Papers of Victor Bonham Carter (1913-2007)
Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Bonham Carter
Title: BONHAM CARTER, Victor (1913-2007)
Dates of creation of material: [1960-1964]
Level of description: item level
Extent: 0.01m3 or 1 box of papers
Introduction
- Biographical history
- Provenance
- Scope and content
- Arrangement
- Conditions of access and use
- Related material
Brief List
1 Papers relating to the writing of A Soldier True, a biography of FM Sir William (Robert) Robertson, 1st Bt, by Bonham Carter, 1960-1963
2 Papers relating to the BBC series The Great War, for which Bonham Carter undertook research and wrote scripts, 1963-1964
INTRODUCTION
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Born in 1913; educated at Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge;
on staff of The Countryman, 1936-1937;
Director, School Prints Ltd, 1937-1939, 1945-1960;
served with Royal Berkshire Regt and Intelligence Corps, 1939-1945;
farmed in West Somerset, 1947-1959;
historian of Dartington Hall Estate, Devon, 1951-1966;
on staff of Society of Authors, 1963-1982;
partner, Exmoor Press, 1969-1989;
published numerous books and articles on country life and on authorship matters,
especially Public Lending Right;
died 2007.
PROVENANCE
Presented to the Centre by Bonham Carter in 1965.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The collection is composed of two parts, papers relating to A Soldier True,
(Frederick Muller, London) Bonham Carter's biography of FM Sir William (Robert)
Robertson, 1st Bt, 1963, and papers created during the writing of scripts
for the BBC series The Great War, 1963-4.
Much of the Robertson material consists of handwritten notes taken from secondary
sources; of interest, though, is Bonham Carter's overview of the events of 1916,
especially concerning the French General Robert Georges Nivelle.
There are also some very brief notes made during interviews with persons relevant
to Bonham Carter's research on Robertson.
The notes and scripts relating to The Great War, show the process by which
historical material is incorporated into a television series;
again, there are interesting and detailed notes on the domestic problems and
foreign policy of 1916, which seems to have been Bonham Carter's area of expertise,
and many narratives describing historical events from differing perspectives are
to be found in the final scripts.
ARRANGEMENT
The material is divided into two areas, as described above, and within those two
areas, into sections based upon type of material.
In section 1/2 of the original list, every sheet of paper was numbered separately,
whether part of a larger item or not;
this was considered misleading, and that section has been renumbered according
to item.
Access
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Copyright
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the College Archivist.
Language
English.
Related units of description
The Centre also holds the papers of FM Sir William (Robert) Robertson, 1st Bt (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Robertson W R).
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