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TheLiddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (LHCMA) atKing's College London was set up in 1964. The Centre holds the private papers of over 700 senior British defence personnel who held office since 1900. Individual collections range in size from a single file to the 1000 boxes of Captain SirBasil Liddell Hart's papers. To these are now being added research materials, notably interview transcripts, collected in connection with television documentaries and academic projects.
The scope of the holdings is vast, from high level defence policy and strategic planning as, for example, in the papers of Field MarshalAlan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke and GeneralHastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay down to the command of individual units in the field. TheSecond Boer War is strongly represented and subsequently almost every major campaign in whichBritish troops have fought, including theKorean andFalklands Wars and theGulf Crisis; the latter two are covered by contemporary interview transcripts.
Many significant collections reflect the revolution in weapon technology in the 20th century and the re-evaluation of tactics and strategy which necessarily followed on from the invention of thetank and the development ofair power. There is also much on the debate overnuclear issues.
The Centre's web site hosts theLocation Register of Twentieth Century Defence Personnel, a database of some 3000 British defence personnel who achieved the ranks above and includingMajor General,Air Vice Marshal andRear Admiral between the years 1900-1975.
The archives are open to readers able to demonstrate the seriousness of their interest in the papers. Military studies have been taught at King's College since 1927 and in 1953 a department ofWar Studies, the only university department of its kind inGreat Britain, was established.
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