France
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 927 Collections and/or Records:
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Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1944-01-04 - 1945-06-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/1/8
Scope and Contents
Letters sent from Algiers and France, while Duff Cooper was the British representative to the French Committee of National Liberation, and then Ambassador to France, on subjects including: life in Algiers; French resentment at being ignored by the Allies; having Randolph Churchill, Eve Curie and 3rd Lord Rothschild in the house, July 1944; the death of Rex Whistler; visiting Italy, Aug 1944; arriving in Paris; Winston Churchill's official visit, Nov 1944; visiting the front line with General...
Dates:
1944-01-04 - 1945-06-25
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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Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1946-08 - 1947-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/1/10
Scope and Contents
Letters from Duff Cooper's and Lady Diana's last year at the British Embassy in Paris [France], on subjects including: life at the embassy; various visitors, including Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Rosamond Lehmann and Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]; Duff Cooper's health, Apr 1947; the death of Conrad Russell.
Dates:
1946-08 - 1947-12
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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Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1948-01-02 - 1948-11-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/1/12
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the Chelsea Arts Ball on New Year's Eve 1947; Evelyn Waugh ["Mr Wu"]; returning to France; the death of Mohandas Gandhi; concerns about publishing her correspondence with Conrad Russell; Lady Diana's health; old admirers, including Gustav Hamel, Basil Hallam and George Moore; Duff Cooper's knighthood and lunch with the royal family; moving into a house at Chantilly; the visit to France by Princess Elizabeth, May 1948; Lady Diana's dislike of her and Duff Cooper's successors...
Dates:
1948-01-02 - 1948-11-20
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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Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1949-01-17 - 1949-11-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/1/14
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Winston Churchill's war memoirs ("The Gathering Storm", Feb 1949; a stay in hospital; a visit to Morocco, Mar 1949; travelling back through Spain over Easter, Apr 1949; dinner with the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII] and Duchess of Windsor [earlier Wallis Simpson], May 1949; a quarrel with Evelyn Waugh, May 1949; their 30th wedding anniversary, June 1949, and Lady Diana's memories of the wedding; a visit from Princess Margaret, June 1949; a ball at Buckingham...
Dates:
1949-01-17 - 1949-11-22
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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Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1950-01 - 1950-12-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/6/1/16
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the film rights to Duff Cooper's life of King David; lunch with Graham Greene; Cooper's health and both of them taking the cure in Aix-en-Provence [France], Jan-Feb 1950; lunch with Danny Kaye [David Kaminsky], May 1950; a visit to Corsica, May 1950; opposition from the Naval Intelligence Division to the publication of Cooper's book ["Operation Heartbreak"], Oct 1950; Lady Diana's health.
Dates:
1950-01 - 1950-12-11
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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Letters from Maurice and Adeline Hankey to Robin Hankey and Ursula Hankey [later Benn], 1919-02-17 - 1919-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AHKY 1/1/26
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered include: a trip to France including visits to St Germain and the battlefield at Chemin des Dames and [Georges] Clemenceau's shooting.
Dates:
1919-02-17 - 1919-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
One item within the collection (AHKY 3/1/6) is currently closed for conservation reasons.
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Letters from Maurice to Adeline Hankey, 1917-11-04 - 1917-11-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AHKY 1/1/22
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered include: Maurice's visits to Paris [France] and Rome [Italy], his concerns about the war and positive impressions of the French.
Dates:
1917-11-04 - 1917-11-29
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
One item within the collection (AHKY 3/1/6) is currently closed for conservation reasons.
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Letters to ELS, 1940-05 - 1941-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 11/1/7
Scope and Contents
Letters from MS to ELS on subjects including: the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit; ELS finding the right war work; the departure of General Requin; her concern that their son "Peti" [Michael Spears] should not be left alone; her admiration for ELS’s work.
Includes a photograph of MS in her nursing uniform.
Dates:
1940-05 - 1941-03
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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Letters to his wife, 1940-05 - 1940-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 3/21
Scope and Contents
Written from Dover.
With an account of the Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo).
Dates:
1940-05 - 1940-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Fonds:
Closed. Items in section 3 may only be consulted with Commander John Somerville's prior consent.
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Letters to Joan Gridley from Paris, 1944-09-12 - 1944-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GRID 4
Scope and Contents
Letters from Gridley on subjects including: accounts of shortages in Paris; Gridley's arrival in France; reforming his team from Algiers and an account of a typical day; the pressure of work, efforts to curtail the black market in fuel and food and the shortages in gas, public transport and food; Winston Churchill's visit to Paris and the Armistice Day parade with Churchill and General Charles de Gaulle; the reception for Churchill at the British Embassy; the suffering of the French under...
Dates:
1944-09-12 - 1944-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of John Gridley
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Letters to Joan Gridley from Paris, 1945-01-05 - 1945-04-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GRID 5
Scope and Contents
Letters from Gridley on subjects including: his request to be allowed to resign; difficulties caused by the cold; reactions to his resignation; arrangements for his replacement, Eric Wyndham White; food shortages; a visit from Jean Monnet; a visit from Clement Attlee, Deputy Prime Minister and a message of thanks from Monnet; arrangements for his departure and handover to Wyndham White; post-war prospects for France and the difficulties facing returning prisoners and deportees; Gridley's own...
Dates:
1945-01-05 - 1945-04-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of John Gridley
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 3 [eventually entitled "The End of the Feudal Age" and included in volume 1, "The Birth of Britain"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/404A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes typed drafts and galley proofs (marked printer's copy, first revise and second revise) for chapters entitled "King Richard II and the Social Revolt", "The Usurpation of King Henry IV (Henry Bolingbroke)", "The Empire of Henry V", "Henry VI", "Joan of Arc", "(The Adventures of) Edward IV", and "Richard III" or "Richard Crookback".With suggested corrections, amendments, notes, and correspondence from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [Charles Wood],...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 3, "The End of the Feudal Age" [of volume 1, "The Birth of Britain"]: various post-war revises., 1954 - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/421A-E
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some described as "R E's" [returned empties], "P A's", or first or second revise) and typed and manuscript drafts for: chapters entitled "King Richard II and the Social Revolt", "The Usurpation of Henry Bolingbroke", "The Empire of Henry V", "Joan of Arc" or "The Loss of France", "York and Lancaster", "The Wars of the Roses", "The Adventures of Edward IV", and "Richard III" or "Richard Crookback" or "Richard of Gloucester"; provisional chapter lists.With suggested...
Dates:
1954 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 9, "The French Challenge and the Second British Empire" [eventually entitled "Napoleon" and included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various post-war revises., Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/433A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some described as "duplicate", first, second, penultimate, or last revise) and typed drafts for: provisional chapter lists; chapters entitled "(America) Between the Storms" or "The American Constitution", "The French Revolution", "The Corsican Ogre" or "Napoleon" or "The Emperor of the French", "The Peninsula and Waterloo", "The War of 1812", "The Younger Pitt", "France Confronted", "The Peninsula War (and the Fall of Napoleon)", "Washington, Adams, and Jefferson",...
Dates:
Nov 1954 - Jan 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": book 9, "The French Challenge and the Second British Empire" [eventually entitled "Napoleon" and included in volume 3, "The Age of Revolution"]: various pre-war proofs., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/410
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs and manuscript and typed drafts (marked printer's copy) for: chapters entitled "William Pitt the Younger", "England at War", "Between the Storms", The Shadow of the Tricolour", "America and the French Revolution", "Pitt and the War", "Napoleon", "The War of 1812", "Canada" and "The American Civil War"; provisional chapter lists.With suggested corrections, amendments, and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: "F W D" [William...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": miscellaneous notes, correspondence on the content and production of the book, and other material., 1938 - 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/443A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents [mainly literary assistants and advisers] include: Denis Kelly (3); Brigadier-General [Sir James] Edmonds, of the Military Branch of the Historical Section, on the American Civil War; Alan Bullock on Henry III and Edward I (2); [George] Young on Augustus and Trajan, and the Magna Carta; Alan Hodge on an article on George III and checking books 8 and 9 (3); Robert Wilberforce on likely US Catholic reaction to the book; Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth...
Dates:
1938 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 1 [eventually entitled "The Birth of Britain"]: main pre-war revise [with a few later notes]., [1938] - [1955]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/416A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (marked printer's copy and second revise) for: the prologue; book 1, "The Origin of the English Speaking Peoples" [eventually entitled "The Island Race"] featuring chapters entitled "Britannia", "Subjugation", "The Roman Province", "The Lost Island", "England", "The Vikings", and "The Saxon Dust"; book 2, "The Making of the Nation" featuring chapters entitled "The Norman Invasion", "William the Conqueror", "The Progress of Norman Feudalism", "Henry Plantagenet and the...
Dates:
[1938] - [1955]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 1 [eventually entitled "The Birth of Britain"]: "New Discovery": spare proofs., [1938] - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/417A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some marked second revise) for: the prologue; book 1, "The Origin of the English Speaking Peoples" [eventually entitled "The Island Race"] featuring chapters entitled "Britannia", "Subjugation", "The Roman Province", "The Lost Island", "England", "The Vikings", "Alfred the Great" and "The Saxon Dust"; book 2, "The Making of the Nation" featuring chapters entitled "The Norman Invasion", "William the Conqueror", "The Progress of Norman Feudalism", "Henry Plantagenet and...
Dates:
[1938] - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 3 [eventually entitled "The Age of Revolution"]: corrected proofs from Professor [Denis] Brogan., 1946 - 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/430
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some described as first revise or marked "printer's copy") and typed drafts for: provisional chapter lists; book 8, "The First British Empire", and some of book 9 [eventually entitled "Napoleon"], featuring chapters entitled "The Monopoly of the Whigs", "The Austrian Succession and the Forty-Five", "The War of Independence", "George III", "William Pitt the Younger", "The First World War", "The Conflict of the Peoples", "The United States or the Second World War", and...
Dates:
1946 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 3, "The Age of Revolution": final proofs., Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/434A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs of the entire volume [with the exception of the index]: introductory pages and books 7-9, "England's Advance to World Power", "The First British Empire", and "Napoleon".With very minor suggested amendments from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [Alan Hodge].
Dates:
Jan 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 1 and 2 [eventually entitled "The Birth of Britain" and "The New World"]: Amalgamated Press version., [1945] - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/440A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes long galley proofs for: [book 1, eventually entitled "The Island Race" featuring] chapters entitled "Britannia", "Subjugation", "The Roman Province", "The Lost Island", "England", "The Vikings", "Alfred the Great", and "The Saxon Dusk"; book 2, "The Making of the Nation", featuring chapters entitled "The Norman Invasion", "William the Conqueror", "The Progress of Norman Feudalism", "Henry Plantagenet and the Medieval Church", "Coeur de Lion", "Magna Carta", "The Mother of...
Dates:
[1945] - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 1 to 4, "The Birth of Britain", "The New World", "The Age of Revolution", and "The Great Democracies": page proofs., 1955 - 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/441A-D
Scope and Contents
Includes loose and bound page proofs for the above volumes, with suggested corrections, amendments, and notes [mainly for volume 1] from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, printers, etc.] or organisations including: "C C W" [Charles Wood], "A H" [Alan Hodge], WSC, [John] Sundell of Cassell [and Company], "D K" [Denis Kelly], Time-Life [International], and [George Gordon] Allen.
Dates:
1955 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 3 and 4 [eventually entitled "The Age of Revolution" and "The Great Democracies"]: main pre-war revise., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/427A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some marked printer's copy and revised galley) for: chapter lists; book 7, [eventually entitled] "[England's] Advance to World Power" featuring chapters entitled "William III and Europe", "The Spanish Succession", "Marlborough: Blenheim and Ramillies", "Oudenarde and Malplaquet", and "The Treaty of Utrecht"; book 8, "The First British Empire" featuring chapters entitled "The Monopoly of the Whigs", "The Austrian Succession and the Forty-Five", "Colonial America", "The...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 3 and 4 [eventually entitled "The Age of Revolution" and "The Great Democracies"]: "New Discovery": spare proofs., [1938] - [1955]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/428A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some "revised" or "first revise") for: chapter lists; book 7, [eventually entitled] "[England's] Advance to World Power" featuring chapters entitled "William III and Europe", "The Spanish Succession", "Marlborough: Blenheim and Ramillies", "Oudenarde and Malplaquet", and "The Treaty of Utrecht"; book 8, "The First British Empire" featuring chapters entitled "The Monopoly of the Whigs", "The Austrian Succession and the Forty-Five", "Colonial America", "The First World...
Dates:
[1938] - [1955]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/282A-B
Scope and Contents
Proofs for various articles by WSC for the Strand Magazine: "[Georges] Clemenceau: the man and the tiger" including his relationship with [Field Marshal Ferdinand] Foch, French politics and World War I; "If I lived my life over again" on various decisions taken by WSC, gambling, his experiences during the Boer War and at the Admiralty and his attitude towards the Conservative Party; "People who have influenced or impressed me" on Lord Randolph Churchill, William Bourke Cockran, Sir Francis...
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open