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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')
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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
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Newspaper cuttings and facsimiles, 1816 - 1926
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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.
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(Untitled), 17 Mar 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/254/58
Scope and Contents
Letter from C E Bechhofer Roberts, Abinger Common, Dorking , Surrey to WSC, on his forthcoming book on Stanley Baldwin. Asking WSC about Baldwin's attitude to the General Strike.
Dates:
17 Mar 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 20 May 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/254/85
Scope and Contents
Letter from C E Bechhofer Roberts, Abinger Common, Dorking, Surrey to WSC, on Stanley Baldwin, F E Smith (later Lord Birkenhead) and the General Strike.
Dates:
20 May 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Other College events and national events, 1926 - 1978
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Reference Code: GBR/0276/SEPH/2/9
Scope and Contents
Including students working in the General Strike 1926 at Hull docks and Cambridge railways with names identified by EJ Elam, Archivist (1978); Group of prospective ordinands from Selwyn and elsewhere, including A. S. Reeve, at Archbishop's Palace, Canterbury (1928); Group of undergraduates and other unidentified people, Master seated is Martin Telfer c.1950;
Dates:
1926 - 1978
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(Untitled), [1911]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/12/10-11
Scope and Contents
Notes concerning the widespread industrial unrest including observations on the following subjects: the threat posed by trade unionism; the concepts of sympathetic strikes and the general strike; and the lack of control in the event of a railway strike. Suggestions are made for a meeting between the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] and large industrial employers or the establishment of a committee. Manuscript on the notepaper of the Board of Trade.
Dates:
[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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'Footpath at the mine officials' houses', 1950 - 1970
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 199/2/1/3/11
Scope and Contents
205 x 152 mm. 'Footpath at the mine officials’ houses where a foot policeman on patrol was at the receiving end of the first shot fired in the strike'.
Dates:
1950 - 1970
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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(Untitled), 23 May 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/18A
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from [Sir Edward Troup, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office] on behalf of [WSC] to John Macauley, General Manager of the Alexandra Works and Railway Company, expressing satisfaction at the agreement reached between Houlder Brothers [one of the shipping companies involved in the dockers' strike at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales] and their general cargo employees, and thanking him for his "conciliatory spirit". Unsigned typescript.
Dates:
23 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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Letters from John Julius to Lady Diana from Beirut, 1958-01 - 1958-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/2/26
Scope and Contents
Letters sent while John Julius was working as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Beirut [Lebanon], on subjects including: the Lebanese crisis, including disturbances in the city, terrorist attacks and the effects of a general strike; a catastrophic visit from Randolph Churchill, Jun 1958; the arrival of American forces, July 1948; General Fuad Chehab being chosen as successor to Camille Chamoun as President of Lebanon; John Julius being shot, Sept 1958. Also includes a letter from...
Dates:
1958-01 - 1958-12
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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Correspondence relating to NK’s Islwyn constituency, 1983-12 - 1984-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 15/2/8
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with individuals including: Jim Mortimer, General Secretary of the Labour Party, on a general appeal for party funds (2); Rhodes Boyson, Minister of State for Social Security, on housing benefit for strikers; [Roger] Nicholas Edwards, Secretary of State for Wales [later Lord Crickhowell]; Roy Hughes, MP for Newport East; Austin Mitchell (5); Stanley Orme [energy spokesman], writing to Peter Walker, Secretary of State for Energy, on a secret list of planned pit closures in the...
Dates:
1983-12 - 1984-10
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 MPs, D, 1985-10 - 1991-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 1/2/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Tam Dalyell on subjects including the investigation into the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in Berlin [Germany], the miners’ strike and the role of David Hart (including text of a speech by Dalyell initiating a debate on the conduct of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, over the Falklands War, on the American bombing of Libya from British bases and the Westland share-dealing affair, with a copy of a letter from John Morris, Shadow Attorney General, to Thatcher on...
Dates:
1985-10 - 1991-12
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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Official: Treasury, 1924 - 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18
Scope and Contents
The Treasury papers contain correspondence, minutes, tables, printed reports, and other papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position held from November 1924 to June 1929. The papers have been divided into general correspondence, WSC's outgoing minutes, and subject-based files and are arranged chronologically.The Treasury material covers WSC's ministerial duties as Chancellor, including the annual production of the budget,...
Dates:
1924 - 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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Letter, 11 May 1926 (circa; year inferred)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9877/1/1/43
Scope and Contents
Concerning the publication of 'Satirical Poems' and the poem 'Solar Eclipse'; also mentioning the general strike.
Dates:
11 May 1926 (circa; year inferred)
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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Letters to Joan Lascelles, 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LASL II/1/6A
Scope and Contents
Including a visit to his family home, Sutton Waldron House, in Dorset, April 1926; moving house to 3 Hyde Park Street, London, April 1926; a trip to Scotland and being stranded at Lairg, in Sutherland, during the General Strike, May 1926; and the Prince of Wales' visit to Oxford, August 1926.
Dates:
1926
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Some sections of the collection are closed until 1 January 2028 and permission to consult those CLOSED material within the Lascelles papers (LASL 1/2/1-4; and sections of LASL 2-4) and the catalogue describing the closed material must be obtained from the Royal Archives. The remainder of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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'The Worker's Bulletin', Vol. 1, No. 6 (New Series) and Vol. 1, No. 7, 21 Apr. 1919-23 Apr. 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8856/277-278
Scope and Contents
Issued by 'Limerick Proletariat' during general strike in the city
Dates:
21 Apr. 1919-23 Apr. 1919
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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(Untitled), 19 May 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/147/80
Scope and Contents
Letter from [WSC] to Lord Linlithgow arguing against a snap general election and in favour of a ballot being required before a strike can be considered legal. Carbon typescript copy headed with the instruction that Edward Marsh is to write it out in his own writing.
Dates:
19 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), 01 Apr 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/37/5
Scope and Contents
Telegram from [Sir Ronald] Campbell [British Minister to Yugoslavia] (Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia) passing on a message from [?Sir Thomas] Preston to WSC on General [Dusan] Simovic's [Prime Minister of Yugoslavia] reluctance to strike Italy, but promise to attack Albania.
Dates:
01 Apr 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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"Clementine Churchill": source material, 1920-29, 1976-08 - 2001-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/2/17
Scope and Contents
Notes and copies on subjects including F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell], the Mitford family, the General Strike and British Gazette and Winston Churchill's paintings. Includes a copy of a letter from Churchill to [Emma] Margot Asquith [Lady Oxford and Asquith] on the death of 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith, recalling Asquith's career and the cruise of the Admiralty yacht Enchantress in the Mediterranean, May 1913
Dates:
1976-08 - 2001-10
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., 09 Feb 1927 - 06 Jul 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/79
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's statement (9 February), for the debate on the address on the programme of Government legislation, the Trade Unions Bill, the situation in China and Britain's attitude to the Soviet Union. Published: Complete Speeches IV pp 4140 - 4148.Speech notes for WSC's Budget statement (11 April), on the effects of the General Strike and coal dispute, revenue (1926-1927) and expenditure (1926-1928), post-war Government departments, the National Debt, war debts, the sinking fund,...
Dates:
09 Feb 1927 - 06 Jul 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/12/46
Scope and Contents
Letter from J Freeth (Cardiff [Glamorgan, Wales]) addressed to "My dear General" about the possibility of a general strike in the coal industry over the issue of minimum wages which he thinks will take place in October, and which would threaten the coal supply to the Admiralty. Signed manuscript.
Dates:
01 Sep 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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Nora Barlow Letters: 1926, 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10286/1/8/27
Scope and Contents
Contains 20 letters from Nora to Ida Darwin sent between 15 February and December 1926. Amongst news of family and social engagements, the letters include commentary on the General Strike and an account of volunteer work provided by Nora's cousin, Oliver Thomas Farrer (1904-1954) on the railways during the strike.
Includes a single letter from Eva Farrer to Ida and a coloured crayon drawing from Hilda Barlow to Ida.
Dates:
1926
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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(Untitled), [17] [Aug] [1911]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/12/68-72
Scope and Contents
Copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V covering various subjects including: an improvement in the London dock strike; negotiations with the railway workers and the fact that the signal for a general railway strike has not been given; assurances that railway services can be maintained; a report from the Chief Constable of Liverpool which includes notification that the [H M S] Antrim has arrived at the Mersey; details of the troops sent to Sheffield and London and preparations to swear...
Dates:
[17] [Aug] [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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(Untitled), [17] [Aug] [1911]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/12/73-77
Scope and Contents
Draft copy of a telegram from WSC to King George V covering various subjects including: an improvement in the London dock strike; negotiations with the railway workers and the fact that the signal for a general railway strike has not been given; assurances that railway services can be maintained; a report from the Chief Constable of Liverpool which includes notification that the [H M S] Antrim has arrived at the Mersey; details of the troops sent to Sheffield and London and preparations to...
Dates:
[17] [Aug] [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.