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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 4, "The Great Democracies": final proofs., Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/439A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs of the entire volume [with the exception of the index]: introductory pages and books 10-12, "Recovery and Reform", "The Great Republic", and "The Victorian Age" [chapter 7 of which, "The Dawn of the Twentieth Century" is renamed "The South African War" in the published volume].With very minor suggested amendments and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [Alan Hodge].
Dates:
Jan 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
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Literary: "My Life", News of the World: copy., Jan 1935 - Mar 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/522A-B
Scope and Contents
Carbon copies of the following articles by WSC: "My Life" [in 12 parts]: "Looking Back on Sixty Years" on WSC's childhood, education and time at Sandhurst; "Frontier Days in India" on WSC's expedition to India with the 4th Hussars, and the frontier risings of 1897; "Charge of the 21st Lancers" on the battle of Omdurman and the Sudan Campaign; "Taken Prisoner by the Boers" on WSC as a war correspondent in South Africa; "My Escape from Pretoria"; "My Entry into Politics" on writing Lord...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Mar 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Literary: "My Life", News of the World": proofs., Jan 1935 - Mar 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/523A-B
Scope and Contents
Galley proofs of the following articles by WSC: "My Life" [in 12 parts]: "Looking Back on Sixty Years" on WSC's childhood, education and time at Sandhurst; "Frontier Days in India" on WSC's expedition to India with the 4th Hussars, and the frontier risings of 1897; "Charge of the 21st Lancers" on the battle of Omdurman and the Sudan Campaign; "Taken Prisoner by the Boers" on WSC as a war correspondent in South Africa; "My Escape from Pretoria"; "My Entry into Politics" on writing Lord...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Mar 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: Committee on the representation in the Dominions of His Majesty's Government in Great Britain., 12 May 1927 - 14 Jul 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/179
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Includes committee minutes of statements made by WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Balfour, Lord President of the Council, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal, Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton] President of the Board of Trade, on schemes of representation suitable for the circumstances in the dominions New Zealand,...
Dates:
12 May 1927 - 14 Jul 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 41 - 60., 22 Jan 1925 - 22 Feb 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/87
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford] Home Secretary, on the Lead Paints Bill, the Coroners Bill, the Petroleum Bill, the Legitimacy Bill and the Wild Birds (Protection) Bill; drafts of the above bills; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the Bankruptcy (Amendment) Bill; the report of the Bankruptcy Committee; a draft of...
Dates:
22 Jan 1925 - 22 Feb 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 201 to 220., Jul 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/161
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Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the position of the heavy steel industry; the report of a committee on the representation of the British government in the dominions including notes on the situations in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; a report on affairs in the Soviet Union; the Committee of...
Dates:
Jul 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Cabinet: papers 261 - 275., 30 Jul 1928 - 26 Sep 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/204
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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; [Sir] William Mitchell-Thomson [later 1st Lord Selsdon] Postmaster General, on Western Highlands steamer services; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on currency in the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord...
Dates:
30 Jul 1928 - 26 Sep 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Colonial Office: Cabinet Papers., 23 Jan 1921 - 29 Dec 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/13A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Maurice Hankey (6); David Lloyd George, Prime Minister; Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer (2) and Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] objecting to the use of Indian troops in the garrison of Palestine.Cabinet papers on subjects including: affairs in the Middle East, Egypt, South Khurdistan, Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Palestine; mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine; the 1921 Imperial Conference; the 1921 Middle East Conference; the empire...
Dates:
23 Jan 1921 - 29 Dec 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence., 01 Jun 1921 - 30 Jun 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/6
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Correspondents include: Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] on subjects including the Aga Khan's claims for reparations from Germany, the appointment of ?John Thompson and his conviction that Indians should be given equal status (5); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on expenditure and troops in Palestine and Mesopotamia [Iraq] (6); Leo Amery [Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Colonies] on the Empire settlement policy (3); David Lloyd George, Prime...
Dates:
01 Jun 1921 - 30 Jun 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Photograph album of Major Hubert Richard Lovett, circa 1877-1891, 1877 - 1891
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NN
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An album containing photographs relating to Lovett's military service in India and South Africa in the 1870s and 1880s. It also contains photographs of other places visited en route to India.
Dates:
1877 - 1891
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From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence N-Z., 1880 - Jun 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/576A-C
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Correspondents include: [Sir] Walton Newbold on economic issues; Harold Nicolson; Terence O'Connor on subjects including wireless broadcasting, Ireland and WSC's attacks on his speech; Sir Michael O'Dwyer; Herman Ould on the role of John Galsworthy's play "Justice" on prison reform; Edward Marsh on subjects including submarine campaigns (3); [Thomas] Guy Paget; [1st Lord] Portsea [earlier Bertram Falle]; [Frederick] Ponsonby [later 1st Lord Sysonby] on a libel case and distress to King...
Dates:
1880 - Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence S-Z., Oct 1950 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/117A-B
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Correspondents include: "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne] and Leo Amery on Cabinet positions in the event of a Conservative election victory; Sir Arthur Salter; Duncan Sandys on his visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and Marshal Tito; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (10); Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare,...
Dates:
Oct 1950 - Oct 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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(Untitled), 05 Apr 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/235/5-6
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Letter from Leo Amery (112 Eaton Square [London]) to WSC, commenting on a memorandum on British Nationality in South Africa sent to WSC by the South African Dominion Party; he explains the distinction between British nationality and local citizenship, and the South African Government's dislike of the words "British" and "subject", preferring to use "common status"; the situation is compared with that in Ireland and Eamon De Valera's refusal to recognise rights for British subjects from...
Dates:
05 Apr 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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(Untitled), 28 Dec 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/2/5-7
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Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on speaking in House of Commons debate on Alfred Lynch, [Irish Nationalist MP for Galway, and Colonel of Irish Brigade serving with the Boers], also on possibility of "joining a Middle Party,when there is a Middle Party to join", and the possibility of WSC being offered a post in a Rosebery [Liberal] administration.
Dates:
28 Dec 1901
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From the File:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre