Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Barry Smallman, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies; Stuart Gilbert, [Private Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Local Government] (3); [Margaret] Barbara Sloman, [Assistant Principal], Treasury (2); E Landells, Ministry of National Insurance (5); Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War (3); John Marshall, [Principal], Treasury; John Morrison, [later 2nd Lord Dunrossil, Assistant Private...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Noel Moore, Assistant Private Secretary to the Postmaster General; [Arthur] Miles Davies [Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education] on education grants for members of religious orders; William Reid [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Education] (2); John Harvey [MP for Walthamstow East, Essex] (6); [John] Michael Bridgeman, Treasury; Ronald Shadrack, constituent (5); Michael Milne-Watson, Chairman, North Thames Gas Board; [Francis] Brooks Richards [Assistant...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, WSC's election agent (18); John Harvey, Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association (9); Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, on a hoax letter from the "Conservative Propaganda Centre"; George Christ [Parliamentary Liaison Officer, Conservative Party, and Editor Weekly News Letter] (2); Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (2), (1) also from Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa...

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Photo of WSC, riding a dark polo pony during a polo match, with polo mallet lifted up.

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Photo of WSC, riding a dark polo pony towards the camera.

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Papers on ELS’s poodle.

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Papers on ELS’s poodle.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Reginald] Langford-James sending a document bearing the signature of Sir Winston Churchill [father of 1st Duke of Marlborough, not included]; Harold Butler [Minister at HM Embassy, Washington, United States] sending on a copy of a book from Walter Lippmann; Emil Ludwig looking to meet WSC; [Brendan] Bracken sending on a book by Bishop [David] Mathew; [Oliver] Harvey [Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] sending on a book; Major-General Robert Money...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Betram Rumble, Honorary Secretary of the Air Force Benevolent Fund on obtaining WSC's signature (2). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from WSC's secretaries [Kathleen] Hill and "E S L" [Elizabeth Layton], [Prime Minister's Private Secretaries, Edith] Watson and "J M M" [John Martin], CSC and [her secretary] "G H" [Grace Hamblin], and "C R T" [Charles Thompson, Personal Assistant to WSC].Other subjects include: various gifts and items sent or offered to...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Guy] Millard of the Foreign Office (2) and [Philip] Mitchell, Managing Director, Royal Mail House, (3) on gifts to WSC of an atlas of Poland and a statuette from the Ukrainian Democratic Colony of Sao Paolo [Brazil]; [6th] Lord Clarendon [earlier Lord Hyde], Chairman Revenue Committee, Toc H (2) requesting WSC's patronage for an event and inviting him to a luncheon; Reverend [James] Tomlin on publishing an anecdote about WSC at school; [John] Perowne of the Foreign...

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Contains questions and answers prepared by Conservative and Unionist Central Office on a variety of election issues including: agricultural matters; animal welfare; various aspects of foreign affairs including China, Germany, Japan, Persia [Iran], South Africa, and Mexico; civil servants; education; housing matters; the health service; women; transport particularly by road; pensions; economic affairs including taxation; the constitutional position of Scotland and Wales.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Abdullah [ibn Hussein], King of Jordan [earlier Transjordan], (2) and Edward Tomkins (Foreign Office) on a visit to the United Kingdom by Abdullah; Dean Acheson [Secretary of State, United States] on WSC's visit to the United States; Sir Richard Acland and Donald Bruce [later Lord Bruce of Donnington, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister of Health] forewarning WSC of criticism in the House of Commons; Konrad Adenauer [Federal Chancellor of Germany] on WSC's...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Thelma Cazalet-Kier, Chairman of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee; Gertrude Turquand; [Frederick] Potter, Mayor of Deal [Kent] on receiving signed photographs of WSC; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; Richard Baker, founder of the Men of the Trees, on their New Earth Charter. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries including Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford].Other subjects include: equal pay for women; foreign affairs including Egypt and...

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Copy of the bill authorising racecourse authorities and bookmakers to use totalisators at racecourses.Printed pamphlet.

Scope and Contents Paper prepared by the Custom House including the background to the bill, its purpose to amend the 1853 Betting Act, aims to establish totalisators on racecourses and for bookmakers on racecourses to be controlled by the Jockey Club and the National Hunt Committee and to support horse breeding and the sport of racing; reasons for low attendance at racecourses including poor conditions; explanation of the totalisator and its advantages; introduction of fees for bookmakers; and observations on...

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Photograph of WSC's lion Rota and a lioness lying in their cage [at London Zoo].

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Close up photograph of WSC's lion Rota lying in his cage [at London Zoo]. The original caption adds that "his cubs, born in May, were called Alamein, Mareth, Tunis and Bizerta, in commemoration of our victories".

Scope and Contents This is the final scrapbook made by Eleanor Brett, Viscountess Esher, and is the most sparsely populated out of all the volumes. She notes at the beginning of the volume how she did not keep a detailed diary after 1918, so the dates included ‘are only a few dates of interest’. The book largely revolves around recording her social and travel arrangements from 1919-1920. Contents include: a letter addressed to Miss Hackett [Norah Desmond Hackett] on 29 January 1919, co-founder of the...

Scope and Contents This scrapbook documents how Eleanor spent the first year of the First World War. It begins as Eleanor recounts hearing about the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, from Prince Louis of Battenberg who sat at the next table to her and her family at the Savoy on 28 June 1914. During 1914, Eleanor re-commenced the running of First Aid classes for women, which she ran from the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, with St John’s Ambulance. In September 1914, her scrapbook...

Scope and Contents The scrapbook opens with a description of Eleanor visiting the French Front, dining in Compiegne and being given a tour of a hospital. Eleanor and Reginald travelled back to London where Eleanor continued her work running First Aid classes at the Duke of York’s Headquarters in between seeing Sylvia [daughter], Zena [daughter-in-law], and their families and swallowing a chicken bone where she ‘thought my last moment had come’. Eleanor returned to Paris, where she comments on the heightened...

Scope and Contents The scrapbook opens with a poster ‘Taisez-Vous! Méfiez-Vous! Les Oreilles Enemies Vous Écoutent’ (translated as Shut up! Beware! Enemy Ears Are Listening To You) which Eleanor captions: ‘This notice was put up in all rail way carriages, trams, public buildings of all kinds in France’, as well as a list of battles which began in 1916. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor combines reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which she notes on small pieces of...

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Correspondence, with some copies of letters from Churchill to CS, on subjects including: Churchill's and CS's racing colours; Churchill's membership of the Jockey Club; Churchill's racehorses, including Colonist II and High Hat; figures for his stud at the time of his death.

Scope and Contents Letters from Churchill's lecture tour of Canada and the United States, with Randolph Churchill, Jack [John S Churchill] and Jack's son Johnnie [John G Churchill]. Subjects include: the voyage out; articles Churchill was working on; preparatory work for his biography of 1st Duke of Marlborough; Churchill's poor view of the treaty with Egypt and the violence that was likely once British troops were withdrawn; staying in Quebec; Free Trade and protectionism; speeches at Montreal, Ottawa,...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: various speeches, May 1954; Clementine's treatment [for neuritis]; a weekend at Chequers [Buckinghamshire], May 1954; the health of Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa Churchill, later Clarissa, Lady Avon], Churchill's agreement with [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] over the Geneva conference [on Indochina and Korea] and hopes for a ceasefire, while also avoiding a break with the United States; a debate on MPs' pay and a row in the Conservative...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: worries about Clementine's health; stays by Churchill at La Pausa with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], and Wendy Reves, Roquebrune [France]; the health of Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill and Diana Bailey]; meeting Aristotle Onassis; visits from [Marguerite] Daisy Fellowes, earlier Daisy de Broglie, R A Butler and [William] Somerset Maugham; work on ["A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"] with Churchill's literary assistants, [Richard] Denis Kelly and Alan...