Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965 (Knight, Prime Minister and historian)
Person
Biography
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) Prime minister, statesman and historian
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
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Letter to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 27 Sep. 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/27
Scope and Contents
Asking Churchill to speak out against the government's policy towards Italy over Abyssinia; carbon copy; mounted on album leaves, with contemporary press-cuttings on verso
Dates:
27 Sep. 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 14 Mar. 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV/30
Scope and Contents
'Let me say how disgusted I am that the PM has not asked you to take the Defence Ministry'; comparing the waste of political material in Britain with attitudes in Italy, Germany, and Russia; copy, with contemporary press-cuttings on verso; see Martin Gilbert (ed.), Winston S. Churchill, 5, Companion Part III, London, 1982, 73-4.
Dates:
14 Mar. 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Memoir, 1939-1946, 1983
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CWLY 3/2
Scope and Contents
This tape describes some of the various positions Cowley held in the war, of which there were a lot.He describes London during the beginning of the war, whilst he was still in the War Office. He was then moved to Cairo, and spent time in Alexandria. He describes the lead up and aftermath of the battle of El Alamein, including the arrival of Churchill, General Montgomery, General Alexander and his friend, Ian Jacob.General Montgomery sent Cowley to America to teach in...
Dates:
1983
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Miscellaneous correspondence, 25 May 1903-14 Dec. 1940
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/IV
Dates:
25 May 1903-14 Dec. 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Note from Winston [Churchill] to Siegfried Sassoon, 1946-1948 (date inferred)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/43/34
Scope and Contents
Concerning delight in hearing from 'The Byb' again and thanking him for sending a book. This item was removed from MS Add.9852/1/43 p. 127.
Dates:
1946-1948 (date inferred)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
The First World War journals and some post-war journals (MSS Add.9852/1/4-25 and 32) are unavailable for consultation due to their poor physical condition. Digital copies of these items are provided in the Sassoon Journals section of the Cambridge Digital Library, https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon/1. The other journals are available for consultation.
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Research correspondence of H. A. St.G. Saunders, 1950-1951
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9429/1B/219-257
Dates:
1950-1951
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The War Diaries of Sir Harold Nicolson, 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/1/3/5/2
Scope and Contents
Three hardboard woodcuts containing print designs that were used to illustrate the series, The War Diaries of Sir Harold Nicolson, which appeared in four issues of The Sunday Times Magazine, in September and October 1967. The woodcuts are for parts 1 to 3 of the series; no woodcut is present for the fourth and final part. The first design features representations of Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Harold Nicolson (RL/Pre-/695). The second...
Dates:
1967
Conditions Governing Access:
Restricted. Not available for consultation. Please contact repository.
Series
World War I: blockade and Atlantic convoys, 17 May 1915-1942 (Circa)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9259/III
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers re Money's work in the blockade of Germany, and his part in advocating and implementing an effective convoy system for Atlantic shipping in response to the German U-Boat offensive during World War I (so-called 'Atlantic Concentration'). Unless otherwise stated, the item is a letter to Money.
Dates:
17 May 1915-1942 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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