Women
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Found in 419 Collections and/or Records:
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1978-09-19 - 1997-07-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRG 1/6
Scope and Contents
Three letters found among the papers on European affairs and the Belgrano controversy in SPRG Accession 2054. Comprising: letter from Nigel Spearing to Austen Spearing, on his reaction to the 'Aachen Agreement' and comparisons to the 1931 May Report, 19 September 1978; letter from John Walley, on Labour's social policies during the twentieth century and the three 'Margarets' [Bondfield, Thatcher, and Beckett], 3 August 1993; and copy of letter from Spearing to Michael [White] responding to...
Dates:
1978-09-19 - 1997-07-07
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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"My daughter Mary: She's in the Army now", 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/176
Scope and Contents
Head and shoulders portrait of Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] wearing ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Service] uniform and beret.
Dates:
1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"My daughter Mary: She's in the Army now", 1944-06-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/177
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Photo shows WSC sitting in a chair, wearing a metal helmet and holding a pair of large binoculars. CSC, wearing a metal helmet, stands behind him with her fingers in her ears. Mary Churchill leans over WSC, also wearing a metal helmet, pointing to the sky. Anti-aircraft guns and ATS personnel are seen in the distance.
Dates:
1944-06-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"My daughter Mary: She's in the Army now", 1942-04-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/178
Scope and Contents
Photo shows WSC, wearing a fedora style hat, overcoat and with a cigar in his mouth, accompanied by CSC who is wearing an overcoat and a headscarf. They are inspecting anti-artillery equipment which is being operated by women serving with ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Services] who are wearing metal helmets. They are in a recessed trench which is protected by sandbags.
Dates:
1942-04-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"My daughter Mary: She's in the Army now", 1941-09 - 1941-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/179
Scope and Contents
Photo shows Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] with 3 other ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Services] recruits seated on the grass polishing lace up shoes.
Dates:
1941-09 - 1941-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"My daughter Mary: She's in the Army now", 1944-06-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/180
Scope and Contents
Photo shows WSC and Mary Churchill, both wearing metal helmets and binoculars round their necks, looking up at the sky. WSC has a cigar in his mouth and Mary is wearing an ATS uniform and shielding her eyes from the sun.
Dates:
1944-06-30
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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NHS: women, 1984 - 1987-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 11/1/8
Scope and Contents
Notes and papers on women’s healthcare, particularly cancer screening.
Dates:
1984 - 1987-06
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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Notices, candidates and class lists for women taking Unversity examinations, 1881 - 1910
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Exam.L.60-2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Management Group:
The category - Teaching, learning and research records - comprises records relating to curriculum delivery and examination, further research and the award of degrees; also such adjuncts to study as laboratories, the Botanic Garden and University Library.
Dates:
1881 - 1910
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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"Observations on 'The case for and against a legal minimum wage for sewated workers' published by the Women's Industrial Council", 27 April [1908]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/16/13-20
Scope and Contents
Includes: observations on "the case for" by Mis B L Hutchins which highlights difficulties with the figures for wages cited in the report and observations on "the case against" by Mrs J Ramsay MacDonald stressing that the experience in Victoria [Australia] should be taken into account with the Trade Boards Bill, specifically the role of Wages Boards and experience of determining wages in the tailoring trade, and discussing minimum wages.Carbon typescript initialled CEC [Clara Collett, Senior...
Dates:
27 April [1908]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: Trade Boards Bill, Sweated Industries Bill: notes and papers., 18 Feb 1908 - 09 Apr 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/16
Scope and Contents
Includes: an annotated copy of "The Case for and against a Legal Minimum Wage for Sweated Workers" by the Women's Industrial Council; a memorandum on the Sweated Industries Bill; a memorandum on the Wages Board System in Victoria [Australia]; a memorandum on Civil Service Conciliation or Wages Boards; notes on Sidney Webb [later 1st Lord Passfield]'s scheme for dealing with the Unemployed; observations by Clara Collet [Senior Investigator, Board of Trade] on "The Case for and against a Legal...
Dates:
18 Feb 1908 - 09 Apr 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: Unemployment Insurance: printed papers., 21 Feb 1906 - 04 Apr 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/1A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes: the report of the Departmental Committee on Vagrancy (Volume 1); preliminary notes on proposed Board of Trade legislation, including the Employers' Liability Insurance Companies Bill, the Companies Acts Amendment Bill, the Patent Law Consolidation Bill, the Light Railways Bill, the amendments to the Cheap Trains Act and Life Assurance Companies' Acts and Copyright legislation; memorandums for the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws, on subjects including unemployment statistics,...
Dates:
21 Feb 1906 - 04 Apr 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Correspondence and notes., 04 Feb 1909 - 19 Jul 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/12
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: David Lloyd George on his and WSC's opposition to the naval building programme; Moreton Frewen on Bank of England policy and the issuing of 10 shilling notes; Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] , Prime Minister and Lord Crewe [earlier Lord Houghton and Robert Milnes] objecting to a speech by WSC in which he forecast a dissolution of Parliament if the House of Lords proposed amendments to the 1909 [People's] Budget.Also includes press cuttings on speeches...
Dates:
04 Feb 1909 - 19 Jul 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Emergency Business Committee: Conclusions 1-6., 02 May 1929 - 22 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/239
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes of statements made by [1st] Lord Hailsham [earlier Sir Douglas Hogg] Lord Chancellor; [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne], Minister of Agriculture; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education; Sir Arthur...
Dates:
02 May 1929 - 22 May 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Emergency Business Committee: papers 1 to 20 plus index., 27 Apr 1929 - 10 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/240
Scope and Contents
Includes an election address by Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister on government policy (on colonial development, inter-imperial relations, economic affairs, agriculture and education) and a statement by WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on co-operative societies and income tax. Also includes suggested replies to questions put to Conservative candidates on a variety of issues including the merchandise marks act, prosecution of spiritualist mediums (in response to a question by Sir Arthur Conan...
Dates:
27 Apr 1929 - 10 May 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Emergency Business Committee: papers 21 - 40., 10 May 1929 - 13 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/241
Scope and Contents
Includes suggested replies to questions put to Conservative candidates on a variety of issues including: employment conditions; importation of dyestuffs; agriculture; taxation of motor vehicles; war pensions; migration; sea defence works; the rent restriction act; education policy regarding women teachers; and old age pensions.
Dates:
10 May 1929 - 13 May 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: notes., Feb 1909 - Apr 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/14
Scope and Contents
Includes a programme for the 1909 Parliamentary session and Cabinet papers on various subjects including: Supertax; the taxation of land values; stamp duties; increased death duties; assessment of property owners and the Finances Bill; report of the Poor Law Commission with recommended social reforms such as the classification of the poor and the establishment of labour exchanges; the Dairies (Scotland) bill and agricultural rates; Metropolitan Police finance; the Lake Magadi scheme for...
Dates:
Feb 1909 - Apr 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: Papers 1 - 19., 14 Jan 1929 - 30 Jan 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/227
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: [1st] Lord Peel, Secretary of State for India, on Indian contributions to the home effective charges of the British army and the political situation in India; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the trade outlook and economic situation including details of various industries, exports and colonial trade; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord...
Dates:
14 Jan 1929 - 30 Jan 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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Official: Cabinet: papers 81 to 100., Feb 1927 - Mar 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/156
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor and [1st] Lord Cecil [of Chelwood] on equal franchise and the effect of the enfranchisement of more women; a report by John Davidson, Chairman of the Unionist Party, on the distribution of female electors; notes of a deputation to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on equal...
Dates:
Feb 1927 - Mar 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 241 - 270., 08 Apr 1925 - 27 May 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/37
Scope and Contents
Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Edward Wood [later Lord Irwin and Lord Halifax], Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, on the Diseases of Animals Bill; a draft of the Diseases of Animals Bill; 4th Lord Salisbury, [earlier Lord Cranborne] the Lord Privy Seal, on the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Bill; a draft of the Honours Bill; Lord Kilmarnock [later 22nd Lord Erroll] on the risks of anti-allied demonstrations during the Rhineland [Germany]...
Dates:
08 Apr 1925 - 27 May 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Cabinet: War Policy Committee: statement by David Lloyd George [Minister of Munitions]., 16 Aug 1915 - 18 Aug 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/56
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 copies of a statement by Lloyd George on the manufacture of munitions covering requirements for the war, estimated dates of completion, calculations of wastage on the Western Front, labour problems including the employment of women and the deployment of trained engineers in the army, the possible effect of compulsory military service. Also includes a statement by Lloyd George on the supply of guns.
Dates:
16 Aug 1915 - 18 Aug 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Cabinet: War Policy Committee: statements., 19 Aug 1915 - 23 Aug 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/58
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 copies of statements by: Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, on numbers of people employed in services "of national importance", the employment of women in the railway industry and the extent of enlistment from the industrial classes; Walter Long, President of the Local Government Board, on the use of the national register to recall skilled men from the army for munitions work and on compulsory service; and Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on economic...
Dates:
19 Aug 1915 - 23 Aug 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence., 01 Jun 1921 - 30 Jun 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/6
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] on subjects including the Aga Khan's claims for reparations from Germany, the appointment of ?John Thompson and his conviction that Indians should be given equal status (5); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on expenditure and troops in Palestine and Mesopotamia [Iraq] (6); Leo Amery [Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Colonies] on the Empire settlement policy (3); David Lloyd George, Prime...
Dates:
01 Jun 1921 - 30 Jun 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: Demobilisation Committee: memoranda., 02 Nov 1918 - 26 Nov 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/50
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on demobilisation issues including: [1st] Lord Cave, Home Secretary, on the demobilisation of enemy aliens; WSC, Minister of Munitions; [Sir Arthur] Duckham on industrial transition; [1st] Lord Inchcape [earlier James Mackay] on capital issues; Sir Stephenson Kent [Controller-General of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement] on training for women and building licenses; Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction] on subjects including the...
Dates:
02 Nov 1918 - 26 Nov 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: Demobilisation Committee: minutes., 31 Oct 1918 - 20 Dec 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/49
Scope and Contents
Includes draft and final copies of minutes of statements made by: General Jan Smuts; Austen Chamberlain; George Barnes; [Sir] Edwin Montagu; Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction]; George Roberts, Minister of Labour; Sir Stephenson Kent [Controller-General of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement] and Sir David Shackleton [Permanent Secretary Ministry of Labour]. Subjects discussed include: the organisation and accommodation of government offices; the regulation of war...
Dates:
31 Oct 1918 - 20 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives., 29 Dec 1944 - 17 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/14
Scope and Contents
Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: correspondence between WSC and President Franklin Roosevelt on American voting powers in the United Nations; post-war demand for airfields, including a report by the Chiefs of Staff; records of speeches and a conversation between WSC and Stalin at the Yalta Conference [Soviet Union]; the allocation of man-power, including the release of women from the Forces; telegrams between WSC and [Mackenzie King] Prime Minister of...
Dates:
29 Dec 1944 - 17 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open