United States (nation)
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1689 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), 27 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/118
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Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC marked "secret and personal" reporting on his talk of that morning with Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to the President of the United States] regarding a speech made by Wendell Willkie which was critical of the prosecution of the war and indirectly of the British Empire.
Dates:
27 Oct 1942
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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(Untitled), 29 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/119-120
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Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "personal and secret" reciting the text of the message he has sent to John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] urging him not to withdraw the 9th Division of the Australian Imperial Force from the Middle East and offering to dispatch a United States Division to Australia from Hawaii.
Dates:
29 Oct 1942
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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(Untitled), 29 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/81/121
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "personal and secret" expressing gratitude for his help in persuading John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia] not to withdraw Australian Division from the Middle East.
Dates:
29 Oct 1942
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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(Untitled), 01 Feb 1944 - 29 Feb 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/2
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, February 1944. Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Thomas Dugdale [later 1st Lord Crathorne, Chairman of the Conservative Party];...
Dates:
01 Feb 1944 - 29 Feb 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 01 Mar 1944 - 31 Mar 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/3
Scope and Contents
Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, March 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant...
Dates:
01 Mar 1944 - 31 Mar 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 13 Jun 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/93B/174
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Letter from WSC to Jean Maisky [Soviet Union Ambassador in London] thanking him for sending an aide memoire of his impression of their recent talks and stating that as he is anxious to avoid any misunderstandings he has sent a corrected version of the meeting [not present] which he hopes will be passed on to the Soviet Union Government and stressing that he considers the conversation to have been made in secret and would greatly regret the United States to hear of and take offence to...
Dates:
13 Jun 1943
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(Untitled), 14 Oct 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94B/192-195
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Letter from WSC to Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancter] marked "Private" regarding his future position as British representative with General Charles De Gaulle's committee of national liberation and stating that it would be disastrous if he accepted this position if he was following decisions with which he did not agree, promising an alternative position if this was the case. He refers to papers relating to General De Gaulle and his relationship with...
Dates:
14 Oct 1943
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 19 Oct 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94B/208-212
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Letter from WSC to Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster] marked "Personal and Secret" regarding his future position as British Representative to General Charles De Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation, stating that he should try to win De Gaulle's confidence and try to play down his prominence in the committee in order to gain more support from the United States. Syria is seen to be an area where problems may arise as Major-General Sir Edward Spears...
Dates:
19 Oct 1943
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 31 Jul 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94A/71
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Letter from WSC to Averell Harriman marked "Most secret" stating that he had hoped that the increase in the United States production which followed Britain's increased acceptance would all be 76 mm tanks and that he had hoped that the addition of 1000 would have increased their share which was expected to be 60% of their programme of tanks with 76 mm guns and that now Britain's share of these tanks was now to be a matter of assignment he would have to accept the difficulty of segregating the...
Dates:
31 Jul 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
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(Untitled), 04 Aug 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94A/82
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to [1st] Lord Marchwood [earlier Sir Frederick Penny, Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party] in reply to his letter regarding the meaning of the word "lend-lease" stating: that its true meaning is not sufficiently known; that it started as a means by which the United States, as a neutral country, gave Britain arms as it deemed its defence vital to their own; that during the war it has developed into one aspect of the general principle of pooling resources so that...
Dates:
04 Aug 1943
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 11 Aug 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94A/95-96
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Letter from WSC to Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] marked "Most secret" stating: that as a result of discussions held with the Lord President of the Council in Washington it was decided that draft articles of an agreement to govern collaboration on the "Tube Alloys" [Atom Bomb Research] project should be recommended jointly to President Roosevelt and himself; that these draft articles established a Combined Policy Committee; that given the role Canada is playing in this project he...
Dates:
11 Aug 1943
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 05 Jul 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/95B/171-172
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Letter from Harold Butler (British Embassy, Washington D C, United States) [Minister in charge of the British Information Services in Washington] to Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] stating: that according to Wendell Wilkie [United States Republican Leader] the Administration is losing all its support and that the Republicans would win the next election; that Wilkie considers post war bilateral agreements to be insufficient and is opposed to any formal Anglo-American agreement which...
Dates:
05 Jul 1943
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 20 Jul 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/96B/141
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir Percy Harris [Labour MP for Bethnal Green, London] to WSC informing him of the events of his recent visit to the United States and Canada stating: that he was impressed with the immense popularity WSC had in North America; that Canada, in spite of their difficulties, is making a great contribution to the war effort; that he was able, with the help of Mackenzie King [Canadian Prime Minister] to make valuable contact with members of the United States Congress which he hopes...
Dates:
20 Jul 1943
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 01 Aug 1943 - 28 Aug 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/2
Scope and Contents
Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, August 1943. Some written by WSC when in Canada and the United States.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the Chief Whip [James Stuart]; the Chiefs of...
Dates:
01 Aug 1943 - 28 Aug 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 02 Oct 1943 - 31 Oct 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/4
Scope and Contents
Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1943.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Lord Louis Mountbatten [Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob and Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including...
Dates:
02 Oct 1943 - 31 Oct 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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(Untitled), 08 Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/43/94-96
Scope and Contents
Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC on threat to legislation posed by armed United States transports being used for British troop movement: suggests crew should be British, flying British flag.
Dates:
08 Oct 1941
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(Untitled), 04 Nov 1914 - 08 Nov 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/36/89-90
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Telegram from Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary], to Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British Ambassador to the United States], on German liners in American ports which were capable of conversion into armed cruisers. Includes comments by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] and Sir [William] Graham Greene [Secretary to the Admiralty]. [Carbon].
Dates:
04 Nov 1914 - 08 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 06 Nov 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/36/91-92
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Sir Cecil Spring-Rice [British Ambassador to the United States] (Washington) to the Foreign Office, on arrangements for German ships in American ports, particularly the ship Magdeburg. [Carbon].
Dates:
06 Nov 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 26 Oct 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/41/8
Scope and Contents
Minute by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to the Secretary of the Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, earlier Lord Milford Haven], Chief of Staff [Vice-Admiral Sir (Frederick) Doveton Sturdee] and Admiral Sir Edmond Slade on a cutting from the New York Evening World, which expressed resentment that a British cruiser was hovering off the port. WSC gives instructions that patrolling cruisers should normally keep 8 to 10 miles away from New York...
Dates:
26 Oct 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 09 Sep 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/178/10-11
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to WSC on the increase in the stocks of monetary gold held by the United States and France.
Dates:
09 Sep 1931
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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(Untitled), 24 Jul 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/180B/195
Scope and Contents
Letter from Waris Ameer Ali (Indian Empire Society, 28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC enclosing and commenting on CHAR 2/180B/196-202, praising WSC's stand on India and hoping that his tour of the United States may counteract anti-British influences there.
Dates:
24 Jul 1931
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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(Untitled), 21 Jan 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/186/12
Scope and Contents
Cutting from the "Times": letter to the editor from "Peregrinus" on the insistence of France and the United States that war debts and reparations by settled on the basis of the Gold Standard.
Dates:
21 Jan 1932
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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(Untitled), 01 Feb 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/186/13-14
Scope and Contents
Letter from H E Rollins (Standard Statistics Company Inc, 345 Hudson Street, New York, [United States]) to WSC (c/o Robert McCormick, Tribune Square, Chicago, [United States]) on the payment of reparations and war debts, the gold reserves of France and the United States and the recent decline in gold prices.
Dates:
01 Feb 1932
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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(Untitled), [Jan] [1932]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/186/18
Scope and Contents
Note by Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] on the possibility of the United States leaving the Gold Standard and the achievement of a reparations settlement. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.
Dates:
[Jan] [1932]
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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(Untitled), 30 Dec 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/186/22
Scope and Contents
Letter from John Maynard Keynes [later Lord Keynes] (Tilton, Firle, Sussex) to Brendan Bracken [later Lord Bracken] on the need for the United States to cure its economic depression. Sent with CHAR 2/186/15-17.
Dates:
30 Dec 1931
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.