Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" and WSC's war memoirs [for World War II]: business correspondence., 28 Jan 1944 - 13 Dec 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/713
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company [solicitors] (4); Sir Newman Flower, Director of Cassell and Company (2).Also includes copy letters, drafts and notes from Brendan Bracken, 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry] and officials of WSC's Private Office to those mentioned above and others.Subjects include: the purchase of the film rights to "English-Speaking Peoples" by Sir Alexander Korda; WSC obtaining these rights from Cassell's; WSC giving...
Dates:
28 Jan 1944 - 13 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: articles., Jan 1936 - Sep 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/540
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "I Was Astonished by Morocco" following WSC's visit to Morocco; "Why Not a Channel Tunnel" on the trade and military advantages of a tunnel; "St Helena" on Napoleon at St Helena and a new play on the subject; "International Affairs" on the need to defend democracy; "Radio, Newsreel, or the Press" on the superiority of the press in supplying news and the need for a free press.Also includes: a letter from Adam Marshall...
Dates:
Jan 1936 - Sep 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles: Collier's Weekly., Sep 1934 - Jul 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/521
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Why Not Dictatorship" on democracy and dictatorship; "Are the Wars Ended?" on the drift towards war, the risk from Germany and Japan, disarmament, the advantages of a peace keeping role for Britain and the United States, and the need for action from the League of Nations; "Charlie Chaplin's Contribution" on Chaplin's career, his future in serious roles and the universality of pantomime; "The Future of Publicity" on the...
Dates:
Sep 1934 - Jul 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Collier's magazine articles: correspondence., 09 Feb 1939 - 03 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/634
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Collier's including the Editor, William Chenery, on subjects including praise for "Marlborough: His Life and Times" and "Step by Step", purchasing the film rights of "Marlborough", publishing WSC's articles in Collier's, articles on scientific subjects, and the pact between Germany and the Soviet Union (18); Imre Revesz [later Emery Reves] of the Co-operation Press Service for International Understanding; Herbert Swope praising an article by WSC;...
Dates:
09 Feb 1939 - 03 Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence concerning film and television offers for WSC's book "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"., 25 Jul 1955 - 12 Feb 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/446A-B
Scope and Contents
This file mainly consists of business and legal correspondence. No film or television series had been produced at the time of WSC's death in 1965. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne.Correspondents include: Edward R Murrow [Director, Columbia Broadcasting System] (4),Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (76), Sir Alexander Korda (Chairman, London Film Productions Ltd) (2), Denis Kelly, Charles Wick (Wick Films Inc) (2), Emery Reves (2),...
Dates:
25 Jul 1955 - 12 Feb 1965
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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Literary: correspondence concerning film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life". This file mainly consists of business and legal correspondence with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Brothers. The rights had been acquired by Warner Brothers in 1941, but MGM were keen to negotiate a new contract. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne., 23 May 1956 - 20 Dec 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/447
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Dore Schary (Vice-President, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (4), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (22), Arthur Loew (President, Loew's Inc) (2), Jack Warner (President, Warner Brothers Pictures Inc) (6), Marjorie Thorson (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (10), 1st Lord Bracken, Arthur Abeles junior (Managing Director, Warner Brothers Pictures Inc).
Dates:
23 May 1956 - 20 Dec 1957
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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Literary: correspondence concerning "Marlborough: His Life and Times"., Jan 1946 - Sep 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/37
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of George G Harrap and Company, particularly J H H Gaute, A J White, and George Harrap (65); [Geoffrey] Mason of Lloyds Bank; Val Gielgud on a projected film script; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (7); William Deakin; Cyril Mason suggesting amendments particularly concerning John William, Prince of Orange (4); Sir Harold Wilberforce-Bell on a portrait of Brigadier Francis Palmes. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - Sep 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on copyright matters and seeking permission to quote from "The Story of the Malakand Field Force", "The River War", "Savrola", "My African Journey", and "Marlborough: His Life and Times"., Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/33
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company, solicitors (6); representatives of Odhams Press Limited including [William] Surrey Dane [Vice-Chairman and Managerial Consultant] (8); representatives of A P Watt and Son (4); William Nowell, editor of the Empire Cotton Growing Review; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; Major-General Colin Callander; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on film, television and radio offers., Aug 1945 - Jun 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/8
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Barnes, Director of the Spoken Word, BBC; Sir William Haley [Director-General of the BBC]; Sarah Beauchamp [earlier Sarah Churchill and Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] (2); Edward Morrow, European Director of Columbia Broadcasting System; John Steele, London and European Representative of Mutual Broadcasting System; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N...
Dates:
Aug 1945 - Jun 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on permission to quote extracts from various of WSC's works including speeches, "Great Contemporaries", "Liberalism and the social problem", "London to Ladysmith", "Lord Randolph Churchill", "Marlborough: His Life and Times", "My African Journey", "My Early Life", "Thoughts and Adventures", "The River War", "Secret Session Speeches", "Savrola", the war memoirs ["The Second World War"], and "The World Crisis"., Dec 1949 - Jan 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/60A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Eade, [editor] of the Sunday Dispatch, proposing the book publication of WSC's articles on monarchs (2); Sir Robert Hodgson on a letter from WSC on King Alfonso XIII of Spain; representatives of Odhams Press Limited particularly G C Piper of the Book Department (20); representatives of Fladgate and Company particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (24); James Thornton, Assistant Controller, (2) and Mary Somerville, Controller, Talks Division, BBC, and John,...
Dates:
Dec 1949 - Jan 1963
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on the foreign rights in WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") and other works, mainly with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], Q-Z., Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/12A-B
Scope and Contents
Other correspondents include: Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; William Deakin (3); [William] Surrey Dane of Odhams Press Limited (3); Robert McAlpine [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Chips Gemmell, Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], and Anne Hipwell; [literary...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence: recordings of speeches and extracts from works. This file primarily consists of business correspondence relating to the rights in speeches recorded privately by WSC in 1949, which were acquired by Decca in 1964. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne. , 27 Sep 1946 - 24 Apr 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/445A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: O C Preuss (His Master's Voice Gramophone Company) (20), Emery Reves, Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (30), J D Bicknell (His Master's Voice Gramophone Company, later Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd) (15), Denis Kelly, Arthur Luce Klein (Spoken Arts Inc), Hugh Greene [Director-General, BBC], George Marek (Vice-President and General Manager, Radio Corporation of America) (2), Leonard Lyons (New York Post), Kenneth Glancy (Vice-President, Columbia Records),...
Dates:
27 Sep 1946 - 24 Apr 1965
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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Literary: Correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life"., 06 Feb 1958 - 15 May 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/448A-B
Scope and Contents
This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer regarding a proposed film version of WSC's book "My Early Life", known in the United States as "A Roving Commission". The project did not pass the preliminary stages and failed in 1959. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne.Correspondents include: Marjorie Thorson (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (19), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (39), Nigel Balchin...
Dates:
06 Feb 1958 - 15 May 1959
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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Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life"., 31 Jan 1959 - 28 Nov 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/449A-B
Scope and Contents
This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence. The film rights were acquired by the Hugh French Agency and Paramount in 1960. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne.Correspondents include: Robert Clark (8), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (29), Hugh French (24), John Le Vien, Eliot Hyman (2), Sir David Cunynghame, Richard Patterson (Director, Paramount British Pictures Ltd), Robin French.Also includes: a financial...
Dates:
31 Jan 1959 - 28 Nov 1960
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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Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life". This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence relating to a proposed film treatment by Paramount, which was abandoned in 1963. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne., 17 Jan 1961 - 06 Jul 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/450A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Hugh French (54), Richard Gehman, Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (13), John Colville on the possibility of using Alymer Haldane as an "antagonist" to WSC in the film, Robert Graff (Sextant Inc) (2), C K Jones (Deputy General Manager, Odhams Press Ltd), Brian Forbes [scriptwriter] (20), Martin Rackin, Carl Foreman, Jacob Karp (Vice-President, Paramount). Also includes a letter of 18 Jan 1963 by Brian Forbes describing a visit to Randolph Churchill at Stour [East...
Dates:
17 Jan 1961 - 06 Jul 1964
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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Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's books "My Early Life" and "The World Crisis". This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence relating to an ultimately unsuccessful approach made by William Smith Seay and G R Morrell. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne., 04 Jan 1959 - 18 May 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/451
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Smith Seay (14), Alan Harvey [HM Consul (Information), Chicago, United States], A Barker (Foreign Office), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (12), Sir David Cunynghame, G R Morrell (Midwest Video Association) (10), Spyros Skouras [President, Twentieth Century Fox], B Finley Vinson (Vice-President, First National Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas [United States]), C H Moses, Senator James Fulbright, Hugh French, J A McCracken, Paul MacNamara, Ronald Grierson.
Dates:
04 Jan 1959 - 18 May 1961
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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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Apr 1963 - Jan 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/455
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (6), Howard Connell (3) and Victor Wolfson (2)(Le Vien Films) on film and television rights to WSC's War Memoirs, particularly documentary film titled "Finest Hours".File also includes Screen Treatment and screenplay by Victor Wolfson, with detailed comments by Montague Browne, correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (10), letter from the Marquess of Blandford (later 11th...
Dates:
Apr 1963 - Jan 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Curtis Brown Limited: business correspondence., 13 Dec 1937 - 10 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/606
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Representatives of Curtis Brown (21); copy letter from J Arthur Rank on a proposed film "Kitchener of Khartoum [Sudan]".Other subjects include: publication rights of WSC's Collier's magazine articles in the United Kingdom; details of articles for the Sunday Chronicle and WSC's American articles; the recording of "The River War" as a Talking Book for the Blind; an offer to syndicate contributions by WSC to the US press.Also includes: royalty statements for the Swedish...
Dates:
13 Dec 1937 - 10 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: London Film Productions: correspondence., 07 Feb 1934 - 31 Dec 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/495A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of London Film Productions Limited including George Grossmith, Chairman (2) and Alexander Korda, Managing Director (3), on WSC's advisory role in a series of short films; representatives of Nicholl, Manisty and Company [solicitors] (16); Randolph Churchill on the film scenarios (9); Frederick Ponsonby [Keeper of the Privy Purse, later 1st Lord Sysonby] on a film commemorating the Silver Jubilee (3); Walter, 1st Lord Runciman [President of the Board of...
Dates:
07 Feb 1934 - 31 Dec 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: London Film Productions: correspondence., 01 Jan 1935 - 29 Nov 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/514
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of London Film Productions, including Alexander Korda, Managing Director (2) on a film on the reign of George V to commemorate the Silver Jubilee and a film on the history of aviation; representatives of Nicholl, Manisty and Company, solicitors (17).Also includes: a general scheme for "King George V"; an annotated copy of the contract between London Film Productions and WSC for "King George V".
Dates:
01 Jan 1935 - 29 Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: News of the World articles by WSC 2., May 1938 - Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/615
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the News of the World for: "Peopling the Wide, Open Spaces of Empire" on foreign emigration to parts of the British Empire, factors which prevent the British from emigrating, and developing the Empire through investment and emigration; "Why Not 'The United States of Europe'?" on the harm done by European rivalries and nationalism, fascism and communism, the economic benefits of European integration, and the role of Britain towards...
Dates:
May 1938 - Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "Short Biographies": "American Impressions", copy., 1929 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/592
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Prohibition" on the fall of drunkenness in Britain because of taxation and regulation and the rise of consumption and crime in the United States; "The American Mind and Ours" on the importance of business at the expense of politics in the United States and the differences in American and British attitudes; "Industrial Conditions in America"; "Vastness of American Industry"; "Fleets of Britain and America"; "World's...
Dates:
1929 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "Short Biographies": "American Impressions": proofs., 1929 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/593
Scope and Contents
Proofs of the following articles by WSC: "The American Mind and Ours" on the importance of business at the expense of politics in the United States and the differences in American and British attitudes; "The United States of Europe" on a Europe without trade barriers and the benefits of solidarity; "Canada's Cornfields"; "Hollywood"; "Across Canada"; "Prohibition in Practice"; "California"; "Battles of Virginia" on Civil War sites; "Mr Macdonald's Reception" on good relations between Britain...
Dates:
1929 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "Short Biographies": proofs 2., 1930 - 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/591
Scope and Contents
Proofs of the following articles by WSC: an untitled article on the bad effects of independence for the Philippines; "Edward VIII" on Hector Bolitho's book on Edward, [Edward, Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and Edward VIII]; "The Abuse of the Dole" on the political importance of the unemployment figures and the abuse of the unemployment insurance system; "The United States of Europe" on a Europe without trade barriers and the benefits of solidarity; "Unlucky Alfonso" on...
Dates:
1930 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 6., 03 Aug 1941 - 05 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/695
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Sport, the stimulant" on the effect of modern inventions on the average person, watching, playing, and making money from sport, pigeon racing, angling, motor transport, hiking, cycling, theatre, cinema, radio, reading, and moral considerations; "Why the navy runs on oil" on the advantages of oil over coal as a fuel for ships, its adoption by the Royal Navy during WSC's first term as First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Anglo-Persian oil...
Dates:
03 Aug 1941 - 05 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.