Conservative Party
Organization
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: Articles., 01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/231
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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
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Literary: Articles., 01 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/232
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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
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Official: Cabinet: Emergency Business Committee: papers 1 to 20 plus index., 27 Apr 1929 - 10 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/240
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Includes an election address by Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister on government policy (on colonial development, inter-imperial relations, economic affairs, agriculture and education) and a statement by WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on co-operative societies and income tax. Also includes suggested replies to questions put to Conservative candidates on a variety of issues including the merchandise marks act, prosecution of spiritualist mediums (in response to a question by Sir Arthur Conan...
Dates:
27 Apr 1929 - 10 May 1929
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Official: Cabinet: papers 141 - 150., 07 May 1929 - 24 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/234
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: a draft election address by Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, outlining Conservative policies on various issues including the economic situation, agriculture and social reform; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on seamen's terms of employment; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on the oil position in Iraq and the trans-desert pipeline and railway to the Mediterranean; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier...
Dates:
07 May 1929 - 24 May 1929
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Political: Constituency: North West Manchester., Dec 1905 - Jan 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 4/8
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Material relating to WSC standing for election as Liberal candidate for Manchester. Includes correspondence with constituents concerning WSC's stance on various issues including: pharmacies, the Education Act and working conditions for teachers, vaccination, the identification of boxes manufactured abroad, railways, the registration of architects and accountants, female suffrage, Home Rule, Income Tax, temperance, taxation, Free Trade, shops, vivisection, and Chinese labour in South...
Dates:
Dec 1905 - Jan 1906
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Political: Constituency: Oldham [Lancashire]: Correspondence., 03 Jan 1904 - 27 Mar 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 3/7
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Correspondents include: James Travis Clegg [Chairman of the Oldham Conservative Association] (7); Samuel Smethurst [Vice Chairman of the Oldham Conservative Association, resigned 7 Jan 1904] (12); 9th Duke of Marlborough regarding his refusal to become an honorary member of the Oldham Conservative Club; James Maclean (2) regarding a Free Trade League meeting in Oldham. Subjects include: Churchill's relations with the local Conservative, Labour and Liberal Parties; his decision not to...
Dates:
03 Jan 1904 - 27 Mar 1904
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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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Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party literature for the 1951 election., 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/123
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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
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-I., Jun 1946 - Dec 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/54A-B
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Correspondents include: Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Prime Minister's salary (2); Nigel Davies on WSC's support for his candidacy at Epping [Essex]; Kenneth de Courcy; Rupert de la Bere on ex-service civil servants; Lord Pakenham [later 7th Lord Longford] (2); representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Mark Chapman-Walker and Sir Robert Cary (7); Irving Dix (United States Representative) on US political and economic affairs; James Stuart [Chief...
Dates:
Jun 1946 - Dec 1947
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence G (mainly thanking WSC following the 1950 election)., Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/97
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Correspondents include: George Christ of Conservative and Unionist Central Office on British war debt; David Gammans on appealing to skilled craftsmen and colonial policy (2); Patrick Donner; Gwilym Lloyd George [later 1st Lord Tenby]; Eveline Hill; John Rodgers; Mervyn Wheatley; Cyril Osborne; Douglas Clifton Brown [later 1st Lord Ruffside, Speaker of the House of Commons]; [Robert] Thorp; "Hinch" [Lord Hinchingbrooke, later 10th Lord Sandwich and Victor Montagu]; Geoffrey Stevens;...
Dates:
Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence N-R (most material dates from 1951)., Oct 1946 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/116
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Correspondents include: Norman Hulbert on the National Defence Public Interest Committee; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (2); 1st Lord Layton on WSC writing an article for the News Chronicle on the Cold War; Arthur Waters, Editor, News of the World (3); Harmar Harmar-Nicholls; Allan Noble on a painting of Ernest Bevin; Sir George Paish on co-operation with the Liberals (2); John Lockhart, Secretary of United Kingdom Branch of...
Dates:
Oct 1946 - Nov 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political; Correspondence S., Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/101A-B
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Correspondents include: Walter Matthews, Dean of St Paul's, on a pre-election service; "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne] on Conservative policy towards the Soviet Union; Sir Arthur Salter; Duncan Sandys; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (2); Prime Minister Clement Attlee; Harold MacMillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] (3); Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos]; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd Greame...
Dates:
Jan 1950 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence S-Z., Oct 1950 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/117A-B
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Correspondents include: "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne] and Leo Amery on Cabinet positions in the event of a Conservative election victory; Sir Arthur Salter; Duncan Sandys on his visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and Marshal Tito; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (10); Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare,...
Dates:
Oct 1950 - Oct 1951
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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Press cuttings, speech notes and typescript., 11 Mar 1924 - 27 Jun 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/69
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Speech notes for WSC's election address (March, Abbey Division, Westminster, London) on the threat of a Socialist Government, the party system and WSC's own position, standing against the official Conservative candidate, Otho Nicholson. Also includes a press cutting reporting the speech.Speech notes for WSC's election address (11 March, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London) on the need for stable government and the harmful results of the party system and frequent changes of Government,...
Dates:
11 Mar 1924 - 27 Jun 1924
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Speeches: Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 14 Oct 1951 - 23 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/44A-B
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Speech notes and typescript for WSC's election address (15 October, Huddersfield Town Hall [Yorkshire]) on subjects including: the decision by the Colne Valley [Yorkshire] Conservatives to support a Liberal candidate to stop Labour from winning the seat; the duty of all Conservatives and Liberals to combine against Labour; a tribute to Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet Lady Bonham- Carter, later Violet, Lady Asquith of Yarnbury], Liberal candidate for Colne Valley;...
Dates:
14 Oct 1951 - 23 Oct 1951
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Speeches: Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 06 Nov 1958 - 26 Oct 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/62A-D
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Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speech (6 November 1958, Hotel Matignon, Paris [France]) entitled "A Friend of France" on receiving the Croix de la Liberation from Charles de Gaulle, President of France, on subjects including: de Gaulle's wartime status as the symbol of France and his present responsibilities and problems; the confused international situation; WSC's long friendship with France; the uncertain future and the need for Britain, France and the Western allies to stand...
Dates:
06 Nov 1958 - 26 Oct 1960
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Speeches: speech notes and source material., 01 Nov 1934 - 04 Dec 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/111
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Notes and draft press statement for WSC's speech (1 November, Woodford Bridge [Essex], Constituency meeting) on subjects including the need for Conservatives to be ready for the next general election, the National government, India and air defence against Germany. Part published: Complete Speeches V pp 5389-90.Notes and drafts for WSC's speech (16 November, BBC broadcast) entitled "The Causes of War" on German domestic policy, and the German threat to Europe and Britain. Also includes galley...
Dates:
01 Nov 1934 - 04 Dec 1934
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Speeches: speech notes and source material., 02 Jan 1935 - 22 Feb 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/114
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Draft press statement by WSC (2 January) responding to a broadcast by Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood, Secretary of State for India] on Indian constitutional reform.Notes for WSC's speech (?25 January, Bristol, India Defence League meeting) on the government of India debate and Randolph Churchill's campaign at Liverpool [Wavertree by-election]. Part published: Complete Speeches V pp 5465-6.Notes for WSC's speech (30 January, BBC broadcast) entitled "India: the Betrayal", arguing...
Dates:
02 Jan 1935 - 22 Feb 1935
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Speeches: speech notes and source material., 02 Mar 1935 - 12 Nov 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/115A-B
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Notes for WSC's speech (21 March, Albert Hall, London, India Defence League Demonstration) entitled "Dead as Mutton" on the Government of India bill and his misgivings about the National Government. Part published: Complete Speeches V pp 5557-8.Notes for WSC's speech (26 September, City Carlton Club Luncheon, London) on German rearmament, Italian designs in Abyssinia [Ethiopia], and the League of Nations. Also includes: letter of support from Sir Austen Chamberlain. Published: Complete...
Dates:
02 Mar 1935 - 12 Nov 1935
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(Untitled), 17 Nov 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/118/11-12
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Typescript transcript of a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, to Grant Duff [Governor of Madras, India] in which he apologises for not being able to attend a Council meeting which is to discuss Duff's proposal for a botanical department for Madras; explains that the need for economy has affected the proposed salary for [Charles] Lawson; discusses his interest in Hyderabad affairs; comments on the speed of the dispatch of the Burma expedition from Madras;...
Dates:
17 Nov 1885
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Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers. Typescript copies of correspondence dating to 1885 between Lord Randolph Churchill, then Secretary of State for India, and Grant Duff, Governor of Madras [India]. Includes correspondence relating to the deposit of the transcripts in WSC's archive.
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(Untitled), 04 Dec 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/118/13
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Typescript transcript of a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, to Grant Duff [Governor of Madras, India] in which he attributes the success of the Burma [later Myanmar] expedition to the swift dispatch of the expedition from Madras and says that he is sure that the Conservative party will not be successful in the future General Election.
Dates:
04 Dec 1885
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Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers. Typescript copies of correspondence dating to 1885 between Lord Randolph Churchill, then Secretary of State for India, and Grant Duff, Governor of Madras [India]. Includes correspondence relating to the deposit of the transcripts in WSC's archive.
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(Untitled), 27 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/234/10
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Letter from A Abrahams, member of the Presidency of the New Zionist Organisation, (25 Manchester Square, London) to WSC (10 Downing Street) on the electoral advantages to the Conservative Party of a statement by WSC on Palestine, advocating increased Jewish immigration. [signed; annotated by WSC's Private Office].
Dates:
27 Jun 1945
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(Untitled), 28 Jan 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/200/32
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Minute from WSC to Chairman of the Conservative Party [Ralph Assheton, later 1st Lord Clitheroe] marked "indexed" stating that he should see the letter from "Sir Louis Spears" [Major General Sir Edward Spears, Conservative MP for Carlisle, Cumberland] and WSC's reply [see CHAR 20/200/29-30]. "We do not want to lose the Seat. The matter is entirely confidential" [Carbon] With note in the hand of Leslie Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] explaining that Spears letter was about...
Dates:
28 Jan 1945
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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.