Germany
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Mar 1937 - Jul 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 25/12
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Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Correspondence and notes Correspondence with Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary, CID (2); notes by F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell) on German air strength; letter from Captain George Wrisberg, War Office on anti-aircraft gunnery.
Dates:
Mar 1937 - Jul 1937
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Jan 1937 - Oct 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 25/13
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Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Papers (A.D.R. 69-90) (73 missing) and other prints Memorandum by WSC on German Air Strength, with comments by the Air Staff (CID Papers 1295B and 1296B) Note by the Master General of the Ordnance Lt-Gen Sir Hugh Elles on trials to determine the effective range of searchlights (A.D.R. 69) Air Ministry note on meteorological questions (A.D.R. 70) Air Ministry note on experiments to determine the effective range of searchlights (A.D.R. 71) Memorandum by Air...
Dates:
Jan 1937 - Oct 1937
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., 07 Feb 1938 - 30 Oct 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 25/14
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Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Correspondence with Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary, CID (3); Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air (7).
Dates:
07 Feb 1938 - 30 Oct 1938
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence: correspondence., 05 Aug 1909 - 12 Dec 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 24/3
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Correspondents include: Sir Charles Ottley [Secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence], on the cession of the island of Heligoland to Germany in 1890, the advantage a base on the island would be against Germany, the annual mobilization of German troops, the report on the military needs of the empire, the security of the naval magazines at Marchwood [Hampshire] and Chattenden [Kent], the risks of aircraft development, forming a Naval War Staff, combining a naval and military school of...
Dates:
05 Aug 1909 - 12 Dec 1911
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence: prints., 18 May 1911 - 29 Aug 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 24/5
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Includes: WSC on the new German Naval Law and increase of the German Navy; minutes from 2 meetings of the Committee of Imperial Defence attended by Canadian ministers, on subjects including: the combination of British foreign and naval policy, the development of the German Navy, naval power in the Mediterranean and Canada's role in naval defence; Sir Charles Ottley, Secretary to the Committee, on representation of the Dominions on the Committee; a translation of the German Naval Law...
Dates:
18 May 1911 - 29 Aug 1912
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Official correspondence, 1906 - 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 1/5
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Subjects include: the possibility of action against Germany; naval education; the future of Marine officers; the comparative strength of Britain and Germany.
Dates:
1906 - 1907
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From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Official correspondence, 1908 - 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 1/7
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Subjects include: Britain, France and Russia versus the Triple Alliance; the relative strengths of the German and British fleets; German shipbuilding and the Krupps works.
Dates:
1908 - 1909
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From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Official: Munitions., 01 Jan 1918 - 30 Apr 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/58
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A (Air) Various papers including Report on output of aircraft with a view to increased offensive against German Towns by Major-General Hugh Trenchard; note by Lord Rothermere of conversation with Major-General Robert Brooke-Popham on the desirability of reducing the number of engine types in use in service aircraft; memorandum by Major-General Sefton Brancker [Controller-General of Equipment and Master-General of Personnel on the Air Council] on the requirements of the Air Force in...
Dates:
01 Jan 1918 - 30 Apr 1918
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Official: Prime Minister: report and covering letter on the provision of food and coal for the British sector of Berlin [Germany]., Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/233
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From the Series:
This class comprises correspondence and papers relating to Churchill's wartime premiership. It includes: private office correspondence; personal telegrams; printed copies of personal minutes, telegrams and reports; correspondence relating to appointments and patronage; some family correspondence (for which see also CHAR 1); and some engagements cards and diaries. No distinction has been attempted between the offices of Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The former title has been deemed...
Dates:
Jul 1945
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Official: Prime Minister: "Terminal": record of the proceedings of the [Potsdam] Berlin Conference [Germany], 17 July to 1 August, 1945., Jul 1945 - Aug 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/236
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[marked "box 119/12" by Denis Kelly, WSC's literary assistant, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
Dates:
Jul 1945 - Aug 1945
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Official: Prime Minister: two copies of a report by the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force [in Western Europe, United States Army], General Dwight Eisenhower, to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force, 8 June 1944 to 8 May 1945., [1945] - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/244
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From the Series:
This class comprises correspondence and papers relating to Churchill's wartime premiership. It includes: private office correspondence; personal telegrams; printed copies of personal minutes, telegrams and reports; correspondence relating to appointments and patronage; some family correspondence (for which see also CHAR 1); and some engagements cards and diaries. No distinction has been attempted between the offices of Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The former title has been deemed...
Dates:
[1945] - 1950
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Official: Treasury: Budget 1928-1929: Treasury memoranda and tables, used in the production of the Budget., 1927 - 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/71
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Includes memoranda, minutes, notes and letters from individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue until 1927, then Controller of Finance and Supply Services]; Cornelius Gregg; Frederick Phillips [Principal Assistant Secretary]; Edward Cunningham [Accountant and Comptroller-General, Customs and Excise]; Sir Alfred Watson [Government Actuary]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary];...
Dates:
1927 - 1928
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Official: Treasury: coal industry: communications and papers., 21 Aug 1925 - 22 Apr 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/24
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Includes letters, notes and minutes by: Patrick Duff [Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]; Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Ernest Gowers [Permanent Under-Secretary for Mines] (5); Norman Holden; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes press comments on the Coal Commission; note by Treasury reporters of a conference between the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] and representatives of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain; notes...
Dates:
21 Aug 1925 - 22 Apr 1926
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Official: Treasury: correspondence and papers on the safeguarding of steel., 10 Aug 1925 - 18 Nov 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/20
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Correspondents include: Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health]; Percy Cohen of Conservative Central Office; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury]; Sir Harry Goschen; Thomas Jones [Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet]; Henry Tizard.Also includes extracts of Chamberlain's views and Stanley Baldwin's [Prime Minister] utterances, before and after the 1924 election, on the subject.Subjects covered by the file...
Dates:
10 Aug 1925 - 18 Nov 1925
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 19 Jan 1927 - 30 Jun 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/45A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Alfred Hurst; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War]; Sir...
Dates:
19 Jan 1927 - 30 Jun 1927
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 04 Apr 1928 - 20 Dec 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Alfred Hurst [Principal Assistant Secretary]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Permanent Secretary, Board of...
Dates:
04 Apr 1928 - 20 Dec 1928
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, 22 Feb 1919 - 31 Mar 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/5
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Correspondents include: Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Rear-Admiral Richard Webb [Assistant High Commissioner to Turkey]; David Lloyd George; General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff] on matters discussed at the Paris [France] Peace Conference, including his assessment of figures such as [Georges] Clemenceau [Prime Minister of France] (11); Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard offering to resign as Chief of Air Staff on health grounds...
Dates:
22 Feb 1919 - 31 Mar 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence for WSC and Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War]., 04 Mar 1920 - 30 Apr 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/46
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Correspondents include: Edward Marsh [WSC's Private Secretary] (3); Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] (4); General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff] (4); Austen Chamberlain [Chancellor of the Exchequer] (4); [Adjutant-General, Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh]; Walter Long [First Lord of the Admiralty] (4); Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet]; David Lloyd George; 1st Lord Curzon [Foreign Secretary]; General Sir Herbert Plumer, Commander-in-Chief,...
Dates:
04 Mar 1920 - 30 Apr 1920
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Official: War and Air: correspondence for WSC and Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War]., 04 Nov 1920 - 30 Dec 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/50
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Correspondents include: Major-General J Bagratouni [Chief of the Armenian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference]; 1st Lord Curzon [Foreign Secretary] (4); Major-General George Jeffreys; Austen Chamberlain [Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Aneurin Williams MP; Major Patrick Malone; Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] (3); Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet]; Philip Kerr [later 11th Lord Lothian, Secretary to the Prime Minister]; General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial...
Dates:
04 Nov 1920 - 30 Dec 1920
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Official: War and Air: correspondence from Brigadier-General Edward Spears and the British Military Mission in Paris [France] to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] and War Office officials., 02 Sep 1919 - 31 Oct 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/40
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Also includes notes from Sinclair to WSC.Subjects covered by the file include: matters concerning the Russian Civil War, including figures such as Gregori Alexinsky, Vladimir Bourtsev, Piotr Rutenberg, Simon Petliura, General Anton Denikin, Sergei Sazonov, General Nikolai Youdenitch, Prince Lvov, and Carol Yaroshinsky, the situation in the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Bessarabia [Moldova and parts of Ukraine], north Russia, Petrograd [later Leningrad and St Petersburg], Siberia, and Poland,...
Dates:
02 Sep 1919 - 31 Oct 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence from Brigadier-General Edward Spears and the British Military Mission in Paris [France] to WSC and War Office officials., 03 Jun 1919 - 31 Jul 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/37
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Also includes alleged copies of telegrams concerning the start of World War I passed to Spears by the Serbian delegation in Paris.Subjects covered by the file include: matters concerning the borders and politics of Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia], Lithuania and the Baltic states, Fiume [later Rijeka, Yugoslavia then Croatia], Persia [later Iran], Hungary and Austria; matters concerning Russia, including Sergei Sazonov's role, recognising Admiral Alexander...
Dates:
03 Jun 1919 - 31 Jul 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence from Brigadier-General Edward Spears and the British Military Mission in Paris [France] to WSC and War Office officials., 17 Jan 1919 - 28 Mar 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/35
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Also includes a note from Major-General Percy Radcliffe [Director of Military Operations, War Office].Subjects covered by the file include: congratulations on WSC's appointment; Greek claims in Turkey; French policy towards Syria, the rest of Europe, and the Bolsheviks; internal French politics and [Georges] Clemenceau [Prime Minister of France]; matters concerning Germany, including German colonies in Africa; matters concerning the borders and politics of Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia...
Dates:
17 Jan 1919 - 28 Mar 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence from Brigadier-General Edward Spears and the British Military Mission in Paris [France] to WSC and War Office officials., 04 Apr 1919 - 31 May 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/36
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Also includes copies of letters from General Tasker Bliss [United States Commissioner, Paris Peace Conference] on China and Japan, and General Pechitch [Chief of the Serbian military delegation to Paris].Subjects covered by the file include: matters concerning the borders and politics of Poland, Danzig [later Gdansk, Poland], Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, Lithuania and the Baltic...
Dates:
04 Apr 1919 - 31 May 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence mainly from Brigadier-General Edward Spears and the British Military Mission in Paris [France] to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] and War Office officials., 01 Dec 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/42A-B
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Also includes correspondence from General Charles Mangin and Boris Savinkov.Subjects covered by the file include: matters concerning the Russian Civil War, including figures such as General Anton Denikin, Admiral Alexander Kolchak, Savinkov, Gregori Alexinsky, Generals Carl Mannerheim and Joseph Pilsudsky [Chief of the Polish state], and Carol Yaroshinsky, tensions between Kolchak and Denikin, Russo-Polish relations, banking, the Ukraine, French views, German influence, agriculture within...
Dates:
01 Dec 1919 - 31 Dec 1919
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Official: War and Air: correspondence mainly from Brigadier-General Edward Spears and the British Military Mission in Paris [France] to WSC and War Office officials., 05 Aug 1919 - 21 Nov 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/38
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Also includes correspondence from Generals Pechitch [Chief of the Serbian military delegation to Paris] and Tscherbatchev, and Mary Spears; note from WSC to 1st Lord Curzon [Lord President of Council].Subjects covered by the file include: matters concerning the Russian Civil War, including supplies for the Bolsheviks, figures such as Sergei Sazonov, General Nikolai Youdenitch, General Anton Denikin, Admiral Alexander Kolchak, and Simon Petliura, Bolshevik activity in Afghanistan, the...
Dates:
05 Aug 1919 - 21 Nov 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
Open