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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
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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Cleveland correspondence and address, 1931-06 - 1938-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BOWR 1/1
Scope and Contents
Bower's address to the Selection Committee of the Cleveland Conservative and Unionist Association, prior to his adoption as candidate for Cleveland [Yorkshire] on the causes of the Depression and Conservative economic policy (1931); also includes letter to Bower from Sir Alfred Pease, former MP for Cleveland, on the Government's appeasement of Germany, and the need to strengthen the Navy.
Dates:
1931-06 - 1938-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Cuttings and cartoons relating to WSC, both before and after the Conservative election defeat, 1929-01-22 - 1933-09-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 27 2
Scope and Contents
Economic affairs: Budget speculation intensifies as the General Election approaches, in particular concerning taxation; controversy over the issue of Irish loyalist compensation; the rejection, by the new Socialist administration, of unsatisfactory reparations offers.
Foreign Policy: Trouble in Palestine; unease in Europe, especially concerning the ‘Danzig corridor’; WSC protests against the government’s policy towards India, highlighting his disapproval by refusing to involve...
Dates:
1929-01-22 - 1933-09-20
Conditions Governing Access:
Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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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:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
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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Literary: correspondence, mainly readers' comments, on volume 1 ("The Gathering Storm") of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Apr 1948 - May 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/48A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Reverend Andrew Blair on Pierre Laval [former head of government, Vichy France]; Belgian General Boels; Robert Boothby; George Bosworth on WSC's role in the 1930s and arms exports to Germany; Timothy Breen (2); Camille Chautemps defending his actions; William Clarke [member of Room 40, naval intelligence]; Kenneth de Courcy on British policy in the years before the war (2); Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; "Sidney", Lord Herbert [later 16th Lord Pembroke and 13th...
Dates:
Apr 1948 - May 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Literary: News of the World articles by WSC 2., May 1938 - Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/615
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the News of the World for: "Peopling the Wide, Open Spaces of Empire" on foreign emigration to parts of the British Empire, factors which prevent the British from emigrating, and developing the Empire through investment and emigration; "Why Not 'The United States of Europe'?" on the harm done by European rivalries and nationalism, fascism and communism, the economic benefits of European integration, and the role of Britain towards...
Dates:
May 1938 - Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Board of Trade: Anglo-French Commercial Relations: notes and papers., 22 Dec 1907 - 08 Nov 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/13
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Harold Cox; Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] on the revision of the French tariff and the Gambia-Muscat [later Muscat and Oman] negotiations (2); Sir Francis Bertie [British Ambassador to France]; Herbert Asquith [Chancellor of the Exchequer, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the revision of wine duty. Also includes: a memorandum on commercial relations with France by WSC, on imports with false origins, the wine surtax, wine duty and the French surtaxe...
Dates:
22 Dec 1907 - 08 Nov 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on China., 02 May 1927 - 17 Nov 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/180
Scope and Contents
Includes: minutes of statements made by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary; Lord Balfour, Lord President of the Council; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War; Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] Secretary of State for Air; and William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty on the situation in China.Also present: a report by the Chiefs of Staff on the situation in China and sanctions; observations by George Mounsey, Arthur...
Dates:
02 May 1927 - 17 Nov 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Baghdad [Iraq] to Haifa [Israel] railway and pipeline., 29 Feb 1928 - 07 May 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/220
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes of statements by various individuals including; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty; and Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade. Also includes a memorandum by Amery on conflicting oil...
Dates:
29 Feb 1928 - 07 May 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Conclusions 16 - 21., 11 Apr 1929 - 09 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/238
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes of Cabinet meetings recording decisions on various subjects including: reduction and limitation of armaments; imperial preference; general government policy; the proposed Baghdad [Iraq] to Haifa [Israel] railway and pipeline; the political situation in Iraq; unemployment; reparations against Germany; chemical warfare policy; the taxation of naval allowances; migration from Ireland; and the safeguarding of industries.Also includes a copy of a speech by King George V on the...
Dates:
11 Apr 1929 - 09 May 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Correspondence and notes., 15 Feb 1928 - 04 Dec 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/190
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood, Secretary of State for Air]; [Sir] Hugh Trenchard [Chief of Air Staff] on operations against the Akhwan raiders in Southern Iraq; [Sir] Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary]; Sir Maurice Hankey and Lawrence Burgis.Also includes copies of letters from WSC to the individuals mentioned above and to William Bridgeman [First Lord of the Admiralty] on a court martial. Includes notes by WSC attacking...
Dates:
15 Feb 1928 - 04 Dec 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Foreign affairs., 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/27
Scope and Contents
Cabinet papers on various subjects including: the declaration of London and its effect on Great Britain's "belligerent rights" and neutral shipping; the Russian fishing zone; Japanese affairs including tariff negotiations, the treaty of commerce and navigation, and an alliance with Great Britain; bulletins from [James] Bryce [British ambassador to the United States] on tariff relations between Canada and the United States; budget arrangements in Austria, France, Germany, Italy and the United...
Dates:
1911
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Foreign Office prints., 10 Jan 1927 - 20 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/185
Scope and Contents
Printed copies of correspondence from: Sir Austen Chamberlain to various representatives of the British Government on subjects including the breakdown of Anglo-Soviet relations (9); Sir Robert Hodgson [British Charge d'Affairs in the Soviet Union] on communism and the Soviet press (3); Sir Ronald Lindsay [British Ambassador to Germany] on subjects including reparations, German finance and communism (5); William Peters [Commercial Secretary to British Mission, Moscow] on affairs in the Soviet...
Dates:
10 Jan 1927 - 20 Dec 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Foreign Office: prints., 23 Jan 1928 - 17 Nov 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/223
Scope and Contents
Includes printed papers about affairs in the Soviet Union (including economic and agricultural difficulties) by Foreign Office officials including: Reginald Leeper; Sir Ronald Lindsay (8); P Gent (5); Harold Nicolson; Joseph Addison; Alvary Gascoigne (4); Sir Thomas Hohler and Horace Rumbold. Also includes covering letters from Sir Maurice Hankey, Cabinet Secretary, and a paper on the situation in Egypt.
Dates:
23 Jan 1928 - 17 Nov 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Foreign Office prints., 02 Oct 1924 - 19 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/77
Scope and Contents
Includes papers from various individuals on the Soviet Union, including: William Peters [Commercial Secretary to the British Mission, Moscow] on subjects including the Soviet press campaign against Britain, mining concessions, the general economic and political situation, the Soviet attitude to the Locarno treaties and the 14th congress of the Communist party; Cecil Jerram [Assistant Agent, Moscow and Leningrad, later St Petersburg] on the visit of the British Trade Union delegation to the...
Dates:
02 Oct 1924 - 19 Dec 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Naval programme: notes., 04 Feb 1909 - 05 Nov 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/15
Scope and Contents
Includes printed notes by WSC for the Cabinet on the financial position of Germany and its impact on naval building in Germany; on the naval estimates 1909-1910 and the need for protection against German naval armaments. Also includes a paper by Reginald McKenna [First Lord of the Admiralty] arguing for naval expansion and a paper on the Imperial Conference for Defence.
Dates:
04 Feb 1909 - 05 Nov 1909
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 1 to 25., 12 Jan 1928 - 01 Feb 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/191
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood, Secretary of State for Air] on the withdrawal of the Indian infantry division from Iraq; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford] Home Secretary on bills for equal franchise and children; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the trade outlook including details of various industries, exports and...
Dates:
12 Jan 1928 - 01 Feb 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 20 - 44., 31 Dec 1928 - 21 Feb 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/228
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour on unemployment and on a proposed enquiry into the iron and steel industry; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, and Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the enquiry into the iron and steel industry; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, on the functions of Dominion ministers, use of the...
Dates:
31 Dec 1928 - 21 Feb 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 26 to 49., 02 Feb 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/192
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: [1st] Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] Secretary of State for India, on the 'indianisation' of the Indian army and relations with Afghanistan; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on reaction to his taxation scheme, Irish loyalists and railways in Iraq; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, on the local authority emergency provisions act; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on relations between France and the...
Dates:
02 Feb 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 31 to 50., Feb 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/154
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: a copy of a speech by King George V on the opening of parliament on relations with foreign powers and civil war in China; [1st Lord] Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] Secretary of State for India, on the Trade Unions disputes bill; [Sir] John Gilmour, Secretary of State for Scotland, on poor relief to miners' dependents and poor law emergency provisions in Scotland; [Sir] Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on the...
Dates:
Feb 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 45 - 60., 12 Feb 1929 - 25 Feb 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/229
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, and [Sir] John Gilmour, Secretary of State for Scotland, on Irish immigration; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs, on the Hilton Young commission on East Africa; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, on Anglo-American arbitration treaties; Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple], Minister of Transport, on road transport;...
Dates:
12 Feb 1929 - 25 Feb 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 81 - 100., 18 Feb 1929 - 27 Mar 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/231
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 mining subsidence, petrol and kerosene prices and the trade outlook and economic situation including details of various industries, exports and colonial trade; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on a Committee of Civil Research report on radium and slum policy; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans,...
Dates:
18 Feb 1929 - 27 Mar 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Official: Cabinet: papers 81 to 100., 10 Mar 1928 - 28 Mar 1928
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/194
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on the League of Nations and disarmament, negotiations with the Nanking [China] government and relations between Canada and Japan; Sir Douglas Hogg [later 1st Lord Hailsham], Attorney-General on the prerogative of the Crown; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, on subjects including a Zionist loan, compensation claims in the Irish Free State [later Ireland], and the...
Dates:
10 Mar 1928 - 28 Mar 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre