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

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Dates

  • Existence: 1874 - 1965

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Found in 537 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 02 Mar 1912 - 05 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/33-40
Scope and Contents Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher (Hotel Excelsior, Naples [Italy]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on subjects including: relations with Germany; praising WSC's speech in Glasgow [Scotland] on Naval Defence [to the Clyde Navigation Trustees, 9 February]; criticising the visit by 1st Lord Haldane [Secretary of State for War] to Germany; warship design and construction, particularly of the "Super-Swift" and "Super-Active" classes; the importance of aircraft and submarines;...
Dates: 02 Mar 1912 - 05 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/45-46
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with congratulations on WSC's speech on the Naval Estimates [18 March]. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/92-93 for original].

Dates: 22 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Mar 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/21/8-9
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with congratulations on his speech [in the House of Commons] on the Navy Estimates; Fisher also encourages WSC to continue putting obsolete guns in merchant ships and comments on the bid by the Standard Oil Company for China oil. [Carbon copy; see CHAR 13/21/51-55 for original].

Dates: 31 Mar 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Mar 1914 - 22 Mar 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/28/105-108
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Press cutting from the Globe, praising a speech by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the Naval Estimates; includes extract on the theft of funds by an Admiralty employee. [Typescript copy].

Dates: 20 Mar 1914 - 22 Mar 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [May] 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/45/104-118
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Statement by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the House of Commons on the resignation of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher as 1st Sea Lord over differences arising from the Dardanelles campaign. WSC goes through the stages of the campaign, Fisher's grounds for resigning and states his own position as First Lord. [Carbon].

Dates: [May] 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 05 Jul 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/6A/76
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Letter from 1st Lord Lloyd to WSC admiring a recent speech [? 4 July, on destruction of the French fleet].

Dates: 05 Jul 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 21 May 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/11/6
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Letter from Edward, Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] to WSC congratulating him on a recent broadcast; asks if he would see [1st] Lord Trenchard.

Dates: 21 May 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Jul 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/25/66-67
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Letter from Louise Cross to WSC on her journey to the United States; reports the success in Canada of his speech of 10 June; thanks him for hospitality during their stay in Britain; includes filing note.

Dates: 14 Jul 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 19 May 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/25/86-88
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Letter from Joseph Davies, Chairman of the President [Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States]'s Committee on War Relief Agencies, to WSC expressing admiration for WSC's speeches and commending the work being done by Roosevelt to bring about national unity of purpose; with telegram from Davies.

Dates: 19 May 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Apr] [1941]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/38/28
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Telegram from Arthur Fadden (Acting Prime Minister of Australia) to WSC congratulating him on his broadcast.

Dates: [Apr] [1941]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jun 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/1
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Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC congratulating him on his Rochester [University] broadcast which coincided with the expulsion of German consuls from the United States.

Dates: 17 Jun 1941
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), 22 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/43/8-13
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Telegram from WSC to the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] advising on his speech as Governor of the Bahamas to the Dollar Press Club, concentrating on partnership with the United States. [See CHAR 20/42B/139 for Windsor's letter].

Dates: 22 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Nov 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/45/5
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Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC expressing gratitude for "tonic effect" of Mansion house speech [10 Nov 1941].

Dates: 11 Nov 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Oct 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54B/123
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Letter from WSC to Lord Halifax [British Ambassador, to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] declining to donate a manuscript of his speech to the Senate (January 1942) to the Library of Congress.

Dates: 07 Oct 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Jan 1942 - 05 Jul 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/64/1-20
Scope and Contents Correspondence between Alfred Clark, Chairman, the Gramophone Company Limited, Anthony Bevir, Francis Brown [Private Secretaries to WSC], WSC and Alan Hodge [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Information] on putting further issues of WSC's speeches, 1941-42, on gramophone record by the Gramophone Company, the United Broadcasting Company of Chicago [United States], and the Columbia Company, with royalties to be paid to the Feathers Clubs; unauthorised editions produced by Audio...
Dates: 07 Jan 1942 - 05 Jul 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 10 Dec 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/64/24-31
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Correspondence between Alfred Clark, Chairman of the Gramophone Company Limited, Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] and WSC on recordings of speeches by WSC and Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] and correspondence between Bevir, Rutherford Tippetts [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Supply] and Bernard Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Information] about provision of paper or woodpulp in making the album of speeches.

Dates: 01 Dec 1942 - 10 Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jun 1942 - 16 Jun 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/64/41-42
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Letter from Robert Barrington-Ward, Editor of the Times, to Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] on the foresight of WSC's Romanes Lecture ["Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem", 19 June 1930], with covering note from Bernard Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Bracken] to John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC].

Dates: 15 Jun 1942 - 16 Jun 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), Jun 1942 - 20 Nov 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/64/43-45
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Letter from Alfred Townsend, Editor of Export, to WSC on the role of Export as journal of the Institute of Export and requesting permission to quote from WSC's 1930 Romanes Lecture ["Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem", 19 June 1930] following up on an article on the Atlantic Charter in Export [June 1942; copy enclosed]; also includes reply by John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC].

Dates: Jun 1942 - 20 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197B/215
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Letter from John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to J C Sterndale Bennett (Foreign Office) giving details of the extract from Hansard which WSC had read out to General Patrick Hurley [United States Ambassador to China], comprising part of WSC's speech to the House of Commons on 9 Sep 1941, and which Colville had afterwards sent to Hurley. [carbon].

Dates: 09 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Jun 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/39
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Letter from [Lord] Minto (Government House, Ottawa [Canada]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he reports that WSC's lecture tour had a good reception in Canada and discusses the opening of a manual training school.

Dates: 13 Jun 1901
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), 15 Jul 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/50
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Letter from Richard Haldane (House of Commons) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he says that he has read an account of [WSC's] speech at Bradford [Yorkshire]. He describes the speech as "broad in tone - fresh & vigorous", says that he hopes that [WSC] will soon enter the House of Commons and that it was reminiscent [of Lord Randolph Churchill].

Dates: 15 Jul 1898
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 Nov 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/80-82
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Letter from [Major James] Pond (Everett House, 218 Fourth Avenue, New York [United States]) to Mrs Cornwallis West [Lady Randolph Churchill] congratulating her on WSC's success and advising her to visit to New York, commenting "Have you any idea how green your memory is here in New York City?". He includes a flyer advertising the tour and praising WSC, written by Julian Ralph. Signed typescript. Envelope present.

Dates: 02 Nov 1900
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), 23 Jun 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/85
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Letter from FitzRoy Stewart (Conservative Central Office, St Stephen's Chambers, Westminster Bridge [London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill discussing possible speaking engagements for WSC in Yorkshire. He reports that WSC has written to say that "he does 'not want tents, dames or turnips'".

Dates: 23 Jun 1898
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), [18] [Aug] [1902]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/138/68
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Letter from Arthur [Duke of Connaught and Strathearn] (Royal Hospital, Dublin [Ireland]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he expresses admiration for WSC's speech [on imperial federation delivered at Trinity College, Dublin]. Signed manuscript.

Dates: [18] [Aug] [1902]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Mar 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198B/212
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Letter from Herbert Morrison (Home Secretary) to WSC stating that he has supplied him with copies of a number of his speeches, and asking for a copy of the speech WSC made today at the Conservative conference. Annotated by WSC in red ink, "The Times report probably correct. I have not read it".

Dates: 15 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.