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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1099 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 14 Feb 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/3-4
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Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, enclosing a translation of the proposed new German Navy Law. [Printed].

Dates: 14 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/6
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Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, on the implications of the new German Naval Law. [Printed].

Dates: 09 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Apr 1912 - 19 Apr 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/7
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Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, circulating a note by the Director of the Intelligence Division, Captain Thomas Jackson, on the final text of the new German Navy Law. [Printed].

Dates: 18 Apr 1912 - 19 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jun 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/9
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Cabinet paper by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the naval situation in relation to maintaining superiority over Germany. [Printed].

Dates: 22 Jun 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Jun] 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/15
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Cabinet Paper by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the new German Navy Law. [Printed].

Dates: [Jun] 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Jun] 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/16
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White Paper giving a translation of the German Naval Law Amendment Bill. [Published by HMSO, Cd.6117].

Dates: [Jun] 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/18/9
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Secret memorandum on the general naval situation relating to Britain and Germany, prepared by the Admiralty for the information of Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [White Paper, published August 1914].

Dates: 26 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/154-155
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Letter from J Norton Griffiths (Train en-route to Baku [Azerbaydzhan]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Anglo-German naval relations.

Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Jan 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/21/1-3
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fuel, with a copy of a press cutting on the use of oil motors in German shipyards. [Carbon copy].

Dates: 18 Jan 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jan 1913 - 18 Jan 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/21/33-37
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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fuel. Includes press cuttings on the use of oil motors in German shipyards and a letter from Sir [Thomas] Boverton Redwood [Adviser on Petroleum to the Admiralty] to Fisher.

Dates: 17 Jan 1913 - 18 Jan 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/23/5
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Forecast of the increased scale of the fleets maintained in commission compared to Germany, together with approximate annual cost of maintaining various ships in different conditions. [Printed].

Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jun 1913 - 14 Jul 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/23/32
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Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Alick Russell, Military Attache at the British Embassy, Berlin [Germany] on the development of the German Airship Fleet; includes covering note by WSC. [Printed, and circulated to the Cabinet].

Dates: 12 Jun 1913 - 14 Jul 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Apr 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/24/2
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Memorandum by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the problem of attack from overseas by Germany. [Printed].

Dates: 18 Apr 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Apr 1913 - 26 Apr 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/24/3
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Memoranda by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the possibilities of attack from overseas by Germany; includes printed marginal notes by the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven]. Also includes Admiralty papers "The Timetable of a Nightmare", giving a scenario of a successful German invasion, and an alternative scenario for a German attack in "A Bolt From the Grey". [Printed].

Dates: 24 Apr 1913 - 26 Apr 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Dec 1913 - 13 Dec 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/24/4
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Memorandum by the Admiralty War Staff on the fifty per cent superiority of "Dreadnought" ships in Home Waters, noting the margins of safety maintained against France, 1900-1905, and against Germany, 1911-1912, and 1915; also includes a note on the comparative strength of the British and French fleets during the Napoleonic Wars. [Printed].

Dates: 11 Dec 1913 - 13 Dec 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 25 May 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/26/111-113
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Memorandum by Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] giving reasons against WSC's possible meeting with Grand- Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Navy]; also includes Grey's draft telegram to Sir [William] Edward Goschen [British Ambassador to Germany] declining the meeting. [Typescript draft by WSC].

Dates: 25 May 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Jul 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/95B/179
Scope and Contents Letter from Leslie Burgin (3 Gray's Inn Place, London W C 1) [Liberal Nationalist MP for Luton, Bedfordshire] to George Harvie Watt [Parliamentary Private Secretary to WSC] regarding post war reparations in Germany and stating that he believes that despite allied bombing, German industries would quickly recover after the war and suggesting that every German industry contributing to the war effort should be controlled by share capitals which could be vested in trustees for the allied nations...
Dates: 16 Jul 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Oct 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/110
Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King], Prime Minister of Australia [John Curtin], and Prime Minister of New Zealand [Peter Fraser] marked "most secret and personal" regarding the tying up of prisoners of war. WSC states that he is currently awaiting the German reply to a protest conveyed through the Swiss government, and that no further measures will be taken without a full discussion with the Commonwealth Prime Ministers. He then describes his impression of what has...
Dates: 28 Oct 1942
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), 17 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/40
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Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to Secretary of State for Air [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later Lord Thurso] and Chief of the Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] regarding the bombing of Berlin [Germany].

Dates: 17 Aug 1942
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), 19 Aug 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/87/61
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Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to the Chief of the Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] marked "most secret and personal" regarding heavy night bombing raids on Berlin [Germany] Annotated, probably during writing of WSC's "The Second World War" c1948-1954.

Dates: 19 Aug 1942
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), 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/1
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, July 1943.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service].Subjects covered by the minutes...
Dates: 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Apr 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/110/38
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Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal and Secret" asking his permission on behalf of Arthur Harris (Commander in Chief Bomber Command) to use an extract from one of his recent telegrams regarding the British bombardment of Germany and informing him of the success of their air attacks this week, adding that their will be a lull in activity in Tunisia to prepare for a great onslaught.

Dates: 18 Apr 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2A/67-68
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Letter from WSC to Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] on the wording of proposed peace conditions with Germany. [carbon].

Dates: 01 Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 21 Nov 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2B/120-124
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Letter from [1st] Lord Vansittart [Chief Diplomatic Adviser to Foreign Secretary] to WSC, enclosing copy of letter to Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, containing information from a private source on German air and naval capabilities; with letter of thanks from WSC to Vansittart.

Dates: 21 Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 25 Nov 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2B/130-131
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Letter from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin], Foreign Secretary, to WSC on German and Soviet intentions towards Scandinavia.

Dates: 25 Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.