Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 1263 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: Curtis Brown Limited: business correspondence., 19 Mar 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/663
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Curtis Brown on the possible future publication of WSC's memoirs of the war by Odhams [Press Limited] and publishing a collection of his wartime speeches (7).Also includes: royalty statements from Curtis Brown and Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited.
Dates:
19 Mar 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Curtis Brown Limited: business correspondence., 13 Feb 1941 - 10 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/687
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Curtis Brown (5); Lord Southwood [earlier Julius Elias], Chairman and Managing Director of Odhams Press Limited, offering WSC 75, 000 pounds for exclusive world copyright of his future memoirs of the war.Also includes: royalty statements for money received for Swedish and Spanish rights to WSC's works and from Thornton Butterworth Limited; a copy letter (drafted by Brendan Bracken) rebuking Curtis Brown for devising the deal with Odhams without...
Dates:
13 Feb 1941 - 10 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Curtis Brown Limited: business correspondence., 06 Jan 1942 - 24 Jul 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/701
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Lovat Dickson, [Director] of MacMillan, on whether Curtis Brown is entitled to commission on titles whose contracts they have taken over; Curtis Brown (5) on subjects including the proposal by Lord Southwood [earlier Julius Elias] to publish WSC's future memoirs of the war.Also includes: a cutting from the Daily Sketch denying that WSC has been writing an account of the war.
Dates:
06 Jan 1942 - 24 Jul 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Curtis Brown Limited: business correspondence., 27 Jun 1944 - 23 Dec 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/715
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Curtis Brown on a rumour that Sarah [Oliver, earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Lady Audley] is writing a biography of WSC, and the future publication of WSC's war memoirs (8); Lord Southwood [earlier Julius Elias, Chairman and Managing Director of Odham's Press Limited], increasing his offer to 250, 000 pounds for exclusive world copyright to WSC's war memoirs.Also includes: a copy letter from Kathleen Hill [WSC's secretary]...
Dates:
27 Jun 1944 - 23 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Daily Mail articles: correspondence., 01 Jan 1935 - 14 Nov 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/509
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of the Daily Mail, including William Warden, Editor (1) and Arthur Cranfield, Assistant Editor (9).Also includes: the proof for the general introduction to WSC's series of articles.
Dates:
01 Jan 1935 - 14 Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Daily Mirror articles by WSC., Jul 1939 - Aug 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/650
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Mirror, the Irish Daily Telegraph and the Belfast Telegraph for: "The Hush in Europe" or "Churchill Writes for Us Now" on Hitler's role in preventing war, rejecting the need for German "living space", and his displeasure at the failure to conclude an alliance between Britain, France and the [Soviet Union]; "Hitler Sells the Pass" deriding German reassurances about their intentions, commenting on the agreement between Germany and...
Dates:
Jul 1939 - Aug 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Daily Mirror articles: correspondence., 20 Mar 1939 - 26 Sep 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/633
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of the Daily Mirror, the Editor, Cecil Thomas, Anthony Clarkson [Features Editor] and Cecil King on subjects including arrangements for WSC publishing articles in the Mirror, financial terms, the accuracy of a statement in an article on Japan, WSC being unable to continue writing articles due to the outbreak of war, and suggesting Alfred Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] as a replacement (11); Randolph Churchill on the agreement with the Mirror;...
Dates:
20 Mar 1939 - 26 Sep 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: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC 1., Apr 1938 - Jun 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/611
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and regional newspapers carrying the article) for: "France's New Government" on the frequent changes in government, praise for the new Prime Minister, Edouard Daladier, and asserting the importance of France for European security; "Britain's Deficiencies in Aircraft Manufacture" on purchasing aircraft from the United States and building factories in Canada (with cuttings of an article by John Moore-Brabazon [later 1st...
Dates:
Apr 1938 - Jun 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC: 1., Jan 1939 - Mar 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/645
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and the Belfast Telegraph) for: "Anglo-German Naval Agreement", criticising the 1935 Agreement, the attitude of the Admiralty at that time, German superiority in submarines, and the effect of the Agreement on air parity; "Counting the Cost of Italy's Policies Abroad" on the Anglo-Italian Agreement of 1938, Italian intervention in Spain, and possible Italian conflict with France; "Light and Shade in Europe since Herr...
Dates:
Jan 1939 - Mar 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC 2., Jul 1938 - Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/612
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and regional newspapers carrying the article) for: "Acute Indigestion: Germany's Absorption of Austria", reporting on the situation in annexed Austria for Jews, Catholics, monarchists, Austrian Nazis, and workers; "Thoughts on the Royal Visit" to Paris, France, by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth [earlier the Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother], praising the visit for strengthening the ties...
Dates:
Jul 1938 - Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC: 2., Apr 1939 - Jun 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/646
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and the Belfast Telegraph) for: "Would Peace or War Better Serve Mussolini's Interests?" on Italy's violation of the Anglo-Italian Agreement particularly over the invasion of Albania, Italy's potential weakness in a Mediterranean war and WSC's hopes of the Italian people's reluctance to become involved in such a war; "President Roosevelt and Franco's choice" on Roosevelt's stance towards Europe and arguing for Spanish...
Dates:
Apr 1939 - Jun 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC 3., Oct 1938 - Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/613
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and regional newspapers carrying the article) for: "France, Britain, and the Future Fate of Europe" on the need for unity between Britain and France, and apportioning blame for the situation in Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia]; "Palestine at the Cross-roads" on Jewish and Arab conflict, arguing against partition, and advocating the restoration of order; "All is Not Lost in China" on the state of the...
Dates:
Oct 1938 - Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles: correspondence., 04 Apr 1938 - 15 Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/601
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry] offering to publish WSC's series of articles on foreign affairs (3).Also includes: a copy letter from WSC to Seymour Berry [later 2nd Lord Camrose] on writing an article on King George VI's visit to France; account statements for articles.
Dates:
04 Apr 1938 - 15 Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles: correspondence., 13 Jan 1939 - 20 Jun 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/630
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Arthur Watson, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph, on subjects including a proposed article by WSC on German colonial demands, sending cuttings and extracts relating to the German attitude to the British Empire (2); Sir Alexander Cadogan (Foreign Office) approving an article by WSC.Also includes: copy letters from WSC to those mentioned above and to 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry] on the end of his Telegraph contract; account statements for...
Dates:
13 Jan 1939 - 20 Jun 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: Davar Publishing Company, Breach of Copyright: correspondence., 28 Jun 1941 - 16 Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/688
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch (4); Oskar Rabinowicz (6); Christopher Eastwood and Colin Thornley (3) of the Colonial Office; Sir Harold MacMichael, High Commissioner [and Commander in Chief] for Palestine; representatives of MacMillan and Company including Lovat Dickson [Director] (5).Also includes: copy letters from officials of WSC's Private Office including John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] and John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal...
Dates:
28 Jun 1941 - 16 Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Electoral reform: proofs [for an unpublished book] (reprints of WSC articles and speeches by the Chiswick Press)., [1945] - [1950]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/73
Scope and Contents
No file cover has been found for this file. Material accumulated has come from two sources.Material returned to the Archives Centre by Martin Gilbert [official biographer of WSC]: 1 page, an extract from an address by WSC to Essex Conservatives (15 December 1932) on elections and [4th] Lord Salisbury's [earlier Lord Cranborne] Committee, plus an envelope. These were replaced in this box in May 1998 to be incorporated into file CHUR 4/73 (which was duly noted missing in May 1998).Material...
Dates:
[1945] - [1950]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open (file cover and rest of file may be missing)
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Literary: "End of the Beginning": correspondence regarding the publication of a third collection of WSC's speeches in the United Kingdom and around the world., 24 Oct 1942 - 28 Jan 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/805
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: H Aubrey Gentry [Director of Cassell and Company Ltd] (30); Charles Eade (10); Daniel Macmillan [Chairman of Macmillan and Comapny Ltd (1); Dr Robert Chapman [Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford] (1); Sir Edward Marsh (10).
Dates:
24 Oct 1942 - 28 Jan 1944
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: "Europe since the Russian Revolution": correspondence and legal papers., 05 Aug 1943 - 02 Jan 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/710
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include (some of whom are writing to John S Churchill, in WSC's absence): representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company [solicitors] (40), representatives of George G Harrap and Company including Walter Harrap (12), Sir Walter Monkton, Brendan Bracken (3), F J Wearing (clerk to Sir William Raeburn), and a representative of George Newnes Limited, on a dispute between WSC and Harrap's over the termination of an agreement to publish the above book.Also includes: notes by...
Dates:
05 Aug 1943 - 02 Jan 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Evening Standard articles by WSC., Jan 1938 - Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/610
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs and cuttings from the Standard (and regional newspapers carrying the article) for: "Britain Rearms" on British naval, army and air strength; "What Japan Thinks of Us" on the Japanese racial attitude to the British and Americans, Japan's naval strength and US policy concerning the Sino-Japanese War; "The League [of Nations] is not Dead Yet" on the power of the dictatorships in Europe, a defence of the League, and asserting the need for Britain and France to show...
Dates:
Jan 1938 - Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Evening Standard articles: correspondence., 13 Jan 1938 - 04 Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/600
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Representatives of the Evening Standard (30) including the editor, R J Thompson, on subjects including the termination of WSC's series of articles for political reasons (2) and WSC's reply; Sir Robert Vansittart on an article on Germany and Austria.Also includes: account statements for the syndication of articles to regional newspapers.
Dates:
13 Jan 1938 - 04 Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Evening Standard articles: correspondence., 08 Jan 1935 - 22 May 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/508
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of the Evening Standard, including Percy Cudlipp, Editor (9) on a series of articles by WSC commemorating the Silver Jubilee.Also includes: copies of the press releases on the articles; a note by Martin Gilbert [c1970's].
Dates:
08 Jan 1935 - 22 May 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Evening Standard articles: correspondence., 25 Jan 1936 - 24 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/534
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of the Evening Standard, including Percy Cudlipp, Editor (16).Also includes: a memorandum on the Evening Standard position on the new Unemployment Regulations; Curtis Brown Limited's agreement with WSC for international sales of his articles; an open letter to WSC from Fight, Organ of the British Bolshevik-Leninists in response to WSC's article on Communism; copies of Fight and the Red Flag; extracts from Stanley Baldwin's speeches on democracy...
Dates:
25 Jan 1936 - 24 Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Evening Standard articles: correspondence., 01 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/552
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of the Evening Standard including Percy Cudlipp [Editor] (8), W H Robertson, Manager of the Syndication Department (32) and Michael Wardell, Chairman and Managing Director (9) on the "Great Reigns" series, overseas rights and a dispute over the syndication of the articles; Ernst Meyer on the syndication dispute (15); Elwell and Binford Hole, solicitors, on the syndication dispute (5).Also includes: notes on provincial and overseas newspapers running...
Dates:
01 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Financial calculations., 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/297
Scope and Contents
Volume of calculations by WSC on his personal finances including details of income earned through his writings.
Dates:
1931
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Forewords by WSC., 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/304
Scope and Contents
Introductions by WSC to: a book about the Mahdi (in which he recalls his experiences in the Sudan and at the Battle of Omdurman); "India Insistent" by Sir Harcourt Butler (in which he discusses events in India) and a book about the work of chartered surveyors.
Dates:
1931
Conditions Governing Access:
Open