Armed forces
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Official: Prime Minister: printed copies of Personal Telegrams from WSC bound ususally in chronological order, with alphabetical name index at the back., May 1940 - Dec 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/14
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Includes texts of telegrams from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Vice-Admiral [John] Cunningham [Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron]; [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; [Peter] Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood, Ambassador to Spain on Special Mission]; Sir Roger Keyes [Special Liaison Officer to King Leopold of Belgium]; Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada; 11th Lord Lothian [earlier...
Dates:
May 1940 - Dec 1940
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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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Official: Treasury: Cabinet papers and correspondence on efforts to reduce expenditure., 25 Jan 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/77
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Includes Cabinet minutes, notes by WSC, and a memorandum by the Minister of Health [Neville Chamberlain]; copy of a letter from WSC to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; correspondence and papers from: Prime Minister of Australia [Stanley Bruce]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); Gilbert Upcott [Deputy Controller, Treasury]; 1st Lord Peel [the 1st Commissioner of Works]; Sir Samuel Hoare [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord...
Dates:
25 Jan 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
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Official: Treasury: Committee on navy, army and air force expenditure report; prepared by 1st Lord Colwyn [earlier Sir Frederick Smith], 1st Lord Chalmers, and 1st Lord Bradbury., Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/14
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From the Series:
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:
Dec 1925
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Official: Treasury: correspondence., 01 Jul 1925 - 28 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/9
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Correspondents include: Herbert Morrison, Secretary of the London Labour Party, on unemployment; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster] on disarmament; Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple, Minister of Transport]; 1st Lord Weir (3) including one on industrial relief; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet]; Francis Curzon [later 5th Lord Howe] on naval officers' marriage allowance; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister] (2)...
Dates:
01 Jul 1925 - 28 Dec 1925
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Official: Treasury: correspondence., 11 Jan 1926 - 16 Jul 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/27
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Correspondents include: Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries] (2) including one on agricultural policy; Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick [Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade]; Sir James Craig [later 1st Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland] and Hugh Pollock [First Minister of Finance for Ulster, Ireland] (2) on the Northern Irish unemployment fund; Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard [Chief of the Air Staff] on air force economies; Neville...
Dates:
11 Jan 1926 - 16 Jul 1926
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Official: Treasury: correspondence mainly from WSC (carbon copies)., 17 May 1925 - 31 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/11
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Recipients include: 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture]; Home Secretary [Sir William Joynson Hicks, later 1st Lord Brentford] (2); Secretary of State for War [Sir Laming Worthington-Evans] (2); Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (8); President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (5); John Pease [later 1st Lord Wardington, Chairman Lloyds Bank]; Austen Chamberlain...
Dates:
17 May 1925 - 31 Dec 1925
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Official: Treasury: correspondence on reducing the air estimates for 1927-1928., 17 Dec 1926 - 11 Feb 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/35
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Secretary of State for Air [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood]; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir Philip Sassoon [Under-Secretary of State for Air].
Dates:
17 Dec 1926 - 11 Feb 1927
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Official: Treasury: Navy Estimates 1925-1926: various papers and correspondence., Oct 1924 - 05 Feb 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); William Bridgeman [First Lord of the Admiralty] (4); Sir Oswyn Murray [Permanent Secretary, Admiralty].Also includes copy minute from WSC to Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services, Treasury]; graph of planned ship building until 1929; details of cruisers, life-spans of vessels; "Distribution of foreign war vessels and aircraft" quarterly return for October 1924.Subjects...
Dates:
Oct 1924 - 05 Feb 1925
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Official: Treasury: Navy Estimates 1925-1926: various tables and papers., 1924 - 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/5A-B
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Includes details of naval expenditure 1911-1925; papers on the cost of manning the Fleet (vote A), vote 9, works of magnitude (vote 10), the Fleet Air Arm, guns and ammunition, the oil fuel reserve programme, and Singapore naval base; "Particulars of war vessels and aircraft (British and foreign)", dated October 1924.Also includes letters from William Bridgeman [First Lord of the Admiralty] and Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard [Chief of the Air Staff].
Dates:
1924 - 1925
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Official: Treasury: papers and correspondence on economising the 1928-1929 expenditure., 19 Jul 1927 - 24 Aug 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/49
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts and copies of letters sent out in the name of the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, to the following ministers on reducing their departmental expenditure for 1928-1929: William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty; Sir William Joynson Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary; Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood]; Secretary of State for the Colonies and Dominions, Leo Amery; Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain; Secretary of...
Dates:
19 Jul 1927 - 24 Aug 1927
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Official: Treasury: papers and correspondence on economising the current expenditure., 19 Jun 1927 - 21 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/48
Scope and Contents
Includes drafts and copies of letters sent out in the name of the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, to the following ministers on reducing their departmental expenditure for 1927-1928: Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Dominions, Leo Amery; First Lord of the Admiralty, William Bridgeman; Secretary of State for Scotland, Sir John Gilmour; Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain; the 1st Commissioner of Works, 1st Lord Peel; Secretary of State for War, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans;...
Dates:
19 Jun 1927 - 21 Dec 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: War and Air, 1918 - 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16
Scope and Contents
The War and Air papers contain correspondence, minutes, printed material and other papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Secretary of State for War and Air, positions he held concurrently from January 1919 to February 1921 (he continued as Secretary of State for Air while Secretary of State for the Colonies until April 1921). The papers have been divided into correspondence, WSC's outgoing minutes, and subject-based files and are arranged...
Dates:
1918 - 1921
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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Official: War and Air: correspondence, mainly on demobilisation and the reorganisation of the Air Ministry., 01 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/4
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Correspondents include: King Manuel II on the "future of Portugal"; General Sir William Robertson [General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the Forces in Great Britain] (3); 1st Lord Milner [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on appointing neither Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard or General Sir John Cowans as Governor of Nigeria (2); Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal] passing on a copy of a letter from Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Lawson on a decline in his pay and position; Philip Kerr [later...
Dates:
01 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on demobilisation problems., 01 Jan 1919 - 31 Jan 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/3
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Correspondents include: Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke [Quartermaster-General to the British Armies in France]; Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France and Flanders] (2); 1st Lord Milner [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; High Commissioner [?in Siberia, Robert Hodgson]; Lieutenant-General 10th Lord Cavan, Commander-in-Chief, Italy; General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff]; Sir Eric Geddes [Minister without Portfolio]...
Dates:
01 Jan 1919 - 31 Jan 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on the Russian campaign., 01 Apr 1919 - 30 Apr 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: General Sir Ian Hamilton refuting press allegations; Walter Roch on the Dardanelles [Turkey] Inquiry; Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France and Flanders] (2); General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff] on matters discussed at the Paris [France] Peace Conference (7); 1st Lord Milner [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; Colonel James Blair [Chief, British Military Mission in Siberia]; 1st Lord Haldane...
Dates:
01 Apr 1919 - 30 Apr 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on the Russian campaign., 01 Aug 1919 - 31 Aug 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/10
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff] (4); General Sir William Robertson [Commander-in-Chief, British Army on the Rhine] on his baronetcy; Lord French [earlier Sir John French, later 1st Lord Ypres, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland] on his account of the events of 1914; Major-General John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone, Under-Secretary of State for Air] on air force matters and Sir Frederick Banbury's role in the O'Sullivan enquiry (3); Jack Scott...
Dates:
01 Aug 1919 - 31 Aug 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, much on the Russian campaign., 24 Aug 1919 - 30 Sep 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/11
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Correspondents include: Lieutenant-General Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky (3); Lord French [earlier Sir John French, later 1st Lord Ypres, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland] and General Sir William Robertson [Commander-in-Chief, British Army on the Rhine] on Robertson being appointed to Ireland; General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff] (9) on subjects including matters discussed at the Paris [France] Peace Conference and Wilson's health; Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard [Chief of...
Dates:
24 Aug 1919 - 30 Sep 1919
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Official: War and Air: Organisation of the Air Force: correspondence and papers., 13 Dec 1918 - 16 Sep 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: General Sir William Robertson, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the Forces in Great Britain (2); Sir Arthur Duckham; Brigadier-General William Alexander, Controller of Aircraft Supply and Production; Brigadier-General [John Steel], Director of Air Division, Admiralty; General Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of Imperial General Staff; Major-General Frederick Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff [until February 1919] (2); Major-General John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone,...
Dates:
13 Dec 1918 - 16 Sep 1919
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Official: War and Air: papers on the Hunter Commission and the disorder in India in 1919., 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/60
Scope and Contents
Includes minute from Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard [Chief of the Air Staff]; extracts from a report of the Cabinet Committee; the India Office response to the Hunter Commission.Subjects include: Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer's retirement; the use of aircraft in connection with riots, such as at Gujranwala.
Dates:
1920
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Official: War and Air: telegrams and notes on the Middle East., 09 Sep 1919 - 22 Dec 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/34
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Correspondents include: Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamia [later Iraq, Major-General Sir George McMunn; until January 1920] (3); Lieutenant-General Sir George Milne [Commanded the British Forces at Constantinople, later Istanbul, Turkey] on the occupation of Constantinople, his promotion to General, and assisting south Russia (3); Major-General Percy Radcliffe [Director of Military Operations, War Office] (2); Jack Scott [Air Secretary and Private Secretary to WSC] (2); Air-Marshal Sir Hugh...
Dates:
09 Sep 1919 - 22 Dec 1920
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Official: War and Air: various papers., 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/2
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes of a meeting of the Committee on the Limitation of Armaments; a War Office memorandum on WSC's and other appointments; copy of Army Orders for 1919; copies of telegrams from the Adjutant-General [Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh] on potential police strikes; RAF demobilisation form; precis on the Roger Casement letters; outline of scheme of army reorganisation; notes from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso], Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary...
Dates:
1919
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 Jan 1920 - 29 Apr 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/51A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes carbon copies of minutes (and telegrams) from WSC to various individuals including: Secretary [War Office, Sir Reginald Brade]; 1st Lord Peel [Under-Secretary of State for War]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Sir Herbert Creedy; Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Chief of the Air Staff [Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Major-General Fabian Ware; [David Lloyd George]; Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal]; Director of...
Dates:
01 Jan 1920 - 29 Apr 1920
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 May 1920 - 31 Aug 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/52A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals including: Quartermaster-General [Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke]; Jack Scott [Air Secretary and Private Secretary to WSC]; Sir James Stevenson [Surveyor-General of Supply]; Secretary [War Office, ?Sir Reginald Brade]; Military Secretary [Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Chetwode]; Adjutant-General [Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh]; Major Lionel de Rothschild; Finance Member [Sir Archibald Williamson, later...
Dates:
01 May 1920 - 31 Aug 1920
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 Sep 1920 - 24 Dec 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/53A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals including: Secretary [War Office, Sir Herbert Creedy]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; 10th Lord Scarbrough [Director General Territorial and Volunteer Forces]; Chief of the Air Staff [Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Director of Military Operations [Major-General Sir Percy Radcliffe]; Quartermaster-General [Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke]; Finance Member [Sir Archibald Williamson,...
Dates:
01 Sep 1920 - 24 Dec 1920
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 Apr 1919 - 28 Jun 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/16A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes carbon copies of minutes (some annotated in reply) from WSC to various individuals including: Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Director of Military Intelligence [Major-General William Thwaites]; Deputy Director of Military Operations and Military Intelligence [Colonel George Cockerill]; Master-General of the Ordnance [Lieutenant-General Sir William Furse]; Quartermaster-General [Lieutenant-General Travers Clarke]; Secretary [War Office, Sir...
Dates:
01 Apr 1919 - 28 Jun 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
Open