Yugoslavia
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Ambassador to Yugoslavia , 1954 - 1957
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBT 8
Scope and Contents
Mainly press photographs of social events.
Dates:
1954 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
"Approach March": annotated draft extracts and correspondence on JA's experiences in the Balkans, 1939-40, 1939-08 - 1967-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/29
Scope and Contents
Mainly letters from JA to Leo Amery from Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia] and also Istanbul [Turkey], August 1939-July 1940, mainly on his work as a press attaché in Belgrade. Also includes a letter from Sir Ronald Campbell, British Minister at Belgrade to Leo Amery on JA's arrival at his embassy, letters from [Benedict] Humphrey Sumner, Balliol College, University of Oxford, on JA's future (2), and a tribute to 1st Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness].
Dates:
1939-08 - 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.
File
"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter 12, "Attaché: Belgrade", 1967-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/21
Scope and Contents
Was previously labelled as "Press attaché".
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.
File
"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter 13, "A Balkan Education", 1967-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/22
Scope and Contents
Was previously labelled as "Introduction to Yugoslav politics".
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.
File
"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter 16, "A Coup d'Etat?", 1967-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/24
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This section of the archive includes some source material, notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs of JA's autobiography. It was written in the 1960s (though not published until 1973), after JA lost first his ministerial office and then his Parliamentary seat after the General Elections of 1964 and 1966. Asked by the publishers Hutchinson Limited to write his political memoirs, JA preferred instead to write about his earlier career (being unable to write about sensitive recent events, and...
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.
File
"Approach March": annotated draft of chapters 24 and 26, "Picking up the Bits" and "Mihailovitch and Tito", 1967-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/30
Scope and Contents
Chapter 26 was previously labelled as "Yugoslav might have been".
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.
File
"Approach March": annotated typescript of Book III, "With Cloak and Dagger", chapters 12-16, 1970-03 - 1971-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/68
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This section of the archive includes some source material, notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs of JA's autobiography. It was written in the 1960s (though not published until 1973), after JA lost first his ministerial office and then his Parliamentary seat after the General Elections of 1964 and 1966. Asked by the publishers Hutchinson Limited to write his political memoirs, JA preferred instead to write about his earlier career (being unable to write about sensitive recent events, and...
Dates:
1970-03 - 1971-08
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.
File
Articles, 1943-02 - 1949-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/1
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Conservatism and the future [by Leo Amery, see AMEL 1/6/45]; resistance by the partisans in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], 1943 (from various news reports); James Burnham's book "The Managerial Revolution"; Winston Churchill's biography of his father, "Lord Randolph Churchill"; JA's visit to the Eastern Vilayets of Turkey, 1948 [see AMEJ 4/1/3], including extracts from JA's diary; Canada's...
Dates:
1943-02 - 1949-11
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.
File
Articles and related correspondence, 1948-03 - 1950-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/6
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the situation in Greece; the threat of war from the Soviet Union; Britain, Greece and the Balkans; Fitzroy Maclean's book "Eastern Approaches"; JA's visit to the Eastern Vilayets of Turkey, 1948 [see AMEJ 4/1/3 and 7/1/1]; the situation in the Middle East; impressions from JA's tour of Canada, 1949; Greece and her neighbours in the Balkans; resistance warfare; Imperial Preference and the Conservative Party; the Communist danger to the Commonwealth and Empire;...
Dates:
1948-03 - 1950-01
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.
File
Balkan exiles, 1941-05 - 1953-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/64
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly on individual cases of Yugoslav refugees looking for employment, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada, and earlier Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre] on handing over Yugoslav generals accused of collaboration to the current Government of Yugoslavia, and the repatriation of Yugoslavs who had fought for Germany; Christopher Mayhew, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the Yugoslav...
Dates:
1941-05 - 1953-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Balkans: miscellaneous, 1941-06 - 1949-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/46
Scope and Contents
General papers and correspondence on Balkan affairs, including: copy of Hansard with a debate on the Balkans, 1949, with a Conservative Research Department paper on Greece and Yugoslavia and a record of meetings on policy towards Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], with JA, Fitzroy Maclean [former commander of the military mission to the Yugoslav partisans], Charles Mott-Radclyffe, Henry Hopkinson [joint director of...
Dates:
1941-06 - 1949-11
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.
File
Belgrade press cuttings, 1954 - 1961
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBT 3/3
Scope and Contents
Cuttings mainly on events carried out by FR as British Ambassador to Yugoslavia.
Dates:
1954 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Broadcasts, 1931-11 - 1952-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/17
Scope and Contents
Texts of broadcasts by LSA on subjects including: Fairbridge Farm Schools in Australia; Empire defence; the economics of Empire; the 1935 Peace Ballot; the Empire and world peace; the politician versus the businessman; the Jewish settlement in Palestine; the Empire Producers Organisation; the way of peace; Germany's debt to European civilisation; tributes to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; why Italy should not...
Dates:
1931-11 - 1952-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence A - F, 1941-01 - 1941-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/32
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] on criticism of convoy commodores and of the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (3); the Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on concerns about the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (2); Sir Walford Selby [former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna] on uniting the anti-Nazi elements in Austria (2); 1st Lord Sankey; Sir John Anderson [Lord President of the Council,...
Dates:
1941-01 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence and logbook, 1938-01-19 - 1939-07-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCKR 1/11
Scope and Contents
Includes:
HAP's logbook as Naval Attaché at Athens [Greece], Ankara [Turkey], Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia], with letter to HAP from N Christitch, and HAP letters to JP.
2 letters from Admiral of the Fleet Sir [Alfred] Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff] to HAP.
Dates:
1938-01-19 - 1939-07-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Correspondence K - Z, 1942-01 - 1943-04
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/35
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Marina, Duchess of Kent, thanking LSA for his sympathy [on the death of George, Duke of Kent]; 1st Lord Lang on Mohandas Gandhi's irresponsibility; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Viceroy of India, earlier Lord Hopetoun] on the actions of Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps [during his mission to the Indian Congress], Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan [Agent-General to Government of India in China] and on the question of his own successor (3); Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later...
Dates:
1942-01 - 1943-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
Correspondence relating to a gift of plum brandy from Marshal Josip Broz Tito (President of Yugoslavia) and his visit [to the United Kingdom], 6-22 Feb 1956
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/21/49-52
Scope and Contents
Comprising a name card for Tito [originally attached to the plum brandy]; a copy of a letter from WSC to Marshal Tito thanking him for the brandy, reflecting on Tito's visit [in Mar 1953], and sending good wishes to Tito and for continuing and increasing friendship between the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia; and two letters from "Monty" [1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein] (Allied Powers Europe, Deputy Supreme Commander, Palace Hotel, Mürren, Switzerland) to WSC on the box of plum brandy which...
Dates:
6-22 Feb 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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, after the end of his first term as Prime Minister
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Public and Political: General
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence
File
Correspondence with Julian Amery, 1942-10 - 1955-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/1/88
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: LSA's scheme for a new constitution in Cyprus; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]; the Suez Group and Government arguments for withdrawing British troops from the Canal Zone [Egypt]; the hydrogen bomb debate; Julian Amery's biography of Joseph Chamberlain; Julian Amery's experiences at Strasbourg [France] as a delegate to the Consultative Assembly of Council of Europe; LSA's wish to stand as MP for Oxford; equipping mountain troops with skis.
Also...
Dates:
1942-10 - 1955-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
European questions: personal minutes, 1972-12 - 1974-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/9/20
Scope and Contents
Minutes on subjects including: the energy crisis; Concorde; relations between Europe and the United States; oil supplies and European foreign policy; a meeting with Egon Bahr; JA's visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and meeting with President Josip Tito; progress towards European Monetary Union; European policy on the Mediterranean.
Dates:
1972-12 - 1974-02
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.
Sub-Series
Information Papers on Other Countries, 1939-08 - 1945-08
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NERI 6/1
Scope and Contents
For broadcasts to Albania, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Rumania [Romania], Spain, Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]
Dates:
1939-08 - 1945-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Information Papers on Other Countries, 1939 - 1945
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NERI 6/11
Scope and Contents
Yugoslavia [now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]
Dates:
1939 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Itineraries: Yugoslavia, 1974-01 - 1974-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 3/2/32
Scope and Contents
Papers from CS's visit to Yugoslavia [now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] for trade talks, April-May 1974, including: itinerary and programmes; press release; briefing notes; draft speech notes for CS; press cuttings; correspondence on arrangements and press coverage of the visit.
Dates:
1974-01 - 1974-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Jugoslavia [Yugoslavia], 1948
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/418
Scope and Contents
Booklets on Communism in Jugoslavia [Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]
Dates:
1948
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.
File
Lecture to the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre [Paris, France], 1959
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/32
Scope and Contents
Draft lecture notes on Resistance movements in time of war, particularly relating to JA's own experiences in Yugoslavia [now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia].
Dates:
1959
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.
File
Letters from JA to Leo Amery, 1941-05 - 1941-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 3/1/7
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the military and political situation in the Middle East, particularly Syria; contacts with Yugoslav Government refugees; the need for improved command structure in Cairo [Egypt] to oversee the different services; future tensions between the Arabs and Jews; escorting a party of Yugoslavs back to Montenegro; the need to provide more support for the Yugoslavs [Yugoslavia, later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia].
Dates:
1941-05 - 1941-12
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.