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

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1874 - 1965

Found in 324 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

(Untitled), 06 Nov 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/159/60-61
Scope and Contents

Letter from Philip Tilden to WSC, on windows at Chartwell, and plans for building work on the side of the house facing the road, and the nursery bay.

Dates: 06 Nov 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Jul 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/160/48-48
Scope and Contents

Inventory and valuation of WSC's silver and silver plate by Catchpole & Williams, Silversmiths, London.

Dates: 25 Jul 1922
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Sep 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54A/79
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, thanking him for the use of Admiralty House as a room at 10 Downing Street was unusable.

Dates: 06 Sep 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 May 1942

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/53C/234
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Miss G Lamont [Administrator, Chequers, Buckinghamshire] thanking her for the birthday cake.

Dates: 12 May 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Jul 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/177
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC (Chateau Bordaberry [Near Hendaye, France]) to Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] stating that he might require a Government servant during his mission to Berlin [Potsdam Conference, Germany] and suggesting Chamberlain, one of the messengers at Number 10 [carbon].

Dates: 11 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1886

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/46/2
Scope and Contents

Letter from Marie [Duchess of Edinburgh] (Eastwell [Kent]) to Lady Randolph [Churchill] in which she discusses possible dates for Lady Randolph and WSC to visit Eastwell and comments on a rumour that Lord Randolph [Churchill] would like to rent Eastwell and on the impression that he made on the Kentish people.

Dates: 02 Jan 1886
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), 28 Mar 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195B/143
Scope and Contents

Note [?from Private Office] to WSC informing him of Bernard Baruch's expected arrival in the United Kingdom tomorrow [29 Mar 1945], giving details of Mr Baruch's party, and asking about the arrangements at Chequers for entertaining Mr Baruch, Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] and John Winant [United States Ambassador in London] [annotated typescript].

Dates: 28 Mar 1945
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), 02 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195B/149
Scope and Contents

Note from WSC to his Private Office listing guests for a private dinner party at 10 Downing Street on 4 Apr [1945] [typescript, annotated with details of acceptances and refusals].

Dates: 02 Apr 1945
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), 28 Mar 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/40
Scope and Contents

Note from Kathleen Hill [Personal Secretary to WSC] to John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] informing him that Anita Leslie has accepted the invitation to lunch at Chequers [Buckinghamshire] on Friday and asking him to arrange for the car to call for Miss Leslie at 12.20 pm and to combine her with Commander Guest if he accepts. [initialled typescript] With further ms annotations by Kathleen Hill and John Colville regarding arrangements.

Dates: 28 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 28 Mar 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/41
Scope and Contents

Note from John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC asking whether he wants to invite Miss Anita Leslie and Lieutenant-Commander Raymond Guest to luncheon on Friday at 1.30 pm. [Initialled typescript] With annotation in red by WSC: "Yes at Chequers. Friday. I shall go down Thursday myself. arrange transport." With further pencil annotations by Kathleen Hill [Personal Secretary to WSC] regarding Anita Leslie's address.

Dates: 28 Mar 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 02 Jan [1945]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/68
Scope and Contents

Note from Leslie Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC informing him that the President [Roosevelt] has sent him 6 new maps in substitution for some which are now in the map cabinet at No.10, and suggesting text for a short telegram of thanks. [Initialled typescript] [Dated 2 Jan 1944, but presumably 2 Jan 1945] Initialled and dated by WSC in red ink.

Dates: 02 Jan [1945]
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), 03 Jan 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/69
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal" thanking him for the 6 new maps for his map cabinet, "which were safely delivered today".

Dates: 03 Jan 1945
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), 01 Jun 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/203/24
Scope and Contents

Letter from Commander Charles Thompson [Personal Assistant to the Minister of Defence] to Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Gale [Military Operations Directorate, War Office] stating that WSC agrees that the contingent arrangements for guards at Chartwell or Ditchley [Dytchley Park, Oxfordshire] may be cancelled. Initialled. Carbon copy.

Dates: 01 Jun 1945
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), 01 May 1945 - 31 May 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/209/5
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1945. Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chief Whip [James Stuart]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service]....
Dates: 01 May 1945 - 31 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open, except for minutes M 497/5 and C 42/5, which are closed on Cabinet Office instructions under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act. Review 2032.
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(Untitled), 02 Nov 1937

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/408/5-6
Scope and Contents

Letter from Associated Purchasers, Sackville Street, London, W1 to WSC, on the installation of a passenger lift in his London house, quoting between 200 pounds and 350 pounds.

Dates: 02 Nov 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jul 1919

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/106/16
Scope and Contents Letter from Margot Asquith [later Lady Oxford and Asquith] (20 Cavendish Square, [London]) to WSC on: the case of one Dickens; the interesting time "Henry" [Herbert Asquith, later Lord Oxford and Asquith] had with Sir William Robertson in Germany; WSC' s sale of "the farmhouse" [Lullenden]; an address by Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] on "decadence" and a work by William Inge on "the Church and the Age"; the amusing idea of Herbert Asquith and Lord French [earlier Sir John French, later...
Dates: 17 Jul 1919
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), 29 Sep 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/161/68
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC on WSC's purchase of Chartwell.

Dates: 29 Sep 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Oct 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/161/69
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on purchase of Chartwell, and WSC's American investments.

Dates: 06 Oct 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Oct 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/161/73
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on proposed mortgage of £3500 for the purchase of Chartwell, and the Duke of Marlborough's reluctance, as a Trustee, to advance more than £2500.

Dates: 12 Oct 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Oct 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/161/75-79
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to The Duke of Marlborough, asking him to reconsider his decision, as a Trustee of WSC's settlement, not to allow a mortgage of more that £2,500 on the purchase of Chartwell [carbon].

Dates: 13 Oct 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Oct 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/161/83-87
Scope and Contents

Letter from The Duke of Marlborough to WSC, explaining his reasons for refusing to allow WSC's Trustees to advance a mortgage of more that £2500 on the purchase of Chartwell.

Dates: 17 Oct 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Nov 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/161/92
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Nicholl, Manisty & Co. on purchase of Chartwell [carbon].

Dates: 07 Nov 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Nov 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/161/93-94
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on successful completion of purchase of Chartwell.

Dates: 13 Nov 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Nov 1922

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/161/95
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nicholl, Manisty & Co. to WSC, on building work at 2 Sussex Square.

Dates: 24 Nov 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Dec 1923

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/169/42-43
Scope and Contents

Letter from Nicholl, Manistry and Company (1, Howard Street, Strand, London) to WSC asking him for a cheque to cover the ground rent of 7, Sussex Mews East and enclosing an order form [not present] to send to Lloyds Bank to pay the rent quarterly. They also ask, on behalf of the owner of the property, whether WSC obtained consent from the Paddington Trustees for alterations made to the property. Signed typescript with manuscript additions.

Dates: 14 Dec 1923
Conditions Governing Access: Open