Egypt
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 281 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: Board of Trade: Anglo-French Commercial Relations: notes and papers., 22 Dec 1907 - 08 Nov 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/13
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Correspondents include: Harold Cox; Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] on the revision of the French tariff and the Gambia-Muscat [later Muscat and Oman] negotiations (2); Sir Francis Bertie [British Ambassador to France]; Herbert Asquith [Chancellor of the Exchequer, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the revision of wine duty. Also includes: a memorandum on commercial relations with France by WSC, on imports with false origins, the wine surtax, wine duty and the French surtaxe...
Dates:
22 Dec 1907 - 08 Nov 1909
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Official: Board of Trade: Suez Canal: notes and prints., 26 Oct 1909 - 15 Nov 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/30
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Includes: draft copies of a memorandum by WSC on reducing the dues charged by the Suez Canal Company; a letter from Prince Auguste d'Arenberg, President of the Administrative Council of the Suez Canal Company, on proposals to lower charges; notes and telegrams on securing good terms for British shipping, at a proposed convention with the Egyptian Government.
Dates:
26 Oct 1909 - 15 Nov 1909
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Official: Cabinet: correspondence and notes., 26 Nov 1924 - 27 Nov 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/19
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Correspondents include: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [Home Secretary, later 1st Lord Brentford] on the surveillance of Egyptians in London.Other subjects include: the risks of giving artillery to India.Also includes: a note [? by WSC] on retaining British control in Egypt.
Dates:
26 Nov 1924 - 27 Nov 1924
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Official: Cabinet: correspondence and notes., 18 Mar 1925 - [17] [Nov] 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/84
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Includes: Sir [William] Graham Greene [Vice-Chairman of the Man Power Committee] on the committee's report; Sir Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary] on consultation over the problem of Saad Zaghlul [President of the Chamber of Deputies, Egypt] and whether Zaghlul should be allowed to return to power (3); WSC on Chamberlain not submitting his decision on Zaghlul to Cabinet discussion, and the crisis that this might cause in Egypt; notes by various ministers in Cabinet, including William...
Dates:
18 Mar 1925 - [17] [Nov] 1925
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Official: Cabinet: Foreign Office: prints., 23 Jan 1928 - 17 Nov 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/223
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Includes printed papers about affairs in the Soviet Union (including economic and agricultural difficulties) by Foreign Office officials including: Reginald Leeper; Sir Ronald Lindsay (8); P Gent (5); Harold Nicolson; Joseph Addison; Alvary Gascoigne (4); Sir Thomas Hohler and Horace Rumbold. Also includes covering letters from Sir Maurice Hankey, Cabinet Secretary, and a paper on the situation in Egypt.
Dates:
23 Jan 1928 - 17 Nov 1928
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Official: Cabinet: Foreign Office telegrams., 02 Jun 1909 - 25 Jul 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/16
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WSC's copies of printed Foreign Office telegrams which include bulletins of events from ambassadors and embassy staff on events around the world including: the management of the Suez canal; railway building and opium production in China; relations between Persia [later Iran] and Russia, between Turkey and Greece, Nicaragua and the United States; affairs in India including the actions of the Dalai Lama; the sovereign rights of the Ottoman empire [Turkey] in Greece; and affairs in Japan,...
Dates:
02 Jun 1909 - 25 Jul 1910
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Official: Cabinet: papers 1 - 39., 27 Jul 1923 - 29 Jan 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/28
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Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: draft instructions for the British representative at the 25th session of the governing body of the International Labour Office; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on subjects including the export of arms to the Soviet Union, the Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Bill, the Anglo-German Treaty and British Seamen, the...
Dates:
27 Jul 1923 - 29 Jan 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 40 - 69., 13 Dec 1921 - 04 Mar 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/29
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Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, on airship development; the Financial Secretary to the Treasury [Walter Guinness, later 1st Lord Moyne] on the Trade Facilities Bill and Sandwich [Kent] Port and Haven Bill; a draft of the Sandwich Port and Haven Bill; the report of the Safeguarding of Industries Committee; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on unemployment benefit and the electrical trades...
Dates:
13 Dec 1921 - 04 Mar 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 70 - 100., 20 Jan 1925 - 07 Mar 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/30
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Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks, [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill and the Criminal Justice Bill, 1925; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Navy Estimates and arbitration in the Civil Service; 1st Lord Cave [the Lord Chancellor] Chairman of the Church Assembly Measures Committee, and the School Teachers Superannuation Committee, on the Committees' reports; Arthur Watson on the...
Dates:
20 Jan 1925 - 07 Mar 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 101 - 139., 10 Jan 1923 - 05 Mar 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/31
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Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Austen Chamberlain [Foreign Secretary] on subjects including higher commands in the Egyptian Army, the political outlook in the Far East, foreign policy and security, and the strength of the Egyptian Army; the decisions of the League council on reports of the investigations into the armaments of ex-enemy countries; Sir Cecil Hurst, Legal Advisor to the Foreign Office, on the armaments of ex-enemy countries; Walter...
Dates:
10 Jan 1923 - 05 Mar 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 101 to 114., Mar 1927 - Apr 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/157
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on the trade disputes and Trade Unions Bill and a copy of the draft bill; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne] Minister of Agriculture and [4th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne] Lord Privy Seal on the landlord and tenant bill; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, and Clement Tryon, Minister of Pensions, on the medical treatment of war pensioners; Sir Philip...
Dates:
Mar 1927 - Apr 1927
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Official: Cabinet: papers 116 to 140., Mar 1927 - Apr 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/158
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Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: a report of the Crown proceedings committee; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, and Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the boundary between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; Amery on reform of the House of Lords and information on the coastal defences of Southern Ireland [Ireland]; [1st] Lord Peel, 1st Commissioner of Works, and Walter Guinness [later...
Dates:
Mar 1927 - Apr 1927
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Official: Cabinet: papers 201 - 234., 28 Jan 1926 - 10 Jun 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/95
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet; notes on the oil negotiations between Britain, Turkey and Iraq; proposals for the settlement of the miners' strike; Sir Laming Worthington- Evans, Secretary of State for War, on amendments to the Official Secrets Act; 1st Lord Cave, the Lord Chancellor, on trade union legislation; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on subjects including the phasing out of...
Dates:
28 Jan 1926 - 10 Jun 1926
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Official: Cabinet: papers 246 to 270., Sep 1927 - Nov 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/163
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Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: an account of the proceedings of the Trade Union Congress; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the trade outlook and poor economic situation including details of various industries, exports and colonial trade and on mining subsidies; special reports on unemployment; [1st] Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor, on the transport of troops between Great...
Dates:
Sep 1927 - Nov 1927
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Official: Cabinet: papers 271 to 300., Nov 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/164
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Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on the draft treaty with Egypt and the importance of the Suez canal; the Committee of Imperial Defence on operations in the Canton [China] area; Anglo American relations; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the trade outlook and poor...
Dates:
Nov 1927
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Official: Cabinet: papers 301 - 329., 20 Jun 1925 - 11 Jul 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/39
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Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Francis Humphrys, British Minister Plenipotentiary at Kabul [Afghanistan] on the execution of an Italian subject in Kabul; 2nd Lord Lytton [Viceroy and Acting Governor- General of India] on the Italian reaction to the execution; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the unclaimed pay of native carriers from the East Africa campaign, and suppressing the Kuomintang in Malaya [later Malaysia]; Sir Philip...
Dates:
20 Jun 1925 - 11 Jul 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 500 - 519., 24 Aug 1920 - 06 Jan 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/21
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, [later Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the trade outlook and an Anglo-Greek Commercial Treaty; a summary of the report of the Board of Trade Advisory Council on the trade outlook, including engineering, iron and steel, shipbuilding, coal, textiles, finance, trade with the Dominions, railways and co-operative societies, and figures for...
Dates:
24 Aug 1920 - 06 Jan 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 520 - 555., 20 Oct 1923 - 30 Dec 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/22
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: 1st Lord Birkenhead [Secretary of State for India, earlier F E Smith] on the Geneva [Switzerland] Opium Conference; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, earlier Lord Robert Cecil] on the League of Nations enquiry into the dispute between Britain and Egypt; Sir Cecil Hurst [legal advisor to the Foreign Office] on the dispute with Egypt; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour on Trade...
Dates:
20 Oct 1923 - 30 Dec 1924
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Official: Cabinet: papers and correspondence., 11 Mar 1920 - 21 Apr 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/5
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Correspondents include: Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal].Also includes: a memorandum by Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India, with a telegram from Sir Percy Cox [High Commissioner in Mesopotamia, later Iraq] on railway policy in Mesopotamia; a draft telegram by [WSC] on preserving freedom of naval action in Singapore; a memorandum on changes in recent Russian trade agreements; memoranda on imperial exchange and currencies by Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Minister of Pensions, Leo...
Dates:
11 Mar 1920 - 21 Apr 1921
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Official: Cabinet: Scotland Yard reports on revolutionary organisations in the United Kingdom: 304 - 314., 14 May 1925 - 23 Jul 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/81
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Typescript reports on Communist organisations including the Communist Party in Britain; International Trade Union Unity; the Young Communist League; Irish Revolutionary activities in Britain; International Red Aid; the Egyptian Communist Party; the Quadruple Alliance of British Trade Unions; the National Minority Movement; the proposed International Miners' delegation to the Soviet Union; the National Unemployed Workers' Committee Movement.Also includes: a copy of a letter from Ernest Bevin...
Dates:
14 May 1925 - 23 Jul 1925
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Open
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Official: Colonial Office: Cabinet Papers., 23 Jan 1921 - 29 Dec 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/13A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Maurice Hankey (6); David Lloyd George, Prime Minister; Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer (2) and Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] objecting to the use of Indian troops in the garrison of Palestine.Cabinet papers on subjects including: affairs in the Middle East, Egypt, South Khurdistan, Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Palestine; mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine; the 1921 Imperial Conference; the 1921 Middle East Conference; the empire...
Dates:
23 Jan 1921 - 29 Dec 1921
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Official: Colonial Office: Middle East and Far East: troop inspections: reports., Feb 1907 - May 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/39
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Includes letter from General Sir John Maxwell sending on reports by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught [Inspector-General of the Forces] of inspections of troops and defences at Hong Kong, Singapore-Straits settlements [Singapore and parts of Malaysia], Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], and Egypt, and of Malay States Guides at Penang [later Malaysia].
Dates:
Feb 1907 - May 1907
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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
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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: WSC's minutes., 01 Jan 1925 - 19 Sep 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/12A-B
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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
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Official: War and Air: Cabinet papers., 06 Jan 1920 - 18 Dec 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/54
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Includes papers and memoranda prepared by: WSC; Rear-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes; Brigadier-General Arthur Turner, British Baltic Military Mission; Harold Williams; Major-General Sir Percy Radcliffe, Director of Military Operations; Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Harington, Commander of the Army of the Black Sea; and other War and Air officials.Also includes notes and minutes by WSC, Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War],...
Dates:
06 Jan 1920 - 18 Dec 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 17 which has been removed on Cabinet Office instructions under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act. Review date 1 January 2032.