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Found in 457 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 16 Jun 1917

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/90/21
Scope and Contents

"Reasons for the appointment of a British general in command of the Salonika expedition." Written by D[avid] D[avis] for discussion by the Liberal War Committee. Sent with CHAR 2/90/11.

Dates: 16 Jun 1917
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 1917

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/90/22-24
Scope and Contents

Notes [by David Davis for discussion by the Liberal War Committee] arguing for the appointment of the Serbian Field Marshall Misitch to the command of the Allied forces on the Salonica front and for the overhaul of the British means of obtaining intelligence from there. Sent with CHAR 2/90/11.

Dates: 30 Mar 1917
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), 26 Jan 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/56/13-15
Scope and Contents

Letter from Sir George Kemp (Beechwood, Rochdale, [Lancashire]) to the Master of Elibank [Alexander Murray, later Lord Murray of Elibank] complaining that some Liberals in North-West Manchester are persistently urging him not to give up the seat despite his opposition to Home Rule. Typescript copy.

Dates: 26 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Mar 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/56/69
Scope and Contents

Letter from R C Hawkin (Eighty Club, 3 Hare Court, Temple, [London]) to Edward Marsh enclosing copies of letters on the Eighty Club and single-issue campaigning organisations set up by Liberal headquarters [see CHAR 2/56/70-72].

Dates: 20 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Mar 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/56/70-71
Scope and Contents

Letter from Sir John Simon (57 Kensington Court, [London]) to the Master of Elibank [Alexander Murray, later Lord Murray of Elibank] (Treasury) reporting the dissatisfaction among members of the Eighty Club about the relationship between their club and single-issue campaigning organisations, such as the Liberal Insurance Commitee and the Home Rule Council, set up by Liberal headquarters. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/56/69.

Dates: 04 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Mar 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/56/72-73
Scope and Contents

Letter from R H Davies (12 Downing Street) to Mr Bramall conveying the best wishes of the Master of Elibank [Alexander Murray, later Lord Murray of Elibank] to the Liberal Association of the Wilton Division of Wiltshire and conveying Elibank's view that the activities of the Eighty Club can exist alongside those of single-issue campaigning organisations set up by Liberal headquarters. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/56/69.

Dates: 06 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Aug 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/30-32
Scope and Contents Letter from [WSC] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] reporting the view of Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] that Liberal journalists have not been as well rewarded with honours as their Conservative counterparts and agreeing with Northcliffe that men like J A Spender, Henry Massingham, C P Scott, Robert Donald and Drysdale (of the Yorkshire Daily Observer) should be rewarded. Reports that Northcliffe believes Spender is danger of being...
Dates: 12 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Aug 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/33
Scope and Contents Letter from Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] (The Wharf, Abingdon, [Oxfordshire]) to WSC rejecting the assertions of Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] that J A Spender is in danger of being turned out of the Westminster Gazette and that Liberal journalists should be given more honours. Reports that Sir Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] is a little less confident in his ability to do what he wishes and congratulates WSC on the "trouncing" he gave to...
Dates: 16 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/42-44
Scope and Contents Letter from [WSC] to Percy Illingworth [Liberal Chief Whip] explaining that the possibility of his visiting Canada and his work at the Admiralty mean that he cannot commit himself to speaking engagements. Recommends Lionel Yexley, editor of the "Fleet", to be the candidate for Portsmouth [Hampshire] and stresses the importance to the Government of the forthcoming parliamentary session. Suggests reviving the system of dinners introduced during the Budget of 1909 to enable ministers to keep in...
Dates: 01 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/50-52
Scope and Contents Letter from [the 9th Duke of Marlborough] (Blenheim Palace) to WSC: praises his work at the Admiralty; refers to F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] and "politicians who clothe the results of calculation in the language of enthusiasm"; cites the religious wars in sixteenth-century France as a warning against provoking religious passion in Ulster [Ireland]; complains about having to assess the site value of his land; describes his efforts to re-house his labourers through a co-operative and...
Dates: 01 Oct 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Dec 1911

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/53/85
Scope and Contents

Letter from William Royle (Elmwood, Rusholme, [Manchester]) to WSC reporting dissatisfaction among Liberal ranks with the Government's hostile attitude towards Germany and its subservient policy towards Russia with regard to Persia [Iran].

Dates: 18 Dec 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Jan [1909]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/39/10-11
Scope and Contents

Letter from Henry Massingham (The Nation, 14 Henrietta Street, Convent Garden, London) to WSC explaining his criticism of WSC's speech in Birmingham [on 13 Jan 1909] on Liberal policy and the House of Lords. Makes particular reference to Welsh Disestablishment and social reform.

Dates: 27 Jan [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Jun 1908

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/34/65
Scope and Contents

Letter from Lady Dorothy Howard (Pudsey, [Yorkshire]) to WSC disassociating herself from the "rowdyism" of the Women's Freedom League and describing the gloomy prospects for the Liberals in the Pudsey by-election. Refers to a sermon by a High Church parson on the need to carry the Athanasian creed to the blacks of central Africa.

Dates: 14 Jun 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Apr 1912]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/82
Scope and Contents

Letter from "Sunny" [the 9th Duke of Marlborough] (Blenheim Palace) to WSC on the disunity between Liberal leaders and some of their followers and the need to for the leaders to take up a clear position. Thinks WSC would be wrong to go to Canada and comments on a recent article on WSC.

Dates: [Apr 1912]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Jan 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/1
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the Times on: the secession of some members of the Ulster Liberal Association over the Government's policy on Home Rule; the speech by the Unionist MP James Campbell [later Lord Glenavy] at Coleraine [County Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland].

Dates: 01 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 05 Jan 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/6
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the Bradford Daily Telegraph [Yorkshire] on the unity of the Liberal party in support of Home Rule and the widening consensus in favour of the measure.

Dates: 05 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Jan 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/16
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the Cork Constitution on the declining support for Home Rule among Liberals in England and Wales due to the hypocrisy of the Nationalist leaders, the determination of the Ulster Unionists to defend the Union, and the danger of disorder at the Home Rule meeting to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

Dates: 06 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 05 Sep 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/116-117
Scope and Contents

Letter from Frederick Guest (Air Ministry) to WSC (Maryland, Frinton-on-Sea, [Essex]) arguing that in a general election in which the Coalition held together the Government would defeat the combined forces of Labour and the "Wee Frees" [independent Liberals], but if the Unionists broke away the Coalition Liberals would only retain about forty seats and Labour would make great gains.

Dates: 05 Sep 1922
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), 05 Sep 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/118
Scope and Contents

Postscript by Frederick Guest to his letter at CHAR 2/124B/116-117 stating that in estimating that the Coalition Liberals would only retain forty seats in a general election if the Coalition broke up he did not include Scotland.

Dates: 05 Sep 1922
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), 12 Sep 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/143-144
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour] on: the danger of the Coalition breaking up when unity is essential to meet the challenge of the Labour Party; the inclination of 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] and [David Lloyd George] to have a general election in October; the evidence from Scotland that the longer the election was postponed the worse it would be for the Coalition; WSC's reluctant agreement to an October election; the forthcoming meeting at Chequers to plan...
Dates: 12 Sep 1922
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 Sep 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/155-159
Scope and Contents Letter from [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan, Altnabraec, Caithness [Scotland]) to WSC on: the wintering of polo ponies; the determination of the Duke of Atholl and the Duchess of Atholl to assert their political influence in East Perthshire against the Liberals; the need for the newly formed association of National Liberals in the constituency to be supported by Liberal headquarters; Frederick Cripps' belief that his business enterprise in Soviet Russia has been...
Dates: 13 Sep 1922
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), 08 Sep 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/162
Scope and Contents

Letter from William Munro (25 George Street, Perth, [Scotland]) to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] on discussions between the National Liberals and Unionists in East Perthshire on which party should put up a candidate in the constituency in the next election. Copy sent with CHAR 2/124B/155-159.

Dates: 08 Sep 1922
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), 09 Sep 1922 - 11 Sep 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/163-164
Scope and Contents Letter from William Munro, secretary of the Perth Division National Liberal Association, to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] enclosing the two letters described below and noting that the Unionists in East Perthshire [Scotland] have departed from the agreement that the question of which party should put up a candidate in the constituency should be referred to David Lloyd George and Austen Chamberlain for arbitration (11 Sep).Letter from Alex Stewart, secretary of the Perth...
Dates: 09 Sep 1922 - 11 Sep 1922
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), 14 Sep 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/173-177
Scope and Contents Letter from [Lord Balfour, earlier Arthur Balfour] (Hotel Metropole, Geneva, Switzerland) to WSC agreeing that a formal split between the Government and the "Die-Hard" Unionists is unlikely but that a dissolution of parliament in October seems to be in the Government's best interests. Considers three possible results of a general election: a Labour victory, an arrangement of parties requiring the formation of a new coalition, or a victory for the present coalition. Balfour is too out of...
Dates: 14 Sep 1922
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), 29 Oct 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/125/49
Scope and Contents

Letter from Sir Herbert Samuel [later Lord Samuel] (High Commissioner's Office, Jerusalem, [Palestine]) to WSC on the largely satisfactory political situation in Palestine over the last two years, Simon's lack of regret that he is not standing in the general election, given the current state of Liberalism, and WSC's recovery from his operation.

Dates: 29 Oct 1922
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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