Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 5., 13 Jul 1941 - 29 Aug 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/694
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Sea raiders" on the German ships "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" and their eventual destruction during World War I; "A speech that prevented war" on [David] Lloyd George's speech at the Mansion House [London] on the Agadir [Morocco] Crisis in 1911; "Why I believe in government for the people" on totalitarianism in Germany, ranking the citizen higher than the state, and comparing the constitutions of Britain and the United States; "A People...
Dates:
13 Jul 1941 - 29 Aug 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence., 03 Jan 1948 - 11 Mar 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/46
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: "Mule" [Sarah Oliver, earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp, then Sarah, Lady Audley] on subjects including her visit to Canada and her wedding to Antony Beauchamp (16); "Alex", 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada]; Bernard Baruch; CSC on subjects including WSC's leadership of the Conservative Party, Chartwell [Kent] and Sarah (12); Antony Beauchamp; Hugh [? Frewen]; Oswald Frewen (2); Amy Guest (4); Raymond Guest; Sir Shane Leslie (3);...
Dates:
03 Jan 1948 - 11 Mar 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Personal: Family etc.: Correspondence A - Churchill, John., Apr 1955 - May 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/135
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Henry, Lord Audley (3); Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp] (16) on subjects including her acting career, her finances, her marriage to Lord Audley and his death; Arabella Churchill (6); CSC (28) on subjects including her visit to Paris [France] in 1956, the success of an exhibition of WSC's paintings, concern about Sarah [Lady Audley] and her arrest in Liverpool in 1959, a statue of WSC by David McFall, WSC's visit to the...
Dates:
Apr 1955 - May 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Fonds
The Papers of Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT
Scope and Contents
The collection includes: papers and correspondence, photographs and press cuttings plus material on household and domestic administration.
It contains the letters exchanged between Sir Winston (WSC) and Lady Churchill (CSC) from 1908, the time of their engagement, until 1963, shortly before Sir Winston's death (1965). This collection was used by Lady Soames in the writing of her mother's biography and it provides a splendid, detailed and often very moving record of a remarkable...
Dates:
1884 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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(Untitled), 12 Jan 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A/22-23
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic and family news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/26-27.
Dates:
12 Jan 1916
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(Untitled), 17 Jan [1916]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A/29
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Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic and family news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/34.
Dates:
17 Jan [1916]
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(Untitled), 18 Jan [1916]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A/30
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic and family news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/35.
Dates:
18 Jan [1916]
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(Untitled), 07 Feb 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A/59-60
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC to WSC, on the possibility of him returning to the Cabinet as Air Minister, also news of children, Diana and Sarah. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/59-60.
Dates:
07 Feb 1916
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(Untitled), 09 Feb [1916]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A/63
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC to WSC, news of children, Diana and Randolph, "such delicious beings" Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/63.
Dates:
09 Feb [1916]
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(Untitled), 16 Feb 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A/70-72
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Letter from CSC to WSC, on her stay at Walmer Castle; the death of Lord Ridley, with news of children and her munitions work. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/70-72.
Dates:
16 Feb 1916
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(Untitled), 21 Feb [1916]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A/75
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/76-77.
Dates:
21 Feb [1916]
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(Untitled), 20 Mar [1916]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A/104-105
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/103-104.
Dates:
20 Mar [1916]
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(Untitled), 27 [Mar 1916]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A/141-142
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/133.
Dates:
27 [Mar 1916]
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(Untitled), 04 Jan 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/1-5
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC, 2 Sussex Square, London, to WSC, on her health, and that of the children, asking him not to open a letter written to him on "Black Monday" [2 January].
Dates:
04 Jan 1922
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(Untitled), 03 Feb 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/10-14
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Letter from CSC, Hotel Mont-Fleury, Cannes, France, to WSC, on success in Cannes tennis tournament, and on her decision to tell her mother and Venetia Montagu about her pregnancy, also on building work at 2 Sussex Square, and account of conversation with Lord Derby on Lord and Lady Curzon, describing Curzon as a "fat sneak".
Dates:
03 Feb 1922
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(Untitled), 08 Aug 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/44-48
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC to WSC, on the possibility of buying a house at Frinton; the imminent arrival of the new "kitten" [Mary Churchill, later Lady Soames] and WSC's stay in France.
Dates:
08 Aug 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 14 Aug 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/49-50
Scope and Contents
Letter from CSC to WSC, on WSC's stay in France; French politics and the death of Arthur Griffith and its effect on Irish politics.
Dates:
14 Aug 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 17 Aug 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/51
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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the possibility of buying a house in Frinton, and on Diana and Randolph's booby prize in the Frinton tennis tournament.
Dates:
17 Aug 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 12 Sep 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/52-53
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Letter and telegram from CSC to WSC, wedding anniversary greetings; on the possibility of buying a county house, with account of visit to her aunt, Mary Hozier.
Dates:
12 Sep 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), [09 Nov 1922]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/158/54-59
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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the election campaign in Dundee.
Dates:
[09 Nov 1922]
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 17 Aug 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/78/69
Scope and Contents
Letter from Blanche [Lady] Airlie (Airlie Castle, Clythe [Scotland]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] congratulating her on WSC's engagement to Clementine [Hozier, later CSC] and commenting on her fondness for Clementine.
Dates:
17 Aug 1908
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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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 from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill. Includes material relating to Lady Randolph's book "The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill" a Shakespearean ball held in aid of the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre and "Shakespeare's England", an exhibition held at Earl's Court organised by Lady Randolph. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 16 Sep 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/35/67-68
Scope and Contents
Letter from George [Cornwallis-West](Invercauld, Ballater, Aberdeenshire [Scotland]) to "Missie" [Lady Randolph Churchill] discussing the possibility that they may marry. He observes that she changes her mind frequently, says that he will not marry her until he has more money, that he has quarrelled with many of his relations and friends and that WSC made "strong arguments" in favour of leaving matters as they are.
Dates:
16 Sep 1899
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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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 George Cornwallis-West to Lady Randolph Churchill. Includes items relating to their engagement which was broken off and to George's participation in the Boer War. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described. All items in file except CHAR 28/35/78 date to 1899.
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(Untitled), 27 Jul 1894
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/42/24
Scope and Contents
Letter from [Frances, Duchess of Marlborough] (50 Grosvenor Square [London]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she discusses the health of [Lord Randolph Churchill] and the high expenses of their travels, she suggests that Jennie should consider cutting down on the number of servants, reports on the wedding of Frances [Wimborne] and gives news of WSC and says that she has been obliged to check him as he needs a "firm hand".
Dates:
27 Jul 1894
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 Jan [1883]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/7/6-7
Scope and Contents
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill ([France] on the notepaper of 2 Connaught Place) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] thanking her for her letter and including: his worry at her illness which has made him ill; concern that she should not tire herself by writing to him; his intention to meet her at Marseilles [France]; a meeting with [John] Gorst at Menton [France]; Lord Randolph's intention to avoid a meeting in Birmingham and lack of interest in politics; financial difficulties and his relief...
Dates:
05 Jan [1883]
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers: Letters and telegrams from Lord Randolph Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill. Several items relate to Lord Randolph's visit to India and the file includes a letter from Frank Thomas to Frances, Duchess of Marlborough. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 07 Nov 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/11/42-43
Scope and Contents
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Fort Tuli [Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: observations on the future marriage of [Lady] Sarah [Churchill later Sarah Wilson]; advice to "Mary" [Lady Gerard] that she should forgive "Billy" [2nd Lord Gerard] commenting "what does an occasional cook or housemaid matter"; his plans for returning to England; arrangements for WSC to study during the holiday; observations on [Arthur] Balfour becoming Leader [of the House of...
Dates:
07 Nov 1891
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers: Letters and telegrams from Lord Randolph Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill mainly relating to his visit to South Africa in search of gold (see also material contained in CHAR 28/54). All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.