Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/D/3/1
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/D/3/1
Title
Playscripts and Field Notebooks
Date(s)
- 1940-1959 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
8 items paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes the unpublished typescripts of four plays by Beaton, and three wartime notebooks. Between 1940 and 1945, Beaton was comissioned by the British Ministry of Information to document the Second World War at home and abroad. Beaton's wartime work comprises seven thousand photographs, which are now held by the Imperial War Museum. In addition to photographing London during the Blitz, Beaton travelled through North Africa, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria. He left for India in 1943, and visited China in 1944.