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Found in 923 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 18 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/245/31
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Letter from Marjorie Maxse, Chief Organiser, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, to WSC, on his offer to make three speeches for the Government in the General Election campaign. Stating that she would make it her personal duty to ensure that the meetings were as large and representative as possible.

Dates: 18 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Aug 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/257/113
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Letter from Edward Grigg (later Lord Altrincham), Tormarton Court, Badminton, Gloucestershire, to WSC, on forthcoming Conservative Party Conference at Margate.

Dates: 29 Aug 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Aug 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/257/114
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Letter from Francis Bertram, Air Ministry to WSC, postponing meeting of the Munitions Council Dinner Club.

Dates: 31 Aug 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Aug 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/257/115-120
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Letter from Lord Lloyd to WSC, enclosing copies of two letters from unnamed British officials on the political situation in Egypt.

Dates: 31 Aug 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Sep 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/258/41-52
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Letter from Sir Edward Grigg, (later Lord Altrincham) to WSC, enclosing papers on Conservative Party Conference at Margate on 1 Oct, including text of resolutions on the international situation, correspondence with Douglas Hacking and George Herbert.

Dates: 24 Sep 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/169/92
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Letter from Jan Smuts (House of Assembly, Cape Town, [South Africa]) to WSC commenting on the unsettled state of British politics, noting the support for David Lloyd George in Conservative circles, and arguing that the British Empire is not holding its own "in the industrial war which is going to settle our fate".

Dates: 21 Feb 1930
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), c 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/170/121
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Leaflet on the attitude of the Conservative Party to the raising of the school leaving age.

Dates: c 1930
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.
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(Untitled), [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/134
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Conservative Party handbill on the benefits to industry of the Safeguarding, McKenna and Silk duties.

Dates: [1930]
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.
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(Untitled), [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/136-143
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"Safeguarding and prices. Liberal lies answered." Published by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.

Dates: [1930]
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.
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(Untitled), 30 Mar 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/171
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Cutting from the "Sunday Dispatch": editorial arguing that the Conservative Party should drop the idea of a referendum on food taxes, that WSC is getting cold feet about the adoption by Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] of the programme of Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken], and that a policy of food taxes would give the Conservative Party the appearance of sincerity which it has lacked for the last few years.

Dates: 30 Mar 1930
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.
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(Untitled), 04 Sep 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/194/4
Scope and Contents Letter from Lord Wolmer [later 3rd Lord Selborne] (Blackmoor, Liss, Hampshire) to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Martin Archer-Shee hoping that Archer-Shee will not stand in the Fulham [London] by-election against the official Conservative candidate because a split in the party would be resented by the increasing number of Conservatives who oppose the Government's policy on India but who wish to await the report of the Joint Select Committee before coming out into the open. Carbon typescript copy...
Dates: 04 Sep 1933
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.
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(Untitled), 22 Sep 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/194/6
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Letter from Sir Henry Page Croft (Knole, Bournemouth, [Hampshire]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/194/7-8 and making suggestions about their publication and noting that WSC does not wish to take the lead in opposing Government policy on India at the forthcoming Conservative Party conference.

Dates: 22 Sep 1933
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.
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(Untitled), [Sep] [1933]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/194/7-8
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Amendment on Indian policy by Sir Henry Page Croft to a proposed Conservative Party conference resolution expressing confidence in the National Government and implicitly criticising those Conservatives who oppose its Indian policy. Sent with CHAR 2/194/6.

Dates: [Sep] [1933]
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.
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(Untitled), 24 Sep 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/194/9-10
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Letter from [WSC] to [Lord Wolmer, later 3rd Lord Selborne] suggesting amendments to the proposed resolution [at the Conservative Party Conference] against the Government's Indian policy. Carbon typescript copy.

Dates: 24 Sep 1933
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.
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(Untitled), 13 Dec 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/30/92-95
Scope and Contents Letter from Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] (West Denton Hall, Scotswood-on-Tyne, [Northumberland]) to WSC on: disruption by suffragettes of speeches by cabinet ministers; the Tories' split over Tariff Reform; the industrious campaigning of Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane]; reaction to Haldane's army estimates and 2nd Lord Tweedmouth's naval estimates; the introduction of old age pensions and Labour Party criticism of them; the prospect of the miners' group adhering to the Labour...
Dates: 13 Dec 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Aug 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/257/26
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Letter from WSC to Lord Wolmer (later Lord Selborne), on Resolutions to be debated at the Conservative Party Conference. Suggesting that there should be discussions on defence and the Colonies [carbon].

Dates: 07 Aug 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Aug 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/257/27
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Letter from WSC to Anthony Eden, (later Lord Avon), on the Spanish Civil War. Commenting on the importance of France remaining strictly neutral even if Germany and Italy continued to support the rebels and the Soviet Union to send money to the Government. Stating that if the French Government took sides against the rebels it would be a "god send to the Germans and the pro-Germans" [carbon].

Dates: 07 Aug 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 May 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/402/2
Scope and Contents Letter from [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain (Privy Council Office, Whitehall [London]) to WSC, on the leadership of the Conservative Party. Chamberlain thanks WSC for his letter, and says that he understands his view that as Prime Minister in a Government embracing all three political parties, WSC felt it inappropriate to be the leader of just one party. Chamberlain therefore agrees to retain the leadership himself, as the best way of helping WSC in serving the cause of national unity, which...
Dates: 18 May 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Oct 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/402/28
Scope and Contents Letter from [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain (Highfield Park, Heckfield, Basingstoke [Hampshire]) to WSC, stating that for the past ten years he had been Chairman of the Conservative Research Department (independent of Party Headquarters), which had been set up under his chairmanship by the Business Committee following defeat in the 1929 Election. Chamberlain explains that his experience as Chairman and also Party Leader convinced him that the Party should never be without such an organization....
Dates: 19 Oct 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Oct 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/145/1-6
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Typescript speaking notes for WSC's speech ([Caxton Hall, London]) on: his leadership of the Conservative Party; the retirement of Neville Chamberlain; his friendship with Chamberlain and admiration for him; his decision to accept the position as Leader; his belief in "the maintenance of the enduring greatness of Britain and her Empire, and the historic continuity of our Island life."Laid out in "psalm" form.

Dates: 09 Oct 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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War Office memoranda, 1917-06 - 1917-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/50
Scope and Contents Papers including: telegram from General Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate [High Commissioner, Egypt] on Allied territorial claims in North Africa; note from General Sir William Robertson, Chief of Imperial General Staff, to 1st Lord Hardinge of Penshurst [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on Italy's contribution to the war; memorandum by Lord Robert Cecil [Minister of Blockade, later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood] on Italian claims in Asia Minor [Turkey]; summary of a...
Dates: 1917-06 - 1917-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"What the Conservatives will do: a shortened version of the Conservative and Unionist Party's policy: General Election, 1951", 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/123/3
Scope and Contents Pamphlet detailing Conservative election policy under a number of headings: "Pillars of Peace" on measures to support the British empire and Commonwealth (including an Empire economic conference, imperial preference), the unity of the English speaking peoples, the United Nations and hopes that Soviet Russia will join it, and support for the rearmament programme; "Increase national output"; "Halt to nationalisation" including industrial measures, and the repeal of the Iron and Steel Act,...
Dates: 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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WSC's speech for the debate on the address, 06 Nov 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/45A/6-52
Scope and Contents Speech notes WSC's speech (House of Commons) for the debate on the address, on subjects including: the political divisions in the country; the charge of war-mongering laid against the Conservatives, and the need for steady government; the restoration of university representation in Parliament; the repeal of the Iron and Steel Nationalization Act; future parliamentary business, including the defence debate; keeping the Minister of Education out of the Cabinet, and Welsh representation in...
Dates: 06 Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open