Papers of M H F Wilkins: background information on defence industry funding of university research

Notes and published articles relating to the defence industry’s funding of research projects in British universities, including: typescript notes on the definition of academic freedom, 1972; article by Stanton Glantz and Norm Albers, ‘Department of Defense R & D in the university’, published in Science, 1974; Zoe Fairbairns, ‘Study war no more: military involvement in British universities and colleges’, pamphlet published by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1974); article by Fairbairns, ‘University liaison, the army for the use of’, published in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1975; brief manuscript notes on research projects at King’s College London linked to defence institutions, 1970-1974, with covering note from Felix Pirani, Professor of Mathematics, to Wilkins, 1975; article by Fairbairns, ‘No official secrets at Southampton?’, published in New Scientist, 1975; copy list of UK university research projects that received Ministry of Defence funding during 1980, with copy covering letter from Geoffrey Pattie, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence Procurement, to MP Frank Allaun, 1982; article, ‘The MRC and the armed services’, published in MRC News, 1988; issue 2 of newsletter Defence Employment Briefing, 1992.

1972-1992

1 file

Wilkins, Maurice; King's College London; Science; Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND); New Scientist; Medical Research Council (MRC); Defence Employment Briefing; Glass, Celia

Part of this file contains personal data and is closed. The rest of the file is open and available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form. Restricted until 1 January 2076.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.