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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1112 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 20 Sep [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6A/152-153
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Minute from WSC to the Director of the Intelligence Division, Admiralty [Captain (William) Reginald Hall] on projections for dreadnought and cruiser strength in the German War Fleet of 1920. [Carbon].

Dates: 20 Sep [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6A/199-200
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], with a comparison of British and German naval expenditure and construction, 1908-15. [Carbon copy, with hand-written annotations by WSC].

Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1914]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6A/205
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Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on retaining 60 per cent superiority over Germany in Dreadnoughts. [Carbon].

Dates: [1914]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6A/215
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Statistics on changes on military and naval expenditure in Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Japan, 1904-1913. [Carbon].

Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Jan 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/10
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Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [later 1st Lord Southborough], (Reform Club, London) to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, recommending delaying publication of his War Staff proposals until after the German elections, as they would certainly be distorted and used for election purposes.

Dates: 04 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/91
Scope and Contents Letter from [1st] Lord Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth] (The Times), to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, stating that at the request of the British Embassy, Berlin [Germany], he was reluctantly holding back news about the German naval scheme, complaining that the Foreign Office, while using the press "as a sort of doormat" were always talking of its "Dangerous tendency", also commenting that the Government were not very able in their management of the newspapers, and that his papers...
Dates: 01 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/114
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Letter from H Augst (British Consulate General, Zurich, Switzerland) to William Tyrrell, Foreign Office, on German naval expansion [manuscript copy on Admiralty note paper].

Dates: 27 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/115
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Letter from H Augst (British Consulate General, Zurich, Switzerland) to William Tyrrell, Foreign Office, on German naval expansion.

Dates: 17 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/118
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Statement by WSC on German naval increases [typescript].

Dates: 16 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/8/124
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Letter from Captain Hugh Watson (Naval Attache, British Embassy, Berlin [Germany]) to Edward Marsh, PS to WSC, Admiralty, on German naval increases.

Dates: 13 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Apr 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/9/1
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Letter from Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on his conversation with Count Paul Metternich [German Ambassador to Britain], stating that negotiations with Germany were on an amicable footing, and he was reluctant to publish any papers about naval matters that might give rise to controversy.

Dates: 13 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6B/417-428
Scope and Contents Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] stating that it was much harder for the Royal Navy to stop raids or invasion from Germany than it was 15 years earlier from France, due to the superior defences and number of naval bases on the south coast; WSC stresses the inadequacy of the east coast defences, particularly compared with the natural defensive and military strength of the German North Sea and Baltic coasts; also the difficulty of keeping a close watch on the German naval exits and...
Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/10/3
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Letter from Captain Hugh Watson, [Naval Attache, Berlin, Germany] (British Embassy, Berlin), to Edward Marsh [Secretary to WSC], on the German reaction to British supplementary naval estimates.

Dates: 03 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/10/55-63
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Letter from George Ward Price [Special Foreign Correspondent of the Daily Mail] to 1st Lord Northcliffe [owner, the Daily Mail, earlier Alfred Harmsworth], with notes on the capacity of German airships to cope with bad weather. [Typed transcript on Admiralty notepaper].

Dates: 22 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Dec 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/11/39-40
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Letter from Captain Hugh Watson [Naval Attache], (British Embassy, Berlin [Germany]) to Edward Marsh, [Private Secretary to WSC], reporting his observations of a new German Naval Airship.

Dates: 06 Dec 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1912]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/11/87-90
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Admiralty memorandum on remarks by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on the German Navy Law and amendments to the British naval construction programme. [Typescript].

Dates: [1912]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Jan 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/12/1-2
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Letter from WSC to Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary], on the interchange of naval information with Germany, suggesting that the Government reply to the German proposal on interchange after the German elections. [Typescript copy].

Dates: 11 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Oct 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/110-111
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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] and the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], on a report by the Naval Intelligence Division on relative German and British naval strength. [Carbon].

Dates: 24 Oct 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Nov [1912]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/135-143
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Minute from Rear-Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence, to WSC, on the naval construction programme, 1912-1919, necessary to maintain Britain's 60 per cent superiority over the German navy. [Carbon].

Dates: 28 Nov [1912]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Jan 1912 - 01 Feb 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/14/48-52
Scope and Contents Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on anti-British sentiments in Germany, stating that his source of information was much better than "anything the Foreign Office gets". Fisher presses WSC to adopt the "two keels to one" standard over the German navy, enclosing a letter from Rear-Admiral Sir Sidney Eardley-Wilmot about the "Big Gun" and the need to develop a 16 inch gun following the production of 14 and 15 inch guns in Germany and the...
Dates: 28 Jan 1912 - 01 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Mar 1912 - 05 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/14/67-85
Scope and Contents Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher (Hotel Excelsior, Naples [Italy]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on subjects including: relations with Germany; praising WSC's speech in Glasgow [Scotland] on Naval Defence [to the Clyde Navigation Trustees, 9 February]; criticising the visit by 1st Lord Haldane [Secretary of State for War] to Germany; warship design and construction, particularly of the "Super-Swift" and "Super-Active" classes; the importance of aircraft and submarines;...
Dates: 02 Mar 1912 - 05 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/14/94-97
Scope and Contents Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, (Hotel Excelsior, Naples [Italy]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the departure of 15,000 Italian troops to Tripoli [? Libya]: Fisher comments that no Italian newspapers had "given the show away" and wonders if British newspapers would do the same. He asks WSC if he could trust Ralph Blumenfeld, Editor of the Daily Express, H A Gwynne, Editor of the Morning Post, or Leslie Cornford of the Standard, suggesting that if war broke out,...
Dates: 01 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/15/56-57
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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 the work of the Commission, particularly the possibility of distilling oil from coal. Encloses a cutting on a 15,000 ton oil-fired vessel being built in Germany. [See CHAR 13/16/97-98 for typescript copy].

Dates: 11 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: 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
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1944 - 30 Sep 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/153/3
Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, September 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Major-General Leslie Hollis and Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of...
Dates: 01 Sep 1944 - 30 Sep 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open