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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 31 Jan 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/130/42
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Cutting of a newspaper article from the Evening Standard and St James's Gazette about a fund raising event for a loan fund which aims to finance the training of women so that they can earn a living. Includes comments about Lady Randolph's pride in a sculpture by Clare Sheridan which was on display and the variety of trades undertaken by "adventurous Eves".

Dates: 31 Jan 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/130/43
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Cutting of a newspaper report from The Daily Mirror about the Childrens' Jewel Fund. The author comments that Lady Randolph Churchill, [Pamela] Lady Lytton and [Julia] Lady Henry were among those assisting the charity.

Dates: 21 Feb 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Feb 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/130/44
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Cutting of a newspaper article from the Westminster Gazette about the Children's Jewel Fund, organised by [Julia] Lady Henry and [Consuelo] Duchess of Marlborough [later Consuelo Balsan] which aims to establish infant welfare and maternity centres throughout the British empire. Includes a report of a meeting (attended by Lady Randolph Churchill and CSC) at which Lady [Florence] Barrett spoke of the high numbers of women dying in childbirth.

Dates: 27 Feb 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1908]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/85/3-5
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Notes about Lady Randolph Churchill's activities with the Primrose League [for her book "The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill"]. Manuscript in the hand of Lady Randolph Churchill.

Dates: [1908]
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), 06 Aug 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/86A/4
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Photograph of nurses being presented with medals at Bourbourg [France].

Dates: 06 Aug 1915
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), [Jan] [1874]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/92/55-57
Scope and Contents Letter from Jennie [Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill](Paris [France]) to [Lord] Randolph [Churchill] in which she says that she is about to attend a ball but that she is unsure whether he would approve, promises to send him a photograph and says that she is missing Leonie [Jerome later Lady Leslie]. In a later section she says that she enjoyed the ball and that Clara [Jerome, later Clara Frewen] and her were "a great success", and asks him not to think her "giddy and wicked" to attend...
Dates: [Jan] [1874]
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 Sep [1873]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/92/10-14
Scope and Contents Letter from Jeannette Jerome [later Lady Randolph Churchill]([Paris, France]) to [Lord] Randolph [Churchill] including: his "wickedness" in his last letter about his parents [John, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Frances, Duchess of Marlborough]; a bid for him to be patient and wait [before marrying her]; encouragement for his ambitions; her faith that her parents [Leonard Jerome and Clara Jerome] will take care of them; letters from her father commenting on the suddenness of their engagement;...
Dates: 26 Sep [1873]
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), 15 Oct 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/100
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Copy of a letter from WSC (Admiralty) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] in which he thanks him for the present of a stick to be used against the suffragettes, comments on a reference to L G [David Lloyd George] at the Journalists' Banquet and on the favourable treatment WSC has been given by Northcliffe's newspapers.

Dates: 15 Oct 1912
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), Jul 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/85/6-38
Scope and Contents Draft copy of an article about London society "past and present" [by Lady Randolph Churchill for Harpers Bazaar] which includes the following subjects: the topography of London and its planning; the increase in traffic; the social calendar; the popularity of gardening; horse riding; current fashions in women's clothing; increasing opulence and decline in manners; women's involvement with charitable work; the improvement in the education of women, the rise of clubs for women and the decline...
Dates: Jul 1904
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), Jun 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/85/39-41
Scope and Contents Offprint of an article entitled "Social London - Past and Present" by Mrs Cornwallis West [Lady Randolph Churchill] in Harper's Bazaar which includes the following subjects: the topography of London and its planning; the increase in traffic; the social calendar; the popularity of gardening; horse riding; current fashions in women's clothing; increasing opulence and decline in manners; women's involvement with charitable work; the improvement of education of women, the rise of clubs for women...
Dates: Jun 1907
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), Aug 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/85/42-45
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Copy of an article entitled "Modern Manners and the Unmannerly Age" by Mrs Cornwallis West [Lady Randolph Churchill] in The Cosmopolitan which includes observations on social customs and etiquette and the deportment and conduct of women. Printed, annotated in pencil by Lady Randolph Churchill.

Dates: Aug 1904
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), Jul 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/85/46-52
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Copy of an illustrated article entitled "A Journey in Japan" by Lady Randolph Churchill [in The Pall Mall Magazine] about her visit to Japan with Lord Randolph Churchill in 1894. Printed.

Dates: Jul 1904
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), c 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/85/53-58
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Draft copy of an article [by Lady Randolph Churchill] for the New York World which includes observations about society in London and New York [United States], Mrs William Astor's [Mary Astor's] comments about American "salons" and the position of women in both countries. Typescript with manuscript corrections.

Dates: c 1905
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), c 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/85/59-66
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Notes for speeches [given by Lady Randolph Churchill] which include a synopsis of a lecture on women in politics and female suffrage; a synopsis of a lecture on "society at work and play" and the text of a speech given at the Women Writers' Dinner. Typescript.

Dates: c 1905
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), 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/86A/6
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Photograph of Lady Randolph Churchill and Lady Curzon [formerly Lady Georgiana Churchill, later Lady Howe] with Lord Curzon [later Lord Howe] seated in a pony carriage. Caption reads "How the Woodstock [Oxfordshire] election was won".

Dates: 1885
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), [Jan] [1874]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/92/52-54
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Letter from Jennie [Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill](Paris [France]) to [Lord Randolph Churchill] in which she says that she has been dancing, describes the Moultons' ball and says that she was criticised for attending such an occasion before her marriage by [Charles, Comte de] Fitzjames. She says that she will not go to future dances and sympathises with his anxiety [about Lady Portarlington's health].

Dates: [Jan] [1874]
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), 18 Apr 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/105/4
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Issue of the St Stephen's Review published to commemorate 'Primrose Day' and dedicated to the Primrose League which includes cartoons and satirical pieces about Lord Randolph and an item about Dames of the Primrose League which mentions Lady Randolph Churchill. Some of the cartoons are annotated with notes about the identity of those portrayed.

Dates: 18 Apr 1885
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 [Jul] 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/121/77-78
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Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill] (Headquarters, 5th Army, British Expeditionary Force, France) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he expresses sympathy about the cancellation of her plans [to visit Nigeria] due to the rules about women travelling; describes a day spent with WSC and "Sunny" [Charles, 9th Duke of Marlborough] at the battle field and thanks her for offering to pay school fees for "Johnnie" [John G Churchill]. Envelope present.

Dates: 12 [Jul] 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jun 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/122/38
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Letter from Victoria (Schoneberg House, Pall Mall [London]) to Lady Randolph [Churchill] thanking her for agreeing to arrange concerts for the munitions workers.

Dates: 22 Jun 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Oct 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/122/72-73
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Letter from Winifred McKidd (100 Cromwell Road [London]) to [Constance] Larymore giving details of her career including her work for the Bank of Montreal [Canada], the Ministry of Food and says that she intends to prove that "a woman's work is equal to that of a man's". Annotated on the dorse with notes in the hand of Lady Randolph Churchill. Covering letter at CHAR 28/122/71.

Dates: 28 Oct 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1915]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/122/100
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Letter from "Winnie" [Winifred, Duchess of Portland](43 Avenue Henri Martin [Paris, France]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] asking for information about the hospital ship Maine for a hospital ship, the "Charlie Rouge", which is to sail to the Dardanelles.

Dates: [1915]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), c 1883

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/125/28
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Printed rules relating to membership of the Primrose League by women.

Dates: c 1883
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 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/229B/186
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Letter from [Dame] Vera Laugton Mathews [Director Women's Royal Naval Service] (Admiralty) expressing her grateful thoughts as a "representative of a very large body of women" for WSC's war leadership. [signed manuscript].

Dates: 09 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/232/1-3
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Minute from "T L R" [Leslie Rowan, Prime Minister's Private Secretary] giving information on manpower levels in the Middle East, and WSC's general request for reductions, stating that the Manpower Committee and Cabinet have not accepted a general release from the Services of any women who want to go, and enclosing a report from the Chancellor [of the Exchequer, Sir John Anderson, later 1st Lord Waverley, CHAR 20/232/4-5]. [initialled].

Dates: 13 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/232/4-6
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Memorandum from "J A" [Sir John Anderson, later 1st Lord Waverley, Chancellor of the Exchequer] to WSC marked "Top Secret" on Manpower Committee proposals on demobilisation in the second half of 1945, releasing women and men from the Services, and concluding that any enlargement of military commitment is incompatible with the demands of domestic reconstruction. [initialled; flagged "A"].

Dates: 12 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open