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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: Cabinet: papers 101 - 115., 27 Mar 1929 - 16 Apr 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/232
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the Committee on industry and trade; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on affairs in Persia [Iran] and naval limitation; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on education policy; [Sir] William Mitchell-Thomson [later 1st Lord Selsdon] Postmaster General on possible telephone...
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27 Mar 1929 - 16 Apr 1929
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Official: Cabinet: papers 140 - 179., 29 Jan 1925 - 26 Mar 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/32
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on subjects including the loan for the completion of the Benguela [Angola] Railway and the objections of the Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe and Zambia] railway companies, the handling of Dominion affairs by the Colonial Office, moving the Imperial Institute to London University, granting oil concessions in Iraq to the Turkish Petroleum Company and the proposed Washington [United...
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29 Jan 1925 - 26 Mar 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 180 - 200., 30 Jun 1924 - 08 Apr 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/33
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on the teachers' salary awards of [1st] Lord Burnham [Chairman of the Standing Joint Committees of Education Authorities and Teachers], and on Church Schools; a copy of the Burnham Report; a survey by William Strang [1st Secretary, Foreign Office] on the economic situation of the Soviet Union; Sir William Joynson-Hicks, [later 1st Lord Brentford] Home Secretary, on...
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30 Jun 1924 - 08 Apr 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 301 - 325., 12 Oct 1928 - 02 Nov 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/206
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on church schools; [1st] Lord Cushendun [earlier Ronald McNeill], Acting Foreign Secretary, on the renewal of arbitration treaties; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on the functions of dominion ministers and the title of His Majesty's Government; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board...
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12 Oct 1928 - 02 Nov 1928
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Official: Cabinet: papers 430 - 459., 02 Apr 1925 - 09 Nov 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/44
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Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: 1st Lord Balfour, Chairman of the Committee on Civil Research, on the British Dye Industry, and, as Lord President of the Council, on the Rosyth [Fife, Scotland] Dockyard; 1st Lord Haldane on the dye industry; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on subjects including the Finance Bill (Safeguarding of Industries); the Board of Trade...
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02 Apr 1925 - 09 Nov 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 520 - 555., 20 Oct 1923 - 30 Dec 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/22
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: 1st Lord Birkenhead [Secretary of State for India, earlier F E Smith] on the Geneva [Switzerland] Opium Conference; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, earlier Lord Robert Cecil] on the League of Nations enquiry into the dispute between Britain and Egypt; Sir Cecil Hurst [legal advisor to the Foreign Office] on the dispute with Egypt; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour on Trade...
Dates:
20 Oct 1923 - 30 Dec 1924
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A - J., 25 Jan 1950 - 08 May 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/56
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Correspondents include: Percy Cohen, [Joint Director], Conservative Research Department (2); Sir William Wakefield on a proposed increase in London taxi fares; George Earle, Chairman, Association of Portland Cement Manufacturers Limited, on the nationalisation of the cement industry; J W Faulkner, Clerk of Chigwell [Essex] Urban District Council (5); Joan, Lady Davidson [later Baroness Northchurch], MP for [Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire]; Philip Moore [later Lord Moore of Wolvercote],...
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25 Jan 1950 - 08 May 1950
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Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 27 Feb 1950 - 28 Mar 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/33A-C
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Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speech (7 March, House of Commons) for the debate on the address, on subjects including: the stalemate in the new Parliament and the need for electoral reform; uncertainty until the next election; increasing food production; unemployment; cutting taxation; restoring the value of sterling; repealing the nationalization of the iron and steel industry; enlarging the building trade to solve the housing problem; the risk of Britain being split into Labour and...
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27 Feb 1950 - 28 Mar 1950
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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
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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...
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21 Jan 1929 - 14 Dec 1929
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(Untitled), 30 Sep 1902
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/3/25a
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Cutting from the Morning Post, report on speech by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Lord St Aldwyn to his constituents in Clifton, on the Education Bill, resistance to the payment of Rates, the growth of national expenditure and the reform of the Army and Navy.
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30 Sep 1902
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/16/94-95
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Letter from WSC to Samuel Lamb, on possible points of difference between himself and the Liberals, particularly the Licensing Question, Disestablishment and Disendowment, and the need for reform of the Education Act, giving his opinion that the election would be fought on four main issues, (1) Free Trade, (2) Retrenchment and the reorganisaton of finance on strict Gladstonian principles, (3) Reduction in size and cost of the Army and the Navy, (4) a copmplete re-organisation of the Army...
Dates:
26 Mar 1904
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