Interviews with Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton.

Lennox-Boyd's papers largely relate to the period after Boyd's resignation from the Cabinet in 1959. There is a small amount of general correspondence for the period before 1960 but virtually no material relating to his time as Colonial Secretary except a number of letters of encouragement concerning the Parliamentary debates on the Hola Camp massacre and the Devlin Report in the summer of 1959. The principal point of interest to historians of British colonial affairs will probably be the long…

The majority of the papers relate to the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth, with particular reference to Africa, Canada and India. Also included is material dating from 1907-1914 (whilst Coupland was at Trinity College, Oxford); a collection of cuttings (mainly articles and reviews by Coupland or about his work); a little printed material associated with his visit to Jerusalem in 1936-1937 as a member of the Palestine Royal Commission, and letters of congratulation on being awarded…

Papers relating to the Civil War and Commonwealth, copied by Francis Drake