Dardanelles campaign (1915-1916)
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Found in 688 Collections and/or Records:
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Letter from Jack [Churchill] (Mudros, [Lemnos, Greece]) to WSC, Undated [16 Jan 1916]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/4/3
Scope and Contents
On subjects including Jack going to Egypt and joining the Anzac Corps with [General Sir William] Birdwood; Jack receiving the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur; the evacuation of troops from Gallipoli; and Sir Ian [Hamilton's] dispatches.
Dates:
Undated [16 Jan 1916]
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, up the end of his first term as Prime Minister
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Personal
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Personal: Jack Churchill and "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, earlier Lady Gwendeline Bertie]: Correspondence
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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 5 Dec 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/10-12
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC being out of the trenches; a matinee of a play which Lady Randolph had organised in aid of the London Bridge Buffet which was feeding 1200 people a day; attending the "Asquith wedding" of [Violet Asquith and Maurice Bonham Carter] and going to Nellie [Hozier's house, later Nellie Romilly]; the danger of Austria coming under German rule; the Calais Conference and a rumour about [Lord Kitchener] having a row with Briand [French Prime Minister] and the Russians about...
Dates:
5 Dec 1915
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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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 21 Nov 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/4-6
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC going to France; the Paris Conference; "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, earlier Lady Gwendeline Bertie] having dinner with the [Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; Lady Randolph Churchill intending to let out her house and contribute towards housekeeping at "C R" [41 Cromwell Road, London, the house of Jack and Gwendeline Churchill]; inviting people for dinner including [Andrew] Bonar Law [later Prime Minister] and George Curzon...
Dates:
21 Nov 1915
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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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 19 Dec 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/15-17
Scope and Contents
On subjects including worrying about WSC; WSC not getting command of a brigade; sitting next to Lovat Fraser [journalist for the Times] at a dinner; plans to dine with George Warrender and to try to find out "what they think in the Navy"; CSC and "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, earlier Lady Gwendeline Bertie] visiting Nellie [Hozier, later Romilly]; not knowing where Jack Churchill was or whether Gallipoli was being evacuated; and hearing that WSC was well from [2nd] Lord Esher [earlier...
Dates:
19 Dec 1915
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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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (Ladies Athenaeum Club, Dover Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 27 Nov 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/7-9
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC being "in the trenches", having dinner with Adele Essex [Adele Capell, Countess of Essex] who had heard that WSC had been offered command of a brigade but refused it, dining with G [?] and George Curzon [Lord Curzon of Kedleston], and inviting [Andrew] Bonar Law [later Prime Minister]; giving WSC's address to George Curzon so he could write; dining at "C R" [41 Cromwell Road, London] with CSC, Lady Helen Mitford and [Nellie Hozier, later Romilly]; contributing £40 a...
Dates:
27 Nov 1915
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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Letter from [Lord Fisher, earlier Sir John Fisher] (Admiralty, Whitehall) to WSC, 3 Jan 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/2/7/1
Scope and Contents
Relaying [Fisher's proposed plan] to defeat Turkey in the Dardanelles and elsewhere, and criticising the delayed "futile bombardment of the Dardanelles" which he believed the War Council would decide on.
Dates:
3 Jan 1915
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, up 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: Letters from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher
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Letter from [Lord] Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Ritz Hotel, London) to WSC, 13 Jan 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/2/6/1
Scope and Contents
On subjects including Rothermere's belief that WSC was politically "unscathed" from the Dardanelles campaign and comments in newspapers; proposed articles by WSC [for newspapers]; the belief of Rothermere's brother, Alfred [Lord Northcliffe], that the position of the Government was improved by the Conscription Bill and that the next crisis would be caused by finance or air raids; and that Rothermere was keeping an eye on the press for WSC.
Dates:
13 Jan 1916
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
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, up 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: Correspondence, a report and memorandum, mainly political
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Letter from WSC (Duchy of Lancaster Office) to Kenneth Dundas (Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Division) returned annotated "killed", with envelope, 6 Aug 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/2/2/4-5
Scope and Contents
Thanking Dundas for his letter, praising the courage of the men fighting in the Dardanelles campaign particularly the Royal Naval Division, and hoping the situation will be "altered materially in our favour".
Dates:
6 Aug 1915
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
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
/
Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, up the end of his first term as Prime Minister
/
Public and Political: General
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence
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Letters from 1st Lord Fisher to his wife, Katherine, Lady Fisher., 1915 - 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 15/1/2/8
Scope and Contents
Includes letters about Fisher's resignation as First Sea Lord, on the Dardanelles campaign and the Dardanelles Commission of Enquiry.
Dates:
1915 - 1917
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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Letters from Fisher to Lambert, 1915-01 - 1915-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 16/2
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: pushing reform in the Navy; Fisher's dispute with Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux [Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth]; Fisher's view on combating German submarines; his resignation as 1st Sea Lord; a letter from Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet] supporting Fisher's view that more destroyers were needed and noting the danger from zeppelins; the pointlessness of an inquiry into the Dardanelles Campaign, as it would draw criticism away from Herbert Asquith...
Dates:
1915-01 - 1915-11
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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Letters from Fisher to Lambert, 1916-01 - 1916-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 16/3
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Fisher's disgust at being out of the Admiralty; the waste of resources on various expeditions, including Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece]; support from Sir Francis Hopwood [Civil Lord of the Admiralty, later 1st Lord Southborough]; the impossibility of getting rid of Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and Arthur Balfour [First Lord of the Admiralty] and Fisher's expectation of a naval disaster; the ships tied up in the Mediterranean when they...
Dates:
1916-01 - 1916-12
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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Letters from Fisher to Lambert, 1917-01 - 1917-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 16/4
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: visiting Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Jellicoe's poor health and concerns about German submarines; information about the Dardanelles Campaign kept from his colleagues by Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [former Secretary of State for War]; the Dardanelles Inquiry, including Winston Churchill's determination not to blame Fisher, evidence given by Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the War Cabinet] and blame being put on Fisher himself; blame for the sinking of HMS Aboukir, HMS...
Dates:
1917-01 - 1917-12
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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Letters to Churchill from William Hozier and C P Scott, 1916-01 - 1916-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/18
Scope and Contents
Letter from Clementine's brother William Hozier on serving aboard the cruiser HMS Edgar at the Dardanelles, particularly the management of their gunnery and the naval side of the evacuation; letter from [Charles] C P Scott [Editor of the Manchester Guardian] on subjects including his pleasure that Churchill meant to return to politics, as the Opposition needed his leadership, his concern at another Mediterranean expedition being on its way, and his view that Churchill might be able to render...
Dates:
1916-01 - 1916-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letters to Clementine in praise of Churchill , 1915-06-01 - 1915-11-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/118
Scope and Contents
Comprising a letter from Sir John Simon, accepting an invitation to dine and praising Churchill [for his conduct over the Dardanelles Campaign], 1 June 1915, and a letter from James Masterton-Smith [former Private Secretary to Churchill] on how he had been the greatest First Lord that the Admiralty had ever had, 18 November 1915 [following Churchill's resignation from the Government].
Dates:
1915-06-01 - 1915-11-18
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Letters to Lady Wester Wemyss, "Codda", "Puss Cat", "Cat", 1914 - 1919
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WMYS 7/11
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes some letters to and from their daughter.
Dates:
1914 - 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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Letters to McKenna and Pamela McKenna, 1915-05 - 1915-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 6/8
Scope and Contents
Letters from Fisher on subjects including: his decision to resign and his view that Winston Churchill [First Lord of the Admiralty] had always been thinking of the military side rather than that of the Navy; Fisher's determination to serve only with McKenna or with Andrew Bonar Law as First Lord; the appeal written by Rear-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet] against Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson becoming 1st Sea Lord; Admiral Lord Charles Beresford being made...
Dates:
1915-05 - 1915-12
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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Letters to McKenna and Pamela McKenna, 1916-04 - 1917-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 6/9
Scope and Contents
Letters from Fisher on subjects including: his discontent at being out of the war; the unabated submarine menace; his hope that he might be back as 1st Sea Lord before Christmas 1916; the losses in France; the dismissal of Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty].
Also includes: papers from Fisher's evidence before the Dardanelles Commission of Enquiry; copy of a letter from Rear-Admiral Cecil Lambert supporting Fisher's policy of building oil-fuelled...
Dates:
1916-04 - 1917-12
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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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/279A-B
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...
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/281
Scope and Contents
Proofs, newspaper cuttings and research notes for various articles by WSC for the Daily Telegraph: "Fleets of Britain and America" on the naval building programmes of Great Britain and the United States; "Mr Churchill on the abuse of the dole" on WSC's opinions of the dole, the live register of unemployment and national insurance; a series of articles on "The Crucial Crises of the [First World] War" on the Battle of the Marne [France], Admiral [John] De Robeck and the minefields at the...
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence., 02 Jun 1927 - 11 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/210
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Albert, Bishop of Liverpool; H G Wells praising "The World Crisis" and WSC as a historian (2); [Lord] Curzon [of Kedleston]; [Charles, 9th] Duke of Marlborough about WSC's plans to write about John, 1st Duke of Marlborough; [1st Lord] Beatty [Admiral of the Fleet]; Ernle Chatfield [3rd Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy] about the weaponry of Battle Cruisers as demonstrated in action at Heligoland, Dogger Bank and Jutland; [James] Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor...
Dates:
02 Jun 1927 - 11 Dec 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence concerning WSC's research for Volume 3 of "The World Crisis"., 20 Jan 1926 - 31 Oct 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/203
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet; James Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor to the Foreign Office] (2); Kenneth Dewar of the Naval Staff Intelligence Division (5); 1st Lord D'Abernon [earlier Sir Edgar Vincent] (4) on statistics of German casualties (4); Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] (3); Brigadier General James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section (13); John Du Cane (3); Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Committee of Imperial...
Dates:
20 Jan 1926 - 31 Oct 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Sunday Chronicle articles by WSC., 02 Jan 1938 - 27 Mar 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/619
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs and press cuttings from the Sunday Chronicle for: "I Escape" on WSC's capture by the Boers and details of his subsequent escape; "The Blunder that Beat Germany" on the Battle of the Marne [France]; "The True Story of the Tank" on the development of the tank during World War I, its initial rejection, WSC's intervention, and its first use in action; "When Britain Nearly Starved" on the German submarine campaign during World War I, British anti-submarine warfare, and...
Dates:
02 Jan 1938 - 27 Mar 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Sunday Chronicle articles by WSC: 3 ("The World Crisis" series)., 28 Apr 1940 - 08 Jun 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/676
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Chronicle for: "My Fight for Sea Power" on the strengthening of the Royal Navy in the years immediately preceding the First World War, the development of the 15 inch gun, and working with Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord; "Into the Jaws of Death" on British submarine action in the Dardanelles [Turkey]; "Invasion" on the [first] Battle of the Marne [France]; "Battle of the Tanks" on the development of the tank, and its use at Paschendaele [Belgium]...
Dates:
28 Apr 1940 - 08 Jun 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 3., Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/649
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "The Most Thrilling Days I Have Ever Lived" on his experiences as First Lord of the Admiralty, on board the Enchantress, visiting the British Naval Fleet, his threat to resign, and the decision to order the Fleet to its war stations; "With the Kaiser on Parade" on his experiences as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, viewing the manoeuvres of the German Army in 1906, WSC's impressions of its strength, and his meeting with Young Turks in...
Dates:
Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 3., 13 Apr 1941 - 25 May 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/692
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"...
Dates:
13 Apr 1941 - 25 May 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.