Bundle of pamphlets published by the Union of Democratic Control re the First World War and especially about ways to ...,

Archive Unit

For more information, email the repository
Advice on accessing these materials
Cite this description
Bookmark:http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb210-benies/box25/2.

This material is held at
Reference
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
Location

Scope and Content

Bundle of pamphlets published by the Union of Democratic Control re the First World War and especially about ways to secure a lasting peace once the war had ended.

Note

Preferred citation: BOX 25/2.

Additional Information

Published

Archive Record|Table of contents

Ben Davies Papers,BENIES

Three files of family correspondence comprising approximately 1,350 letters, including copy replies; written mainly by Ben Davies and his wife ...,BOX 1/1-3.

Three files of the general correspondence of Ben Davies comprising approximately 1,500 letters including 20 letters from Evan Pan Jones ...,BOX 2/1-3.

Six files of approximately 900 letters from Sir Oliver Lodge or his secretary to Ben Davies with a number of ...,BOX 3/1-6.

Nine letters and a postcard from Lady Lodge to Ben Davies and his wife,BOX 4/1.

File of press cuttings about Sir Oliver Lodge,BOX 4/2.

File of correspondence concerning Ben Davies' participation in a BBC radio programme to celebrate the centenary of the birth of ...,BOX 4/3.

Typescript draft of an unpublished textbook on physics by Sir Oliver Lodge divided into five sections, viz. heat mechanics, sound ...,BOX 4/4-8.

Illustrations drawn by Ben Davies and his daughter Gwen for an unpublished textbook on physics by Sir Oliver Lodge,BOX 4/9.

Illustrations for Sir Oliver Lodge's broadcast talks on the atom,BOX 4/10.

Diaries of Ben Davies containing brief domestic details and an almost daily resume of current political events often with trenchant ...,BOX 5/1-13.

Diaries of Ben Davies containing brief domestic details and an almost daily resume of current political events often with trenchant ...,BOX 6/1-20.

Pocket diaries, 1889, 1891-3, 1895, 1899, 1901-41, 1945-9 of Ben Davies containing details about meetings, appointments, work, etc,BOX 7/1-54.

Printed diaries, Y Llawlyfr Annibynol, apparently kept by Mrs. Hannah Davies, Ben Davies's mother, containing mainly details of funerals in ...,BOX 7/55-61.

Pocket notebooks of Ben Davies containing details of expenses, scientific notes, etc.BOX 7/62-81.

Notebooks containing notes from the Bible, notes of sermons heard, and notes on Ethics, Christian Science and the history of ...,BOX 7/82-6.

Notebook containing notes for articles,BOX 7/87.

Notebook labelled by Ben Davies 'War Sociology Church',BOX 7/88.

Notebooks and a folder containing a number of graphs and equations being attempts to reduce social and economic concepts to ...,BOX 7/89-92.

Notebook entitled 'Social Questions Original Rough Notes,BOX 7/93.

File of graphs drawn by Ben Davies of the distribution of wealth in Great Britain in 1881; the age distribution ...,BOX 7/94.

Bibliographies of books, articles, contributions to the press, etc., re Russia, Communism, Socialism, Nazism, etc,BOX 7/95-6.

Sunday school exercises,BOX 8/1-2.

College notebooks, on molecular physics, statics, dynamics, electricity, electro-statics, mechanics, heat, light, sound, etc,BOX 8/3-70.

'Laboratory Books' compiled by J. W. Clark, containing details of experiments conducted,BOX 8//1-2.

Notebooks labelled 'Original Notes' by Ben Davies comprising notes on engines, sound measurements, galvanometers, gases, integrators, telegraphy, etc,BOX 8/3-6.

Notebook containing details of experiments on the permeability of liquids,BOX 8/7.

Notebook containing details of experiments with the ether machine,BOX 8/8.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on photo-electricity,BOX 8/9-14.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on the induction of cables, cable telegraph, telegraphy, etc,BOX 10/1-17.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on electro-magnetic telegraph,BOX 11/1-4.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on wireless telegraphy,BOX 11/5-7.

Notebooks containing rough notes of 'All Experiments' conducted by Ben Davies,BOX 11/8-9.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on submarine telegraphy,BOX 11/10-13.

Notebook containing rough notes on observations on the 'line disturbance' at Ballycastle, Ireland,BOX 11/14.

Notebook concerning electrical measurements,BOX 11/15.

File of provisional specifications, mainly of inventions or designs re telegraphy patented by Sir Oliver Lodge and Messrs Muirhead & ...,BOX 12/1.

Two files of correspondence, including copy replies, between Ben Davies and Messrs Muirhead & Co. concerning the latter manufacturing the ...,BOX 12/2-3.

List of patent applications made by Walter Judd of the Eastern Telegraph Co., Ben Davies and others, 1902-1922, and provisional ...,BOX 12/4.

File of papers concerning experiments carried out at the laboratory of the Eastern Telegraph Co,BOX 13/1.

List of experiments conducted by Ben Davies at the laboratories of the Eastern Telegraph Co., with brief notes on some ...,BOX 13/2.

File of diagrams, equations, blueprints and other working papers re experiments undertaken by Ben Davies for the Eastern Telegraph Co ...,BOX 13/3-18.

File of draft and typescript reports, draft diagrams, blueprints and other working papers relating to experiments carried out for the ...,BOX 13/19.

Volume containing an account of experiments conducted at the Eastern Telegraph Co.'s research laboratory in 1911 on Dipper Currents and ...,BOX 13/20.

Observations of earth currents on the Eastern Telegraph Co.'s cables in Madras, St. Helena, Capetown, etc,BOX 13/21.

File of correspondence, including drafts, between Ben Davies and the Eastern Telegraph Co. concerning Morse Relay at Porthcurnow, Cornwall,BOX 14/1.

File of correspondence, including drafts, between Ben Davies and the Eastern Telegraph Co. re establishing Porthcurnow as a relay station ...,BOX 14/2.

Notebooks containing notes and diagrams re experiments conducted for the Admiralty on the detection of submarines,BOX 14/3-4.

Notebooks containing details of experiments on electricity, electro-statics and artificial currents],BOX 14/5-7.

Two notebooks and two files containing details of experiments on Loaded Cable and Spiral Load. [cf. Box 15/2],BOX 14/8-11.

File entitled 'Problems of Dynamo Magnifier Magneto Meter' containing graphs, equations, etc,BOX 14/12.

Two files containing details of experiments on Artificial Cables and Duplex Signalling, 1923-1927. Xerox copies of extracts from the records ...,BOX 14/13-14.

File of correspondence between Ben Davies and Messrs Musgrave & Co., blueprints, specifications, etc., relating to developing an improved car ...,BOX 15/1.

File of correspondence between Ben Davies and the Gutta Percha Co., Ltd., about Spiral Load Patent,BOX 15/2.

Five files of correspondence almost all between Ben Davies and John Hanley of Messrs Bibby & Sons Ltd, concerning various ...,BOX 15/3-7.

File of papers about Electro-Magnetic Field experiments,BOX 16/1.

Notebooks containing diagrams and details of various scientific instruments,BOX 16/2-4.

Notebooks containing bibliographies of scientific works,BOX 16/5-6.

Notebooks containing details about miscellaneous experiments,BOX 16/7-16.

Miscellaneous graphs, equations and other working papers. Glass negatives of photo-electric apparatus, laboratory, laboratory instruments including one of Sir Oliver ...,BOX 16/17.

Three files of correspondence, circulars, notices, bulletins, etc., concerning The Institution of Physics,BOX 17/1-3.

Prospectus and two letters from the Association of Scientific Workers,BOX 17/4.

File of newsletters, circulars, reports, etc., from The Institution of Electrical Engineers,BOX 17/5.

Two files of correspondence, circulars, agenda, etc., relating to The Physical Society,BOX 17/6-7.

Notebooks entitled S.P.R. [Society for Psychical Research] containing accounts of communications by mediums during seances including a seance attended by ...,BOX 17/8-10.

Bundle of papers about spiritualism including accounts of communications by a Liverpool medium and correspondence with the same concerning the ...,BOX17/11.

File of correspondence relating to alleged poltergeist activity in Aberystwyth, 1943, and about arranging for Aberystwyth parents to see a ...,BOX 17/12.

Four files of correspondence and papers concerning the Union of Democratic Control, an anti-fascist, anti-imperialist movement, whose main objectives were ...,BOX 18/1-4.

Two files of correspondence, reports, pamphlets, etc., about the Fellowship Reconciliation Committee. Most of the papers relate to the F.R.C.'s ...,BOX 18/5-6.

File of correspondence between Anna Makara from Budapest and the Davies family, and a few letters from her mother, the ...,BOX 18/7.

Folder of correspondence and papers relating to the Common Wealth movement,BOX 18/8.

Circulars and memoranda issued by the National Peace Council,BOX 18/9.

File of correspondence and papers labelled 'American Socialist Friends' by Ben Davies; almost all the correspondence is between himself and ...,BOX 18/10.

Folder of press cuttings concerning the 1921 General Election in Cardiganshire,BOX 19/1.

Files of correspondence, including copy replies, invoices, catalogues, etc., re purchasing and installing an x-ray machine and other electrical appliances ...,BOX 19/2-5.

Folder of press cuttings concerning the dismissal of Dr. D. J. Davies from his post at Aberystwyth County School,BOX 19/6.

File of press cuttings mainly of Aberystwyth interest,BOX 19/7.

File of correspondence, including copy replies, invoices, catalogues, etc., relating to purchasing equipment to assist the deaf at Tabernacl Chapel ...,BOX 19/8.

Notebook containing lists of books lent by Ben Davies, a list of persons to whom he presented copies of his ...,BOX 20/1.

MS and typescript draft of his book First Principles of Material Well Being (1917) and correspondence and reviews about the ...,BOX 20/2.

Memorandum of an agreement between Ben Davies and the Swathmore Press Ltd re publishing Forces in Peace and War,BOX 20/3.

MS and typescript drafts of an article by Ben Davies entitled 'On the Detection of Added Water in Milk' and ...,BOX 20/4.

Typescript draft of an unpublished work entitled The Industro-Financial Chaos And The Way Out and correspondence about finding a publisher ...,BOX 20/5.

Typescript drafts, carbon copies and corrected proofs of his The New Social Order,BOX 20/6.

List of persons to whom Ben Davies sent copies of The New Social Order and correspondence re the same,BOX 20/7.

Typescript drafts of an unpublished work entitled The Fundamental Ideas of Society: The Soviet Union and the West,BOX 20/8-12.

MS and typescript drafts and final texts of lectures and articles for the press on diverse subjects including Wireless as ...,BOX 21/1-8.

File of notes entitled 'Original Notes concerning the Christian Principles and those of Science and their application to Sociology'. Gaslight ...,BOX 21/9.

Bound volumes of press cuttings of articles written by Ben Davies on scientific matters including a series of articles in ...,BOX 22/1-3.

Bound volumes of press cuttings containing mainly a series of articles written by Ben Davies for Cwrs y Byd, and ...,BOX 22/4-5.

Bound volume of press cuttings containing mainly articles written by Ben Davies, in both Welsh and English, on a variety ...,BOX 22/6-8.

Bound volume of press cuttings containing articles written by Ben Davies on individuals and obituaries, 1900-40 (Vol. numbered 6 and ...,BOX 22/9.

Two files and a volume of press cuttings contributed by Ben Davies to the Cambrian News about international politics especially ...,BOX 23/1-3.

Notes and press cuttings concerning the 1904 Revival in Wales,BOX 23/4.

Folder of press cuttings re Henry Ford, 1922, Aldous Huxley, 1937, Emanuel Swedenborg, 1938, and Lord Rutherford, 1950,BOX 23/5.

Two albums of press cuttings entitled 'World Strife' , dealing mainly with relations between Russia and Europe,BOX 23/6-7.

Scrapbook of press cuttings about Japan, China, Abyssynia, League of Nations Covenant, etc,BOX 23/8.

Scrapbook of maps (mainly from newspapers) of the campaigns fought in the Spanish Civil War, and the war fronts in ...,BOX 23/9.

Scrapbook of press cuttings entitled 'Sociology: The Struggle for a Better World and the opposition to it', containing a good ...,BOX 23/10.

Scrapbook of press cuttings entitled 'Regressive Acts: Regressive and Old World Views' mainly anti-Russian or anti-Communist pieces,BOX 23/11.

Box file of press cuttings arranged alphabetically by subject: economics, sociology, religion, etc,BOX 23/12.

Runs of the following publications most of which have been annotated by Ben Davies: 1 A monthly publication, War and ...,BOX 24/1-9.

A series of pamphlets bearing the general title of Papers in War Time concerned mainly with Christian ethics and the ...,BOX 25/1.

Bundle of pamphlets published by the Union of Democratic Control re the First World War and especially about ways to ...,BOX 25/2.

Bundle of miscellaneous pamphlets about the First World War labelled by Ben Davies as 'Progressive Papers'. Similar in contents to ...,BOX 25/3.

Bundle of pamphlets mainly about The League of Nations,BOX 25/4.

Bundle of booklets published by the Union of Democratic Control, e.g. Patriotism Limited An Exposure of the War Machine; Eastern ...,BOX 25/5.

Series of Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs,BOX 25/6.

Bundle of pamphlets about the Spanish Civil War,BOX 25/7.

Two pamphlets on British Fascism,BOX 25/8.

Bundle of pamphlets published by the Russia Today Society: e.g. Soviet Youth Organizations, 1943, Who's Who In The Red Army ...,BOX 25/9.

Bundle of booklets published by Key Books: e.g. Country With a Plan A Key to the Soviet Union, [1943]; Ireland ...,BOX 25/10.

Miscellaneous pamphlets including Wales and The League [of Nations],BOX 25/11.

Offprints of scientific articles; advance proofs of articles that afterwards appeared in the journals of the various scientific societies which ...,BOX 26.

File of 81 letters addressed to Megan Davies including 6 letters from Evan Pan Jones, 1897-8 (National Land League rally) ...,BOX 27/1.

File of 31 letters to Gwen Davies including 2 letters from Samuel J. Evans, 1923, 1928; 2 letters from Professor ...,BOX 27/2.

School report of Gwen Davies and school notebooks,BOX 27/3.

File of correspondence re search for houses to rent or purchase for the Davies family,Box27/4.

File of correspondence, invoices, etc., about furnishing and repairing Ty Tringad, Penparcau, Aberystwyth, and relating to rates, telephone, insurance, etc ...,BOX 27/5.

File of papers relating to the domestic expenses of the Davies family,BOX 27/6.

File of correspondence, invoices, etc., about furnishing and repairing 6 South Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth, and relating to rates, telephone ...,BOX 27/7-8.

Memoranda about repairs and costs to 6 South Marine Terrace following damages caused by three sea-mine explosions in 1941, 1942 ...,BOX 27/9.

Bundle of invoices, receipts, etc., for coal, telephone charges, decorating, etc.,,BOX 27/10.

In Memoriam cards of friends and relatives of the Davies family,BOX 27/11.

Scrapbook containing press cuttings relating to Ben Davies's work together with cuttings and programmes concerning the musical career of Megan ...,BOX 27/12.