Broadcasting
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 507 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: Cabinet: papers 26 to 49., 02 Feb 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/192
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: [1st] Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] Secretary of State for India, on the 'indianisation' of the Indian army and relations with Afghanistan; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on reaction to his taxation scheme, Irish loyalists and railways in Iraq; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, on the local authority emergency provisions act; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on relations between France and the...
Dates:
02 Feb 1928 - 17 Feb 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 101 - 119., 05 Feb 1926 - 20 Mar 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/90
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the Judicial Proceedings (Regulation of Reports) Bill; drafts of the Judicial Proceedings Bill and the Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including the Empire Marketing Grant and Australia; [Sir Warren Fisher], Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, on Government lands and buildings; Leo Amery,...
Dates:
05 Feb 1926 - 20 Mar 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 151-170., 09 May 1928 - 24 May 1928
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/198
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on dealings with the United States Ambassador to Great Britain [Charles Dawes]; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on safeguarding the iron and steel wire industry and on the trade outlook including details of various industries, exports and colonial trade; Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood],...
Dates:
09 May 1928 - 24 May 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 171 - 186., 23 May 1928 - 18 Jun 1928
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/199
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne] Minister of Agriculture, on the report of the Royal Commission on land drainage; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on safeguarding the enamelled hollow ware industry; William Bridgeman [First Lord of the Admiralty] on ceremonies at foreign war memorials; John Davidson, Chairman of the Unionist Party, on...
Dates:
23 May 1928 - 18 Jun 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 340 - 359., 09 Feb 1926 - 25 Oct 1926
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/102
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: a letter from the National Confederation of Employers Organization on the coal dispute; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions, on the status of the Union of South Africa, and as Secretary of State for the Colonies, on rubber exports restriction; James Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, on status; Harry Batterbee [Assistant Secretary], Dominions Office, on the dominions' claims to seats on the...
Dates:
09 Feb 1926 - 25 Oct 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Conference: printed minutes of proceedings., Apr 1907 - May 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/29
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered by the minutes include the constitution of the conference; the organisation of the Colonial Office; colonial representation on the Committee of Imperial Defence; military defence; naval defence; emigration; naturalisation; double income tax; silver coinage; decimal currency and metric system; imperial court of appeal; preferential trade; imperial surtax on foreign imports; coastwise trade; commercial treaties; trade marks and patents; trade statistics; company law; admitting...
Dates:
Apr 1907 - May 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: papers and correspondence., Mar 1904 - Nov 1906
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/2
Scope and Contents
Includes reports by Captain Ian Hogg, officer commanding the Niger Expeditionary Force, on operations to quell unrest in the Asaba hinterland (by the Ekumeku Society [an anti-colonial group]) and the Irua country [Nigeria]; cutting from the Pall Mall Gazette criticising a speech by WSC on the administration of South Africa, calling him the "The Blenheim Pup"; detailed exposition from Sir Graham Bower, [Colonial Secretary] of Mauritius, to Sir Montagu Ommanney [Permanent Under Secretary for...
Dates:
Mar 1904 - Nov 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Official: Prime Minister: Churchill File. Correspondence, mainly on recordings of WSC's broadcasts., May 1940 - Jan 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/10
Scope and Contents
All items are manuscript unless otherwise described.
Dates:
May 1940 - Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of WSC's correspondence., 14 Oct 1954 - 07 Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/6A-C
Scope and Contents
Carbons of letters from WSC to a variety of prominent individuals including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, Lords, foreign Heads of State, foreign ambassadors, British High Commissioners, Conservative parliamentary candidates, and others.Includes correspondence with Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury], Sir Ian Jacob [Director General of the BBC], 2nd Lord Camrose [earlier...
Dates:
14 Oct 1954 - 07 Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 04 Apr 1928 - 20 Dec 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75
Scope and Contents
Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Alfred Hurst [Principal Assistant Secretary]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Permanent Secretary, Board of...
Dates:
04 Apr 1928 - 20 Dec 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War and Air: intelligence reports., 28 Mar-23 Dec 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/61
Scope and Contents
Includes secret intelligence reports, intercepted documents and notes of interviews on various subjects including: a copy of the constitution of the Irish Republication Brotherhood; affairs in Poland including opposition to Bolshevism; Savinkoff [Boris Savinkov], [Pyotr] Wrangel, Balahovitch and counter-revolutionaries; the People's Voluntary Army and Russian Political Committee; an approach by [Vladimir] Lenin to [Guglielmo] Marconi to assist with the reorganisation of Russian wireless;...
Dates:
28 Mar-23 Dec 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened June 2013 except for folios 76-89 which are available in sanitised form on Cabinet Office instructions under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act. Review date 1 January 2032.
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Official: War Cabinet: notes and correspondence., 20 Jan 1940 - [May] [1940]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/3
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: defence organisation, as in the procedures of the Military Co-ordination Committee and Chiefs of Staff Committee; Lord Halifax [earlier Lord Irwin and Edward Wood, Foreign Secretary] on his disapproval of a broadcast by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on neutral countries; extracts from the press on foreign reaction to WSC's broadcast on neutrals; notes from Cabinet, including WSC and Neville Chamberlain [Prime...
Dates:
20 Jan 1940 - [May] [1940]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Oliver Lyttelton: broadcasts, 1957-64 & 1971, 1957 - 1971
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN II/4/19
Scope and Contents
With transcripts of broadcasts of the Frost Programme about 'Soldiers', a play about the death of General Sikorski by Rolf Hochhuth, 20 and 21 December 1968.
Dates:
1957 - 1971
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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Papers collected by David Wolfson, March 1978-August 1981 (mainly 1978), 1978-03 - 1981-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/187
Scope and Contents
Includes: MT’s handwritten annotations
Part 1, 1978-79: includes material relating to planning for the 1979 General Election, with minutes of meetings: in the Chairman’s office at CCO, 7 July 1978 (not attended by MT); to discuss social services (attended by MT); in the Chairman’s office at CCO, 12 July 1978 (not attended by MT); 13 July 1978 (attended by MT); in the Chairman’s office at CCO, 18 July 1978 (not attended by MT); law and order (attended by MT), 1 August 1978); and on...
Dates:
1978-03 - 1981-08
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2012
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.
Fonds
Papers of Douglas E Ritchie and Noel Newsome
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NERI
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to their work in European Service of the BBC during World War II.
Dates:
1939 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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Papers relating to broadcasting, May 1977-July 1978, 1977-05 - 1978-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/16
Scope and Contents
Includes papers relating to arrangements for MT's television interviews and Conservative Party Political Broadcasts
Also includes minutes of the Conservative Central Office Broadcasting Committee, 14 December 1977 (MT did not attend)
Also includes correspondence with Aubrey Buxton (Chairman, Independent Television Companies Association), 6th Lord (Peter) Carrington, Alex Fletcher MP (includes copy of MT’s handwritten letter to Fletcher asking him to serve on the Broadcasting Strategy...
Dates:
1977-05 - 1978-07
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
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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Papers relating to the response to the "Annan Report" of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting, May-July 1977, 1977-05 - 1977-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/13
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Lady (Bridget) Plowden (Chairman, Independent Broadcasting Authority), May 1977
Dates:
1977-05 - 1977-07
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
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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Peacock Committee, 1984-11 - 1985-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 4/3
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on the Peacock Committee on financing Public Service Broadcasting, including: timetable of events relating to Labour’s submission to the committee; correspondence with Norman Buchan, Labour Arts spokesman, on the submission, with copies of correspondence with Gerald Kaufman [home affairs spokesman] and Roy Hattersley [Treasury and economic affairs spokesman]; memorandum by Stuart Bell on tactics to be used in Opposition; correspondence with Guy Barnett on his...
Dates:
1984-11 - 1985-10
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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Peacock Committee, 1985-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 4/4
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on the Peacock Committee on financing Public Service Broadcasting, including: minutes of a meeting to prepare evidence for Labour to submit to the committee; letters and papers from Norman Buchan, Labour Arts spokesman, on arts policy and evidence for the committee; Home Office evidence on broadcasting in Britain; figures from the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers Limited; memorandum from Geoffrey Mulgan (GLC Economic Policy Group) on alternative sources...
Dates:
1985-07
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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Personal correspondence, 1970-01-05 - 1970-12-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/1/18
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Edgar Kingston-McLoughry (2); [William] Marcus Worsley, circulating the membership list of One Nation; Francis Pym [Government Chief Whip]; Sir John Russell, President of the Shakespeare Authorship Society, on JEP's election as Vice-President; Victor Goodhew (2); Andrew Freeth; David Holland, Librarian of the House of Commons; Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone, Lord Chancellor [earlier Quintin Hogg], on subjects including the Home Affairs Committee (2); Ian Harvey on...
Dates:
1970-01-05 - 1970-12-23
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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Personal correspondence, 1967-05-20 - 1969-12-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/1/19
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Kenneth Boardman (2); Horace Maybray-King, Speaker of the House of Commons (2); William Whitelaw [Chief Opposition Whip] (4); Gerald Williams on subjects including JEP's interview with [Ernest] Trevor Huddleston [Bishop Suffragan of Stepney, London]; Edgar Kingston-McLoughry; Michael Strachan (6); Andrew Freeth on a portrait of JEP by [Augustus] Ruskin Spear; Nicholas Ridley, congratulating JEP on the Parliament (No. 2) Bill [on reform of the House of Lords]; [Henry]...
Dates:
1967-05-20 - 1969-12-04
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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Personal: Family: biographical material and information file., 1891 - 1953
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/38A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes details of WSC's filing system, broadcasts, speeches, favourite songs, agricultural patronage, books, orders and decorations, honorary degrees, fellowships, freedoms, medals, ministerial appointments, service titles, degrees offered but not yet received, parliamentary seats, paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy [London], and annual subscriptions; copies of various items by WSC including a letter to the Times under the pseudonym "Scorpio" on prayers for rain, and a lecture...
Dates:
1891 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Personal: Financial investments., 31 Dec 1948 - 17 Jul 1954
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/10
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence on the purchase of shares and advice on investment from: representatives of Vickers, da Costa and Company (8); representatives of Lloyds Bank, Cox's and King's Branch, London (68); Geoffrey Mason [formerly at Lloyds]; Christopher Soames. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Maud Stanley, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, and Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of...
Dates:
31 Dec 1948 - 17 Jul 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Personal: Financial: Lloyds Bank., 31 Dec 1947 - 13 Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/12
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from: representatives of Lloyds Bank, Cox's and King's Branch, London, including Geoffrey Mason, on managing WSC's accounts (102); A J Moyes of the House of Commons Fees Office on WSC's salary as an MP (10); Christopher Soames on WSC's betting account. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Lilian Buck [private secretary to Randolph Churchill], Jane Portal...
Dates:
31 Dec 1947 - 13 Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Personal: Financial: Lloyds Bank, First National Bank of New York [United States]., Aug 1951 - Jun 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/14A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from: representatives of Lloyds Bank, Cox's and King's Branch, London, including Geoffrey Mason, on managing WSC's accounts (188); Richard Griffiths [Assistant Secretary, Treasury]; representatives of Fladgate and Company, including Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (9); Sverker Astrom [Counsellor at Swedish Embassy, London] on WSC's Nobel prize money; representatives of the First National Bank (4). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Jo...
Dates:
Aug 1951 - Jun 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
Open