France
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 976 Collections and/or Records:
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence E - G., 04 Jun 1946 - 17 Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/169
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Correspondents include: Charles Eade; Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (2) on subjects including his intention to divorce Beatrice Eden; Nicholas Eden [later 2nd Lord Avon]; [2nd] Lord Beatty (2) and Walter Monckton (4) on the affair between Beatty's wife [Dorothy, Lady Beatty, earlier Dorothy Bragg, later Dorothy Hewitt] and [Anthony Eden] and the possibility of divorce; Leif Egeland [High Commissioner in London for South Africa] on the illness of Jan Smuts [former Prime Minister of...
Dates:
04 Jun 1946 - 17 Nov 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence F - G., 09 Jul 1945 - 21 Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/149A-B
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Correspondents include: Douglas Fairbanks [junior]; James Farley, Chairman, Coca-Cola Export Corporation (9); King Farouk of Egypt; Keith Feiling; [?] Frederick Fenning; 4th Lord Fermoy [earlier Edmund Roche]; Sir Aylmer Firebrace, former Chief of Fire Staff, asking WSC to write a foreword for his ["Fire Service Memories"] (3); Wilfred Fish [Dean, Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons] (2); Marguerite Flandin, on the imprisonment of her husband, Pierre Flandin [former French...
Dates:
09 Jul 1945 - 21 Dec 1948
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence H - N., 26 Mar 1946 - 04 Jan 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/163A-B
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Correspondents include: Nina, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon [President, Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society] on animal rescue; Roy Harrod on "The Gathering Storm" [Volume 1, "The Second World War"], his own political position and his biography of 1st Lord Keynes [earlier John Maynard Keynes] (3); Sir James Hawley on revoking WSC's deed of covenant in favour of his late wife (2); Alan Hillgarth [earlier Alan Evans]; Agatha, Lady Hindlip; Violet Hoare on her son's death in Malaya...
Dates:
26 Mar 1946 - 04 Jan 1950
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence L., 14 Feb 1946 - 09 Jul 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/152A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Orme Sargent [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on intervention in the trial of Admiral Jean de Laborde; Lady Juliet Duff on Laborde; 1st Lord Lambert [former Chairman, Liberal Parliamentary Party] on appealing to the Liberals to help in the fight against the Labour Government; Lady Katherine Lambton (3); 3rd Lord Lamington [earlier Victor Cochrane Baillie]; Graham Lampson [later 2nd Lord Killearn] (2); Claude Lancaster; Christopher...
Dates:
14 Feb 1946 - 09 Jul 1949
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence R., 07 Feb 1946 - 02 Jul 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/154
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Correspondents include: Frank Ramsay on his brother Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay [Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force] (3); Clement Attlee, [Prime Minister] on Ramsay, and the memorial for Franklin Roosevelt (3); Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and former Principal Private Secretary to WSC] (8) on subjects including an honour for Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay; J Arthur Rank on films for WSC (2); Mary Stocks, Principal, Westfield College, University...
Dates:
07 Feb 1946 - 02 Jul 1949
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Public and Political: General: Rearmament: Plessey Company Limited., 05 May 1936 - 30 Oct 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/280
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Correspondents include: Herbert Williams on Allen Clark, [Joint Managing Director] of Plessey Company Limited (2); Allen Clark on his report of a visit to munitions works abroad, and Plessey's plans for a similar mortar- shell plant (7); Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh Elles [Master General of Ordnance] on Clark's report and armour-piercing bullet tests (2).Also includes: copy of Clark's report on his visit to munitions works in Germany, Switzerland and France; copies of correspondence by WSC...
Dates:
05 May 1936 - 30 Oct 1936
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Bayeux, Caen, Lyons [France], Channel Islands: invitations., 21 Jan 1947 - 28 Mar 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/255
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Correspondents on invitations for WSC include: R Triboulet, Deputy for Calvados and President, D-Day Commemoration Committee, inviting WSC to Bayeux; Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich, British Ambassador to France] on Anglo-French exchange visits (2); [John] Laurence Pumphrey, Foreign Office, on an invitation for WSC to visit Caen; Sir Philip Neame, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, inviting WSC to visit (2). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by CSC and Lettice Marston [later...
Dates:
21 Jan 1947 - 28 Mar 1951
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Metz, Luxembourg, Paris (July 1946)., Sep 1944 - 12 Feb 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/237
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Correspondents on WSC's visit to France and Luxembourg include: Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (2); Andrew Clasen, Luxembourg Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, on subjects including arrangements for the visit, and requests for photographs of WSC (8); [?] Ethel, Lady Cotton; Robert Schuman, French Minister of Finance; Sir [David] Rowland Evans, General Secretary, Liberal National Organization; Louis Vallon, Director, Paris Mint, on medallions for WSC; Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord...
Dates:
Sep 1944 - 12 Feb 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Paris [France] (May 1947)., 25 Jul 1945 - 15 Jun 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/252
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Lord Duncannon [later 10th Lord Bessborough, 1st Secretary, British Embassy, Paris] thanking those sending congratulations to WSC on his receiving the medaille militaire (3); Joseph Paul-Boncour, President, Franco-British Parliamentary Group, on WSC receiving the medaille militaire; General L Mast, on the medal; Comtesse Greffuhle [earlier Princess de Cameran-Chimay] inviting WSC to stay and recalling Lady Randolph Churchill and WSC's aunt [Janey] Lady...
Dates:
25 Jul 1945 - 15 Jun 1947
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Public and Political: Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trading in Arms., 07 Nov 1935 - 25 Feb 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/281
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Correspondents include: Desmond Morton, Director, Industrial Intelligence Centre; Charles Tennyson [Secretary, Dunlop Rubber Company Limited].Also includes: copies of papers on a reported German move to capture the world armaments trade, and France's armaments programme and plans for industrial mobilisation, including a translated report on the reorganization of the departments in the French War Ministry dealing with armaments; copy of minutes from the Royal Commission of evidence given by...
Dates:
07 Nov 1935 - 25 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Report of Admiral Ramsay on Operation Dynamo, 1940-06-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 7/2
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From the Fonds:
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91
Dates:
1940-06-18
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Reports on Force H, 1941-08-15 - 1941-08-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 7/12
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Including Operation Mincemeat (attack on the southern French coast).
Dates:
1941-08-15 - 1941-08-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Royal visit, Paris", 1972-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 12/1/28
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Footage of Queen Elizabeth II’s State visit to Paris, France.
Dates:
1972-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Access copies must be requested in advance.
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"Saluting the flag after receiving the Medaille Militaire, the highest French military honour", 1947-05-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/247
Scope and Contents
Photo shows WSC at Les Invalides, Paris, wearing uniform and saluting. He is standing next to a military band, standing in line.
Dates:
1947-05-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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Scrapbook, 1914-06-28 - 1914-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/2
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This scrapbook documents how Eleanor spent the first year of the First World War. It begins as Eleanor recounts hearing about the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, from Prince Louis of Battenberg who sat at the next table to her and her family at the Savoy on 28 June 1914. During 1914, Eleanor re-commenced the running of First Aid classes aimed at elite women, which she ran from the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, with St John’s Ambulance. In September 1914, her...
Dates:
1914-06-28 - 1914-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1915-01-01 - 1915-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/3
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The scrapbook opens with a description of Eleanor visiting the French Front, dining in Compiegne and being given a tour of a hospital based in Chateau Sainte-Annel. The Eshers travelled back to London where she continued her work running First Aid classes at the Duke of York’s Headquarters in between seeing Sylvia [daughter], Zena [daughter-in-law], and their families and swallowing a chicken bone where she ‘thought my last moment had come’. Eleanor returned to Paris, where she comments on...
Dates:
1915-01-01 - 1915-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1916-01-01 - 1916-09-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/4
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The scrapbook opens with a poster ‘Taisez-Vous! Méfiez-Vous! Les Oreilles Enemies Vous Écoutent’ (translated as Shut up! Beware! Enemy Ears Are Listening To You) which Eleanor captions: ‘This notice was put up in all rail way carriages, trams, public buildings of all kinds in France’, as well as a list of battles which began in 1916. During this year, Eleanor was invited to Buckingham Palace to receive a Red Cross from the King for her First Aid Training work. She continues recording her and...
Dates:
1916-01-01 - 1916-09-14
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Second World War Letters, 31 Mar. 1940-16 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10082/23
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Letters from Thomas John Fairbank to his parents, Harold Arthur Thomas and Florence Kathleen Fairbank, sent whilst serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. Particularly evident during his long posting in Gibraltar, the letters frequently contain descriptions of operating cases and sketches of joints and it is understood TJF’s father responded with advice on orthopaedics. The letters have been arranged in chronological order and by year into the following...
Dates:
31 Mar. 1940-16 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for researchers using Cambridge University Library.
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"Shall we all commit suicide?", Sep 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/200B/202-206
Scope and Contents
Press cutting of article by WSC published in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, illustrated with a portrait photograph of WSC. Covers progress and developments in knowledge, technology and science and their use in World War I; the potential for extermination of the human race; possibility of another war in Europe; speculation on the development of explosive weapons "Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power", and of pilot-less aircraft, chemical and biological...
Dates:
Sep 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
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Sir Alan Campbell: material for book, 1978-12 - 1982-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 10/6
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Drafts and a final copy of an article by Campbell, former Head of Chancery in Paris when CS was Ambassador, 'Embassy to France: an account of Anglo-French relations, 1968-72', with accompanying correspondence between Campbell and CS.
Dates:
1978-12 - 1982-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Sir Richard Colt Hoare: Journals of tours in Italy and Europe
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3545-3555
Scope and Contents
Journals and notebooks of Hoare's extensive European tours, mainly through Italy.
Dates:
1785-1791
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Sketchbooks, 1898-01
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SDEE 4/6
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Comprising pencil sketches of landscapes, ships and harbours.
Including views of Devon; France; Tonga and Samoa.
Dates:
1898-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Slides of trips to France and Lake Orta, 1961 - 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/GUTH/6/10
Scope and Contents
Includes mainly landscape views of [presumably family holidays to] France, 1961 (Vezere, Dordogne, Lot, Tarn) and Lake Orta, Italy, 1963.
Dates:
1961 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Some sensitive/confidential papers and uncatalogued items remain closed.
Organization
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Speech notes., Jun 1945 - 30 Jul 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/7A-D
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (11 July 1946, Livingstone Hall, Westminster, London) for a confidential meeting of the Executive Committee of Conservative and Unionist Associations including: his decision not to resign as Leader of the Conservative Party; criticisms of the Labour government; the need for organised opposition; and local party organisation. Source material includes: press cuttings; papers and notes on a variety of subjects including the organisation of the Conservative party,...
Dates:
Jun 1945 - 30 Jul 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open