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Literary: correspondence concerning permission to quote from WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War"), "My Early Life" and speeches., Jul 1949 - Feb 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/56
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of the BBC, particularly B H Alexander of the copyright department, (5) including (2) on plans and payment for overseas broadcasts of readings from the memoirs for the German, Russian, and Latin American sections; Arnold Toynbee, Director of Studies, Royal Institute of International Affairs; representatives of the Daily Telegraph, including Douglas Rees, private secretary to 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief] (5) and Colin...
Dates:
Jul 1949 - Feb 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence on and scripts of BBC broadcasts to Europe (and Latin America) of readings from WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Oct 1948 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/47A-B
Scope and Contents
Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow] and Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel]; CSC; [literary assistants] Denis Kelly and William Deakin.Other subjects include: the effect of the broadcasts on Emery Reves' [earlier Imre Revesz] negotiations for German rights; WSC's fees going to the Churchill Homes for the Elderly; requests to use extracts from WSC's broadcasts.Also includes: details of BBC fee payments and cheque...
Dates:
Oct 1948 - Oct 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on copyright matters and seeking permission to quote from "The Story of the Malakand Field Force", "The River War", "Savrola", "My African Journey", and "Marlborough: His Life and Times"., Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/33
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company, solicitors (6); representatives of Odhams Press Limited including [William] Surrey Dane [Vice-Chairman and Managerial Consultant] (8); representatives of A P Watt and Son (4); William Nowell, editor of the Empire Cotton Growing Review; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; Major-General Colin Callander; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence on film, television and radio offers., Aug 1945 - Jun 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/8
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Barnes, Director of the Spoken Word, BBC; Sir William Haley [Director-General of the BBC]; Sarah Beauchamp [earlier Sarah Churchill and Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] (2); Edward Morrow, European Director of Columbia Broadcasting System; John Steele, London and European Representative of Mutual Broadcasting System; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N...
Dates:
Aug 1945 - Jun 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on permission to quote extracts from various of WSC's works including speeches, "Great Contemporaries", "Liberalism and the social problem", "London to Ladysmith", "Lord Randolph Churchill", "Marlborough: His Life and Times", "My African Journey", "My Early Life", "Thoughts and Adventures", "The River War", "Secret Session Speeches", "Savrola", the war memoirs ["The Second World War"], and "The World Crisis"., Dec 1949 - Jan 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/60A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Eade, [editor] of the Sunday Dispatch, proposing the book publication of WSC's articles on monarchs (2); Sir Robert Hodgson on a letter from WSC on King Alfonso XIII of Spain; representatives of Odhams Press Limited particularly G C Piper of the Book Department (20); representatives of Fladgate and Company particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (24); James Thornton, Assistant Controller, (2) and Mary Somerville, Controller, Talks Division, BBC, and John,...
Dates:
Dec 1949 - Jan 1963
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on the foreign rights in WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") and other works, mainly with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], Q-Z., Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/12A-B
Scope and Contents
Other correspondents include: Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; William Deakin (3); [William] Surrey Dane of Odhams Press Limited (3); Robert McAlpine [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Chips Gemmell, Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], and Anne Hipwell; [literary...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence: recordings of speeches and extracts from works. This file primarily consists of business correspondence relating to the rights in speeches recorded privately by WSC in 1949, which were acquired by Decca in 1964. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne. , 27 Sep 1946 - 24 Apr 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/445A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: O C Preuss (His Master's Voice Gramophone Company) (20), Emery Reves, Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (30), J D Bicknell (His Master's Voice Gramophone Company, later Electrical and Musical Industries Ltd) (15), Denis Kelly, Arthur Luce Klein (Spoken Arts Inc), Hugh Greene [Director-General, BBC], George Marek (Vice-President and General Manager, Radio Corporation of America) (2), Leonard Lyons (New York Post), Kenneth Glancy (Vice-President, Columbia Records),...
Dates:
27 Sep 1946 - 24 Apr 1965
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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Literary: Correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life"., 06 Feb 1958 - 15 May 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/448A-B
Scope and Contents
This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer regarding a proposed film version of WSC's book "My Early Life", known in the United States as "A Roving Commission". The project did not pass the preliminary stages and failed in 1959. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne.Correspondents include: Marjorie Thorson (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (19), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (39), Nigel Balchin...
Dates:
06 Feb 1958 - 15 May 1959
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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Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life"., 31 Jan 1959 - 28 Nov 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/449A-B
Scope and Contents
This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence. The film rights were acquired by the Hugh French Agency and Paramount in 1960. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne.Correspondents include: Robert Clark (8), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (29), Hugh French (24), John Le Vien, Eliot Hyman (2), Sir David Cunynghame, Richard Patterson (Director, Paramount British Pictures Ltd), Robin French.Also includes: a financial...
Dates:
31 Jan 1959 - 28 Nov 1960
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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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Aug 1958 - Dec 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/452A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (23) on film and television rights to WSC's War Memoirs File includes correspondence with Anthony Moir, and John McCracken, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (17), telegram from Edward Murrow, copy of United States entertainment trade publication "Variety", 3 June 1959 giving details of project, letter from Lord Montgomery of Alamein to WSC, agreeing to help Le Vien.
Dates:
Aug 1958 - Dec 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Jan 1960 - Nov 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/453A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (14) on film and television rights to WSC's War Memoirs.File also includes correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (15), letter from, Colin Coote, Managing Editor of the "Daily Telegraph" on paragraph about the project in the "Peterborough" column, letters from Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, Lord Ismay, Commander Charles Thompson, John Peck (2) and Lord Alexander of Tunis on...
Dates:
Jan 1960 - Nov 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Sep 1960 - Mar 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/454
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (27) on film and television rights to WSC's War Memoirs, particularly Le Vien's book on his television series of the memoirs, "The Valiant Years" and a documentary feature film of the War Memoirs File. Also includes counsel's opinion of Edmund Skone James on film rights and royalties due for WSC's speeches as used in "The Valiant Years" and correspondence with Anthony Moir, and John McCracken,...
Dates:
Sep 1960 - Mar 1963
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Feb 1964 - May 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/456A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (9) on television and film rights to WSC's war memoirs, particularly documentary film "Finest Hours".File also includes comments on screenplay by Montague Browne, correspondence with Sir Francis Fogarty, Director-General of the English Speaking Union (3) on arrangements for Premiere of "Finest Hours"; correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (6) on copyright and receipts...
Dates:
Feb 1964 - May 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), C-I., Jun 1946 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/19A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] on the atomic bomb; R V Jones; Sir Laurence Collier [British Ambassador to Norway]; William Deakin (12); Ian Colvin (4) including (2) on his book on [General Paul] von Kleist; Robert Sherwood; Sir Alfred Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] (2); Sir Stafford Cripps sending on extracts from his diary for summer 1939; [George Gordon] Allen (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (3) including (2) on sending draft chapters to...
Dates:
Jun 1946 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: offers, foreign rights, and miscellaneous correspondence., Feb 1945 - Aug 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/7A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [William] Surrey Dane (2); representatives of the BBC (4); representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company, solicitors (8); William Chenery, Publisher of Collier's Magazine (20); Charles Eade, [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch, on "Forever Again"; Guy Schofield, Editor of the Evening News; Charles Curran, Features Editor, Evening Standard, on WSC's opinion of cartoonist David Low; Robert Lusty, director of Michael Joseph Limited (2); [Geoffrey] Mason of Lloyds Bank...
Dates:
Feb 1945 - Aug 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Permissions., 1959 - Mar 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/461
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC on requests to publish extracts from WSC's books, speeches and articles including: Correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (11); correspondence with Michel Saint-Denis on BBC broadcast of his talk "A Day with Winston Churchill" on the preparation of WSC's broadcast to France, 1940; correspondence with Desmond Flower, Cassell and Company Ltd., (2) on proposed publication of book of WSC's...
Dates:
1959 - Mar 1960
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Permissions., Apr 1960 - Mar 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/462A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC on requests to publish extracts from WSC's books, speeches and articles including: Correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (15); Thames and Hudson Ltd (2); BBC Copyright Department (2); Jonathan Cape Ltd, on publication of letters from WSC to T E Lawrence; Collins Publishers (2); Hugh Thomas (later Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) on permission to quote from "My Early Life" in history of the...
Dates:
Apr 1960 - Mar 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Permissions., Apr 1961 - May 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/463A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC on requests to publish extracts from WSC's books, speeches and articles including: Correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (18); correspondence with Sir Earle Page on publication of War Cabinet discussions in his memoirs; correspondence with The Reader's Digest, on publication of apocryphal quotation attributed to WSC; Peter de Mendelssohn (4) on biography of WSC, with covering letter from...
Dates:
Apr 1961 - May 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Permissions., Jun 1962 - Dec 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/464A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC on requests to publish extracts from WSC's books, speeches and articles including: Correspondence with Anthony Moir, and John McCracken, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (13) ; BBC Copyright Department (10) on serialisation of "My Early Life"; letter from Jonathan Cape Ltd on publication of letters from WSC to T E Lawrence; correspondence with Associated Rediffusion Ltd (4) ; correspondence with Conservative and...
Dates:
Jun 1962 - Dec 1963
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Permissions., Jan 1964 - Apr 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/465A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC on requests to publish extracts from WSC's books, speeches and articles including: Correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (12); correspondence with Richard Ollard (2), and Mark Bonham Carter, Collins Publishers, on use of WSC's photographs in "Winston Churchill as I Knew Him" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter (later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury); correspondence with Randolph Churchill on access to...
Dates:
Jan 1964 - Apr 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 2., 03 Mar 1940 - 07 Apr 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/666
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Power of the Cartoon" on WSC's love of the cartoon from his schooldays, being the victim of a cartoonist, and [David] Low; "Running the Admiralty" on the history and structure of the Admiralty, his experience of it during World War I, Lord Fisher, and the Admiralty yacht, the Enchantress; "The Mystery of Empire" on the strength of the British Empire, its contribution to World War I, and the creation of the Dominions; "A Message of Hope for...
Dates:
03 Mar 1940 - 07 Apr 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Fonds
Mary Hope Allen: Correspondence and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9225
Scope and Contents
Comprises correspondence and papers of Mary Hope Allen, as well as correspondence of her grandfather Robin Allen (1820-98), Secretary of Trinity House and a poet and critic, and of her father, Sir Ernest King Allen (1864-1937), Assistant Public Trustee 1915-23. Robin Allen's correspondents include 19th century
politicians, artists, poets and critics such as W.E. Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Lord Leighton, John Ruskin, Lord Tennyson, Arnold Toynbee and Mrs. Humphry Ward. There is a collection of...
Dates:
1850-1990 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Miscellaneous articles and items, 1937-08 - 1948-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/31
Scope and Contents
Texts of papers by LSA on subjects including: Free Trade and the Most Favoured Nation clause; functions of a National Planning Board; the future of Italy; trade; Europe, the Commonwealth and world security; comparisons between the Swiss and British systems of government; Europe and Germany; economic warfare; the 1940 budget.
Also includes: list of articles; pamphlet on post-war opportunities in the colonial service; notes on George Yeh, representative of the Chinese Ministry of...
Dates:
1937-08 - 1948-10
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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Northern Ireland: data, 1974-01 - 1985-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 9/2/1
Scope and Contents
Papers on Northern Ireland, including: Monday Club policy paper on Northern Ireland; report by the Conservative Defence Committee on their visit to Ulster (1974); United Ulster Unionist Council policy document on the will of the people, the constitution and security; issue of the Revolutionary Communist Group magazine; article from Public Law on the use of judges in inquiries, such as the 'Bloody Sunday' inquiry; text of lecture by Richard Francis, BBC Controller, Northern Ireland, on...
Dates:
1974-01 - 1985-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Official: Cabinet: General Strike., 01 May 1926 - 17 Jun 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/141
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on the General Strike, including: draft statements on the Government position; Walter Citrine, Acting Secretary, Trades Union Congress (2); notes on the Special Constabulary; Frederick Britten Austin on broadcasting coverage (2); Frederick Guest on broadcasting and Union strike pay (2); Reginald Hoare; a copy of the Birmingham Trade Union Strike Bulletin; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the need to use the Special Constabulary and the Territorial...
Dates:
01 May 1926 - 17 Jun 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open