France
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 967 Collections and/or Records:
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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
Scope and Contents
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
Conditions Governing Access:
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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
Conditions Governing Access:
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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
Conditions Governing Access:
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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
Conditions Governing Access:
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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:
Open
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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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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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Second World War Letters, 31 Mar. 1940-16 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10082/23
Scope and Contents
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
Unknown
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:
Open
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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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
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Speech notes: House of Commons., 26 May 1942 - 25 Jun 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/6A-C
Scope and Contents
Speech notes and Hansard report of WSC's speech (5 June 1946, House of Commons) on foreign affairs on various subjects including: the cold war and the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union; Communism; the report of the Trade Union delegation to Athens [Greece] and the elections held there; affairs and events in Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Poland; a broadcast delivered by Field Marshal Jan Smuts; reconstruction in Belgium and the Netherlands; and the United Nations. Source...
Dates:
26 May 1942 - 25 Jun 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches, 1953-04 - 1955-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 7/20
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and typescript speech notes on subjects including: Roger Bannister; the success of the Institute of Directors; ELS’s own writing work; the mistake of being bound too closely to France; has France a future?; Winston Churchill, including a review of the final volume of his war memoirs; a review of Major-General Gerald Verney’s history of the Seventh Armoured Division, the 'Desert Rats'; Marshal Philippe Petain and the 1917 mutinies in the French army.
Dates:
1953-04 - 1955-11
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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Speeches, 1966-07 - 1975-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/3
Scope and Contents
Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: relations between politicians and the press; free speech, particularly adverse reactions to JEP's speeches and intolerance shown by universities; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; housing policy; the world monetary system; the balance of payments deficit; reform of the House of Lords; Labour prices and incomes policy; taxation; nationalisation, particularly of the railways; Conservatism since 1951; trade union law; national unity,...
Dates:
1966-07 - 1975-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Speeches, 1993-01 - 1993-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/25
Scope and Contents
Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Gospels and the relationship between Church and State; Sir Robert Peel; Britain and the European Community, including relations with France, the balance of power in Europe, and the results of changing East-West relations; British policy on Northern Ireland; historical Anglo-Turkish relations (the Gallipoli Memorial Lecture); Anthony Trollope; interference in the internal affairs of other countries, particularly Bosnia [Bosnia and...
Dates:
1993-01 - 1993-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Speeches given while CS was serving as Ambassador to France, 1968-03 - 1972-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 4/2/1
Scope and Contents
Includes list of CS's speaking engagements.
Dates:
1968-03 - 1972-12
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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Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 27 Feb 1950 - 28 Mar 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/33A-C
Scope and Contents
Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speech (7 March, House of Commons) for the debate on the address, on subjects including: the stalemate in the new Parliament and the need for electoral reform; uncertainty until the next election; increasing food production; unemployment; cutting taxation; restoring the value of sterling; repealing the nationalization of the iron and steel industry; enlarging the building trade to solve the housing problem; the risk of Britain being split into Labour and...
Dates:
27 Feb 1950 - 28 Mar 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 06 Nov 1951 - 22 Dec 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/45A-C
Scope and Contents
Speech notes and extract from Hansard for WSC's speech (6 November, House of Commons) for the debate on the address, on subjects including: the political divisions in the country; the charge of war-mongering laid against the Conservatives, and the need for steady government; the restoration of university representation in Parliament; the repeal of the Iron and Steel Nationalization Act; future parliamentary business, including the defence debate; keeping the Minister of Education out of the...
Dates:
06 Nov 1951 - 22 Dec 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 01 Jul 1952 - 20 Sep 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/48A-B
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (1 July, House of Commons) entitled "The Korean War" on subjects including the early demoralization of Communist forces in Korea, then the success of their negotiations and rebuilt forces; the heavy costs suffered by Britain and the United States during the armistice; harm caused by anti-American feeling in Parliament; the treatment and exchange of prisoners of war, including forcing anti-Communist soldiers to return to China or North Korea; Labour's motion of...
Dates:
01 Jul 1952 - 20 Sep 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
Open