Liberal Party
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(Untitled), 07 Oct 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/62/66-68
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Letter from T P O'Connor (5 Morpeth Mansions, Victoria Street, [London]) to WSC reporting: that he is willing to address a meeting in Scotland to answer the forthcoming address of Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] in Dundee; that Carson has not been able to shake the opinions of the Liberal rank and file; that O'Connor's friends in Ireland are firmly opposed to a partition of the country and do not think that this is the moment for a conference; that the Tories have been split by...
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07 Oct 1913
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(Untitled), [1915]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/68/46-47
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Letter from [WSC] to [?a newspaper] pointing out that Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] left the Liberal Party when it changed its policy on Home Rule and he should therefore not criticise others who have changed their party because of disagreement on an important point of policy. Typescript.
Dates:
[1915]
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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
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/56/13-15
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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
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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/50-52
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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...
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01 Oct 1912
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(Untitled), 23 Dec 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/10/39
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Letter from A.E. Skeen to WSC, on WSC's Halifax speech, and the possibility of Unionist Free Traders joining the Liberal Party in spite of the Liberal Party's attitude towards Irish Home Rule.
Dates:
23 Dec 1903
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(Untitled), 27 Dec 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/10/54-56
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Letter from WSC to A.E. Skeen, on the Liberal Party's attitude towards Irish Home Rule [ms, in WSC's hand and carbon].
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27 Dec 1903
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(Untitled), 31 Dec 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/10/64-66
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Letter from Sir Charles Trevelyan to WSC, on the possibility of him joining the Liberal Party, outlining the common ground between Unionist Free Traders and the Liberals, and also the differences such as Irish Home Rule, the liquor monopoly, local taxation, and state regulation of sweated industries.
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31 Dec 1903
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(Untitled), 05 May 1904
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/17/47
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Letter from David Thomas (House of Commons) to WSC explaining that his support for WSC's possible candidature for Cardiff [Wales] was based on the belief that WSC was prepared to come fully over to the Liberal side, but Thomas has been disappointed by WSC's attitude to such issues as Irish Home Rule, disestablishment of the English Church, and reform of the House of Lords. Neither is Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron, 1st viscount)] radical enough for...
Dates:
05 May 1904
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(Untitled), 05 Nov 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/23/38
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Letter from J Moore Bayley (Peterscourt, Barnt Green, Worcestershire) to WSC giving his view of what the Liberal position on Irish Home Rule should be.
Dates:
05 Nov 1905
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/23/47
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Letter from Samuel Smethurst (Coldhurst House, Longsight, Oldham, [Lancashire]) to WSC (Canford Manor, [Dorset]) commiserating with him on his ill-health and urging him to rest. Refers to the candidates for the Oldham election and urges the Liberal party to make a definite statement of policy on Ireland.
Dates:
01 Dec 1905
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(Untitled), 13 Dec 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/30/92-95
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Letter from Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] (West Denton Hall, Scotswood-on-Tyne, [Northumberland]) to WSC on: disruption by suffragettes of speeches by cabinet ministers; the Tories' split over Tariff Reform; the industrious campaigning of Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane]; reaction to Haldane's army estimates and 2nd Lord Tweedmouth's naval estimates; the introduction of old age pensions and Labour Party criticism of them; the prospect of the miners' group adhering to the Labour...
Dates:
13 Dec 1907
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(Untitled), 07 Mar 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/32/31
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Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] (Kilverstone Hall, Thetford, [Norfolk]) to WSC thanking him for his letter, urging the Government to take the opportunity for reconciliation with the Irish Nationalists and urging the Liberal majority to stay united.
Dates:
07 Mar 1910
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(Untitled), 13 Jan 1922 - 14 Jan 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/120/53
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Letter from Edward Shortt, Home Secretary, to WSC announcing his intention of withdrawing special police protection for Cabinet ministers against attacks from Sinn Fein and asking for WSC's views, 13 Jan. Annotated by WSC that he answered agreeing in general but stating that protection should still be provided on special occasions such as public meetings, 14 Jan.
Dates:
13 Jan 1922 - 14 Jan 1922
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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), 18 Jan 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/120/87
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Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to Lord Morley [earlier John Morley] asking whether he would accept an invitation to hear David Lloyd George address the Liberal Convention or at least to send a message supporting the Government's Irish policy, which has been bitterly opposed by die-hard Conservatives and support for which has damaged the position of [1st Lord Birkenhead, earlier F E Smith]. Typescript copy.
Dates:
18 Jan 1922
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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), 19 Jan 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/120/88
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Letter from Lord Morley [earlier John Morley] (Flowermead, Princes Road, Wimbledon Park, [London]) to WSC arguing that his attendance at the Liberal Convention when it is addressed by David Lloyd George would not be useful to the Government.
Dates:
19 Jan 1922
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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
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/143-144
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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
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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), 25 Oct 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/111/38-39
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Letter from Frederick Guest (12 Downing Street) to WSC on the attendance of Coalition Liberals at the forthcoming meetings of the National Liberal Federation and the division of Liberal opinion over Herbert Asquith's proposal to grant Dominion Home Rule to Ireland.
Dates:
25 Oct 1920
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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), [Dec] [1921]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/118/72-80
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Notes by [Sir Philip Sassoon] on: the set-backs suffered by the Labour party due to its links with the Co-operative and trade union movements; the continued support for the Labour Party stemming from unemployment and low wages; the failure of the pre-war party system to address itself to the post-war aspirations of ordinary people; the credit gained by the Government from the Irish settlement and the Washington Conference; the unlikelihood of a full economic recovery in the near future; the...
Dates:
[Dec] [1921]
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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), 10 Sep 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/134/119-121
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Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to 5th Lord Rosebery on: the vital importance of the Russian treaty as the issue on which the Government can be defeated and the consequent need to keep the Irish boundary question in the background; the intention at the meeting in Edinburgh [Scotland] to be addressed by WSC and Sir Robert Horne [later Lord Horne of Slamannan] "to emphasise the vital need of all Constitutional and Imperial forces in the country working together in this juncture" and for WSC to...
Dates:
10 Sep 1924
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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), 02 Oct 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/135/5-6
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Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour] on: the Liberal resolve to fight the Government on the dropping of the prosecution against John Campbell and the Russian Treaty; the composition of the Conservative government that would probably need to be formed following the defeat in Parliament of the present Government and before a general election; the likelihood that Lord Carson [earlier Sir Edward Carson] will be appointed by the Government to represent Ulster...
Dates:
02 Oct 1924
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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 Aug 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/134/78
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Letter from Frederick Guest (on board SS "Homeric") to WSC noting that Lord Grey [earlier Sir Edward Grey] has resigned the Liberal leadership in the House of Lords and that Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] will not contest Paisley [Renfrewshire, Scotland] and asking for WSC's views on David Lloyd George's probable bid for the Liberal leadership. Expresses the wish not to become involved in controversy over the Irish treaty amendment bill so as not to threaten the "perfect...
Dates:
26 Aug 1924
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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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