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Official: Cabinet: Imperial Conference Documents Committee., 21 May 1926 - 13 Oct 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/140
Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: minutes, conclusions and the 2nd report of the committee; 6th Lord Clarendon [earlier Lord Hyde], Chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee, and Terence Macnaghten, Vice-Chairman, on British family settlement in Canada; the Brussels Maritime Law Conventions; future international exhibitions; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; a Treasury memorandum on financial assistance to the dominions; overseas settlement in...
Dates: 21 May 1926 - 13 Oct 1926
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 381 - 399., 05 Dec 1928 - 07 Dec 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/209
Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on reparations and the establishment of a war memorial in Gibraltar; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, on naval estimates and naval construction; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, on subjects including compensation for Irish loyalists, the appointment of High Commissioners to Canada and South Africa, dominion and merchant shipping legislation; Lord...
Dates: 05 Dec 1928 - 07 Dec 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Cabinet: War Policy Committee: correspondence and papers., Aug 1915 - Oct 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/61
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Reginald Brade [Secretary, War Office] on machine gun wastage; [Lord] Curzon [of Kedleston, Lord Privy Seal]; [3rd Lord] Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer] on population calculations and compulsory military service (2); Major General Charles Callwell [Director of Military Operations at the War Office](4); Austen Chamberlain [Secretary of State for India]; Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith, Prime Minister]; Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] on the...
Dates: Aug 1915 - Oct 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Conference: printed minutes of proceedings., Apr 1907 - May 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/29
Scope and Contents Subjects covered by the minutes include the constitution of the conference; the organisation of the Colonial Office; colonial representation on the Committee of Imperial Defence; military defence; naval defence; emigration; naturalisation; double income tax; silver coinage; decimal currency and metric system; imperial court of appeal; preferential trade; imperial surtax on foreign imports; coastwise trade; commercial treaties; trade marks and patents; trade statistics; company law; admitting...
Dates: Apr 1907 - May 1907
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence: prints., 18 May 1911 - 29 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 24/5
Scope and Contents Includes: WSC on the new German Naval Law and increase of the German Navy; minutes from 2 meetings of the Committee of Imperial Defence attended by Canadian ministers, on subjects including: the combination of British foreign and naval policy, the development of the German Navy, naval power in the Mediterranean and Canada's role in naval defence; Sir Charles Ottley, Secretary to the Committee, on representation of the Dominions on the Committee; a translation of the German Naval Law...
Dates: 18 May 1911 - 29 Aug 1912
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: Private and Personal: Correspondence T - Z., 29 Jan 1945 - 20 Dec 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/157A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Robert Tasker; General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, apologizing for missing WSC's visit to Metz [France]; Charles Taylor [MP for Eastbourne]; Myron Taylor; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, MP for Hereford and Vice-Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Party] (3); "Tommy", Charles Thompson [former Personal Assistant to WSC] on subjects including applying for a post at the Jockey Club, and books and photographs for WSC (9); 6th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord...
Dates: 29 Jan 1945 - 20 Dec 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 06 Nov 1951 - 22 Dec 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/45A-C
Scope and Contents Speech notes and extract from Hansard for WSC's speech (6 November, 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...
Dates: 06 Nov 1951 - 22 Dec 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 27 Jan 1942 - 13 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/183A-C
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (29 January) winding up a debate on the war situation and responding to parliamentary questions on subjects including: the vote of confidence in the government; general policy in the Far East; the defence of Singapore and Malaya [later Malaysia]; the scorched earth policy at Penang; the conduct of the war; and troops and supplies in India. Also includes correspondence from Oliver Locker-Lampson; Percy Harris; Sir Arnold Gridley; Colin Thornley [Principal Private...
Dates: 27 Jan 1942 - 13 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, typescript, press cuttings and source material., 21 Jan 1929 - 14 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/88A-B
Scope and Contents Typescript for WSC's speech (21 January, Chamber of Commerce Dinner, Midland Hotel, Manchester), entitled "Trade" on 20th century economic conditions, currency stability, rating reform, economic development, taxation and the cotton trade. Also includes a press cutting from the Manchester Guardian reporting the speech. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 4541 - 4546.Speech notes for WSC's speech (6 February, Town Hall, Battersea, London), entitled "Battersea By-Election" on the Government's...
Dates: 21 Jan 1929 - 14 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: speech notes and other material [dated 1939 unless otherwise indicated]., [Nov] [1938] - Apr 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/136
Scope and Contents Notes for WSC's speech (23 May, House of Commons) on his objections to the White Paper on Palestine, and the legacy of the Balfour declaration [supporting a Jewish national home in Palestine]. Published: Complete Speeches VI pp 6128-37 [further notes in CHAR 9/135].Typed report of WSC's speech (1 February, Buckhurst Hill [Essex]) on Germany, the international situation, and civil defence. Part published: Complete Speeches VI pp 6063-4.Typed report of WSC's speech (10 March, Chigwell [Essex])...
Dates: [Nov] [1938] - Apr 1939
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/52-57
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2 copies of minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Secretary, Board of Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], asking him to bring the memorandum [on Imperial defence for the Canadian Government] before the Board of Admiralty. WSC gives the text of a minute to be read to the Board if no agreement is reached on the memorandum, and gives details of appendices to the memorandum. [Carbon].

Dates: 13 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/58-60
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the secret Canadian Memorandum [on Imperial Defence], stating that he found it difficult to understand why he received little support from his two principal naval colleagues [1st Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman, and 2nd Sea Lord, Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and the Chief of Staff [? Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge]. [Carbon, annotated "not sent"].

Dates: 13 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/61-63
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on alterations to the Canadian naval memorandum, and its dispatch to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] via Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies. [Carbon].

Dates: 13 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/64-66
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Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)] to [?] Lewis Harcourt [Secretary of State for the Colonies] [or to Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary] on sending the memorandum on Canadian emergency contribution to the Royal Navy of 3 Dreadnoughts to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [Carbon, with hand-written annotations].

Dates: 13 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/73-74
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada], enclosing memoranda [not present, on Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy]. [Carbon].

Dates: 17 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/75-76
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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Secretary, Board of Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], on sending memoranda [on Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy] to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [Carbon].

Dates: 17 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/77-78
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [? Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary] on memoranda [on Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy]. [Carbon].

Dates: 17 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/79-80
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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty [Thomas Macnamara], replying to Macnamara's comments [not present] on [Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy]. [Carbon].

Dates: 17 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 May 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/19/125-128
Scope and Contents Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [Additional Lord of the Admiralty, later 1st Lord Southborough] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the political situation in Canada, where the Naval Bill and the Supply Bill would probably be defeated, forcing Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] to call a General Election. Hopwood also comments on the oil supply question, on possible contracts with the Shell Oil Company, Anglo-Persian Oil Company [later the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] and Mexican...
Dates: 29 May 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 05 Sep 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/52
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Letter from Lewis Harcourt [Secretary of State for the Colonies] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Canada's emergency contribution of three Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy.

Dates: 05 Sep 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Sep 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/65
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Letter from 1st Lord Haldane [Lord Chancellor, former Secretary of State for War] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] reporting his meeting with Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] on the naval question.

Dates: 09 Sep 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Oct 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/76-78
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Letter from John Norton-Griffiths (Chateau Frontenac, Quebec [Canada]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] reporting on the naval situation in Canada; includes note from Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC]. [Copy at CHAR 13/20/147].

Dates: 24 Oct 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Sep] [1912]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/96-100
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], commenting on a secret paper [not present] on harbour and coast defences [? in Canada], including a suggested Canadian flotilla for the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Canada, possibilities of war with Japan and the importance of having a dock for a fleet on the Pacific coast of Canada in case of such a war. [Carbon].

Dates: [Sep] [1912]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Oct] 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/104-106
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Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada], on making Canada's [emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy] public. [Carbon].

Dates: [Oct] 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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