Smith (Patrick) Papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 SMITH, PATRICK
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Smith (Patrick) Papers
Date(s)	: 1942-c1970
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 26 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Smith | (Stanley) Patrick James | 1915-1979 | BBC foreign correspondent
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1915; read Modern Languages at University College London, 1934-1937, 1938-1939; foreign correspondent for the BBC from 1942; served in Vienna and later Berlin from the mid-1940s until the early 1950s; stationed in Cairo during the Suez Crisis (1956); served in Cape Town in the late 1950s; served in Rome from the 1960s until his retirement in the 1970s; chief Mediterranean correspondent; OBE, 1969; died, 1979. Publication: A desk in Rome (Collins, London, 1974).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1942-c1970, of Patrick Smith, largely typescript dispatches or transcripts for broadcasts for the BBC on foreign affairs from various locations where he was stationed, and including material on World War Two, and on affairs in the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Mainly English

System of arrangement:

As received, largely filed by date.

Conditions governing access:

Closed pending cataloguing. Please contact the UCL Special Collections Team for further information

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Uncatalogued. Please contact UCL Special Collections for further information.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were given to University College London by Smith's children Karen Holden and Nicholas Smith via Professor J A North, Head of University College London History Department, in 1994.

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Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2001