Guide to the Collections held by Nuffield College, Oxford (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2498-M2499
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Nuffield College Library, Oxford
- Title
- Collections held by Nuffield College, Oxford (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1893 - 1965
- Collection Number
- M2498-M2499
- Extent
- 53 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Papers 1942-57 of Frederick A. Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell. Subjects include: supply of uranium to British industry; allied forces in New Guinea; British atomic bomb tests in Maralinga; and Australian economic conditions.
Papers 1931-49 of politician and diplomat Sir Stafford Cripps, including letters of H.V. Evatt and John Fisher.
Papers 1907-14 of the politician Sir Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott. Subjects include: indentured labour scheme in Solomon Islands; tour of Empire Parliamentary Association; and precedence of Australian and New Zealand Governors.
Records 1896-1965 of the Fabian Society, including letters of Sidney Webb, James Jupp and Race Mathews.
Papers c.1918-25 of J.P. Bedford relating to guild socialism and trade unionism in Australia and New Zealand.
Papers 1937-51 of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, referring to activities of Morris Motors Ltd in Australia and visits to Australia 1946-47.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Citation items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the Nuffield College Library, Oxford, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1989 (AJCP Reels: M2498-M2499). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Nuffield College Library. Nuffield College, Oxford, England.
For further information see Nuffield College Special Collections and Archives.(https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/library/special-collection-and-archives/archive/)
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at theNational Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2304255] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Pieces that were not filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project have not been included in this Finding Aid.
Subjects
Atomic bomb; Australia; Australia: economic conditions; Australia: visits to; Bedford, J.P.; Churchill, Winston; Cripps, Sir Stafford; Diplomats; Emmott, Alfred, 1st Baron; Empire Parliamentary Association; Evatt, Herbert V., Dr; Fabian Society; Fisher, John; Great Britain; Jupp, James; Lindemann, Frederick A., 1st Viscount Cherwell; Maralinga, South Australia; Mathews, Race; Morris Motors Ltd (Australia); Morris, William R., 1st Viscount Nuffield; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea; Politicians: Britain; Socialism; Solomon Islands; Trade unions; Uranium; Webb, Sidney J., 1st Baron Passfield; World War II
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 357, p137.
Item Descriptions
Fonds. Cherwell Papers, 1940 - 1957
9 itemsBiographical / Historical
Frederick Alexander Lindemann (1886-1957), 1st Baron Cherwell (created 1941), 1st Viscount Cherwell (created 1956), who was educated in Scotland and Germany, carried out research at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough during World War I. In 1919 he was elected professor of experimental philosophy (physics) at Oxford University and a fellow of Wadham College. He was also the head of the Clarendon Laboratory, which he turned into one of the leading scientific research institutes in Britain. He was a close friend of Winston Churchill from 1921 onwards and in 1939 he became his personal assistant and the head of the statistical section at the Admiralty. During the War he wrote about 2000 minutes to Churchill on a vast range of scientific, military and defence topics. He returned to Oxford in 1945 and held his chair until 1956. He was paymaster-general in the Churchill Government in 1951-53.
Series C. Scientific Research, Writings, Conferences, September 1953
2 itemsSubseries C 85 - 87. Visit to Ceylon, Australia and the U.S., September 1953 - October 1953
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series F. World War Two: Statistical Section: General Papers, July 1940 - 1944
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Charts illustrating state of readiness of British forces in various parts of the world, July 1940, September 1940; December 1941 - September 1942 (File F 277)
41 Charts.
Includes Australian and New Zealand troops; Malaya 10 December 1941; Malaya 30 January 1942; Australia March 1942; New Zealand 1 April 1942; New Zealand 1 June 1942; New Zealand 1 August 1942.
Series H. World War Two: Statistical Section: Economic Topics, February 1944 - January 1945
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Series J. Politics and Conservative Party, May 1952
2 itemsFonds. Cripps Papers, 1931 - 1949
5 itemsSir (Richard) Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), whose father was a Labour cabinet minister, was educated at Winchester College and University College, London. He was called to the Bar in 1914 and became the youngest King's Counsel in 1927. He joined the Labour Party in 1929 and was elected to the House of Commons in 1931. He was chairman of the Socialist League (1933-37) and an advocate of a united front with the Communist Party. After embarking on a world tour in 1940, he served as British ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1940-42. In 1942 Cripps was appointed Lord Privy Seal by Winston Churchill and later in the year became minister for aircraft production. In the Attlee Government he held the offices of President of the Board of Trade (1945-47) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1947-50).
Series Box 1. Speeches and Articles, 30 September 1947 - 16 November 1949
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series Box 2. Files, 1931 - April 1939
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subseries. Files, 1931
1 item
Samoan Petition, 1931 (File 715/673)
To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from His Britannic Majesty's government…the petition of the accredited representatives of the National Organisation of Western Samoa, known as the 'mau' comprising some 95% of the inhabitants of Western Samoa. [re administration] (39p.) (printed)
Subseries. Files, 30 June 1937 - 17 April 1939
1 itemInternational 1932 - 39: war petitions, 30 June 1937 - 17 April 1939 (File 809/528)
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Fonds. Emmott Papers, 1907 - 1914
3 itemsAlfred Emmott (1858-1926), 1st Baron Emmott (created 1911), was the son of an Oldham cotton manufacturer. A graduate of London University, he became a partner and eventually managing director of the family business. He was mayor of Oldham in 1891. In 1899 he was elected as a Liberal member of the House of Commons and he was chairman of committees from 1906 to 1911. He was parliamentary undersecretary at the Colonial Office (1911-14) and led a delegation of the Empire Parliamentary Association to the four British dominions in 1913. He was appointed the first commissioner of works in 1914, but left the cabinet in 1915 to be the director of the war trade department. After the War he devoted most of his time to his business interests.
Diary, 22 October 1911 - 17 November 1913 (File MS 2)
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Diary, 22 October 1911 - 17 November 1913 (Item p. 40 - 99)
Accepts peerage and becomes Under secretary of State for the Colonies; mention of indenture labour scheme in Solomon Islands; dinner with Watt, Premier of Victoria; brief coverage of tour of Dominions on behalf of Empire Parliamentary Association July - November 1913.
Correspondence, 27 June 1907 - 15 July 1911 (File MS 4)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Correspondence, 9 May 1913 - 7 August 1914 (File MS 5)
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Lewis Harcourt (Oxford), to Emmott, 9 May 1913 (Item ff. 81 - 82)
Re offer from Commonwealth of Australia to pay the passage to Australia for certain British MPs.
Lewis Harcourt (Oxford), to Emmott: congratulations on success of Empire Tour, 1 January 1914 (Item ff. 123)
Lord Richard Nevill (Government House, Melbourne), to Emmott, 14 January 1914 (Item ff. 143 - 150)
Congratulations on GCMG; social life in Melbourne; personal comments.
Biographical / Historical
Lord Richard Nevill (1864 - 1939)
William Massey (Wellington) to Emmott, 27 February 1914 (Item ff. 154 - 155)
Re precedence of Governor of New Zealand vis à vis Governors of Australian states.
Fonds. Fabian Society Papers, 1893 - 1965
10 itemsBiographical / Historical
The Fabian Society was founded in London in 1884. Its name referred to the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus who defeated Hannibal by a strategy of persistence and attrition. The Fabians believed that socialism would be achieved not by revolution but by a gradual, almost imperceptible transformation of society. Early members of the Society included George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Graham Wallas, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and Ramsay MacDonald. Fabians were active in the formation of the Labour Representation Committee (1900) and the Society continues to be affiliated with the Labour Party. The first overseas branch of the Society was formed in Adelaide (1891-1902) and the Australian Fabian Society has been in existence since 1947.
Series A. Correspondence, 7 August 1898 - 1965
4 itemsSubseries A 3/4. Sydney Webb to Pease, 7 August 1898 - 26 December 1898
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Subseries A 22/3. Australia and New Zealand, c.1941-1965
(32p.)
Correspondents include James Jupp (Melbourne), J. Melville Kelly (University of Melbourne), J. Levett (Lake Macquarie Shire Library), R.J. McKell (Keswick SA), R. Mathews, Victoria F.S. (Melbourne), O.H. Evans (Auckland University Socialist Society).
Subjects include: subscriptions to publications, activities of the Victorian Fabian Society.
Series C. Minutes of Executive Committee and Lectures, 28 October 1898 - 10 November 1899
2 itemsSubseries C 7. Executive Committee Minutes, 28 October and 11 November 1898
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Subseries C 39. Meetings Minute Books, 27 January 1899
Filmed selectively.
Description of Sydney Webb's address at meeting, 27 January 1899 (File)
Entitled 'Some Impressions of Australasia' in which he contrasted the Australasian colonies with the U.S., discussing 'Fabianism' in New Zealand, Queensland's 'Socialism in Our Time' and its results, the Labour Parties of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia, and Federalism and its difficulties. (1p.)
Fonds. Guild Socialism, c.1918-1925
1 itemMaterial on National Guild League, National Guild Council and guilds in special localities and industries collected by J.P. Bedford.
Biographical / Historical
Guild socialism was a British political movement, partly inspired by William Morris, which developed in the early years of the twentieth century. Its proponents looked back to the medieval craft guilds and called for self-government in industry, with industrial guilds organised on democratic lines controlling state-owned industries. The academic G.D.H. Cole (1889-1959) formed the National Guilds League in 1916, which published a monthly journal, The Guildsman.
Series B. Files, c.1918-1925
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Australia and New Zealand (90p.), c.1918-1925 (File B 29)
Correspondents include: B.H. Molesworth (Brisbane); E.R. Voigt (Sydney); Thomas Walsh (Sydney); N.R. Freeberg (Sydney); G.A. Weller (Canterbury, Victoria); J.B. Allen (Auckland); E.H. Barker (Perth); J.C. Eldridge (Mosman); Clement Jackson (Rozelle); Arthur McCarthy (Dunedin); Walter Nash (Wellington); Edgar Pritchard (Kennington Park); D. Stewart (Sydney); S.B. Vial (Melbourne); P. Vinnell (Timaru); Robert Dunn (Dunedin).
Subjects include: subscription to The Guildsman and other publications, the position of trade unions in Australia and New Zealand.
Includes Constitution of National Industrial Alliance of Labour, [New Zealand] 1919; New Zealand Federation of Labour National Executive Report on present position of organised labour with respect to the industrial conciliation and arbitration act, and a proposed alternative method for guidance of industry in New Zealand. n.d. 8p.
Fonds. Nuffield Papers, 1937 - 1960
25 itemsBiographical / Historical
William Richard Morris (1877-1966), 1st Baron Nuffield (created 1934), 1st Viscount Nuffield (created 1938), who was born in Worcester, was apprenticed to a bicycle maker in Oxford in 1893. In 1903 he became works manager of the Oxford Automobile and Cycle Agency and in 1909 he set up the Morris Garage, where he sold, hired and repaired cars. In 1912 he moved into the manufacture of cars, producing the Morris Oxford. He set up Morris Motors Ltd in 1919 and by 1926 was producing over 20,000 cars a year. Morris Motors was the leading British car manufacturer into the 1930s, but increasing competition and Nuffield's authoritarian management style led to stagnation. In 1951 Morris Motors merged with Austin to form the British Motor Corporation. Nuffield was a great philanthropist, with most of his benefactions used for medical and educational purposes.
Series Boxes 4 - 5. Business, August 1945 - June 1951
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series Boxes 6 - 10. Personal, March 1947 - December 1960
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series Box 13. Honours, 1937 - February 1959
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series Boxes 14 - 18. Biographical and Historical Material, March 1946 - August 1954
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Victoria Park, Sydney, W.R. Morris' car factory project, 23 August 1954 (File 17/1/1-2)
Scrapbook of press cuttings and cartoons and covering letter from E. Berry, Cowley, to P. Andrews, Nuffield College. (29p.)
Victoria Park, Sydney. W.R. Morris' car factory project, 28 March 1946 - 17 April 1947 (File 17/2-19)
Folder of cartoons and press cuttings from Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, etc.
Series Boxes 19 - 35. Portraits and Photographs, 1937 - February 1950
7 items
Album re stranding of Wanganella on Barrett's Reef, Wellington, New Zealand, on 19 Jan 1947, 1947 (File 30/4)
Includes photographs of the ship, the rescued passengers, and press reports on marine enquiry 25 - 28 February 1947.
Album presented by Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club, WA (File 30/9)
(35p.)
Includes photographs of Lord Nuffield, various life saving teams in action, signatures of officers, 1947-48.
Album recording setting of foundation stone of first university building by Sir John Northcott for NSW University of Technology, 25 February 1950 (File 31/6)
Inscribed by Arthur Denning. (40p.)