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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1941 - 31 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/10
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Colonels Leslie Hollis and Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's...
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01 Oct 1941 - 31 Oct 1941
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1941 - 30 Nov 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/36/11
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, November 1941.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] and Desmond Morton [Prime Minister's Personal Assistants]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the...
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01 Nov 1941 - 30 Nov 1941
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(Untitled), 25 Mar 1915 - 26 Mar 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/43/69-74
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Letter from David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to WSC, [First Lord of the Admiralty], enclosing copies of his correspondence with Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War], on the establishment of a Munitions Committee.
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25 Mar 1915 - 26 Mar 1915
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/3
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff.Subjects covered by the minutes include: the Japanese threat to the Falkland Islands; discussion of operation "Ironclad" [code name for British occupation of Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; the British naval...
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01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942
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(Untitled), 03 Jul 1942 - 28 Aug 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/6
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, July and August 1942. Some written by WSC when in the Middle East.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered by the...
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03 Jul 1942 - 28 Aug 1942
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/10
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, December 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Director of Movements [War Office, General Noel Holmes]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the minutes include:...
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01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
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(Untitled), 31 Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/68A/6
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Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in- Chief, Middle East, to WSC on subjects including a tank encounter to the south of Agedabia [Ajdabiyah, Libya], the accuracy of RAF bombing and the movement of enemy ships from Ras el Aali.
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31 Dec 1941
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(Untitled), 22 May 1942 - 08 Jul 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/55/111-137
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Letters from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [former Minister for Aircraft Production and Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] to WSC, Lord Cranborne [Lord Privy Seal, later 5th Lord Salisbury] and Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the Cabinet] on the aircraft and shipbuilding programme, including the lack of dive-bombers, asking for minutes of the Defence Committee of Supply and on his speech in the House of Lords on anti-tank gun development; also includes a letter from A V Alexander [First Lord of...
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22 May 1942 - 08 Jul 1942
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(Untitled), 02 Jul 1942 - 21 Sep 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/56B/121-184
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Correspondence between Sir Stafford Cripps [Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons], WSC and Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the Cabinet] on memoranda by Cripps on subjects including: dissatisfaction in Parliament, the vote of censure against the Government and public opinion over progress of war in the Middle East, including leadership, weaponry, research and invention and the RAF; lack of public morale, the direction of the war and need for improved co-operation between the...
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02 Jul 1942 - 21 Sep 1942
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(Untitled), 27 Jan 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69A/54
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Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander- in-Chief, Middle East, to WSC regarding the latest situation in North Africa, including the premature action at Benghazi [Libya], positions as known on the evening of 26 January, concern over the condition of 1st Armoured division and the conclusion that British armoured forces have failed to compete with the enemy satisfactorily.
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27 Jan 1942
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(Untitled), 29 Jan 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/69A/62
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Telegram from the Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC on subjects including: the quietening of the internal political situation in Egypt; the difference of the military situation as compared to when General Erwin Rommel [Commander, Afrika Corps] attacked General Sir Archibald Wavell [former Commander-in-Chief, Middle East]; Benghazi [Libya] only being defensible from the east or south; the comparative ineffectiveness of British tanks, probably due...
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29 Jan 1942
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/13/9
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, December 1940.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; [Pierre] Dupuy [First Secretary Canadian Legation, Paris]; F A Lindemann [later 1st...
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01 Dec 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
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(Untitled), 20 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/20/43-57
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Letter from WSC to President [Franklin Roosevelt] outlining various plans and proposals concerning: attacking the German and Italian armies in Libya; French North Africa; Norway; British contributions to the Soviet war effort; defending Great Britain from a possible German invasion; placing United States forces in Northern Ireland [Ulster]; the command structure in the Middle East and the roles of the Air Force and Navy; the effect of victory in Libya on Italy and Turkey; landing tanks; the...
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20 Oct 1941
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/45/129-130
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Telegrams from Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC with news of battle; estimates of German and Italian tank strength; unloading of United States and Cruiser tanks.
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28 Nov 1941
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(Untitled), 02 Nov 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/8-9
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Letter from [Sir] Bindon Blood (Meerut [India]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he discusses Indian affairs including his pleasure at [Albert Edward] Prince of Wales]'s agreement that Indian princes who have received an English education should be allowed to serve in the British army; approval for Queen [Victoria's] treatment of "Indian 'swells'"; and the problem posed by Indian women who are "left in intellectual darkness". He also comments on the appointment of Sir George White [as...
Dates:
02 Nov 1899
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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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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill. The file is arranged in two sections: the first section (CHAR 28/66/1-101) comprises letters which are alphabetically arranged by name of correspondent and the second section comprises telegrams (which are not arranged by name of correspondent). All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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"War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.56) of the naval, military and air situation from 12 noon September to 12 noon September 26th, 1940", 27 Sep 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/6/86-99
Scope and Contents
Summary of events including: attempted landing at Dakar by General [Charles] de Gaulle; U boat activity in the North Atlantic and shipping losses; operations by German raiders; information about the disposition of German and Italian troops; events in Greece, Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Bulgaria, the Mediterranean and the Middle East; air attacks on Germany (including Berlin) and on invasion ports in France and...
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27 Sep 1940
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