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

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Dates

  • Existence: 1874 - 1965

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Found in 4600 Collections and/or Records:

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"Churchill's Indian Summer: The Conservative Government of 1951-55", 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FICA 3/3
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Draft chapters of Anthony Seldon’s book on Churchill's second premiership, with Clark’s notes and corrections.

Dates: 1980
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Comprising correspondence with Winston S. Churchill, 1944 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN II/4/5
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Including thank you letters and a copy of the sinews of peace speech (39); and also including correspondence with Clementine Churchill (3).

Dates: 1944 - 1960
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Copies of correspondence on JWHM’s departure from the Foreign Office, 1928-08 - 1929-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/1/8
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Correspondents include: Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary]; Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to Winston Churchill; Winston Churchill on JWHM's help with his book on the First World War ["The World Crisis"] (3); Clementine Churchill.

Dates: 1928-08 - 1929-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1923-01 - 1929-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/6
Scope and Contents Correspondents, mainly on colonial affairs, particularly Imperial Preference, include: George Lloyd [Governor of Bombay, India] on [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain's resignation from the Conservatives and the steadying effect of the new Government; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, looking ahead to the Imperial Conferences; William Gritten; 1st Lord Long of Wraxall; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer], urging a quick General Election (November 1923) (2); Sir John Chancellor...
Dates: 1923-01 - 1929-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1945-11 - 1947-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/40
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: King Abdullah of Transjordan [later Jordan], sending his sympathy [on the execution of John Amery] (2); William Allen [Press Attaché, British Embassy in Turkey]; Victor Altmann (3); Cyril Bailey; [Arthur] Beverley Baxter; Brendan Bracken; 1st Lord Brand; Arthur Bryant (2); Charles Buzzard; Sir Robert Cary, mainly on the India debate (February-March 1946), especially a statement by Clement Attlee [Prime Minister] (February), speeches by Winston Churchill [Leader of the...
Dates: 1945-11 - 1947-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1951-11 - 1953-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/47
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; Nancy, Lady Astor, thanking LSA for his sympathy on the death of 2nd Lord Astor; Jacques Bardoux; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst] on helping LSA with agricultural policy questions (4); P Clavell Blount (3); 1st Lord Brand on the disadvantages of financial aid from the United States; Leonard Brockington; Arthur Bryant (2); 1st Lord Bruce, Chairman of the Finance Corporation for Industry Limited; James...
Dates: 1951-11 - 1953-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence and souvenirs., 1923-07-15 - 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRGS 1/2
Scope and Contents Includes: letter from Sir Edward Grey to 4th Marquess of Salisbury on foreign affairs and debate in parliament (1923); letters from Burgis to Stephen Roskill and Ian Jacob regarding Lord Alanbrooke's diary and command of the 8th Army; chart of Operation Husky [codename for Allied landings in Sicily] (1943); "Time and consumption chart" showing alcohol, cigars etc. consumed at a party to commemorate Ismay's promotion to General (1944); a poem about the War Cabinet Secretariat; a letter from...
Dates: 1923-07-15 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence and telegrams about visit of Sir Winston Churchill to the West Indies on the yacht Christina, 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAIS 7/35
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...
Dates: 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Correspondence between Thomas Horabin and Winston Churchill, 1939 - 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HRBN 1
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Includes discussions about the political situation in North Cornwall and throughout the country, Thomas Horabin’s document the "Compulsion of Wealth", an interview with Winston Churchill and arranging meetings

Dates: 1939 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence between Trenchard and Winston Churchill, 1919-04 - 1927-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TREN 1
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Subjects include: co-operation with the Admiralty over a naval air service; the possible abolition of the Air Ministry and uncertainty over the Royal Air Force's future; relations between the Admiralty and Air Ministry; aircraft carriers and the Fleet Air Arm; the defence of Singapore; expansion of the RAF.

Dates: 1919-04 - 1927-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence - C, 1948 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FRWS 8/4
Scope and Contents Comprising correspondence with Laurence Cadbury, 1963 (3); Sir Alexander Cadogan, on the impossibility of writing his own memoirs, 1965; John Calder, on the publication of Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' in Britain, 1963 (6); various correspondents at the University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1967 (17); D. Ewan Cameron, 1970; Christopher Chancellor of Odhams Press, undated; David Chipp, 1957-1970 (3); Lord Chorley, on the Dr. Arthur J. Kraus breach of contract case against City College...
Dates: 1948 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence collected by Hailes in a box labelled "Book CB", 1929 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAIS 4/3
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Correspondents include Sir Winston Churchill, [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] and Robert Boothby; and also includes Hailes's reminiscences of Churchill.

Dates: 1929 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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'Correspondence on Politics', 1914-03-26 - 1933-06-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PLLN 5/1/32
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Typescript copies of correspondence between AHP, newspaper editors, and other various individuals on British naval policy, the post-war settlement in Europe, and India; including Reginald Custance, Haldane [Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane], Winston Spencer Churchill, Ogden Mills, and Lord Lytton [Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton].

Dates: 1914-03-26 - 1933-06-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the correspondence between Anthony Pollen and Jon Sumida, which remains closed until 2029, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with and about Sir Winston Churchill, 1932 - 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LASL 8/7
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

The earlier letters are mainly of domestic interest, containing family or personal observations. The later letters are chiefly concerned with books or points of historical information on which Alan Lascelles was consulted.

Dates: 1932 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some sections of the collection are closed until 1 January 2028 and permission to consult those CLOSED material within the Lascelles papers (LASL 1/2/1-4; and sections of LASL 2-4) and the catalogue describing the closed material must be obtained from the Royal Archives. The remainder of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Churchills, 1910 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THRS I/1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes: letters to AS; correspondence with the Churchill family; Parliamentary correspondence; Air Ministry correspondence; Liberal Party correspondence; constituency correspondence.

Dates: 1910 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the fire-damaged material in section VI, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Correspondence with David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, 1908-09 - 1911-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 3/20
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Correspondence on subjects including: a request from Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer] and Churchill [President of the Board of Trade] that McKenna should speed up the shipbuilding programme to help alleviate unemployment in the engineering and shipbuilding industries; Lloyd George's view that cuts should be made in the naval estimates; Churchill's decision (as First Lord of the Admiralty] to select a new Board of Admiralty and new commanders for the Fleets.

Dates: 1908-09 - 1911-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Sir Winston Churchill, 1962 - 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT 12/45
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series of papers covers a wide range of issues in relation to the founding of the college, and includes photographs.

Dates: 1962 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation (except a few closures marked in the catalogue) by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Winston Churchill, 1925 - 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PJGG 2/4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection includes personal documents and honours (PJGG 1); general correspondence (PJGG 2 and 12); material relating to India including finance papers (PJGG 3), political papers (federation and defence) (PJGG 4), miscellaneous reports (PJGG 5), War Office papers about India (PJGG 8); Lady Grigg's correspondence (PJGG 6 and 7); War Office correspondence (PJGG 9); Committee papers (PJGG 10); literary material (PJGG 13-15).Perhaps the most interesting papers are those...
Dates: 1925 - 1937
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Correspondence with Winston Churchill, 1920 - 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRFT 1/8
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Subjects include: Churchill's opposition to Home Rule for India; his differences with Croft over Germany; warning Croft to avoid anything that could be represented as anti-Semitism.

Dates: 1920 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Winston Churchill, 1910-08 - 1911-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 3/21
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Correspondence with Churchill, Home Secretary, on subjects including: a complaint from Churchill's brother-in-law, Lieutenant William Hozier, against his captain and requests for advancement from others of Churchill's friends or relatives; the German construction programme; the effects of a general strike on the Admiralty coal supply; the food supply in time of war.

Dates: 1910-08 - 1911-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Winston Churchill, 1911-08 - 1912-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 4/3
Scope and Contents Correspondence with Churchill [First Lord of the Admiralty] on subjects including the naval estimates, particularly the spending cuts which McKenna had previously promised, when McKenna would have to move out of his Admiralty quarters and why McKenna had got rid of Sir Philip Watts [Director of Naval Construction]. Also includes a memorandum by Churchill for the Committee of Imperial Defence, on military aspects of the continental problem, particularly how Britain would support...
Dates: 1911-08 - 1912-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Winston Churchill, 1929 - 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THRS II/85/3
Scope and Contents Subjects include: Churchill's distress at a speech by 1st Lord Reading [earlier Rufus Isaacs] on India, January 1931 and his determination to fight his corner on India to the end; his warning to AS about his links with 'the Samuelite group' [of Sir Herbert Samuel], advising him to establish links with the Tories or 'Simonites' [group of Sir John Simon] instead; his accident in New York [United States, when he was hit by a cab], December 1931 and planned lectures to the New York Economic...
Dates: 1929 - 1935
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the fire-damaged material in section VI, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Correspondence with Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill, 1915 - 1975

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 1/76
Scope and Contents Correspondence with the Churchills, on articles by ELS about Churchill, and with Martin Gilbert on his biography of Churchill. Includes letters from Winston Churchill (1915) on attaching ELS to a brigade, his own liking for going into the trenches and support from Major-General 10th Lord Cavan on their ideas about armour, and (1916) on ELS's brilliant service, Churchill's relief that ELS had survived, his intention of trying to help his career, and his hopeful view of the Dardanelles...
Dates: 1915 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondents C, 1941-1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8905/10/C
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.

Dates: 1941-1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cuttings and correspondence about Sir Winston Churchill , 1930 - 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAIS 4/4
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Correspondents include Brendan Bracken, Mrs. Neville Chamberlain and Sir John Colville.

Dates: 1930 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.