Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
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- Existence: 1874 - 1965
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Public and Political: General:., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/493
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Personal Office Correspondence E-G Correspondence dealt with by WSC's Private Office at 10 Downing Street, (Kathleen Hill) as opposed to the Private Office,.Correspondents include: Charles Eade, on his work as Public Relations Adviser to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia; Nicholas Eden [later 2nd Lord Avon] (2); Beatrice, Lady Avon; Kay Summersby, [General Dwight Eisenhower's driver], thanks for signed photograph; Lady Eldon, stating that her brother, Lord...
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01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
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Public and Political: General., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/495
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Personal Office Correspondence L-M Correspondence dealt with by WSC's Private Office at 10 Downing Street, (Kathleen Hill and Elizabeth Layton) as opposed to the Private Office, file also includes copies of notes and letters by staff of the Private Office including John Colville, John Martin and Anthony Bevir.Correspondents include: Eric, 3rd Lord Long (2); Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos]; Venetia Montagu (2); Sir Walter Layton, enclosing pamphlet "The British Commonwealth and World...
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01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
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Public and Political: General:., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/496
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Personal Office Correspondence N-Q Correspondence dealt with by WSC's Private Office at 10 Downing Street, (Kathleen Hill and Elizabeth Layton) as opposed to the Private Office, file also includes copies of notes and letters by staff of the Private Office including B C Sendall, John Martin and John Colville Correspondents include: Irene Noel-Baker (2); Christine, Lady Oliphant, Major-General Ridley Pakenham-Walsh (2); Paramount Pictures, asking for permission to use quotation by WSC in film...
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01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
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Public and Political: General:., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/497
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Personal Office Correspondence R-S Correspondence dealt with by WSC's Private Office at 10 Downing Street, (Kathleen Hill and Elizabeth Layton) as opposed to the Private Office, file also includes copies of notes and letters by staff of the Private Office including Leslie Rowan.Correspondents include: Colonel Deneys Reitz, South African High Commissioner, London, on gifts; 3rd Lord Rothschild, thanks for telegram of congratulation [on award of George Medal]; Frank Salisbury, on portrait for...
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01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
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Public and Political: General:., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/498
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Personal Office Correspondence T-Y Correspondence dealt with by WSC's Private Office at 10 Downing Street, (Kathleen Hill and Elizabeth Layton) as opposed to the Private Office, file also includes copies of notes and letters by staff of the Private Office including Leslie Rowan, John Martin, Commander Charles Thompson, John Colville, and Miss E M Watson Correspondents include: George Taylor, (2), on gift of brandy, with covering letter from Sir Francis Beane; Major General Sir Hugh Tudor,...
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01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
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Public and Political: General:., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/499
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General Public Correspondence A-B Correspondence dealt with by Kathleen Hill, WSC's Personal Private Secretary Correspondents include Nikolaus Pevsner, sending copy of the "Architectural Review" on wartime housing in the United States; Ethel, Lady Salter, on gift of matches from Serge Bazaroff; Lucy Bentley on gift of Wolseley's "Life of Marlborough"; Sir James Hawkey, on request from American 381 Bomb Company for Mary Churchill to attend celebration at Dunmow, Essex; Arthur Bryant, on gift...
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01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
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Public and Political: General:., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/500
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General Public Correspondence C-D Correspondence dealt with by Kathleen Hill, WSC's Personal Private Secretary.Correspondents include the Rev. Edgar Dickie, on suggestions for countering the flying bomb Other subjects include Christmas and birthday greetings; messages of support and goodwill; correspondence on gifts (particularly books, portraits, food, cigars, wines and spirits); requests for signed books and photographs.
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01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
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Public and Political: General:., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/501
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General Public Correspondence E-G Correspondence dealt with by Kathleen Hill, and Elizabeth Layton, WSC's Personal Private Secretaries, the file also contains notes and letters by members of WSC's Private Office, including Miss E M Watson, Patrick Kinna and John Peck.Subjects include Christmas and birthday greetings; messages of support and goodwill; correspondence on gifts (particularly books, portraits, food, cigars, wines and spirits); requests for signed books and photographs.File also...
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01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
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Public and Political: General:., 01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/502
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General Public Correspondence H-K Correspondence dealt with by Kathleen Hill, and Elizabeth Layton, WSC's Personal Private Secretaries, the file also contains notes and letters by members of WSC's Private Office, including John Martin, Miss E M Watson, Commander Charles Thompson.Correspondents include Geoffrey Handley-Taylor (2) on proposed exhibition illustrating the hands of the World's Greatest Citizens, Michael Reed, Private Secretary to the Minister of Health, (2) on complaint from Sir...
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01 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
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Public and Political: General, 1945 - 1965
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2
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The files assigned to this series fall naturally into sub-series or groups, most of which derive from an original classification, as follows:.Political.P(rivate) and P(ersonal).Visits.Patronage.Gifts.Greetings.Various.Even where there are original series the lines of distinction between them, as between this class and others, could not be made rigid and there are consequently doubtful cases and inconsistencies.POLITICAL The Political series (CHUR 2/1-139 and CHUR 2/506-517) consists of...
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1945 - 1965
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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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Public and Political: General: Birthday congratulations A-B., Nov 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/511
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Letters and telegrams of congratulation on 70th birthday - correspondents include Sir Arthur Abrahams, The Duke of Alba, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, (later Lord Alexander of Tunis), A V Alexander (later Lord Alexander of Hillsborough), Ava, Lady Anderson (formerly Ava Wigram, later Lady Waverley), Prince Mohamed Ali, Alice, Lady Avebury, Sir Frank Alexander, Chairman, Baltic Exchange, Maurice Baring, Sir Reginald Barnes, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Princess Elizabeth Bibesco, Margaret, Lady...
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Nov 1944
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Public and Political: General: Birthday congratulations C-D., Nov 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/512
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Letters and telegrams of congratulation on 70th birthday - Correspondents include Lord and Lady Camrose, Lord Carnarvon, Ruby, Lady Carson, Richard Casey, Sir Felix Cassel, Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, Randolph Churchill, Peregrine Churchill, Winston Churchill, Lord Ivor Churchill, Sarah Churchill (later Lady Audley), Lord Clanwilliam, on behalf of the Carlton Club, Lord Bicester, (City of London Conservative Association), Sir Patrick Hannon (Constitutional Club), Sir Harry Goschen,...
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Nov 1944
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Public and Political: General: Birthday congratulations E-G., Nov 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/513
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Letters and telegrams of congratulation on 70th birthday: Correspondents include Charles Eade, Walter Rose (Early Closing Association), Anthony Eden (later 1st Lord Avon), Sir James Edmonds, Lord Elibank, T W Ellison, Cartoonist, Birmingham Mail, enclosing cartoon "Tirelessness", showing WSC jumping a gate, Sir T Drummond Shiels, Empire Parliamentary Association, Reginald Fellowes and Daisy Fellowes, Evelyn Fitzgerald, Dingle Foot, George Formby, Hugh Frewen, Oswald Frewen, Barbara, Lady...
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Nov 1944
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Public and Political: General: Birthday congratulations H-M., Nov 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/514
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Letters and telegrams of congratulation on 70th birthday - Correspondents include Lord Halifax, George Harrap, Averell Harriman, Lady Hastings, Brigadier-General Reginald Hoare, Harry Hopkins, Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtnedge (Hulbert), Graham Seton Hutchison, Lord Iliffe, Sir Stanley Jackson, Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob, Lord Jessel, Margaret, Lady Kimberley, King George VI, Harold Laski, Sir Harry Lauder, Walter Layton, Lord Cecil, on behalf of the League of Nations Union, Lord...
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Nov 1944
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Public and Political: General: Birthday congratulations N-R., Nov 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/515
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Letters and telegrams of congratulation on 70th birthday - Correspondents include Sir Cyril Newall, Charles Nicholl, Irene Noel-Baker, Lady Oliphant, Victor Oliver, Margot, Lady Oxford and Asquith, The Duke of Palmella, Portugese Ambassador, London, Lord and Lady Pembroke, Genera Sir Frederick Pile, on behalf of Anti-Aircraft Command, Lord Ebbisham, on behalf of the Primrose League, HM Queen Mary, Lord Queensbury, J H Hertz, Chief Rabbi, Count Edward Raczynski, J Arthur Rank, Eva, Lady...
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Nov 1944
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Public and Political: General: Birthday congratulations S-Y., Nov 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/516
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Letters and telegrams of congratulation on 70th birthday - Correspondents include Lord Samuel, Helene Sikorska, Lord Southborough, Lord Templewood (formerly Sir Samuel Hoare), Lord Salisbury, Duncan Sandys, Sir Adam Maitland, on behalf of Sheerness Working Mens Conservative Club, Clare Sheridan, Commander Sir Morton Smart, Sir Donald Somervell, Admiral Harold Stark, Commander US Naval Forces in Europe, The Rev. Edgar Stogdon, Lady Strakosch, Alfred Webb-Johnson, President, Royal College of...
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Nov 1944
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Public and Political: General: Birthday Gifts., 24 Nov 1951 - 12 Dec 1951
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/398
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Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Frank de Vine Hunt; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury], 1st Lord Ismay, 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier Frederick Lindemann], Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey] and Duncan Sandys; Nellie Romilly [earlier Nellie Hozier]; 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry]; Sir Alexander Korda; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Anthony Eden...
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24 Nov 1951 - 12 Dec 1951
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence: At Bordaberry., Jul 1945
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/528
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Correspondence from WSC's stay at the Chateau de Bordaberry, Hendaye, France, 8-15 July File includes correspondence with Bryce Nairn, British Consul, Bordeaux, lunch and dinner invitations, correspondence on gifts of books, wines and spirits.
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Jul 1945
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence, L-M., May 1929 - Sep 1934
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/575A-B
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Correspondents include: Oliver Locker Lampson on subjects including an invitation to give a lecture (2); Sir John Lavery on the Artists' General Benevolent Institution; Nathan Laski requesting an invitation with the Home Secretary; Shane Leslie on WSC's "Marlborough: His life and times" and on family news (3); Commander Augustus Agar on a possible lecture by WSC; Leonie Leslie [earlier Leonie Jerome]; Frederick Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] on subjects including the Conservative Party,...
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May 1929 - Sep 1934
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, A-B., Nov 1940 - Dec 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/456
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Correspondents include: [Alan] Hodge [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Information] on gifts of a book and a flag (2); [Guy] Millard (2) and [John] Perowne of the Foreign Office and Sir [David] Kelly [British Ambassador to Argentina] (2) on subjects including a prize carcass from the Argentine Rural Society and accepting gifts from Argentine cattle breeders in light of the Argentine regime; Major-General [James] Chaney sending on oranges with the compliments of...
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Nov 1940 - Dec 1942
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, A-C, especially cigars., Dec 1940 - Aug 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/434
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Correspondents include: [3rd] Lord Rothschild of MI5 (8), Sir Norman Kendal [Assistant Commissioner], New Scotland Yard (2), Senior Official Analyst to the Home Office Roche Lynch (2), Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes, British Minister at Havana, Cuba (4), [John] Balfour (3) and [Cecil] King of the Foreign Office, and [1st] Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] on cigars and the possibility of them being poisoned; Sir Henry French, [Secretary] Ministry of Food,...
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Dec 1940 - Aug 1942
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, A-E. [please note the majority of the file dates from 1943]., Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/486
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Correspondents include: [Guy] Millard of the Foreign Office on matters concerning gifts from abroad (2); General Sir Reginald Wingate, President of the Friends of the Fighting Forces, on the Friends' Chairman delivering a present of sweaters from the Philadelphia (United States) branch; Reverend [Percy] Middleton Brumwell sending a brochure on the Royal Army Chaplains Department [not included]; Thomas Hunter on a paper weight from a constituent; [Arthur] Clark [Private Secretary to the...
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Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, C-H., Mar 1941 - Dec 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/457
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Correspondents include: [Sir] George Ogilvie-Forbes, [British Minister at] Havana, Cuba, on a carved wooden bust and album from the province of Camaguey; [4th] Lord Harlech [earlier Sir William Ormsby-Gore, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Union of South Africa] sending on an album on South Africa; Hugh Dalton sending on a book "What have we to defend?"; Dr [Herbert] Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs; Bradda Field sending her book "Miledi"; [Claude] Ledger, HM...
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Mar 1941 - Dec 1942
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, D-G., Dec 1940 - Dec 1941
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/435
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Correspondents include: Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes [British Minister at] (Havana, Cuba) on a bound edition of the Cuban paper "El Crisol"; [Kenneth] Pepper, HM Customs and Excise, on gifts of cigars; [Alick] Harrison [Private Secretary to the Minister of Food] (2) and J Arthur Goulburn of Goulburns Limited, Food Purveyors, (4) on subjects including war savings and a gift of Stilton cheese. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from [Prime Minister's Private Secretaries, Edith]...
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Dec 1940 - Dec 1941
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, F-M., Oct 1942 - Nov 1943
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/487
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Correspondents include: [Reginald] Ashford [Private Secretary to the Chairman of the Board of Customs and Excise] on cigars from Mexico; [Guy] Millard of the Foreign Office on matters concerning gifts from abroad (3); Henry Hankey [2nd Secretary] (British Embassy, Madrid [Spain]) on a suggested gift of a cigar case; Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham] (2) sending WSC his book "The British Commonwealth" and on the Westminster Fund; William Hall on a hammer and sickle emblem sent by...
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Oct 1942 - Nov 1943
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