Conservative Party
Organization
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence A-C., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/16A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams [MP for West Leeds, Yorkshire] on an engagement in WSC's constituency; R A Butler [MP for Saffron Walden, Essex] inviting WSC to a visit by Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir Thomas Buxton, President of the Waltham Abbey [Essex] Branch [of Epping Division Conservative Association] on his lack of political confidence in WSC (4); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (4); Richard Colvin congratulating WSC on...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence H., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/18A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of Transport, on a rail accident at Wormley [Hertfordshire] (2); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (31); Cecil Pike [MP for Attercliffe, Sheffield, Yorkshire] and Robert Hudson [MP for Whitehaven Division of Cumberland] on speaking in WSC's constituency; Sir Kingsley Wood [Minister of Health] on local housing and health provision.Other subjects include: constituency opinion on WSC's stance over...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency: North West Manchester., Dec 1905 - Jan 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 4/8
Scope and Contents
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
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex], 1943 - 1965
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3
Scope and Contents
This class of papers covers WSC's time as Conservative MP for Woodford, where he served from 26 July 1945 to 15 October 1964. His earlier years as MP for Epping [Essex] are covered in the pre-1945 Chartwell Papers at CHAR 7.The vast majority of the papers consists of correspondence handled by WSC's office and local officials, particularly representatives of Woodford Division Conservative Association, including the Honorary Secretaries and Agents Frederick Mummery, and later W Hubert...
Dates:
1943 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence., 02 Oct 1953 - 23 Dec 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/104A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence on constituency affairs by individuals including: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (20), John Harvey, Chairman [1954 - 56] (9) and Donald Forbes, Vice-Chairman, later Chairman [1956 - 61] (6), on constituency affairs including finances, meetings, office holders, Barlow-Wheeler's future employment and the 1959 General Election; F J Matthews, Chairman, Industrial Life Insurance Offices,...
Dates:
02 Oct 1953 - 23 Dec 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence, mainly with representatives of Woodford Conservative Association., Nov 1950 - Dec 1958
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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
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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
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Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party answers to election questionnaires., 1951
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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
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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
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
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-C., Jun 1950 - Oct 1951
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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
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence A-C., Oct 1951 - Jul 1962
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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
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence A-G., Jul 1945 - Dec 1945
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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
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C-D., Aug 1949 - Dec 1950
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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
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence from members of the general public (mainly messages of support for WSC) and pressure groups at the time of the 1951 general election., Oct 1951 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/125
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Thelma Cazalet-Kier, Chairman of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee; Gertrude Turquand; [Frederick] Potter, Mayor of Deal [Kent] on receiving signed photographs of WSC; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Richard Baker, founder of the Men of the Trees, on their New Earth Charter. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries including Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford].Other subjects include: equal pay for women; foreign affairs including Egypt and...
Dates:
Oct 1951 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence K-N (most material dates from 1950)., Dec 1948 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/99A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Denis Rickett [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Clement Attlee] (3); David Hunt and Paul Osmond (2) [Private Secretaries to Attlee]; Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin]; John Campbell, President of the Scottish Polish Society (5); Arthur Moyle, Parliamentary Private Secretary [to Attlee]; Douglas Savory; Edward Keeling (5) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps (3) on subjects including sending...
Dates:
Dec 1948 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence O-R., Jun 1949 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/100
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: various representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including George Christ (9); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (5); David Astor, [Editor] of the Observer; David Waddington, President of Oxford University Conservative Society, on inviting WSC to Oxford; Sir Waldron Smithers; Harry Mackeson, Deputy Chief Conservative Whip, on the recall of Parliament; Firoz Khan Noon, Governor of East...
Dates:
Jun 1949 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches, 1957-11 - 1965-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/1
Scope and Contents
Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: defence; the Labour Government's National Economic Plan (1965); price increases under Labour; strikes; National Savings; providing incentives in industrial and commercial life; Labour transport policy on roads, rail and London commuter rail services; inflation; the British view of the United States; immigration; taxation; Labour incomes and prices policy; the Budget (1965); the balance of trade; Labour public spending; renewing...
Dates:
1957-11 - 1965-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.