Social reform
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Series
Official: Treasury, 1924 - 1929
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18
Scope and Contents
The Treasury papers contain correspondence, minutes, tables, printed reports, and other papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position held from November 1924 to June 1929. The papers have been divided into general correspondence, WSC's outgoing minutes, and subject-based files and are arranged chronologically.The Treasury material covers WSC's ministerial duties as Chancellor, including the annual production of the budget,...
Dates:
1924 - 1929
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From the Fonds:
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Official: Treasury: Budget 1925-1926: Customs and Excise memoranda, Treasury memoranda and tables, used in the production of the Budget., 1924 - 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda, notes and letters from Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury]; 1st Lord Stamfordham [earlier Sir Arthur Bigge, Private Secretary to King George V]; Sir William Mitchell-Thomson [later 1st Lord Selsdon, Postmaster-General and Chief Civil Commissioner].Also includes copy letters and notes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to: Prime...
Dates:
1924 - 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: correspondence., 08 Jan 1925 - 26 Jun 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/8
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Major-General Sir Fabian Ware (2); 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster] on European disarmament (2); Lord Eustace Percy [President of the Board of Education]; Leo Amery [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on colonial trade matters (4); Frederick Leith-Ross [British representative on Finance Board] of the Reparation Commission; J Coudurier de Chassaigne (2); 1st Lord Midleton; Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord...
Dates:
08 Jan 1925 - 26 Jun 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: correspondence., 01 Jul 1925 - 28 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Herbert Morrison, Secretary of the London Labour Party, on unemployment; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster] on disarmament; Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple, Minister of Transport]; 1st Lord Weir (3) including one on industrial relief; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet]; Francis Curzon [later 5th Lord Howe] on naval officers' marriage allowance; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister] (2)...
Dates:
01 Jul 1925 - 28 Dec 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: correspondence from WSC (carbon copies)., 09 Nov 1924 - 30 Dec 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/2
Scope and Contents
Recipients include: Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister] (5); Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, (6) on subjects including expenditure on Iraq and Palestine; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith, Secretary of State for India]; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War]; Ronald McNeill [later 1st Lord Cushendun, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, (4) on subjects including marriage licenses for...
Dates:
09 Nov 1924 - 30 Dec 1924
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Official: Treasury: correspondence mainly from WSC (carbon copies)., 17 May 1925 - 31 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/11
Scope and Contents
Recipients include: 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture]; Home Secretary [Sir William Joynson Hicks, later 1st Lord Brentford] (2); Secretary of State for War [Sir Laming Worthington-Evans] (2); Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (8); President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (5); John Pease [later 1st Lord Wardington, Chairman Lloyds Bank]; Austen Chamberlain...
Dates:
17 May 1925 - 31 Dec 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: correspondence mainly from WSC (carbon copies)., 10 Jan 1926 - 21 Dec 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/29
Scope and Contents
Recipients include: President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (3); F Stanley Jackson [Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party]; Count Guiseppe Volpi [Italian Minister of Finance] (2); Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple, Minister of Transport] (2); Sir Robert Horne [later 1st Lord Slamannan]; Leo Amery [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (4); Sir James Craig [later 1st Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister...
Dates:
10 Jan 1926 - 21 Dec 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: correspondence mainly from WSC or James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (carbon copies)., 01 Jul 1925 - 28 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/10
Scope and Contents
Recipients include: Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet] (2); Sir Sydney Chapman [Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade] on safeguarding of industries; Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] (6) on subjects including the trade union political levy and the Colonial Office reorganisation; Lord Wodehouse [later 3rd Lord Kimberley]; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton, President of the Board of Trade]; Peter Larkin [Canadian High Commissioner to...
Dates:
01 Jul 1925 - 28 Dec 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: correspondence on block grants., 15 Jul 1927 - 22 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/63
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health] (3); Lord Eustace Percy [President of the Board of Education]; Alfred Hurst (2) and Edward Hale [Treasury]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services, Treasury] (2).Also includes: details of a parliamentary answer by Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin, from Hansard].Subjects...
Dates:
15 Jul 1927 - 22 Dec 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: correspondence on rating relief., 04 Jun 1927 - 18 Nov 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/64
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Alfred Hurst [Treasury] (5); Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health] (4); Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services, Treasury] (2); Edward Hale [Treasury]; Lord Eustace Percy [President of the Board of Education]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury]; Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes copy letters and minutes from WSC...
Dates:
04 Jun 1927 - 18 Nov 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: correspondence on state pensions., 12 Dec 1924 - 20 May 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/19
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland [Minister of Labour]; Cuthbert James MP; Edward Wood [later Lord Irwin and Lord Halifax, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries]; Sir Alfred Watson [Government Actuary]; and minutes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance] and James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Subjects include: details of the new scheme for unemployment insurance and pensions,...
Dates:
12 Dec 1924 - 20 May 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: papers and correspondence on block grants., 20 Aug 1926 - 25 May 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/62
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Alfred Hurst [Treasury] (5); Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services, Treasury] (3); Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health] (2); Lord Eustace Percy [President of the Board of Education] (3).Also includes: Cabinet Committee on Block Grants papers, including its composition and terms of reference, memoranda by WSC (2), Percy (2), Chamberlain (2), and Home Secretary [Sir William Joynson Hicks, later 1st Lord Brentford], conclusions of meetings, reports, and...
Dates:
20 Aug 1926 - 25 May 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: various papers on rating relief proposals., 21 Jan 1928 - 01 Mar 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/86
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by WSC and: Alfred Hurst [Principal Assistant Secretary, Treasury] (7); President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton]; 1st Lord Weir; Thomas Jones [Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet]; Sir Arthur Robinson [Secretary to Ministry of Health]; Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes:...
Dates:
21 Jan 1928 - 01 Mar 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: various papers on rating relief proposals., 27 Mar 1928 - 24 Apr 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/89
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by WSC and: Lord Eustace Percy [President of the Board of Education] (2); Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; officials of the National Chamber of Trade, including James Clark and Sir William Perring; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Leo Amery; Alfred Hurst [Principal Assistant Secretary, Treasury] (5); Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier...
Dates:
27 Mar 1928 - 24 Apr 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 16 Nov 1924 - 24 Dec 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/3
Scope and Contents
Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin]; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne, Financial Secretary]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller]; Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the...
Dates:
16 Nov 1924 - 24 Dec 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 01 Jan 1925 - 19 Sep 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/12A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes carbon copies of minutes from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC]; Financial Secretary [Walter Guinness, later 1st Lord Moyne]; Sir Horace...
Dates:
01 Jan 1925 - 19 Sep 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives., 24 Nov 1942 - 28 Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/11
Scope and Contents
Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: a forecast of the arrival of American forces in Britain; enemy strength in Tunisia, including notes by General Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to WSC]; over- optimism on post-war conditions; Sir William Beveridge's report on social security; demands on shipping by overseas cereal requirements; the ringing of church bells; telegrams between WSC and Stalin on Soviet-Polish relations; Jewish immigration into Palestine,...
Dates:
24 Nov 1942 - 28 Dec 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
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Pamphlets, 1953 - 1972
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 6/2/1
Scope and Contents
Subjects include the Trades Union Congress, Conservative Party, House of Lords and pension reform, also including correspondence with Sir Tufton Beamish on "One Europe".
Dates:
1953 - 1972
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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Policy, 1950's, 1953-01 - 1957-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/2
Scope and Contents
Minutes, papers and correspondence of the Conservative Policy Study Group on subjects including: education (including memorandum by 2nd Lord Hailsham, [Minister of Education, earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]); agriculture; industrial policy; national insurance; taxation; defence regulations; social services; pensions; nationalised industries; the structure of the Social Services Ministries; the People's League for the Defence of Freedom and the Middle Class...
Dates:
1953-01 - 1957-11
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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Policy, 1950's: Insurance, 1952-03 - 1953-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/4
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on National Insurance, including: reports and minutes of the National Insurance Policy Sub-Committee on the finances of the National Health Service and National Insurance, on benefits (with comments by the Ministry of National Insurance), National Assistance and overlapping benefits, allowances and pensions; memorandum by Peter Cropper, Conservative Research Department, on the investment of National Insurance funds by the National Debt Office; cost of living survey...
Dates:
1952-03 - 1953-08
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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Political: Constituency: North West Manchester: Correspondence., 04 Jan 1905 - 29 Jun 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 4/3
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: T W Killick of the Free Trade League (2); Fred Burn of the Manchester Liberal Federation on WSC's engagements and initiation as an Oddfellow (14); Sir Ernest Hatch (3); James Southern (4); B I Belisha (3); Sir Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer about the distraint of goods at the Grand Hotel, Manchester for non-payment for taxes; John Kidger about income tax policy (5) and John Petro (3).Other subjects include: the selection of Edgar Pearson as election...
Dates:
04 Jan 1905 - 29 Jun 1905
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A - Z., 07 Mar 1950 - 19 Mar 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/63A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, and C C Worsdell, Secretary and Agent (5); Cyril Walker, Director of Housing and Valuer, London County Council; George Beck, Bishop of Brentwood [Essex], on London housing problems and the provision for Catholic churches on London housing estates (5); Richard Stokes, Minister of Works, on churches for housing estates; Henry Brooke [later Lord Brooke of Cumnor], London County...
Dates:
07 Mar 1950 - 19 Mar 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 83 - 85, closed for 75 years until 2027 on grounds of data protection due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on potentially living individuals.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, C - D., 15 Apr 1951 - 16 Dec 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/76A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (17); Peter Hudson, Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport (5); [Margaret] Barbara Sloman [Assistant Principal], Treasury; Stuart Mallinson; Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War; Arthur Hockaday, Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty; Stuart Gilbert, Private Secretary to the Minister of...
Dates:
15 Apr 1951 - 16 Dec 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 199 - 203 and 269 - 273, closed for 75 years until 2029, and folios 79 - 83, closed for 100 years until 2054, on grounds of data protection due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on potentially living individuals.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, F - H., 19 Feb 1951 - 18 Oct 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/93A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (9); Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War (2); Robert Armstrong, [later Lord Armstrong of Ilminster], Private Secretary [to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Gordon Downey [Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (3); W E Forsyth, constituent (4); Robert Pittam, Private Secretary to the Home Secretary; Maurice Dean,...
Dates:
19 Feb 1951 - 18 Oct 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, T., 17 Jun 1952 - 04 Nov 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/89
Scope and Contents
Includes: letters of protest from local teachers on an increase in contributions to teachers' pensions, and requests for WSC to oppose the Teachers (Superannuation) Bill. Also includes correspondence from: [Walter] Leonard Allinson [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Education] (3); [Margaret] Barbara Sloman [Principal], Treasury; notes and copies of correspondence by Lettice Shillingford [earlier Lettice Marston], WSC's secretary.Other subjects include: a taxation enquiry;...
Dates:
17 Jun 1952 - 04 Nov 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open