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"Every Dog His Day", 05 Oct 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/9/136-199
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (5 October 1946, Conservative Party conference, Blackpool) entitled "Every Dog His Day" on subjects including: criticism of the Labour government; the need for a concerted opposition to Communism; foreign policy; the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union; post war reconstruction; the electoral system; taxation; housing; the coal industry; agriculture; nationalisation; foreign policy and Indian independence; and the need for increased Conservative...
Dates:
05 Oct 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A - B., 30 Jul 1951 - 29 Jan 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/67A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, and W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (14); Peter Goldman [Head of Home Affairs Section], Conservative Research Department (2); James Allan, Private Secretary, Ministry of Pensions (6); (David) Colin Humphries, Private Secretary, Air Ministry (3); Thomas Caulcott, Assistant Principal, War Damage Commission (4); Herbert Ash, constituent (4); Bernard Lawrence,...
Dates:
30 Jul 1951 - 29 Jan 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 197 - 205, closed for 100 years until 2053 on data protection grounds due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on a potentially living individual.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A-H., Jan 1948 - May 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/42
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Frederick Mummery, Assistant Secretary, Woodford Conservative Association (15); Lena Prescott, Private Secretary, Ministry of Health (4); [David] Nenk, Ministry of Education (2); Sir James Hawkey, Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association, and John Harvey, Chairman, Woodford Young Conservative Association, on a visitor from South Africa meeting CSC. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretary Penelope Wall.Subjects covered by the file include:...
Dates:
Jan 1948 - May 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open (folios 119-20 opened in 2022).
Found in:
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A - Z., 14 May 1948 - 30 May 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/58A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Percy Cohen, [Joint Director] Conservative Research Department (10); representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including "Fred" [Frederick Mummery, Honorary Secretary and Agent] (9), Sir James Hawkey, Chairman (2) and "Kath" [Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent] (7); David Perry, Wanstead and Woodford Housing Manager (5); J W Faulkner, Clerk of Chigwell [Essex] Urban District Council (4); John Moss, Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and...
Dates:
14 May 1948 - 30 May 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 331 - 333, closed for 75 years until 2026 on grounds of data protection due to presence of sensitive and personal information about a potentially living individual.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, C - E., 01 Apr 1951 - 30 Dec 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/68A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman (5) and W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (10); P M Ibbotson, Private Secretary, Ministry of Health (6); Alfred Bavin, Private Secretary to the Minister of Health; (David) Colin Humphries, Private Secretary, Air Ministry (2); Peter Hudson, Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation; Bernard Civval, constituent (5); Peter Goldman [Head of...
Dates:
01 Apr 1951 - 30 Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 122 - 124 and 226, closed for 75 years until 2028 on data protection grounds due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on potentially living individuals.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, E - O., 27 Nov 1950 - 17 Dec 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/65A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, on subjects including the visit of Princess Elizabeth [later Queen Elizabeth II] to Woodford (6), C C Worsdell, Secretary and Agent (4) and "Kath", Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent (6); John Hudson, Ministry of Education; Percy Cohen [Joint Director], Conservative Research Department (5); Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, Chairman, Far Eastern Prisoners of War Committee,...
Dates:
27 Nov 1950 - 17 Dec 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, F - H., 11 Nov 1949 - 24 Dec 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/69A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (8) and "Kath", Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent (11); M Caparn, Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (5); Richard Whittick, Private Secretary to the Home Secretary (2); [David] Colin Humphreys, Private Secretary, Air Ministry; Thomas Caulcott, Assistant Principal, War Damage Commission (2);...
Dates:
11 Nov 1949 - 24 Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 86-90, 101-104, 111-114 and 396-398, closed for 75 years until 2028 on data protection grounds, due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on potentially living individuals.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, G-K., Apr 1945 - May 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/25A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: J H Hughes of the Air Ministry (5); Lena Prescott of the Ministry of Health (6); M L Elder of the War Office (7); Sir James Hawkey [Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association] (11); [Nicholas] Henderson [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] (2) and Evelyn Shuckburgh [First Secretary, HM Embassy, Prague, Czechoslovakia (later Czech Republic and Slovakia)] on the parents of a constituent in Czechoslovakia; A E Hine, Private Secretary, Ministry of...
Dates:
Apr 1945 - May 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open (folios 61-8, 195-207, and 335-47 opened in 2022)
Found in:
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, H-Z., Dec 1948 - May 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/50
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: constituent D R Harding (4); H J Backwell, Deputy Regional Petroleum Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power (8); [Derek] Stephen [Assistant Principal] War Office; Frederick Mummery, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (5); Percy Cohen [Joint Director] of the Conservative Research Department (3); [Anthony] Ridge, [Principal Private Secretary to the Postmaster General]; [Stanley] Fingland, Private Secretary, British High Commission, India; Sir...
Dates:
Dec 1948 - May 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, P - Z., 20 Nov 1950 - 31 Dec 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/66A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association, including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, on subjects including WSC's visit to Woodford (5); Percy Cohen [Joint Director], Conservative Research Department (2); John Parmenter, constituent (4); Jean Nunn, Private Secretary to the Home Secretary (2); Cyril Walker, Director of Housing and Valuer, London County Council; John Lockwood, MP for Romford [Essex]; Helen Swyer and Gladys Swyer, constituents (4); John Parkin,...
Dates:
20 Nov 1950 - 31 Dec 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, T - Wi., 18 Mar 1951 - 23 Dec 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/73
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (6) and "Kath", Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent (4); Thomas Caulcott, Assistant Principal, War Damage Commission (2); Jack Beddoe, Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Local Government and Planning; H E Tibbs, constituent (15); P M Ibbotson, Private Secretary, Ministry of Health (4); Jack Charles, Private Secretary to the Minister of...
Dates:
18 Mar 1951 - 23 Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 176 - 184, closed for 75 years until 2028 on data protection grounds, due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on a potentially living individual.
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"Principles", 24 Jul 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/105/2-9
Scope and Contents
Statement (marked "confidential") of the Conservative Party's "General Principles" on domestic and international affairs. Subjects include: free society and socialist states; the power of the state; duty of government; the welfare state; need for housing; economic policy including taxation; international relations including the increasing power of Russia, the Korean war and the British empire.Typescript. Includes covering letter from R A Butler.
Dates:
24 Jul 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: arrangements for the Conservative Party Conference at Blackpool [Lancashire], October 1946 (mainly letters of congratulation from the general public following WSC's speech)., May 1946 - Nov 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/9
Scope and Contents
Other correspondents include: Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe], Chairman of the Conservative Party [until July 1946] (2); James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip]; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office [from July 1946]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], and Honorary Secretary [Edmund]...
Dates:
May 1946 - Nov 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: arrangements for the Conservative Party Conference at Blackpool [Lancashire], October 1950., Aug 1950 - Nov 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/103
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); representatives of the Hotel Majestic, St Annes on the Sea [Lancashire], on WSC's stay there (5); George Christ of Conservative and Unionist Central Office; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip]; H V Armstrong, Secretary of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations (9); representatives of British Railways (4). Also...
Dates:
Aug 1950 - Nov 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: Political: arrangements for the Conservative Party Conference at Llandudno [Carnarvonshire, Wales], October 1948., Jan 1948 - Jun 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/73
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: David Price-White, MP for Llandudno, on WSC attending a ball (2). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], and Elizabeth Gilliatt; CSC.Other subjects include: travel details; matters discussed at the Conference on Conservative policy for defence, agriculture, the House of Lords, taxation, transport, Wales,...
Dates:
Jan 1948 - Jun 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party answers to election questionnaires., 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/124
Scope and Contents
Contains questions and answers prepared by Conservative and Unionist Central Office on a variety of election issues including: agricultural matters; animal welfare; various aspects of foreign affairs including China, Germany, Japan, Persia [Iran], South Africa, and Mexico; civil servants; education; housing matters; the health service; women; transport particularly by road; pensions; economic affairs including taxation; the constitutional position of Scotland and Wales.
Dates:
1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: Conservative Party literature for the 1951 election., 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/123
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of: the Conservative election manifesto; leaflets and pamphlets issued by Conservative and Unionist Central Office and others; editions of the Sunday Dispatch and the Northern Echo; leaflets on voting.Subjects covered include: international affairs, including the Empire, the Commonwealth and Europe; national output, nationalisation and other industrial matters; housing matters; food supplies; old-age pensions; families; farming; rail transport.
Dates:
1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on Conservative Party policy., Jul 1950 - Feb 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/105
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: R A Butler (4); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office].Subjects include: producing a statement of "General Principles" on domestic and international affairs and discussion of the effect of the rearmament policy on pledges concerning housing, economic affairs, and trade.Also includes: extract from Conservative manifesto "This is the road".
Dates:
Jul 1950 - Feb 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-G., Nov 1950 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/114A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: various representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office including George Christ and Press Officer Gillian Mackay (8); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (5); Somerset de Chair on subjects including his career, Abadan [Iran, earlier Persia], and the atomic bomb (2); Patrick Donner (3); William Douglas-Home on his political career (2); James Stuart on Douglas-Home; Michael Astor; David Eccles (2); 1st...
Dates:
Nov 1950 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence H-J., Nov 1949 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/98
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Samuel Hammersley on the possibility of atomic war; [Arthur] Vere Harvey [later Lord Harvey of Prestbury] on the Schuman Plan and passing on a letter on Sweden (2); Antony Head on an Austrian admirer of WSC; John Henderson (2); James Henderson-Stewart; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (10); Prime Minister Clement Attlee (12); 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Edward Turnour] (2); Edward Cass [Private Secretary to the Prime Minister];...
Dates:
Nov 1949 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence H-M., Mar 1950 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/115A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Samuel Hammersley; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (8); Roy Harrod (3); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (5); [Arthur] Vere Harvey [later Lord Harvey of Prestbury] on the supply of aircraft and equipment to Egypt; Sir George Harvie Watt and his wife Bettie; James Henderson-Stewart; Michael Higgs on his daughter; Captain Alan Hillgarth [earlier Alan Evans] on Spain; "Bill",...
Dates:
Mar 1950 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 334-6 which have been removed on grounds of data protection due to presence of sensitive personal information about a living individual until 1 January 2027.
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence N-R (most material dates from 1951)., Oct 1946 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/116
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Norman Hulbert on the National Defence Public Interest Committee; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (2); 1st Lord Layton on WSC writing an article for the News Chronicle on the Cold War; Arthur Waters, Editor, News of the World (3); Harmar Harmar-Nicholls; Allan Noble on a painting of Ernest Bevin; Sir George Paish on co-operation with the Liberals (2); John Lockhart, Secretary of United Kingdom Branch of...
Dates:
Oct 1946 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence on by-elections., Aug 1946 - Feb 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/14A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Victor Warren; Sir Arthur Young [Scottish Unionist Whip] (5); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip from 1948] (6); Anthony Fell; David Gammans; Richard Casey [President, Liberal Party of Australia]; John Smyth; Sir James Dunn; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office (5); Christopher Soames (3); Frederic Harris; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin], Vice-Chairman of...
Dates:
Aug 1946 - Feb 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence on by-elections., May 1947 - Apr 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/90A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (14); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); James Lindsay; William Woolley; Sir Arthur Young [Scottish Unionist Whip]; Anthony Fell; Sir Edward Boyle (2); Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd; Sir Albert Braithwaite (3); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] on Norman Bower resigning; Sir Arthur...
Dates:
May 1947 - Apr 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence on by-elections., Apr 1951 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/118
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office]; [Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office]; John Drennan; Basil Brooke [later 1st Lord Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland] (4); Conolly Gage; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (6); Clarence Graham, Chairman Ulster Unionist Council; "Edie", Edith, Lady Londonderry....
Dates:
Apr 1951 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre