NAM.1990-11-42

Inventory description: Papers of Professor Henry Spenser Wilkinson (1853-1937), comprised of personal correspondence with academics, military commanders and statesmen, and draft articles and lectures, research notes and book reviews, 1881 - 1938, covering his role as a journalist with the Manchester Guardian (1881-1892) and Morning Post (1895-1914), and as Fellow of All Souls and the first Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University (1909-1923), and member of the Royal Commission on Militia and Volunteers (1904); relating to his interests in military strategy and foreign policy, current campaigns, national and imperial defence, conscription, Home Rule, officer training, the Navy League, the Esher Report, air warfare, army and navy reform and disarmament, and featuring his correspondence with senior members of the Government following the outbreak of the First World War, and letters from FM Lord Roberts, Lord Milne, FM Count von Moltke, General Sir Ian Hamilton, Lord Haldane, and Sir William Robertson.