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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), 18 Oct 1912 - 22 Oct 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/10/85
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Note from Edward Marsh [Secretary to WSC] to Alfred Rutter, Director of Greenwich Hospital, asking about [naval pensions]; annotated by Rutter on two specific cases for Greenwich Hospital Pensions.

Dates: 18 Oct 1912 - 22 Oct 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Dec 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/2/62-71
Scope and Contents 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
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/89-94
Scope and Contents 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
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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/150-164
Scope and Contents 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), [Jan] [1934]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/204/6-9
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Draft of an introduction to a book on the employment exchange system. Sent with CHAR 2/204/5.

Dates: [Jan] [1934]
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), 24 Oct 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/79
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Letter from Eustace Fiennes [Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham- Fiennes] (86 Eaton Terrace, Eaton Square [London]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], asking if it would be possible for Elspeth Beardmore [later Elspeth, Lady Invernairn] to launch a ship from the Beardmore Yard on the Clyde and commenting on WSC's progressive attitude.

Dates: 24 Oct 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Jun 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/29/67-68
Scope and Contents 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
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(Untitled), 10 Mar 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/8-12
Scope and Contents Letter from Arthur Witley (13 Westbourne Road, Huddersfield, [Yorkshire]) to WSC (House of Commons) regretting that WSC's recent letter in the Nation "betrays a tendency towards State Socialism". Gives his view of the distinction between a Radical and a Socialist and follows Henry George in advocating a system of taxation which distinguishes between value created by the community and that created by the individual, and the nationalisation of "all natural monopolies" such as transport...
Dates: 10 Mar 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Jan [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/39/10-11
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Letter from Henry Massingham (The Nation, 14 Henrietta Street, Convent Garden, London) to WSC explaining his criticism of WSC's speech in Birmingham [on 13 Jan 1909] on Liberal policy and the House of Lords. Makes particular reference to Welsh Disestablishment and social reform.

Dates: 27 Jan [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Jan 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/39/13
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Letter from Sydney Buxton [later Lord Buxton] (General Post Office) to WSC urging that some reference to unemployment insurance should be made in the King's speech.

Dates: 30 Jan 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Dec 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/45-46
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC ([Blenheim]) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] on: 5th Lord Lansdowne's rejection of the suggestion that the House of Lords will reject the Budget Bill; the formulation of legislation on unemployment and infirmity insurance and labour exchanges; the need for some form of state control of the amalgamations of railway companies; the impending large government measures on finance and unemployment; the report of the Afforestation Commission. Copy in the hand of...
Dates: 26 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Dec 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/50-51
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] agreeing that Harold Tennant should replace Sir Hudson Kearley at the Board of Trade and enclosing the report of the trade unionists who went to Germany to study unemployment insurance and labour exchanges. Advocates following the German example with a large programme of social legislation to underpin existing voluntary agencies; in particular: labour exchanges and unemployed insurance, infirmity insurance, a...
Dates: 29 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/54
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The care of the children, being chapter IV. of part I. of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission. Printed for the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law [4, 137-211, [3]p].

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/55
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Birth and infancy, being chapter III. of part I. of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission. Printed for the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law [5, 85-135, [3]p].

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/56
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The new charter of the poor, being an explanation of what is meant by the break-up of the Poor Law, and an outline of the proposals of the minority report of the Poor Law Commission. Printed for the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law [2, 23, [3]p].

Dates: 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/57
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Printed statement of aims and membership application form of the the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law.

Dates: [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/58
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Printed description of the research department and subscription application form of the National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law.

Dates: [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), Jan 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/43/27
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Printed circular from the majority of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress to parliamentary candidates criticising the proposals for the break-up of the Poor Law made by the minority of the Commission.

Dates: Jan 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Jul 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/41/1
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Letter from Robert Chalmers [Assistant Secretary at the Treasury] (19 Earl's Terrace, Kensington, [London]) to WSC answering WSC's queries about the taxation of agricultural land, the qualification for old age pensions of those in receipt of poor relief, and rate relief.

Dates: 25 Jul 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1910]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/42/66-78
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Part of a speech to a committee of the House of Commons on unemployment insurance and government meausures to encourage agriculture. Typescript annotated by WSC.

Dates: [1910]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Mar 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/42/79
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Printed circular on the administration of out-door relief from the secretary of the Local Government Board to Boards of Guardians. 8p.

Dates: 18 Mar 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/42/89
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"The out of work and old age pensions considered. A simple solution." Manuscript copy of a pamphlet.

Dates: [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Mar 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/45/63
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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

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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/72
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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