Literature
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2142 Collections and/or Records:
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'Box On'
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 1/1/5
Scope and Contents
Wolff's contribution to the memorial volume, Randolph Churchill - The Young Unpretender: 2 copies of the manuscript and a review of the volume.
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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Britanniad
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/6/9
Scope and Contents
Draft notes and sections of text of JEP's poem Britanniad.
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.
Fonds
British Naval Intelligence Papers, mainly of Donald McLachlan and Patrick Beesly.
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MLBE
Scope and Contents
The collection includes: McLachlan's papers for "Room 39"; Beesly's papers for "Very Special Intelligence" and for "Very Special Admiral"; and papers of Commander Lloyd Hirst, an intelligence officer.
Dates:
1926 - 1980
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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Broadcasts, 1955-10 - 1970-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/27
Scope and Contents
Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: immigration; defence, particularly cuts in the Middle East, British withdrawal from Singapore (in interviews with Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1967), and retaining use of nuclear weapons; floating exchange rates; JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics; Parliamentary privilege and...
Dates:
1955-10 - 1970-02
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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Broadcasts, 1974-01 - 1991-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/29
Scope and Contents
Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: Charles Bradlaugh; the aims of the Ulster Unionists; collective Cabinet responsibility for policy; control of Britain's money supply and national and Parliamentary sovereignty; the trial of Socrates; the powers of the monarchy; Thomas Hobbes; the role of the House of Lords; JEP's career; Shakespeare's sonnets; Sir Martin Gilbert's biography of Sir Winston Churchill; the causes of the...
Dates:
1974-01 - 1991-06
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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"Churchill Days": George Allen's recollections of working for Sir Winston Churchill, 1970
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GALN 1
Scope and Contents
Audio recording of Allen's account including observations on WSC and various encounters and discussions with WSC: meeting WSC; terms of employment, meetings at Hyde Park Gate; Chartwell and WSC’s hospitality and preferences for champagne and port or brandy, the cinema, WSC’s preferred walk after lunch to see the carp, swimming lake, black swans, butterfly house and tropical fish; detailed account of the organisation, process and methods of working on WSC’s memoirs including the roles of...
Dates:
1970
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of George Allen
Series
Churchill Papers, 1962 - 1977
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 2
Scope and Contents
In 1961 Wolff joined Randolph Churchill's team of research assistants on the Official Biography of Winston Churchill project. The preface and acknowledgements describe him as in charge of research, but his own correspondence throws this supervisory role into doubt. The process of working with Randolph Churchill generated a considerable quantity of papers and had one on-going consequence in that after Randolph Churchill's death Wolff was one of the Executors of the Estate, which included the...
Dates:
1962 - 1977
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Michael Wolff
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Churchill Speaks
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 2/3
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to 'Churchill Speaks', an edited selection of the essays of Sir Winston Churchill [edited by Wolff. These papers were in use for the Official Biography]. Includes correspondence and the launch souvenir booklet.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Collections on Jonathan Swift
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7788
Scope and Contents
Box 1. Photocopies and communications regarding Swift's poems and correspondence, including material owned by Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the British Museum Box 2. Photocopies and communications regarding Swift's correspondence, including material owned by the National Library of Scotland, Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the Earl of Harrowby, Wellesley College Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, Haverford College Library, the...
Dates:
1667-1964 (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
Unknown
Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, 24 Sep 1930
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/572/84-85
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC to "S.B." [Stanley Baldwin] on various subjects including: thanks for Baldwin's comments on the proofs of WSC's memoirs [The World Crisis]; hope that the book will do well; his concerns about India and the support he has received for his views in response to his speeches; and a plea that Baldwin will not allow his friendship with Lord Irwin [earlier Edward Wood, later Lord Halifax] to affect his judgement or the action of the Conservative Party on the issue. WSC...
Dates:
24 Sep 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
Correspondence, 1952 - 1972
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FLAD 3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on the original cataloguing of the Churchill Papers by the Public Record Office and on copyrights in some of Sir Winston Churchill's works.
Dates:
1952 - 1972
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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Correspondence, 1962 - 1971
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 2/12
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: various persons, including others engaged on the Official Biography (4 files, 1962-1969); representatives of Heinemann Publishers Limited on the text of the Official Biography, March-April 1965; Anita King [earlier Anita Leslie] on 'Jennie', her biography of Lady Randolph Churchill [earlier Jennie Jerome], 1968-1971; Peregrine Churchill and others on 'Jennie' in the context of an American publication alleging various things about the Churchill family.
Dates:
1962 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Correspondence: literary, 1892-12 - 1913-05
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 11
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on Esher's books, 'Footprints of Statesmen', 'The Yoke of Empire', 'The Correspondence of Queen Victoria' and 'The Girlhood of Queen Victoria', including letters from the Royal Family, Arthur Benson and Sir John Murray.
Dates:
1892-12 - 1913-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence on books published by others, 1985-01 - 1991-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/4/14
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on contributions by JEP to various books, with correspondents including: Christopher Lewis [Canon Residentiary, Canterbury Cathedral] on a lecture by JEP on the use of the bible (5); Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok on reprinting some of JEP's religious writings (8); Philip Norton, Professor of Government, University of Hull, on a lecture by JEP and chapter for his book on new directions in politics (9); Paul Atkin (8); representatives of Oxford University Press on JEP's chapter in The...
Dates:
1985-01 - 1991-06
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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Correspondence on books published by others, 1992-03 - 1995-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/4/15
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on requests to republish articles by JEP and also on contributions by JEP to various books, with correspondents including: representatives of the Folio Society on JEP's introduction to an edition of the Confessions of St Augustine (11); Sir Henry Chadwick [Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity, University of Cambridge] on JEP's introduction to Augustine; Humphry Berkeley, Director, Sharon Allen Leukaemia Trust (4); Kathleen, Lady Liddell Hart (2); Lionel Leventhal, Greenhill...
Dates:
1992-03 - 1995-11
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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Correspondence on books published by others, 1994-07 - 1997-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/4/16
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on requests to quote JEP and also on books concerning JEP, with correspondents including: Professor Robert Todd, University of British Columbia on his articles on JEP as a classicist (3); Robert Shepherd on his biography of JEP (5); Benjamin Pimlott, Professor of Politics and Contemporary History, Birkbeck College, University of London, on quoting JEP in his biography of Queen Elizabeth II; Sue Onslow on quoting JEP (4).
Also includes: review by [William] John Biffen...
Dates:
1994-07 - 1997-04
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.
File
Correspondence on books published by others, 1969-11 - 1986-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/4/17
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly on contributions by JEP to various books, with correspondents including: Richard Adams on including work by JEP in a poetry anthology (10); Richard Devonald-Lewis on JEP's preface to an edition of First World War memoirs (6); Howard Pedraza on his comparison of JEP and Sir Winston Churchill (4); Julian Critchley on a piece by JEP on the political history of Northern Ireland (3); representatives of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) on JEP's...
Dates:
1969-11 - 1986-11
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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Correspondence with Professor Edward Ullendorff, 1970-12 - 2004-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/3/50
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Ullendorff [Professor of Ethiopian Studies and later of Semitic Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London], on St Matthew's Gospel and biblical Hebrew and Greek.
Also includes: copies of letters from Colin Roberts, Andrew Alexander, Patrick Gilbert, General Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) (2), Judith Longman, Editorial Director of SPCK (3), [Francis] Ian Chapman, Chairman of Collins Publishers (3)...
Dates:
1970-12 - 2004-06
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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Cuttings, 1906-01-03 - 1906-06-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 11
Scope and Contents
Reviews of ‘Lord Randolph Churchill’; photos of WSC.
Dates:
1906-01-03 - 1906-06-01
Conditions Governing Access:
Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
File
Cuttings, 1923-04-14 - 1923-11-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 23
Scope and Contents
Reviews of ‘The World Crisis’, and articles on Navy debate.
Dates:
1923-04-14 - 1923-11-01
Conditions Governing Access:
Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
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Cuttings and Cartoons relating to WSC, 1933-10 - 1936-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 29 A/1
Scope and Contents
Career: Randolph Churchill contests the Wavertree [Liverpool] by-election and is defeated; WSC reconciled with government; WSC returned to parliament but not the Cabinet; reviews of WSC’s "Marlborough".
Domestic Policy: Annual meeting (1933) of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations - Discussion of slum campaign, Imperial defence and reform policy; WSC supports the need for home grown food stuffs.
Foreign Policy; WSC leads opposition to the...
Dates:
1933-10 - 1936-06
Conditions Governing Access:
Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
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Dancer's End, 1946 - 1987-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/6/22
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on the publication and sale of JEP's book of poems, Dancer's End, mainly with representatives of the Falcon Press, including Peter Baker, Chairman and [Edward] Henry Legge-Bourke, Director. Other correspondents include: Peter Bond (4); representatives of Crofts and Ingram and Wyatt and Company, solicitors (6); [Henry] Wilson Harris [Editor of the Spectator]; Robert Lusty, Director of Michael Joseph Limited; Jonathan Cape, Director of Jonathan Cape Limited (2); Oliver Warner...
Dates:
1946 - 1987-06
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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Dictation tape, 1966 - 1968-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 11/13
Scope and Contents
Includes: dictated draft review of Dana Schmidt's book "Yemen: the Unknown War" (cassette 1 side 1); dictated letters relating to an article on air terminal design and a letter to JA's son Leo on Lady Catherine Amery being in a court case and on her health (cassette 1 side 1); dictated note on JA's part in Israeli-Jordanian negotiations on the Middle East peace process (cassette 1 side 2 and cassette 2 side 1); an account of the writing of JA's book "Sons of the Eagle" (cassette 1 side 2 and...
Dates:
1966 - 1968-05
Conditions Governing Access:
Access copy available.
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Essays and poems, 1933-12 - 1952-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/6/6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and typescript drafts and texts of poems by JEP.
Also includes: print of The Poetic Thought, an address given by JEP to the Australian English Association, April 1938; print of talk by JEP for the Australian Broadcasting Commission on the Elgin Marbles, June 1939; cuttings of reviews of Casting Off and Other Poems.
Dates:
1933-12 - 1952-04
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.
Fonds
Eugene O'Curry: Leabhar na Huidri
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6624
Scope and Contents
A facsimile transcript (including coloured initials) of the Leabhar na Huidri made by Eugene O'Curry, 152 folios. The transcript was probably made for Dr J. H. Todd, whose bookplate is inside the front cover and who has made occasional marginal notes in pencil. Notes by the transcriber are on on slips attached to fos 127 and 139. Many leaves are left blank to indicate gaps in the archetype.
Dates:
1841
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