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"Coal Trade Dispute (Adjournment)", 31 Aug 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/76/47-62
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's statement on possible ways forward in the coal dispute, the chances of new proposals and the results of the strike. Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style" annotated in manuscript by WSC. Filing envelope present.
Dates:
31 Aug 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Series
Home Office, 1910 - 1911
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12
Scope and Contents
INTRODUCTION TO CHAR 12: THE HOME OFFICE: GENERAL The Home Office papers contain correspondence, printed material and papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Home Secretary. The papers have been arranged into correspondence and subject-based files. The Home Office papers form a departmental sub-class of the official class of the Chartwell Papers which was divided according to the various offices held by WSC. Files containing varying numbers of items were...
Dates:
1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Literary: articles: News of the World 4., Oct 1937 - Nov 1937
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/567
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "The General Strike" on the railway strikes of 1911 and 1919, and the General Strike of 1926; "The Crisis of 1931" on the economic crisis of summer 1931 and the fall of Ramsay Macdonald's Labour Government; "Vision of the Future Through Eyes of Science" on the history and future of human progress; "Life in a World Controlled by the Scientists" on the future possibilities and risks of science.Also includes: annotated proofs...
Dates:
Oct 1937 - Nov 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Business Correspondence concerning "The World Crisis" and its sequel "The Aftermath" [published as Volume 4]., 25 Sep 1923 - 15 Jun 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/207
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with representatives of Curtis Brown Limited concerning: negotiations with Charles Scribner on the publication of an American edition; negotiations with Thornton Butterworth Limited; world-wide serialisation of the books; contracts; financial agreements on advances and commission to be paid to WSC; and sales figures for "The Aftermath".Includes material on the disruption caused by the General Strike.
Dates:
25 Sep 1923 - 15 Jun 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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File
Literary: Collier's magazine articles by WSC: 1., Jul 1938 - Sep 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/620
Scope and Contents
Includes proofs and cuttings from Collier's for: "Japan Guesses Wrong" on Japanese battleship building, the British and American response, making comparisons with naval strategy during World War I; "Dictators on Dynamite" (British title "Dictators at the Cross-roads") on the rise of Hitler and Benito Mussolini and the contemporary situation in Germany and Italy; "England Learns About Labor" (British title "The Problem of the Labour Unions") on union radicalism, supporting the recognition of...
Dates:
Jul 1938 - Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 7., 29 Sep 1940 - 10 Nov 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/671
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "The British Working Man" on WSC's views on the rights and responsibilities of trade unions, strikes, the role of government in industrial disputes, and the birth of the Labour Party; "A Very Great Englishman" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell, his role at the siege of Mafeking [South Africa] and the founding of the Boy Scouts Movement; "The March of Progress" on scientific developments and their effect on mankind from the Stone Age to the mid-twentieth...
Dates:
29 Sep 1940 - 10 Nov 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Official: Board of Trade: Continental Unemployment Insurance and Labour Exchanges: notes and printed papers., 28 Sep 1908 - 27 Aug 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/26
Scope and Contents
Includes: a memorandum on Labour Colonies on the Continent, in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France and Belgium; a memorandum on Insurance and Unemployment in Foreign Countries, including Trade Union unemployed benefit and other forms of insurance in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy, Norway and Denmark; notes by William Beveridge [Board of Trade Director of Labour Exchanges] on German Labour Exchanges; memoranda on Strasbourg [Germany, later France] Labour Exchanges;...
Dates:
28 Sep 1908 - 27 Aug 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: correspondence., 15 Jan 1908 - 30 Jul 1908
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/2
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Tattersall, cotton trade expert and statistician, on the deadlock between employers and men over a strike in 2 Oldham [Lancashire] cotton mills; Sir William Collins [MP for St Pancras West, London]; Sir Charles King-Harman [High Commissioner of Cyprus]; Sir Sydney Parry, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Customs; 1st Lord Knollys [Private Secretary to Edward VII] passing on the King's approval at the end of a shipbuilding strike, and his hope for the...
Dates:
15 Jan 1908 - 30 Jul 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: correspondence., 05 Dec 1895 - 29 Oct 1908
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith [Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade] on subjects including the Lancashire cotton dispute, possible legislation for the sweated trades, the difficulties of using Labour Exchanges as a remedy for unemployment, British interests in Turkey, the Midland Railway Company shedding staff, the Brussels [Belgium] Conference on Maritime Conventions and the development of an Arbitration Court for industrial disputes (6); Sir Arthur Davidson...
Dates:
05 Dec 1895 - 29 Oct 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: correspondence., 01 Nov 1908 - 01 Dec 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [? Ernest Steinkamp] Managing Editor of Curtis Brown international publishing bureau, on having an interview about the new Industrial Arbitration Court (4); Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] (4); George Cave, MP for Kingston [Surrey] on the Port of London Bill and its effect on Richmond [Surrey]; William Brace; Arthur Wilson Fox [Comptroller-General of the Commercial, Labour and Statistical Departments of the Board of Trade] on Board of Trade recruitment; 4th...
Dates:
01 Nov 1908 - 01 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: Miners' Eight Hour Bill: notes and papers., 12 Jan 1908 - 16 Nov 1908
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/9
Scope and Contents
Includes: reports on the Northumberland and Durham miners' strikes; General Considerations on the Eight Hours' Day; an opinion by William Brace, miners' representative [Labour MP for South Glamorgan, Wales]; a list of returns on capital invested in coal mines; WSC's speech to the House of Commons on the Eight Hour Bill; the summary of the Miners' Eight Hour Bill Committee report; amendments to the dating of the bill.
Dates:
12 Jan 1908 - 16 Nov 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: British Gazette: copy., 04 May 1926 - 12 May 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/144
Scope and Contents
Includes: a copy of the British Gazette; draft copy for the British Gazette, including articles by WSC; a Board of Trade note on food supplies for the British Gazette; reports from Liverpool and Southampton; draft copies of a statement by Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister] giving an official guarantee of protection for workers against Union reprisals; extracts from the report of the Coal Commission for the British Gazette; a draft statement by 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith [earlier Herbert...
Dates:
04 May 1926 - 12 May 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: British Gazette: correspondence., 05 May 1926 - 22 Jul 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/143
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer]; George Pilcher; Kenneth Henderson (2); William Horwood [Commissioner, Metropolitan Police]; Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times], on commandeering newsprint; Edward Cadbury [Director of Daily News Limited,]; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken, owner of the Daily Express] on donating newsprint (2); 1st Lord Grey [of Fallodon] on the coal dispute; a copy of the Daily Mail's report on Grigory Zinoviev [President of the...
Dates:
05 May 1926 - 22 Jul 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Official: Cabinet: British Gazette: set of copies., 05 May 1926 - 13 May 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/145
Scope and Contents
Complete set of the British Gazette.
Dates:
05 May 1926 - 13 May 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Official: Cabinet: British Gazette: various papers., 03 May 1926 - 05 Jun 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/142
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on the British Gazette and General Strike, including: WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the need to lead public opinion, and the establishment of the British Gazette; notes of meetings between WSC and representatives of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association and the Newspaper Society; William Codling [Controller, HM Stationery Office], on emergency newspaper production; reports on the general situation, the railways, and the coal dispute, from the...
Dates:
03 May 1926 - 05 Jun 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: correspondence., 19 Aug 1926 - 17 Sep 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/112
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on the settlement of the coal dispute include: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade (7); 7th Lord Londonderry [earlier Lord Castlereagh]; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister] (4).Also includes: letters from WSC to Baldwin (8).
Dates:
19 Aug 1926 - 17 Sep 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: correspondence and papers., 23 Mar 1926 - 11 May 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/113
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on the settlement of the coal dispute, including: 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], the Lord Privy Seal; the revised draft of the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin]'s statement to mine-owners and miners; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to WSC]; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (4); Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to WSC]; Arthur Cook, Secretary, Miners'Federation; Kenneth Lee...
Dates:
23 Mar 1926 - 11 May 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: minutes 1 - 30., 18 Mar 1926 - 30 Aug 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/116
Scope and Contents
Includes: the minutes and conclusions of the committee.Also includes: a draft statement by the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin]; a letter from Evan Williams [President, Mining Association] on the breaking-off of negotiations with the Miners' Federation.
Dates:
18 Mar 1926 - 30 Aug 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: minutes 31 - 50., 06 Sep 1926 - 06 Dec 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/117
Scope and Contents
Includes: the minutes and conclusions of the committee.Also includes: a note by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on buying coal supplies; Ronald Waterhouse, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin], on Government proposals; a draft circular to local authorities on coal rationing; a draft of the Coal Mines (Settlement of Dispute) Bill.
Dates:
06 Sep 1926 - 06 Dec 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: papers 1 - 12., 17 Mar 1926 - 21 Apr 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/118
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on the coal dispute, including: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on the transfer of unemployed miners and profit sharing; a Mining Association memorandum on their proposed course of action; George Lane-Fox, [later 1st Lord Bingley] Secretary for Mines; Christopher Hurst [Secretary to the Commission]; a Treasury memorandum on the transfer of unemployed miners; WSC; the report of the committee on mining royalties; Sir Otto Niemeyer...
Dates:
17 Mar 1926 - 21 Apr 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: papers 13 - 20., 23 Apr 1926 - 27 Apr 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/119
Scope and Contents
Includes: notes of meetings between the Coal Committee and representatives of the Miners' Federation, the Mining Association, and the Industrial Committee of the Trades Union Congress on the coal dispute.
Dates:
23 Apr 1926 - 27 Apr 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: papers 21 - 24., 27 Apr 1926 - 28 Apr 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/120
Scope and Contents
Includes: notes of meetings between the Coal Committee and representatives of the Miners' Federation, the Mining Association and the Industrial Committee of the Trades Union Congress on the coal dispute.
Dates:
27 Apr 1926 - 28 Apr 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: papers 25 - 30., 28 Apr 1926 - 30 Apr 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/121
Scope and Contents
Includes: notes of meetings between the Coal Committee and representatives of the Miners' Federation, the Mining Association and the Industrial Committee of the Trades Union Congress on the coal dispute.
Dates:
28 Apr 1926 - 30 Apr 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: papers 31 - 40., 30 Apr 1926 - 18 May 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/122
Scope and Contents
Includes: notes of meetings between the Coal Committee and representatives of the Miners' Federation, the Mining Association and the Industrial Committee of the Trades Union Congress on the coal dispute; draft replies to Arthur Cook [Secretary, Miners' Federation]'s queries on Government proposals.
Dates:
30 Apr 1926 - 18 May 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry: papers 41 - 50., 17 May 1926 - 17 Jun 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/123
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on the coal dispute, including: the Ministry of Labour reply to Arthur Cook [Secretary, Miners' Federation]'s query on assistance to displaced miners; notes of a meeting between the Coal Committee and representatives of the Miners' Federation; Arthur Cook on the Federation's reply to Government proposals; the report of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour's sub-committee on the coal dispute; notes of a meeting between ministers and...
Dates:
17 May 1926 - 17 Jun 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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