Literature
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 10 [eventually entitled "Recovery and Reform" and included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/411
Scope and Contents
Includes typed drafts and galley proofs (marked printer's copy and first revise) for chapters entitled "The Crimean War", "Canada: 1660-1780", "Canada: 1780-1812", "The Loyalists", "New Zealand", "Australia", "The Locust Years (1815-32)", "The Monarchy and the Divorce (1820-22)", "Tory England (1822-27)", "The Dissolution of Eighteenth-Century England (1827-30)", "The Passing of the Great Reform Bill (1830-32)", "Reform and Beyond (1832-54)", "England: 1832-37", "England: 1837-46", "South...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 10, "Recovery and Reform" [eventually included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various post-war revises., Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/436A-B
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Includes galley proofs (some described as first, second, third, fourth, penultimate, or last revise, "duplicate", or second draft) and manuscript and typed drafts for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "The Locust Years" or "The Tory Peace" or "The Victory Peace", "Prelude to Reform" or "Canning and the Duke", "The Migration of the Peoples. I: Canada and South Africa", "The Migration of the Peoples. II: Australia and New Zealand", "Reform and Beyond" or "Reform and Free Trade",...
Dates:
Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 11, "The Great Republic" [eventually included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various post-war revises., Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/437A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some described as first revise or final proof) and typed and manuscript drafts for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "American Epic", "Slavery and Succession" or "Freedom or Slavery", "The Union in Danger", "The Campaign against Richmond", "Lee and McClellan", "Chancellorsville and Gettysburg" and "The Victory of the Union".With suggested corrections, amendments, notes, and correspondence from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, printers,...
Dates:
Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 11, "The Great Republic" [eventually included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/412
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs and typed drafts (marked printer's copy and first revise) for: chapters entitled "Canada: 1660-1780", "Canada: 1780-1812", "Slavery and Succession", "America and the French Revolution", "The United States: 1797-1801", "Jeffersonian Democracy: 1801-5", "The United States: 1815-37" or "American Epic", "The American Civil War: 1862" or "America: 1862", "The War of 1812", "1840-50", "1850-60", "The Seven Days", "(Chancellorsville and) Gettysburg", "The Union in Danger",...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 12, "The Victorian Age" [eventually included in volume 4, "The Great Democracies"]: various revises., 1956 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/438A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes typed drafts and galley proofs (some described as first or second proof, first, second, third, last or final revise, "dead duplicate", or "returned empties") for: chapters entitled "The Rise of Germany", "Gladstone and Disraeli", "Home Rule for Ireland", "Lord Salisbury's Governments", "America from 'Reconstruction' to World Power" or "America in 'Reconstruction'" or "American Reconstruction" and "America as a World-Power", and "The Dawn of the Twentieth Century"; notes on the...
Dates:
1956 - Jan 1957
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 04 Jul 1938 - 29 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/597
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Correspondents include: Robert Mortimer Wheeler [Keeper and Secretary of the London Museum] on providing WSC with information on early British History from pre-Roman times to King Alfred; Lord Wolmer [later 3rd Lord Selborne] sending WSC a book on church history; Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section, on providing information on the American Civil War; representatives of George G Harrap and Company including Charles Wood (3) and George Harrap...
Dates:
04 Jul 1938 - 29 Dec 1938
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 12 Dec 1938 - 27 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/626
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Correspondents include: Alfred Burne sending WSC his paper on Ancient Britons (2); Sir Max Pemberton on the book's progress; Robert Mortimer Wheeler [Keeper and Secretary of the London Museum]; James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section, on material for the "English-Speaking Peoples" on the American Civil War, a French account of the origin of the tank, and the possibility of war (6); John Wheldon [WSC's former literary assistant] on subjects including his request for...
Dates:
12 Dec 1938 - 27 Dec 1939
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 04 Jan 1940 - 17 Dec 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/658
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Correspondents include: William Deakin [WSC's literary assistant]; Edward Marsh recounting a tribute to WSC in a letter from Siegfried Sassoon; Alan Bullock (6) on subjects including preparing the "Epilogue" and postponing the publishing of the book; Desmond Flower, Director of Cassell and Company, on WSC fulfilling his contract and receiving payments (7); Brendan Bracken on financial matters connected with the book (6); George Young on using material from the book in a history of British...
Dates:
04 Jan 1940 - 17 Dec 1940
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 09 Sep 1940 - 16 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/681
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Correspondents include: a representative of Cassell and Company on a payment for the book; Brendan Bracken (4); Walter Harrap, [Director of] George G Harrap and Company, on WSC paying a disputed printer's bill (4); Sir Gerald Campbell, [Director-General of British Information Services, New York, United States] on publishing the book in the United States; Robert Wilberforce, [Director British Information Services, New York] on points likely to be criticised historically by Catholic...
Dates:
09 Sep 1940 - 16 Oct 1941
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Literary: "A History of the English speaking peoples": correspondence., 21 Jan 1935 - 08 Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/506
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Keith Feiling on research for "the English speaking peoples" and introducing William Deakin (10); Newman Flower [president of Cassell and Company Limited, publishers].
Dates:
21 Jan 1935 - 08 Dec 1935
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Literary: "A History of the English speaking peoples": correspondence., 29 Nov 1935 - 11 Aug 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/532
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Keith Feiling on drafts for "English speaking peoples" and introducing William Deakin (5); Newman Flower [President of Cassell and Company Limited, publishers] (3).
Dates:
29 Nov 1935 - 11 Aug 1936
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 24 Nov 1944 - 28 Nov 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/718
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Cassell and Company including a Director, Sir Newman Flower (4); representatives of George G Harrap and Company and Amalgamated Press Limited.Subjects include: completing the "English-Speaking Peoples"; its serialisation by the Amalgamated Press; the expense of having the type set up and proofed.Also includes: copy letters from WSC's office to those mentioned above and to 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor in Chief of the Daily...
Dates:
24 Nov 1944 - 28 Nov 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: "A History of the English speaking peoples": correspondence., 02 Feb 1937 - 23 Jun 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/550
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Newman Flower [President of Cassell and Company Limited, publishers] (5).Also includes: a provisional outline for "English speaking peoples".
Dates:
02 Feb 1937 - 23 Jun 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": digests of various sources collected in the production of the book for sections on "Liberty, Sovereignty, and the Civil War", "The First British Empire", "Character of the People in the Age of Shakespeare", "Scotland and Ireland up to 1760", "Tory and Whig England (1660-1742)", "Party and Cabinet Government, 1660-1782", "World Power, 1689-1763", "Protestants and Puritans", "Commerce, Sea Power, and Discovery", "Language and Literature till the Birth of Shakespeare", "The New State", "The Laws of America, 1775-83", "America 1763-74", "The New Age, 1760-1792", and "The Industrial Revolution, Phase 1"., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/442A-D
Scope and Contents
Includes typed digests or pages from sources including: [Samuel] Gardiner's "Cromwell's Place in History" and "History of England, 1603-1642", Basil Williams' "The British Empire" and "The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham", Hugh Egerton's "A Short History of British Colonial Policy", G L Beer's "The Old Colonial System", "The Cambridge Modern History", Edward Channing's "A History of the United States", Charles Andrews' "The Colonial Period of American History", [Peter] Hume Brown's...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1- 171., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/724
Scope and Contents
From invasion of Britain by Julius Ceasar in 699 BC to reign of Offa in eighth century AD.Annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 172 - 326., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/725
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From the arrival of the Vikings in the eighth century to the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century. With additional sections on spelling of ancient names, the appearance and laws of the Saxons, and the restoration of Charles II.Annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 327 - 451., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/726
Scope and Contents
From the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in the sixteenth century. The proofs do not follow a strictly chronological order.Annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 452 - 543., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/727
Scope and Contents
Draft proofs of chapters including: the Armada, 1588; cuttings from newspaper articles on Henry VIII and Elizabeth I; Elizabeth I, 1588 - 1603; additional notes for chapter on the Magna Carta; the age of expansion; James I; the english colonies, 1640 - 1688; the causes and events of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381; the rise of William Pitt, 1742 - 1746.Annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 544 - 673., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/728
Scope and Contents
Draft proofs of chapters including: Wyclif; Hanoverian England; Sir Robert Walpole; the war government of William Pitt, 1756 - 1762; George III; additional notes on King John and Magna Carta; the rising of 1745; the government of the Lancastrians in the fifteenth century; Pitt and America, 1756 - 1762; the Peace of Paris, 1763; Richard I.annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 674 - 750., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/729
Scope and Contents
Draft proofs of chapters including: King John; Henry III; William Pitt the Younger, 1784 - 1788; Henry III; Edward I; Edward II; the younger Pitt and reconstruction; Pitt and the war.Annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 863 - 970., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/731
Scope and Contents
Draft proofs of chapters for Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI and Edward IV. Mainly typescript with some manuscript notes.Annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 863 - 970., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/732
Scope and Contents
Draft proofs of chapters including: Edward IV; Church and State, 1066 - 1154; Edward the Confessor; The colonies from 1600 to 1640; Richard III; James II; Charles I.Annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1114 - 1237., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/733
Scope and Contents
Draft chapters including: post-war England, 1815 - 1820; the monarchy and the divorce, 1820 - 1822; Tory England, 1822 - 1827; the collapse of eighteenth-century England; the passing of the Great Reform Bill, 1830 - 1832; the colonies; England and the American colonies, 1713 - 1754; England and the American colonies, 1754 - 1765; the history of England, 1642 - 1660; Joan of Arc.annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1238 - 1371., c 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/734
Scope and Contents
Draft chapters on the Long Parliament; the American war of Independence; Charles I.Annotated.
Dates:
c 1938
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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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1372 - 1491., 1938 - 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/735
Scope and Contents
Draft chapters including: Charles I; the Commonwealth; the American War of Independence, 1778 - 1781; the story of the common law.Annotated.
Dates:
1938 - 1939
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.