Scope and Contents Mixture of published and unpublished material. Articles include: statements and reactions from readers, 'The Enigma of Oswald Mosley', 'England is Another Land', 'The Fair and Fatal King', 'Beefsteak Tales (A Lady's Honour, The Man Who..., A Terrible Clanger, Scots and Trots, Such a Fuss!, The Cabbie?, Something Nasty, Shades of Victoria)', an extraction from Robert Smith's obituary, 'Musso, Mosley and Other 'Monsters'', 'The Truth That Dare Not Speak Its Name', 'The Right is Usually Right',...

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Robert Innes-Smith's stories about his brief encounters with well-known figures including: Mary Whitehouse, Paul Getty, Bob Boothby, Harold Macmillan, Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Lady Diana Cooper, Margaret Duchess of Argyll, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, Clement Attlee, Lady Carolyn Howard, Michael Scott, David Wolferston-Thomas, Turner Layton, Ruby Miller, The Countess of Dahousie, Bertie Russell, and The Duke of Alba and Berwick.

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Published articles written by Robert Innes-Smith include: 'Scenes of Christmas Past', 'Ghosts, Spectres and Ghouls of Derbyshire', 'Dale Abbey - A Derbyshire Shangri-la', 'The Stanhopes of Elvaston', 'The Stanhopes of Shelford and Bretby', 'The Stanhopes of Chevening', 'The 4th Earl of Chesterfield', 'Thomas Cook', 'The Ancient Families of Derbyshire', 'The Mystique of the Clans', 'The Story of the Churchill Stud', and 'The Duchess of Devonshire's Ball'.

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Published articles written by Robert Innes-Smith include: 'Geoffrey of Monmouth', 'Treasures from Great Houses', 'Sudbury Hall', 'Bradley Hall (Ashbourne)', 'Clifton Hall (Ashbourne)', 'Etwall Lawn', 'Blackwall House', 'Phil Drabble Writes', 'Samuel Johnson', and 'An Exhibition of Old Masters'.

Scope and Contents Press cuttings and articles collected by Robert Innes Smith which he kept in a folder titled 'RMCU & Heraldry Society'. Some of the articles are written by Innes Smith. Subjects of the press cuttings include but not limited to: 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Morocco, Peak District National Park, clocks of Derbyshire, Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Norway, Landmark Trust's work in and around Derbyshire, Thomas Cook, Locko Park artwork, Paul Canon Miller, ancient families of...