Description
Object description
Ms and ts journals (September 1940 - December 1953) covering his roles as General Secretary (later Parliamentary Secretary) of the Civil Service Clerical Association, advisor and negotiator to other trade unions, most notably the Prison Officers Association, political journalist to various daily papers and weekly periodicals, author, radio broadcaster and television debater, public speaker, and Independent MP for Rugby (May 1942 - February 1950); including notes on politicians and social personalities, particularly his friendship with Lord Beaverbrook, his trip to America on behalf of the Ministry of Information (September 1941 - February 1942), his experience of air raids from his flat in Hampstead, north London and details of bomb damage in London, the presence of anti-Semitism in Britain and the threat of Communism both during and after the war, comments and reactions to the Beveridge Report (December 1942), the London housing shortage, the D-Day landings, the coal shortages (January 1945), the German surrender and VE celebrations (May 1945), the deterioration of relations between the West and Russia, culminating in the Berlin blockade and airlift (July 1948), the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan and the threat of atomic power, post-war food rationing (February - June 1946), his official visit to Hamburg and Berlin (July 1946) and to the Nuremberg War Trials as a correspondent (August 1946), and his emergence as a television personality on the BBC series 'In The News'. Also included with the collection is a photograph of Brown (c.1947) and typescripts of the journals.
Content description
Ms and ts journals (September 1940 - December 1953) covering his roles as General Secretary (later Parliamentary Secretary) of the Civil Service Clerical Association, advisor and negotiator to other trade unions, most notably the Prison Officers Association, political journalist to various daily papers and weekly periodicals, author, radio broadcaster and television debater, public speaker, and Independent MP for Rugby (May 1942 - February 1950); including notes on politicians and social personalities, particularly his friendship with Lord Beaverbrook, his trip to America on behalf of the Ministry of Information (September 1941 - February 1942), his experience of air raids from his flat in Hampstead, north London and details of bomb damage in London, the presence of anti-Semitism in Britain and the threat of Communism both during and after the war, comments and reactions to the Beveridge Report (December 1942), the London housing shortage, the D-Day landings, the coal shortages (January 1945), the German surrender and VE celebrations (May 1945), the deterioration of relations between the West and Russia, culminating in the Berlin blockade and airlift (July 1948), the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan and the threat of atomic power, post-war food rationing (February - June 1946), his official visit to Hamburg and Berlin (July 1946) and to the Nuremberg War Trials as a correspondent (August 1946), and his emergence as a television personality on the BBC series 'In The News'. Also included with the collection is a photograph of Brown (c.1947) and typescripts of the journals.
History note
Cataloguer PJB
History note
Catalogue date 2001-10