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

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  • Existence: 1874 - 1965

Found in 4519 Collections and/or Records:

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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/357
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Draft proofs of chapters including: chapter 31 "The peculation charge" (entitled "The victor's reward" in the proofs), chapter 32 "The restraining orders", chapter 33 "The British desertion", chapter 34 "Marlborough leaves England" and chapter 35 "Exile". Annotated by WSC.

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/358
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Draft proofs of chapters including: chapter 37 "The death of the Queen", chapter 38 "Marlborough in the new reign" and chapter 39 "At Blenheim Palace". Annotated by WSC.

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1937] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/368
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Galley proofs of chapter 1 "00" and part of chapter 3 [published as "The great frost"]. Printed and annotated by WSC and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1937] - [1938]
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/369
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Galley proofs of chapter 2 "The Whigs and Peace". Printed and annotated by WSC, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times" Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/370
Scope and Contents

Galley proofs of chapter 1 "00" and chapter 3 "The great frost". Annotated by WSC, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times" Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/371
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Galley proofs and typewritten notes of chapter 4 "The fatal article". Annotated by WSC, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times" Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/372
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Galley proofs and typewritten notes of chapter 2 "The lost peace". Annotated by WSC, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times" Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/373
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Galley proofs and typewritten notes of chapter 6 "Darker War". Annotated by WSC, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/374
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Galley proofs of chapter 7 "Tournai [France]". Annotated by WSC and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/375
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Galley proofs of chapter 8 "The investment of Mons [France]". Annotated by WSC, Maurice Ashley, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/376
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Galley proofs of chapter 9 "The battle of Malplaquet [France]". Annotated by WSC, Edward Marsh, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/377
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Galley proofs of chapter 10 "The ebb-tide". Annotated by WSC, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/378
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Galley proofs of chapter 11 "The Queen's Revenge". Annotated by WSC, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/379
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Galley proofs of chapter 12 "Mortifications". Annotated by WSC, William Deakin and [?Charles Wood].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times", volume 4: material for illustrations., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/473
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Correspondents include: William Deakin [WSC's literary assistant] with suggested illustrations for volume 4.Also includes: sketches and a map of the battle of Malplaquet [France, 1709]; a print of a portrait of the Old Pretender [James Edward Stuart].

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times", volume 4: notes and materials 4., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/458
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Correspondents include: John Scobell Armstrong on General John Armstrong; 1st Lord Wolseley [1904] on General John Armstrong; William Deakin [WSC's literary assistant].Also includes: extracts from the Times, 1904 on General John Armstrong; part of a copied letter from 1st Duke of Wellington on Napoleon's presence in battle being worth 40,000 men.

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times", volume 4: notes and materials 5., [1936] - [1938]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/459
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Correspondents include: William Deakin [WSC's literary assistant]; Maurice Ashley [WSC's literary assistant].Subjects include: Queen Anne and Sarah Duchess of Marlborough.Also includes: correspondence from George G Harrap and Company Limited, publishers.

Dates: [1936] - [1938]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times", volumes 1 and 2: letters of thanks and congratulation., 25 Dec 1933 - 22 Dec 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/487
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Maurice Ashley [WSC's literary assistant]; Sir Bindon Blood; Sir Reginald Barnes; 1st Lord Beatty; Stanley Baldwin; [Herbrand] 11th Duke of Bedford; Brendan Bracken; Aneurin Bevan; 4th Lord Camden [earlier Lord Brecknock]; Neville Chamberlain; Austen Chamberlain; Lord Carson; Sir Edward Cadogan; Sir Arthur Cory-Wright; Lord Ivor Churchill (2); William Berry [later 1st Lord Camrose]; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught; 9th Duke of Devonshire [earlier Lord Hartington];...
Dates: 25 Dec 1933 - 22 Dec 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: Material used in WSC's book "My Early Life"., 1899 - [1929]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/284
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Includes notes about the Boer War, the treatment of rebels in South Africa and sport at Harrow school. Also includes transcripts of letters to WSC from [3rd Lord] Salisbury, [Evelyn, 1st Lord] Cromer criticising WSC's writing, Albert Edward [Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII] on WSC's letters to the Daily Telegraph concerning battles on the North West Frontier in India and a letter from "De Profundis" [?to the Harrovian] concerning conditions at Harrow school.

Dates: 1899 - [1929]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Literary
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Literary: miscellaneous correspondence., Apr 1940 - Sep 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/4A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of Cassell and Company Limited (5); Colin Coote, [Managing Editor] of the Daily Telegraph, on producing an anthology of WSC's aphorisms (2); Patrick Kinna (Foreign Office); [William] Surrey Dane [on behalf of Odhams Press Limited] (4); Charles Eade, [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch, on discussing an idea for a book (3); General Jacob Devers on Ralph Ingersoll's "Top Secret"; George Harvie Watt [WSC's Parliamentary Private Secretary until 1945]; Sir...
Dates: Apr 1940 - Sep 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Literary
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Literary: miscellaneous correspondence., Nov 1942 - Dec 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/46
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Henry Morton on WSC's escape from the Boers; Antony Brett-James; Winifred Bull on her WSC quotation calendars (4); Randolph Churchill on Collier's magazine taking colour pictures of WSC; Sir Charles Petrie (2); John Lockhart; Allen Lane of Penguin Books (2); representatives of H A and W L Pitkin Limited (11) on subjects including reproducing a 1941 letter from King George VI to WSC and various of their publications; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall; Sir Norman...
Dates: Nov 1942 - Dec 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Literary
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Literary: miscellaneous correspondence., Dec 1885 - Feb 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/66
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Major-General Sir Percy Hobart requesting WSC to write a foreword for his history of the Royal Tank Regiment; Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International] on the painter Jacques Majorelle; Desmond Flower, director of Cassell and Company; John Wyndham [later 1st Lord Egremont and 6th Lord Leconfield] (Foreign Office) on a letter by ex-Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia,...
Dates: Dec 1885 - Feb 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Literary
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Literary: miscellaneous correspondence, A-E, and correspondence on the Life magazine serialisation, of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Mar 1948 - Jul 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/52A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (4); Brigadier Hugh Harlock [Australian Army Representative in the United Kingdom] on accounts of the Australian Army's part in the war; William Deakin (2); Robert Mason (Foreign Office); George Crosfield; Count Edmund Carton de Wiart (2); Andre de Staercke [Secretary to Prince Charles, Regent of Belgium]; Olive Muir (4); Arthur Birse [one of WSC's wartime interpreters] thanking WSC for mentioning him; Robert Marshall [Private...
Dates: Mar 1948 - Jul 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Literary
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Literary: Miscellaneous Correspondence A-J., Nov 1951 - Feb 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/467A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondence of WSC and his Private Secretaries (mainly Anthony Montague Browne) Correspondents include: Louis Alber (3); Roy Jenkins MP (later Lord Jenkins of Hillhead) on publication of letters from WSC in biography of Asquith; Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (8); Sir David Kelly, British Council; Cassell & Co. Ltd (5); Mark Bonham Carter (2) and Richard Ollard, (5) Collins Publishers, on publication of "Winston Churchill as I Knew Him" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter...
Dates: Nov 1951 - Feb 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Literary
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Literary: Miscellaneous Correspondence A-J., Apr 1956 - Jan 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/468A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondence of WSC and his Private Secretaries (mainly Anthony Montague Browne) Correspondents include: Randolph Churchill, mainly on access to WSC's papers (2); Maurice Edelman MP (3), on political history of the Daily Mirror; Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (7); Ralph Martin on biography of Lady Randolph Churchill, with letter from Sir Robin Mackworth-Young on Martin's access to Lady Randolph's letters in the Royal Archives; Desmond Flower, Cassell & Co.; Gerald Pawle...
Dates: Apr 1956 - Jan 1965
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Literary

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