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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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Letter from Sir Winston Churchill to Siegfried Sassoon (via Eddie Marsh), 25 June 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/9/5/15
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Typed letter from Churchill (Chartwell, Westerham, Kent) to Marsh stating that Sassoon's views that the film story of T.E. Lawrence should be dignified and accurate agreed with those of Alexander Korda. The letter was forwarded to Sassoon by Marsh, with an added note.

Dates: 25 June 1935
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 26 Nov. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/26
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Note making an appointment for Money to see Churchill; on back of Admiralty envelope, in an unidentified hand

Dates: 26 Nov. 1914
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Admiralty, 13 Jan. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/22
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Praising Money's recent published analysis of the Naval estimates, and his general expertise in economic and statistical matters; invites Money to discuss such questions further: 'We must not let our party hurt itself by not studying facts, and acting on sloppy and inaccurate figures.'; autograph

Dates: 13 Jan. 1914
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Admiralty, 24 Jan. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/24
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'The articles are admirable. You never use an argument that is not sound. I am keeping the proof to encourage the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Lloyd George].'; autograph

Dates: 24 Jan. 1914
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Admiralty (from E[dward] Marsh, Churchill's secretary), 16 Jan. 1913 (recte 1914?)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/21
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Appointing time for a meeting between Money and Churchill; autograph

Dates: 16 Jan. 1913 (recte 1914?)
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Admiralty (from E[dward] Marsh, Churchill's secretary), 21 Nov. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/25
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Churchill regrets that there is a long waiting list of applicants to join the Anti-Aircraft Section; 'If there is any direction in which you would care to serve he would be very glad to see what could be done.'; autograph

Dates: 21 Nov. 1914
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Admiralty (from J[ames] E[dward] Masterson-Smith, Private Secretary to 1st Lord of the Admiralty), 23 Jan. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/23
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Enclosing [statistical] tables promised by Churchill; autograph

Dates: 23 Jan. 1914
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Board of Trade, 1 Jan. 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/19
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Detailed rejection of a recent statement by Chamberlain claiming that the USA and Germany enjoyed the potential for full employment; proposals to combat the evils of unemployment; typescript, signed

Dates: 1 Jan. 1910
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chartwell, 1 Oct. 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/28
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'Although I support the Government in the line they are taking [over Abyssinia], I am sure you will believe that I do it with most profound regret. Many thanks for The last stronghold of slavery.'; typescript, signed

Dates: 1 Oct. 1935
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chartwell, 7 Mar. 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/29
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Acknowledging receipt of papers; typescript, signed; torn from former mounting and damaged at top

Dates: 7 Mar. 1936
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Mount Street, London W, 30 Oct. 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/18
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Acknowledging receipt of Money's book Riches and Poverty; autograph

Dates: 30 Oct. 1905
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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Letter from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Office of the Home Secretary, Dec. 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/20
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Letter in support of Money's candidature for East Northants: 'The Veto of the House of Lords must be swept away, and every vote diverted from that cause is a betrayal of democratic interests'; typescript, signed; with Morning Herald press-cutting re the election campaign, 16 Dec.

Dates: Dec. 1910
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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Letter from Winston Churchill; Chartwell, 18 Nov. 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/III/46
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Correspondence and papers re Money's work in the blockade of Germany, and his part in advocating and implementing an effective convoy system for Atlantic shipping in response to the German U-Boat offensive during World War I (so-called 'Atlantic Concentration'). Unless otherwise stated, the item is a letter to Money.

Dates: 18 Nov. 1931
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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Letter from Winston Churchill; Chartwell, 13 Jan. 1933 (Date of 47A: 11 Jan. 1933)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/III/47
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Enclosing letter to Churchill from C[harles] R[onald] V[awdrey] Coutts (copy at 47A)

Dates: 13 Jan. 1933 (Date of 47A: 11 Jan. 1933)
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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Letter from Winston Churchill; Chartwell, 21 Jan. 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/III/51
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence and papers re Money's work in the blockade of Germany, and his part in advocating and implementing an effective convoy system for Atlantic shipping in response to the German U-Boat offensive during World War I (so-called 'Atlantic Concentration'). Unless otherwise stated, the item is a letter to Money.

Dates: 21 Jan. 1933
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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Letter from Winston Churchill to NGA, 1959-10-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/NGA/5/1/166
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1 typed letter signed.

Dates: 1959-10-21
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some files are closed because they contain personal information. Most files which are marked as restricted access can be read with the written permission of the author. All other files may be consulted in the Archive Centre following the standard registration procedures.
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Letter to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 27 Sep. 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/27
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Asking Churchill to speak out against the government's policy towards Italy over Abyssinia; carbon copy; mounted on album leaves, with contemporary press-cuttings on verso

Dates: 27 Sep. 1935
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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Letter to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 14 Mar. 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/30
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'Let me say how disgusted I am that the PM has not asked you to take the Defence Ministry'; comparing the waste of political material in Britain with attitudes in Italy, Germany, and Russia; copy, with contemporary press-cuttings on verso; see Martin Gilbert (ed.), Winston S. Churchill, 5, Companion Part III, London, 1982, 73-4.

Dates: 14 Mar. 1936
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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Letters from 1st Lord Fisher to Arnold White., 1911 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 15/2/1/7
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Also includes letters from J J Phillips on naval issues and material relating to the strength of the Royal Navy and conversations with Winston Churchill.

Dates: 1911 - 1912
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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Letters from Adeline to Henry Hankey at Oxford and Christopher Hankey in Haifa, Palestine [later Israel], 1933-01-15 - 1933-10-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AHKY 1/1/45
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Subjects covered include home and family news, including the installation of an Aga, Maurice's work; Christopher's work in Haifa and lunch with the Churchills at Chartwell. Also includes one letter from Maurice to Christopher which includes observations on Hitler leaving the disarmament conference and the League of Nations.

Dates: 1933-01-15 - 1933-10-22
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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Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1936-01 - 1936-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/1/7
Scope and Contents Subjects include: visiting King Edward VIII [later the Duke of Windsor] at Fort Belvedere [Surrey] and at Blenheim Palace [Oxfordshire]; visiting Morocco; going to France with the Imperial War Graves Commission; Winston Churchill’s hatred for Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; a Mediterranean cruise aboard the Nahlin with the King and Wallis Simpson [later the Duchess of Windsor] [see also DUFC 2/17]; visiting Aix [France]. Includes contemporary transcripts of some of the letters...
Dates: 1936-01 - 1936-12
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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Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1934-01 - 1934-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/1/3
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Subjects include: a legal case [relating to the film "Rasputin and the Empress"]; various house parties; a visit to Austria; a visit to Winston Churchill’s house, Chartwell [Kent], particularly a heated pool and Churchill’s birds; Christmas at Belvoir [Lincolnshire].

Dates: 1934-01 - 1934-12
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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Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1944-01 - 1944-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/1/23
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Letters from Algiers and Paris [France] on subjects including: life in Algeria; Winston Churchill’s visit to Marrakesh [Morocco], Jan 1944 and Clementine Churchill’s view that he would die after the war; a visit by Mary, Lady Spears [earlier Mary Borden], Feb 1944; a visit from Martha Hemingway [Martha Gellhorn], Mar 1944; Charles de Gaulle ("Charlie Wormwood"); Randolph Churchill’s plane crashing, July 1944 and stay, Aug 1944; going to Italy, Aug 1944; life in Paris.

Dates: 1944-01 - 1944-12
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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Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1946-01 - 1946-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/1/26
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Letters from France, chiefly the British Embassy in Paris [France], mainly on entertaining, with other subjects including: the Conference of Foreign Ministers (including Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]); the declining health of "Loulou" [Louise de Vilmorin]; visits from Winston Churchill in Paris and Geneva [Switzerland], July and Aug 1946; Mary Churchill’s engagement to [Arthur] Christopher Soames; the death of Lady Diana’s sister Marjorie, Lady Anglesey.

Dates: 1946-01 - 1946-12
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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Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell: transcripts, 1945-08 - 1945-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/1/25
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Letters from France, chiefly the British Embassy in Paris [France], mainly on entertaining, but also on Winston Churchill’s visit to Paris, Nov 1944, and the death of [?] Maurice Baring. Includes some originals.

Dates: 1945-08 - 1945-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.