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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 842 Collections and/or Records:

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"The Sinews of Peace", 5 Mar 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/4A/51-100
Scope and Contents Top copy of WSC's speaking notes for his speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri [United States]. WSC begins by thanking President [Harry Truman] and explaining that he is speaking with "no official mission or status". The speech covers various subjects including: the responsibility of the United States and Britain to secure peace; the role of the United Nations and the need for an international armed force; predictions of the Cold War; education; international affairs; the...
Dates: 5 Mar 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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"The supremacy of the navy", 10 Feb 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/43/41-42
Scope and Contents Article from the Times reporting WSC's visit to Glasgow and relaying the text of WSC's speech [WSC's first major speech as First Lord of the Admiralty] on naval defence, to the Clyde Navigation Trustees, 9 Feb 1912 [Glasgow, Scotland]. Notes that during the visit Annie Grieg of the Suffrage Union smashed the glass of a car she mistakenly thought WSC was travelling in. WSC's speech covered subjects including: the strength of the Royal Navy and plans for the future; the British and German...
Dates: 10 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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"The Tragedy of Europe", 19 Sep 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/8/145-162
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (19 September, University of Zurich [Switzerland]) entitled "The Tragedy of Europe" including: the need for a “United States of Europe” and the Council of Europe; reflection on the roles of the United Nations and the League of Nations; the need to act quickly to avoid another war and for faith on the part of the peoples of Europe; warnings about the spread of information about nuclear weapons; and the importance of Great Britain, the Commonwealth, the United...
Dates: 19 Sep 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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"The war has been won", 1945-05-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/242
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Photo of WSC in profile seated at a desk [in 10 Downing Street to make a broadcast to the nation].

Dates: 1945-05-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"Their Finest Hour", 18 Jun 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/140A/32-55
Scope and Contents Notes for WSC's speech (18 June) entitled "Their Finest Hour" on subjects including: fighting in France; the importance of unity and respect for government Ministers; preparations, defence and forces for fighting invasion by Germany, the strength of the Royal Navy; the campaign in Norway; forecasting the Battle of Britain and the determination of the RAF; support from the Dominions. He ends "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and...
Dates: 18 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Theology: Master file: speeches, 1990 - 1991

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/3/10
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-class:

Material on JEP's theological, historical and literary interests.

Dates: 1990 - 1991
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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Thomas Rutherford: Orations

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5373
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'Orationes in Doctorum Theologiae', 70 folios. Nine orations on various subjects relating to the University of Cambridge, made at creations of Doctors of Divinity, 1758-1770.

Dates: 1775 (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).
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Ulster master, 1969-08 - 1992-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 9/1/20
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Clean master copies of JEP's speeches on Ulster.

Dates: 1969-08 - 1992-03
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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Unedited version of "Winston S. Churchill. His Memoirs and His Speeches", c 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL 12/19
Scope and Contents 12" gramophone records, presumably sent by Decca to Churchill for checking prior to publication. Record 1: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat", House of Commons, 13 May 1940; "The Fall of Belgium", House of Commons, 28 May 1940. Record 2: extracts from "Wars Are Not Won by Evacuations", House of Commons, 4 June 1940. Record 3: extracts from "Their Finest Hour", House of Commons, 18 June 1940. Record 4: extracts from "The Few", House of Commons, 20 August 1940 and "The War Situation", House of...
Dates: c 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Access copies available.
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(Untitled), Apr 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/30/33
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Leaflet advertising WSC's lecture, The [Boer] War as I Saw It, in the Assembly Rooms, Jarratt Street, Hull, on 24 April, containing biographical notes on WSC; a synopsis of the lecture; and extracts from reports in the national press on the lecture.

Dates: Apr 1901
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Feb 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/29/4
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Letter from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman MP, to WSC, congratulations on maiden speech in the House of Commons.

Dates: 18 Feb 1901
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Feb 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/29/5
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Card from John Cumming Macdonald MP, Palace Chambers, Westminster, to WSC, congratulations on maiden speech in House of Commons.

Dates: 18 Feb 1901
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Feb 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/29/6
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Letter from George Buckle, (Editor of The Times) to WSC, on report of WSC's maiden speech in The Times.

Dates: 20 Feb 1901
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Feb 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/29/7
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Letter from Lord Rosebery, 38 Berkeley Square, London, to WSC, declining invitation to preside at WSC's lecture in St James' Hall, and offering congratulations on maiden speech in the House of Commons.

Dates: 20 Feb 1901
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Feb 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/29/8
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Letter from Lord Cromer to WSC, congratulations on maiden Speech in the House of Commons.

Dates: 27 Feb 1901
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Mar 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/29/10
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Letter from Arthur Balfour, (First Lord of the Treasury) to WSC, on the Rev A Redman's claim to the living of Leesfield, Lancs, (in the gift of the Crown), and offering congratulations on House of Commons speech.

Dates: 13 Mar 1901
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Nov 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/50/50
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Card from John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone], Bath Club, Dover Street, London, to WSC, on WSC's election to the Bath Club, and on his speech at Pontypridd on 17 November.

Dates: 19 Nov 1905
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Apr 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/180B/151-152
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Letter from Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC describing his executive committee's intention of publishing three of WSC's speeches on India and asking whether he would address meetings on the subject in Reading [Berkshire], Eastbourne [Sussex] and Bournemouth [Hampshire].

Dates: 10 Apr 1931
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), 12 Apr 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/180B/153
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Letter from [WSC] to Sir [John] Mark Hunter [Secretary of the Indian Empire Society] describing his intention of publishing his speeches on India, suggesting that further meetings on the matter should be delayed a little and that 1st Lord Brentford [earlier Sir William Joynson-Hicks] should be asked to address other Indian Empire Society meetings, where he might be joined by 1st Lord Lloyd. [Carbon typescript copy].

Dates: 12 Apr 1931
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), 02 Feb 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/180A/37-38
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Letter from Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC reporting that he has sent a telegram to 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on the success of the Society's meeting in Manchester and that he will bring the proposal for a meeting in the Albert Hall [London] before members of his committee, who are pleased with the Manchester meeting. Wishes WSC's speech there had been reported verbatim and broadcast.

Dates: 02 Feb 1931
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), 26 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/164/68
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Letter from Sir John Reith [later Lord Reith] (6 Barton Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC praising his Christmas Day radio appeal [on behalf of the Wireless for the Blind Fund] and "The World Crisis".

Dates: 26 Dec 1929
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), 09 May 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/164/86
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Letter from Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] (42 Bettridge Road, Fulham, [London]) to WSC reporting that WSC's broadcast speech brought more criticisms than that of any other speaker.

Dates: 09 May 1929
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), 05 Jun 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/236/31
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Letter from Christopher Addison [Labour MP for Swindon, Wiltshire] (House of Commons Library) to WSC, congratulating him on his speech [against the 3rd reading of the India Bill] as "an example of superb composition and splendid eloquence that will be quoted as a classic of parliamentary oratory". Manuscript.

Dates: 05 Jun 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Jan 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/240A/30-31
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Letter from Sir Louis Stuart, Honorary Secretary, Indian Empire Society, to WSC with congratulations on his broadcast speech of 30 January ["India: the Betrayal", arguing against Indian Home Rule].

Dates: 30 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Sep 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/54-57
Scope and Contents Letter from Sir Leo Chiozza Money (The Old Quarry, Bramley, near Guildford, Surrey) to WSC, on his speech on Abyssinia [later Ethiopia, at the City Carlton Club]. He explains his own position, as part-Italian, and wonders why there should be a quarrel with Italy at all. He did appreciate the tone of WSC's speech, and adds that Italian friends tell him that Britain's position has only made the Fascist government stronger. He appeals to WSC to support a mandate for Italy in Abyssinia, as the...
Dates: 27 Sep 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open