Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: offers, foreign rights, and miscellaneous correspondence., Feb 1945 - Aug 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/7A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [William] Surrey Dane (2); representatives of the BBC (4); representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company, solicitors (8); William Chenery, Publisher of Collier's Magazine (20); Charles Eade, [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch, on "Forever Again"; Guy Schofield, Editor of the Evening News; Charles Curran, Features Editor, Evening Standard, on WSC's opinion of cartoonist David Low; Robert Lusty, director of Michael Joseph Limited (2); [Geoffrey] Mason of Lloyds Bank...
Dates:
Feb 1945 - Aug 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Picture Post articles: correspondence., 23 Jan 1939 - 03 Oct 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/635
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Picture Post, particularly the Editor, Stefan Lorant, on subjects including WSC writing articles for the magazine on the outbreak of World War I and one addressed to the German people, selecting pictures for articles such as a photograph of WSC at Harrow [School, Middlesex], an enquiry over a photograph in the magazine of the "daughters of the Earl of Earlie" [10th Lord Airlie, CSC's grandfather] (18).Also includes: account statement for "What...
Dates:
23 Jan 1939 - 03 Oct 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Sunday Chronicle articles: correspondence., 04 Jan 1938 - 16 Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/603
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Correspondents include: Representatives of the Sunday Chronicle including the Editor, James Drawbell, on publishing articles by WSC in the Chronicle and its provincial papers (7).Also includes: annotated proof of an article by WSC, "The Changing Face of Divorce", tracing the history of divorce in England, focusing on the role of the Church and famous divorce cases.
Dates:
04 Jan 1938 - 16 Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Sunday Chronicle articles: correspondence., 14 Jun 1939 - 28 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/631
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of the Sunday Chronicle including the Editor, James Drawbell, on publishing articles by WSC in the Chronicle, particularly from "The World Crisis".Also includes: an endorsement by WSC of the amalgamation of the Sunday Chronicle and the Sunday Referee; a list of WSC's articles for the Chronicle for October to December 1939; account statements for articles.
Dates:
14 Jun 1939 - 28 Dec 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: Sunday Chronicle articles: correspondence., Dec 1939 - 26 Sep 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/661
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: James Drawbell, Editor of the Sunday Chronicle, on the series of articles by WSC based on "The World Crisis" coming to an end.Other subjects include: the articles giving a misleading impression by confusing contemporary events with World War I; reprinting articles from the Chronicle in the Johannesburg [South Africa] Sunday Express.Also includes: account statements for articles; a list of WSC's articles in the series from October 1939 to June 1940.
Dates:
Dec 1939 - 26 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 2., 03 Mar 1940 - 07 Apr 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/666
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Power of the Cartoon" on WSC's love of the cartoon from his schooldays, being the victim of a cartoonist, and [David] Low; "Running the Admiralty" on the history and structure of the Admiralty, his experience of it during World War I, Lord Fisher, and the Admiralty yacht, the Enchantress; "The Mystery of Empire" on the strength of the British Empire, its contribution to World War I, and the creation of the Dominions; "A Message of Hope for...
Dates:
03 Mar 1940 - 07 Apr 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 3., 12 Apr 1942 - 10 May 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/704
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "The other Winston Churchill" on WSC's correspondence and meetings with his namesake, the American author; "Primrose Day" on the influence of [Benjamin] Disraeli [Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Hughendon], and the founding of the Primrose League by Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Henry [Drummond] Wolff; "Life under the microscope" on cells and the blood (also on the same page is an article on "Press and the Censor" by Brendan Bracken [Minister of...
Dates:
12 Apr 1942 - 10 May 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles: correspondence., 28 Jan 1942 - 12 Jul 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/699
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Eade, editor of the Sunday Dispatch, on the publication of various articles by WSC and details of payment (4).Other subjects include: copyright matters concerning the publication of WSC's works in the Dispatch and their effect on a settlement for Mary Churchill [later Lady Soames].Also includes: a cutting from the Sunday Pictorial by its former editor, Hugh Cudlipp, alleging that WSC is being made a "weekly fool of" by the republishing of his old works such as...
Dates:
28 Jan 1942 - 12 Jul 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles: correspondence., 04 Oct 1939 - 14 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/632
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch, on arrangements including copyright matters for a series of articles in the Dispatch taken from ["My Early Life"], "Great Contemporaries", "Thoughts and Adventures" and other sources (7); a representative of Thornton Butterworth Limited on royalties due for those articles where they have copyright.Also includes: lists of WSC's articles due to be published in the Dispatch from October 1939 to November 1941; proof of an...
Dates:
04 Oct 1939 - 14 Dec 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: Sunday Dispatch articles: correspondence., 02 Jan 1940 - 19 Feb 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/660
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch (31); Brendan Bracken; representatives of the New Zealand Associated Press (4); Guy Innes [Australian Associated Press] (3).Subjects include: the publication of articles by WSC in the Sunday Dispatch and other newspapers; Eade compiling an autobiography from the articles; details of articles by WSC on England, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], and the persecution of Jews; the...
Dates:
02 Jan 1940 - 19 Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles: correspondence., 24 Dec 1940 - 10 Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/684
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Cecil Brooks, British Editorial Representative of Liberty, on reprinting WSC's Dispatch articles (4); Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch, on the publication of various articles by WSC in the Dispatch (16).Other subjects include: the possible publication of "Savrola" in the Dispatch and Liberty; copyright matters; issuing WSC's "Great Stories Retold" series for the blind.Also includes: the text of a speech by WSC from 1919 on the first non-stop flight across...
Dates:
24 Dec 1940 - 10 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: various correspondence., 14 Sep 1937 - 31 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/594
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir John Marriott on the projected 1910 Coalition Government; Maurice Gamelin, Vice-Admiral Emile-Paul Guepratte and others thanking WSC for copies of ["My Early Life"]; Arthur Asquith praising "The River War"; Longmans, Green and Company (8) on subjects including WSC writing the foreword for "Alarms and Excursions" by General Sir Tom Bridges (6); General Sir Hubert Gough on a memorial to the 5th Army; Adam Marshall Diston (15) on subjects including the preparation of...
Dates:
14 Sep 1937 - 31 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: various correspondence., 04 Jan 1939 - 11 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/624
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Edward Martell on a proposed "Biographical Dictionary of the British Empire" (3); Sir Roger Keyes asking WSC to write the forward to his book and advocating WSC taking over responsibility for air defences (2); John Gloag; Louis [Edward Spears] (2) on subjects including writing the preface for his book "Doomed Enterprise"; 1st Lord Lee on WSC's method of printing his manuscripts; representatives of Jonathan Cape Limited including G Wren Howard and Rupert Hart-Davis;...
Dates:
04 Jan 1939 - 11 Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Various Correspondence relating to Volume 3 of "The World Crisis"., Jan 1917 - Mar 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/208
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Correspondents include: Jonathan Cape Limited on the possibility of WSC writing an introduction to Lord John Herbey's memoirs of the reign of King George II (2); Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice on the accuracy of WSC's citation of army statistics which were given to [David] Lloyd George (8); Brigadier General James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section (3); General Debeney of the French Ministry of War; Professor F A Lindemann [later Lord Cherwell]; Admiral Sir Cecil...
Dates:
Jan 1917 - Mar 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Personal: Family etc.: Correspondence Churchill, Pamela - Z., Feb 1954 - Nov 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/136
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Pamela Churchill [later Pamela Harriman] on family news (3); Randolph Churchill (18) on subjects including best wishes on Blenheim Day, a law suit against Private Eye concerning a cartoon about the official biography of WSC written by Randolph, Winston Churchill's marriage to Minnie D'Erlanger [later Minnie Churchill] and financial provisions for Winston; Sally Churchill (2); Christopher Booker, editor of Private Eye; "Dickie" [1st Lord] Mountbatten [of Burma];...
Dates:
Feb 1954 - Nov 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Personal: Visits and Invitations: Cruises in Yacht Christina., Sep 1958 - Aug 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/151
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Correspondents include: various individuals welcoming WSC to Gibraltar [Spain], the Canary Islands, and the Greek islands including Jose Martinez; John Addis [Counsellor in the Foreign Office] on arrangements for the cruise; Sir Roger Allen [British Ambassador to Greece]; Arnold Carey Foster on the successes of WSC's racehorses; Konstantinos Karamanlis [Prime Minister of Greece]; Bernard Burrows [British Ambassador to Turkey]; and John Blakeway.Also includes notes and copies of...
Dates:
Sep 1958 - Aug 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 17 Nov 1936 - 26 Feb 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/294
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [President, League of Nations Union, earlier Lord Robert Cecil] on signatories to [?] a declaration by the union; Marie Belloc Lowndes [Marie Lowndes] on the effect of the press campaign by William Randolph Hearst on behalf of the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor [earlier Wallis Simpson] during the Abdication Crisis; Yvonne de Rothschild, asking WSC to support an appeal for...
Dates:
17 Nov 1936 - 26 Feb 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 05 Oct 1937 - 31 Mar 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/328
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on the French financial capability for war; Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]; 1st Lord Craigavon [earlier Sir James Craig], Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; Samuel Hood [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India]; Lord Ednam [later 4th Lord Dudley], President, Eton Political Society (2); Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft on a meeting of the Friends of Spain group,...
Dates:
05 Oct 1937 - 31 Mar 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: correspondence and papers concerning an action brought by William Griffin, editor and publisher of the New York Enquirer, against WSC for slander over WSC's denial of statements attributed to him by Griffin on the United States' entry into World War I., Jan 1941 - Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/431
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Correspondents include: [6th] Lord Hood [Private Secretary to the Minister of Information]; HM Consul-General, New York [Godfrey Haggard]; [Nevile] Butler [Minister at HM Embassy] (Washington [United States]); [Eric] Seal [Deputy Secretary of the Admiralty (North America)]; John Foster [First Secretary] (British Embassy, Washington) (2); Sir Thomas Barnes, Treasury Solicitor (3); Sir Geoffrey Peto on a broadcast by Senator Rush Holt; Christopher Hollis; Guy Innes, American Division, Ministry...
Dates:
Jan 1941 - Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Golden wedding: press arrangements., Aug 1958 - Nov 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/487
Scope and Contents
Correspondents concerning requests from the press for interviews with and photographs of WSC and CSC include George Christ, Parliamentary Liaison Officer for the Conservative and Unionist Party.Also includes: press statements from WSC and CSC; commemorative issues of the Primrose League Gazette and the Kent Messenger; and notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC], Doreen Pugh, Jill Lynam and Grace Hamblin [Private Secretaries to WSC].
Dates:
Aug 1958 - Nov 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Correspondence, Caernarvonshire - Cheshire., May 1954 - Nov 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/547A-B
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Correspondents concerning honours to be given to WSC, or tributes made to him or requesting support from WSC include: P Williamson, President of the Calcutta [India] Polo Club (8); [1st Lord] Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] and Pierre Dupuy on the Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition; Sir Cecil Wakeley, Vice-President of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund; Dwight Eisenhower and Christopher Everett of the British Embassy in Washington [United States] regarding WSC's membership...
Dates:
May 1954 - Nov 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office: Correspondence A - B., 05 Jun 1918 - 27 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/363
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams on WSC's broadcast (18 December [on the scuttling of the Graf Spee]); Herwald Ramsbotham [later 1st Lord Soulbury], 1st Commissioner of Works, on WSC's occupation of Admiralty House; 17th Duke of Alba [Spanish Ambassador to Britain] on false allegations about WSC in the French and Spanish press (2); 1st Lord Alness [earlier Robert Munro], congratulating WSC on his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty; Leo Amery on subjects including...
Dates:
05 Jun 1918 - 27 Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, L-M, many congratulating WSC on becoming Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party and praising his leadership., Dec 1939 - Dec 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/396
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Correspondents include: George Lambert; Nathan Laski (2) including (1) on Randolph Churchill; Harold Laski; [1st] Lord Lee of Fareham and [Ruth] Lady Lee; [Brigadier-General] Raymond Lee [US Military Attache] on a dinner with WSC; Alexis Leger ["St-John Perse"]; "Charley", [7th] Lord Londonderry [earlier Lord Castlereagh] (3) including (1) on using Southern Irish ports and (2) on his attitude to German rearmament in the 1930s; Major [Richard] Eric Long (2); 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip...
Dates:
Dec 1939 - Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence M-Q. (includes copies of wartime documents)., Feb 1941 - Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/7A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Baronessa Bettina de Malfatti on Italian royal affairs (2); 1st Lord Marchwood [earlier Frederick Penny] resigning as Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] (5) and Marjorie Maxse, Vice-Chairmen of Conservative and Unionist Party; Duncan Sandys on "Maycrete" houses; "Scribe", 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee], Sir Herbert Williams, and...
Dates:
Feb 1941 - Dec 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Press cuttings etc., 03 Feb 1938 - 20 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/355
Scope and Contents
Press cuttings from British and American newspapers, with reports of statements, speeches and letters by individuals including: Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood], Home Secretary, on the need for ARP training; Sir Thomas Inskip [later 1st Lord Caldecote], Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, on aircraft production, particularly by "shadow" car factories; Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] on progress in rearmament and a call for national unity, including a transcript of his...
Dates:
03 Feb 1938 - 20 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open