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Broadcasts, 1955-10 - 1970-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/27
Scope and Contents
Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: immigration; defence, particularly cuts in the Middle East, British withdrawal from Singapore (in interviews with Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1967), and retaining use of nuclear weapons; floating exchange rates; JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics; Parliamentary privilege and...
Dates:
1955-10 - 1970-02
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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.
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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/279A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, research notes and proofs of articles by WSC: "The United States of Europe" on European affairs and trade, the treaty of Versailles [France], the League of Nations, decisions made by [Aristide] Briand and the positions of the United States and Canada; "The Truth about the Dardanelles" including WSC's relationship with Lord Fisher at the Admiralty; "A Great Big Idea" on European affairs; "Why Pay More Taxes" including a statement by WSC on the Budget; "Mr Churchill advises...
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 1 to 20., Jan 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/152
Scope and Contents
Includes: a memorandum by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame,later Lord Swinton] President of the Board of Trade, Ronald McNeill [later 1st Lord Cushendun, Financial Secretary to the Treasury] and First Lord of the Admiralty [William Bridgeman] on financing lighthouses in the Red Sea; Cunliffe-Lister on imports and exports of leather bags, trade outlook including details of various industries, exports and colonial trade, and the state of industry and company law;...
Dates:
Jan 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 101 - 115., 27 Mar 1929 - 16 Apr 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/232
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the Committee on industry and trade; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on affairs in Persia [Iran] and naval limitation; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on education policy; [Sir] William Mitchell-Thomson [later 1st Lord Selsdon] Postmaster General on possible telephone...
Dates:
27 Mar 1929 - 16 Apr 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 101 - 139., 10 Jan 1923 - 05 Mar 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/31
Scope and Contents
Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary] on subjects including higher commands in the Egyptian Army, the political outlook in the Far East, foreign policy and security, and the strength of the Egyptian Army; the decisions of the League council on reports of the investigations into the armaments of ex-enemy countries; Sir Cecil Hurst, Legal Advisor to the Foreign Office, on the armaments of ex-enemy countries; Walter...
Dates:
10 Jan 1923 - 05 Mar 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 141 to 170., Apr 1927 - May 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/159
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: two special reports on unemployment; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on Italy's interests in Albania, a request for assistance from Portugal, an arms embargo and the supply of arms to Canton [China]; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on unemployment in the coal industry, the inspection of emigrants and the unemployment insurance bill; [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal,...
Dates:
Apr 1927 - May 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 171 - 186., 23 May 1928 - 18 Jun 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/199
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne] Minister of Agriculture, on the report of the Royal Commission on land drainage; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on safeguarding the enamelled hollow ware industry; William Bridgeman [First Lord of the Admiralty] on ceremonies at foreign war memorials; John Davidson, Chairman of the Unionist Party, on...
Dates:
23 May 1928 - 18 Jun 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 201 - 220., 23 Jun 1928 - 09 Jul 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/201
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir John Gilmour, Secretary of State for Scotland, on local government reform; [1st] Lord Peel, First Commissioner of Works, on Parliament Square [London]; Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert museum, on the treasure of the Guelphs; [Sir] Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on the industrial transference board and the transfer of unemployed miners; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on...
Dates:
23 Jun 1928 - 09 Jul 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 301 - 314., 02 Feb 1926 - 13 Aug 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/99
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: the report of the Parliamentary Business Committee; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including liquor smuggling; Sir William Tyrrell [Permanent Under- Secretary of State, Foreign Office] on policy towards the Soviet Union and Japan; the report of the sub-committee of the Imperial Conference (Documents) Committee, on the form of treaties; reports of the...
Dates:
02 Feb 1926 - 13 Aug 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 302 to 316., Nov 1927 - Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/165
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: a report of the committee on unemployment in the coal trade; negotiations over a revised treaty with Iraq; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on forest policy, press attitude towards the totalisator; compensation claims in the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne] Minister of Agriculture on agricultural co-operation; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on information from a Czech...
Dates:
Nov 1927 - Dec 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: War and Air: correspondence mainly from Brigadier-General Edward Spears and the British Military Mission in Paris [France] to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] and War Office officials., 01 Dec 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/42A-B
Scope and Contents
Also includes correspondence from General Charles Mangin and Boris Savinkov.Subjects covered by the file include: matters concerning the Russian Civil War, including figures such as General Anton Denikin, Admiral Alexander Kolchak, Savinkov, Gregori Alexinsky, Generals Carl Mannerheim and Joseph Pilsudsky [Chief of the Polish state], and Carol Yaroshinsky, tensions between Kolchak and Denikin, Russo-Polish relations, banking, the Ukraine, French views, German influence, agriculture within...
Dates:
01 Dec 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: General Election: Manifestos., Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/554
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts and printed versions of the 1945 Conservative Party manifesto entitled "Mr Churchill's declaration of policy to the electors"; a printed version of the Labour Party manifesto entitled "Let us face the future: a declaration of Labour policy for the consideration of the Nation"; and a newspaper cutting detailing the Liberal Party manifesto. All the manifestos cover issues including foreign policy, defence, housing, unemployment, agriculture and food, and education.Also includes...
Dates:
Jun 1945
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 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: 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:
Churchill Archives Centre
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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: Conservative Party manifesto [for the 1950 election]: correspondence, proofs and drafts., Dec 1949 - Jan 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/89
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: R A Butler and Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine]. Also includes note from WSC's secretary Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow].Includes: summary of Conservative and Unionist proposals; details of election dates 1929-45; galley proofs and drafts of the manifesto (entitled "This is the road") and WSC's introduction.Subjects covered include: the economy, British industry and agriculture, social services, Britain's position in the world, national and constitutional...
Dates:
Dec 1949 - Jan 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-C., Jun 1947 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/67A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams (4); Reginald Maudling; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe] (3); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (7); Garry Allighan; Leo Amery (6); John Andrews; Michael Astor; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Head of Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat and Joint Director, Conservative Research...
Dates:
Jun 1947 - Dec 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 166-7 which have been removed on grounds of data protection due to presence of sensitive personal information about living individuals until 1 January 2024.
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-C (almost all material dates from 1946)., Jun 1945 - Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/5A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Douglas Thomson on WSC visiting Aberdeen [Scotland] (2); "Scribe", 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Waris Ameer Ali on the activities of the Congress Party in India; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley] on scientists at Harwell [Berkshire]; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe], Chairman of the Conservative Party (8); 1st Lord Davidson; James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip] (7); Pierson Dixon [Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign...
Dates:
Jun 1945 - Dec 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence A-G., Jul 1945 - Dec 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/1A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd Greame and Philip Cunliffe Lister] (3); Richard Poland [Private Secretary to Minister of Civil Aviation]; E Colston Shepherd, Secretary-General of the Air League of the British Empire; Sir George Harvie Watt (4); John Winant [United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom]; Randolph Churchill; Leo Amery on imperial preference and European unity (2); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe, Chairman of the Conservative Party]...
Dates:
Jul 1945 - Dec 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-H., May 1946 - Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/68A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] on Daily Express opinion polls; Sir William Darling (3); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (3); James Milner; [George] Peter Thorneycroft (2); Leo Amery on Dimitrov, President of the Bulgarian Agrarian Movement; representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Honorary Treasurer Christopher Holland-Martin, (9); Richard Stokes on Yugoslav General Djoukitch (2); Sir...
Dates:
May 1946 - Dec 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-L., Nov 1945 - Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Terence Garvey (Foreign Office) on the case of George Dace; Percy Cudlipp, editor, Daily Herald, and Patrick Donner (2) requesting WSC to write for them; Sir Orme Sargent [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on Kenneth de Courcy; Sir Paul Booth on the "Dog and Duck" circle; Eric Gandar Dower on his constituency position (2); Robert Jenkins; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Head of Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat and Joint Director,...
Dates:
Nov 1945 - Dec 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence E-F (almost all material dates from 1950)., Nov 1946 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/96A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (3); David Eccles (4); Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office; various representatives of the Conservative Research Department, including Peter Goldman (5); Walter Elliot on visiting Chaim Weizmann [President of Israel] and Scottish matters (2); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (4); Sir Malcolm Trustram...
Dates:
Nov 1946 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 268 and 273-4 which have been removed on grounds of data protection due to presence of sensitive personal information about a living individual until 1 January 2026.
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence H-Z., Jul 1945 - Dec 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/2
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Quintin Hogg [later Lord Hailsham of Marylebone]; James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip] (7); Sir George Harvie Watt (3); Leslie Hore Belisha on joining the Conservative Party; Pierson Dixon [Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary] on British-United States relations (2); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe, Chairman of the Conservative Party] (4); Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st...
Dates:
Jul 1945 - Dec 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence I-O., Dec 1947 - Jan 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/69A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Michiels van Verduynen [Netherlands Ambassador to the United Kingdom]; 4th Lord Powis; 1st Lord Kemsley [earlier Sir James Berry, Editor in Chief, Sunday Times] on Commonwealth journalists; Michael Joy [Private Secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State]; Sir David Maxwell Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir]; 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne]; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd Greame and Philip Cunliffe Lister]; 1st Lord...
Dates:
Dec 1947 - Jan 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: Political: statement of Conservative Party policy: correspondence, proofs, and pamphlets., May 1949 - Jul 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/88
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir David Maxwell Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir]; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; R A Butler (3); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Sir Hubert Henderson (2). Also includes note and copy of correspondence from secretaries Chips Gemmell and Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel].Includes: galley proofs with annotations of the draft statement of policy with sections on economic affairs, management and labour, nationalisation, the countryside,...
Dates:
May 1949 - Jul 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre