France
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Official: War and Air: correspondence mainly from Brigadier-General Edward Spears, Major Gerald Geiger and the British Military Mission in Paris [France] to WSC, Major-General Sir Percy Radcliffe [Director of Military Operations] and War Office officials., 01 Mar 1920 - 30 Apr 1920
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/66
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Also includes correspondence from Boris Savinkov (3); General Yevgenii Miller; Nikolai Tchaikovsky; Neill Malcolm of the British Military Mission in Berlin [Germany], and copies of messages from other Russian figures, such as P Sabline and Anton Denikin, and French Generals Maurice Pelle and Nollet; a biography of Lenin; a French pamphlet on the Red Army, notes of a meeting of the Russo-German society in paris.Subjects include: French foreign policy concerning Russia and Turkey, particularly...
Dates:
01 Mar 1920 - 30 Apr 1920
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Official: War and Air: correspondence mainly from Brigadier-General Edward Spears, Major Gerald Geiger and the British Military Mission in Paris [France] to WSC, Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War], Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Kisch and War Office officials., 02 Jul 1920 - 30 Dec 1920
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/68A-B
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Also includes correspondence from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Andre Lefevre [French Minister of War until December 1920] and his successor, Raiberti; and from Captain Lewis Gielgud and Sir Mansfeldt Findlay [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Norway]; copy of a declaration and a journal by the Ukrainian National Committee; bulletin from Russagent, the Russian anti-Bolshevik Press Agency in Paris; cutting from a French newspaper.Subjects include: matters...
Dates:
02 Jul 1920 - 30 Dec 1920
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Official: War and Air: correspondence mainly from Major Gerald Geiger [Head] of 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., 03 Jan 1921 - 14 Jan 1921
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/75
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Also includes notes and minutes between WSC and Sinclair; correspondence from: Sophia Kolchak on her financial situation; Sir Herbert Creedy [Secretary, War Office]; Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Godley [Military Secretary]; cutting from a French newspaper.Subjects include: Geiger's impressions of Raiberti [French Minister of War]; arrangements for WSC's visit to Paris; the activities of various Russians in Paris; the role of the Mission; French political changes; Geiger's position and...
Dates:
03 Jan 1921 - 14 Jan 1921
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, minutes, notes, and other papers., 31 Dec 1920 - 31 Jan 1921
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/71
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Correspondents include: Colonel Walter Kirke [Deputy Director Military Operations]; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (4); Secretary to the Cabinet [Sir Maurice Hankey].Also includes minutes and notes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; a map of Persia [later Iran]; WSC's notes on a visit to Paris [France] and talks with Alexandre Millerand...
Dates:
31 Dec 1920 - 31 Jan 1921
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Official: War and Air: WSC's minutes., 01 Jan 1920 - 29 Apr 1920
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/51A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes (and telegrams) from WSC to various individuals including: Secretary [War Office, Sir Reginald Brade]; 1st Lord Peel [Under-Secretary of State for War]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Sir Herbert Creedy; Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Chief of the Air Staff [Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Major-General Fabian Ware; [David Lloyd George]; Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal]; Director of...
Dates:
01 Jan 1920 - 29 Apr 1920
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Official: War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: weekly resumes., 30 May 1940 - 01 Aug 1940
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/5
Scope and Contents
Printed reviews of the naval, military and air situation, including: the evacuation of Dunkirk [France]; minelaying and minesweeping; Scandinavia; Italy; the Balkans; air defence; air attacks on Germany and Britain; losses of shipping; the Western Front; the Mediterranean; the North Sea; enemy naval intelligence; the French fleet; Africa; the German and Italian Air Forces.
Dates:
30 May 1940 - 01 Aug 1940
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Official: War Cabinet: correspondence., 12 Sep 1939 - 14 Oct 1939
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/1
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Correspondents include: Brigadier-General Edward Spears, on where he could be most use as a liaison officer, and on French resentment at being left to fight alone (2); Leo Amery, on lack of co-ordination in economic defence, as in alloy mineral supplies; Leslie Burgin [Minister of Supply] on alloy supplies; Desmond Morton [Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Economic Warfare] on economic defence.
Dates:
12 Sep 1939 - 14 Oct 1939
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 12 Sep 1917 - 14 Sep 1917
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/22
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: [Esme] Howard [British Minister in Sweden] on subjects including the transmission of German telegrams (9); [1st] Lord Bertie [British Ambassador to France] on the composition of the French ministry (9); Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] on subjects including the press and the possibility of peace negotiations with Germany (15); Sir Lancelot Carnegie...
Dates:
12 Sep 1917 - 14 Sep 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office cables., 15 Sep 1917 - 16 Sep 1917
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/23
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Includes copies of telegrams from Foreign Office representatives including: Sir Rennell Rodd [later 1st Lord Rennell, British Ambassador to Italy]; Sir Horace Rumbold [British Minister in Switzerland] (3); [Esme] Howard [British Minister in Sweden] on subjects including the Swedish press and Great Britain's mistrust of the Swedish navy (14); Hugh Gurney; Sir Walter Townley [Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Queen of the Netherlands] on subjects including the press (22);...
Dates:
15 Sep 1917 - 16 Sep 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office prints, 03 Jun 1918 - 23 Dec 1918
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/55
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Includes printed copies of correspondence and papers from various representatives of the British government on the effects of war in various parts of the world including: [17th] Lord Derby [earlier Edward Stanley, British Ambassador to France] (5); Sir Horace Rumbold [British Minister in Switzerland] (5); [3rd] Lord Granville [earlier Granville Gower, British Minister in Greece at Athens] (2); Sir Rennell Rodd [later 1st Lord Rennell, British Ambassador to Italy] (5); Sir Arthur Hardinge...
Dates:
03 Jun 1918 - 23 Dec 1918
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Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives., 18 Dec 1941 - 30 Dec 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/10
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Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: the future conduct of the war; the Pacific and the Japanese fleet; the entry of the United States into the war; the Atlantic Front; the Indian Ocean; the function of the Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey]; Vichy France's co-operation with Germany; the function of the Minister Resident in West Africa [1st Lord Swinton, earlier Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame]; Fleet Air Arm...
Dates:
18 Dec 1941 - 30 Dec 1942
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Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives., 24 Nov 1942 - 28 Dec 1943
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/11
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Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: a forecast of the arrival of American forces in Britain; enemy strength in Tunisia, including notes by General Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to WSC]; over- optimism on post-war conditions; Sir William Beveridge's report on social security; demands on shipping by overseas cereal requirements; the ringing of church bells; telegrams between WSC and Stalin on Soviet-Polish relations; Jewish immigration into Palestine,...
Dates:
24 Nov 1942 - 28 Dec 1943
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Official: War Cabinet: Prime Minister's Directives., 28 Nov 1943 - 30 Dec 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/13
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Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: records of conversations at the Anglo-American- Russian conference in Teheran [Persia, later Iran] between delegates including WSC, Stalin, President Franklin Roosevelt, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Foreign Minister] and Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to President Roosevelt], on Turkey, using Italian ships, Poland, Finland and a date for "Overlord"...
Dates:
28 Nov 1943 - 30 Dec 1944
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Official: War Cabinet: Supreme War Council., 12 Sep 1939 - 13 Jun 1940
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/2
Scope and Contents
Printed records of the Council's meetings, on subjects including: the general situations in Britain; France; Germany; Poland; Italy; Spain; the Balkans; the Baltic; naval policy; the Eastern Front; the Western Front; air policy; South eastern Europe; Northern Europe; the Soviet Union; Scandinavia; British troops in France; the evacuation from Dunkirk [France]; appeals to the United States.Also includes: printed index.
Dates:
12 Sep 1939 - 13 Jun 1940
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/39A-B
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Includes correspondence and papers by various individuals including: Sir Auckland Geddes [Minister of National Service and Reconstruction] on manpower; Colonel Richard Steel and Major-General Percy Radcliffe on allied and enemy manpower and rifle strengths; WSC, Minister of Munitions, on the murder of Captain Cromie at Petrograd [later Leningrad and St Petersburg, Russia]; the award of the 1914 star and the Gallipoli star, horse-racing, the French ministry of national reconstitution, and...
Dates:
01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918
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Ordnance Survey 1:40,000 maps of Belgium and northern France, 1917 - 1918
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND D.113-D.116
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From the Series:
This section principally consists of the contents of Bagnold's large map cabinet and includes maps relating to his First World War service in France and Belgium, his explorations in North Africa and the Middle East (the 1932 expedition in particular) and the LRDG.
Dates:
1917 - 1918
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From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Papers for an issue of Geopolitique on Anglo-French relations, 1990-04 - 1990-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/74
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Includes: a message from Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, for the magazine on Anglo-French relations; an article by the Chancellor of the Exchequer [John Major] on the British approach to economic and monetary union (EMU); article by JA on a British view of Europe; correspondence on requests for articles, with Terence Higgins, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, Alistair Horne, George Walden, Sir Peter Blaker, Sir Julian Ridsdale, Michael Howard, Sir [John] Nicholas Henderson, Samuel Brittan, Tony...
Dates:
1990-04 - 1990-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Papers on chronology, geography and tides, 1868 - 1872
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/482
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Correspondence and printed papers on chronology, geography and tides. The correspondents include J.R. Hind, R.A. Proctor, W.H. Smith, J.W. Bosanquet, W. Thomson, C.T. Beke, E. Guest, A. de Morgan, J.N. Blakesley, W.H. Miller, H.E. Stanley, F. Struve, H.W. Bates, C.E. Delaunay, F. Galton, E.J. Routh, J. Challis, A. d'Abbadie, W.H.F. Talbot, H. James, J.S. Russell, T.A.B. Spratt, H.J. Rose, R. Ellis and G.T. Clark. There are papers and maps relating to ancient eclipses; a set of rules for...
Dates:
1868 - 1872
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on geodesy, 1874 - 1895
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/145
Scope and Contents
(1) Papers relating to the North American BoundaryCorrespondence with C. Frodsham and Co. concerning clocks by Lindsay Russell on trial at the Royal Observatory, 1874.(2) Papers relating to the North American Boundary west of Lake in the WoodsCorrespondence with Captain L. Anderson, Royal Engineers, concerning the determination of the 49th Parallel and the methods to be used, with a map of the area, a memorandum of progress and the Astronomer Royal's...
Dates:
1874 - 1895
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on Universal Time, 1885 - 1898
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 7/146
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Canadian and North American Papers relating to Universal Time:Printed notice from the Royal Society of Canada drawing attention to matters of time determination and nomenclature, 1890.Letter from Wilhelm Prealt of Hamburg, in German, 1890.Letter from Sandford Fleming, Ottawa, enclosing a Bill to be laid before the United States Senate regarding the reckoning of time in the United States, 1891.Letter from [J.P. Sohiham] of Vienna sending a copy of a booklet by...
Dates:
1885 - 1898
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers relating to an Anglo-French summit, Paris, France, 5 November 1982, 1982-02 - 1982-11
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/44
Scope and Contents
Includes: MT's handwritten notes
Includes: menus and photographs of the visit; paper for MT by ‘AJC [John Coles, MT’s Private Secretary for Overseas Affairs]’, "Anglo/French summit", 3 November 1982, and paper for Coles by D.J.S. Hancock, "Closer collaboration between the French and British Governments", both 3 November 1982
Also includes copy of valedictory remarks by Sir Reginald Hibbert (previous UK Ambassador to France), February 1982
Dates:
1982-02 - 1982-11
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in March 2013
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Papers relating to an Anglo-French summit, Paris, France, 5 November 1982, 1982-11
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/44A
Scope and Contents
Includes: MT's handwritten annotations
Includes: details of administrative arrangements and of the British delegation; and seating plans on flights [to/from] the UK
Dates:
1982-11
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in March 2013
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Papers relating to an Anglo-German summit in Bonn, 18 January 1985, and an Anglo-French summit, Downing Street, London, 18 November 1985, 1985-01 - 1985-11
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/10/79
Scope and Contents
Includes: schedules and menus
Dates:
1985-01 - 1985-11
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in October 2015
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Papers relating to France, consisting of a single note to MT from Richard Ryder (her Political Secretary), 1 June 1979, 1979-06
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/72
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The series includes some earlier files created in Opposition and either continued or used as reference by MT's Political Office at No 10 Downing Street. The files includes briefing notes for MT from her Political Office staff, most regularly Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary) and Richard Ryder (her Political Secretary up to 1981).
Dates:
1979-06
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in February 2010
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Papers relating to France, May 1975-November 1978, 1975-05 - 1978
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/126
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with President (Valery) Giscard d'Estaing of France, Prime Minister (Jacques) Chirac of France, his successor as Prime Minister Raymond Barre, and Douglas Hurd MP
Dates:
1975-05 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
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