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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 2141 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 19 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/61
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Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to the Chief of the Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] marked "most secret and personal" regarding heavy night bombing raids on Berlin [Germany] Annotated, probably during writing of WSC's "The Second World War" c1948-1954.

Dates: 19 Aug 1942
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), 19 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/63
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Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to General Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] marked "most secret and personal" suggesting that it would be wise to describe "Jubilee" [Codename for raid on Dieppe, France] as a "Reconnaissance in force." Annotated, probably during writing of WSC's "The Second World War" c1948-1954.

Dates: 19 Aug 1942
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), 21 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/71
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Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to First Sea Lord [Admiral Dudley Pound] marked "most secret and personal" asking him to cable the latest news of the progress of the ships carrying the Sherman tanks Annotated, probably during writing of WSC's "The Second World War" c1948-1954.

Dates: 21 Aug 1942
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), 4 Apr 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/109/117
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Note from Denis Kelly for WSC entitled "Gleans - 1943: Note for Printer" giving instructions for 12 copies of telegrams marked with a "P" to be printed in chronological order. Manuscript.

Dates: 4 Apr 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Oct 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/28/25-56
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Correspondence between Basil Nicolls (BBC, Broadcasting House, London) John Colville [Private Secretary to WSC], and Francis Brown [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC] proposing a programme on the Battle of Blenheim [Germany], based on WSC's book ["Marlborough: His Life and Times"]; permission for broadcast granted; with copy of script by Cyril Roberts.

Dates: 11 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Dec 1940- 08 Dec 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/3/86-96
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Letter from Leo Amery to WSC with a transcript of his BBC broadcast to India on "Mr. Churchill as a writer"; with telegram from WSC to Leo Amery thanking him for his broadcast, annotated. [Carbon].

Dates: 06 Dec 1940- 08 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Jun 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/203/7
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Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (39 Lowndes Street, [London]) to WSC enclosing proof chapters [from his naval memoirs] and asking WSC to review them and referring to the publication of the first volume of WSC's life of the 1st Duke of Marlborough.

Dates: 16 Jun 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 10 Dec 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/152-153
Scope and Contents Letter from [WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] to Admiral Arthur Limpus [Naval Adviser to the Turkish Government], on Anglo-Turkish naval relations. WSC also criticises the style and presentation of Limpus's letters: stating that a flag officer writing to a member of the Admiralty Board on service matters should observe "proper seriousness and formality. Letters should be well written or typed on good paper, sentences should be complete and follow the regular English form ... Mere jottings...
Dates: 10 Dec 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Dec 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/33
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Letter from Whitelaw Reid [United States Ambassador] (Dorchester House, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC on a copy of WSC's "My African journey" to be presented to the President [Theodore Roosevelt].

Dates: 08 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Feb 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/1/6
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Cutting from Army and Navy Gazette, letter from WSC, replying to letter from "A General Officer" criticising his activities as a journalist while a serving soldier.

Dates: 11 Feb 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Dec 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/1/28-30
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Cuttings from North British Daily Mail, Daily News, and St James's Gazette, commenting on WSC's article "The British Officer", pub in the Pall Mall Magazine for Jan 1901.

Dates: 19 Dec 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Dec 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/1/31
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Cutting from the Nottingham Daily Express commenting on WSC's article "The British Officer", pub in the Pall Mall Magazine for Jan 1901.

Dates: 20 Dec 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Sep 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/18
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Letter from Lord George Hamilton (Fenton, Wooler, Northumberland) to WSC on research for the biography of Lord Randolph Churchill and the break-up of the Unionist party, which he blames on Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] even more than Joseph Chamberlain.

Dates: 11 Sep 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Jan 1905]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/134
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Letter from 5th Lord Rosebery (38 Berkeley Square, [London]) referring to proofs of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill and good reports of a recent speech by WSC.

Dates: [Jan 1905]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Dec 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/399B/214
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Letter from John Wheeler, General Manager, North American Newspaper Alliance (New York [United States]) to WSC, with congratulations on his article on being struck by a motor car.

Dates: 30 Dec 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Jun 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/23/6
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Letter from Sir Hugh Glizean-Reid (Dollis Hill House, London [Middlesex]) to WSC on the forthcoming Liberal meeting in Harrow and WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churhill.

Dates: 26 Jun 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Aug 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/23/23
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Letter from Sir Arthur Godley (the Big House, Manfield, Darlington, [County Durham]), to WSC on proofs of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill and the need for only one war minister in the Viceroy's Council in India.

Dates: 27 Aug 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Sep 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/23/27-28
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Letter from Herbert Gladstone [later Lord Gladstone] (Whittingehame, Prestonkirk, [East Lothian, Scotland]) to WSC on: WSC's declining to address a meeting; the forthcoming publication of the life of Lord Randolph Churchill; the apparent chirpiness of cabinet ministers "at the prospects of near release"; the Chinese labour question.

Dates: 24 Sep 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Oct 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/23/34-35
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Letter from Lord James of Hereford (Breamore, Salisbury, [Wiltshire]) to WSC stressing the cross-party membership of the Free Trade League and expressing the view that the forthcoming Lancashire county meeting in the Manchester Free Trade Hall should not be seen as promoting WSC's candidature. Mentions his (Hereford's) contribution to WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill.

Dates: 29 Oct 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Feb 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/26/28
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Letter from Herbert Vivian (Hotel de Luxembourg, Promenade des Anglais, Nice, [France]) to WSC on: "The Curiosity of Literature", "The River War", and the best way of engaging in published controversy with Colonel [?Ivor] Maxse; Vivian's review of WSC's last book; the activities of "those Labour devils". Suggests WSC meet Horatio Bottomley with a view to getting "our own paper to draw blood properly.".

Dates: 19 Feb 1906
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 May 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/26/56
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Letter from 5th Lord Rosebery (Villa Rosebery, Posilipo, Naples, [Italy]) to WSC professing ignorance about WSC's and ?'s progress and congratulating WSC on the sales of his life of Lord Randolph Churchill.

Dates: 13 May 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Oct 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/27/43
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Letter from Stuart Reid (Bessborough, Pilltown, [County Kilkenny], Ireland) to WSC praising his life of Lord Randolph Churchill and reporting that Sir Richard Tangye is terminally ill. Sends WSC a copy of his (Reid's) life of the 1st Lord Durham [not present] and asks him to mention it in a speech.

Dates: 13 Oct 1906
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jul 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/25/84-85
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Letter from W McGowan (2 Elizabeth Street, Langholm, [Dumfriesshire, Scotland]) to WSC inviting him to address a meeting in Langholm under the auspices of the Young Scots Society or the Dumfriesshire Liberal Association. Praises WSC's "The Crossing" ["The Crossing" was a novel written by an American author by the name of Winston Churchill (1871-1947). It was not written by WSC]. Annotated in shorthand.

Dates: 17 Jul 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Dec 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/24/33
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Letter from J S Mann (Hazeldene, South Hill, Bromley, Kent) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies and asking to be remembered to H Bartram Cox, a former private pupil of Mann's and Alfred Lyttelton's private secretary. Refers to his (Mann's) role in the preparation of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill.

Dates: 13 Dec 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Dec 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/24/35
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Letter from Gregory Tom (Broad Street, Padstow, Cornwall) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies but expressing the view that he should have got a Cabinet post. Tom had written to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman urging him to include WSC in the ministry. Expresses the hope that a cheap edition of WSC's life of Lord Randolph Churchill will be available. Annotated by WSC that the book will eventually be published in a cheap edition.

Dates: 13 Dec 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open