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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 457 Collections and/or Records:

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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, typescript and press cuttings., 20 Jan 1931 - 27 Jun 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/95
Scope and Contents Typescript for WSC's statement (20 January, Press Association, London), entitled "The Indian Conference" on the difference between public opinion and the Round Table Conference on India, and concessions to India. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 4945 - 4946.Speech notes by WSC (27 June, Chancellor's Address, Degree Conferment Ceremony, Bristol University), entitled "War Debts" on the moratorium proclaimed by the United States on war debts, and the harmful effects of reparations. Written on...
Dates: 20 Jan 1931 - 27 Jun 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, typescript and source material., 16 Mar 1931 - 22 Apr 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/96
Scope and Contents Typescript and print for WSC's speech (16 March, Select Committee on Procedure on Public Business) on Parliament as a focus and expression of national opinion, and its need for greater flexibility to free itself from routine business.Speech notes for WSC's speech (26 March, Constitutional Club, London), entitled "The March of Events" on the Labour Government's Indian policy, the cotton trade and Britain's duty to govern India. Source material includes press cuttings on the Indian boycott of...
Dates: 16 Mar 1931 - 22 Apr 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: speech notes., 03 May 1946 - 31 May 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/5A-B
Scope and Contents Newscutting reporting WSC's speech (3 May, Dorchester Hotel, London) at the Jubilee dinner celebrating 50 years of the Daily Mail, and reporting speeches delivered by 2nd Lord Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth] Chairman of the Daily Mail, 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken], 1st Lord Tedder and G Ward Price.Speech notes for WSC's speech of thanks (7 May) on receiving the freedom of Westminster entitled "The British Commonwealth" including: his standing for election in Westminster...
Dates: 03 May 1946 - 31 May 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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"The International Situation", 14 Dec 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/39C/539-574
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) subjects including: the importance of keeping up relations with the United States, and the reluctance of the Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] to do so, particularly over Korea; the advantage of maintaining a fortified line in Korea; the need to censor the despatches of the United Nations war correspondents from Korea; appeasing from strength, not weakness; the lack of consultation with Britain by the United States over its atomic weapons; the...
Dates: 14 Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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The Papers of Lord Francis-Williams

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FRWS
Scope and Contents Most of the collection comprises manuscripts and typescripts of books, articles, lectures and radio scripts by Lord Francis-Williams. There are also numerous newspaper cuttings of his articles and book reviews and copies of a number of his own published works. FRWS 7 contains papers relating to his visits to Mauritius and Mosul and FRWS 8 his correspondence from 1945-1972 including letters to and from Attlee, Beaverbrook, Churchill, Dalton, Eden, Gaitskell, Julian Huxley, Lord Reith and...
Dates: 1937 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Thomas Fife Clark

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FICA
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Papers comprising official papers, speeches, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs and audio tapes.

Dates: 1934 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Sun, Berlaymont, 2000-07 - 2004-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 21/37
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Papers and correspondence on complaint by NK about an article in the Sun about the cost of the European Commission taking on the Berlaymont building in Brussels [Belgium].

Dates: 2000-07 - 2004-09
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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Titford, 2002-03 - 2003-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 21/36
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Papers and correspondence on a libel case taken out by NK following an article in the Sunday Express reporting alleged statements by Jeffrey Titford MEP about attempts by NK to block the disclosure of fraud and financial incompetence within the European Commission.

Dates: 2002-03 - 2003-08
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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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1942 - 26 Feb 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/65/1-2
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Note from Francis Brown [Private Secretary to WSC] to Randolph Churchill enclosing a War Cabinet report on foreign propaganda broadcasts: report includes undermining of WSC with a quote from Randolph Churchill on WSC keeping his money safely in the United States, and the suggestion that Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal, is a Bolshevist sympathiser and possible agent.

Dates: 21 Feb 1942 - 26 Feb 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Jan 1942 - 05 Jan 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/66/10-13
Scope and Contents Telegram from the Lord Privy Seal [Clement Attlee] to WSC on a rumour that 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] will be appointed Resident Minister in the United States, with letter from Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] to Alan Hodge [Assistant Private Secretary to Minister of Information] confirming that WSC has sent a telegram to Attlee replying to his enquiry by asking him to contradict the rumour; also includes note by John Peck [Assistant Private...
Dates: 04 Jan 1942 - 05 Jan 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1942 - 28 Feb 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/1
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, January and February 1942. Some written by WSC when in the United States.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States]; the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to...
Dates: 02 Jan 1942 - 28 Feb 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Mar 1942 - 30 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/2
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, March 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the minutes include: matters concerning the command structure, including...
Dates: 01 Mar 1942 - 30 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Jul 1942 - 28 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/6
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, July and August 1942. Some written by WSC when in the Middle East.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered by the...
Dates: 03 Jul 1942 - 28 Aug 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Sep 1942 - 30 Sep 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/7
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, September 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; Colonel John Bevan [Head of the London Controlling Section]; Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Moore [Vice Chief of the Naval Staff]; Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris [Commander in Chief Bomber...
Dates: 02 Sep 1942 - 30 Sep 1942
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/71A/26
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Telegram from WSC to Harry Hopkins [Special adviser and assistant to the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt] regarding censorship of broadcasts on Guadeloupe [West Indies] radio: "It seems to me we ought to have control.".

Dates: Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/75
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Telegram from John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, to WSC stating that he will take the matter [of an alleged interview by Curtin on Greece] up with the British United Press and that he will make proposals regarding the broadcasting of security matters: comments on a broadcast made by the BBC considering future strategy.

Dates: 23 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Mar 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/72/84
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Telegram from WSC to John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] agreeing that there must be a far stiffer control of news and broadcasts: "The war is not fought to amuse the newspapers but to save the peoples.".

Dates: 23 Mar 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/35
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Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] reciting remarks from the Cape Argus and the Natal Mercury quoted in the Observer newspaper suggesting action against Madagascar and Vichy France: "I need scarcely say what deep anxiety these statements give me.".

Dates: 26 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Apr 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/74/49
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Telegram from Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC apologising for embarrassing press statements about Madagascar but explaining that lack of an internal press censorship institution means that he can only proceed by private persuasion and warning: "Existence of openly hostile press adds to my difficulties.".

Dates: 27 Apr 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Apr 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/60-62
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Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: debate of the Vote on Account; censure of Sir Robert Anderson for his articles in Blackwood's Magazine and the decision that he would not be deprived of his pension; and the uproar which followed a remark made by [James] Campbell.

Dates: 22 Apr 1910
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 Dec 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/1/41
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Letter from Lord Northcliffe [owner of the Times, earlier Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC, on the question of the suppression of news of naval movements in the newspapers, stating that it should be enforced tactfully but drastically, and that he was all for the most drastic censorship before and during war.

Dates: 01 Dec 1911
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Dec 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/1/44
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Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Archibald Hurd, on his decision not to reveal his source of information about naval affairs, commenting on the lack of secrecy in regard to naval matters and the levity in which disclosures were regarded, and adding that unless the press were prepared to co-operate with the Admiralty, legislation would be required. [Typescript, annotated and signed by WSC].

Dates: 13 Dec 1911
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Sep 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/10/79
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Letter from Charles Scott [editor of the Manchester Guardian] (Arolla, Valais [Switzerland]) to WSC thanking him for explaining the action he has taken over the misconduct of a [Manchester Guardian] correspondent. Signed manuscript.

Dates: 04 Sep 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: 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), 24 Apr 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/9/14
Scope and Contents Minute from Prince Louis of Battenberg [2nd Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the appointment of Admiral Sir William May as Chief Umpire at the forthcoming Manoeuvres, suggesting that he be provided with a headquarters at the Admiralty, or at Admiralty House, Devonport [Devon], rather than a flagship at sea; he also suggests that the press be banned from the Manoeuvres: "We have had bitter experiences with them in the past and I hope never to see...
Dates: 24 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open