Archives

The Foundation owns a significant art collection and a library of historical and political works, the majority of which came from Lord Beaverbrook’s home, Cherkley Court.

Our archives contain significant historical documents, including:

• The Balfour Papers
• The Blake Papers
• The Davidson Papers
• The Hannon Papers
• The Bonar Law Papers
• The Melville Papers
• The Beaverbrook Papers
• The Blumenfeld Papers
• The Donald Papers
• The Healy Papers
• The Lloyd George Papers
• The Morrison-Bell Papers

Previously held by the Parliamentary Archive these papers have recently been moved to the National Archive at Kew.

Search the National Archive using the Y reference code.

We have a variety of books, letters and items including personal letters from the Duke of York to Lord Beaverbrook at the time of his abdication, books by Winston Churchill, a gift of small figures from Stalin, the locomotive plates from the Lord Beaverbrook steam engine and Sir Max Aitken’s flight log books.

The archive is being developed to include more recent history of the family.