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Cutting from The Times, report of speech on the Work of the Navy, at the Lord Mayor's banquet, 9 Nov [Speech contains the phrase "The British People have taken for themselves this motto "Business carried on as usual during alterations to the map of Europe"] Published Complete Speeches III, pp.2340-41 as "Business as Usual".Miscellaneous manuscript notes for speeches at Dundee and elsewhere.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (9 October, Annual Conservative Party Conference, Llandudno, Wales) entitled "Perils abroad and at home" on subjects including: the recovery of the Conservative Party since 1945; the part played by Wales in British affairs; relations with the Soviet Union and the likelihood of a third world war; the degeneration of the United Nations; the importance of nuclear weapons belonging to the United States in countering the threat posed by the Soviet Union; the...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (12 November 1948, Westminster Abbey) at the unveiling of a memorial to President Franklin Roosevelt in which WSC pays tribute to Roosevelt. Published: Complete Speeches VII, pp 7730-31.Speech notes for WSC's speech (16 November 1948, House of Commons) entitled "The Iron and Steel Bill" on the nationalisation of the steel industry including: the contrast between unemployment after World War I and full employment after World War II; a loan from the United States...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (United Europe Economic Conference, Church House, Westminster [London]) entitled "The three circles (foreign policy)" including: the importance of the European movement in foreign policy; the resources of Europe; the "three circles" of significance in world affairs being the British empire and commonwealth, the English-speaking world, and United Europe. Source material includes: background notes from Duncan Sandys [Chairman of the International Executive of the...

Scope and Contents Notes for WSC's speech (February, Chingford [Essex]) on subjects including the National Government, economic affairs, unemployment, and India.Notes for WSC's speech (17 February, Queen's Hall, London, Anti-socialist and anti-communist union) on socialism and communism, the Soviet Union, Japan, India, and the Oxford Union motion against fighting for King and country. Also includes printed guide containing the text of WSC's speech. Part published: Complete Speeches V pp 5219-20.Notes for WSC's...

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187 x 142 mm. A view looking along a woodland path towards the sea, with three women posed in the middle ground. No tennis court is visible.

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186 x 132 mm. A view looking along the waterfront towards a sailing boat moored at the quay, with the country house visible in the background.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

Scope and Contents Denise Holt was born on 1 October 1949, the daughter of William Dennis and Mary Joanna Mills; she was educated at New Hall School, Chelmsford [Essex] and the University of Bristol. In 1987 she married David Holt, having one son.She joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1970 and her diplomatic career included: Research Analyst, initially on the Iberian desk, 1970–84; First Secretary, Dublin [Ireland], 1984–87; Head of Section, FCO, 1988–90; First Secretary, Brasilia...

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents David Reddaway was born 26 April 1953, the son of George Frank Norman Reddaway, CBE and Jean Reddaway, OBE (née Brett). He was educated at Oundle School (Scholar.) and Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (Exhibitioner; MA History). In 1981 he married (1st), Roshan Taliyeh Firouz (marriage dissolved 2019), having two sons and one daughter; and (2nd), 2020, Gabrielle O’Driscoll.Reddaway joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975 and his diplomatic career...

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)], to J L Garvin [Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and the Observer], on Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, regretting that it had not been possible to promote him to Admiral of the Fleet, as he had "injured his profession and disgraced himself too much". WSC also comments on Garvin's treatment of WSC's policy in the Pall Mall Gazette, gives details of the naval building programme and superiority over Germany and comments on the Conservative threat of using force in...

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Letter from Rev. T Gordon Sharpe, Rector of Ardclinis, Carnlough, County Antrim, to WSC, asking if he was willing to contribute to the Parish's Sustentation Fund and the Sunday School Prize Fund, as Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest had in the past.

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Photograph of Carnlough [Co. Antrim] lime quarries and men at work 6" x 8" b/w.

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Photograph of Carnlough Lime and Whiting Works, Carnlough, Co. Antrim [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of Carnlough Harbour, Country Antrim, with the S.S. Olderfleet, belonging to the Carnlough Lime Works Co. Ltd [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of The Whiting Works, Carnlough Lime Works Co. Ltd, County Antrim [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of Carnlough quarries and the Mountain River, County Antrim [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of lime quarries and kilns, Carnlough, County Antrim [6" x 8" b/w.

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Photograph of lime quarries and kilns, Carnlough, County Antrim, [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of the Crushing Plant at Carnlough Lime Quarries, County Antrim [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of Carnlough Harbour, County Antrim, with the S.S. Olderfleet, belonging to the Carnlough Lime Works Co. Ltd [6" x 8" b/w].

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Photograph of Carnlough, County Antrim, from the quarries, with Ballygally Head and Glenarm Head in the background, [6" x 8" b/w].