Churchill, Sir Winston, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge CHAR 2/264
Cooper, Alfred Duff, Diaries, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, the papers of Alfred Duff Cooper (1st Viscount Norwich) DUFC 15
Dugdale, Nancy, Constitutional Crisis (Dugdale diary), Crathorne papers
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Monckton, Walter, Narrative, Balliol College, Oxford, Dep Monckton Trustees C22
Peacock, Sir Edward, Sir Edward Peacock notes, Balliol College, Oxford, Dep Monckton Trustees C22
Wilson, Sir Horace, King Edward VIII: Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street and drafts, National Archives PREM 1/466
Windsor, Duke of, draft memoirs, House of Lords Record Office, Beaverbrook papers, BBK 6/G/23, BBK 6/G/24 and BBK 6/G/27
UNPUBLISHED DIARIES
Hardinge, Helen, The hon. Lady Murray papers
MacDonald, James Ramsay, The National Archives PRO 30/69
Norman, Montagu, Bank of England Archives ADM 34/30
Reith, Sir John, BBC Written Archives, Caversham
GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES
National Archive, NA
National Archives of Australia, NAA
OTHER UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL AND ARCHIVES
Baldwin, Stanley, papers, University Library, Cambridge, 176–8 L3 ‘The Royal Box’
Baldwin, Windham, papers, University Library, Cambridge
Beaverbrook, Lord, papers (BBK), House of Lords Record Office
Chamberlain, Neville, papers, University of Birmingham Special Collections, Neville Chamberlain papers (NC)
de Courcy, Kenneth, papers, Hoover Institution Archives, University of Stanford (microfilm)
Davidson, J. C. C., papers, House of Lords Record Office (DAV)
Dugdale, Thomas, Crathorne papers
Fielden, Air Vice Marshal Sir Edward, papers, RAF Museum, Hendon
Fisher, Sir Warren, papers
Hesse, Fritz, Nachlaß Hesse (papers), Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
Hoare, Sir Samuel, Templewood papers, University Library, Cambridge
Jones, Thomas, papers, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth University
Peden, George C., notes of interviews, Bodleian Oxford Library, Special Collections
Rickatson-Hatt, Bernard, papers, Thomson Reuters Archive
Vansittart, Sir Robert, papers, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge (VNST)
PUBLISHED COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
Bloch, Michael (ed.), Wallis & Edward: Letters 1931–1937 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986).
Cameron, Norman and Stevens, R. H. (translator) Hitler’s Table Talk (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953).
Davenport-Hines, Richard & Sisman, Adam (eds.), One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Gilbert, Martin (ed.), The Churchill Documents, Volume 13: The Coming of War 1936–1939 (London: William Heinemann, 1982).
Jones, Thomas, A Diary With Letters 1931–1950 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1954).
Lowndes, Susan (ed.), Belloc Lowndes, Marie, Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes 1911–1947 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1971).
Nicolson, Harold, Diaries and Letters 1930–39 (London: Collins, 1966).
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Smith, Amanda (ed.), Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy (New York: Viking, 2001).
Williamson, Philip & Baldwin, Edward, Baldwin Papers: A Conservative Statesman, 1908–1947 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
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PUBLISHED DIARIES
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Brooks, Collin; Crowson, N. J. (ed.), Fleet Street, Press Barons and Politics: The Journals of Collin Brooks, 1932–1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Bruce Lockhart, Robert; Young, Kenneth (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart 1915–1938 (London: Macmillan, 1973).
Channon, Chips; Rhodes James, Robert (ed.), ‘Chips’: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004).
Colville, John, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955, Revised edition (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004).
Cooper, Duff; Norwich, John Julius (ed.), The Duff Cooper Diaries (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005).
Crawford, Earl of; Vincent, John (ed.), The Crawford Papers: The Journals of David Lindsay, Twenty-Seventh Earl of Crawford and Tenth Earl of Balcarres 1871–1940 During the Years 1892–1940 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984).
Dugdale, Blanche; Rose, N. A. (ed.), Baffy: The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale 1936–1947 (London: Valentine Mitchell, 1073).
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Stevenson, Frances; Taylor, A. J. P (ed.), Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson (London: Hutchinson, 1971).
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MEMOIRS
Attlee, C. R., As It Happened (Odhams, n.d.)
Avon, Earl of, The Eden Memoirs: Facing the Dictators (London: Cassell, 1962).
Baillie, Hugh, High Tension: The recollections of Hugh Baillie (London: Laurie, 1960).
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Boothby, Bob, Recollections of a Rebel (London: Hutchinson, 1978).
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Coote, Colin R., Editorial (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965).
Hardinge, Helen, Loyal to Three Kings (London: William Kimber, 1967).
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Macmillan, Harold, Winds of Change 1914–1939 (London: Macmillan, 1966).
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Reith, J. C. W., Into the Wind (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1949).
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Shaughnessy, Alfred, Both Ends of the Candle (London: Peter Owen, 1978).
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Woolton, Earl of, Memoirs (London: Cassell, 1959).
WORKS BY CONTEMPORARIES†
Baldwin, Windham, My Father: The True Story (London: Allen & Unwin, 1956).
Birkenhead, Lord, Walter Monckton (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969).
Boca, Geoffrey, She Might Have Been Queen (London: Express Books, 1955).
Bryan III, J. & Murphy, Charles J. V., The Windsor Story (London: Granada, 1979).
Colvin, Ian, Vansittart in Office (London: Gollancz, 1965).
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SECONDARY WORKS
Andrew, Christopher, Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (London: Allen Lane, 2009).
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ARTICLES
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White, R. & Yorath, J., ‘The Crystal Palace – Demise’, The White Files – Architecture. Retrieved 15 June 2010. (Quotations from Yorath’s original Radio Times article.)
* Entries 26 October to 11 December all about crisis
† Or drawn essentially from contemporary sources
INDEX
* * *
Act of Abdication (1936) 1, 2
Alexander, Ulick 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Alibert, Marguerite 1, 2
Allen, George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Amery, Leo 1, 2, 3, 4
Asquith, Henry 1, 2
Astor, Nancy 1, 2
Atatürk, Kemal 1
Attlee, Clement 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Baillie, Albert 1
Baldwin, Lorna 1
Baldwin, Lucy 1, 2, 3
Baldwin, Monica 1, 2, 3
Baldwin, Stanley announces abdication in House of Commons 1, 2, 3, 4 doubts about Edward VIII 1, 2
opinion of Lloyd George 1
becomes Prime Minist
er 1
defends Sir Warren Fisher 1
reliance on Sir Warren Fisher 1
and early days of Edward VIII’s reign 1, 2
opinion of Wallis Simpson 1, 2, 3
issues with foreign affairs 1, 2
meeting about Wallace Simpson’s pro–Nazi sympathies 1
and Sir Horace Wilson’s concerns over inaction 1
reaction to dinner at York House 1
takes convalescence break 1, 2
returns from convalescence 1
asks Sir Horace Wilson to contact royal household 1, 2
agrees to put Edward VIII under MI5 surveillance 1
persuaded to intervene in divorce proceedings 1
first meeting with Edward VIII about divorce 1
reaction to divorce case heard 1, 2
seeks constitutional advice 1
reaction to Sir Horace Wilson’s plans 1, 2, 3, 4
advised that press cannot maintain silence 1
pressure from Dominions 1, 2
and letter from Alec Hardinge to Edward VIII 1, 2, 3, 4
second meeting with Edward VIII about Wallis Simpson 1, 2
and Simpson’s relationship with William Randolph Hearst 1
and Harmsworth’s plan for morganatic marriage 1, 2, 3
seeks support of opposition leaders 1, 2
reaction to ‘King’s Party’ 1
calls Cabinet meeting to discuss crisis 1
plans for press coverage of crisis 1
rejects morganatic marriage option 1, 2
and Edward VIII’s belief in public support 1
discusses crisis in House of Commons 1, 2
and Edward VIII’s radio broadcast plan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
outlines options of crisis to Cabinet 1
and Chamberlain’s intervention in Cabinet 1, 2
sends telegram to Dominions 1
statement on Cabinet meeting to House of Commons 1
and meeting between Edward VIII and Churchill 1, 2
and intervention in divorce proceedings 1, 2, 3, 4
meeting with Edward VIII about abdication 1
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