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Speeches

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 842 Collections and/or Records:

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Queen's Titles, 1953-03 - 1961-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/1/9
Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with the general public, on JEP's speech during the debate on the Royal Titles Bill (3 March 1953), with correspondents including: Peter Marriott (6); Muriel Burton-Watkins (4); Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir], Home Secretary; [John] Harley Williams, Secretary-General of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (2); Iain Macleod; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; John Connell [Leader-writer, The Evening News]; Sir Percy McElwaine. Also...
Dates: 1953-03 - 1961-10
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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Recordings, 1929 - 1941-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 11
Scope and Contents

Speeches from the 1929 General Election campaign, the opening of the Five-Power Naval Conference in London and a wartime broadcast by LSA to Turkey.

Dates: 1929 - 1941-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Recordings, 1971 - 2007

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 5
Scope and Contents

Cassette recordings of speeches and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP.

Dates: 1971 - 2007
Conditions Governing Access: As the original cassettes are too fragile to play, it would be helpful if access copies could be ordered in advance, unless the catalogue states that a copy exists already.
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Records of and relating to the Orator, 1657 - 2022

 Sub-sub-mangmt group
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/O.VIII
Scope and Contents

The duties of the Orator are 'to write addresses for presentation to the Sovereign and formal letters for presentation to other Universities and institutions' and to 'present to the Chancellor and University persons on whom the titles of degrees are conferred honoris causa'. The office was founded by statute in (probably) 1521, but there are both earlier and later records of one-off payments for such compositions. The title changed from ‘Public Orator’ to ‘Orator’ in 1926.

Dates: 1657 - 2022
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Richard Ritchie: 'Enoch Powell on 1992', 1989-04 - 1991-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/4/20
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, mainly with representatives of Anaya Publishers Limited, and representatives of Belinda Harley Associates, publicists, on the publication of Ritchie's edition of speeches by JEP on Europe. Other correspondents include: Frank Bough; Mark Lennox-Boyd, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (3); John Major; Richard Ritchie (3).

Also includes: publicity material; proof and draft text of JEP's preface to the book.

Dates: 1989-04 - 1991-04
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.
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Saturday Speech Blackpool, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 3/5/18
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Text of speech at [?] the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool [Lancashire].

Dates: 1966
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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Speech, 1974-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 3/2/94
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

Dates: 1974-04
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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Speech at Crichel [Dorset], 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 3/2/42
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

Dates: 1962
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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Speech at Harrowgate [County Durham], 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 3/8/3
Scope and Contents

Also Northern Ireland.

Dates: 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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Speech by Secretary of State for India, 1945-01 - 1945-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/6/17
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Annotated advance copy of a speech to Parliament by LSA on British proposals for India's new constitution.

Dates: 1945-01 - 1945-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Speech draft, 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 3/8/11
Scope and Contents

Also expenses.

Dates: 1970
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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Speech drafts and notes, 1983 - 1999

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NEWB 1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Speech drafts written for Neil Kinnock, as Leader of the Labour Party, with notes on speech writing strategy, and also papers on Labour's Black Sections policy and ethnic minority representation in the Party.

Dates: 1983 - 1999
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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Speech Group, 1989-01 - 1989-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/1/127
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Minutes of meetings and texts, including papers on speech strategy, notes on a speech on defence policy, summaries of campaign speeches in Cardiff [Wales] and for the Pontypridd by-election, and the text of the Pontypridd speech.

Dates: 1989-01 - 1989-03
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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Speech notes., Jun 1945 - 30 Jul 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/7A-D
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (11 July 1946, Livingstone Hall, Westminster, London) for a confidential meeting of the Executive Committee of Conservative and Unionist Associations including: his decision not to resign as Leader of the Conservative Party; criticisms of the Labour government; the need for organised opposition; and local party organisation. Source material includes: press cuttings; papers and notes on a variety of subjects including the organisation of the Conservative party,...
Dates: Jun 1945 - 30 Jul 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speech notes: House of Commons., 26 May 1942 - 25 Jun 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/6A-C
Scope and Contents Speech notes and Hansard report of WSC's speech (5 June 1946, House of Commons) on foreign affairs on various subjects including: the cold war and the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union; Communism; the report of the Trade Union delegation to Athens [Greece] and the elections held there; affairs and events in Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Poland; a broadcast delivered by Field Marshal Jan Smuts; reconstruction in Belgium and the Netherlands; and the United Nations. Source...
Dates: 26 May 1942 - 25 Jun 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speech on the Address, 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 3/6/5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

Dates: 1970
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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Speech to the Joint Session of Congress, 26 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/153/29-45
Scope and Contents

Notes for WSC's speech (Washington) on his American ancestry; his democratic convictions ("I am a child of the House of Commons"); the resources available to the United States and Britain and the production of munitions; relations between the Unites States and Britain; his observations of morale and "Olympian fortitude" in the United States; the north African campaign, and the war with Japan in the Far East.Typescript speaking notes with manuscript annotations by WSC.

Dates: 26 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches, 2004 - 2012

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/O.II 323
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-mangmt group: So long as the Chancellor was normally resident, as the statutes required him to be, Vice-Chancellors were appointed only to act in his absence. When, from 1504, the Chancellor was a non-resident magnate, the election of a Vice-Chancellor took place regularly each academic year, his term of office starting on 1 November. From 1884 to 1889 he held office from January to December, and from 1889 to 1989 from 1 October, the beginning of the academic year. Vice-Chancellors from the early...
Dates: 2004 - 2012
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Speeches, 1943-03 - 1944-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/6/46
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Reprints and texts of speeches by LSA on subjects including: the famine in India; the new Indian constitution, Indian Army and plans for reconstruction; the Empire; post-war organic reconstruction and social and economic development in the Commonwealth.

Also includes: list of LSA's speeches (from AMEL 1/6/44-6).

Dates: 1943-03 - 1944-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Speeches, 1940-09 - 1945-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/6/47
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Notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: India and the war; the suspension of self-government in provinces controlled by the Congress Party; India's post-war future; Britain's external trade after the war; regenerating Europe, the Commonwealth and the Empire.

Dates: 1940-09 - 1945-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Speeches, 1947-07 - 1952-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/16
Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by LSA on subjects including: the Empire Industries Association; a tribute to Chaim Weizmann, late President of Israel; the 1952 Commonwealth Conference; Imperial Preference and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade); the role of the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth; the need for national and Imperial reconstruction; genealogy; the Central Eastern European Conference; the 1951 General Election; the Horatian Society; the modern Commonwealth; the...
Dates: 1947-07 - 1952-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Speeches, 1953-01 - 1953-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/47
Scope and Contents Texts, drafts and speaking notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: tributes to Cecil Rhodes; economic policy, particularly on Commonwealth trade and Imperial Preference; tribute to J L Garvin; the place of the Commonwealth in the world; Indian constitutional development over the war years; the poet Horace; tribute to 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr] and the Lothian Lecturer, Ernest Manning, Premier of Alberta [Canada]; the Crown and Africa; tribute to Chaim Weizmann; Europe,...
Dates: 1953-01 - 1953-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Speeches, 1954-01 - 1955-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/48
Scope and Contents Texts, drafts and speaking notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: tribute to Sir [Harold] Leslie Boyce; Empire or Commonwealth; the place of the Commonwealth in the world; Imperial Preference; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; tributes to 1st Lord Simon and Francis Pember, former Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; Canada and the Empire; Chaim Weizmann and Manchester's contribution to the cause of Zionism; the centenary of 1st Lord Milner's birth; the United Europe...
Dates: 1954-01 - 1955-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Speeches, 1901-02-18 - 1903-02-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 5
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Cuttings of WSC’s speeches on Boer War, Education, Budget, Trade Unions.

Dates: 1901-02-18 - 1903-02-07
Conditions Governing Access: Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
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Speeches, 1901-04-30 - 1908-03-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 6
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Cuttings of WSC’s speeches and letters to the press on Finance, Free Trade, Boer War, and Army Scheme, Aliens Bill.

Dates: 1901-04-30 - 1908-03-07
Conditions Governing Access: Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.