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France

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 976 Collections and/or Records:

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Personal: Business: houses on the French riviera., Nov 1955 - May 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/29
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence from Maurice Hudson (3), and representatives of various estate agents giving details of various properties for sale or rent. Also includes: notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Anthony Montague Browne, Gillian Maturin, and Doreen Pugh; photographs of the riviera and photographs, drawings, plans, and maps of the locations of particular houses.

Dates: Nov 1955 - May 1957
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Financial: Societe General Alsacienne de Banque (Strasbourg [France])., 02 Aug 1950 - 15 Feb 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/13
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from: A Ehret on managing WSC's account with the bank (11); John Colville [1st Secretary, British Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal] (3) on arranging for CSC to obtain escudos; Helen Ehret on expenses for WSC's stay in Strasbourg in 1950. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Lettice Shillingford (Lettice Marston), Chips Gemmell, and Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow]; William Deakin [WSC's literary assistant].Also includes a used cheque book,...
Dates: 02 Aug 1950 - 15 Feb 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal Papers of Rosemary Saunders, 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Saunders
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises a diary of a field trip to Switzerland; photographs of the participants in the trip; and a bundle of geography notes.

Dates: 1973
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Personal: Photographs., Nov 1945 - Oct 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/95
Scope and Contents Photographs of WSC and Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] on visit to Brussels, Belgium, Nov 1945 [51 photos].Photographs of WSC's visit to Strasbourg, France, August 1949 [13 photos].Photographs of WSC, CSC and Mary Churchill's visit to Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug-Sep 1946 [36 photos].Photographs of WSC and CSC's visit to Denmark, Oct 1950 [6 photos].Photographs of Viking ship finds at Oseberg, Norway, [presumably presented to WSC during his visit to Norway, May 1948] [10 photos with...
Dates: Nov 1945 - Oct 1950
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Visits and invitations: Aix-en-Provence [France], Monte Carlo [Monaco] (August - October 1948): A - H., 05 Jul 1948 - 31 Oct 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/71
Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's visit to Aix and Monte Carlo include: Ava, Lady Anderson [earlier Ava Wigram, later Ava, Lady Waverley] offering accommodation (2); Edward, Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and Edward VIII]; CSC (4); Robert Boothby; Comtesse de Geoffre de Chabrignac; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann]; Sylvia Churchill; William Deakin [WSC's literary assistant] (3); representatives of Thomas Cook and Son Limited on travel arrangements (18); G Ritleng,...
Dates: 05 Jul 1948 - 31 Oct 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Visits and invitations: Aix-en-Provence [France], Monte Carlo [Monaco] (August - October 1948) I - Z., 11 Aug 1948 - 03 Jan 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/72
Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's visit to Aix and Monte Carlo include: Lord Duncannon [later 10th Lord Bessborough, 1st Secretary, British Embassy, Paris]; Alan Horn [Vice-Consul, Marseilles]; Prince Bianchi de Medicis (3); Paul van Zeeland, Senator of Belgium; Comtesse de Sabran-Ponteves; Edwyn Hole [Consul-General, Nice]; Comtesse du Testre.Other subjects include: invitations, gifts and requests for interviews and autographs.Also includes: prints from a book of honour of the French Resistance;...
Dates: 11 Aug 1948 - 03 Jan 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Photograph album of Thomas Bullock, circa 1880 - circa 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Bullock 2/1
Scope and Contents The volume comprises sepia photographs mounted on album pages. They include views of Paris, Malta, Port Said, the Suez Canal, Colombo, Cairo (the Pyramids), Aden and China; also cathedrals in southern England, including Winchester and Salisbury. These appear to be copies of photographs by commercial photographers, a few of whom are identified. Photographs from China include some general views, particularly of Beijing [described as Peking]; also Tianjin [described as Tientsin]. There are...
Dates: circa 1880 - circa 1900
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Photograph of four people in bathing costumes on a rock by the sea at Cap d'Ail, France, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/EDVS 3/1
Scope and Contents

From left to right: Chips Gemmell, Lettice Shillingford, Denis Kelly and Evan Davies.

Dates: 1949
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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Photograph of Winston Churchill on a donkey near Fontaine de Vaucluse, France, 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/EDVS 3/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Log book, copy letters and photographs.

Dates: 1949
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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Photographs, 1920-08 - 1983-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 5
Scope and Contents

Mainly photographs of various official events and visits undertaken by GJ as British Ambassador to France, and also some earlier photographs from GJ's service in Iran in the 1920s.

Dates: 1920-08 - 1983-08
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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Photographs from Paris, 1968-09 - 1972-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 5/6
Scope and Contents Photographs from CS's time as Ambassador to France, including: CS's official document of appointment as Ambassador; CS at a Presidential shoot in Rambouillet, 1968; cartoons of CS; press cuttings on the funeral of Charles de Gaulle, Nov 1970; formal photographs of CS and MS at the embassy, 1972, by Reg Lancaster [Daily Express]; informal colour pictures of the Soames family in the garden of the embassy, 1972; [?] Vogue photograph of Emma Soames, 1972; signed photograph of the Royal Family,...
Dates: 1968-09 - 1972-09
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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Photographs of WSC with French teenagers, 1941-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL 4/51
Scope and Contents

3 photographs of a group of French teenagers being received by WSC and CSC in the garden of 10 Downing Street, after they had crossed the English Channel by canoe to join the Free French. Includes explanatory notes.

Dates: 1941-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Pocket diary, 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/31
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Including Second World War service, in particular the evacuation from Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) and the attack on the French Fleet at Mers el-Kebir, in Algeria (Operation Catapult), by Force H.

Dates: 1940
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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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ho-Hu., 02 May 1939 - 30 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/78A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Clement Holdstock (5); G J Holtham (9); Joyce Howard (6); Reginald Hucks (4); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (5).Subjects include: Merchant Navy clothing; land requisition; rehousing bombing victims; the place of religion in probation work (amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill, 1939); British residents in unoccupied France (1941); BBC messages to France.Also includes: a petition for...
Dates: 02 May 1939 - 30 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Polygamy &c-58 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 85: B104r
Scope and Contents

Summary for Legitimate Births [relative numbers of boys and girls]


Note; by Charles Robert Darwin


(Note)

Dates: 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Some material in the Darwin archive is not available because it is unfit for production and access to some very fragile material may only be possible with support from specialist conservation staff. Please see descriptions for further details.
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Postcard of Fontaine de Vaucluse, France

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/EDVS 3/4
Scope and Contents

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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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Press cuttings, official programmes, menus etc., 1929 - 1995

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 6
Scope and Contents

Cuttings and other material mainly covering GJ's time as British Ambassador to France.

Dates: 1929 - 1995
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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Public and Political: General: Air Defence: Deputations to the Prime Minister., 21 Jul 1936 - 21 Jan 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/270
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Clement Attlee [Leader of the Opposition] refusing to join the deputations to the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin; Osmund Cleverly [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]; Henry Pownall [Deputy Secretary], Committee of Imperial Defence; Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary], Committee of Imperial Defence] (2).Also includes: extracts from the transcript of the first deputation, including [?] WSC on the Government's failure to expand the air industry and the RAF...
Dates: 21 Jul 1936 - 21 Jan 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Air Defence: Wing Commander Anderson., 13 Dec 1937 - 17 Dec 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/338
Scope and Contents Includes notes, memoranda and correspondence by and from Wing Commander Charles Anderson, Commander of No 1 Armaments Training Camp, including: notes on the employment of RAF officers; summaries and analyses of flying accidents, 1937; map of RAF stations and air commands in Britain; Air Ministry press summary; group orders on inquiries into damage to aircraft; RAF intelligence summaries, 1938; Squadron Leader Richard Atcherley, Senior Air Staff Officer, RAF Training Command, on training;...
Dates: 13 Dec 1937 - 17 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 01 Oct 1937 - 30 Dec 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/299
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Shane Leslie; Sir Hubert Young [Governor and Commander- in-Chief of Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia]; General Sir Ian Hamilton on claims by Margot, Lady Oxford and Asquith [earlier Margot Asquith] on the resignation of 1st Lord Haldane [as Lord Chancellor, 1915] (2); Marshal of the RAF 1st Lord Trenchard on meeting the German Official Air Mission; Bernard Freyberg; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] on the Privy Councillorships of F E Smith [1st Lord...
Dates: 01 Oct 1937 - 30 Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 10 May 1938 - 31 Oct 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/332
Scope and Contents Correspondents, mainly on Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia] and the Munich Pact, include: [David] Graham Hutton; Roy Harrod on subjects including the general support for WSC's views on foreign policy, and a suggested electoral pact between WSC and the Labour Party (3); Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury] on subjects including WSC's speech on the Munich Pact (5 October) (2); Neville Chamberlain,...
Dates: 10 May 1938 - 31 Oct 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 01 Aug 1938 - 30 Sep 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/331
Scope and Contents Correspondents, mainly on Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia] and the Munich Crisis, include: Lord Halifax ("E") [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin], Foreign Secretary (4); Admiral Sir William Goodenough on WSC's part in raising naval morale; Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister]; Sir John Haslam; Robert Boothby on subjects including announcing negotiations with France and the Soviet Union to deter Hitler from invading Czechoslovakia, the leak of his and WSC's idea to use a...
Dates: 01 Aug 1938 - 30 Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 05 Oct 1937 - 31 Mar 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/328
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on the French financial capability for war; Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]; 1st Lord Craigavon [earlier Sir James Craig], Prime Minister of Northern Ireland; Samuel Hood [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India]; Lord Ednam [later 4th Lord Dudley], President, Eton Political Society (2); Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft on a meeting of the Friends of Spain group,...
Dates: 05 Oct 1937 - 31 Mar 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 01 Jan 1945 - 31 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/527
Scope and Contents Correspondents include Odhams Press Ltd (3) on photographs for book "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill"; Robert Boothby, offering congratulations on 5th anniversary of becoming Prime Minister; Maurice Ashley, (3) asking for reference, with note by the War Office on Ashley's War Service; Sir Reginald Hoare, asking for help in obtaining a Commission in the 4th Hussars for his son, Robin; Frank Thistleton, Musicians Benevolent Fund, (3) asking WSC to sign book to be presented to Dame Myra...
Dates: 01 Jan 1945 - 31 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open