Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 4519 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 22 Aug 1899
(Untitled), 03 Sep [1899]
(Untitled), 18 Sep 1899
Letter from WSC ([Blenheim Palace] on the notepaper of 35A Great Cumberland Place) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he has received a telegram from [Sir Alfred] Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] asking whether he would go as correspondent to South Africa and that Oliver [Borthwick] has accepted WSC's terms to be correspondent to the Morning Post.
(Untitled), 02 Oct 1899
Letter from WSC (35A Great Cumberland Place [London]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] informing her of the date on which he leaves for [South Africa] and that he has almost finished ["The River War"] and speculating on the news that [James] Babington has been appointed over [John] Brabazon. Envelope present.
(Untitled), 06 Oct 1899
Letter from WSC (35A Great Cumberland Place [London]) to [3rd] Lord Chesham asking him to forward his application for a commission in the Royal Buckinghamshire H[ussa]rs, enclosing certificates [not present] and requesting that War Office reports about him should be considered in the absence of a certificate of moral character.
(Untitled), 08 Jun 1964
(Untitled), 18 Jul 1955
(Untitled), 03 Oct 1945
Volume of papers relating to the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, 1965-01
Papers relating to Anne Seagrim's work as secretary to Lord Alexander, including correspondence with and on the Alexanders, a programme for their visit to Canada in 1967, and papers relating to the funerals of Lord Alexander and Sir Winston Churchill.
"Wars are not won by evacuations", 04 Jun 1940
Winston Churchill, 1945-10 - 1947-05
Correspondence with Churchill and others on subjects including: a proposed visit by Churchill to Strasbourg [France] (1947); Duff Cooper’s visit to Rabat [Morocco] in 1940, to see former French ministers in exile; Churchill’s visits to Paris (1945 and 1946); the results of the French elections; the current political situation.
Winston Churchill: Great Nobel Prizes, 1970
Manuscript of book on Churchill as a winner of the Nobel prize for Literature, (Edito-Service, Geneva, 1970).
Winston Churchill Memorial Lectures, 1973 - 1974
Includes GJ's 'Europe - Dreams and Realities' and Martin Gilbert's 'Winston Churchill - The Search for his Character'.
"With Channel Cruiser Squadron", 1914 - 1915
'Working for Mr Churchill'
Manuscript
Writ and Claim for libel issued by WSC against the Daily Mirror, 25 Oct 1951
Includes transcript of published articles including "Whose Finger?" about WSC's words on the possibility of nuclear war and that "only Russia or America was in a position to pull the trigger" and a series of articles about on WSC's possible policy of issuing a peace ultimatum to Stalin.Printed pamphlet.
WSC's history notebook., c 1892
Contains accounts and maps of the First Duke of Marlborough's campaigns and general notes on eighteenth and nineteenth century history.