Scope and Contents A copy of "India", a printed collection of 9 speeches and an article on India by WSC, 1920 - 1931, with revised rough proofs. Speeches include:."Punjab Disturbances" (8 July 1920, House of Commons) on the Cabinet's decision to retire Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer after the Amritsar Massacre. Published: Complete Speeches III pp 3005 - 3014."Dominion Status" (16 November 1929, Daily Mail)."India (The Round Table Conference)" (11 December 1930, Cannon Street Hotel, London), on demands for...

Scope and Contents Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speeches (including 3 February, Public Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio and 8 February, Economic Club Meeting, Hotel Astor, New York), entitled "International Finance" and "Deflation and War Debts" on the world economy, war debts and the Gold Standard. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 5130 - 5133 (part).Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speeches (including 28 January, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, 7 February, Orchestra Hall, Chicago, and 8 March,...

Scope and Contents Includes lists of the speeches made by WSC between 1945 and 1954 with details of the place of delivery, subjects covered and numbers of words. Speech notes for WSC's speech (20 October 1945, Woodford [Essex]) on receiving the freedom of the Borough of Wanstead and Woodford on subjects including: his long association with Essex and his disappointment at not being re-elected. Allso includes an invitation card for the event [see also GBR/0014/CSCT 3/54]. Hansard report and speech notes for...

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Texts of speeches by McKenna, mainly as Chairman of the Midland Bank, on subjects including: a merger with the Clydesdale Bank and the issue of new capital; foreign exchanges and the League of Nations; trade prospects; support for Andrew Bonar Law's economic policy; changing the Midland's name to Midland Bank Limited; the restoration of the Gold Standard; support for the League of Nations Union; the memorial museum to Robert Owen, founder of the Co-operative Movement.

Scope and Contents Texts of speeches and yearly statements by McKenna as Chairman on subjects including: monetary policy; central bank policy; banking monopolies; the Midland's centenary; devaluation of European gold currencies and the yearly general financial situation; currency and credit control; the success of the Government's economic policy; local authorities and the money market; relations between local authorities and banks; the Clydesdale Bank; the movement of foreign balances; the Beveridge Report...

Scope and Contents Includes notes and correspondence from: Kathleen Hill and Maud Stanley [Secretaries to WSC]; John Rodgers [Ministry of Information]; Ernest Brown [Minister of Health]; John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] sending on material for a speech on shipping losses. Also includes material from unused speeches on confidence in WSC's government (January 1942) and the possibility of the invasion of Britain (no date); cutting from the Daily Telegraph of a letter from Harold Smith;...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from various individuals suggesting quotations to be included in WSC' speeches including: Major General Edward Spears; Brendan Bracken; Malcolm Macdonald; Thomas Johnston (2); Very Reverand Cyril Alington, Dean of Durham; Harry Crookshank; "Jack" [John] Lawson; [1st Lord] Mottistone [earlier John Seely]; Robert Chapman; Sybil, Lady Cholmondeley; Sir Waldron Smithers; [Sir Richard] Stafford Cripps; Ernest Bevin and General Hastings Ismay.Also includes correspondence...

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Speech notes for WSC's speeches, including (29 March 1933, House of Commons), on India. Published: Complete Speeches V pp 5241 - 5256.Speech notes for WSC's speech (7 November 1933, House of Commons), on Socialism in the Armed Forces.Speech notes on air parity with Germany.Also includes: a list of votes of censure, 1931 - 1935.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speeches, on subjects including: Philip Snowden [former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer]; pension reform; the General Election [1929]; the state of industry; the Trades Union Congress resolution against capitalism; Socialism; taxation; cuts in naval funding; rating reform; the absorption of the Liberals by the Labour Party. Source material includes: a press cutting reporting WSC's speech (29 July 1928, Conservative Meeting, Watts House, Taunton, Somerset); a letter...

Scope and Contents Cutting from the Bath Daily Chronicle on speech by WSC at Primrose League Fete at Claverton Manor, Bath, 26 Jul 1897. [This was WSC's first political speech] Published: Complete Speeches I, pp.25-28.Printed pamphlet, published by Oldham Conservative Association, containing text of WSC's speech at the Empire Theatre, Oldham, 25 Jul 1900 on the South African War and his candidature Extract pub. Complete Speeches I, pp.53-54.Typescript copy of WSC's speech on the South African War at the...

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Manuscript notes for speech in Oldham on the South African War Unpublished.

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Press cutting reporting speech by Ernest Beckett MP [later Lord Grimthorpe] at Sleights, Whitby, Yorkshire on Army Reform [undated].Typescript copy of speech by WSC at Plymouth on home defence, 18 Aug Unpublished.Manuscript draft of speech by WSC in Dublin on Imperial Federation [undated] Unpublished.Press cuttings and source material for speech by WSC on Tariff Reform at the Colosseum, Oldham, 23 Oct Unpublished.

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Printed papers, press cuttings, notes, prooofs and source material for speech by WSC on the Education Bill at Preston Lancs Including pamphlets and speeches on education by John Owen, Bishop of St Davids, Augustine Birrell, Sir Henry Fowler, Hartley Mothersole, Arthur Balfour, and Joseph Chamberlain.

Scope and Contents Annotated typescript of speech "Liberalism and the House of Lords", Birmingham Liberal Club, 13 Jan 1909.Typescript of speech launching Budget League (to assist in passing the Budget into law), undated, not in Complete Speeches.Notes for speech on Liberal Party policy, Dundee, 27 Jun [1909] Not in Complete Speeches.Pamphlet containing text of speech on Budget Issues, King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 17 July 1909 Published Complete Speeches II, pp.1277-1286.Pamphlet "Peers or People" containing...

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Source material for WSC's speaking tour of Lancashire, 2-12 Dec 1909 [WSC visited Manchester, Preston, Southport, Liverpool, Bolton, Burnley, Oldham and Crewe] Material includes statistics on the Cotton trade, notes on trade and labour conditions in Warrington and Burnley, notes on the state of employment in Lancashire, printed note on Unemployment Insurance, note on housing conditions in Manchester.

Scope and Contents Typescript of speech on the House of Lords, King's Theatre, Dundee, 1 Dec 1910 Published Complete Speeches II, pp.1636-1638.Cutting from the Manchester Guardian,report of speech by WSC, 3 Dec 1910, at Election Meeting at the Grosvenor Skating Rink, Chester, on "Conservatives and Tariff Reform" Published Complete Speeches II, pp.1647-1651.Manuscript notes and source material for speech on temperance in the Army, including pamphlet of testimonials from senior officers on the work of the Royal...

Scope and Contents Printed pamphlet, press reports and manuscript notes for speech on Irish Home Rule, Celtic Park Football Ground, Belfast, 8 Feb 1912 Published Complete Speeches II, pp.1899-1909.Cuttings from the Times reporting speech by WSC on Naval Defence, to the Clyde Navigation Trustees, 9 Feb 1912 [Glasgow, Scotland]. Published Complete Speeches II, pp.1909-14 [WSC's first major speech as First Lord of the Admiralty]. See CHAR 9/43/41-42 for more detailed description of article.Press cutting,...

Scope and Contents Presscuttings, manuscript notes and typescript for speeches on Federalism and Irish Home Rule, Dundee, Sep-Oct.Typescript and manuscript notes for speech on Ireland, the Land Problem, and the Naval estimates, 18 Oct, Liberal Federation Meeting, Free Trade Hall, Manchester Published Complete Speeches II, pp.2168-82 (under the title "An Offer to Germany").Press cutting - report of speech on Naval Developments, 10 Nov, Lord Mayor's Banquet, Guildhall, London Published Complete Speeches II,...

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Typescript and manuscript notes and drafts for speech on the Ulster Question, St George's Hall, Bradford, 14 Mar 1914 Published Complete Speeches III, pp.2222-33.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's election address (March, Abbey Division, Westminster, London) on the threat of a Socialist Government, the party system and WSC's own position, standing against the official Conservative candidate, Otho Nicholson. Also includes a press cutting reporting the speech.Speech notes for WSC's election address (11 March, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London) on the need for stable government and the harmful results of the party system and frequent changes of Government,...

Scope and Contents Speech by WSC (10 December, Bedford, Corn Exchange), on the fall of Russia, the need to keep up the war aims and the entry of the United States into the war. Published: Complete Speeches III pp 2580 - 2584.Prints of speeches (16 November, Mansion House, London, welcoming Eleutherios Venizelos to London), including a speech by WSC entitled "M. Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece". Also includes: prints of other speeches by individuals including: Arthur Balfour, Foreign Secretary; 1st Lord...

Scope and Contents Typescript of speech by WSC (23 January 1908, Birmingham Town Hall) entitled "Social Policy" on free trade and social policy. Published: Complete Speeches I, pp 883 - 8.Typescript of speech by WSC (2 April 1908, Sun Hall, Liverpool) entitled "Tariff Reform and Unemployment" on taxation and unemployment. Published: Complete Speeches I, pp 921 - 9.Manuscript and typescript notes for Election addresses by WSC in Manchester, including (14 April, Grand Theatre, Manchester) on subjects including...

Scope and Contents Typescript speaking notes and press cuttings for WSC's speech (2 Mar 1944, London) entitled "The Royal College of Physicians" proposing the health of the College and on the National Health Service. Published: Complete Speeches VII, pp 6895 - 7.Press cutting from The Times reporting WSC's speech (23 Mar 1944, London) to United States troops. Published: Complete Speeches VII, pp 6905 - 6.Typescript speaking notes, and press cuttings for WSC's BBC broadcast (26 Mar 1944) entitled "The Hour of...

Scope and Contents Press Association transcript and press cutting from the Sevenoaks News reporting WSC's election address (11 February, Sevenoaks [Kent] Constitutional Club) on the Labour threat to the economy and the Empire. Also includes transcript of comments by Ness Edwards [Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service] on WSC's responsibility for sending in troops during the miners' strike at [Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales, 1910]. Part published: Complete Speeches VIII pp 7935 -...

Scope and Contents Speech notes and typescript for WSC's election campaign (30 September - 10 October) on subjects including the grim economic outlook, regaining Britain's prestige abroad, the advantages of not winning the last election and improving the National Health Service. Source material includes: notes by 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson] on the National Health Service, national unity and peace through strength, the tone of WSC's election broadcast, rearmament, Labour attempts to take credit for...