United States
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:
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1938 Diary, 1938-01-06 - 1939-01-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HMTN 1/1
Scope and Contents
Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's visit to the United States, with remarks on speaking and social engagements with writers, politicians, and civil servants in Boston, New York City, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Washington DC; her return to the UK on the Queen Mary, with comments on its interior decoration; London County Council, Labour Book Service, and other committee meetings; the progress of her writing; her friendship with Ray Strachey and visits to Fernhurst; the death of Katherine...
Dates:
1938-01-06 - 1939-01-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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1941 (iii) Diary, 1941-05-15 - 1941-09-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HMTN 1/7
Scope and Contents
Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work at the Reconstruction Secretariat; her work on salvage, refugees, and rationing for the Women's Voluntary Service; Ministry of Information Planning Committee meetings and a discussion on 'American Understanding (publicity)'; a lunch with Storm Jameson; bomb damage in central London; the emotional and psychological impact of the war and her fear of invasion; writing, including the impact of war on the modern novel; her move to Richmond Terrace; a...
Dates:
1941-05-15 - 1941-09-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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1941 (iv) - 1942 (i) Diary, 1941-10-01 - 1942-02-24
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HMTN 1/8
Scope and Contents
Subjects include an uncomfortable dinner with Lord Reith; Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Ministry of Information Planning and Women's International Advisory committees; her work on the Barlow Committee, with comments on training for women and a row over family allowances; the Foreign Research and Press Service (FRPS); her writing, with comments on the progress of her memoirs; home decorating; her reflection on selfhood and war work, following a broadcast speech by Winston Churchill;...
Dates:
1941-10-01 - 1942-02-24
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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1942 (ii) Diary, 1942-02-25 - 1942-11-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HMTN 1/9
Scope and Contents
Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's participation in the Brains Trust, including with Florence Horsburgh; Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Reconstruction Secretariat, including on child welfare, USA-UK cooperation, and demobilisation, and her comments on the new minister, Sir William Jowitt; the Beveridge Committee, including discussion of 'spinsters' and means tests; her writing, including revisions to a novel and her journalism; a visit to a London County Council hospital to see...
Dates:
1942-02-25 - 1942-11-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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1944-1945 Diary, 1944-08-12 - 1945-08-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HMTN 1/12
Scope and Contents
Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Ministry of Information and her satisfaction with the American Division; Erwin Schuller and his past; news of the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of France and Belgium; a PEN conference, at which E. M. Forster gave an address; the Dartington Hall Arts Enquiry; reflections on the need for a new guiding philosophy and the meaning of life; Mary Agnes Hamilton's broadcasts for the BBC and the Brains Trust; her work on salvage for the...
Dates:
1944-08-12 - 1945-08-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"A Balanced Economy": source material on agriculture in the United States, 1950-04 - 1953-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/90
Scope and Contents
Includes: cuttings; information bulletins, including reports of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Dates:
1950-04 - 1953-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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American citizenship award, 1963-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 9/3/34
Scope and Contents
Colour photographs of John F Kennedy [President of the United States] with RSC for the signing of WSC’s award of honorary US citizenship.
Dates:
1963-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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American meetings, 1988-01 - 1989-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/60
Scope and Contents
Includes: rough notes of NK’s meeting with Senator Joseph Biden, Jan 1988, particularly on the economic situation, a "new Bretton Woods" agreement and the INF treaty [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] and arms control; briefing for a meeting with the American Ambassador to Britain [? Charles Price] on arms control; correspondence with Biden (2), Price and Ronald Brown, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; briefings for meetings with Paul Warnke and Henry Catto, American Ambassador...
Dates:
1988-01 - 1989-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Annotated statement by the United States Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, on the fiscal year, the 1969-73 Defense Program and the 1969 Defense Budget, 1968
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/97
Scope and Contents
Annotated by JEP at sections on NATO and Europe, the forces of NATO and the Soviet Union, and American naval strategy.
Dates:
1968
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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"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter, "Discovering North America", 1967-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/52
Scope and Contents
Account of JA's visit to the United States in 1947, which was intended to be chapter 49, but was not included in the published volume.
Dates:
1967-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter, "Discovering North America", 1967-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/53
Scope and Contents
Account of JA's visit to the United States in 1947, which was intended to be chapter 49, but was not included in the published volume. Also includes a copy of JA's account of visiting Canada in 1949.
Dates:
1967-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Articles, 1960 - 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 2/1/3
Scope and Contents
Comprising: "The Chipped White Cups of Dover", 1960; with Hildred Geertz, "Old Age in London and San Francisco", 1961; "A Note for Discussion on the Mother-Daughter Tie", 1961; "Is Your Child in the Unlucky Generation?", 1962; with John Gibson, "In Search of an Explanation of Social Mobility", 1963; with Bernard Benjamin and Chris Wallis, "The Mortality of Widowers", 1963; "Policy for Public Schools", 1963; "What Sort of People", 1963; "Family Life in 1984", 1963; "Announcing the National...
Dates:
1960 - 1965
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Articles and broadcasts on the United States, 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 7/1
Scope and Contents
Manuscript texts and drafts on subjects including: the Chicago prison system; ELS’s impressions of Chicago; New York harbour; Wall Street; selling time.
Also includes: a letter from ELS to Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears] on ELS’s view of Communism being preferable to American capitalism, and his own visit to the United States; a diary from John Drury (Chicago Daily News) on his and ELS’s sightseeing trips in Chicago.
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Articles and broadcasts on the United States, 1930-08 - 1931-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 7/2
Scope and Contents
Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: Prohibition; ELS’s impressions of Chicago; America and the next European war, including ELS’s view of Benito Mussolini; American lawlessness; isolationism, protectionism and the Wall Street Crash; the United States and the First World War.
Also includes copy of a letter from ELS on publication of the articles.
Dates:
1930-08 - 1931-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Articles and memoranda, 1949-07 - 1952-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/28
Scope and Contents
Texts of papers by LSA on subjects including: the economic crisis and trade policy (1952); Pakistan; the case for Commonwealth Preference; Jawaharlal Nehru; the nature of British Parliamentary government; forms of colonial self-government; the state of the Commonwealth and Empire (1951); the Most Favoured Nation clause; the 1951 Commonwealth conference; the condition of sterling; the Liberal Party and electoral reform; Empire Day; devaluation of sterling; the theory of [Sally] Herbert...
Dates:
1949-07 - 1952-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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BBC Radio 2, Jimmy Young Programme: interview with NK, 1986-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/25
Scope and Contents
Interview on the American bombing of Libya.
Dates:
1986-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Series:
Access copies available.
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Business plan for the use of hovercraft in the New York area, 1984-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/STJN 3/7
Scope and Contents
Compiled by Hovercraft Transit Inc.
Dates:
1984-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
A small number of files are closed pending review and these closures are marked in the catalogue.
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Cabinet memoranda, 1944-02 - 1944-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/6/30
Scope and Contents
Memoranda by LSA on discussions with the United States over trade policy and economic expansion, Imperial Preference and American economic ambitions.
Dates:
1944-02 - 1944-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Churchill in No 10 and Eisenhower in the White House: a Groundling’s view sixty years on, 2012-11 - 2014-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL 6/73
Scope and Contents
Text of a talk by Sir Peter Marshall, former Private Secretary to Sir Roger Makins, British Ambassador to the United States [later 1st Lord Sherfield], given to the Pilgrims Society, on Churchill's visit to Washington, June 1954.
Dates:
2012-11 - 2014-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Churchill's souvenir album from his meeting with Harry S Truman aboard USS Williamsburg, 1952-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 3/8
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Churchill's meeting with Truman, President of the United States, aboard the Presidential yacht.
Dates:
1952-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Clementine Churchill": copies of correspondence with Ronald Tree, 1951-52, 1964-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/153
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: talk of war in the United States, the lack of American political leadership and the good effect a speech by Winston Churchill might have; the British Government's handling of events in Iran; CSC's disapproval of Churchill's interest in horseracing; the political standing of Dean Acheson [American Secretary of State] and General Douglas MacArthur; anti-British feeling in the United States; Atlantic Union; Churchill's attitude to European unity; gloomy views of Britain's...
Dates:
1964-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Clementine Churchill": MS's report on Canada and the United States, 1943, 1943-08 - 1943-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/108
Scope and Contents
MS's report to the War Office on her impressions of the Canadian and American Women's Army Corps and of American industry during her visit to Canada and the United States as aide to Winston Churchill, Aug-Sept 1943. Also includes the text of her broadcast from Quebec for the anniversary of the Canadian Women's Army Corps.
Dates:
1943-08 - 1943-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Copies of speeches made in the United States and Canada, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 11/4
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91
Dates:
1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Copy of an unpublished memoir, 1919-46
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MALT 1
Scope and Contents
Comprises an account of his work and travels in Persia [now Iran], 1919-22, 1933-5 and 1964-5; the United States, 1936-9; Sweden, 1940-5; and Spain, 1945-6.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence about a visit to the United States, 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SCHO 8
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising working files from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, at Harwell
Dates:
1957
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.