebec Conference” by K. Sainsbury. Served at

Bletchley Park during WWII. Later taught Politics at the University of Reading from

1956-1989.

3. “The Moscow Conference of October 1944 (Tolstoy)” by G. Ross. Historian of

Europe from 1914-1945, with a particular focus on Anglo-Soviet relations.

15/5 Third Session:

1. “Resistance in Occupied Central and South-East Europe” by F.W. Deakin is listed on

the programme but not available here.

2. “The Yugoslav Partisans and the British in 1944” by D. Biber. Arrested for protesting

against Italian Fascism in 1941 and held in a camp in Treviso. Fled upon the collapse

of Mussolini’s regime in 1943 and joined the Yugoslav Partisans, working as a war

correspondent and propagandist. Taught post-war at the Institute of Contemporary

History in Belgrade and became president of the Yugoslav Committee for the History

of WWII.

3. “The Birth and Growth of Romania’s Antifascist Resistance Movement” by G.

Zaharia. Communist historian of modern Romania.

4. “Antifascist Resistance in Bulgaria – 1944” by D. Elazar. Became a partisan in

Bulgaria in 1943 having previously been imprisoned by the Nazis in a Greek

concentration camp for being Jewish. Became head of the Propaganda Department in

the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) in the late 1960s. Served from 1970 to 1989 as

the director of the Institute on the History of the BCP.

5. “Problems of the Hungarian Resistance after the German occupation, 1944” by G.

Juhasz. Historian of diplomacy and Hungarian politics between the wars. Worked for

the Historical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Later served as

director for the National Széchényi Library.

6. “British Strategy towards Greece in 1944” by L. Baerentzen. Historian of Greece’s

role in WWII and the 1945-1949 Greek Civil War.

7. “Le Pologne et la Grande Bretagne en 1944” by C. Madajczyk. Served as President of

the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw from 1971-

1983, and as a Vice President of the International Committee for the History of the

Second World War from 1980-1995. Authored over 600 publications, specialising in

the history of Poland in the twentieth century, particularly WWII.

8. “Slovak Rising 1944” by V. Precan. Assisted the Czech partisans during WWII along

with his parents. Joined the Czech Communist Party in 1951 upon turning 18. Worked

in the Historical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences from 1957-1970.

Expelled from the Communist Party in 1970, subsequently emigrating to Germany.

15/6 Fourth Session:

1. “Soviet Policy on the Balkans in 1944: A British View” by M. Mackintosh. Joined

SOE during WWII, parachuted into Yugoslavia to support Tito’s partisans in 1944.

Joined the Foreign Office in 1960 as an intelligence analyst. Appointed to the Cabinet

Office in 1968 as a senior advisor on Soviet affairs, visiting Moscow in 1973 as part

of a delegation led by foreign secretary Alec Douglas-Home. Produced a number of

historical works on Soviet history and International Relations with the Soviet Union.

15/7 Additional Papers Included:

1. “Operation ‘Autonomous’: Romania, 1944” by I. Porter. Recruited by SOE in 1941

and parachuted into Romania in December 1943 to instigate Operation Autonomous,

a programme of resistance against the Nazis ‘at any cost’. Porter was captured and

held as a POW until the overthrow of Nazi rule in Romania in August 1944. Served in

the Foreign Office post-war before eventually becoming a historian of modern

Romania.

2. “Bulgaria in 1944: A British View” by E. Barker. Worked as a diplomatic

correspondent and later as a historian of modern Europe. Particularly focused on the

history of Central and Eastern European states during WWII.

16. 1984 Ditchley Conference:

16/1 Note from Dilks on the conference and the material included (dated 3/9/12).

16/2 Biographical information on those attending the conference, featuring a note on

amendments.

16/3 Conference Programme outlining the schedule of events.

16/4 Document providing a series of ‘Terms of Reference’, outlining matters to be discussed

at the conference.

16/5 Conference seating plan.

16/6 Addresses at the Conference:

1. “Address” by R.J. Donovan. Worked as a journalist before and after WWII, first at the

New York Herald Tribune and later at the Los Angeles Times, having served in

Europe during the war. Wrote a number of histories of post-war American Presidents,

including a notable two-volume biography of Harry Truman.

2. “Address on the American Ditchley Foundation Commemoration of the Centenary of

President Harry Truman’s Birthday” by C.M. Clifford. Served in the U.S. Navy

during WWII, reaching the rank of captain and serving as a naval aid to President

Truman. Proved a key architect in Truman’s successful 1948 Presidential campaign.

He later served as an important political advisor to further Democratic Presidents John

F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter, serving as Johnson’s Secretary of

Defence from 1968-1970.

16/7 Reports on the Group Discussions held at the conference:

1. “Report of Group ‘A’”. Discusses the economic relationship between the U.S. and EC

countries, and how the partnership has evolved between these two powers in the thirty

five years since the Marshall Plan.

2. “Report of Group ‘B’”. Discusses the evolution of mutual defence between the U.S.

and its Western European partners. Asks whether NATO should be reformed and, if

so, how this should occur.

3. “Report of Group ‘C’”. Discusses the state of relations with the Soviet Union, and

how these have evolved since the immediate post-war period.

16/8 Additional Documents:

1. “The Ditchley Foundations”, a promotional booklet outlining the objectives of those

organising the conference within the Ditchley Foundation. Also provides information

on the conference venue, Ditchley Park.

17. 1984 Anglo-Canadian Colloquium, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.

17/1 Note from Dilks on the conference and its relationship to the previous 1979 colloquium

at Leeds. Explains the lack of papers presented at the conference in this collection and

suggests their possible whereabouts (dated 3/9/12).

17/2 Note from Dilks explaining how the papers presented at this conference have now

become available. Explains in detail his disappointment at events in the aftermath of the

conference regarding the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (dated 24/9/12).

17/3 Information on Dilks’s travel to Halifax.

17/4 Conference programme, providing an outline of events and a schedule of the papers

presented.

17/5 List of participants at the conference.

17/6 Speeches at the Conference:

1. Speech by A.J. MacEachen. First elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1953

as a Liberal. Defeated in 1958 but re-elected in 1962, consistently serving in

Parliament thereafter until 1984 at which point he moved to the Canadian Senate.

Served in the Cabinet of three different Canadian Prime Ministers, including two

separate stints as Deputy Prime Minister.

2. Speech by Lady J. Young. Appointed leader of the House of Lords from 1981-1983,

and was the only women to serve in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet.

Papers Presented at the Conference:

Monday 14 May:

17/7 First Session:

1. “Britain’s European Preoccupation” by W. Wallace. Began his academic career in the

Department of Government at the University of Manchester. Later served at the Royal

Institute of International Affairs before moving to teach at the London School of

Economics. Served as an influential member of the Liberal Party and was eventually

made a Liberal Democrat Life Peer in 1996.

2. “Canada and Britain in Europe” by C. Pentland. Canadian Historian of relations

between Canada and the European Union. Teaches at Queen’s University, Ontario.

3. “Canada, Britain and the European Community: Roles and Realism in the 1980s” by

P. Lyon. Secretary of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of

London.


1. “Multilateral Commercial Diplomacy: From Recession to Recovery” by H. Corbet.

Director of the Trade Policy Research Centre, London. Also served as managing

editor of the World Economy journal.

2. “Canada-United Kingdom Economic Relations” by J.M. Curtis. Served as the

founding Chief Economist of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International

Trade, having earlier served a number of economic policy positions in other

departments. Taught International Economic Policy at Carleton University.

3. Personal notes on the Second Session, by R. Gray.

17/9 Third Session:

1. “Security Issues: A Canadian Viewpoint” by D. Cox. Director of Research at the

Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security.

2. “Security Perspectives: Interesting Times” by P. Nailor. Served in the British Civil

Service for seventeen years, serving in a variety of roles including as a member of the

Admiralty Interview Board, the Polaris Executive and as Assistant Secretary to the

Ministry of Defence. Subsequently became an academic, teaching as a Professor of

Politics at the University of Lancaster until 1977 at which point he became Professor

of History and International Relations at the Royal Naval College.

17/10 Conference Report:

1. Letter from B. Boardman to all participants of the conference on the publication of the

report.

2. Contents page, providing a list of papers presented at the conference.

3. List of participants at the conference.

4. Report summarising the discussions held during each individual session of the

conference, with an additional discussion at the end summarising the conference as a

whole.

17/11 Additional Conference Material:

1. Folder issued to all conference participants providing basic information on the

location and proceedings of the conference.

2. “Of Bulldogs and Beavers… and Eagles: British and Canadian Attitudes on Security

and Defence in the post-Détente era” by D. Munton. Historian of Canadian foreign

policy, research methods and international security. Professor and Founding Chair of

International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, having

previously taught at the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University.

Paper serves as a ‘background report prepared for the Dalhousie Colloquium”.

3. Series of promotional leaflets advertising tourism in New Brunswick.

17/12 Follow-Up Letters:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks acting as a follow-up to the conference, with a

particular focus on Dilks’s displeasure at the actions of the Foreign Office. Also

discusses conference funding and potential items to consider in the event of a future

colloquium with Dalhousie. Later letters feature discussions on the colloquium with

Lady Young. Includes V.J. Hughes, S. Dugdale, S.B. Seward, P. Lyon, B. Trend, D.

Thomas, M.J. Hellyer, M. Storrie, J. Young, J.S. Dugdale, J.L. Sturgis, D.C. Watt, J.

English.

18. 1985 Reims Conference:

18/1 Note from Dilks explaining the lack of available material for this conference and the

whereabouts of his paper, “La Grande Bretagne et le Monde Extérieur en 1945”. This paper

appears in M. Vaisse (ed.), “8 Mai 1945: La Victoire en Europe” (Lyons, 1985) (dated

24/9/12).

18/2 Series of letters to and from Dilks organising his role in the conference. Includes M.

Vaisse, S.K. Braun.

19. 1985 Stuttgart Conference:

19/1 Note from Dilks explaining why he did not personally attend this conference, and

proclaiming the usefulness of the material included.

19/2 Report on the Conference:

1. Preface, explaining the significant passage of time between the Stuttgart Conference

and the publication of this report.

19/3 Papers Presented in the Report:

1. “Propositions pour une Histoire des Relations Internationales” by R. Girault. French

Historian of International Relations, with a particular focus on relations with Russia.

Taught History at the Sorbonne. Paper presented in French, no translation available.

2. “L’Histoire des Relations Internationales: formation et perspectives” by B. Vigezzi.

Italian historian of International Relations. Directed the working group on Foreign

Policy and Public Opinion at the Institute of Medieval and Modern History at the

University of Milan, later becoming Professor of Modern History at the University.

Paper presented in French, no translation available.

3. “The Study of International History: Language and Reality” by D. Cameron Watt.

Worked for a time as the Official Historian to the Cabinet Office before teaching

International History at the London School of Economics. Best known for his study of

the origins of WWII entitled ‘How the War Came’.

4. Discussion on the papers presented, featuring A.O. Tchoubarian, F. Klein, C.

Giurescu, H. Ullrich, D. Berindei, B. Jouri, V. Chilov, B. Marushkin, H-P. Waldhoff.

19/4 Reports on the future of the Commission of History of International Relations:

1. “Small States and Great Powers in the History of International Relations” by O. Riste.



2. “L’image de grande et petite puissance entre XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle. Continuité et

changements dans le critères d’appreciation” by M. Bazzoli. Italian historian of

politics and political thought. Paper presented in French, no translation available.

3. “Die kleine Staaten auf den Haager Friedenskonferenzen von 1899 und 1907” by J.

Dülffer. Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne. Specialises in

International Relations and the history of Peace. Paper presented in German, no


4. “Petits Etats de l’Europe de l’Est et du Sud-Est, 1918-1945” by M. Ormos. Hungarian

historian of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the European extreme

Right. Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Paper presented in French, no


5. “The Australian Foreign Policy Tradition: a Case Study in Small Power-Great Power

Relationships” by N. Meaney. Historian of Australian foreign policy and national

identity.

6. “Die rolle und function von “Kleinstaaten” im internationalen System 1815-1914: Die

Bedeutung des Endes der deutschen Klein – und Mittelstaaten für die europäische

Ordnung” by W.D. Gruner. Historian of European, German and regional history since

the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the role of Germany in Europe. Paper

presented in German, no translation available.

7. Discussion of the reports presented, featuring C. Giurescu, H.H. Hahn, C.A. Tamse,

G. Markov, I.M. Tabagoua, H. Ullrich, D. Kosary.

20. 1985 Anglo-Yugoslav Conference:

20/1 Note from Dilks on the organisation of the conference and the interesting nature of the

papers presented (dated 31/8/12).

20/2 Conference programme outlining the schedule of papers presented. Programme

presented in Bosnian, no full translation available, handwritten notes are present offering

brief translations.

Papers Presented:

20/3 9 December:

1. “Yugoslavia’s International Position at the end of the Second World War: The life

and death of ‘Fifty-Fifty’ by E. Barker. Worked as a diplomatic correspondent and

later as a historian of modern Europe. Particularly focused on the history of Central

and Eastern European states during WWII.

2. “Trieste and Venezia Giulia in Spring 1945” by D. Hunt. Served in a variety of

theatres during WWII. Later served as Private Secretary to Clement Attlee and

Winston Churchill during their post-war Prime Ministerships. Worked in a variety of


3. “The Genesis and the Dilemma of the Trieste Crisis” by D. Biber. Arrested for






4. “From Friends to Foes: The British Press and Yugoslavia in 1945” by J. Pirjevec.

Historian of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav wars and the role of Slovenes in Italy. Member

of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and head of the history department at

the University of Primorska. Spent his formative years in the Free Territory of Trieste.

20/4 10 December:

1. “White Eagles and White Guards: British Perceptions of Anti-Communist Insurgency

in Yugoslavia in 1945” by M. Wheeler. Official historian of SOE in Yugoslavia.

2. “Harold MacMillan and the ‘Klagenfurt Conspiracy’: Some fresh evidence on the

hand-overs of May 1945” by R. Knight. Historian of modern Austria, with a particular

interest in its interaction with the legacy of National Socialism.

3. “The Independent State of Croatia as a Factor in Concentrating the Counter-

Revolutionary Forces in 1945” by F. Jelić-Butić. Historian of Croatia’s role in WWII.

20/5 11 December:

1. “The Surrender of the German Army in the Balkans” by F.W. Deakin. Seconded to

Special Operations in 1941 and parachuted into Montenegro in 1943 to offer British

support to the Yugoslav Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito. His reporting on the

Yugoslav situation was considered to have a decisive impact on British policy

towards Yugoslav resistance movements. Post-war worked as Churchill’s literary

assistant before becoming Warden of St Anthony’s College, Oxford.

2. “Surrender of German Army in Southeastern Europe: The End of the Second World

War in the Balkans” by T. Ferenc. Prolific Slovenian Historian, specializes in

Yugoslavian activities during WWII.

3. “The Macedonian Question and the British-Yugoslav Relations at the end of the

Second World War and immediately afterwards” by D. Popovski. Mayor of the city of

Skopje, now capital of Macedonia, from 1984-1986.

20/6 Additional Material:

1. “The Rescue of Allied War Prisoners and Airmen: A footnote to Yugoslavia’s War

Record” by E. Barker. Worked as a diplomatic correspondent and later as a historian

of modern Europe. Particularly focused on the history of Central and Eastern

European states during WWII.

2. Oral presentation given by E. Barker on post-war relations between Britain and

Yugoslavia.

21. 1985 Anglo-Canadian Conference:

21/1 Note from Dilks on the context behind the conference and the changing nature of Anglo-

Canadian relations.

21/2 Conference programme, providing a schedule of papers presented.

21/3 Biographical information on the conference participants.

21/4 Document listing the Conference Agenda.


1. “How do we come to be here?” by D. Dilks. Former professor of International History

at the University of Leeds and subsequently Vice Chancellor at the University of Hull.

Historian of British international relations during and between the World Wars, and

the official biographer of Neville Chamberlain. Offers an introduction to the

conference.

2. “Britain and Canada within the Commonwealth” by D. Ingram. British journalist and

author widely regarded as a key writer on issues related to the Commonwealth.

Worked for the Daily Mail for seventeen years before leaving to found Gemini News,

an organisation that reported stories from developing countries, particularly in the

Commonwealth.

3. “Commonwealth Literature: A Note” by W. Walsh. Appointed Professor of

Commonwealth Literature in the school of English at the University of Leeds in 1972,

having previously been Head of the Department of Education. Later served as acting

Vice-Chancellor at the University from 1981-1983.

4. “Commonwealth Student Mobility: A View from Canada” by D.C. Savage. Former

Executive Director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers.

5. “UK-Canada Relations and the Commonwealth” by P. Lyon and P. Marshall. Lyon

served as secretary of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of

London, whilst Marshall served as Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General from

1983-1988.

21/6 Additional Articles:

1. Editorial on “The Commonwealth Secretariat: Twenty Years On”.

2. “NGOs: On too much of a shoestring?” by D. Ingram. British journalist and author

widely regarded as a key writer on issues related to the Commonwealth. Worked for

the Daily Mail for seventeen years before leaving to found Gemini News, an

organisation that reported stories from developing countries, particularly in the

Commonwealth.

3. Article on the “Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-Operation.”

21/7 Supporting Documents:

1. Series of leaflets offering “Notes on the Commonwealth”.

2. “NEWSCAN”, a weekly bulletin offering a summary of Canadian news. Dated 14

May 1985.

3. Minutes of the Canadian Finance Ministers’ Meeting, 19-20 September 1984.

4. Canadian Academic Newsheet No. 9, Spring 1981. Article offering support for

Canadian studies in Britain.

5. “A Healing Touch: Introduction to the 1983 Report of the Commonwealth Secretary-

General Shridath S. Ramphal.”

6. Report of the Commonwealth Secretary-General, 1983.

7. Report on the 1985 Montreal meeting of the Canadian Historical Association.

8. “Development Prospects, Policy Options and Negotiations (Memorandum Submitted

by the Commonwealth Secretary-General to the Development Committee Meeting,

April 1985.”

9. “International Economic Action: Report by a Commonwealth Consultative Group

(1984).”

10. Report on the 1979 Anglo-Canadian Conference held in Leeds, to which this one was

a sequel.

21/8 Conference Organisation:

1. Series of documents including letters from Dilks to all participants at the conference

offering a detailed outline of events.

2. Series of letters to and from Dilks organising accommodation for the conference.

3. Series of letters to and from Dilks to various potential Canadian attendees at the

conference, including J. Holmes, J. Rennie, R. Bothwell, S. Dugdale, M.J. Hellyer, D.

Cox, B.J. Mills, D.J. Gammage, P. Trudeau, M. Pitfield.

21/9 Conference Funding:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks discussing funding for and transportation to the

conference.

21/10 Conference Refusals:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks to those unable to attend the conference, including

J. Porter, O. Hartley, C.L.G. Mallaby, A. Nelson, J.A. Fraser, B. Trend, A.

Christodoulou, G. Richardson, M.E. Hedley-Miller, G. Pearson, D. Wass, R.

Marshall, G. Barnett, M. Robinson, M. Lennox-Boyd, A. Nelson, D. Mitchell, J.

Johnstone, E. Heath, L. Brittan.

21/11 Conference Participants:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks to confirmed participants of the conference,

including G. Larose, R. McMurtry, J. Holmes, B. Wood, A. Smith, S. Dugdale, C.A.

Gunawardena, R.W. McLaren, P. Marshall, A. Cooper, H. Palmer, D. Rimmington,

W. Walsh, E. Freeman-Shaw, P. Williams, E. Parkes, D. Ingram, M. Shenstone, D.C.

Savage, D. Armstrong, E. Anyaoku, P. Lyon, A. Woodall, A. Smith, D. Jamieson.

21/12 Conference Follow-Ups:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks acting as a ‘follow-up’ to the conference, including

T. Hockin, D. Armstrong, P. Scarlett, P.R.C. Williams, S.J.R. Wooley, D.C. Savage,

B. Wood, J. Holmes, A. Smith, G. Larose, W. Walsh, S. Dugdale, E. Freeman-Shaw,

D. Dowson, J. Young, P. Lyon, P. Keatley, S. Eldon, A. Woodall, D. Thomas, R.

McLaren, D. Ingram, J. English, E. Anyaoku, B. Mills, P. Shilton, J. Rennie, R.

McMurtry, T. Hockin, P. Marshall.

2. Letters to and from Dilks regarding the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

21/13 Canada Memorial Foundation:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks detailing academic relations between Britain and

Canada and the establishment of the Canada Memorial Foundation Scholarship

scheme.

22. 1986 Anglo-German Conference, Leeds:

22/1 Conference programme, providing a schedule of papers presented.

Papers Presented:

22/2 6 May:

1. “Marginal Notes for Anglo-German Conference at Leeds University” by D. Astor.

Member of the prestigious Astor family. Became the editor of his father’s newspaper,

The Observer, in 1937, a position he would hold for 27 years. During this time The

Observer became the most widely-read Sunday newspaper in Britain. Heavily

advocated liberal internationalism, leading to his establishment of the Königswinter

Anglo-German conferences to promote reconciliation between the two countries.

2. “General Halder and the German Resistance 1938-1940” by G.R. Ueberschär.

German Military Historian best known for his work on the Nazi era and the Second

World War. Taught at the University of Freiburg before later working as a historian

and archivist at the Federal Military Archives in Freiberg.

3. “The Weizäcker Circle’ and its Political Activities, 1938-1940” by M. Thielenhaus.

Held a variety of government positions within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group,

eventually becoming Secretary of State for the German Federal Ministry of Family,

Seniors, Women and Youth in 2005.

4. ““Contacts of a Secret Nature”: Ian Colvin and the opposition to Hitler, 1937-39” by

C. Colvin. Daughter of Ian Colvin, who worked as a foreign correspondent for the

right-wing daily Morning Post until his death in 1938. Worked as a literary critic for

the Daily Mail and The Independent, and later as a theatre critic for The Times. Also

published a number of literary works.

5. “Carl Goerdeler and Great Britain 1937-1939: A Revision of Versailles without a

Great War” by M. Krüger-Charlé. German historian of the Nazi era and the German

Resistance.

22/3 7 May:

1. “Recent Developments in the Research on the History of the German Resistance

Against Hitler” by H. Mommsen. Leading scholar on Nazi Germany and the

Holocaust. Was the first to propose the ‘Weak Dictator’ thesis with regards to the

limitations of Hitler’s power.

2. “On the Genesis and Nature of the National-Conservative Opposition to Hitler before

the Second World War” by K-J. Müller. Historian of International Relations, the

twentieth-century German Army and the German Resistance.

3. “Britain and Germany, 1937-1939: a context for British reactions to the German

Resistance” by D. Dilks. Former professor of International History at the University

of Leeds and subsequently Vice Chancellor at the University of Hull. Historian of

British international relations during and between the World Wars, and the official

biographer of Neville Chamberlain.

4. “The British Response to the Kirchenkampf” by M.D. Hampson. Published PhD

thesis on the British response to the Nazi ‘Church Struggle’.

5. “George Bell and Gerhard Leibholz: Dialogue and Co-operation for Another

Germany” by E. Scharffenorth. Historian of the German Resistance and Religion in

Nazi Germany.

6. Die Evangelische Kirche Deutschlands (EKD): Its Relations with the Resistance and

with the Anglican Church by R. Cecil. Served in MI6 during WWII before working a

variety of roles in the American Department and the Foreign Office. Moved to

academia in 1968, teaching German History at the University of Reading.

22/4 8 May:

1. “The Foreign Contacts of the German Resistance and Stauffenberg’s Coup d’Etat” by

P. Hoffman. German-Canadian Professor of History at McGill University in

Montreal. Specialises in the German Resistance with a particular focus on the efforts

of Claus von Stauffenberg.

2. “Foreign experiences, ideas and contacts of the Kreisau Circle” by G. van Roon.

Dutch Historian of the German Resistance. Produced a leading work on the activities

of the Kreisau Circle.

3. “Between England and Germany: Adam von Trott’s Contacts to the British” by H.O.

Malone. Served in the USAF in France and Germany from 1956-1958. Moved into

academia in 1960, first working as a historian of the German Resistance before later

working on histories of the USAF and TRADOC.

4. “The Foreign Office and the Opposition: an investigation of attitudes in the aftermath

of the war” by P.C.M. Malone.

5. “The Foreign Office Response to the Overtures from the Trott-Gordeler Conspirators”

by R. Lamb. Historian of twentieth-century Europe, with a particular focus on the

inter-war years and WWII itself.

6. “German Political Exiles, British Intelligence and Communist Subversion” by A.

Glees. Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of

Buckingham. Historian of British Intelligence, the activities of Britain against

Communists during the Cold War and the actions of the Stasi in the UK.

7. “Socialist Resistance in an Unusual Setting: Wartime Activities with Max Braun,

Fritz Heine and others in the context of World War II, ‘Black Propaganda’” by C.J.

Child. Served in the German Section of the Foreign Office during WWII, working

under Denis Sefton Delmer, a leader of various radio stations broadcasting

demoralising propaganda into Nazi Germany.

8. “British Secret Services and German Resistance” by M.R.D. Foot. Professor of

Modern History at University of Manchester. Served with the SAS and the French

Resistance during WWII. Became the official historian of SOE.

22/5 9 May:

1. “The German Resistance Movement and the Question of a separate Peace Settlement

in World War II” by B. Martin. Historian of the German Resistance and German-

Japanese relations.

2. “Goebbels and the 20th July” by M. Balfour. Held various Civil Service posts during

and after WWII, including working in the British Zone of Allied-occupied Germany

from1945-1947. Eventually became Professor of European History at the University

of East Anglia in 1966.

3. Unconditional Surrender in World War II by M. Balfour. Revised version of an earlier

paper produced by Balfour in 1979.

4. “German Resistance as seen from the British Legation in Stockholm” by P. Tennant.

Sent to work as a press attaché at the British Legation in Stockholm in 1939.

Recruited into SOE in 1940, working in Sweden during the war to undermine the

German effort. Served in the Foreign Office in Paris and Berlin in the years after the

conclusion of the war, eventually moving into business.

5. “To the “Goerlitz” Station: The last meeting of Hitler and Mussolini (20 July 1944)”

by F.W. Deakin. Seconded to Special Operations in 1941 and parachuted into

Montenegro in 1943 to offer British support to the Yugoslav Partisans led by Josip

Broz Tito. His reporting on the Yugoslav situation was considered to have a decisive

impact on British policy towards Yugoslav resistance movements. Post-war worked

as Churchill’s literary assistant before becoming Warden of St Anthony’s College,

Oxford.

22/6 Additional Papers included:

1. “S.O.E. and Germany” by P. Wilkinson. Served in SOE during WWII, providing the

weapons used to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich. Later served in Bosnia. Worked

post-war as a diplomat, eventually becoming co-ordinator of Intelligence in the

Cabinet Office.

2. “My Contact with the German Resistance to Hitler” by G. Hägglöf. Dilks notes that

this paper did not arrive, with the material presented here instead using extracts of his

memoirs.

3. “Swedish Neutrality during and after the War: The Scandinavian balance”. Unknown

Author.

22/7 Conference Letters:

1. Series of letters between Dilks and the German Embassy in London. Includes

promotional information on both the conference and the Goethe Institute.

2. Series of letters to and from Dilks to the British attendees at the conference, including

D. Astor, M. Balfour, C. Bielenberg, R. Cecil, C.J. Child, C. Colvin, J.J. Chadwick, F.

Roberts, M.F. Cullis, M.R.D. Foot, A. Glees, D. Hampson, R. Lamb, C.L.G. Mallaby,

P. Meehan, M.E. Pelly, P. Tennant, R. Davies, D. Weigall.

3. Series of letters to and from Dilks to the German attendees at the conference,

including A.V.D Bussche-Streihorst, P. Hoffman, F.J. Goldschmitt, L. Kettenacker,

H. Eichinger, E. Klausa, K. von Klemperer, B. Martin, S. Martins, H. Mommsen, H.

Murjahn, G. van Roon, P. Sauerbruch, C. von Trott zu Solz, E. Scharffenorth, G.R.

Ueberschär, G.H. Vassiltchikov.

4. Series of letters to and from Dilks to those unable to attend the conference, including

O. John, H. Trevor-Roper, A. Clarissa, A. Brodersen, A. Bullock, H. Carleton Greene,

O. Chadwick, H. von Etzdorf, F.H. Hinsley, M. Howard, J. Joll, I. Kershaw, A. King,

P. Ludlow, A.J. Nicholls, C. O’Neill, Z. Steiner, N. Stoltzfus, J. Vanwelkenhuysen, D.

White, P. Wilkinson.

5. Series of letters between Dilks and H. von Herwarth regarding a lecture given by

Herwarth during the conference.

6. Series of letters between Dilks and K-J. Müller regarding the conference.

7. Series of letters between Dilks and G. Hägglöf regarding the conference.

8. Series of letters between Dilks and F. Roberts regarding the conference.

9. Series of letters between Dilks and F.W. Deakin regarding the conference.

10. Series of letters from Dilks thanking those who attended the conference, including B.

Stauffenberg, H.O. Malone, B. Martin, P. Hoffman, E. Klausa, P. Sauerbruch, L.F.

von Hammerstein, G.R. Ueberschär, L. Kettenacker, D. Weigall, J.J. Chadwick, D.

Peters, G.T. Waddington, P. Meehan, F. Roberts, E. Parkes, R. Lamb, C. Bussche, C.

Von Trott zu Solz, R. Cecil, S. Cook, D. Astor, I.K.T. Sayer, T.E. Hope, E. Parkes, K-

J. Müller, D. Cox, S. Broome, P.C. Hoffman, H. Ben-Israel, H. Mommsen, H.A.

Malone, H. von Herwarth, K. Knight, H.E. Rudiger von Wechmar, J.W. Cox,

P.H.J.H. Gosden, M.R.D. Foot, P. Tennant, C.L.G. Mallaby, C. Winn, J.F. Vickers.

22/8 Further Documentation:

1. List of participants at the conference. Includes the Top Copy of the conference report.

2. Biographies of the conference participants.

3. Series of letters and other documents regarding an exhibition to be held by the

German Embassy, running concurrently with the Conference, on the subject of

‘German Resistance, 1933-1945’. Includes letters between Dilks and R. Lederbogen

and a copy of ‘La Résistance allemande 1933-1945’ (French, no translation

available).

4. Series of documents concerning hospitality at the conference.

5. Series of documents concerning registration at the conference.

6. Series of documents concerning travel and accommodation for those attending the

conference.

7. Series of documents concerning travel information for those attending the conference.

8. Series of letters to and from Dilks acting as a ‘follow-up’ for those attending the

conference, including K-J. Müller, G. von Neubronner, M.F. Cullis, M. Krüger-

Charle, L. Eldekvist, G. van Roon, B. Martens, A. de la Porte, H. Ben-Israel, J.J.

Chadwick, F. Roberts, J. Burgh, M. Balfour, M. Cullis, P.W.H. Brown, D. Astor, E.

Parkes, P. Neville-Jones, F.W. Deakin, P. Tennant, D. von Winterfeldt, H. Tauscher,

K. von Klemperer, H. Mommsen, D. Cox, G.T. Waddington.

9. Series of documents containing the conference accounts.

10. Series of documents containing financial information regarding the organisation of the

conference.

11. Various miscellaneous documents regarding the conference. Includes a conference

programme and various letters to and from Dilks, including D. Cox, J. F. Vickers, H.

Dickow, H. Willmer, D.C. Morris, W.J. Mommsen, J. Rennie, P. Neville-Jones, D.

Cesarani, E. Parkes, J.J. Chadwick.

23. 1986 Oxford Conference: British Administration, 1945-1986:


1. “Chapter Two: The Attlee Governments, 1945-51” by P. Hennessy. Historian and

academic specialising in the history of government. Co-founded the Institute of

Contemporary British History in 1986. Previously worked as a journalist, becoming a

regular presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Analysis show. Subsequently taught British

History at Queen Mary University.

2. “Chapter Three: The Conservative Government of 1951-55” by A. Seldon. Historian

of Contemporary Britain best known for his biographies of John Major, Tony Blair

and Gordon Brown. Co-founder and first director of the Centre for Contemporary

British History.

3. “Chapter Six: The First Wilson Governments, 1964-70” by D. Walker. Works today

as a journalist for The Guardian.

4. “Chapter Seven: The 1970-74 Government” by D. Kavanagh. British political analyst,

has been Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool since 1996, having

previously taught at the University of Nottingham. Has written a series of books on

British General Elections.

5. “Chapter Nine: The Thatcher Governments, 1979-” by J. Vincent. Historian of

Modern Britain. Former Professor of Modern History at the University of Bristol. Has

contributed to a wide variety of journalistic sources, most notably The Times and The

Sun.

There is no reference as to the whereabouts of any other papers presented at this conference.

23/2 Further Correspondence:

1. Series of letters to and from Dilks dating between 1982 and 1984. Refers to the 1984

conference on British Political and Military Strategy in Central, Eastern and Southern

Europe in 1944. Includes J.J. Chadwick, F.W. Deakin, G.T. Waddington.

24. 1989 Conference on the German Resistance, Hamburg:

24/1 Note from Dilks on the origins of the conference and the difficulty involved in

organising it (dated 12/8/12).

24/2 Concluding remarks delivered by Dilks at the Conference.


1. “The World War II RAF Bombing Offensive in Relation to German Morale” by H.A.

Probert. RAF education officer and air force historian. Served in the RAF during

WWII, later serving as head of the Air Historical Branch from 1978-1989.

2. “The effect of allied warfare on the German population as reflected in reports of the

security service” by H. Boberach. Worked as an archivist at the Federal Archives in

Koblenz. Also wrote histories of the Nazi period. Paper presented in both German and

English, with both languages available.

3. “The Planning and Execution of Allied and British Radio Propaganda in Relation to

the German Widerstand and its Attitudes” by M. Balfour. Held various Civil Service

posts during and after WWII, including working in the British Zone of Allied-

occupied Germany from1945-1947. Eventually became Professor of European

History at the University of East Anglia in 1966.

4. “Political and Social Concepts of the Catholics within the ‘Kreisau Circle’” by R.

Bleistein. Key figure in the German Catholic Church. Collected the writings of Alfred

Delp, a key figure in the German Resistance.

5. “Gesellschaftspolitische Vorstellung im nationalkonservativen Raum: Goerdelers

Antwort auf den Nationalsozialismus” by M. Krüger-Charlé. German historian of the

Nazi era and the German Resistance. Paper presented in German, no translation

available.

6. “British Policy Towards German Social Democrats in Exile: Some Further

Observations” by A. Glees. Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence

Studies at the University of Buckingham. Historian of British Intelligence, the

activities of Britain against Communists during the Cold War and the actions of the

Stasi in the UK.

7. “Von der ‘Arbeitsbummelei’ zum ‘Bandenkampf’: Opposition und Widerstand der

ausländischen Zwangsarbeiter in Deutschland 1939-1945” by U. Herbert. German

historian, specialises in the Nazi era and German history during WWII. Paper

presented in German, no translation available.

8. “Deutsche Emigranten in Grossbritannien und der deutsche Widerstand gegen den

Nationalsozialismus: Thesenpapier” by G. Hirschfeld. Worked firstly as a Research

Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London before later becoming Professor

of History at the University of Stuttgart. Served as a director of the Library of

Contemporary History in Stuttgart from 1989 to 2011. Specialises in studies of the

two world wars, patterns of German emigration and the history of the Netherlands.

Paper presented in German, no translation available.

9. “Unternehmen Gomorrha” by W. Johe. German historian of Nazi Germany and the

Holocaust. Paper presented in German with no full translation available, however an

English summary is available.

10. “Die soziale Herausforderung durch den Nationalsozialismus” by H. Mehringer.

Historian best known as an expert on socialist resistance within the Third Reich.

11. “The Kreisau Circle and the Challenge by National Socialism” by H. Mommsen.

Leading scholar on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Was the first to propose the

‘Weak Dictator’ thesis with regards to the limitations of Hitler’s power.

12. “The British Left and the 20th July 1944” by A.J. Nicholls. British historian of

Modern Germany. Established the European Studies Centre at St Anthony’s College,

Oxford, in 1976. Awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in

1994 for his contribution to Anglo-German relations.

13. “Rebellious Youth between Resistance and Subculture” by D.J.K. Peukert. Noted for

his work on the social history of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. Drew a

link between the ‘spirit of science’ and the Holocaust. This is a brief summary of a

full paper.

14. “Die Kommunisten und der ‘20 Juli’” by A. Sywottek. Historian of Soviet occupied

Germany, the GDR and the Federal Republic. Taught at the University of Hamburg.

Paper presented in German, no translation available.


1. Series of letters between Dilks and other historians attending the conference,

including J.J. Chadwick, K-J. Müller, C. Mallaby. Also includes travel information,

circular letters and a conference programme.

25. 1990 International Congress of the Historical Sciences, Madrid, 1990:

25/1 Note from Dilks on the complicated position of the International Committee at this time

(dated 30/8/12).

25/2 List of papers presented at the Conference.

25/3 Letters between Dilks and H. Rousso explaining why a number of the listed papers are

not present in this collection.


1. “L’Experience de la Premiere Guerre Mondiale et son impact sur la Societe

Europeenne” by G. Rochat. Historian of modern Italy, with a particular focus on

Italian military policy and Italian Fascism. Has been Professor of Contemporary

History at the University of Turin since 1980. Paper presented in Italian, no


2. “Rumours and Threats of War: Responses in Western and Northern Europe, 1931-

1939” by D. Dilks. Former professor of International History at the University of

Leeds and subsequently Vice Chancellor at the University of Hull. Historian of

British international relations during and between the World Wars, and the official

biographer of Neville Chamberlain. His paper is presented here in two parts.

3. “The Visions on the Future War Amongst the Military Theoreticians” by J. Rohwer.

Served on several German warships during WWII. Became an eminent German Naval

Historian in the years after the war, today considered a leading authority on the

history of the U-Boat campaign.

4. “L’URSS: Les Alternatives des Annees d’Avant-Guerre” by D. Volkogonov. Former

head of the Soviet military’s psychological warfare department. Became the director

of the Soviet Institute of Military History in 1985. He used this status to write and

publish controversial biographies of Stalin and Lenin. Became the Special Advisor for

Defence to Boris Yeltsin upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Paper presented in


5. “Los Intellectuales Europeos Y La Guerra Espanola” by J. Tusell. Historian of

Modern Spain with a particular focus on the Franco dictatorship and the Spanish role

in WWII. Paper presented in Spanish, no translation available.

6. “Der kommende Krieg und die öffentliche Meinung (1933-1939) by M. Salewski.

Historian of the German Military and Navy, with additional interests in modern

gender history and the history and construction of Europe. Paper presented in

German, no translation available.

7. “L’opnion publique en France et en Grande-Bretagne face à la guerre 1933-1939” by

F. Bédarida. Worked as a researcher in London in the aftermath of WWII before later

continuing the same role in Paris. Lectured at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

Best known as a historian of Vichy France.

8. “The future war and public opinion in the neutral countries Norway and Denmark” by

M. Skodvin. Professor of History at the University of Oslo. Historian of the

Norwegian Resistance and Anglo-Norwegian relations during WWII.

9. “The war to come and the public opinion in the Central and South-Eastern Europe” by

M.J. Zacharias. Historian of Poland and the Balkans in the 20th century and Polish

international relations.

10. “American Public Opinion and the Road to War in the Far East, 1931-1941” by D.

Clayton James. Historian of the modern American military. Best known for his three-

volume biography of General Douglas MacArthur.

11. “Images of the Coming War viewed by the Japanese in the 1930s” by S. Imai.

Historian of modern Japan with a particular focus on the reign of Emperor Hirohito.

Two versions of this paper are present here.

12. “Opinion Publica, Propaganda y Neutralidad Espanola 1939-1940” by A. Marquina.

Secretary of the Spanish Committee on the History of WWII. Paper presented in

Spanish, no translation available.

13. “The Case of Finland: an essay on small nation mentality” by O. Vehviläinen.

Professor of History at the University of Tampere. Historian of modern Finland, with

a particular focus on the role of Finland during WWII.


1. “Les Archives des Organisations Internationales le Point de Vue du Chercheur et de

L’Historien” by A. Fleury & V-Y. Ghebali. Fleury is best known for his studies of the

League of Nations. Ghebali is an acclaimed historian of the United Nations and the

Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Paper presented in


2. “International Treaties in the Context of the Eve of World War II” by A.O. Chubaryan

& M.M. Narinky. Two members of the National Committee of Historians of the

Soviet Union provide an assessment of the system of international relations across the

world at the onset of WWII. Paper presented in English and Russian.

3. “Le Probleme des Minorites Nationales dans les Pays Balkaniques dans le Cadre de la

Preparation de la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale” by K. Prifti. Historian of Modern

Albania and a member of the National Committee of Historical Science in Albania.



1. Series of documents outlining Dilks’ travel to the conference.

2. “News Bulletin” by the International Committee for the History of the Second World

War, dated Summer 1989.

3. Full conference programme.

4. Series of letters between Dilks and other historians regarding the conference,

including H. Paape, F.W. Deakin and J.J. Chadwick.

26. 1990 Anglo-Italian Conference:

26/1 Note from Dilks on how he did not present a paper at this conference.

26/2 Biographies of those presenting at the conference.

26/3 Conference programme, outlining a schedule of the papers presented.

Papers Presented:

26/4 25 September:

1. “L’Immagine Italiana dell-inglese: Propaganda e Intentità Nazionale nel corso della

Seconda Guerra Mondiale” by N. Gallerano. Italian Modern Historian specialising in

the history of the Left in Italian politics, Italian international relations and the Italian

role in the two world wars. Paper presented in Italian, no translation available.

2. “La Strategia Italiana nel 1940” by G. Rochat. Historian of modern Italy, with a

particular focus on Italian military policy and Italian Fascism. Has been Professor of

Contemporary History at the University of Turin since 1980. Paper presented in

Italian, no translation available.

3. “The Offensive That Never Was: British Mediterraean Strategy, Italy and the

Outbreak of the Second War” by P. Stafford. Modern British Military Historian.

4. “The Strategic Air War in Relation to Italy” by H.A. Probert. RAF education officer

and air force historian. Served in the RAF during WWII, later serving as head of the

Air Historical Branch from 1978-1989.

5. “Lo Stato Maggiore Della Regia Aeronautica e La Guerra (Italian Air War) by A.

Curami. Best known for his histories of Italian motor racing, but has also produced

works on Italy’s role in the two world wars.

6. “North Africa: A School of War” by L. Ceva. Modern Italian Military Historian.

7. “The Desert: A School of Warfare” by A. Ward.

26/5 26 September:

1. “L’Influenza di Malta Nella Guerra nel Mediterraneo 1940-43” by M. Gabriele.

Historian of the Italian Miltary with a particular emphasis on Naval policy. Worked as

a consultant on the history of the General Staff of the Navy and the Italian

Commission of Military History. Became President of the Italian Society of Military

History in 2008. Paper presented in Italian, no translation available.

2. “L’Apporto dell’ULTRA Intelligence Britannico al Ruolo Offensivo di Malta” by A.

Santoni. Historian of the modern Italian Navy and the Enigma programme. Paper

presented in Italian, no translation available.

3. “Malta 1940-42: The Influential Island” by J.D. Brown. Historian of the British Navy

and Naval aviation. Former head of the Naval Historical Branch from 1977-1999.

4. “British Attitudes to the Italian Armistice” by D. Hunt. Served in a variety of theatres

during WWII. Later served as Private Secretary to Clement Attlee and Winston

Churchill during their post-war Prime Ministerships. Worked in a variety of


5. “Trieste – a note” by F.W. Deakin. Seconded to Special Operations in 1941 and

parachuted into Montenegro in 1943 to offer British support to the Yugoslav Partisans

led by Josip Broz Tito. His reporting on the Yugoslav situation was considered to

have a decisive impact on British policy towards Yugoslav resistance movements.

Post-war worked as Churchill’s literary assistant before becoming Warden of St

Anthony’s College, Oxford.

6. “Conflitti di Interesse fra Italia e Inghilterra: Trieste E I Balcani, 1943-45” by G.

Valdevit. Historian based in Trieste, has written extensively on the tumultuous history

of the local area. Paper presented in Italian, no translation available.

7. “Military Operations in Italy” by D. Hunt. Served in a variety of theatres during

WWII. Later served as Private Secretary to Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill

during their post-war Prime Ministerships. Worked in a variety of diplomatic posts

including High Commissionerships of Uganda, Cyprus and Brazil.

8. “Il contributo dei partigiani Italiani alle operazioni angloamericane” by G. Perona.

Historian of Modern Italy, with a particular emphasis on the Italian Resistance, the

Italian Left and 20th century literature. Paper presented in Italian, no translation

available.

26/6 27 September:

1. “Co-Belligerency: Between Myth and Reality” by D. Ellwood. Historian of Modern

International Relations with a particular emphasis on American Foreign Policy during

and after WWII. Served until 2012 as Associate Professor of Contemporary History at

the University of Bologna.

2. “La Cobelligeranza Italiana: Mito E Realta – Considerazioni Politiche” by G.

Vaccarino. Served as a member of the Italian Army during WWII, joining the Italian

Partisans after the fall of Mussolini. Moved into academia after the war, producing

histories of both the Italian Resistance and Resistance movements across Europe.

Paper presented in Italian, no translation available.

3. “L’Italia e il trattato di pace” by A. Varsori. Considered a leading historian on the

process of European Integration. Founding member of the Italian Society for the

Study of Contemporary History (SISSCO). Paper presented in Italian, no translation

available.

4. “The Peace Treaty: British Assumptions” by C. Seton-Watson. Served in a variety of

locations for the British Army during WWII, including spending time in Italy.

Became a historian after the war, teaching at Oriel College, Oxford, until 1983. Best

known for his work on Liberal Italy and its foreign policy.

27. 1991 Anglo-Norwegian Colloquium, Oxford:

27/1 Note from Dilks explaining why he did not personally attend this conference. Also

offers a comment on the particularly interesting nature of the papers presented here.

27/2 Conference programme, giving a schedule of papers presented.

27/3 Biographies of those attending the conference.

Papers Presented:

27/4 Day 1:

1. “British Strategy and Norway 1939-40” by P. Salmon. Chief historian at the Foreign

and Commonwealth Office, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and

Letters. Served as a fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in 2001.

2. “The Balance Sheet of the Norwegian Campaign” by M. Harvey. Served in the RAF

for 35 years, retiring in 1991. Studies military and political history, with a particular

focus on British military strategy.

3. Commentary by H.F. Zeiner-Gundersen. Serves as a commentary on the Harvey paper

and a second paper by J.D. Brown that is unavailable here.

4. “Britain, Norway and the Second World War: Operation Jupiter and possible landings

in Norway” by H.P. Willmott. Widely publicised military historian and former Senior

Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Has written extensively on

warfare in general and WWII in particular.

5. “British and Norwegian Resistance: Clandestine Sea Transport” by B. Richards.

Served during WWII as a director of operations for SOE. Worked post-war as a

British diplomat around the world, with spells in the Persian Gulf, Paris, Germany,

Vietnam and Greece. Also held a number of roles within the Cabinet Office.

6. “Milorg and SOE” by A. Moland. Historian of the Norwegian Home Front during

WWII. Currently serving as the director of the Norwegian Resistance Museum.

7. “The Linge Company and the British” by J. Rønneberg. Played a key role in the

Norwegian Resistance during WWII, and is best known for helping to sabotage a

Norwegian heavy water plant that had been captured by the German Army, as a

means of preventing the development of the German nuclear programme. Has

lectured on the Norwegian Resistance movement around the world in the years since

the war.

8. “The Spitsbergen Operations 1942-3” by A. Glen. Served in SOE during WWII,

supporting Tito’s Partisans in Yugoslavia. Also known for his pre-war role as an

Arctic Explorer and for serving post-war as the head of the British Tourist Authority,

having helped to pioneer packaged holidays.

27/5 Day 2:

1. “Norway’s Role in British Wartime Intelligence” by E. Thomas. Served in the Naval

Intelligence Division during WWII, including a spell at Bletchley Park. After the war

he served in a variety of intelligence services around the world. Later worked as a

historian of British Intelligence during WWII.

2. “Anglo-Norwegian Naval Cooperation” by O. Schau. Served as an officer in the

Norwegian Navy during WWII, subsequently awarded the War Cross for his efforts.

Continued his service in the Navy after the war.

3. Commentary by R. Maxwell-Hyslop. Served as Conservative MP for Tiverton for 32

years, eventually retiring at the 1992 general election. This acts as a commentary on

Schau’s paper.

4. “The Contribution of the Norwegian Air Forces” by W. Mohr. Served in the RAF

during WWII having fled Norway upon the German invasion. He returned to military

service in the newly-liberated Norway after the war, serving as Chief of the

Norwegian RAF from 1963-1969 and later as Director of the Royal Army’s College

until 1975.

5. “Planning the Liberation: The Norwegian Contribution” by P. Frisvold. Key figure in

the development of the Norwegian Resistance. Forced to flee to Sweden in 1941,

where he became leader of the Norwegian police troops. Later served as a Lieutenant-

General of the Norwegian Army from 1961-1966.

6. “Norwegian Divisions in Sweden” by P. Tennant. Sent to work as a press attaché at

the British Legation in Stockholm in 1939. Recruited into SOE in 1940, working in

Sweden during the war to undermine the German effort. Served in the Foreign Office

in Paris and Berlin in the years after the conclusion of the war, eventually moving into

business.

7. “Andrew Thorne and the British Involvement” by P. Thorne. Served in the British

Army during WWII. Became Assistant Sergeant at Arms of the House of Commons

in 1948, Deputy in 1956 and finally Sergeant, a role he held from 1976-1982. He was

the son of Andrew Thorne, the General Officer Commanding of the Allied Land

Forces in Norway, who played a key role in returning the Norwegian government to

power in the aftermath of the German surrender. Also features a report by Andrew

Thorne on the Liberation of Norway.

8. “The Western Allies, the Soviet Union and Finnmark, 1944-45” by M. Mackintosh.

Joined SOE during WWII, parachuted into Yugoslavia to support Tito’s partisans in

1944. Joined the Foreign Office in 1960 as an intelligence analyst. Appointed to the

Cabinet Office in 1968 as a senior advisor on Soviet affairs, visiting Moscow in 1973

as part of a delegation led by foreign secretary Alec Douglas-Home. Produced a

number of historical works on Soviet history and International Relations with the

Soviet Union.

27/6 Day 3:

1. “Relations between the Norwegian Government in Exile and the British Government”

by O. Riste. Specialised in modern Norwegian History with a particular focus on

international and national security and military history.

2. “The Lessons of War: Norway in Post-war Allied Strategy” by C. Archer. Historian

of Defence Studies, with a particular focus on the countries surrounding the North

Sea. Has produced a number of studies on Norway.


1. Series of notes from the Secretary of the Conference (J.J. Chadwick) regarding its

organisation. Includes detailed information on the structure of the conference.

2. Agenda for a previous conference held at the Imperial War Museum on 16 May 1991.

Includes a section on the planning of the Anglo-Norwegian Colloquium.

28. 1991 Barbarossa Conference, Leeds:

28/1 Note from Dilks regarding the circumstances behind the conference, the nature of the

papers presented and brief details on the attendees.

28/2 Alphabetical list of papers presented.


1. “The Beginning of Barbarossa: new facts of History” by V. Anfilov. Soviet military

historian.

2. “Yugoslavia Coup d’Etat 27th March, 1941 and Barbarossa” by D. Biber. Arrested for






3. “The Barbarossa Campaign – a Soviet Discussion” by B. Bonwetsch. German

historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Served from 2003-2009 as a director of the

German Historical Institute in Moscow.

4. “The Beginning of the War and the Crisis of ‘Stalinist Socialism” by G. Bordiugov.

Soviet historian of military and social affairs during WWII. Paper presented in

Russian, no translation available.

5. “New Allies – New Foes: June 22, 1941 and the Soviet Diplomacy” by A.Y. Borisov.

Dean and Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in the

Foreign Ministry of the USSR.

6. “Soviet War Losses: Calculations and Controversies” by J. Erickson. British historian

of WWII with a particular focus on the role of the Soviet Union. Best known for his

work on the Battle of Stalingrad and the Red Army’s march towards Berlin.

7. “Stalin and Hitler: bad and/or mad?” by H. L’Etang. Qualified medical practitioner

who wrote a number of books on the mental and physical states of historical world

leaders. Edited the medical journal ‘The Practitioner’ from 1973-1982.

8. “Hitler turns to the East – German War Policy in 1940 and 1941” by J. Förster.

Worked from 1970-2000 at the Military History Research Institute in Potsdam,

working on a collection regarding the German Reich and its involvement in WWII.

Has primarily focused on Nazi war policy.

9. “An Alliance of Sorts: Allied Strategy in the wake of Operation ‘Barbarossa’” by G.

Gorodetsky. Israeli historian of the Soviet Union. Best known for his analysis of

Stalin’s ‘Grand Delusion’ regarding his relationship with Hitler. Emeritus Professor

of History at Tel Aviv University.

10. “British Intelligence and Operation Barbarossa” by H. Hinsley. Worked at Bletchley

Park during WWII. Has written widely on the history of International Relations and

British Intelligence during the war. Taught at Cambridge from 1969-1989.

11. “The Soviets and ULTRA – Yet Again” by G. Jukes. Spent 14 years working in the

UK Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Colonial Office. Also worked on the

staff at the Australian National University.

12. “Britain and the German Attack on the Soviet Union” by L. Kettenacker. Served as a

Deputy Director at the German Historical Institute in London from 1974 until

retirement in 2014. General focus on Anglo-German relations during WWII.

13. “Barbarossa and the Problem of Collaboration on the Eastern Front” by S.

Koudryashov. Soviet historian with a general focus on WWII, post-war Europe and

the history of the Soviet Union. Paper presented in Russian, with a partial translation

available in English.

14. “The Flight and the Evacuation of Eastern-European Jews into the Soviet Interior in

the Summer of 1941” by D. Levin. Lithuanian Jew who emigrated to Israel and

established himself as a researcher and historian at the Hebrew University of

Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Jewry. General focus on the role played by

Eastern-European Jews during WWII.

15. “The Barbarossa Campaign and the activities of the Soviet Leadership” by S.A.

Mikoyan. Former Soviet Air Force pilot and son of long-time Politburo member

Anastas Mikoyan.

16. “Between the two Fires: Soviet Foreign Policy 1939-June 1941” by O.A.

Rzheshevsky. Professor at the Institute of World History at the Russian Academy of

Sciences in Moscow.

17. “Ribbentrop, the Wilhelmstrasse and the Nazi-Soviet Rapprochement, 1939-1941” by

G.T. Waddington. British historian of Nazi Germany and Anglo-German relations

during WWII.

18. “Facing the Global War: Germany’s Strategic Dilemma after the Failure of

Blitzkrieg” by B. Wegner. Worked for over 15 years at the Military History Research

Institute in Freiberg. Later served from 2000-2005 as the Chairman of the German

Committee for the History of WWII. General focus on the German Reich in WWII

and the general history of warfare.


1. “Some Remarks on Brutalization of Warfare: Nazi Crimes and the Wehrmacht’s

Involvement” by K-J. Müller. Historian of International Relations, the twentieth-

century German Army and the German Resistance.

28/5 Correspondence with Conference Attendees:

1. Series of letters between Dilks and other historians attending the conference with ‘A-

F’ surnames, including V. Anfilov, D. Biber, R. Bone, B. Bonwetsch, G. Bordiugov,

A.Y. Borisov, M. Cullis, F.W. Deakin, R. Edmonds, J. Erickson, H. L’Etang, J.

Förster, D. Fraser.

2. Series of letters between Dilks and other historians attending the conference with ‘G-

M’ surnames, including J. Garrard, G. Gorodetsky, H. Hinsley, D. Levin, S.

Koudryashov, L. Kettenacker, L. Keresztes, G. Jukes, F. MacLean, U. Maiziere, W.

Meyers, S.A. Mikoyan, K-J. Müller.

3. Series of letters between Dilks and other historians attending the conference with ‘N-

Z’ surnames, including F. Roberts, J. Rohwer, O. Rzheshevsky, H. Shukman, E.E.

Thomas, B. Wegner, G.T. Waddington.

28/6 Further Correspondence:

1. Series of letters between Dilks and other historians involved in the conference,

including R. Braithwaite, J.J. Chadwick, R. Ehni, B. Starkov.

2. Series of letters between Dilks and possible conference attendees, including H. Rolo,

P. Whitehead, H. Shukman, H. von Herwarth, M. Howard, G.H. Vassiltchikov, A.

Horne, G. von Kielmansegg, B.F. Freytag von Loring Hoven, D. Kosary, G.D.G.

Murrell, B. Cartledge, J. Vickers, A. Nekrich, A.V.D. Bussche-Streihorst, A.

Chubarian, M. Mackintosh, J.M. McIntosh, G. Rochat, A. Horne, A. Brooke Turner,

A. Breccia, C. Madajczyk, F. Conte, V.I. Shyshkin, N.M. Naimark, J.J. Kirshin, G.

Koumaniov, G.N. Thompson.

3. Series of letters between Dilks and those unable to attend the conference, including F.

Ellis, P. Tennant, B. Juhasz, P. Whitehead, S. Kaitauskaite, C. Van Dyke, R.J. Brody,

J. Dunstan, S.F. Wells, O. Vehviläinen, J.A. Graf Kielmansegg, H. von Herwarth, D.

Kosary, D. Volkogonov, F.V. Loringhoven, F. Bédarida, L.A. Cohen, R. O’Neill, N.

Naimark, G.L. Weinberg, D. Astor, S.Wells, E. Breuning, R. Braithwaite, A. Bullock,

A.J. Nicholls, I. Roberts, B. Cartledge, D. Atkinson, C. Donnelly, G.H. Vassiltchikov,

E. Brauning, R. Smelser, G. Rochat, D.M. Glantz, Z. Vigh, D. Bolton.

4. Series of letters to and from Dilks acting as a follow up to the conference, including

O. Rzheshevsky, T. Desai, J.C. Shapiro, A. Moore, P.W.H. Brown, D. Levin, J.

Garrard, V. Anfilov, J. Erickson, U. de Maiziere, R. Bone, D. Frasse, M. Cullis, M.

Ridley.

5. Series of documents acting as a follow up to the conference, including multiple copies

of the report on the conference. Also features letters between Dilks and C. Mallaby,

V. Anfilov, O. Rzheshevsky, J. Ramsden, G.H. Vassiltchikov, R. Bone, T. Desai, J.H.

Bamberg, A.G. Hughes, M. Bullock, R. Ehni, R. Charvet, H. Shukman, J. Carpenter.


1. Series of documents regarding media coverage of both the conference and a

subsequent book published comprising the papers presented at the conference. Also

includes correspondence between Dilks and J. Erickson.

2. Series of documents concerning registration for the conference. Also includes a

conference programme and travel information.

3. Series of circular letters addressed to those attending the conference.

4. Series of documents concerning fund raising for the conference.

5. Series of documents concerning the accounts for the conference.

6. Series of letters and other documents referred to by Dilks as ‘begging’ for funding for

the conference.

7. Series of documents concerning catering and accommodation for those attending the

conference.

29. 1993 Conference on Collective Security, Washington:

29/1 Note from Dilks regarding the nature of the documents featured here (dated 7/9/12).

29/2 Academic Sources:

1. “Collective Security, 1919 and 1991” by D. Dilks. Paper presented by Dilks at the

conference. Includes letters from S.F Wells and J. Lampe discussing its creation.

2. “Finding an Analogy for Tomorrow” by G.F. Treverton. American writer on

intelligence and terrorism. Previously served in the U.S. Government on the first

Senate Intelligence Committee and as vice chair of the National Security Council.

3. “Does Eastern Europe Belong in NATO?” by J. Simon. American author, lecturer and

consultant on terrorism and political violence.

4. Copy of the Offprint Journal for the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts,

Manufacturers and Commerce (dated January 1992).

29/3 Speeches:

1. Three speeches by R.G.H. Seitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom,

dated 11/5/92, 30/11/92 and 19/2/93.

29/4 Primary Source Material:

1. Series of primary documents used by Dilks in the creation of the paper he presented at

this conference.

29/5 Newspaper Articles:

1. Series of newspaper articles, from the Daily Telegraph and the Scotsman, dating from

late 1992 and early 1993 reflecting contemporary affairs. Most notably includes an

article from Boris Johnson (dated 20/9/92) on the failures of a United Europe.

30. 1995 International Committee for the History of the Second World War, Montreal:

30/1 Note from Dilks on where the papers presented at this conference have been published,

with an additional comment on the whereabouts of his own paper (dated 14/9/12).


1. “GUPVI – the Soviet Main Administration for Prisoners of War and Internees during

World War II” by S. Karner. Austrian historian of modern Central and Eastern

Europe, with a particular focus on the Soviet Union. Head of the Institute for

Economic, Social and Business History at the University of Graz.

2. “World War II Prisoners of War in the Economy of the Soviet Union” by S. Karner.

3. “Flaws in the Nuremberg Precedent Inhibiting UN Conviction of Perpetrators of War

Crimes and Crimes against Humanity” by R. Wolfe. Former Senior Archivist at the

US National Archives. Considered a subject matter expert on captured Nazi war

documents.

4. “Allied Interdiction and Japanese Improvisation: The Japanese Transport System

during the Last Year of the War” by M. Parillo. Military historian with a particular

focus on the history of warfare in the Industrial Age. Served as a chairman of the

WWII Studies Association.

5. “Finland’s Transition from War to Peace” by O. Vehviläinen. Professor of History at

the University of Tampere. Historian of modern Finland, with a particular focus on

the role of Finland during WWII.

6. “Hungarian Prisoners in the Soviet Union (1941-1955)” by T. Stark. Professor of

History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Historian of forced population

movement in Eastern Europe in the period 1938-1956, with special regard given to the

history of the Holocaust and post-war migrations.

7. “Arlington Hall and Tokyo’s Links with Berlin and Moscow, 1944-1945: The

MAGIC Perspective of Japanese Relations with Germany and Russia during the Last

Year of the War” by C. Boyd. American military historian with expertise in WWII-

era Japanese submarines. Served in the US Navy Submarine Service from 1954-1958.

8. “Justice and Nazi Crimes in Austria 1945-1955: Between Self-Purge and Allied

Control” by W.R. Garscha and C. Kuretsidis-Haider. Garscha specialises in the study

of Modern Austria, with a particular focus on its relations with Nazi Germany and

Soviet Russia. Kuretsidis-Haider has extensively studied the legal system in Austria

during the period of Nazi rule.

9. “International Trials of War Criminals: Nuremberg and Tokyo. A Comparison and

Estimation Half a Century Later” by C. Madajczyk. Served as President of the

Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw from 1971-1983,

and as a Vice President of the International Committee for the History of the Second

World War from 1980-1995. Authored over 600 publications, specialising in the

history of Poland in the twentieth century, particularly WWII.

10. “From Total War to Total Peace? Reactions to World War II in Post-War Germany

1945-1969/70” by G. Niedhart. Historian of both Great Britain and German

international relations in the 20th century.

11. “Vivre l’histoire ou ‘histoire vinvante’: La deuxième guerre mondiale dans l’esprit

des Polonais cinquante ans après” by T. Szarota. Polish historian of everyday life in

occupied Poland, with a particular focus on occupied Warsaw and other major cities.


12. “The Grand Alliance: New documents and commentaries” by O. Rzheshevsky.

Professor at the Institute of World History at the Russian Academy of Sciences in

Moscow.

13. “Relations between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies at the end of the Second

World War” by M. Mackintosh. Joined SOE during WWII, parachuted into

Yugoslavia to support Tito’s partisans in 1944. Joined the Foreign Office in 1960 as

an intelligence analyst. Appointed to the Cabinet Office in 1968 as a senior advisor on

Soviet affairs, visiting Moscow in 1973 as part of a delegation led by foreign

secretary Alec Douglas-Home. Produced a number of historical works on Soviet

history and International Relations with the Soviet Union.

31. 1995 Oxford Conference:


1. “Comparative Strengths of Allied and German forces in Italy 1944-45” by C. Barnett.

Prominent British military historian who has also written works on Britain’s

economic history, with a particular focus on the post-war ‘industrial decline’ of the

United Kingdom.

2. “The Terminal Campaign in Western Europe 1945” by C. Barnett.

3. “The Liberation of Belgium, September 1944-Sumer 1945” by M. Conway. Historian

of Modern Europe, with a particular focus on the period from 1930-1960. Has written

extensively on the affairs of Belgium during this time.

4. “The Soviet Takeover in Romania, 1944-48” by D. Deletant. Emeritus Professor of

Romanian Studies at University College London. Declared persona non grata by the

Romanian authorities in 1988 as a result of his negative comments towards the

Ceauşescu regime in the British media. Has written extensively on the history of

Modern Romania.

5. “‘Poslednii Shturm’: The Soviet Drive to Berlin, 1945” by J. Erickson. British

historian of WWII with a particular focus on the role of the Soviet Union. Best known

for his work on the Battle of Stalingrad and the Red Army’s march towards Berlin.

6. “Bulgaria at the end of the Second World War 1944-1945” by M. Mackintosh. Joined

SOE during WWII, parachuted into Yugoslavia to support Tito’s partisans in 1944.

Joined the Foreign Office in 1960 as an intelligence analyst. Appointed to the Cabinet

Office in 1968 as a senior advisor on Soviet affairs, visiting Moscow in 1973 as part

of a delegation led by foreign secretary Alec Douglas-Home. Produced a number of

historical works on Soviet history and International Relations with the Soviet Union.

7. “The Campaign on the Eastern Front, 1944-45, and its political aftermath: A British

Perspective” by M. Mackintosh.

8. “Yalta Decisions and Germany” by K-J Müller. Historian of International Relations,

the twentieth-century German Army and the German Resistance.

9. “The Liberation of Norway” by O. Riste. Specialised in modern Norwegian History

with a particular focus on international and national security and military history.

10. “The Synthesis of the Political Order and the Resistance Movement in the

Netherlands in 1945” by P. Romijn. Head of the Research Department for the Dutch

Institute for War Documentation and a Professor at the University of Amsterdam.

Specialises in the history of law and order, particularly in relation to WWII.

11. “Italy: From Fascism to Democracy” by C. Seton-Walton. Served in a variety of

locations for the British Army during WWII, including spending time in Italy.

Became a historian after the war, teaching at Oriel College, Oxford, until 1983. Best

known for his work on Liberal Italy and its foreign policy.

12. “Two Armies – two Occupations in Hungary in 1944-1945” by P. Sipos. Historian of

Modern Hungary. Chairman of the Committee of Historians and Museologists at the

Public Foundation for Holocaust Documentation Centre and Memorial Collection in

Budapest.

13. “The Soviet Occupation of Poland, 1944-45” by N. Davies. British-Polish historian

noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom.

Widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent historians of Central and Eastern Europe.

Has received criticism for his analysis of the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland, with

claims that he has minimised the role of historic anti-Semitism.

14. “Soviet Policy in Eastern Europe (1944-45): Liberation or Occupation? Documents

and Commentary” by O. Rzheshevsky. Professor at the Institute of World History at

the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

32. 1998 International Conference on the British Commonwealth and The Allied War Effort

1939-45, Oxford:

32/1 Note from Dilks discussing the nature of the conference and the whereabouts of his

paper (dated 24/9/12).

32/2 Series of documents concerning the organisation of the conference. Includes travel

information, biographical information on the participants and a conference programme.

Papers Presented:

32/3 Session I&II:

1. “Britain, The Commonwealth and the Wider World, 1939-45” by D. Dilks. Former

professor of International History at the University of Leeds and subsequently Vice

Chancellor at the University of Hull. Historian of British international relations during

and between the World Wars, and the official biographer of Neville Chamberlain.

2. “New Zealand Strategy in the Second World War” by I. McGibbon. Formerly served

as General Editor of War History at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage in

Wellington, having begun his career as the Defence Historian at the Ministry of

Defence. Historian of the New Zealand military and New Zealand’s role in the two

world wars.

3. “The Caribbean Sea Frontier within the Strategy of the Allied (United Nations)

Powers in World War II” by F. André Baptiste. Formerly served as a Senior Lecturer

in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and

Tobago.

4. “National Mobilization and Military Effectiveness in the Union of South Africa,

1939-1945” by W.R. Nasson. Historian of South African military history. Former

editor of the Journal of African History.

5. “A Teenager Under Siege in Malta G.C. 1940-43” by J.A. Mizzi. Specialises in the

history of Malta.

6. “General Freyberg, The Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force and Coalition

Warfare in the Mediterranean 1940-43” by J. Crawford. Official Historian of the New

Zealand Defence Force.

32/4 Session III:

1. “The Expansion of the Indian Army in World War II: Raisings and Force Levels” by

S.L. Menezes. Served in the 4th Bombay Grenadiers during WWII, remaining in the

army until his retirement from the post of Vice Chief of Army Staff in 1980. Has

written extensively post-retirement on Indian Military History.

2. “New Zealand’s Role in the Commonwealth’s Response to the Japanese Challenge”

by W.D. McIntyre. Expert on the constitutional and military histories of the

Commonwealth of Nations and the British Empire. Served as a special advisor to the

Committee on Commonwealth Membership.

3. “India’s Role in the Collapse of Japan during the Pacific War” by T.R. Sareen.

Historian of the Indian Army and Indian International Relations during and after

WWII. Served as Director of the Indian Council of Historical Research and Assistant

Director of the National Archives of India.

32/5 Session IV:

1. “The Role of Muslim Martial Races of Today’s Pakistan in the British-Indian Army

in World War II” by N.A. Husain. Historian of the Pakistani Military and Pakistani

International Relations.

2. “Contribution of Pakistan’s Punjab Regiment in the Second World War” by M.I.

Qureshi. Served extensively in the Punjab Army during and after WWII. Later served

as Deputy Chief of the General Staff in the Pakistan Army from 1971-1973, before

being transferred to the Pakistan Foreign Service, from which he retired in 1981.

3. “The King’s Afrikaners? Enlistment and Ethnic Identity in the Union of South

Africa’s Defence Force During the Second World War, 1939-45” by A. Grundlingh.

Specialises in social and cultural history with a particular interest in war and society.

Has written major works on the Boer War and the South African role in the two

World Wars.

4. “The Role of Black South African Soldiers in the Second World War: A Contested

Contribution” by L. Grundlingh. Professor of History at the University of

Johannesburg. Has written extensively on the South African role in the two World

Wars.

5. “The Australian and New Zealand Military Contributions in the Second World War:

A Comparison” by C. Bridge. Professor of Australian History at King’s College

London. Historian of the British Empire and Australian International Relations,

particularly those with the United Kingdom.

6. “The Contribution of the Indian Soldier in World War II” by U.P. Thapliyal. Indian

military historian with a particular focus on the affairs of the Indian Army across the

twentieth century, including WWII and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War.

7. “New Zealand and the Commonwealth Air War” by C. Goulter. Specialises in air

power, intelligence and counter-insurgency studies. Has written extensively on the

RAF and the role of SOE in WWII.

32/6 Session V&VI:

1. “A full and balanced story: The Australian official history of the Second World War”

by J. Grey. Has written extensively in the fields of Australian and comparative

military history.

2. “Expensive, Wasteful and Unnecessary? Some British and Commonwealth reflections

on Special Forces during the Second World War” by M. Seaman. Former official

historian at the Imperial War Museum, considered an expert on military intelligence

and the work of SOE.

3. “The Commonwealth’s Input into SOE” by M.R.D. Foot. Professor of Modern

History at University of Manchester. Served with the SAS and the French Resistance

during WWII. Became the official historian of SOE.


1. “The Indian Army in the Middle East, East African and Mediterranean Theatres

during the Second World War” by I.S. Gill. Served in the British Army during WWII,

continuing to serve in the Indian Army after independence.

2. “Report on the Conference held at Leeds to mark the 50th Anniversary of the German

Attack upon Russia, June 1941” by D. Dilks. Report on the 1991 Barbarossa

Conference at Leeds, the papers of which can also be found in this collection.


1. Series of letters between Dilks and various historians and dignitaries acting as an

introduction to the conference, including S. de Osuna, M. Msimang, L.M. Singhvi, R.

Grant, N. Blewett, R. MacLaren, F.W. Deakin, G. Cox, H. Roos, R. Butler, G. Cohen.

2. Series of general administrative documents including lists of the conference attendees,

information on those presenting papers and information on the conference finances.

3. Series of letters between Dilks and various Australian and Canadian participants at the

conference, including J. Gooch, C. Bridge, J. Grey, P. Dennis, A. Low, P. Jackson, H.

Mackenzie, N. Hillmer.

4. Series of letters between Dilks and various Caribbean and Maltese participants at the

conference, including F. André Baptiste, D. Irvine, J.A. Maraj, N. Flanigan, A.C.

Wilmot, R. Marshall, C.B. Williams, G. Tabona, J.J. Chadwick.

5. Series of letters between Dilks and various Indian participants at the conference,

including T.R. Sareen, S.L. Menezes, K. Vadgama, K.N. Panikkar, T.T. Yong, K.

Kapur, B.D. Kapur, J.J. Irani, M. Dalal, I.S. Gill, A. Husain, G. Gandhi, A. Basu, A.

Seal, D. Gore-Booth, U.P. Thapliyal, D.K. Oza.

6. Series of letters between Dilks and various New Zealander and Pakistani participants

at the conference, including C. Goulter, I. McGibbon, B. Richards, L. Thornton, V.

Orange, N.A. Husain, M.I. Qureshi, N. Ahmad, S. Yaqub-Khan, M.A. Husain.

7. Series of letters between Dilks and various South African and British participants at

the conference, including W.R. Nasson, L. Grundlingh, A. Grundlingh, M.R.D. Foot,

G. Cowell, D. Dodds-Parker, W. Buchanan, D. Hunt, C. Gray, H. Khan, K.

Srinivasan, R. Holland, P. Lyon, B. Richards, A. Glen,

8. Series of letters between Dilks and various trusts and societies supporting the

conference, including S.O.D. Wade, A.N. McClenaghan, P. Romijn.

9. Series of letters to and from Dilks acting as a follow up to the conference, including

A. Brook, J. Grey, J.J. Chadwick, W.R. Nasson, S.L. Menezes, L. Grundlingh, F.

André Baptiste, J.A.B. Crawford, J.A. Mizzi, R. Grant, B. Richards, D. Dodds-Parker,

Y. Ghai, I.S. Gill, B.D. Kapur C. Goulter, R. Marshall, J. Erickson, O. Baker, R.

MacLaren, N. Hillmer, A. Glen, I. McGibbon, T.R. Sareen, U.P. Thapliyal, G. Cox,

N. Blewett, D. Hunt.

10. Series of letters between Dilks and J.J. Chadwick.

11. Series of letters and documents regarding the organisation of the conference. Includes

a conference programme, introductory letters and notes by the conference secretary,

and letters regarding the whereabouts of Dilks’ paper featuring D. Morrish, G. Innes,

L. Evans, J.J. Chadwick, R. Crawford, R. Holland, J. Hoult.

12. Series of miscellaneous letters between Dilks and other historians, including V.R.

Mehta, K.M. Shrimali, A. Glen, D. Dodds-Parker, R.R.M. Clogg. Also includes

information on two previous conferences; “Australia and Britain in War in the

Twentieth Century” (London, 1997) and “Remembering the soldiers of the old Indian

Army during the World Wars I (1914-18) and II (1939-45)” (London, 1989).

33. Proposed Anglo-Canadian colloquia on science and technology transfer, 1984-1987 (did

not take place)

33/1 Correspondence relating to proposed colloquia, 22 April 1986 – 15 October 1986.

33/2 Documents and newspaper cuttings relevant to proposed colloquia, 1984 - 1987.

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