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Rhodesia

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 181 Collections and/or Records:

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"A Daughter's Tale": correspondence, 1980, 1979-12 - 1992-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/7/75
Scope and Contents Includes: letters from MS to her children from Zimbabwe Rhodesia on subjects including the ceasefire and MS's charity work; letters between MS and Judith Stone on the International Year of the Child and the results of the elections in Zimbabwe Rhodesia; letter from Robert Rhodes James to MS, welcoming her and CS back and praising them for their success in Zimbabwe Rhodesia; articles on MS's and CS's work in Zimbabwe Rhodesia and the failed plan to film MS's biography of Clementine, Lady...
Dates: 1979-12 - 1992-02
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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"A Daughter's Tale": family correspondence, 1979, 1979-01 - 1979-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/7/74
Scope and Contents Includes: letters from CS on subjects including his love for MS on their wedding anniversary; letters from Charlotte Hambro [earlier Charlotte Soames], Emma Soames and Jeremy Soames on the completion of MS's biography of Clementine, Lady Churchill and financial support for them from the proceeds of the book; letters from Prince Charles, Prince of Wales on MS's and CS's support during his visit to Zimbabwe Rhodesia and thanking them for a dinner party at Castle Mill House [Hampshire]; round...
Dates: 1979-01 - 1979-12
Conditions Governing Access: Letters from Prince Charles closed.
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Africa, 1951-07 - 1953-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/104
Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly on federation for Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] and Kenya and also on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August 1951, with correspondents including: Ernest Vasey [Minister for Finance and Development, Kenya]; Henry Hopkinson, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs [later 1st Lord Colyton]; Sir Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia [later 1st Lord Malvern] on...
Dates: 1951-07 - 1953-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Africa, 1951-07 - 1953-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/61
Scope and Contents General papers and cuttings, chiefly on Central African Federation (mainly Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], and Nyasaland [later Malawi]), and also with some material on East African Federation (mainly Kenya and Tanganyika [later Tanzania]), including papers from the Colonial Office, Capricorn Africa Society, Joint East and Central Africa Board and other organisations, and a report from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, August...
Dates: 1951-07 - 1953-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Africa tour: Ghana, Nigeria and Rhodesia, 1960-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NRBK 2/7
Scope and Contents

Spare slides of the visit by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton], including: various buildings in Accra, Macmillan meeting schoolchildren and market traders in Accra, and the Volta bridge; various images from Nigeria, particularly Zaria; Government House, Salisbury [Southern Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe] and Lusaka [Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia].

Dates: 1960-01
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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Africa tour: Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] and Union, 1960-01 - 1960-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NRBK 2/8
Scope and Contents

Spare slides of the visit by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton], including: Macmillan and his party with a monkey; the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls; the Kariba Dam; being received at Francistown, Bechuanaland [later Botswana]; the Groot Constantia estate, South Africa; Libertas [the Prime Minister's official residence], Pretoria; aboard the Capetown Castle.

Dates: 1960-01 - 1960-02
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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African diary, 1951-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 4/1/6
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Manuscript and typescript copy of JA's diary of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association tour of Central Africa, Mauritius and Malta, particularly Tanganyika [later Tanzania], Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], Kenya, Mauritius and Malta. Includes notes of a talk with Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Dowler, General Officer Commanding East Africa Command, on the use of African troops and notes on attitudes to Central African Federation.

Dates: 1951-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Articles, books and pamphlets, many by LSA or with contributions and annotations by him, 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/225
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"The autobiography of Kingsley Fairbridge", with a preface by LSA.

Dates: 1926
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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Board of Education: Foreign Constitutions, 1910-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 5/2/38
Scope and Contents

Draft letter from JWHM to Henry Maurice [Private Secretary to Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Education] on a memorandum surveying the composition and functions of the Second Chambers of modern European constitutions. Also includes a draft note by JWHM on the future government of countries [later Rhodesia, then Zambia and Zimbabwe] under the administrative control of [? the British South Africa Company].

Dates: 1910-03
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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Broadcasts, 1955-10 - 1970-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/27
Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: immigration; defence, particularly cuts in the Middle East, British withdrawal from Singapore (in interviews with Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1967), and retaining use of nuclear weapons; floating exchange rates; JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics; Parliamentary privilege and...
Dates: 1955-10 - 1970-02
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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Business: Miscellaneous, 1912 - 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 25
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Correspondence and papers about Lloyd's personal business interests and those of the government.

Dates: 1912 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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Central Africa and Southern Africa, 1965-11 - 1980-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/2/6
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Copies of speeches by JA, mainly in debates, on subjects including: Rhodesia [Zambia and Zimbabwe]; Soviet imperialism in Africa, particularly relating to Angola and Mozambique; Zimbabwe's application to join the Commonwealth.

Dates: 1965-11 - 1980-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Charles Richard (Dick) Whittaker’s Papers about Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], 1965 - 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MISC 94
Scope and Contents

Includes Whittaker’s account of his arrest, detention and deportation from Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] in 1966; typescript reports about the events at University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland [later the University of Zimbabwe], 1966; correspondence and papers; press cuttings; and background material.

Dates: 1965 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.
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Collectors album of images of Victoria Falls [Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe], 1920 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 10/55
Scope and Contents

Published by Frank Rhodes to raise money for Livingstone Hospital.

Dates: 1920 - 1930
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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Colour slides, mainly of overseas visits by Harold Macmillan, 1957-03 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NRBK 2/1
Scope and Contents Includes: a guard of honour at the Bermuda Conference, 1957; the Commonwealth tour by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton], Jan-Feb 1958, including India, particularly Delhi, and the Khyber Pass, a guard of honour at Singapore, New Zealand, including Dunedin and Christchurch and Australia, including Queensland and Sydney; Macmillan's visit to the Soviet Union, Feb 1959, including Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, and an image of Macmillan and John Selwyn Lloyd,...
Dates: 1957-03 - 1960
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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Conservative Defence Policy Committee, 1965-07 - 1967-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/7/25
Scope and Contents Includes: printed papers on defence estimates; notes for the defence debate and service estimates debate; report of the Plowden committee of inquiry into the aircraft industry, with rough notes by JA and first reactions from the Society of British Aerospace Companies Limited; letter from Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel] on negotiations with Ian Smith [Prime Minister of Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe] on education; letter from [Leonard] Robert Carr,...
Dates: 1965-07 - 1967-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Conservative Party Conference, 1969-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/43
Scope and Contents

Texts of JA's speeches to the conference, on Britain's place in Europe, and relations with South Africa, Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], Angola and Mozambique.

Dates: 1969-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Copper, 1952-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/91
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Notes on saving dollars on copper, particularly relating to copper production in Northern Rhodesia [later Zambia], written by JA for [Arthur] Christopher Soames [Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill].

Dates: 1952-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Correspondence, 1979-01 - 2003-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 9/17
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Richard Nixon, thanking CS for his advice; Robin Renwick, British Ambassador to South Africa, on an article by [Harold] Julian Amery in 1988 on CS's influence as Sir Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Private Secretary and his record as Governor of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; Lord Chelwood [earlier Tufton Beamish] on Amery's article; Lord Luce, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on African affairs, recalling his...
Dates: 1979-01 - 2003-08
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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Correspondence A - L, 1926-12 - 1927-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/13
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on his visit home, settling a question of port handling in Kenya, and his health; Reginald Leigh [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on LSA's invitation to join the Academie Diplomatique Internationale; 1st Lord Athlone [Governor-General of South Africa] on the good effect of LSA's visit to South Africa and reaching a compromise with [?] Senator Nicolas de Wet (2); Sir Robert...
Dates: 1926-12 - 1927-12
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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Correspondence A - M, 1953-01 - 1953-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/48
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Rosalind, Duchess of Abercorn; Konrad Adenauer [Chancellor of West Germany, later part of Germany]; Cyril Alington; John Allen; John Astor [owner of the Times] on LSA's hopes for an Imperial Preference policy being unrealistic; Nancy, Lady Astor; Archduke Robert of Austria (2); Thomas Balogh; Jacques Bardoux; [George] Herbert Baxter (2); Edward Beddington-Behrens; Kenneth Goodenough, British High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; Princess Marthe...
Dates: 1953-01 - 1953-12
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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Correspondence A - Z, 1924-01 - 1924-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/9
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Maurice Hankey, Clerk of the Privy Council; Sir Robert Borden, congratulating LSA on becoming Secretary of State for the Colonies, commenting on the November General Election and the caucus system, and on a federal system for Ireland (3); Estella, Lady Cave (2); [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on a row with LSA in the Shadow Cabinet; Winston Churchill, on subjects including a story from Herodotus, Churchill’s distress at the political situation, with the Empire being...
Dates: 1924-01 - 1924-12
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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Correspondence A - Z, 1938-01 - 1938-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/28
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Harold Armstrong, suggesting Jan Smuts as a war leader (2); Sir Abe Bailey (3); Stanley Baldwin; [Charles] Vernon Bartlett, congratulating LSA on his letter to the press about the Munich Crisis; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken], criticizing a speech by [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister; Richard Bennett, Canadian Leader of the Opposition on the chances of a commercial treaty between Britain and the United States, and the results for Canada; 1st Lord...
Dates: 1938-01 - 1938-12
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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Correspondence and papers received from Professor John Hutchinson (1), February 1974-April 1977, 1974-02 - 1977-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/91
Scope and Contents

Includes papers relating to Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]. The earlier papers were probably circulated to MT (and others) in ca. 1976

Dates: 1974-02 - 1977-04
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in February 2010 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Correspondence and papers received from Professor John Hutchinson (2), includes papers relating to Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] and Poland, May 1977- May 1983, 1977-05 - 1983-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/92
Scope and Contents

Part 1, 1977-79
Part 2, 1981
Part 3, 1982

Dates: 1977-05 - 1983-05
Conditions Governing Access: Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2012; part 3 in March 2013; later material closed It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.