Sources In British Political History, 1900-1951

CHRIS COOK was educated at St Catherine's College, Cambridge. After research at Nuffield College, Oxford, he was Lecturer in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1970 he moved to the London School of Economics as Senior Research Officer and in 1976 took up his present senior appointment at the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscript6s. He has been author or co-author of many other books on modern history as well as acting as editor of the widely acclaimed British Political Biography series. In 1976 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.JEFFREY WEEKS was educated at University College London. He subsequently undertook research on contemporary political theory before taking up his current post as Research Officer at the British Library of Political and Economic Science. He is presently engaged on a study of changing social attitudes towards morality and has published a study (with Sheila Rowbotham) of the work of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis.

• Foreword Acknowledgements Members of the Political Archives Investigation Committee Introduction A Guide to the Private Papers of Selected Writers, Intellectuals and Publicits Appendix: A select list of major libraries mentioned in the text, with their archival holdings