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(Untitled), 31 Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/105/2
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Telegram from WSC to General Sir Harold Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Tunis, Commander in Chief Middle East] and General Sir Bernard Montgomery [General Officer Commanding the Eighth Army] sending extracts from various recent telegrams regarding Tunisia to give them the full picture and explaining: that General Dwight Eisenhower's [Commander in Chief of North African Theatre of Operations, United States Army] northern flank is much more likely to be more successfully attacked than the...
Dates:
31 Dec 1942
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Official: Cabinet: British Gazette: copy., 04 May 1926 - 12 May 1926
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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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Copy of a letter from WSC to Geoffrey Dawson, 08 May 1926
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/143/10-12
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC to Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times], marked "private and confidential" on the government's decision to comandeer supplies of newsprint compatible with the British Gazette's printing machines. WSC explains that Dawson should continue printing [the Times]; states the importance of the British Gazette "it is the only vehicle now left for concerting action simultaneously in all parts of the country"; and contests the idea that the TUC has as much right as the...
Dates:
08 May 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Sub-sub-fonds
Box 15: [Various] (3), 1968 - 1980
Sub-sub-fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHAR 1/1/1/15
Scope and Contents
General 1971-73; Students on Council c. 1974; Statements for Newsletter 1973-80; Rent strike 1973. Consists of 5 files.
Dates:
1968 - 1980
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Letter from AMT to his parents, 1926-05-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/AMT/K/1/17
Scope and Contents
1 autograph letter signed, written from Sherborne; he landed in England on the outbreak of the General Strike and had to cycle to Sherborne.
Dates:
1926-05-05
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Edition of The Spectator, 1926-05-08
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/1/Atkins/1
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Edition of The Spectator (Number 5, 106), produced during the first week of the General Strike of 1926. Atkins was then the Assistant Editor.
Dates:
Publication: 1926-05-08
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(Untitled), 18 May 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/254/67
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to C E Bechhofer Roberts on Stanley Baldwin, F E Smith (later 1st Lord Birkenhead) and the General Strike [carbon].
Dates:
18 May 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and typescript., 02 Jul 1926 - 08 Dec 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/76
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Speech notes and typescript for WSC's statement (2 July), entitled "Emergency Power", on the coal dispute, the 8 Hours Bill, wages, the Labour Party's vote of censure against the Government, the miners' refusal to come to terms, and the results of the strike. Published: Complete Speeches IV pp 4014 - 4024.Speech notes for WSC's statement (15 July), entitled "Finance Bill (Betting Duty)", on the expected revenue from the tax, and different rates for racecourses and betting offices. Published:...
Dates:
02 Jul 1926 - 08 Dec 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Collier's magazine articles by WSC: 1., Jul 1938 - Sep 1938
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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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"Clementine Churchill": politics, 1924-36, 1946 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/62
Scope and Contents
Includes: note on the fight between Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Beatty, 1st Sea Lord, and the Treasury in 1925 over naval spending; a letter and article by Sir [Arthur] Clive Morrison-Bell, sent to CSC, on the General Strike; General Election leaflet (sent out in CSC's name, March 1924) on Winston Churchill's political record; notes on CSC's work in Churchill's Epping and Woodford constituencies [Essex], 1924-63; extracts from the papers of the Conservative Central Women's Advisory...
Dates:
1946 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Margaret Thatcher, 1984-04 - 1984-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 1/1/3
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the famine in Ethiopia; the miners’ strike; the bombing of the Grand Hotel, Brighton [Sussex]; the prosecution of the Ministry of Defence official Clive Ponting under the Official Secrets Act after he sent documents on the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands War; South African opposition leaders seeking sanctuary in the British consulate, Durban; the banning of Martin Galvin, Publicity Director of NORAID [Irish Northern Aid Committee] from...
Dates:
1984-04 - 1984-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Commentaries of government performance and policy, 1979 & 1981-83, 1979 - 1983
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/15/3
Scope and Contents
Part 1, 1979: includes typescript notes probably from Woodrow Wyatt, "General" [on the composition of the Government and related issues], "Taxation" and "Denationalisation and allied matters", all 8 May 1979; with second draft of a separate note for MT to send to colleagues on the work of her new Government, May 1979 (for earlier draft see THCR 2/6/2/118)
Part 2 1981: copy of official paper, "Gas gathering in the north sea", circa July 1981, and...
Dates:
1979 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 opened in March 2012; part 3, opened in March 2013; and part 4, opened in October 2014
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Birmingham constituency financial records, 1925-12 - 1927-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 3/2
Scope and Contents
Includes bills, receipts, open letters from LSA to his constituents, on subjects including the General Strike and a letter from Frank McDougall [Economic Adviser to the Australian Government in London] with statistics on the importance of the Empire as an export market for Birmingham [Warwickshire].
Dates:
1925-12 - 1927-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Miscellaneous political papers and correspondence, 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAIL 2/2/6
Scope and Contents
Includes documents regarding safeguarding political secrecy; Report on the Arbitration Treaty 1929; Reports regarding the Royal Family and Death Duties; Handwritten draft note for the Attorney General; Income and Super tax; ‘Strike Strategy in Britain’ report written by a Communist, 1925; Memorandum on the Zinovieff Letter,1924
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes, typescript and Hansard., 26 Jan 1931 - 12 Mar 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/93A-B
Scope and Contents
Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speech (26 January), entitled "India - 'A Frightful Prospect'" on poor recent handling of Indian affairs, Indian hopes for Dominion status and a Federal Government, parallels with South Africa and Ireland and the effects of losing India. Also includes an extract from Hansard reporting the debate. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 4947 - 4956.Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speech (28 January), entitled "'Cut Its Dirty Throat' - Trade Disputes and...
Dates:
26 Jan 1931 - 12 Mar 1931
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 235 - 259., 13 Jul 1924 - 07 Jul 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/96
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on an enquiry into industrial relations in the United States; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the influx of Soviet money and State companies into London; the report of the Legislation Committee on laws concerning trade unions, and trade unionism in the Civil Service; Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, on trade...
Dates:
13 Jul 1924 - 07 Jul 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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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
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Official: Treasury: correspondence., 19 Jun 1926 - 31 Dec 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/28
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton, President of the Board of Trade] on the level of trade; Abe [Bailey]; Admiral Sir Roger Keyes (6) on subjects including his tax position, the naval officers' marriage allowance, and Admiralty matters; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith, Secretary of State for India] (2) including one on Indian financial matters; Walter Runciman; Frederick Guest;...
Dates:
19 Jun 1926 - 31 Dec 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
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Copy of a letter from WSC to "Charlie", 7th Lord Londonderry [earlier Lord Castlereagh], 03 Nov 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/28/106-108
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC setting out his thoughts on what owners of mines ought to have done, specifically attending a conference and agreeing to negotiate a national agreement. He criticises the attitude of the owners' representatives and comments on the government's efforts to combat Bolshevism and on the position of the coal owners "It is not the business of Coal Owners as Coal Owners to fight Socialism" and that he (WSC) could not avoid making some criticisms of the coal owners though...
Dates:
03 Nov 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 28 May 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/147/101
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir Douglas Hogg [later 1st Lord Hailsham] (Carter's Corner Place, Hailsham, [Sussex]) to [WSC] advising against a libel prosecution [of the "New Statesman" for publishing an article alleging that WSC urged the use of the military during the General Strike]. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/147/94.
Dates:
28 May 1926
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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(Untitled), 24 May 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/21-24
Scope and Contents
Copy of a report by I H M[itchell, a representative of the Board of Trade] in which he reports that Houlder Brothers [one of the shipping companies involved with the dockers' strike at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales] had repudiated the agreement reached with their general cargo employees, and intended to use men from the Shipping Federation to load a boat at Newport. He reports that the action of this firm threatens to revive "the trouble" [of the dockers' strike]. Typescript. Notes by Sir...
Dates:
24 May 1910
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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Photocopies of briefing papers from Ferdinand Mount (Head, PM's Policy Unit, 1982-4) on the preparation of policy and the 1983 General Election manifesto, 1982-3, 1982-06 - 1982-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/15/9
Scope and Contents
Part 1, 1982: includes briefing notes from Mount on, "Renewing the value of society suggestions for the mid-80s", 22 June 1982; "After the rail strike", 29 June 1982; "The Prime Minister's Department", 15 July 1982
Part 2, 1983: "Draft alpha" of 1983 General Election manifesto, ? 1983; "Unemployment", 24 June 1983; "A strategy for jobs" [note for a Seminar at Chequers on economic policy, 2 September 1983; "DHSS...
Dates:
1982-06 - 1982-12
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1, opened in March 2013; part 2, in October 2013; later material closed
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Letter (23 Campden Hill Square), 11 May 1926 (date inferred; 'Tuesday')
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/37
Scope and Contents
Concerning his involvement in the General Strike and his new book.
Dates:
11 May 1926 (date inferred; 'Tuesday')
Conditions Governing Access:
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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Scrap Book, 1910 - 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC/14/12/2
Scope and Contents
Scrap book includes photograph of a group of boys at Oxford House School, Croydon and postcard of the school; team photographs at Whitgift School and informal photographs of camps and parades; May Ball phtoograph at Corpus and various team and group photographs at Corpus and medics; newspaper cuttings (mainly about the General Strike 1926 and Mercedes Gleitze attempts to swim the English Channel), certificates, programmes and photographs relating to amateur dramatic plays by the Croydon...
Dates:
1910 - 1933
Series
Newspaper cuttings and facsimiles, 1816 - 1926
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN2/18
Scope and Contents
Cuttings (mounted on paper) re the wedding of Princess Charlotte, grand daughter of George III 1816, and of marriage of Queen Victoria 1840;
copy of The British Gazette 5 May 1926 reporting first day of general strike;
facsimile of the A1 Charter of Fountains Abbey;
copy made on parchment of warrant of execution of Charles I, with tracings of signatures and seals of regicides.
Dates:
1816 - 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.