Conscription
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Copy of a letter from WSC (6 RSF [6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers]) to F E [Smith, later 1st Lord Birkenhead], 6 Apr 1916
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/2/6/19
Scope and Contents
On subjects including the [Conscription Bill] and that A [Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister] would [support it in Parliament] at the last minute; asking F E [Smith] to make enquiries of K [Lord Kitchener]; WSC's experience of fighting on the Western Front including the death of about 100 officers and men out of 500 who were in the trenches with WSC in ten weeks; WSC's ignorance of the overall war situation; the Battle of Verdun; WSC thinking that German forces would invade Russia; the...
Dates:
6 Apr 1916
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, up the end of his first term as Prime Minister
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Public and Political: General
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence, a report and memorandum, mainly political
File
Correspondence about conscription resignations, 1915-12 - 1916-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 5/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on McKenna's threat to resign over the Military Service Act, with correspondents including: Margot Asquith [later Lady Oxford and Asquith], reporting Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]'s view that Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War] had bungled the matter and asking McKenna not to desert Asquith (2); Maurice Hankey [Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence] begging McKenna not to resign; John Whitehouse...
Dates:
1915-12 - 1916-01
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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Handwritten letter from WSC (6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, In the Field) to [C P] Scott, 10 Apr 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/2/6/21
Scope and Contents
On subjects including a potential crisis in the Government; recommending that all military MPs be summoned for a debate [in the House of Commons on conscription, the second Military Service Act]; the possibility of a change in government [and a coalition government] and that they should put aside party politics with an understanding that their Liberal position wouldn't be altered after the war; [Herbert] Asquith's "numbing hand" on action from the Government; that Scott should meet [Sir...
Dates:
10 Apr 1916
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
/
Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, up the end of his first term as Prime Minister
/
Public and Political: General
/
Public and Political: General: Correspondence, a report and memorandum, mainly political
Item
Letter from [Lord] Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Ritz Hotel, London) to WSC, 13 Jan 1916
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/2/6/1
Scope and Contents
On subjects including Rothermere's belief that WSC was politically "unscathed" from the Dardanelles campaign and comments in newspapers; proposed articles by WSC [for newspapers]; the belief of Rothermere's brother, Alfred [Lord Northcliffe], that the position of the Government was improved by the Conscription Bill and that the next crisis would be caused by finance or air raids; and that Rothermere was keeping an eye on the press for WSC.
Dates:
13 Jan 1916
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
/
Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, up the end of his first term as Prime Minister
/
Public and Political: General
/
Public and Political: General: Correspondence, a report and memorandum, mainly political