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Social reform

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 316 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), [Jan] [1922]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/120/13
Scope and Contents

Resolution [by WSC] affirming the Government's commitment to constructive social policy. Carbon typescript copy.

Dates: [Jan] [1922]
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), 1920

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/110/20
Scope and Contents

"Ex-service men and women. By W.S. Practical information and authoritative facts relating to the interests of all men and women who served in the Great War." Pro-government pamphlet covering pensions, training and resettlement.

Dates: 1920
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), 14 Sep 1925

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/142/35-40
Scope and Contents Letter from [WSC] to Samuel Hammersley supporting Mr Eastham's candidature for Stockport [Cheshire], responding to criticisms of the Government made by David Lloyd George over the Coal Subsidy, the construction of a naval base at Singapore and the arrangements for the settlement of the French war debt to Britain. Points to the resolutions of the Trade Union Congress as evidence that the parliamentary leaders of the Labour Party cannot control their extremist supporters and looks forward to...
Dates: 14 Sep 1925
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), 07 Feb 1935

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/234/45-47
Scope and Contents

Letter from Norman Mitchell (576 Paisley Road West, Ibrox, Glasgow [Scotland]) to WSC on the Housing (Scotland) Bill and the adverse effects it would have on property owners by making them either improve their properties or sell to the local authorities.

Dates: 07 Feb 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Feb 1935

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/234/50-54
Scope and Contents Letter from John Fingland, of Fingland and Mitchell, house factors, property valuators and insurance agents (645 Govan Road, Govan, Glasgow [Scotland]) to WSC asking him to oppose the second reading of the Housing (Scotland) Bill as houses categorized as "unfit" are liable to be taken over compulsorily by the local authorities, or else owners will have to pay to re-condition their property, which has already suffered a severe drop in market value as a result of the proposed bill. He wants to...
Dates: 11 Feb 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Mar 1935

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/234/125
Scope and Contents

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), 31 Jan 1935

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/234/126
Scope and Contents

Draft of a Bill to amend the Vagrancy Act. [Covering letter at CHAR 2/234/125]. Printed.

Dates: 31 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Oct 1935

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/150
Scope and Contents

Letter from the Reverend William Geikie-Cobb, Chairman, Marriage Law Reform League (1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London) to WSC, inviting him to become President of the League, in place of the late 1st Lord Buckmaster. He admits the unpopularity of public dealing with questions of marriage, but cites 1st Lord Hewart [Lord Chief Justice]'s recent articles on the need for reform.

Dates: 23 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Aug 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/34
Scope and Contents

Letter from C F Ray (Board of Trade) to WSC enclosing a memorandum on labour exchanges and unemployment insurance [see CHAR 2/57/35-41]. Signed typescript.

Dates: 31 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), Aug 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/35-41
Scope and Contents

Memorandum on labour exchanges and unemployment insurance. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/57/34.

Dates: Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/48
Scope and Contents

Letter from [?WSC] to the secretary of the National Health Insurance Commission asking for information to deal with a point raised by [?James Ramsay] Macdonald.

Dates: 14 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/49
Scope and Contents

Letter from [?Edward Marsh] to E H Kenney conveying WSC's belief that the points made by Kenney about the Insurance Act are small in comparison with the problems with which the act is intended to deal. Asserts that sacrifices are necessary if Britain is to compete with Germany. Typescript copy.

Dates: 17 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/50-52
Scope and Contents Letter from [the 9th Duke of Marlborough] (Blenheim Palace) to WSC: praises his work at the Admiralty; refers to F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] and "politicians who clothe the results of calculation in the language of enthusiasm"; cites the religious wars in sixteenth-century France as a warning against provoking religious passion in Ulster [Ireland]; complains about having to assess the site value of his land; describes his efforts to re-house his labourers through a co-operative and...
Dates: 01 Oct 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/1
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the "Daily Chronicle" supporting WSC's defence of the Insurance Act but rejecting his proposal for regional parliaments in England as unhelpful with regard to the problem of Irish Home Rule.

Dates: 14 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Sep 1912

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/61/21-23
Scope and Contents

Letter from James Caird (Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) to WSC expressing satisfaction about the state of the accounts of the sums he has donated towards the work of the Home Rule Council and the promotion of Free Trade and referring to: the plan to establish a club for sailors at Rosyth (Fife, Scotland); the engagement of his employees through the labour exchange and the problem of stamping the health insurance and unemployment tickets.

Dates: 25 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Mar 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/45/63
Scope and Contents

Letter from George Barnes (House of Commons) to WSC asking him to use his influence to get a day set apart for the introduction of the Unemployment Insurance Bill.

Dates: 09 Mar 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Oct 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/57-58
Scope and Contents

Letter from Samuel Smethurst, president of the National Federation of Building Trades Employers of Great Britain and Ireland (Koh-i-noor House, Kingsway, London) to WSC (Home Office) complaining on the heavy financial burden imposed on the building industry by unnecessary claims under the Workmen's Compensation Act and expressing the wish that similar abuses should be guarded against under the proposed scheme of unemployment insurance. Signed typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/46/56.

Dates: 26 Oct 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Nov 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/72
Scope and Contents

Letter from C P Scott (The Firs, Fallowfield, Manchester) to WSC asserting that only if social reform were financed from taxation would people appreciate its true cost.

Dates: 03 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 [Nov 1910]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/96
Scope and Contents

Letter from Robert Harcourt (House of Commons) to WSC suggesting that Sir Robert Price present the Minority Report on the Poor Law as a private member's bill. Annotated that WSC thinks a debate on the report could be a good thing.

Dates: 23 [Nov 1910]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Oct 1909 - 15 Jan 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/47/64
Scope and Contents

6 Jan 1910 15 Jan 1910 Cuttings from the Dundee Advertiser [Angus, Scotland]: remarks and speeches by WSC in Dundee [Angus, Scotland] on women's suffrage and old age pensions. With covering note. 8 pieces.

Dates: 19 Oct 1909 - 15 Jan 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Feb 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/48/4
Scope and Contents

Letter from William Royle (Elmwood, Rusholme, [Manchester]) to WSC on the satisfaction of WSC's friends in the Manchester area over his appointment as Home Secretary. Hopes WSC will still be able to pursue the schemes for invalidity and unemployment insurance.

Dates: 15 Feb 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Jan 1911

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/51/2-3
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] praising him for his leadership during the general election campaign and considering the present political situation. He asserts that the restriction of the House of Lords' veto must be the pre-requisite for any co-operation between the Government and the Tories on reform of the Lords and any other issue, and that the Government should have no hesitation in creating 500 new peers if necessary. After the veto has been...
Dates: 03 Jan 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1911

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/51/7-13
Scope and Contents Letter from W H Shaw, port steward of the British Yukon Navigation Company (White Horse, Yukon Territory, Canada) to WSC praising him, David Lloyd-George and the Government generally for their measures "for the benefit of the struggling masses." He describes: the poor living conditions he experienced in Huddersfield [Yorkshire] before leaving about 27 years earlier and their bad effects on morality and on the fitness of men enlisting for the Army; his approval of the Government's land reform...
Dates: 08 Jan 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1911

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/51/16
Scope and Contents

Letter from Robert Chalmers (Board of Inland Revenue) to Edward Marsh reporting that the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] did not in 1909 favour the exemption of estates from estate duty for 25 years because the loss of revenue could not be afforded "in these spacious days of social reform.".

Dates: 08 Jan 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Jan 1911

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/51/25-27
Scope and Contents Letter from William Beveridge [later Lord Beveridge] (Labour Exchanges, Central Office, Caxton House, Westminster, [London]) to WSC on: the effect of the Workmen's Compensation Act on unemployment; the scheme of registering at the Labour Exchange boys employed as golf caddies to ensure that they move into more suitable jobs when they become available; the general function of Labour Exchanges of ensuring that light work is done by aged or injured workers rather than by fitter ones; the recent...
Dates: 18 Jan 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open