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"A New Experience - Victory", 10 Nov 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/158/56-68
Scope and Contents
Typescript speaking notes for WSC's speech (Lord Mayor's Banquet, Mansion House, London) on victories in North Africa and successes under General Sir Harold Alexander as Commander in Chief Middle East and General Sir Bernard Montgomery as General Officer commanding the 8th Army; noting that the battles have been fought by forces from home and from the Dominions; the United States and the Battle of Egypt; policy towards Spain, Portugal and his hopes for General [Charles] de Gaulle and France;...
Dates:
10 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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"A Seditious Middle Temple Lawyer", 23 Feb 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/95/34-46
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (Winchester House, Epping, Essex) on WSC's withdrawal from the Conservative Business Committee and opposition to giving India Dominion status, which includes the phrase "Mr Gandhi, ... now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal palace".
Dates:
23 Feb 1931
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Broadcasts, 1931-11 - 1952-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/17
Scope and Contents
Texts of broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: Fairbridge Farm Schools in Australia; Empire defence; the economics of Empire; the 1935 Peace Ballot; the Empire and world peace; the politician versus the businessman; the Jewish settlement in Palestine; the Empire Producers Organisation; the way of peace; Germany's debt to European civilisation; tributes to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; why Italy should not...
Dates:
1931-11 - 1952-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Empire and Imperial Preference, 1942-12 - 1947-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/1
Scope and Contents
Speech notes and texts of speeches and articles by LSA on the Empire, Imperial Preference and expansionist policy, including a speech to the Empire Industries Association on British trading policy.
Dates:
1942-12 - 1947-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Empire Industries Association: speeches, 1947-01 - 1953-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/12
Scope and Contents
Texts, prints and speaking notes of speeches by LSA, given as President of the Association.
Dates:
1947-01 - 1953-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Empire speeches, 1929-05 - 1935-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/10
Scope and Contents
Texts of speeches by LSA on the Empire, particularly: the Empire partnership; the disadvantages to Britain of a pan-European idea; the future of the Empire, in policy and in contribution to world affairs; the Singapore naval base; trade and an Empire Trade Week.
Dates:
1929-05 - 1935-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Empire speeches and articles, 1935-08 - 1939-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/38
Scope and Contents
Includes: extracts from the British Empire Review, with texts of speeches by LSA; texts, prints and press cuttings of articles by LSA on the case and future for Imperial Preference, dominions policy and the future of the Empire; trade statistics for the Empire; issue of and extracts from Hansard, including speeches by LSA on tariff policy and Imperial Preference; prints of trade discussions and agreements with Australia, India, South Africa and Canada; Empire Industries Association trade...
Dates:
1935-08 - 1939-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Empire Unity Campaign speeches, 1936-11 - 1938-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/37
Scope and Contents
Texts, prints and notes of speeches by LSA for the Unity of Empire Campaign at Bournemouth [Hampshire], Central Hall [London] and Exeter [Devon] and Llanelly [Carmarthenshire, Wales].
Dates:
1936-11 - 1938-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Hola Camp, 1959-06 - 1959-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/1/18
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers on JEP's speech on the detention camp disaster in Kenya, with correspondents including: Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Boyd]; George Kitson Clark [Reader in Constitutional History, University of Cambridge]; Amie, Lady Noble; [John] Clement Jones, News Editor of the Wolverhampton Express and Star; [? John Astor];...
Dates:
1959-06 - 1959-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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"India", 30 Mar 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/191A/1-12
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for a speech by WSC (not used) on calls for Indian independence, the achievements of the Indian army, Gandhi's fast and WSC's illness. Typescript top copy of notes annotated by WSC in red ink. Includes file cover and note from Francis Brown [Private Secretary to WSC] that WSC will not speak on India on 30 March but instructing that WSC would like the papers for future use and that they should not be sent to [Leo] Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar].
Dates:
30 Mar 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Letters on The Empire in the new Era, 1930-03 - 1930-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on LSA's book of collected speeches on the Empire, distributed to principal schools in Britain and the Dominions. Correspondents writing to acknowledge receipt of the book, include: William Vaughan, Headmaster of Rugby School [Warwickshire]; Alwyn Williams, Headmaster of Winchester College [Hampshire]; Robert Routh, Headmaster of Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire; Joseph Barton, Headmaster of Bristol Grammar School; Harold Sawyer, Headmaster of Shrewsbury School [Shropshire];...
Dates:
1930-03 - 1930-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Series
Literary: Speeches, 1909 - 1957
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 22
Scope and Contents
Typescripts, notes and material for speeches.
Dates:
1909 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 1., 07 Jan 1940 - 25 Feb 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/665
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "My Secret Tank Plans were Missing" on WSC's experiences at "Plugstreet" (Ploegsteert [Belgium]) during World War I, being shelled and thinking he had lost some secret tank plans; "My 17 Fateful Hours with Clemenceau" on being sent by [David] Lloyd George to see [Georges] Clemenceau on the Western Front, and his opinions of [Field Marshal Ferdinand] Foch and [General Lord] Rawlinson; "I Compel Lawrence of Arabia [T E Lawrence, later T E Shaw]...
Dates:
07 Jan 1940 - 25 Feb 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Miscellaneous speeches and articles, 1929-12 - 1947-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/12
Scope and Contents
Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: the report of the Palestine Commission; colonial claims; the Geographical magazine; British agriculture in relation to the Dominions; sugar duties and Imperial Preference; the Import Duties Bill (1932); maintaining naval strength; the worldwide economic depression; Kingsley Fairbridge and the Empire Farm Schools; failures of the League of Nations; Magna Carta and political freedom in the modern era; Dutch policy in the East Indies...
Dates:
1929-12 - 1947-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Notes for speeches, 1918-08 - 1922-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/67
Scope and Contents
Manuscript drafts of speeches by LSA on subjects including: brotherhood; Canada as an Imperial nation; support for election candidates; terrorism in Ireland; the appeal by Field Marshal 1st Lord Haig for volunteers to join the British Legion; the constitution of Britain and the Empire.
Dates:
1918-08 - 1922-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Notes for speeches, 1903-08 - 1915-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/19
Scope and Contents
Manuscript speech notes by LSA on subjects including: tariff reform, Imperial Preference and Free Trade; Imperial defence; the role of the Royal Navy; the Imperial Conference; the constitution and reform of the House of Lords; national service; policy on South Africa, particularly on equal rights for the Boers and British.
Also includes: notes on whether LSA himself should join the army at Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece] or stay in the War Office; draft letter on the possibility of...
Dates:
1903-08 - 1915-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Oversea Settlement Papers, 1917-08 - 1922-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/58
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to LSA's chairmanship of the Oversea Settlement Committee, including: press-cutting of an interview given by LSA on emigration to the Dominions; prints of speeches by LSA in support of work by the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf in Canada, and on Empire migration; memoranda by LSA on the Imperial Conference of 1921 and its resolution on state-aided settlement, the effects of emigration on unemployment, emigration facts and figures and migration within the Empire; reports of the...
Dates:
1917-08 - 1922-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Political: Constituency: North West Manchester: Correspondence., Jan 1906 - Dec 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 4/10
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Royle, Chairman of the Manchester Liberal Federation (18) on subjects including arrangements for the election (2); E Crosfield Pearson (4); Lord Loreburn [earlier Sir Robert Reid]; 2nd Duke of Westminster; Fred Brierley on the issues of importance to the Manchester electorate including socialism, Chinese labour in South Africa, education, Free Trade and Ireland (2); James Southern (6); William Westbrook on WSC's recommendations for local magistrates; Sir...
Dates:
Jan 1906 - Dec 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Political speeches and articles: general, 1930-04 - 1939-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/8
Scope and Contents
Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: protection of manufacturers and the removal of the McKenna Duties on luxury imports; Benjamin Disraeli [1st Lord Beaconsfield]; the silk industry; Imperial Preference; unemployment; the economics of Empire; the monetary crisis; the Representation of the People Bill; the meaning of politics; the National Government; disarmament; Cabinet reform; the future of Europe; the Peace Ballot; uprising in Austria (1934); the 1935 General...
Dates:
1930-04 - 1939-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Press reports on Empire Unity Campaign, 1926 - 1939-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/69
Scope and Contents
Press cuttings reporting on LSA's speeches for the campaign, with the report of the South Africa branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association on their visit to Australia (1926).
Dates:
1926 - 1939-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 10 Jan 1935 - 30 Jun 1937
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/296A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Carl Bechhofer Roberts on subjects including his biography of WSC, and particularly the Abdication Crisis [of King Edward VIII, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor] (2); Ivy, Lady Chamberlain; Cosmo Lang [Archbishop of Canterbury]; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, on a speech by WSC in a foreign affairs debate, and his tribute to the Foreign Office; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [President, League of Nations Union, earlier Lord...
Dates:
10 Jan 1935 - 30 Jun 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 29 Dec 1937 - 15 Jul 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/330
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Ramsay Muir [Vice-President, Liberal Party Organization] on the possibility of a by-election in Epping [Essex]; Lieutenant-General Sir [George] Tom Bridges on WSC's speech at Sheffield [Yorkshire, 31 May] and wartime conscription; Philip Noel-Baker; Don Pablo de Azcarate y Florez, Spanish Ambassador to Britain, on including Spain in WSC's call for a team of peace-seeking nations; 10th Lord Elgin (and 14th Lord Kincardine [earlier Lord Bruce]), President, General...
Dates:
29 Dec 1937 - 15 Jul 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 10 May 1938 - 31 Oct 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/332
Scope and Contents
Correspondents, mainly on Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia] and the Munich Pact, include: [David] Graham Hutton; Roy Harrod on subjects including the general support for WSC's views on foreign policy, and a suggested electoral pact between WSC and the Labour Party (3); Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury] on subjects including WSC's speech on the Munich Pact (5 October) (2); Neville Chamberlain,...
Dates:
10 May 1938 - 31 Oct 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 28 Jan 1939 - 30 Apr 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/358A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Pears, President of the Society of Marine Artists (2); Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, on allegations of Nationalist atrocities in Spain; Group-Captain Lachlan Maclean (2); "Reggie" [Reginald Fellowes] (3); [James] Vincent Sheean; [Lionel] Archer Cust, Secretary, Royal Empire Society; 9th Lord de la Warr [President, Board of Education, earlier Lord Buckhurst]; Sir Horace Rumbold [former British Ambassador to Germany] on the Government's policy towards Hitler;...
Dates:
28 Jan 1939 - 30 Apr 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Public and Political: General: correspondence and papers on Palestine., Feb 1939 - Aug 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/379
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Leo Amery on the situation in Palestine and criticising government policy (3); Nathan Laski congratulating WSC's speech of 23 May; Josiah Wedgwood asking WSC to sign a joint letter criticising government policy; [John] Paskin, [Principal] Private Secretary [to Secretary of State for the Colonies], on a hunger strike by some Jews in detention.Also includes: notes from WSC's secretary "K H" [Kathleen Hill]; a note on Sir John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on...
Dates:
Feb 1939 - Aug 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre