Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
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Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: Articles by WSC for the Daily Mail., 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/317
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Proofs and newspaper cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "I was conscious through it all" and "My New York [United States] misadventure" on WSC's accident in which he was hit by a motor car; "The Academy reveals Britain's brave gaiety" on the Royal Academy exhibition (including a draft of the article by Edward Marsh); "My happy days in the Bahamas "; "Words on the Irish Treaty" on the announcement by [Eamon] De Valera of the abolition of the Oath of Allegiance; "Lord Oxford [and...
Dates:
1932
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Literary: Articles: Daily Mail., Feb 1934 - Sep 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/500
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Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Clive of India" on the achievements of Robert Clive; "B-P" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell; "The Greatest Half-Hour in our History" on the Magna Carta; "This Year's Royal Academy is Exhilarating" on the 1934 exhibition; "Great Deeds that gave us the Empire" celebrating Empire Day; "How I would procure peace" on the futility of the current foreign policy and need to rearm; "August 4, 1914" on the beginning of the First World War...
Dates:
Feb 1934 - Sep 1934
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Literary: correspondence concerning "Painting as a Pastime"., Mar 1947 - Apr 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/40
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Correspondents include: Brian Batsford, director of B T Batsford Limited; representatives of Odhams Press Limited particularly book department manager C L Shard and [William] Surrey Dane [Vice-Chairman and Managerial Consultant] (45); representatives of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited (7); representatives of Fladgate and Company particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (20); John Benn, Chairman of Ernest Benn Limited (3); Count Michael de la Bedoyere, editor of the Catholic Herald,...
Dates:
Mar 1947 - Apr 1953
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Literary: correspondence with and about Sir Edward Marsh., Oct 1933 - Oct 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/2
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Others correspondents include: Sir William Haley, [Editor] of the Times, on WSC writing a tribute on Marsh's death (2); 10th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [earlier Lord Bruce]; James Stewart-Murray [?9th Duke of Atholl]; David Garnett on his publishing a volume of T E Lawrence's [T E Shaw, "Lawrence of Arabia"] letters. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: Denis Kelly [literary assistant to WSC]; secretaries Grace Hamblin, Anthony Montague Browne, Lettice Marston [later Lettice...
Dates:
Oct 1933 - Oct 1954
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Literary: various articles by WSC., c 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/641
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Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings for: an interview with WSC for the New Statesman and Nation, in which he defends western democracies against totalitarianism, discusses the possible effect of war on the democratic system and civil liberties, and his views on the inadequacies of ARP, conscription, and how to prevent war; the introduction to a catalogue of the artist Paul Maze, in which WSC recalls Maze during World War I (with a copy of a catalogue for a French exhibition...
Dates:
c 1939
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Literary: various correspondence., 01 Jan 1937 - 01 Apr 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/546
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Correspondents include: Sir Walter Layton, Editor of the Economist; Richard von Kuhlmann (2); G Payot on publishing WSC's work in France (7); Oliver Locker-Lampson on using WSC's articles (2); H A Gwynne [Editor of the Morning Post]; Arthur Christiansen, Editor of the Daily Express; representatives of George Allen and Unwin Limited, on publishing one of WSC's broadcasts (4); Nancy Pearn, Director of Pearn, Pollinger and Higham Limited, literary agents, commissioning an article (5); Adam...
Dates:
01 Jan 1937 - 01 Apr 1938
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Personal: Business and Financial: Reproductions of paintings and miscellaneous, L to Z., May 1956 - Apr 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/130
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Includes letters asking to reproduce images of WSC's paintings from organisations and individuals including: the Listener; National Geographic Society; Reverend Michael Randolph, editor of the Reader's Digest; Edward Halliday, President of the Royal Society of British Artists; Harry Taylforth of the Skipton [Yorkshire] Building Society (4); Mrs R Hayward, Director of the Soho Gallery; the Sunday Times; and Sir John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery. Also includes 8 letters from...
Dates:
May 1956 - Apr 1965
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Ha - Hor., 19 Nov 1951 - 24 Dec 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/189
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Correspondents include: Sir Charles Hendriks (2); King Haakon VII of Norway (4); Sir Michael Wright [British Ambassador to Norway]; Per Preben Prebensen, Norwegian Ambassador to Britain, asking WSC to write the introduction to a biography on King Haakon (2); Patrick, 1st Lord Hailes [earlier Patrick Buchan-Hepburn] on press hostility to his appointment as Governor-General of the West Indies, the poor Conservative performance in by-elections, the Federation movement and elections in the West...
Dates:
19 Nov 1951 - 24 Dec 1959
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Open