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Found in 2105 Collections and/or Records:

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Literary: Evening Standard articles: correspondence., 25 Jan 1936 - 24 Dec 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/534
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of the Evening Standard, including Percy Cudlipp, Editor (16).Also includes: a memorandum on the Evening Standard position on the new Unemployment Regulations; Curtis Brown Limited's agreement with WSC for international sales of his articles; an open letter to WSC from Fight, Organ of the British Bolshevik-Leninists in response to WSC's article on Communism; copies of Fight and the Red Flag; extracts from Stanley Baldwin's speeches on democracy...
Dates: 25 Jan 1936 - 24 Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: Evening Standard articles: correspondence., 01 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/552
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of the Evening Standard including Percy Cudlipp [Editor] (8), W H Robertson, Manager of the Syndication Department (32) and Michael Wardell, Chairman and Managing Director (9) on the "Great Reigns" series, overseas rights and a dispute over the syndication of the articles; Ernst Meyer on the syndication dispute (15); Elwell and Binford Hole, solicitors, on the syndication dispute (5).Also includes: notes on provincial and overseas newspapers running...
Dates: 01 Jan 1937 - 31 Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: Financial calculations., 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/297
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Volume of calculations by WSC on his personal finances including details of income earned through his writings.

Dates: 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: Forewords by WSC., 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/304
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Introductions by WSC to: a book about the Mahdi (in which he recalls his experiences in the Sudan and at the Battle of Omdurman); "India Insistent" by Sir Harcourt Butler (in which he discusses events in India) and a book about the work of chartered surveyors.

Dates: 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: galley proofs for "Victory" containing 61 of WSC's war and general election speeches dating from January to August 1945., 1945 - [1946]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/69
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WSC's notes and source material for many of these speeches can be found in files CHAR 9/167-70 and CHAR 9/205-9.

Dates: 1945 - [1946]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary General correspondence:., 02 Jan 1924 - 31 Dec 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/196
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Correspondence on books and articles, mainly material for "The World Crisis": Correspondents include William Tyrrell (Foreign Office); Rear-Admiral Philip Dumas; Brigadier-General James Edmonds; Committee of Imperial Defence (Historical Section) (2); James Headlam-Morley (Foreign Office); Admiral Sir Roger Keyes (2); Christopher Addison; Sir Rupert Howorth (Cabinet Office) and Lord Rosebery;.

Dates: 02 Jan 1924 - 31 Dec 1924
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: George Newnes: correspondence., 02 Jan 1935 - 01 Aug 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/513
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Correspondents include: representatives of George Newnes Limited, including H A Pollock, Editor (8) on serialisation of "History of the Great War".Also includes: a graph of the print of "History of the Great War".

Dates: 02 Jan 1935 - 01 Aug 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": copy., 04 May 1930 - 22 Jun 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/578
Scope and Contents Annotated proofs, copy and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "The Truth About Douglas Haig"; on 1st Lord Haig; "Mr Lloyd George" on David Lloyd George; "Boris Savinkov" on his part in the Russian army on the Eastern Front, and fighting against the Bolsheviks; "Lord Ypres" on Sir John French; "B-P" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell; "Trotsky" on Leon Trotsky; "Hindenburg" on Field-Marshal Paul von Hindenburg; "The Tragic Story of Parnell" on Charles Parnell; "Lawrence of Arabia" on T E...
Dates: 04 May 1930 - 22 Jun 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": correspondence., 12 Nov 1936 - 13 Dec 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/548
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Madeleine Clemenceau Jacquemaire on WSC's account of her father Georges Clemenceau; Adam Marshall Diston on research on Neville Chamberlain and 1st Lord Curzon (4); "Eddie" [Sir Edward Marsh] (3); "Ettie" [Ethel, Lady Desborough] (2); Clifford Norton [Foreign Office] advising on the toning down of the chapter on Hitler for fear of offending Germany; 1st Lord Wigram [Keeper of the King's Archives] on T E Lawrence's refusal of the C B; 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord...
Dates: 12 Nov 1936 - 13 Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": correspondence., 09 Apr 1941 - 30 Dec 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/682
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: officials of the Ministry of Information (7); Daniel MacMillan, [Chairman and Managing Director of] MacMillan and Company, on changes to the book for a reprinted version (7); Thornton Butterworth (3), Brendan Bracken (2), and Alan Bott of the Reprint Society Limited (4) on the rights to publish a reprint of the book.Other subjects include: the Portuguese translation of the book for Brazil and Portugal; donating the Brazilian translation rights to the British Sailors'...
Dates: 09 Apr 1941 - 30 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries", illustrations: proofs., [May] 1937 - [Jul] 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/587
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Proofs of photographs of all the subjects in the 1st edition of "Great Contemporaries", with copies of letters from Herbert Asquith [the Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] offering the Presidency of the Board of Trade to WSC (1908) and from "T E S" [T E Shaw, earlier T E Lawrence, or "Lawrence of Arabia"] to WSC on giving him a copy of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1926).

Dates: [May] 1937 - [Jul] 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": letters of thanks and congratulation., 24 Sep 1937 - 29 Dec 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/549
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough]; 1st Lord Baldwin of Bewdley; "Reggie" [Sir Reginald Barnes]; Sir Abe Bailey, commenting on 1st Lord Haldane having been suspected of German sympathies; Sir Bindon Blood; "Max" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken]'; "Mollie" [Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch, earlier Margaret, Lady Dalkeith]; "Peggy" [Margaret, Lady Crewe]; Cecil, Lady Craigavon; Betty, Lady Cranborne [later Lady Salisbury]; Sir Arthur...
Dates: 24 Sep 1937 - 29 Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": notes and material., 03 Aug 1934 - 15 Jul 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/588
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Includes: a letter from Murray Hornibrook, Private Secretary to George Wyndham, correcting WSC on Wyndham and the devolution proposals for Ireland in WSC's article on 1st Lord Balfour; a copy of a letter from Herbert Asquith [the Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to WSC offering him the Presidency of the Board of Trade in 1908; notes on Lord Morley of Blackburn.

Dates: 03 Aug 1934 - 15 Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": proofs., 22 Jun 1937 - 17 Jul 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/580
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Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Joseph Chamberlain"; "Sir John French" on 1st Lord Ypres, as Commander in Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France 1914-1915; "John Morley" on Lord Morley of Blackburn.

Dates: 22 Jun 1937 - 17 Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": proofs., 19 May 1937 - 02 Jul 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/581
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Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Hindenburg" on Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg's role in the First World War; "Boris Savinkov" on his role in the Russian army on the Eastern Front, and fighting against the Bolsheviks; "Marshal Foch" on Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch on the Western Front; "Herbert Henry Asquith" on 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith.

Dates: 19 May 1937 - 02 Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": proofs., 01 Jul 1937 - 07 Jul 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/582
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Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Lawrence of Arabia" on T E Lawrence after the First World War, and "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"; "'F E' First Earl of Birkenhead" on F E Smith; "Marshal Foch" on Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch on the Western Front.

Dates: 01 Jul 1937 - 07 Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": proofs., 23 Jun 1937 - 26 Jul 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/583
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Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Leon Trotsky, alias Bronstein"; " Alfonso XIII" on Alfonso XIII of Spain; "Douglas Haig" on 1st Lord Haig.

Dates: 23 Jun 1937 - 26 Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": proofs., 22 Jun 1937 - 26 Jul 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/584
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Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Arthur James Balfour" on 1st Lord Balfour's career, including the Free Trade issue in 1903; "Hitler and his Choice" on German rearmament since the First World War and Hitler since 1935; "George Nathaniel Curzon" on 1st Lord Curzon.Also includes: a letter from 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord Stanley] correcting details about himself in the Balfour article.

Dates: 22 Jun 1937 - 26 Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": proofs., 22 Jun 1937 - 07 Jul 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/585
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Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Philip Snowden" on 1st Lord Snowden; "Clemenceau" on Georges Clemenceau; "King George V" on the King's reign, including the Parliament Act of 1910 and the King's role in the First World War.

Dates: 22 Jun 1937 - 07 Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": proofs., 28 May 1937 - 07 Sep 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/586
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Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Lord Fisher and his Biographer" on Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon's appointment to and removal from the Dover Patrol (1915-1917) and Bacon's biography of 1st Lord Fisher, and also on Fisher's part as 1st Sea Lord and during the Dardanelles Campaign; "Charles Stewart Parnell" on Parnell, Home Rule for Ireland and Kitty O'Shea; "B-P" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell; "Roosevelt From Afar" on Franklin Roosevelt's economic and labour reforms.

Dates: 28 May 1937 - 07 Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": proofs., 23 Jun 1937 - 16 Jul 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/579
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Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "The Earl of Rosebery" on 5th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord Dalmeny]; "The Ex-Kaiser" on Kaiser Wilhelm II; "George Bernard Shaw".

Dates: 23 Jun 1937 - 16 Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: Hearst newspaper articles: correspondence regarding publication in the United States., 18 Nov 1930 - 05 Aug 1937

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/813
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Includes telegrams from William Randolph Hearst and correspondence with editorial staff of Hearst newspapers.Subjects for articles include: trials in the Soviet Union; economic affairs; Spain; the League of Nations; the Rhineland; Palestine; serialisation rights to WSC's "The Eastern Front".Also includes: annotated copy of printed supplement to the Week-End Review entitled "A National Plan for Great Britain", 14 Feb 1931.

Dates: 18 Nov 1930 - 05 Aug 1937
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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Literary: International Magazine Company: Correspondence regarding publication of articles in "Cosmopolitan" magazine., 06 Nov 1923 - 08 Jan 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/807
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Correspondents include: Ray Long (Vice-President and Editor in Chief, International Magazine Company) (10) and other International Magazine Company editorial staff.

Dates: 06 Nov 1923 - 08 Jan 1930
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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Literary: "Into Battle": correspondence regarding publication in the United Kingdom and around the world of a collection of WSC's speeches., 03 Apr 1940 - 19 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/803
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: H Aubrey Gentry [Director of Cassell and Company Ltd] (55); Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador in the United States] (2); Sir Geoffrey Callender [Director of the National Maritime Museum] (3); Brendan Bracken (7); Randolph Churchill [son of WSC] (4); Sir Newman Flower [Director of Cassell and Company Ltd] (2); 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr] (1); Desmond Flower [Director of Cassell and Company Ltd] (4); George Harvie Watt...
Dates: 03 Apr 1940 - 19 Apr 1945
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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Literary: Lawrence of Arabia article: correspondence., 24 May 1935 - 04 Jul 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/507
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Subjects include: the achievements of T E Lawrence; praise of WSC's article in the News of the World on Lawrence's death; comparisons between WSC and Lawrence; the "National League" against the British Mandatory Government in Palestine; Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".

Dates: 24 May 1935 - 04 Jul 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open