IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Hiscocks
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: HISCOCKS, Charles Richard (1907-1998)
Date(s): 1928, 1946-1983
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 4 boxes (0.04 cubic metres)
Name of creator(s): Hiscocks | Charles Richard | 1907-1998 | Professor
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1907; educated at Highgate School, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MA), Berlin University (DPhil 1935). Assistant Master Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, 1929-1932, Bradfield College, 1936-1939, Marlborough College1939-1940. Joined Royal Marines, 1940, served in Mediterranean and Far East, rising to Lt Col; seconded to Army as Military Governor of Dannenberg, Germany, 1945; British Council Representative in Austria, 1946-1949, Southern India 1949-1950; Prof of Political Science and International Relations, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1950-64; member United Nations Sub-Committee for Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 1953-62; Prof of International Relations University of Sussex, 1964-72, died 1998. Publications: The Rebirth of Austria, (OUP, London, 1953); Democracy in Western Germany (OUP, London, 1957); Poland: Bridge for the Abyss (OUP, London, 1963); Germany Revived (Gollancz, London, 1966); The Security Council: a study in Adolescence (Longman, London, 1973)
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Publications, (chiefly pamphlets) acquired by Charles Richard Hiscocks on international organisations, 1946-1983; comprising publications by and about the United Nations, 1946-1983 (19 items); the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1952-1981, (7 items); the International Labour Office (ILO), 1955-1971 (14 items); the International Development Association (1972-1982 (3 items); Africa, 1956-1970 (3 items); Austria, 1950 (1 item); Europe, 1964 (1 item); the Far East, 1928-1957 (2 items); Germany, 1949-1960 (6 items); the Middle East, 1951-1957 (3 items); general publications, 1946-1980 (5 items) .
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and German
System of arrangement:
Pamphlets arranged by originating organisation or by geographical area
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:
Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by family, Nov 1999
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Who's Who, Times obituary. Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2001