Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 1265 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 5 [eventually entitled "The Civil War" and included in volume 2, "The New World"]: various pre-war proofs [with a few later notes]., [1938] - [1955]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/406A-B
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Includes galley proofs and manuscript and typed drafts (marked printer's copy, revised galley and second revised galley) for chapters entitled "Law: James I" or "The United Crowns", "Charles I (and Buckingham)", "The Long Parliament" or "The End of Thorough", "The Restoration", "The Great Emigration", "The Personal Rule", "The Great Rebellion", "Marston Moor and Naseby", and "Eikon Basilike".With suggested corrections, amendments, and notes from various people [secretaries, literary...
Dates:
[1938] - [1955]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 5, "Liberty and Sovereignty" [eventually entitled "The Civil War" and included in volume 2 "The New World"]: various post-war revises., 1954 - 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/425A-C
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Includes galley proofs (some described as first, second, third, fourth, or sixth revise) for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "The United Crowns", "The Age of Expansion" or "The Mayflower", "Charles I and Buckingham", "The Personal Rule", "The End of 'Thorough'" or "The Revolt of Parliament", "The Great Rebellion", "Marston Moor and Naseby", and "The Axe Falls".With suggested corrections, amendments, notes, and correspondence from various people [secretaries, literary...
Dates:
1954 - 1956
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 6, "Restoration and Revolution" [eventually entitled "The Restoration" and included in volume 2, "The New World"]: various post-war revises., 1954 - May 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/426A-B
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Includes galley proofs (some described as "superseded" or second or third revise) and typed drafts for: chapters entitled "The Restoration", "The Commonwealth" or "The English Republic", "The Lord Protector", "The Merry Monarch", "The Popish Plot", "The Great and Glorious Revolution of 1688", "Whig and Tory", and "The Catholic King"; provisional chapter lists; an epilogue.With suggested corrections, amendments, and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including:...
Dates:
1954 - May 1956
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 6, "Restoration and Revolution" [eventually entitled "The Restoration" and included in volume 2, "The New World"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/407
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Includes galley proofs and typed drafts (marked printer's copy, and first revised galley) for chapters entitled "Cromwell: The History of England 1642-60", "The Commonwealth", "The Lord Protector", "Lambert and Monk", "The Restoration", "The Merry Monarch", "The Popish Plot", and "King James II".With suggested corrections, amendments, and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [WSC], [Grace Hamblin], [William Deakin], [?Sir Edward Marsh], "A" [Maurice]...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 7, [eventually entitled] "[England's] Advance to World Power" [and included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various post-war revises., 1954 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/431A-B
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Includes galley proofs (some described as first or penultimate revise or final proof) and typed drafts for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "William III and Europe" or "William of Orange (and Europe)", "The Spanish Succession", "Marlborough: Blenheim and Ramillies", "Oudenarde and Malplaquet", "The Treaty of Utrecht", and "Continental War".With suggested corrections, amendments, and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, printers, etc.] including: "A H"...
Dates:
1954 - Jan 1957
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 7, [eventually entitled] "[England's] Advance to World Power" [and included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/408
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Includes galley proofs and typed drafts (marked printer's copy and first revise) for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "William III and Europe" or "Law: William III", "The Spanish Succession", and "Oudenarde and Malplaquet".With suggested corrections, amendments, and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [WSC], [Grace Hamblin], and [William Deakin].
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 8 [eventually entitled "The First British Empire" and included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"] and other sections of the book: various pre-war proofs [with a few later notes]., [1938] - [1955]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/409
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Includes galley proofs and typed and manuscript drafts (marked printer's copy) for: a prologue on British sea power; chapters entitled "Colonial America", "The Royal Revenge", "George III", "William Pitt the Younger", "The War of Independence: the Opening of the Quarrel", "The Monopoly of the Whigs", "The Tudor Sunset", "The Tudor Dictatorship", "The Austrian Succession and the 'Forty-Five'", "The First World War", "The Conflict of the Peoples", and "The United States".With suggested...
Dates:
[1938] - [1955]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 8, "The First British Empire" [eventually included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various post-war revises., 1954 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/432A-C
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Includes manuscript and typed drafts and galley proofs (some described as first, second, third, fourth, or penultimate revise, "duplicate", or final proof) for: chapters entitled "The (American) War of Independence", "The United States", "The Monopoly of the Whigs", "The Austrian Succession and the Forty-Five", "Colonial America" or "The American Colonies", "The First World War", "The Royal Revenge and the Conflict of the Peoples" or "The Quarrel with America", "The House of Hanover", "(Sir)...
Dates:
1954 - Jan 1957
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 9, "The French Challenge and the Second British Empire" [eventually entitled "Napoleon" and included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various post-war revises., Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/433A-C
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Includes galley proofs (some described as "duplicate", first, second, penultimate, or last revise) and typed drafts for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "(America) Between the Storms" or "The American Constitution", "The French Revolution", "The Corsican Ogre" or "Napoleon" or "The Emperor of the French", "The Peninsula and Waterloo", "The War of 1812", "The Younger Pitt", "France Confronted", "The Peninsula War (and the Fall of Napoleon)", "Washington, Adams, and Jefferson",...
Dates:
Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 9, "The French Challenge and the Second British Empire" [eventually entitled "Napoleon" and included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/410
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Includes galley proofs and manuscript and typed drafts (marked printer's copy) for: chapters entitled "William Pitt the Younger", "England at War", "Between the Storms", The Shadow of the Tricolour", "America and the French Revolution", "Pitt and the War", "Napoleon", "The War of 1812", "Canada" and "The American Civil War"; provisional chapter lists.With suggested corrections, amendments, and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: "F W D" [William...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 10 [eventually entitled "Recovery and Reform" and included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/411
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Includes typed drafts and galley proofs (marked printer's copy and first revise) for chapters entitled "The Crimean War", "Canada: 1660-1780", "Canada: 1780-1812", "The Loyalists", "New Zealand", "Australia", "The Locust Years (1815-32)", "The Monarchy and the Divorce (1820-22)", "Tory England (1822-27)", "The Dissolution of Eighteenth-Century England (1827-30)", "The Passing of the Great Reform Bill (1830-32)", "Reform and Beyond (1832-54)", "England: 1832-37", "England: 1837-46", "South...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 10, "Recovery and Reform" [eventually included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various post-war revises., Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/436A-B
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Includes galley proofs (some described as first, second, third, fourth, penultimate, or last revise, "duplicate", or second draft) and manuscript and typed drafts for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "The Locust Years" or "The Tory Peace" or "The Victory Peace", "Prelude to Reform" or "Canning and the Duke", "The Migration of the Peoples. I: Canada and South Africa", "The Migration of the Peoples. II: Australia and New Zealand", "Reform and Beyond" or "Reform and Free Trade",...
Dates:
Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 11, "The Great Republic" [eventually included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various post-war revises., Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/437A-B
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Includes galley proofs (some described as first revise or final proof) and typed and manuscript drafts for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "American Epic", "Slavery and Succession" or "Freedom or Slavery", "The Union in Danger", "The Campaign against Richmond", "Lee and McClellan", "Chancellorsville and Gettysburg" and "The Victory of the Union".With suggested corrections, amendments, notes, and correspondence from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, printers,...
Dates:
Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 11, "The Great Republic" [eventually included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/412
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Includes galley proofs and typed drafts (marked printer's copy and first revise) for: chapters entitled "Canada: 1660-1780", "Canada: 1780-1812", "Slavery and Succession", "America and the French Revolution", "The United States: 1797-1801", "Jeffersonian Democracy: 1801-5", "The United States: 1815-37" or "American Epic", "The American Civil War: 1862" or "America: 1862", "The War of 1812", "1840-50", "1850-60", "The Seven Days", "(Chancellorsville and) Gettysburg", "The Union in Danger",...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 12, "The Victorian Age" [eventually included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various revises., 1956 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/438A-C
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Includes typed drafts and galley proofs (some described as first or second proof, first, second, third, last or final revise, "dead duplicate", or "returned empties") for: chapters entitled "The Rise of Germany", "Gladstone and Disraeli", "Home Rule for Ireland", "Lord Salisbury's Governments", "America from 'Reconstruction' to World Power" or "America in 'Reconstruction'" or "American Reconstruction" and "America as a World-Power", and "The Dawn of the Twentieth Century"; notes on the...
Dates:
1956 - Jan 1957
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 04 Jul 1938 - 29 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/597
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Correspondents include: Robert Mortimer Wheeler [Keeper and Secretary of the London Museum] on providing WSC with information on early British History from pre-Roman times to King Alfred; Lord Wolmer [later 3rd Lord Selborne] sending WSC a book on church history; Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section, on providing information on the American Civil War; representatives of George G Harrap and Company including Charles Wood (3) and George Harrap...
Dates:
04 Jul 1938 - 29 Dec 1938
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 12 Dec 1938 - 27 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/626
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Correspondents include: Alfred Burne sending WSC his paper on Ancient Britons (2); Sir Max Pemberton on the book's progress; Robert Mortimer Wheeler [Keeper and Secretary of the London Museum]; James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section, on material for the "English-Speaking Peoples" on the American Civil War, a French account of the origin of the tank, and the possibility of war (6); John Wheldon [WSC's former literary assistant] on subjects including his request for...
Dates:
12 Dec 1938 - 27 Dec 1939
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 04 Jan 1940 - 17 Dec 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/658
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Correspondents include: William Deakin [WSC's literary assistant]; Edward Marsh recounting a tribute to WSC in a letter from Siegfried Sassoon; Alan Bullock (6) on subjects including preparing the "Epilogue" and postponing the publishing of the book; Desmond Flower, Director of Cassell and Company, on WSC fulfilling his contract and receiving payments (7); Brendan Bracken on financial matters connected with the book (6); George Young on using material from the book in a history of British...
Dates:
04 Jan 1940 - 17 Dec 1940
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 09 Sep 1940 - 16 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/681
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Correspondents include: a representative of Cassell and Company on a payment for the book; Brendan Bracken (4); Walter Harrap, [Director of] George G Harrap and Company, on WSC paying a disputed printer's bill (4); Sir Gerald Campbell, [Director-General of British Information Services, New York, United States] on publishing the book in the United States; Robert Wilberforce, [Director British Information Services, New York] on points likely to be criticised historically by Catholic...
Dates:
09 Sep 1940 - 16 Oct 1941
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 24 Nov 1944 - 28 Nov 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/718
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Correspondents include: representatives of Cassell and Company including a Director, Sir Newman Flower (4); representatives of George G Harrap and Company and Amalgamated Press Limited.Subjects include: completing the "English-Speaking Peoples"; its serialisation by the Amalgamated Press; the expense of having the type set up and proofed.Also includes: copy letters from WSC's office to those mentioned above and to 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor in Chief of the Daily...
Dates:
24 Nov 1944 - 28 Nov 1945
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": digests of various sources collected in the production of the book for sections on "Liberty, Sovereignty, and the Civil War", "The First British Empire", "Character of the People in the Age of Shakespeare", "Scotland and Ireland up to 1760", "Tory and Whig England (1660-1742)", "Party and Cabinet Government, 1660-1782", "World Power, 1689-1763", "Protestants and Puritans", "Commerce, Sea Power, and Discovery", "Language and Literature till the Birth of Shakespeare", "The New State", "The Laws of America, 1775-83", "America 1763-74", "The New Age, 1760-1792", and "The Industrial Revolution, Phase 1"., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/442A-D
Scope and Contents
Includes typed digests or pages from sources including: [Samuel] Gardiner's "Cromwell's Place in History" and "History of England, 1603-1642", Basil Williams' "The British Empire" and "The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham", Hugh Egerton's "A Short History of British Colonial Policy", G L Beer's "The Old Colonial System", "The Cambridge Modern History", Edward Channing's "A History of the United States", Charles Andrews' "The Colonial Period of American History", [Peter] Hume Brown's...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: "A history of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1576 - 1657., 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/737
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Draft chapters including: Charles II; England, 1846 - 1850; England, 1852 - 1865; James II; England, 1865 - 1874; Henry VIII (manuscript in hand of John Wheldon [former literary assistant to WSC] annotated by WSC).Annotated.
Dates:
1938 - 1939
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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: "A history of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1658 - 1737., 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/738
Scope and Contents
53 folios of handwritten notes on Henry VIII by John Wheldon [former literary assistant to WSC], annotated by WSC. Annotated typescript of chapters on the American Civil War, 1862 - 1864.
Dates:
1938 - 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: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": miscellaneous notes, correspondence on the content and production of the book, and other material., 1938 - 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/443A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents [mainly literary assistants and advisers] include: Denis Kelly (3); Brigadier-General [Sir James] Edmonds, of the Military Branch of the Historical Section, on the American Civil War; Alan Bullock on Henry III and Edward I (2); [George] Young on Augustus and Trajan, and the Magna Carta; Alan Hodge on an article on George III and checking books 8 and 9 (3); Robert Wilberforce on likely US Catholic reaction to the book; Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth...
Dates:
1938 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": prologue [eventually incorporated into the preface of volume 1, "The Birth of Britain"] and book 1, "The Origin of the English Speaking Peoples" [eventually entitled "The Island Race"]: various pre-war proofs [with a few later notes]., Sep 1938 - May 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/402A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes typed and manuscript drafts and galley proofs (marked printer's copy, first revise and first proofs) for: an introduction; title pages and chapter lists; a note on spelling; and for chapters entitled "Britannia", "The Lost Island", "England", "The Vikings", "The Saxon Dust", "Subjugation", "The Roman Province", and "Alfred the Great".With suggested corrections, amendments, and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [Grace Hamblin], WSC, [Denis...
Dates:
Sep 1938 - May 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open