Germany
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1125 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence., 01 Jun 1921 - 30 Jun 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/6
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Correspondents include: Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] on subjects including the Aga Khan's claims for reparations from Germany, the appointment of ?John Thompson and his conviction that Indians should be given equal status (5); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on expenditure and troops in Palestine and Mesopotamia [Iraq] (6); Leo Amery [Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Colonies] on the Empire settlement policy (3); David Lloyd George, Prime...
Dates:
01 Jun 1921 - 30 Jun 1921
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, mainly on South African affairs., 01 Aug 1906 - 29 Aug 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/14
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Ripon; General Sir Ian Hamilton congratulating WSC on his speech on the Transvaal [South Africa] Constitution; 2nd Lord Selborne [Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for South Africa] (2); 1st Lord Knollys [Private Secretary to King Edward VII] on WSC's choice of uniform for German army manoeuvres; [Dewdney] Drew of the Friend newspaper, Bloemfontein [South Africa] (3); Frederick Ponsonby [later 1st Lord Sysonby, Assistant Private Secretary to...
Dates:
01 Aug 1906 - 29 Aug 1906
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Official: Colonial Office: Foreign office telegrams., 28 Feb 1921 - 02 Mar 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/21
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Volume of telegrams from British ambassadors in various countries and replies from the Foreign Office including: telegrams on affairs in Arabia and the possible resignation of Hussein; Lord Hardinge [British ambassador to France] on the conference of ambassadors and the passage of German ships via the Dardanelles; Sir Auckland Geddes [British Ambassador to the United States] on French overtures to the United States to secure freedom from dependence on Great Britain (2); WSC on the agenda for...
Dates:
28 Feb 1921 - 02 Mar 1921
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Jun 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 25/6
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Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Papers (A.D.R. 12-34) and other prints Interim Report (A.D.R. 12) Memorandum by Vice-Admiral Reginald Henderson (3rd Sea Lord) on Ranges of Naval High Current Density Searchlight Beams (A.D.R. 13) Minute by Captain Gerald Wrisberg (War Office) on Ranges of Naval High Current Density Searchlight Beams (A.D.R. 14) Memorandum on comparison of Naval and Land Service anti-aircraft guns (A.D.R. 15) Conclusions of the Third meeting of the Committee Air Ministry...
Dates:
Jun 1935 - Dec 1935
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., 01 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 25/7
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Air Defence Research Sub-Committee General Correspondence Correspondents include Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary, CID (10) on his figures on the strength, training and organisation of the German air force and the progress of the Committee; Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Sec. of State for Air) on the expansion of the RAF; Desmond Morton (2) on comparison of British and German air strength; Philip Cunliffe-Lister (later Lord Swinton), Sec. of State for Air (4) on German air strength and anti-aircraft...
Dates:
01 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1936
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Jun 1936 - Nov 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 25/9
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Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Papers (A.D.R. 51-68) (55 and 56 are missing) and other prints Conclusions of the 9th meeting of the Committee Conclusions of the 10th meeting of the Committee Note by Henry Tizard on WSC's memorandum on aerial mines (A.D.R. 51) Memorandum on German Air Strength by WSC (A.D.R. 52) Note on progress of the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence (A.D.R. 53) Memorandum by Lt-General Sir Hugh Elles, Master General of the Ordnance, on rocket...
Dates:
Jun 1936 - Nov 1936
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., 27 Feb 1936 - 20 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 25/10
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Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Correspondence with F A Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell) on air defence, including copies of Lindemann's correspondence with Henry Tizard, and Lord Swinton, the Secretary of State for Air file also includes letter from Robert Watson Watt on his work on radio direction finding (R.D.F. later Radar).
Dates:
27 Feb 1936 - 20 Dec 1936
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Official: Committee of Imperial Defence., Mar 1936 - Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 25/11
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Air Defence Research Sub-Committee Draft memoranda by WSC on aerial mines; the relative strength of the RAF and the German Air Force and invasion by air.
Dates:
Mar 1936 - Dec 1936
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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., 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: 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: 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
Conditions Governing Access:
Open