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(Untitled), 11 Jul 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/135
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Telegram from Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of State in the Middle East] to WSC advising against appointing Duff Cooper [later Lord Norwich] to a ministerial post in the Middle East; suggests instead Walter Monckton at a lower level as Minister of Propaganda to control publicity and censorship.

Dates: 11 Jul 1941
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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(Untitled), 12 Jul 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/138
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Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC reporting rumour in American press that he is to be removed from his post as Ambassador to Washington following his visit to England, and asking WSC to issue a public contradiction if this is not true.

Dates: 12 Jul 1941
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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(Untitled), 12 Jul 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/140-141
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Telegram from WSC to Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of State in the Middle East] agreeing that Duff Cooper [later Lord Norwich] should not be appointed as a second Minister in the Middle East, proposing Hubert Young (Governor of Trinidad) as Minister of Propaganda in Middle East to control publicity and censorship, and stressing the need for propaganda to be confined exclusively to the Middle East.

Dates: 12 Jul 1941
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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(Untitled), [Jul 1941]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/40/143
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Telegram from WSC to Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] assuring him that there is no truth in the News Chronicle paragraph, and that his role as Ambassador to Washington will continue.

Dates: [Jul 1941]
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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(Untitled), 23 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/43/14-15
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Telegram from Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] to WSC on censorship of his speech in Britain leading to distorted reporting.

Dates: 23 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Mar 1915 - 08 Apr 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/49/75-77
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Letter from Major S Redway (Gloucester Road, South Kensington [London]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on censorship of ship statistics from WSC's speeches and Admiralty reports, when reproduced in the press. Includes notes between Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] and Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Brownrigg, Chief Censor, on advice given to the censors.

Dates: 31 Mar 1915 - 08 Apr 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Mar 1915 - 31 Mar 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/49/78-82
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Letter from Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on a complaint from the Associated Press of America about censorship of press telegrams on operations in the Dardanelles. Grey urges that telegrams to the United States press should not be censored, as it had a bad effect on British interests, and any information in the telegrams would have little effect anyway. Includes letter from the Associated Press and an example of a censored telegram.

Dates: 19 Mar 1915 - 31 Mar 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Feb 1915 - 16 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/47/57-58
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Letters from [?] Oswyn Murray [Assistant Secretary at the Admiralty] to Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] on arranging an interview between WSC and a representative of the Saturday Evening Post (one of the oldest papers in the United States).

Dates: 15 Feb 1915 - 16 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/47/110-112
Scope and Contents Letter from Charles Scott, [Editor of] the Manchester Guardian, to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on a request from the Admiralty that newspapers should not report the sinking of ships until the details had been officially announced by the Admiralty Press Bureau. Scott states that the request was impracticable, and that if a great liner it any other valuable ship was sunk with the loss of many lives, it was hardly possible that the press would ignore the event until the official...
Dates: 26 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/47/117
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Admiralty minute asking the press not to publish the loss of British merchant shipping as a result of enemy activity, unless the losses had already been reported by the Admiralty.

Dates: 26 Feb 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Sep 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/45/119
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Ralph Blumenfeld [Editor of the Daily Express], on Blumenfeld's concern about attacks made against WSC in the Daily Express. WSC states that he was a regular reader of the paper, and had never seen any unfair criticism of himself: "above all there has never been anything ... reflecting on private and personal conduct. That after all is the line which politicians and political journalists ought to draw", confirming that there was no breach between them. [Typescript...
Dates: 06 Sep 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Oct 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/45/157
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Letter from J L Garvin [Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and the Observer] (Greville Place [London]) to WSC, on an attack against WSC in the Morning Post [which accused him of recklessness and irresponsibility at Antwerp, Belgium]. Garvin states that he had written an article defending WSC in the Pall Mall Gazette and suggests that WSC might give regular comments to the Observer, warning that censorship would cause increasing viciousness from the other papers.

Dates: 14 Oct 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/91
Scope and Contents Letter from [1st] Lord Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth] (The Times), to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, stating that at the request of the British Embassy, Berlin [Germany], he was reluctantly holding back news about the German naval scheme, complaining that the Foreign Office, while using the press "as a sort of doormat" were always talking of its "Dangerous tendency", also commenting that the Government were not very able in their management of the newspapers, and that his papers...
Dates: 01 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 May 1894

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/103/1
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Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (House of Commons Library) to Lady [Mary] Jeune in which he comments on the effect on members of the [Conservative] Party of an "indiscretion" in the Times and asks her to relay the contents of his letter to the Times if the division in the House of Commons is unsatisfactory.

Dates: 11 May 1894
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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(Untitled), 26 Aug 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/6
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Copy of a letter from WSC (Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland [Scotland]) to [Alfred] Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] marked private in which he says that he would like to have a discussion with him, comments on the "fine service" of the Daily Mail and suggests that Harmsworth should discuss the issue of a Central Government with "Lord R" [5th Lord Rosebery].

Dates: 26 Aug 1903
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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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/7-8
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Copy of a letter from WSC (Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland [Scotland]) to [Alfred] Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] marked private in which he predicts that the [Conservative] Government will be defeated by a landslide; discusses the treatment of the issue of taxation of manufactured goods [in the Daily Mail]; suggests that he should consider the Free Trade arguments and that a "great central Government neither Protectionist nor Pro-Boer" might be established.

Dates: 01 Sep 1903
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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(Untitled), 16 Nov 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/14
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Letter from WSC (Dalmeny House, Edinburgh [Scotland]) to [Sir Alfred] Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] in which he explains that his remarks about "Mammoth newspaper trusts" were not directed at Harmsworth but at [Sir Arthur] Pearson.

Dates: 16 Nov 1904
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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(Untitled), 04 Jul 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/16
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Lord Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] marked secret in which he refers to a newspaper cutting [not present] from the Evening News and asks him to investigate the source for the leaking of this information, explaining that it uses a secret code.

Dates: 04 Jul 1906
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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(Untitled), 13 May 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/27-28
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Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] (22 St James' Place [London]) to WSC in which he explains that he had nothing to do with a report in the Manchester Guardian and that he has never doubted WSC and informs him that he has made enquiries about the treatment of the Colonial Conference in the press.

Dates: 13 May 1908
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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(Untitled), 15 May 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/30
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Copy of a letter from [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he says that he does not intend to discuss [WSC's action against] the Manchester Courier further and that he would like to avoid talking to F E Smith [later Lord Birkenhead] as Smith is acting against him.

Dates: 15 May 1908
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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(Untitled), 24 Jun 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/31
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Copy of a letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] informing him that his libel action against the Manchester Courier has been settled.

Dates: 24 Jun 1908
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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(Untitled), 30 Aug 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/33
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Copy of a letter from WSC (Salisbury Hall, St Albans [Hertfordshire]) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] marked private in which he discusses the coverage of his speeches in the press [the Daily Mail and the Times].

Dates: 30 Aug 1908
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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(Untitled), 24 Nov 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/34
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Copy of a letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] marked private in which he says that he will attempt to implement Northcliffe's suggestion and visit Canada and discusses the coverage of his speeches [in the Times] at Dundee [Angus, Scotland].

Dates: 24 Nov 1908
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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(Untitled), 14 Mar 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/35
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Copy of a letter from [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC discussing a letter which WSC sent to the press and recommending that he should send future letters solely to the Times to provoke comment.

Dates: 14 Mar 1909
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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(Untitled), 13 May 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/42
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Copy of a letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] marked private informing him that he would like his forthcoming speech at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester about the [People's] Budget and [National] Insurance to be fully reported in the Times.

Dates: 13 May 1909
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.