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Includes handwritten recipes plus some printed recipes which have been pasted in.

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Includes notes for speeches at the following events: launching the motor tanker 'British Influence'; opening a fete at Limpsfield; address to the Women's Institute at Limpsfield on food rationing, nutrition and methods of food preparation, urging them to 'help to win the war in our kitchens'; Red Cross events; and at the presentation of prizes to osteopathy students.

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Recording of a radio debate between RSC and Thomas Driberg [later Lord Bradwell] on whether Britain had a better food supply under the Labour Government than before the war. Recorded by RGA Sound Services, Devon, and sent to RSC 15 March 1951.

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Includes: "Your wartime cooking" in the Nursery World on nutrition and cooking methods; correspondence about wartime food and recipes from individuals including Anne Chamberlain [wife of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain] on the Hay diet and Mary, Lady Gore-Booth; and text of article on osteopathy.

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Cake in the shape of a map of England and Wales iced with a birthday greeting and a quote [from John of Gaunt's speech in Shakespeare's "Richard II"] about England.

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Birthday cake in the shape of a carousel, bearing WSC's initials and birthday.

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Birthday cake in the shape of a ?church door and steps leading up to it.

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Birthday cake illustrating some of WSC's activities: an open copy of WSC's "The Second World War" is arranged on top of an easel and paintbrushes, underneath which is a map of Europe.

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Three-tiered birthday cake decorated with different styles of hat worn by WSC.

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Birthday cake in the shape of a landscape with hills, with a quote by William Blake "Great things are done when men and mountains meet".

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre comprises Roberts's personal papers and includes: many press photographs, press cuttings and some correspondence relating to Roberts's diplomatic career and postings to Bonn and Moscow; material relating to international organisations (NATO, the British Atlantic Committee and the Atlantic Treaty Association); annotated proofs and texts and photographs for Roberts's book "Dealing with Dictators" (published in 1991); early correspondence between...

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Correspondence and inventories on the sale of CS's wine cellar.

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Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: Elihu's progress at Harrow School; Rachel's weekly food parcels for Elihu; the entrance exam for Trinity College, University of Cambridge; the success of HL's lecture at Trinity on Realism in International Affairs.

Scope and Contents Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: Rachel's food parcels for Elihu; HL's work on volume 1 of Oppenheim and on his book ["Recognition in International Law"]; the scholarship examination for Trinity College, University of Cambridge; a planned lecture on Grotius; HL's feelings about his family in Poland; a planned new text book; HL's advice to Elihu on writing articles.Other correspondents include: Patrick Duff,...

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Subjects include: the Clapham Junction rail accident [London]; food safety, relating to salmonella in eggs; campaigns against the Poll Tax; the alleged involvement of British soldiers in training the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

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The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) for the debate on the address, on subjects including: the forthcoming royal tour of the Commonwealth and Empire; the timing of the next General Election and the general length of Parliaments; constructive and non-partisan politics; housing policy, including new building and repair of existing property; reducing restrictions and controls on agriculture, increasing food production and retaining food subsidies; changes in the international...

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Includes: samples of menus; lists of luncheons and dinners; lists of those from whom CS had received hospitality; notes on various events; inventory of CS's official wine cellar.

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Menus, guest lists and seating plans for dinner parties and luncheons, with some associated correspondence and arrangements.

Scope and Contents Working papers on food consumption and health issues in Britain and the USA, covering subjects such as food and drink retailing and diets; consumption habits of housewives; health education in secondary schools; government and consumer spending on healthcare; research into occupational and mental health; and old age pensions. Consists of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's notes, largely for papers delivered to food manufacturers. Includes copies of raw social...

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This series of records contains information about the running of the Churchill households, at Chartwell in Kent and at 28, Hyde Park Gate in London. There are details of the domestic staff and their rates of pay; household expenditure; and menu planning for the Churchills and their staff.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, research notes and proofs of articles by WSC: "The United States of Europe" on European affairs and trade, the treaty of Versailles [France], the League of Nations, decisions made by [Aristide] Briand and the positions of the United States and Canada; "The Truth about the Dardanelles" including WSC's relationship with Lord Fisher at the Admiralty; "A Great Big Idea" on European affairs; "Why Pay More Taxes" including a statement by WSC on the Budget; "Mr Churchill advises...

Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for (some from a series, "A Great Novel Rewritten as a Short Story"): "'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte"; "'Adam Bede' by George Eliot"; "'Vice Versa' by Anstey [Thomas Guthrie]"; "The truth about the former German colonies" on Germany's claims to have its former colonies returned, giving an historical perspective with reference to [Prince Otto von] Bismarck, and WSC's views on German treatment of native peoples; "Mankind Must Keep Pace with Science"...

Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "The Other Man Who Thought He Had Us Beaten" on the character of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the peace before World War I, WSC's presence at military manoeuvres in Germany in 1906, Wilhelm's mistakes, and his years of exile following the war; "Another Blow We Thought We Would Never Survive" on WSC's memories of Lord Kitchener during World War I, the fall of Namur [Belgium], the failure of the Dardanelles [Turkey] expedition, and Kitchener's death; "The...

Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Sport, the stimulant" on the effect of modern inventions on the average person, watching, playing, and making money from sport, pigeon racing, angling, motor transport, hiking, cycling, theatre, cinema, radio, reading, and moral considerations; "Why the navy runs on oil" on the advantages of oil over coal as a fuel for ships, its adoption by the Royal Navy during WSC's first term as First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Anglo-Persian oil...