IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Melissen
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: MELISSEN, Dr Jan (b 1960)
Date(s): Created 1949-1958
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 6 boxes or 0.06 cubic metres
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Senior Lecturer, Politics Department, and Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy, Leicester University; Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copies of documents, 1949-1958, from US Government sources, including the Department of Defense,Department of State, National Security Council and Atomic Energy Commission, 1949-1958, and from British Government sources, including the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office, 1952-1958. Compiled as research for a doctoral thesis, 'The struggle for nuclear partnership: Britain, the United States and the making of an ambiguous alliance, 1952-1959'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The collection is arranged chronologically within two separate sections relating to US and British documents.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by Melissen in 1993.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 1998