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Briefing notes for MT from Alfred Sherman (6), circa December 1980 & April-August 1982, 1980-12 - 1982-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/13/20
Scope and Contents Includes: MT’s handwritten annotations Includes: notes from Sherman on: "TV franchises- dangers ahead", circa December 1980; "The stable door remains unlocked, Foreign Office deficiencies threaten Government", April 1982; "Media problems. What machinery do we need?", May 1982; "Prime Minister’s office", 11 June 1982, with attached note for MT from In Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary), 5 July 1982; "Advance warning: conflict with...
Dates: 1980-12 - 1982-08
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in March 2013 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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Briefings for meetings, 1988-11 - 1988-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/75
Scope and Contents

Briefings for meetings with individuals including: the new Israeli Ambassador, Yoav Biran; John Edmonds, General Secretary of the GMB union and Tom Burlison, Regional Secretary; Maharajkrishna Rasgotra, the new Indian High Commissioner; members of the British karate team. Also includes note on NK and the Enniskillen Memorial service.

Dates: 1988-11 - 1988-12
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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Briefings for meetings, 1990-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/106
Scope and Contents

Briefings for and notes on meetings with: Emeka Anyaoku, Commonwealth Secretary General; Friends of the Earth; Thabo Mbeki, African National Congress; Luiz Lula da Silva, Brazilian Workers Party; the Venezuelan Foreign Minister [Reinaldo Figueredo]; David Levy, Israeli Foreign Minister.

Dates: 1990-09
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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Correspondence between [David] Ben-Gurion (Prime Minister of Israel) and WSC, and between WSC and Harold Macmillan (Prime Minister) regarding the letter from Ben-Gurion, 3-28 Sep 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/32/5-13
Scope and Contents Comprising a long letter from Ben-Gurion (Jerusalem) to WSC, WSC's reply and correspondence with Macmillan about the letter (including sending the letter for Macmillan to read). Ben-Gurion's letter is on subjects including WSC's invitation to meet in the South of France and Ben-Gurion's regret that they were not able to meet as he had already left; upcoming meetings [between United States President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev during Krushchev's visit to the United...
Dates: 3-28 Sep 1959
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Correspondence between WSC and Prime Minister Clement Attlee on WSC's visit to Metz [France] and the partition of Palestine, 2-4 Jul 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/54/3-8
Scope and Contents Subjects are WSC's forthcoming visit to Metz; the debate on the Adjournment [in the House of Commons]; a telegram from the President [of the United States Harry Truman] about Palestine which Attlee had shown WSC and he had discussed with [Oliver] Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies] and [Anthony] Eden; terrorism in Palestine and Jewish organisations' connections to terrorism; the idea of a Jewish national home [Israel] and the national pledges to establish it; recommendations of the...
Dates: 2-4 Jul 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Diary of visit to Israel, 1961-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CGLA 2/12
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes correspondence with family and friends and CG's diaries, both particularly covering her time with Gladwyn Jebb as a political hostess in New York [United States] and Paris [France], and also some speeches and articles and material relating to CG's book "The Paris Embassy".

Dates: 1961-11
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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Diary of visit to Israel and Jordan, 1950-05 - 1950-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 4/1/5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

JA tended not to keep a regular diary for sustained periods, but concentrated on special events, such as overseas visits. In some cases they were first dictated on to a Dictaphone (see AMEJ 11/8), and then typed up, in other cases a typed version was produced from rough notes.

Dates: 1950-05 - 1950-06
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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Dictation tape, 1966 - 1968-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 11/13
Scope and Contents Includes: dictated draft review of Dana Schmidt's book "Yemen: the Unknown War" (cassette 1 side 1); dictated letters relating to an article on air terminal design and a letter to JA's son Leo on Lady Catherine Amery being in a court case and on her health (cassette 1 side 1); dictated note on JA's part in Israeli-Jordanian negotiations on the Middle East peace process (cassette 1 side 2 and cassette 2 side 1); an account of the writing of JA's book "Sons of the Eagle" (cassette 1 side 2 and...
Dates: 1966 - 1968-05
Conditions Governing Access: Access copy available.
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Golan, Menahem, 1929-2014 (Film Director and Producer)

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Dates: Existence: 1929 - 2014
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Israel and the Jews, 1938 - 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/402-403
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers cover every aspect of Lord Noel-Baker's very full and varied career and include constituency papers, Labour Party material, extensive sections on domestic and international affairs, peace and disarmament, sport, books and articles, speeches and correspondence.

Dates: 1938 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of two files which are still closed, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Labour Party relations with the Jewish Community and Israel, 1991-04 - 1992-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/1/192
Scope and Contents

Includes: text of speech by NK to the Board of Deputies of British Jews; European Parliamentary Labour Party papers on a European financial protocol with Israel; brief by Jack Straw [education spokesman] on Labour’s treatment of voluntary-aided schools and educational charities.

Dates: 1991-04 - 1992-03
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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Map of an Israeli site

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 37/983
Scope and Contents

A copy of an undated map from Tel-Aviv University showing an Israeli astronomy site at Paran.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: 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).
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Menorah Fund, British gift to Israel: Correspondence regarding WSC subscribing to the fund to gift a large Menorah to the Israel Knesset (Parliament), 22 Feb-6 Mar 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/69/47-52
Scope and Contents

Correspondents are Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC], WSC, and members of the Menorah Fund Committee (Secretary Gilbert McAllister, Chairman Clement Davies, Walter Elliot and W Glenvil Hall).

The Menorah was sculpted by Benno Elkan and was on display at the Tate gallery before being presented to the Israel Knesset on 16 Apr 1956 (Israel's Independence Day).

Dates: 22 Feb-6 Mar 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Middle East, 1986-12 - 1989-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/20
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence on Palestine and Israel, including comments on NK’s visit to the Middle East in February 1988, and briefings for and notes of meetings with: Yitzak Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel; Shimon Peres, the Israeli Foreign Minister; Lionel Kopelowitz, of the Board of Deputies of British Jews; Yosef Beilin, Political Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry; Chaim Herzog, Prime Minister of Israel; Haim Bar-Lev, General Secretary of the Israeli Labour Party.

Dates: 1986-12 - 1989-09
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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Middle East, 1955-04 - 1970-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/7/13
Scope and Contents

Includes: presentation by the Palestine National Liberation Movement to the United Nations Conference on Human Rights against the actions of Israel; papers from a seminar on the Middle East, held by the Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East; papers from the British Council of Churches on the Middle East; summary by Sir Anthony Buzzard [British Council of Churches] of a House of Commons debate on the Middle East (Apr 1970); proposal for supplying the Jordanian Army with transports.

Dates: 1955-04 - 1970-06
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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Negeb, 1938-08 - 1939-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/57
Scope and Contents

Memoranda on the strategical problems, importance and potential for development of the Negeb desert [Palestine, later HaNegev, Israel], in relation to the partition of Palestine.

Dates: 1938-08 - 1939-03
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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Papers on the Balfour Declaration, 1917-07 - 1962-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/52
Scope and Contents Papers on the declaration by Arthur Balfour, Foreign Secretary, on the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, including: proclamations of martial law in Jerusalem, by Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby; print of a Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies paper on the genesis of the declaration; War Cabinet copy of letters between 2nd Lord Rothschild and Balfour, on a formula which he could present to the Zionist Federation; alternative declaration by 1st Lord...
Dates: 1917-07 - 1962-11
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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Papers relating to individual countries, 1952 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 14
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.

Dates: 1952 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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Papers relating to the Middle East, May 1979-November 1982, 1979-05 - 1982-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/110
Scope and Contents

Part 1, 1979: includes copy of a cable to MT from Prime Minister (Menachem) Begin of Israel, forwarded to MT by Abraham Kidron (Israeli Ambassador to the UK), 25 May 1979
Part 2, 1980
Parts 3-4, 1981: includes "Welcome Mrs Thatcher", a special supplement to the "Gulf News" of 21 April 1981 to commemorate her visit to the United Arab Emirates
Part 5, 1982


Dates: 1979-05 - 1982-11
Conditions Governing Access: Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2011; parts 3-4 in March 2012; and part 5 in March 2013 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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Passport, 1952 - 1953

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND A.55
Scope and Contents

Israel.

Dates: 1952 - 1953
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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'Persian Gulf', sheet 32, 1924 - 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND D.101
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-class:

These maps were compiled by the War Office. Printed on linen-backed paper.

Dates: 1924 - 1928
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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Political files: Palestine, 1938-01 - 1949-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/47
Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on Palestine, with correspondents including: Marcus Sieff (4); Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on alleged ill-treatment of Jewish political prisoners; 4th Lord Harlech [former Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier William Ormsby-Gore] on his disagreement with current policy; Richard Casey, Australian Minister for Supply and Development, on a Jewish settlement in Australia; Reginald Coupland [former member of the Palestine Royal...
Dates: 1938-01 - 1949-07
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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Political files: Palestine, 1949-03 - 1951-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/48
Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on Palestine, with correspondents including: Marcus Sieff (6); [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; Edwin Samuel. Also includes: memoranda by Marcus Sieff on Israel as a industrial and supply centre, the effect of the Arab-Israeli war on oil supplies, Britain's Middle East policy, resettlement of Arab refugees, the development of British trade with Israel and the Middle East and oil development in Israel; text of a speech by David Horowitz, Economic Adviser to the...
Dates: 1949-03 - 1951-07
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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Proofs of JA's articles for the Daily Telegraph, 1967-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/38
Scope and Contents

Articles on the Arab world following the Six Day War, Israel and southern Africa.

Dates: 1967-08
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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Public and political: British Council, 1938 - 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 20
Scope and Contents

Diaries from Lloyd's tours for the Council, with correspondence and other papers.

Dates: 1938 - 1940
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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