Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (LHCMA)

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Founded in 1964, the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives is a repository for research into modern defence policy in Britain, its strategy, planning and conduct, and is part of King's College London Archives. The Centre holds the private papers of over 800 senior defence personnel who held office from 1900 onwards. Collections comprise diaries, correspondence, working papers and files, texts of lectures, memoranda, unpublished memoirs, audio and video tapes, interview transcripts, photographs, maps and plans, and press cuttings, and more recent acquisitions include the collections of TV documentary makers. The holdings are also of value for a range of subjects not necessarily associated with military history, including the history of science and journalism, and the study of racial interaction and colonial administration. The reference library, the core of which is the former private library of Capt. Sir Basil Liddell Hart, forms an integral part of the Centre's resources. The Centre reports that the significance of its collections has been recognised through Arts Council England's Designated Outstanding collection scheme.

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1964

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King's College London (KCL)
London