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"Every Dog His Day", 05 Oct 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/9/136-199
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (5 October 1946, Conservative Party conference, Blackpool) entitled "Every Dog His Day" on subjects including: criticism of the Labour government; the need for a concerted opposition to Communism; foreign policy; the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union; post war reconstruction; the electoral system; taxation; housing; the coal industry; agriculture; nationalisation; foreign policy and Indian independence; and the need for increased Conservative...
Dates:
05 Oct 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: Articles., 01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/231
Scope and Contents
Proofs and cuttings of articles by WSC on the following subjects: a review of the speeches of Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith]; the life of Lord Ypres [earlier Sir John French and Lord French] including a summary of his career and relationship to WSC; "Will the British Empire Last?" for "Answers" on the principle of self-government, the unifying effect of the British monarchy and the administration of India and Egypt; American industry and finance; "Socialist Quackery" for the Daily Mail...
Dates:
01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Literary: Articles., 01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/232
Scope and Contents
Proofs and cuttings of articles by WSC on the following subjects: "Mr Macdonald's Opportunity" on the visit of Ramsay Macdonald to the United States; "The Naval Argument" on British and American naval policy; "Prohibition" in the United States; "California"; "Wall Street" on the Wall Street crash; "The Battlefields" about Virginia; "Hollywood"; "Palestine and the Zionists" on violence in Palestine and the need for reconciliation between Jews and Arabs; "Why We Lost" on the defeat of the...
Dates:
01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Official: Cabinet: Emergency Business Committee: Conclusions 1-6., 02 May 1929 - 22 May 1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/239
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes of statements made by [1st] Lord Hailsham [earlier Sir Douglas Hogg] Lord Chancellor; [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne], Minister of Agriculture; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education; Sir Arthur...
Dates:
02 May 1929 - 22 May 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
Official: Prime Minister, 1951 - 1955
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6
Scope and Contents
The papers in this class relating to WSC's second period as Prime Minister are few.The files mainly concern WSC's patronage and relate to Government appointments and changes (CHUR 6/1, 6/2, 6/4 and 6/5). There is one file containing copies of WSC's correspondence with President Dwight D Eisenhower of the United States (CHUR 6/3). There is also a single file containing copies of WSC's outgoing correspondence for the last months of his administration (CHUR 6/6). File CHUR 6/8, apparently...
Dates:
1951 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Official: Prime Minister: correspondence mainly relating to change of administration., 24 Aug 1953 - 31 Mar 1955
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Gordon Wilson and Paul Beards (Private Secretaries, War Office) on South African war graves; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (6); R A Butler [Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); Harold Macmillan [later Lord Stockton, Minister of Housing and Local Government]; Duncan Sandys [Minister of Supply] (2); Christopher Soames [Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister]; John Colville [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] on subjects...
Dates:
24 Aug 1953 - 31 Mar 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
Political: Constituency: Epping [Essex], 1924 - 1945
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7
Scope and Contents
This class of papers covers that part of WSC's time as Conservative MP for Epping contained in the Chartwell papers (up to 26 July 1945). The remainder of his time as MP (for Woodford) can be found in the post-1945 Churchill papers at CHUR 3.The papers contain correspondence between WSC's office and local officials, particularly the Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association, Sir James Hawkey, discussing standard constituency business (such as WSC's support for various local...
Dates:
1924 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
File
Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence H., Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/46
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (19).Subjects include: proportional representation; local commerce; Felsted Grammar School [Essex]; constituency feeling towards WSC following the Munich [Germany] Crisis; founding a British Institute of Photographic Propaganda; general constituency business.Also includes: copy letters from WSC to Hawkey outlining his position on British foreign policy and the National Government; letters to...
Dates:
Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence I-L., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/19
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (2); Mary, Lady Lloyd [widow of Sir Francis Lloyd] and Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] supporting WSC's election campaign.Other subjects include: capital punishment; the Civil Service; post office matters; European rearmament; pensions; equal pay for women; animal welfare; the duty on industrial oils; the brick industry; donating to local causes; WSC's support for the National...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence M-O., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/20
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: John Maitland on naval matters; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of the Epping Division Conservative Association (2); [John] Walton Newbold supporting WSC's stand on European rearmament and foreign affairs.Other subjects include: herbal medicine; equal pay for women; local transport issues; male unemployment; Abyssinia [Ethiopia]; divorce law; noise pollution; telephone and electricity provision; employment and pension queries from constituents; constituency opinion on...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence P., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/21
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sylvia Pankhurst (4) on subjects including an immigration case, German rearmament and the Italian situation; Ernest Parry (3); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of the Epping Division Conservative Association; Dinah Pratt, Honorary Secretary of Epping Division Conservative Association (9).Other subjects include: local transport issues; equal pay for women; importing goods; the manufacture of poisons; employment queries from constituents; constituency opinion on WSC;...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence R-T., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/22
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Ralph Gould on WSC becoming President of Epping and District Branch of the Scientific Poultry Breeders' Association Ltd. (4); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (3); Ellen Stutely [a local party worker] (7).Other subjects include: European rearmament; Indian affairs; permission to fish at Chartwell; a pension query from a constituent; local transport issues; Abyssinia [Ethiopia]; WSC's perceived lack of support for the National...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: election materials., Nov 1935
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/24
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from Gilbert Granville-Sharp [Liberal candidate for Epping]; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association.Also includes: election pamphlets and flyers for WSC, Granville-Sharp and James Ranger [Labour candidate for Epping]; an advertisement for Westminster Public Address Equipment for vehicles.Subjects include: British foreign policy with regard to rearmament and European dictatorships; the economy.
Dates:
Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence, mainly with Alderman Donald Forbes, Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford [1953-54] and Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association [from 1956]., Sep 1951 - May 1958
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/14
Scope and Contents
Other correspondents include: Frederick Bishop [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; Hugh Ellis-Rees (War Office) (2). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Lettice Marston (Lettice Shillingford), Joan Prideaux, and Anthony Montague Browne; CSC (President of Woodford Conservative Association).Subjects include: honouring the late Sir James Hawkey [former constituency chairman] and Stuart Mallinson; the 1951...
Dates:
Sep 1951 - May 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
Open (folios 14-24 were opened in 2022).
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence, mainly with representatives of Woodford Conservative Association., Nov 1950 - Dec 1958
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/12A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [Cedric] Wordsell, Secretary and Agent [until 1951] (9); Sir James Hawkey, Chairman [until 1952] (18); Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent (17); W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Secretary and Agent [from 1952] (40); Malcolm McCorquodale; Rowland Arnison, Chairman [1952-1954] (4); John Harvey, Vice-Chairman [1952-1954], Chairman [1954-1956] (9); Squadron Leader Albert Cooper inviting WSC and CSC to lunch; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary]; George Christ...
Dates:
Nov 1950 - Dec 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folio 50 which has been removed on grounds of data protection due to presence of sensitive personal information about potentially living individuals until review on 1 January 2027.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: papers and correspondence for the general election., Apr 1955 - Jun 1955
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/22A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, WSC's election agent (18); John Harvey, Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association (9); Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, on a hoax letter from the "Conservative Propaganda Centre"; George Christ [Parliamentary Liaison Officer, Conservative Party, and Editor Weekly News Letter] (2); Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (2), (1) also from Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa...
Dates:
Apr 1955 - Jun 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party answers to election questionnaires., 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/124
Scope and Contents
Contains questions and answers prepared by Conservative and Unionist Central Office on a variety of election issues including: agricultural matters; animal welfare; various aspects of foreign affairs including China, Germany, Japan, Persia [Iran], South Africa, and Mexico; civil servants; education; housing matters; the health service; women; transport particularly by road; pensions; economic affairs including taxation; the constitutional position of Scotland and Wales.
Dates:
1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party literature for the 1951 election., 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/123
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of: the Conservative election manifesto; leaflets and pamphlets issued by Conservative and Unionist Central Office and others; editions of the Sunday Dispatch and the Northern Echo; leaflets on voting.Subjects covered include: international affairs, including the Empire, the Commonwealth and Europe; national output, nationalisation and other industrial matters; housing matters; food supplies; old-age pensions; families; farming; rail transport.
Dates:
1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party manifesto [for the 1950 election]: correspondence, proofs and drafts., Dec 1949 - Jan 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/89
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: R A Butler and Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine]. Also includes note from WSC's secretary Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow].Includes: summary of Conservative and Unionist proposals; details of election dates 1929-45; galley proofs and drafts of the manifesto (entitled "This is the road") and WSC's introduction.Subjects covered include: the economy, British industry and agriculture, social services, Britain's position in the world, national and constitutional...
Dates:
Dec 1949 - Jan 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political; Correspondence A-B., Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/94
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg]; Waris Ameer Ali on Indo-Pakistani affairs; Leo Amery (4); Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley] (3) including 2 on his personal plans; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin], Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party, on Lady Megan Lloyd George; Nigel Colman, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; James Harden on being re-elected...
Dates:
Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-C., Jun 1950 - Oct 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/113A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Richard Acland on the "Churchill Arch" in the House of Commons; Commander Peter Agnew withdrawing his candidacy at Ormskirk [Lancashire]; Patrick Kinna (Foreign Office); representatives of the Conservative Research Department including [Richard] Michael Fraser [later Lord Fraser of Kilmorack] (4); Garry Allighan on his expulsion from the House of Commons; Cuthbert Alport; Leo Amery on Persian [Iranian] oil; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman,...
Dates:
Jun 1950 - Oct 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence A-C., Oct 1951 - Jul 1962
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/127A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Reid, Lord Provost of Aberdeen [Scotland] on WSC's visit there in 1952; David Pitblado [Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden] (3); Frank Glaves-Smith [Principal Private Secretary to President of the Board of Trade]; Konrad Adenauer [Federal Chancellor of Germany]; Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar [later 1st Lord Inchrya, British Ambassador to West Germany, later part of Germany]; John Perrin, [Principal] Private Secretary to Minister of...
Dates:
Oct 1951 - Jul 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence A-G., Jul 1945 - Dec 1945
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/1A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd Greame and Philip Cunliffe Lister] (3); Richard Poland [Private Secretary to Minister of Civil Aviation]; E Colston Shepherd, Secretary-General of the Air League of the British Empire; Sir George Harvie Watt (4); John Winant [United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom]; Randolph Churchill; Leo Amery on imperial preference and European unity (2); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe, Chairman of the Conservative Party]...
Dates:
Jul 1945 - Dec 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C-D., Dec 1948 - Dec 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/81A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Harley Usill of the Naldrett Press Limited (5); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (2); George Rainbird; John Leigh-Pemberton (3); Sir Oswald Birley; Beresford Craddock; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (13); Sir Arnold Gridley [Chairman 1922 Committee]; Sir David Maxwell Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir]; R A Butler (5); Thelma Cazalet-Kier (2);...
Dates:
Dec 1948 - Dec 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C-D., Aug 1949 - Dec 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/95A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence], George [Hubback], Metropolitan of India and Bishop of Calcutta (3), and Desmond Crawley (High Commission, Calcutta), on Anglo-Indians educating their children in the UK; 1st Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson, Chairman] of the Carlton Club (2); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (5); Clifford Hood, President, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation; Robert...
Dates:
Aug 1949 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open