Scope and Contents Records of the Royal Greenwich Observatory Club (RGO Club), formerly called the Royal Observatory Social and Sports Club. The collection includes records from club meetings, financial papers, records of the sporting and social activities of the club, newsletters produced by the club, correspondence files, and photographs, among other records.The collection also includes records of the Royal Observatory Hockey Club and Royal Observatory Lawn Tennis Club. These sports clubs...

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Photographs of NK as coach with the London Welsh under-15s rugby team.

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Includes: corrected galley proofs and notes of reviews by NK for the Times Literary Supplement on rugby books; correspondence on apartheid and a tour of Wales by a South African rugby team, with correspondents including Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister; general correspondence on rugby and football.

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Includes rough speech notes.

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Records of Association Football, Boat, Cricket, Hockey, Rugby Union, Squash and Tennis Clubs, with occasional papers relating to University clubs.

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Correspondence on shooting parties, with correspondents including: John Loudon (6); Jean-Louis, Marquis de Ganay; Rocco Forte (2); 4th Lord Ashcombe [earlier Henry Cubitt] (4); 6th Lord Carnarvon [earlier Lord Porchester]; "Sunny" [11th Duke of Marlborough, earlier Lord Blandford]; Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel].

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Subjects include: CS's family history; his war record; his health and various operations, particularly his heart bypass operation, 1976; CS's sporting interests, particularly his racehorses; Sir Winston Churchill; private and business-related entertaining and travel.

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Correspondence, with some copies of letters from Churchill to CS, on subjects including: Churchill's and CS's racing colours; Churchill's membership of the Jockey Club; Churchill's racehorses, including Colonist II and High Hat; figures for his stud at the time of his death.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Churchill's Mediterranean cruise with 'the Rabbit' [Randolph Churchill] and Jack [John S Churchill], January 1927, work on the proofs [of "The World Crisis"] and his relief that the book was finished; impressions of Italy under the Fascist regime; the value of the Lawrence books [? "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T E Lawrence, also T E Shaw, 'Lawrence of Arabia']; finding another school for Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys]; seeing the excavations at...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: various speeches, May 1954; Clementine's treatment [for neuritis]; a weekend at Chequers [Buckinghamshire], May 1954; the health of Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa Churchill, later Clarissa, Lady Avon], Churchill's agreement with [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] over the Geneva conference [on Indochina and Korea] and hopes for a ceasefire, while also avoiding a break with the United States; a debate on MPs' pay and a row in the Conservative...

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Notes for speeches and lectures on various subjects including international affairs (including law), the Labour Party, disarmament, sports and athletics, the London School of Economics and the League of Nations.

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,...

Scope and Contents Speech notes and a print for WSC's Budget statement (15 April) on a review of the past 5 years, the Gold Standard and cost of living, the National Debt, surplus funds (1928 - 1929), expenditure (1929), revenue, import duties, the betting tax, the Road Fund, de-rating and taxation. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 4574 - 4603.Speech notes for WSC's speech (19 December), entitled "Coal Mines Bill" on the arguments against the bill, a new form of taxation, cuts in miners' working hours,...

Scope and Contents 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:...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's statement (3 April) on the choice between an indefinite coal subsidy or a General Strike, and maintaining essential services in a strike. Source material includes a note from [Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister] on [Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labour Party]'s attitude to the subsidy, a copy of a letter from Walter Citrine, Secretary, Trades Union Congress General Council, on the distribution of essential foodstuffs, and a press cutting reporting a statement by Arthur...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's statement (14 February 1928), entitled "Social Policy" on local services and the Road Fund. Published: Complete Speeches IV pp 4350 - 4358.Speech notes for WSC's statement (16 March 1928), entitled "Racecourse Betting Bill" on the Government's attitude to the bill, the status of horseracing and the effect of the Totalisator. Source material includes: a note from Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary]; a draft of the bill; a memorandum on the bill by the Jockey Club...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (3 February 1928, Town Hall, Birmingham), entitled "Liberal Party Economic Policy" on the next General Election, the Government's economic record, criticism from Philip Snowden [former Chancellor of the Exchequer], cuts in the Fighting Services, the betting tax and Ramsay MacDonald [Leader of the Opposition]'s views on it, income tax and Liberal economic policy. Source material includes press cuttings from the Times reporting Arthur Henderson's [later Lord...

Scope and Contents Print of the speeches (3 January, Wolfe Society Bicentenary Dinner, Savoy Hotel, London), including a speech by WSC, entitled "Canada" on changes in the constitution of the Empire and Canada's part in the Empire. Also includes speeches by Edward, Prince of Wales [later Edward VIII, then Edward, Duke of Windsor], Sir Charles Warde, President of the society, Peter Larkin, High Commissioner for Canada, 7th Lord Stanhope, Vice-President of the society, and a telegram from MacKenzie King, Prime...

Scope and Contents Typescript for WSC's speech (4 May, Aldwych Club luncheon, London), entitled "The political scene at a distance" on the Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law's breaking of the coalition, the risk of party strife letting in the Labour Party, the British constitution and the results of a Labour Government. Published: Complete Speeches IV pp 3381 - 3388. Speech notes at CHAR 9/70/124-147.Speech notes for WSC's speech (16 November, Free Trade Hall, Manchester), entitled "Free Trade", on the...

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...

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Papers and correspondence on sports policy, with correspondents including: Jack Dunnett, President of the Football League, on policy towards football; Jack Cunningham on the launch of a Sports Charter. Also includes: report of the Jockey Club working party on Sunday racing; proposal for establishing a Sports for Labour programme using sporting celebrities.

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Correspondence and notes on Labour sports policy, including the launch of the Sports Charter, with correspondents including: Denis Howell [environment spokesman]; Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the International Olympic Committee, on Manchester’s bid for the 1996 Games.

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These files relate to competitions and trophies in shooting (1929-1972); rowing (1909-1962); tennis (1933-1962); the Olympics (1936-1948); general sports (1935-1969).

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Includes material relating to the Olympics, athletics and the International Council for Sport and Physical Education.

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Published by George Allen, London.