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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, typescript and press cuttings., 02 Jul 1926 - 08 Dec 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/77A-B
Scope and Contents
Typescript for WSC's speech (3 January, Wolfe Dinner, Westerham, Kent) on the achievements and prosperity of Canada.Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speech (20 January, Chamber of Commerce Dinner, Leeds, Yorkshire), entitled "National Finance", on the increase in national expenditure and necessity for cuts, particularly in education, on the changing funding system for local authorities, electricity development, the coal subsidy and averting a coal dispute, and the general improvement in...
Dates:
02 Jul 1926 - 08 Dec 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: correspondence and papers on Palestine., Feb 1939 - Aug 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/379
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Leo Amery on the situation in Palestine and criticising government policy (3); Nathan Laski congratulating WSC's speech of 23 May; Josiah Wedgwood asking WSC to sign a joint letter criticising government policy; [John] Paskin, [Principal] Private Secretary [to Secretary of State for the Colonies], on a hunger strike by some Jews in detention.Also includes: notes from WSC's secretary "K H" [Kathleen Hill]; a note on Sir John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on...
Dates:
Feb 1939 - Aug 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence E - G., 04 Jun 1946 - 17 Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/169
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Correspondents include: Charles Eade; Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (2) on subjects including his intention to divorce Beatrice Eden; Nicholas Eden [later 2nd Lord Avon]; [2nd] Lord Beatty (2) and Walter Monckton (4) on the affair between Beatty's wife [Dorothy, Lady Beatty, earlier Dorothy Bragg, later Dorothy Hewitt] and [Anthony Eden] and the possibility of divorce; Leif Egeland [High Commissioner in London for South Africa] on the illness of Jan Smuts [former Prime Minister of...
Dates:
04 Jun 1946 - 17 Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence., 02 Jun 1907 - 30 Jun 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/26
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on a variety of subjects and WSC's methods of annotating minutes and drafting despatches (5); James Ramsay Macdonald on the miners' strike in the Transvaal [South Africa]; Colonel Sir Percy Girouard, High Commissioner [of Protectorate of Northern Nigeria] on railways and administration; 4th Lord Onslow on a Colonel Harding; Sir Robert Bond [Premier and Colonial Secretary, Newfoundland, Canada] on...
Dates:
02 Jun 1907 - 30 Jun 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Correspondence re Japan, 6 Jan. 1954-10 Jan. 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/J11/1/16/4/2
Scope and Contents
The ring-binder is labelled '1954/55 Japan' and '2. Japan', and is divided into five sections:1. General: correspondence between Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong and Tokyo, with cuttings and copies of press articles, 12 April 1954-22 June 1955.2. Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Strike: correspondence between Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong and Tokyo, with extracts from telephone conversations between Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong and Tokyo, and press cuttings, 22 July-22...
Dates:
6 Jan. 1954-10 Jan. 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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1925-7, 1925 - 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/PS/3
Scope and Contents
This file comprises the following lectures and related papers: 14 January 1925 autograph manuscript on current embargo on the import/export of gold, given to Tuesday Club; [Spring 1925] autograph manuscript 'Revaluation' on a return to the Gold Standard, audience not given; 1 August 1925 typescript 'Am I a Liberal?' given to Liberal Party Summer School; 16 October 1925 letter of invitation to lecture on monetary theory at École des Hautes Études Sociales; October...
Dates:
1925 - 1927
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Speeches and articles, 1974-05 - 1975-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/52
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Conservative policies, including notes from JA sent to Edward Heath, Leader of the Conservative Party [see also AMEJ 6/49]; foreign policy; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; the economic crisis; the need for the cruiser HMS Invincible; the Oct 1974 General Election; the philosophy of Toryism; the miners' strike; Northern Ireland; defence; the Conservative Party leadership contest.
Dates:
1974-05 - 1975-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Papers relating to trade unions, May 1979-January 1982, 1979-05 - 1982-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/174
Scope and Contents
Part 1: includes copy of briefing note to MT from 'J.P. [James Prior MP, Secretary of State for Employment]', "... how I have it in mind to handle our proposals for industrial relations legislation", 14 May 1979
Part 2, 1980: includes note for MT from Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary) on "Steel Strike", 17 January 1980; paper by Lord (Peter) Thorneycroft (Chairman, Conservative Party) on "The unions and public opinion", January 1980; and paper...
Dates:
1979-05 - 1982-01
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1 opened in February 2010, part 2 in March 2011; part 3 in March 2012; and part 4 in March 2013
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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Semi-official letters from Shanghai to Hong Kong, 5 Jan. 1937-31 Dec. 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/J1/24/56
Scope and Contents
Semi-official letters nos 1729-2254 from J.H. Keswick and W.J. Keswick to J.J. Paterson, with enclosed letters and papers.There is an index at the beginning of the volume containing the following entries:A: Agency Profit & Loss Accounts; Agency Commission; Accounting Fee for Constituents; Advances to Evacuees; Annual Accounts; Air Services; Aviation; Aircraft (China) Ltd; Armaments; Advertising; Anton; Antamoks; I.G. Allison.B: B.M. Bateman; J. Borland; I.D....
Dates:
5 Jan. 1937-31 Dec. 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Correspondence A - K, 1926-01 - 1927-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/11
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Anatole de Monzie, French Minister of Public Works; Reginald Leigh [Assistant Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; 2nd Lord Lamington [earlier Charles Cochrane Baillie]; Elise Aubry (4); [George] Nevile Bland, Foreign Office; [?] Lucy Baldwin; Sir John Beale, on protection for manufacturing; Sir Hugh Bell, on the death of his daughter Gertrude Bell (2); Sir Henry Dobbs [High Commissioner and Consul-General for Iraq] on subjects including the...
Dates:
1926-01 - 1927-02
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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Semi-official letters from Kobe to Hong Kong, 11 Jan. 1925-31 Dec. 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/J1/10/8
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Unnumbered semi-official letters from A.E. Smith to B.D.F. Beith and D.G.M. Bernard, 11 January-20 November 1925, and nos 1-5 from A.E. Smith to D.G.M. Bernard, 4-31 December 1925, with enclosed letters and papers.There is an index at the beginning of the volume containing the following entries:A: Statements of Assets & Liabilities; Allowances; Accounts - Yokohama/Tokyo; Shipping Working Account; Accounts - Nagasaki/Kobe; Accounts - Tokyo/Yokohama; Annual...
Dates:
11 Jan. 1925-31 Dec. 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence W - Z., 15 Nov 1945 - 26 Sep 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/178
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Correspondents include: Sir Cecil Wakeley, President, Royal College of Surgeons; [Alfred] Walford and Olive Walford (2); Sir Alexander Walker; Sophie, Lady Wavertree [Sophie Fisher] on subjects including racing and gifts of WSC's books (5); Sir Simon Marks; Sumner Welles; 16th Lady Wentworth [earlier Judith Blunt-Lytton]; "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster] (7); Sir Charles Davis, Lord Mayor of London; Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet] on a memorial...
Dates:
15 Nov 1945 - 26 Sep 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Indo-China letters from London to Hong Kong, 28 Apr. 1916-23 Jan. 1919 (mainly April 1916 - January 1918)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/J3/2/1
Scope and Contents
Original semi-official letters, I.C. nos 1-40, 28 April 1916-10 January 1918, and no. 56, 23 January 1919, with related papers.There is an index at the start of the volume containing the following entries:A: Annual Accounts; Account Underwriting; Annual Meeting; A./Association; New Book Assistant; Administration Charges - Owners; Audits of Accounts; Agreement - Calcutta Line; Adjustment Board & Arbitrators; Adjustment of Value in Case of Loss by War Risk; Allowance...
Dates:
28 Apr. 1916-23 Jan. 1919 (mainly April 1916 - January 1918)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Access to the collection is subject to special conditions and is at the discretion of Matheson and Co. Ltd, part of the Jardine Matheson Group. A statement of the conditions and an application form are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room. Printed copies of the form are available by post (please contact the University Library). An electronic version can also be found at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf.
Records described in the catalogue as being in a bad condition are in a fragile state that precludes them being made available to readers.
Access is generally available to documents dated up to 1969. Access to some earlier records may be restricted under the terms of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
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Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes, source material and typescript., 11 May 1925 - 10 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/72A-B
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's statement (11 May) on the silk duty in the Budget, and the sugar tax. Source material includes notes on artificial silk, including a quote from Samuel Courtauld, Chairman of Courtaulds Limited, and Philip Snowden [former Chancellor of the Exchequer] on tea duty. Published: Complete Speeches IV pp 3620 - 3631.Speech notes for WSC's statement (25 May) for the 2nd reading of the Finance Bill, on criticism of the Budget, particularly from Snowden, taxation, silk and death...
Dates:
11 May 1925 - 10 Dec 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet, 1920 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22
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The papers in this class span the periods 1920-22 and 1924-29 and comprise papers acquired or produced by WSC in his capacity as a Cabinet Minister.Cabinet material and departmental Treasury material, however, have not been separated for WSC's period as Chancellor of the Exchequer (November 1924 to June 1929). This was due firstly to the fact that the Cabinet papers for this period were on the whole carefully preserved together, and it would have been undesirable to disturb this original...
Dates:
1920 - 1929
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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Minister's office: personal correspondence: political, 1963-01 - 1964-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/6/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Ian Williams [Chief Officer, Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Cyprus] on the London conference on Cyprus; R A Butler [Foreign Secretary] on non-involvement in the Yemen; 1st Lord Blakenham, Conservative Party Chairman [earlier John Hare], enclosing text of a speech by Henry Brooke, Home Secretary, on law and order and also on ministers meeting constituency workers (2); Omar Muntasser, Libyan Ambassador to Britain; Sir Arthur Vere Harvey; Peter Emery (2);...
Dates:
1963-01 - 1964-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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AFA in-letters, 1909-10 - 1929-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/89
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 8th Lord Hardwicke [earlier Lord Royston]; Mary Greenwood (9); Hamar Greenwood on subjects including his unsuccessful election campaign (1910) (4); Ermine Murray [later Ermine, Lady Elibank]; Dorothy, Lady Stanley (5); 2nd Lord Napier of Magdala; Fabian Trollope; Harold Amery; Anne Chamberlain (2); Lady Edward Cecil [later Violet, Lady Milner] (2); Rose Ravenshaw; Lady Francis Scott (2); Mary Childers; Sir William Allardyce [Governor of the Bahamas] on his arrival in...
Dates:
1909-10 - 1929-12
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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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 08 Aug 1917 - 14 Aug 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/14A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Sir Charles Gordon on manufacture of machinery in the United States; Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] on press reaction in the Netherlands (20); Charles Bayley [British Consul to the United States] on [Ignace] Paderewski and Poland's attitude towards the war; Sir George Buchanan, [British Ambassador to Russia] (9); Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British...
Dates:
08 Aug 1917 - 14 Aug 1917
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on the foreign rights (through Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]) in WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") and other works, A-P., Sep 1947 - Jan 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/11
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Reves (7) including (1) requesting WSC's advice on whether to publish the memoirs of German State-Secretary Meissner; Arthur Halls (Board of Trade); [George] Gordon Allen (2); "H R P" [Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Elizabeth Gilliatt, Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Chips Gemmell, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], and R...
Dates:
Sep 1947 - Jan 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, typescript, press cuttings and source material., 21 Jan 1929 - 14 Dec 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/88A-B
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Typescript for WSC's speech (21 January, Chamber of Commerce Dinner, Midland Hotel, Manchester), entitled "Trade" on 20th century economic conditions, currency stability, rating reform, economic development, taxation and the cotton trade. Also includes a press cutting from the Manchester Guardian reporting the speech. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 4541 - 4546.Speech notes for WSC's speech (6 February, Town Hall, Battersea, London), entitled "Battersea By-Election" on the Government's...
Dates:
21 Jan 1929 - 14 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Correspondence, 1923-01 - 1929-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondents, mainly on colonial affairs, particularly Imperial Preference, include: George Lloyd [Governor of Bombay, India] on [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain's resignation from the Conservatives and the steadying effect of the new Government; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, looking ahead to the Imperial Conferences; William Gritten; 1st Lord Long of Wraxall; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer], urging a quick General Election (November 1923) (2); Sir John Chancellor...
Dates:
1923-01 - 1929-11
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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Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 30 Nov 1944 - 15 Dec 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/203A-B
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Speech notes for WSC's speech (15 December) on Poland entitled "Poland's future" including an extract from an earlier speech on decisions made at the Teheran [Persia, later Iran] conference and the need for agreement with the Soviet Union about the frontiers of Poland. Also includes correspondence and source material from: Guy Schofield, editor of the Evening News; Lord Alfred Douglas on the publication of correspondence between himself and WSC (3); Lady Daphne Straight; Bernard Griffin,...
Dates:
30 Nov 1944 - 15 Dec 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, R - S., 21 Aug 1950 - 17 Dec 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/72A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, on subjects including the rebuilding of a local school (14), W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (14) and "Kath", Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent (4); M E Blackman, Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (7); Bernard Atha, Education Officer, RAF Chigwell [Essex] (3); Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the...
Dates:
21 Aug 1950 - 17 Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 70 - 72, 90 - 91 and 330 - 336, closed for 75 years until 2028 on data protection grounds, due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on potentially living individuals.
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Correspondence, 1974-11 - 1975-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 5th Lord Listowel [earlier Lord Ennismore] on the work of the Circle Trust; [Basil] Christopher Butler, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and President of the Social Morality Council, asking for AFB's approval for a note on moral education which the council was sending to Reginald Prentice [Secretary of State for Education and Science]; Pastor Tullio Vinay on a meeting in support of political prisoners of South Vietnam, to be held in Washington [United States], January...
Dates:
1974-11 - 1975-02
Conditions Governing Access:
File 2 closed as it contains sensitive personal information on a potentially living individual.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1912 - 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/51
Scope and Contents
Undated letters which were left out of the main sequence. Subjects include: a daring speech by Churchill on the [Naval Estimates], March 1912 and a disagreement with Violet Asquith [later Violet, Lady Bonham-Carter and Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; sending Churchill his Cabinet papers relating to the First World War to him for reference purposes, Clementine's sister Nellie Hozier's engagement [to Bertram Romilly], Churchill's low opinion of Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State...
Dates:
1912 - 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.