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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 967 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 09 Feb 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/30
Scope and Contents

Cutting from the Sunday Express - column - Politicians and Politics by Peter Howard.

Dates: 09 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Mar 1936

 Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/274/1-2
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from WSC to [Pierre] Flandin [Minister of State, France] marked "confidential" asking for French information about the present strength of the German Air Force, predicting 2,000 aircraft by the end of 1936, and asking for information about French expenditure on aviation services for use in debates in Parliament.Carbon typescript. Unsigned.

Dates: 07 Mar 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jul 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/217/79
Scope and Contents

Letter from "Ike" Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States (The White House) to WSC on the forthcoming Four Power summit meeting at Geneva [Switzerland] between the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union and France. He expresses sadness that WSC will not be present at the meeting and says they will be inspired by WSC's "long quest for peace". Signed typescript.

Dates: 15 Jul 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
 Sub-Series

Various eye witness accounts of the Boer War and World War I, 1900 - 1919

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/9/1-3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Political and personal correspondence and other papers.

CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton


Dates: 1900 - 1919
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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Visit to Paris [France], 1989-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 8/45
Scope and Contents

Includes: briefings on France and French ministers; notes of a meeting with Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission; briefing for a meeting with Jack Lang [French Minister of Culture and Communication]; copies of Hansard covering the Queen’s Speech and a debate on Europe.

Dates: 1989-11
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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Visit to Paris [France], 1989-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 8/46
Scope and Contents Includes: programme; briefings on France and French ministers; briefing on arms control; letter from NK to Margaret Thatcher on Labour’s support for democratic change in Eastern Europe; note of issues to be discussed at the Strasbourg European summit, Dec 1989; report on Socialist International meeting in Milan on Eastern Europe; note on European Community sanctions against South Africa [possibly relating to a resolution on South Africa passed at Socialist International Council Meeting,...
Dates: 1989-11
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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Visits and meetings, 1990-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/109
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Papers from a meeting with Francesco Cossiga, President of Italy, and with Gianni de Michelis, Foreign Minister, with briefing on de Michelis and Italy’s position on Europe, and notes of the meetings, particularly on Europe, the reunification of Germany, and the Gulf. Also includes material from an earlier meeting in July 1988, and timetables and briefing for a visit by Pierre Mauroy, First Secretary of the French Socialist Party.

Dates: 1990-10
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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"War cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.40) of the Naval, Military and Air Situation", 30 May- 6 Jun 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/5/1-14
Scope and Contents Detailed summary of the war situation including: the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk including the effect of weather conditions, numbers evacuated, naval losses and attacks by German bombers; attacks by U-boats on seaborne trade; anti-submarine operations; German trade; overview of the military and air situation covering Norway, Italy, the North Sea and coastal operations, the bombing of Great Britain, attacks on Germany by Bomber Command, French and German air...
Dates: 30 May- 6 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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"War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.56) of the naval, military and air situation from 12 noon September to 12 noon September 26th, 1940", 27 Sep 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/6/86-99
Scope and Contents Summary of events including: attempted landing at Dakar by General [Charles] de Gaulle; U boat activity in the North Atlantic and shipping losses; operations by German raiders; information about the disposition of German and Italian troops; events in Greece, Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Bulgaria, the Mediterranean and the Middle East; air attacks on Germany (including Berlin) and on invasion ports in France and...
Dates: 27 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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War Cabinet Paper, 08 Dec 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/4/11
Scope and Contents Printed copy of a letter from WSC to President Roosevelt setting out the prospects for 1941 covering various subjects including: shared interests between Great Britain and the United States; the importance of sea and air power against Germany; reassurance about not requesting a large expeditionary army from the United States; the crucial importance of shipping to feed people and transport munitions and armies; shipping losses; battleship strength; the dangers posed by the Vichy French...
Dates: 08 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
 Sub-sub-sub class

War Office 1:100,000 maps of Belgium and northern France, 1910 - 1916

 Sub-sub-sub class
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND D.117-D.130
Scope and Contents 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: 1910 - 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Wars are not won by evacuations", 04 Jun 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/140A/9-28
Scope and Contents Typescript copy of notes for WSC's speech on the fall of Belgium and surrender of King [Leopold] of Belgium; the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk [France]; the successes of the RAF; losses of men and weaponry; military development and the possibility of German invasion. Speech includes the phrase "We shall fight on the beaches . . . We shall never surrender".Carbon typescript copy with some manuscript annotations in ink [not by WSC] laid out in "psalm style" apart...
Dates: 04 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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When I refer to Elie de B[eaumont] under tumuli - add / Much information is given on the subject by him, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 63: 89
Scope and Contents

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.
 Fonds

William Pitt : correspondence

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6958-6959
Dates: 1773-1805 (Copies of originals made circa 1850)
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).
 Fonds

William Smith (1756-1835) and family correspondence, journals and other papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7621
Scope and Contents The larger part of the collection dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chronicling William Smith's personal and political career, as well as illustrating the lives of his wife Frances and their children. The collection includes letters from Smith's friends, among them Charles James Fox, William Wilberforce and Sir Francis Burdett. The papers also chronicle Smith's time in Paris in 1790, where he witnessed and recorded his reactions to the 14th July celebrations. The...
Dates: 1678-1951
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).
 Series

World War Two Campaign maps; "Les grandes unites francaises, 1939-40" (published Paris, 1967), 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHPN 1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Second World War campaign maps; "Les grandes unites francaises", 1939-40 (published, 1967, 1 volume); and manuscript copy of "A passionate prodigality", 1930 (2 volumes)

Dates: 1967
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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Writings on 17th Century Italy and France

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4440
Scope and Contents

'Relatione del modo col quale si gouernano in Francia gli Uganotti', 'Relatione della tenuta delli stati di Bearne' and 'Relatione dei successi seguiti in Bearne'.

Dates: 1650 (Circa)
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).