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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), 11 Feb 1935

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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

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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

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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), 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), 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
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(Untitled), 23 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/150
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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), 05 Nov 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/260/13-55
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Letter from [Percy] Malcolm Stewart, Commissioner for the Special Areas (England and Wales) to Lord Wolmer (later 3rd Lord Selborne), enclosing carbon copy of his third report to the Minister of Labour.

Dates: 05 Nov 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/32
Scope and Contents

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
Scope and Contents 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), 09 Dec 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/115/14-16
Scope and Contents 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.
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(Untitled), 23 Dec 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/115/29-31
Scope and Contents 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.
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(Untitled), 06 Apr [1897]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/23/31-33A
Scope and Contents 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.
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William Smith (1756-1835) and family correspondence, journals and other papers

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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).
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Working papers: Homosexuality Order (draft), 1966-12 - 1979-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 9/2/4
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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.
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Working papers: Northern Ireland Orders, 1976-10 - 1979-02

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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.