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Poland (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

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Articles, lectures and correspondence with historians, 1973 - 1995

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBT 13/5
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Subjects include: Moscow [Soviet Union], 1945, particularly relating to VE Day; the Pax Atlantica; encounters with Khrushchev; NATO over 40 years; FR's life and career; the post-war transformation of Anglo-German relations; the Berlin crises, 1948-9 and 1959-61; Germany and the community of nations; the Yalta Conference, 1945; Anglo-Polish relations during the war.

Dates: 1973 - 1995
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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Commission on Polish Frontiers, 1919-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/89
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Draft papers and correspondence on the boundary between eastern Germany and Poland.

Dates: 1919-06
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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Copies of correspondence with Philip Kerr, Secretary to the Prime Minister [later 11th Lord Lothian], 1919-01 - 1919-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/3/5
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: the situation in Poland; the importance of getting relief to Germany; the future of Danzig [later Gdansk]; the trial of the Kaiser and the question of guilt for the war.

Dates: 1919-01 - 1919-12
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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Correspondence and papers on Yalta , 1985 - 1995

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBT 13/10
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Correspondence and papers by FR and others on the Yalta Conference.

Dates: 1985 - 1995
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 with Lewis Namier, The majority of folios date from June-Oct 1919.

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/90
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Correspondence with Namier, Political Intelligence Department, on subjects including: Ignace Paderewski, Premier of Poland; the chances of the Poles keeping to the peace terms; the commission to investigate pogroms against Polish and Russian Jews; the Minority Treaty; East Galicia; Polish aggression against Lithuania.

Dates: The majority of folios date from June-Oct 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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Correspondence with Lewis Namier, Political Intelligence Department, 1919-01 - 1919-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/3/8
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: relations with the Poles; the Ukraine; Hungary; the Jews in Poland.

Dates: 1919-01 - 1919-10
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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General newscuttings, 1883 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 336/6
Scope and Contents Pages 1-59 and 68-81: Newscuttings taken predominantly from 'The Argus', 1893-1894, concerning the South Pacific, including Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Hebrides and Samoa.Pages 60-67 and 82-87: Newscuttings concerning Stettin and the consulship, 1897-1898, including many articles on trade and industry and Germany.Pages 87-89: Newscuttings concerning Pennsylvania and the United States in general, 1913, including a few loose cuttings.Pages 93-106: A series of...
Dates: 1883 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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History of the Paris Peace Conference: source material, c 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AGHM 2/24
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Lecture by JWHM on the Minorities Treaties.

Dates: c 1928
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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History of the Paris Peace Conference: source material, 1919 - 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AGHM 2/22
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Includes: text on the eastern frontier of Germany with Poland, particularly Posen and Pomerania; memorandum from JWHM's History on Fiume and the Adriatic; Board of Trade translation of a German memorandum on the indemnity of 1871; memoranda by JWHM on the plebiscite in Upper Silesia [later Poland and Czech Republic].

Dates: 1919 - 1931
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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Jews, 1920-11 - 1920-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/105
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Report of the Joint Foreign Committee of the Jewish Board of Deputies on Jewish questions dealt with by the League of Nations, particularly relating to the pogroms of Polish Jews, and a note submitted by the Committee and the Anglo-Jewish Association to the League on the admission of new states to membership of the League.

Dates: 1920-11 - 1920-12
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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John Paul II, 1920-2005 (Pope)

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Dates: Existence: 1920 - 2005
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Miscellaneous minutes and memoranda , 1919-09 - 1920-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/98
Scope and Contents Subjects include: anxiety about relations between Britain and the United States; the dangerous situation in Germany's Baltic provinces; the work of private charities in Germany; the French attempt to take control of Luxembourg's railways under the Versailles Treaty; putting Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial; modifications to the border between Poland and Germany; a suggestion that there had been a suppression of the facts about the outbreak of war; establishing the principle of war crimes and...
Dates: 1919-09 - 1920-04
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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Namier, 1918-04 - 1919-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/61
Scope and Contents Minutes on articles written by Lewis Namier for New Europe magazine, criticising the National Democratic Party in Poland, while he was also working for the Political Intelligence Department, and retaliatory articles about Namier in The New Witness. Correspondents include Sir Eric Drummond [Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, later 16th Lord Perth], Sir William Tyrrell [Director of the Political Intelligence Department] and 1st Lord Hardinge of Penshurst [Permanent Under-Secretary of...
Dates: 1918-04 - 1919-11
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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Peace Conference: Mr Namier, correspondence and memoranda, 1919-01 - 1919-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/70
Scope and Contents Correspondence with Lewis Namier, Political Intelligence Department, and also memoranda by Namier, on subjects including: the future of East Galicia [later parts of Ukraine and Poland]; Polish aggression against Lithuania and White Russia; Polish forgeries on Upper Silesia [later Poland and Czech Republic]; Polish pressure against Jewish language and culture; the Minority Treaty concerning Poland; the expulsion of Jews from Poland; Poland's eastern frontier; the attitude of the Jewish press...
Dates: 1919-01 - 1919-08
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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Teschen, 1920-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/91
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Memoranda and maps on a border dispute between Poland and Czechoslovakia [Czech Republic and Slovakia] in Eastern Silesia.

Dates: 1920-07
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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Transcript of interview: Robert Gordon, 2021 - 2022

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 211
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2021 - 2022
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: Sir Adrian Beamish, 2019

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 197
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2019
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: Sir Christopher Hum, 2023 - 2024

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 238
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2023 - 2024
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Transcript of interview: Sir John Fretwell, 1996

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 1996
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Zaleski: miscellaneous papers, 1918-06 - 1918-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6/4/58
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Notes from the German section of the Political Intelligence Department on the Polish diplomat August Zaleski, his information on Poland and whether he should be allowed to return to Britain from Switzerland.

Dates: 1918-06 - 1918-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.