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Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1874 - 1965

Found in 4519 Collections and/or Records:

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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 7., 12 Oct 1941 - 16 Nov 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/696
Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "The truth about the Dardanelles [Turkey]", WSC's account of the strategic thinking behind the campaign, and the support it received from the War Council and leading naval figures; "The peril of half-measures and compromise in war" on Lord Fisher's doubts and Lord Kitchener's role in the campaign; "17 sea mines which played a part in history" on the naval bombardment of the Dardanelles' forts, Vice-Admiral Sackville Carden going sick, and...
Dates: 12 Oct 1941 - 16 Nov 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 8., 23 Nov 1941 - 28 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/697
Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "My adventures with the guerrilla fighters" on WSC's experiences during the rebellion against the Spanish in Cuba; "First things I remember" on his earliest memories of Ireland, Elizabeth Everest, his mother [Lady Randolph Churchill], Ventnor [Isle of Wight], [William] Gladstone's election victory in 1880, and his schooling at Brighton [Sussex]; "The man who gave me my first cabinet post" on WSC's memories of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord...
Dates: 23 Nov 1941 - 28 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 8., 17 Nov 1940 - 29 Dec 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/672
Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Neville Chamberlain" on British Prime Ministers since [William] Gladstone, Chamberlain's career, including during World War I, and as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and WSC's views on his personality; "The Grimmest Task in the Government" on WSC's experiences as Home Secretary, capital punishment, and prison reform; "Maiden and Other Speeches" on speeches by F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead], Timothy Healy, WSC, Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord...
Dates: 17 Nov 1940 - 29 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles: correspondence., 04 Oct 1939 - 14 Dec 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/632
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch, on arrangements including copyright matters for a series of articles in the Dispatch taken from ["My Early Life"], "Great Contemporaries", "Thoughts and Adventures" and other sources (7); a representative of Thornton Butterworth Limited on royalties due for those articles where they have copyright.Also includes: lists of WSC's articles due to be published in the Dispatch from October 1939 to November 1941; proof of an...
Dates: 04 Oct 1939 - 14 Dec 1939
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: Sunday Dispatch articles: correspondence., 02 Jan 1940 - 19 Feb 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/660
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch (31); Brendan Bracken; representatives of the New Zealand Associated Press (4); Guy Innes [Australian Associated Press] (3).Subjects include: the publication of articles by WSC in the Sunday Dispatch and other newspapers; Eade compiling an autobiography from the articles; details of articles by WSC on England, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], and the persecution of Jews; the...
Dates: 02 Jan 1940 - 19 Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles: correspondence., 28 Jan 1942 - 12 Jul 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/699
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Charles Eade, editor of the Sunday Dispatch, on the publication of various articles by WSC and details of payment (4).Other subjects include: copyright matters concerning the publication of WSC's works in the Dispatch and their effect on a settlement for Mary Churchill [later Lady Soames].Also includes: a cutting from the Sunday Pictorial by its former editor, Hugh Cudlipp, alleging that WSC is being made a "weekly fool of" by the republishing of his old works such as...
Dates: 28 Jan 1942 - 12 Jul 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles: correspondence., 24 Dec 1940 - 10 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/684
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Cecil Brooks, British Editorial Representative of Liberty, on reprinting WSC's Dispatch articles (4); Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch, on the publication of various articles by WSC in the Dispatch (16).Other subjects include: the possible publication of "Savrola" in the Dispatch and Liberty; copyright matters; issuing WSC's "Great Stories Retold" series for the blind.Also includes: the text of a speech by WSC from 1919 on the first non-stop flight across...
Dates: 24 Dec 1940 - 10 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929] - 31 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/234
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Proofs of part of Chapter 2 entitled "Demos" on the demobilisation of the British munitions industry. Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929] - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929] - 31 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/235
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Proofs of Chapter 4 entitled "Russia Forlorn" on the Russian revolution and the rise of Bolshevism. Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929] - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929] - 31 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/236
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Proofs of Chapter 6 entitled "The Fourteen Points" on the post armistice negotiations and agreements between the Allied powers and Germany. Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929] - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929] - 31 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/237
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Proofs of Chapter 3 entitled "The Peace Conference" and Chapter 11 "The Peace Treaties". Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929] - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929] - 31 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/238
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Proofs of Chapter 8 entitled "The League of Nations". Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929] - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929] - 31 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/239
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Proofs of Chapter 12 entitled "The Miracle of the Vistula" on Russian and Polish affairs. Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929] - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929] - 31 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/240
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Proofs of Chapter 7 entitled "The Irish Spectre". Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929] - 31 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/241
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Proofs of Chapter 15 "The Irish Settlement" including copies of letters from WSC to [Michael] Collins. Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/242
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Proofs of Chapter 16 "The Rise of the Irish Free State" including copies of letters from WSC to [Michael] Collins and Sir James Craig [Lord Craigavon]. Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/243
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Proofs of Chapter 17 "Turkey Alive". Corrected by WSC and including a copy of a letter from WSC to the Prime Minister [David Lloyd George] and a Colonial Office document on Greece and Turkey.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1924 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/244
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Proofs of Chapter 20 "The End of the World Crisis". Corrected by WSC and including part of an article by WSC on war (dated to 1924).

Dates: 1924 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/245
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Galley proofs of table of contents and chapters entitled "The Broken Spell", "Demos", and "Demob". Corrected by WSC.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1928 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/246
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Galley proofs of chapters entitled "The Unfinished Task", "Intervention" and "Russia Forlorn". Corrected by WSC. Includes a letter from [Brigadier General] James Edmonds.

Dates: 1928 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/247
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Galley proofs of chapters entitled "The Fourteen Points", "The Peace Conference" and "The League of Nations". Corrected by WSC. Includes letters from [Brigadier General] James Edmonds and James Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor to the Foreign Office] with suggested amendments.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/248
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Galley proofs of chapters entitled "The Triumvirate" and "The New Map of Europe". Corrected by WSC. Includes suggestions from "Archie" [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso], James Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor to the Foreign Office] and Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence].

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/249
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Galley proofs of chapters entitled "The Russian Civil War" and "The Miracle of the Vistula". Corrected by WSC. Includes suggestions from [Major] Desmond Morton.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/250
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Galley proofs of chapters entitled "The Irish Spectre", "The Irish Settlement" and "The Rise of the Irish Free State". Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., [1929]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/251
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Galley proofs of chapters entitled "Turkey Alive", "The Greek Tragedy" and "Chanak". Corrected by WSC.

Dates: [1929]
Conditions Governing Access: Open