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Personal Papers of Shirley Littler, 1953 - 2006
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Littler
Scope and Contents
The papers listed here relate to various aspects of Shirley Littler's work. There are papers relating to the following: 1) the inquiry into the collapse of the Vehicle and General Insurance Company, 1971-72;2) Equal Opportunities legislation, 1974-90;3) policing matters, 1981-2000;4) The Independent Broadcasting Authority and broadcasting policy and legislation, 1953-2002;5) The Gaming Board for Great Britain and gambling legislation, 1968-2006;6) CESDI (Confidential...
Dates:
1953 - 2006
Found in:
Girton College Archive
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Personal Papers
Series
Podcasts for interviews conducted during the Centenary Year of Women in Parliament, 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1
Scope and Contents
76 podcast interviews collated for the publication 'When There's a Woman in the Room - #Vote 100 year January 2018 to January 2019' and written with journalists Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother. Sones' focus was primarily on recording interviews with MPs who champion public policy reforms through debates in Westminster Hall or by asking questions at PMQs.Topics include a range of issues from the centenary of women’s suffrage to Brexit debates. These...
Dates:
2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31
File
Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ch., 05 Sep 1940 - 02 Sep 1945
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/66A-C
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Chapman (6); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (12); Mrs W L Jessop (8); Jennie Jones, Secretary of Chingford [Essex] Famine Relief Committee (4).Subjects include: release from reserved occupations; evacuation; de-requisitioning of houses; control of the BBC; bomb damage repair; cuts to London Civil Defence personnel.Also includes: the Chingford War Weapon, a newspaper on the loan of...
Dates:
05 Sep 1940 - 02 Sep 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ho-Hu., 02 May 1939 - 30 Jul 1945
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/78A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Clement Holdstock (5); G J Holtham (9); Joyce Howard (6); Reginald Hucks (4); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (5).Subjects include: Merchant Navy clothing; land requisition; rehousing bombing victims; the place of religion in probation work (amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill, 1939); British residents in unoccupied France (1941); BBC messages to France.Also includes: a petition for...
Dates:
02 May 1939 - 30 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, F - H., 11 Nov 1949 - 24 Dec 1952
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/69A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (8) and "Kath", Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent (11); M Caparn, Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (5); Richard Whittick, Private Secretary to the Home Secretary (2); [David] Colin Humphreys, Private Secretary, Air Ministry; Thomas Caulcott, Assistant Principal, War Damage Commission (2);...
Dates:
11 Nov 1949 - 24 Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 86-90, 101-104, 111-114 and 396-398, closed for 75 years until 2028 on data protection grounds, due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on potentially living individuals.
File
Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, M - N., 24 Nov 1947 - 29 Dec 1953
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/80
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (7); Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War; Leonard Bevan, Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade; Stuart Gilbert, Private Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Local Government (3); Peter Hudson [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation] (2); George Moseley, Assistant Private...
Dates:
24 Nov 1947 - 29 Dec 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 185 - 192, closed for 75 years until 2029 on data protection grounds due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on a potentially living individual.
File
Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, U - Z., 15 Jan 1951 - 23 May 1955
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/90
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (7); Norman Calvert [Assistant Principal], Ministry of Housing and Local Government (7); L Wane Daley, constituent (7); Thomas Caulcott [Assistant Principal], War Damage Commission (3); Duncan Sandys, Minister of Housing and Local Government; [Margaret] Barbara Sloman [Principal], Treasury (3); Terence Grady [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; Arthur Hockaday...
Dates:
15 Jan 1951 - 23 May 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Proposed Chairmanship of Independent Television Authority, Oct 1957
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PJGG 10/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Grigg, [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton] and David Stephens [Secretary for Appointments for Macmillan]; two HMSO publications on ITA 1954-1955, 1955-1956. Television Act 1954; chart relating to television companies.
Dates:
Oct 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
File
Public and Political: British Broadcasting Corporation., 15 Jan 1934 - 31 Dec 1934
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/229
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between WSC and the BBC.
Dates:
15 Jan 1934 - 31 Dec 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and political: correspondence and other papers relating to the BBC., 1925 - 1931
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1925 - 1931
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.
File
Public and political: correspondence relating to the BBC., 1932
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/190
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1932
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.
File
Public and political: Correspondence relating to the BBC., 1933
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/198
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1933
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.
File
Public and Political: General., 22 Jan 1935 - 27 Aug 1935
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/249
Scope and Contents
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Correspondence.
Dates:
22 Jan 1935 - 27 Aug 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Broadcasts., 11 Jan 1938 - 20 Dec 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/350
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on broadcasts by WSC include: Cecil Graves, Controller of Programmes, BBC, asking WSC to give a broadcast on his experiences in the Boer War; Sir Richard Maconachie, Director of Talks, BBC, asking WSC to broadcast on the importance of the Mediterranean (3); Guy Burgess, BBC, on the cancellation of the Mediterranean broadcast, and the Munich Crisis and British foreign policy (2); Frederick Bate, European Manager, National Broadcasting Company Incorporated [NBC] on arrangements...
Dates:
11 Jan 1938 - 20 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Broadcasts: Correspondence and papers., 02 Mar 1937 - 20 Oct 1937
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/320
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on broadcasts by WSC include: Sir John Reith [Director-General of the BBC] asking WSC to take part in a series of broadcasts on "Responsibilities of Empire"; [John] Beresford Clark, Director of BBC Empire Service, on arrangements for WSC's "Responsibilities of Empire" broadcast ["Freedom and Progress for All"] (2); J K W Trueman, of David Allen and Sons Billposting Limited, on a series of broadcasts by WSC on "The Peace of Europe" for Radio-Toulouse [France] (7).Also includes:...
Dates:
02 Mar 1937 - 20 Oct 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 19 Jul 1939 - 31 Aug 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/361A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [Luke] William Teeling, [Editor, British News Letter] and Conservative candidate for Bury, Lancashire; Harry Becker on his support for WSC; Brian Roberts (2); Edwyn Hole, British Consul-General, Salonica [Greece] on a prediction of WSC's assassination; Sydney Wilkinson, [Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] on emergency medical services and blood transfusion; Desmond Flower on using a Spanish expert on blood transfusion in Britain; Ian Harvey; Geoffrey...
Dates:
19 Jul 1939 - 31 Aug 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 01 Sep 1939 - 28 Dec 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/362
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Major-General Sir Alfred Knox, comparing the invasion of Poland with the beginning of the First World War; Count Dino Grandi on Randolph Churchill's engagement; Rubeigh Minney, Editor of [the War Weekly], asking WSC to contribute a message (3); Nina, Duchess of Hamilton, on WSC's broadcast [? 1 October "The First Month of War"], the possible dangers of Communism after Nazism and the need for increased British propaganda; Ivan Soubbotitch [Soubotic], Yugoslav Minister...
Dates:
01 Sep 1939 - 28 Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Correspondence., Jun 1936 - 30 Mar 1937
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/295
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Ormsby-Gore [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 4th Lord Harlech] on the Peel Commission [into Britain's Palestine Mandate]; "Harold R" [1st Lord Rothermere, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on Randolph Churchill's interview with General Franco for the Daily Mail, and Franco's sensible policies; Oliver Locker-Lampson; 4th Lord Camden, President, Kent Council of Social Service; Philip Guedalla [Honorary Director, Ibero- American Institute of Great...
Dates:
Jun 1936 - 30 Mar 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 16 Oct 1938 - 31 Dec 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/334
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Thomas Magnay; Robert Boothby; "Eddie" [6th Lord Winterton, earlier Lord Turnour]; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (? 2); Lewis Namier; Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister]; [Henry] Wickham Steed on a proposition for an international union by Clarence Streit; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; Roy Harrod on the faults of national government; [Lauchlan] MacNeill Weir; Edward Heath, President, Oxford Union Society; Sir Roger Keyes (2); Josiah Wedgwood;...
Dates:
16 Oct 1938 - 31 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 12 Dec 1938 - 27 Feb 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/357A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Laura, Lady Lovat (3); Bernard Baruch (3); Ian Roy, Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs; 1st Lord Hailey [former Director of the African Research Survey]; "Edward" [Lord Halifax, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] on a meeting of the Focus in Defence of Freedom and Peace (2); Sir Henry Fildes; Vice-Amiral Paul Guepratte; Hugh Fraser; Vice-Admiral Kenneth Dewar on his book "The Navy from Within" (5);...
Dates:
12 Dec 1938 - 27 Feb 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: correspondence from the general public abroad, mainly from the United States, on the Munich Crisis, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and other aspects of the international situation; mostly supporting WSC's stance, praising his speeches and broadcasts., 14 Sep 1938 - 18 Oct 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/608A-C
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: James Witherow (4); James Harvey criticising the "monied interests" running Britain (3); Oswald Veblen; [Herbert] Swope; Frederic Wile.Also includes: reprints and cuttings from papers, mainly US, including an article by Drew Pearson and Robert Allen; papers entitled "The Fallacies of Fascism" by Aurel Kolnai and "There's Always the Aftermath . . . Mr Chamberlain" by William Seers; Belgian pamphlet on Czechoslovakia [Czech Republic and Slovakia].
Dates:
14 Sep 1938 - 18 Oct 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: correspondence from the general public in Britain and abroad on the Munich Crisis, Germany and Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia]; mostly supporting WSC and his fellow critics of Neville Chamberlain's policy towards Adolf Hitler., 02 Oct 1938 - 07 Nov 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/607A-C
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Brigadier [Leonard] Smithers on arming the nation; Oliver Stewart on standing by France; [William] Adam; Eliot Slater; [Thomas Skeffington-]Lodge; [Rhys] Hopkin Morris on WSC's use of language; Reverend J Ingram Bryan on supplies going to Japan; [James] Leishman; Brigadier Sir Walter Ludlow sending a proof of an article by him on national military training.Other subjects include: congratulations on WSC's speeches and broadcasts on the matter; offers to assist WSC's...
Dates:
02 Oct 1938 - 07 Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: correspondence from the general public mainly abroad, particularly the United States, on the Munich Crisis, Germany, Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia], Anglo-American relations and other international affairs; mostly supporting WSC's stance, praising his broadcasts and articles, some making appeals concerning personal matters., 19 Oct 1938 - 05 Dec 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/609A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: N Lidall sending copies of 5 letters from him concerning his dismissal from a consular post; Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Smith; Lindsay Rogers; [Lionel] Miles Mander; James Woods (4); Raymond Swing on broadcasting; Oswald Garrison Villard sending a published open letter to WSC entitled "Issues and Men".Other subjects include: William Randolph Hearst's attitude.Also includes: cuttings, mainly US, including articles by Walter Lippman and Douglas Jerrold; file note by WSC's...
Dates:
19 Oct 1938 - 05 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: correspondence, mostly on the Munich Crisis, from the general public in Britain and abroad, mostly supporting WSC's stance., Oct 1938 - Jan 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/605A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Major-General Sir Guy Beatty, Sir Albert Howard, Sir Robert Bird, Sir Michael Sadler, and [John] Eric Allden on WSC's broadcast to the United States of 16 October; George Bailey on modernising dry docks; [John Warren] MacAlpine on getting information into Germany and Italy; Sir Leonard Hill of the St John Clinic and Institute of Physical Medicine on birth rates; A H Richards [General Organising Secretary of the Anti-Nazi Council] (5) on organising meetings and support...
Dates:
Oct 1938 - Jan 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Public and Political: General: correspondence on broadcasting matters., Feb 1939 - Aug 1939
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/382
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [Frederick] Ogilvie [Director-General, BBC] on political broadcasting initiatives; Leonard Miall, of the German News Talks section of the BBC, on quoting from WSC in a broadcast to Germany (2).Other subjects include: an offer for WSC to broadcast to Australia; requests to use extracts from or re-broadcast WSC's speeches.Also includes: notes by WSC's secretary "K H" [Kathleen Hill]; typed extract from a 1918 speech by WSC on the need for an election after the end of...
Dates:
Feb 1939 - Aug 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open