| Description | Brown folder containing lectures, reviews and other works written by John Richmond, including both typed copies and handwritten notes or drafts, along with some correspondence. These include a seminar on the Cairo Tripartite Unity talks for the Middle East Centre in Cambridge (1963-4 - see EUL MS 115/41/13 for further material), his review and comments on Christopher Wheeler's draft for 'The Middle East, 1914-79) (1980) as well as an article on changes in villages in northern Israel by Bar-Gal and Soffer (1980), a report on the educational value of the family papers of Mohamed Aly - the ruling family of Egypt - with correspondence between Richmond and Prince Abbas Hilmi (grandson of the last khedive of Egypt), 'Diplomacy' (Harrogate Arab students, 1978), 'Has the Foreign Office kept pace with the changing conditions of international life' (1970), 'The effect of administrative centralisation on missions abroad' (1969), 'Some thoughts on the changing role of a Foreign Service' (1970), 'Arab Nationalism' (public lecture in Durham, 1967?), typed Notes for talk to Central Asian Society (1972), talk at the Durham University Catholic Society dinner (1977), Sudan yearbook article (1967), talk for Durham Rotary Society (1967), notes for talk on Islam given to VSO volunteers for the Sudan (1967), 'Current Major Problems in the Middle East' (Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 1967), a talk on his life and career (Durham, 1968?), 'Outline of Middle Eastern History' (Swinton Conservative College, 1969), notes on a manuscript 'Politics and the Military in Jordan' by Professor P.J. Vatikiotis (1967), 'A British View of the Last Three Years of the Palestinian Mandate' (Oxford seminar, 1968, with one version sent for publication in Aberystwyth and another adapted for an an Extra Mural course in Oxford in 1970), a lecture on Arabs to John Wall's students at Cheltenham in 1971, a talk to the Pen and Palette Club, Newcastle (1971), 'The Growth of Kuwaiti National Spirit' (Financial Times supplement, n.d.), comments on The Anglo-Egyptian Relationship with a report of the 1884 meeting between General Gordon and Zubair Pasha, handwritten notes on the question 'Is nationalism in the Islamic world destructive or constructive?' and typed notes for an introduction to Richmond's course on Near Eastern History. |