Political papers

The Beaverbrook Foundation has been entrusted with the care of three sets of political papers of enormous historical importance.

Beaverbrook’s role at the heart of 20th Century politics means his own personal papers have great significance. As well as these, the Foundation owns the papers of two British Prime Ministers - Lloyd George and Bonar Law.
The papers are currently loaned to the Houses of Parliament library in London.

• The Beaverbrook Papers
  The papers contain correspondence and a variety of papers, photographs and other images, maps and a few artefacts covering every aspect of the life and work of Lord Beaverbrook, politician and newspaper proprietor, from 1879 to 1964.


• The Bonar Law Papers
  
  
  Bonar Law became leader of the Unionist Party in 1911, and subsequently served as Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1915, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1916-1918, Leader of the House of Commons 1916-1921, and Prime Minister in 1922. The Bonar Law papers provide a great deal of interest, particularly in relation to the Unionist Party and Unionist opinion between 1911 and 1923. Major topics covered include party organisation, tariff reform, the Irish question, the conduct of the war, relations with the Coalition Liberals and post-war home and foreign policy.


• The Lloyd George papers
  This collection comprises the political papers of David Lloyd George. The papers are arranged in 9 sub-fonds: LG/A contain papers up to 1905; LG/B are papers created when Lloyd George was President of the Board of Trade, 1905-1908; LG/C when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1908-1915; LG/D when he was Minister of Munitions, 1915-1916; LG/E when he was Secretary of State for War, June-Dec 1916; LG/F when he was Prime Minister, 1916-1922; LG/G consists of the papers created following his Premiership, 1922-1945; LG/H are press cuttings; and, LG/I contains personal correspondence and papers, including notes for speeches.

To discover more about the archive collections, formerly held by the Beaverbrook Library, which include the papers of the first Lord Beaverbrook, visit the Parliamentary Archives website.

www.portcullis.parliament.uk

All enquires concerning permission to publish papers and photographs from these collections should be referred to the Parlimentary Archives at archives@parliament.uk