Summary Guide

Note: The item numbers represent a subset from ISAD(G) rules (General International Standard Archival Description) promulgated by the International Council on Archives to standardise archival description world-wide. Only item numbers relevant to our specific archive are included here.

3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

3.1.1 Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Verney P V

3.1.2 Title: VERNEY, Maj Peter Vivian (b 1930)

3.1.3 Date(s): [1974-1980]

3.1.4 Level of description: Collection (fonds)

3.1.5 Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk or size): 3.5 boxes (0.035 cubic metres)

3.2 CONTEXT AREA

3.2.1 Name of creator(s): Verney | Peter Vivian | b.1930 | Major

3.2.2 Administrative/Biographical history: Born 1930; commissioned into the Irish Guards, 1951; service in the UK and British Army of the Rhine, West Germany, 1951-[1960]; Lt, 1953; Capt, 1957; author, 1963-1990. Publications: The standard bearer. The story of Sir Edmund Verney, Knight Marshal to Charles I (Hutchinson, London, 1963); The Micks. The story of the Irish Guards (Peter Davies, London, 1970); The Battle of Blenheim (Batsford, London, 1976); The gardens of Scotland (Batsford, London, 1976); Anzio 1944, an unexpected fury (Batsford, London, 1978); Here comes the circus (Paddington Press, London, 1978); editor of The Batsford book of sporting verse (Batsford, London, 1979); The earthquake handbook (Paddington Press, London, 1979); Homo tyrannicus, a history of man's war against animals (Mills and Boon, London, 1979); The genius of the garden, with Michael Dunne (Webb and Bower, Exeter, Devon, 1989).

3.2.3 Archival history:

3.2.4 Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Placed in the Centre by Verney in 1991.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

3.3.1 Scope and content: Manuscript and typescript research notes and copies of papers used by Maj Peter Vivian Verney as research material Anzio 1944, an unexpected fury (Batsford, London, 1978) [1974-1978]. Papers relating to a proposed book by Verney, known as BROM (the initials of the battles of Blenheim, 13 Aug 1704, Ramillies, 23 May 1706, Oudenarde, 11 Jul 1708, and Malplaquet, 11 Sep 1709), including manuscript and typescript research notes [1974-1978]; typescript draft manuscript of BROM [1976]; manuscript notes relating to Anglo-Dutch operations at Cádiz, Aug-Sep 1702, War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 [1976]. Bound typescript manuscript of an unpublished book by Verney entitled 'The gaiety and the glory: the Irishman at war', with manuscript and typescript research notes [1978-1980].

3.3.2 Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

3.3.3 Accruals:

3.3.4 System of arrangement: The collection is arranged in sections as outlined above.

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

3.4.1 Conditions governing access: Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

3.4.2 Conditions governing reproduction: 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 Director of Archive Services.

3.4.3 Language/scripts of material: English

3.4.4 Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

3.4.5 Finding aids:

3.5 ALLIED MATERIALS AREA

3.5.1 Existence and location of originals:

3.5.2 Existence and location of copies:

3.5.3 Related units of description: LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON also holds the papers of Verney's father, Maj Gen Gerald Lloyd Verney (1900-1957) (Ref: GB 0099 KCLMA Verney, GL).

3.5.4 Publication note:

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Note:

3.7 DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

3.7.1 Archivist's note:

3.7.2 Rules or conventions:

3.7.3 Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1999

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