Social reform
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 317 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), 30 Jun 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/29/67-68
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on boys accepted by the Royal Navy from Training Ships, stating that he felt that three years' good character from one of these ships should be sufficient to delete all previous records, and that there was no need for application to the police. WSC comments that it was wrong to inflict "life disabilities on children" as in many cases boys were committed to reformatories and industrial schools for offences like sleeping out, or because magistrates...
Dates:
30 Jun 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 13 Dec 1924
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/2/62-71
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, explaining his efforts to have a settled financial policy and discussing increased navy estimates and his calculations that they are higher than suggested. He argues that armaments expenditure paralyses government policy in social and industrial reform, tax reduction and borrowing and warns that accepting the navy estimates will lead to electoral defeat; that the Admiralty is preoccupied with unfounded and unlikely threats from...
Dates:
13 Dec 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 28 Nov 1924
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/89-94
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, marked "most secret" relaying a conversation with Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health] about including the costs of widows and old age insurance in the budget; balancing relief to the direct taxpayer; meeting the cost of war pensions; the timing of implementing Chamberlain's Insurance Bill; establishment of a committee of experts to consider insurance; housing and funding for building "Weir" steel houses; and support for...
Dates:
28 Nov 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 23 Apr 1925
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/150-164
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Copy of a letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer [WSC] to King George V about his budget proposals. He explains that the budget has two main objectives: to provide security for the wage earning population against misfortune and to encourage the "enterprise of the nation" by remission of income taxes; that the 1925 budget is based on tax revenue of £826 million set against expenditure of £799.5 million; proposals to increase estate duty and taxes on luxury goods and to re-introduce the...
Dates:
23 Apr 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 12 May 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/60/93
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Letter from James Stuart [Government Chief Whip] to WSC, passing on congratulations from MPs and ministers on his recent broadcast [10 May] and parliamentary opposition to the Beveridge plan [? of social insurance].
Dates:
12 May 1942
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From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 15 Mar 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/234/125
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Note from Violet Pearman [Private Secretary to WSC] to WSC, enclosing a draft copy of Edward Spears's Bill to amend the Vagrancy Act [CHAR 2/234/126] and containing a note dictated by Spears explaining the history of the Bill, and asking WSC to back it. Annotated by Violet Pearman (16 March) that WSC thought he would not be able to do so.
Dates:
15 Mar 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 24 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/207/44
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Letter from Sir William Jowitt [later Lord Jowitt, Minister of National Insurance] (6 Carlton House Terrace, London) to WSC placing his office at WSC's disposal; and giving details of the progress in Parliament of the Family Allowance Bill and one to substitute a new system of Workmen's Compensation. Signed manuscript.
Dates:
24 May 1945
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 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/32
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Letter from WSC to Ernest Brown [Leader of the Liberal National Group] reciting additional sentence, regarding proposals for social security and full employment, which is to be inserted in the text of his letter of today [carbon].
Dates:
18 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 18 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/33
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Letter from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later Lord Thurso, Secretary of State for Air] reciting additional sentence, regarding proposals for social security and full employment, which is to be inserted in the text of his letter of today [carbon].
Dates:
18 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197B/175
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Letter from Wilson Harris [Editor of the Spectator] (The Spectator, 99 Gower street, London, WC1 )to John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] requesting permission to quote from some of WSC's letters in J A Spender's papers in his forthcoming biography of Spender. He states that the letters are, "so far as I remember", pre-1914, and that the most interesting one was written while WSC was on a tour of the Nile [Egypt] in 1907 describing the prospects for democracy and outlining the...
Dates:
02 Jan 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 10 Sep 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/257/51
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Telegram from WSC [on board the Queen Mary reaching Canada] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee], Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon], and others concerned, marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire 36" on the publication of the Beveridge Insurance Scheme White Paper. [Copy].
Dates:
10 Sep 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: WSC's Personal Telegrams from Quebec [Canada] ("Octagon"). [arranged in reverse chronological order; with some later notes by WSC and his literary assistant Denis Kelly from the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 23 Dec 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/115/29-31
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Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to J Moore Bayley including: his opinion of the "disgraceful" riots in Birmingham; the harm which would have befallen "the Imperial cause in South Africa" if [David] Lloyd George had been injured in the riots; his opinion of Lloyd George as "a vulgar, chattering little cad"; comments on a book called "Poverty" by [Seebohm] Rowntree; the urgency of social reform as "I see little glory in an Empire which can rule the waves and is unable to flush its sewers"....
Dates:
23 Dec 1901
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers. Acquired Papers. Archival material (mainly letters from Lord Randolph Churchill) donated to WSC and correspondence relating to the donations. Includes a several letters from Lord Randolph and WSC to J Moore Bayley.
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(Untitled), 09 Dec 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/115/14-16
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Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to James Keir Hardie declining an invitation to speak on the Labour Question in Ayrshire [Scotland]. He explains that he does not feel confident of speaking about the regulation of working hours by the State; recommends an article by Sidney Webb [later Lord Passfield]; discusses his support for an Eight Hours Bill drafted by Webb which he describes an ideal for "democratic legislation" as it would reduce unemployment and the...
Dates:
09 Dec 1889
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers. Acquired Papers. Archival material (mainly letters from Lord Randolph Churchill) donated to WSC and correspondence relating to the donations. Includes a several letters from Lord Randolph and WSC to J Moore Bayley.
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(Untitled), 06 Apr [1897]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/23/31-33A
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Letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: his injury by splintered bullets; apologies for a dishonoured cheque and discussion of his financial difficulties; the route of his return journey and his intention to visit Rome [Italy]; his opinions on the "wicked" treatment of insurgents in Crete [Greece] by the British government, on the policy of [Robert, 3rd] Lord Salisbury and on the necessity that Russia should regain Constantinople [Istanbul,...
Dates:
06 Apr [1897]
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers: Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill and also John S Churchill and Reginald Barnes. The file contains letters written by WSC about his time in Bangalore with the 4th Hussars; his posting to the Malakand Field Force with Sir Bindon Blood and about his first literary endeavours ("Savrola", "The Scaffolding of Rhetoric" and "The Story of the Malakand Field Force"). The file also contains two letters from Sir Bindon Blood. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Fonds
William Smith (1756-1835) and family correspondence, journals and other papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7621
Scope and Contents
The larger part of the collection dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chronicling William Smith's personal and political career, as well as illustrating the lives of his wife Frances and their children. The collection includes letters from Smith's friends, among them Charles James Fox, William Wilberforce and Sir Francis Burdett. The papers also chronicle Smith's time in Paris in 1790, where he witnessed and recorded his reactions to the 14th July celebrations. The...
Dates:
1678-1951
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Working papers: Homosexuality Order (draft), 1966-12 - 1979-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 9/2/4
Scope and Contents
Copy of the draft Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order (1978) with supporting papers and correspondence, including extracts from Hansard on various sexual offences bills, letters between Andrew Weir, Clerk of Assembly and General Secretary to the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and James Molyneaux [Leader, Ulster Unionist Party, House of Commons], and a statement by the Presbyterian Church on the proposed order.
Dates:
1966-12 - 1979-01
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.
File
Working papers: Northern Ireland Orders, 1976-10 - 1979-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 9/2/3
Scope and Contents
Draft Orders in Council with supporting papers and correspondence, on subjects including: debt payment; alcohol licensing, including letters from James Dunn, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office (4); divorce law reform, including letters from Richard Ryder, Political Secretary to Margaret Thatcher [Leader of the Opposition], James Dunn (3), Roy Mason, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (2), James Molyneaux [Leader, Ulster Unionist Party, House of Commons],...
Dates:
1976-10 - 1979-02
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.