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World Wars I and II are a major focus of the numerous collections on Great Britain. Many of them relate to the British army and Allied military operations and propaganda efforts of the British government. Other collections document twentieth-century politics, economics, and social conditions in the country and British foreign policy and colonialism.
British economist, educator, and novelist
Staff officer, US military mission to Great Britain, 1942–45
Miscellaneous materials
British social scientist
British Conservative Party politician
British organization promoting free-market economic policies
British government official and author
Materials relating to World War I
Exhibit at Hoover contrasts official, nonofficial views of World War I in England
Stanford Report, February 20, 2008
Duignan, Peter, ed. The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1985.
Palm, Charles, and Dale Reed. Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1980.
More than one hundred British government documents from nine archival collections at Hoover have been declassified. The majority, which are among the Charles Hill papers, are communications from the Office of the British Chargé d'Affaires in Beijing, 1966–68.
With more than four thousand images from the United Kingdom having been recently added, the Hoover Institution’s online, searchable poster database now has some eighteen thousand images of political posters from its collection.
An exhibition of government posters, photographs, fine art, and rare editions of poetry from the collections of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, and the Special Collections of Stanford University Libraries, guest curated by members of Professor Peter Stansky's class, Art and History: Modern Britain.
