The Broadlands Archives is one of the University's foremost collections of manuscripts. Centred on the Temple (Palmerston), Ashley, Cassel and Mountbatten families, this substantial collection dates from the sixteenth century to the present. The material provides a preeminent resource for British politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Correspondence of third Viscount Palmerston and British diplomats has been digitised and is available in the Digital Library.
The first material to be unveiled as part of the new Mountbatten Digitisation Project will be private papers of Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma.
Diaries of Lord Mountbatten: go to Lord Mountbatten Diaries 1 for 1918, 1920, 1922-34; Lord Mountbatten Diaries 2 for 1935-42; Lord Mountbatten Diaries 3 for 1943-4, 1946-50; Lord Mountbatten Diaries 4 for 1951-60; Lord Mountbatten Diaries 5 for 1961-8 and appointment diaries 1956-7 and 1977-8; and Lord Mountbatten Diaries 6 for tour diaries 1969-78.
Diaries of Lady Mountbatten:go to Lady Mountbatten Diaries 1 for 1923-34; Lady Mountbatten Diaries 2 for 1935-41; Lady Mountbatten Diaries 3 for 1943-50; and Lady Mountbatten Diaries 4 for 1951-60.
Correspondence of Lord Mountbatten with his wife can be found at Lord Mountbatten Correspondence.
Correspondence of Lady Mountbatten with her husband: go to Lady Mountbatten Correspondence 1 for 1921-6, Lady Mountbatten Correspondence 2 for 1927-36 and Lady Mountbatten Correspondence 3 for 1937 onwards.
