Literature
Found in 2105 Collections and/or Records:
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": correspondence., 24 Nov 1944 - 28 Nov 1945
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": digests of various sources collected in the production of the book for sections on "Liberty, Sovereignty, and the Civil War", "The First British Empire", "Character of the People in the Age of Shakespeare", "Scotland and Ireland up to 1760", "Tory and Whig England (1660-1742)", "Party and Cabinet Government, 1660-1782", "World Power, 1689-1763", "Protestants and Puritans", "Commerce, Sea Power, and Discovery", "Language and Literature till the Birth of Shakespeare", "The New State", "The Laws of America, 1775-83", "America 1763-74", "The New Age, 1760-1792", and "The Industrial Revolution, Phase 1"., [1938] - [1945]
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1- 171., c 1938
From invasion of Britain by Julius Ceasar in 699 BC to reign of Offa in eighth century AD.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 172 - 326., c 1938
From the arrival of the Vikings in the eighth century to the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century. With additional sections on spelling of ancient names, the appearance and laws of the Saxons, and the restoration of Charles II.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 327 - 451., c 1938
From the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in the sixteenth century. The proofs do not follow a strictly chronological order.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 452 - 543., c 1938
Draft proofs of chapters including: the Armada, 1588; cuttings from newspaper articles on Henry VIII and Elizabeth I; Elizabeth I, 1588 - 1603; additional notes for chapter on the Magna Carta; the age of expansion; James I; the english colonies, 1640 - 1688; the causes and events of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381; the rise of William Pitt, 1742 - 1746.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 544 - 673., c 1938
Draft proofs of chapters including: Wyclif; Hanoverian England; Sir Robert Walpole; the war government of William Pitt, 1756 - 1762; George III; additional notes on King John and Magna Carta; the rising of 1745; the government of the Lancastrians in the fifteenth century; Pitt and America, 1756 - 1762; the Peace of Paris, 1763; Richard I.annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 674 - 750., c 1938
Draft proofs of chapters including: King John; Henry III; William Pitt the Younger, 1784 - 1788; Henry III; Edward I; Edward II; the younger Pitt and reconstruction; Pitt and the war.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 863 - 970., c 1938
Draft proofs of chapters for Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI and Edward IV. Mainly typescript with some manuscript notes.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 863 - 970., c 1938
Draft proofs of chapters including: Edward IV; Church and State, 1066 - 1154; Edward the Confessor; The colonies from 1600 to 1640; Richard III; James II; Charles I.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1114 - 1237., c 1938
Draft chapters including: post-war England, 1815 - 1820; the monarchy and the divorce, 1820 - 1822; Tory England, 1822 - 1827; the collapse of eighteenth-century England; the passing of the Great Reform Bill, 1830 - 1832; the colonies; England and the American colonies, 1713 - 1754; England and the American colonies, 1754 - 1765; the history of England, 1642 - 1660; Joan of Arc.annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1238 - 1371., c 1938
Draft chapters on the Long Parliament; the American war of Independence; Charles I.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1372 - 1491., 1938 - 1939
Draft chapters including: Charles I; the Commonwealth; the American War of Independence, 1778 - 1781; the story of the common law.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1492 - 1574., 1938 - 1939
Draft chapters including: the American War of Independence - the treaty of peace and the loyalists; the Restoration; England, 1832 - 1837; Charles II; England, 1837 - 1846.Annotated.
Literary: "A history of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1576 - 1657., 1938 - 1939
Draft chapters including: Charles II; England, 1846 - 1850; England, 1852 - 1865; James II; England, 1865 - 1874; Henry VIII (manuscript in hand of John Wheldon [former literary assistant to WSC] annotated by WSC).Annotated.
Literary: "A history of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1658 - 1737., 1938 - 1939
53 folios of handwritten notes on Henry VIII by John Wheldon [former literary assistant to WSC], annotated by WSC. Annotated typescript of chapters on the American Civil War, 1862 - 1864.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1738 - 1824., 1938 - 1939
Draft chapters including: James II; William and Mary; contents pages and notes for epilogue.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1825 - 1928., 1938 - 1939
Draft chapters including: Queen Anne; the United States, 1783 - 1789; the United States, 1789 - 1793.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 1929 - 2017., 1938 - 1939
Draft chapters including: South Africa; America and the French Revolution; the United States, 1797 - 1801; Jeffersonian democracy, 1801 - 1805; notes on the theme of each book; the war of 1812 [Canada]; Canada, 1660 - 1780; Canada, 1780 - 1812; slavery and the United States; the United States, 1815 - 1837.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 2018 - 2103., 1938 - 1939
Draft chapters: mainly on the background to and events of the American Civil War, 1840 - 1864; with a single chapter on the history of New Zealand.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft proofs, folios 2104 - 2120, 2150 - 2154, 2169 - 2195, 2242 - 2277., 1938 - 1939
Draft chapters including: the American Civil War; the origins of parliament; Wyclif; Australia; introductory notes for book on seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the battle of Trafalgar; the battle of Waterloo.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": draft typescripts, folios 751 - 862., c 1938
Draft proofs of chapters including: Edward II; Pitt and the war; England at war, 1797 - 1805; England at war, 1805 - 1815; Britain and the French Revolution; the dusk of Edward III; Richard II; Joan of Arc.Annotated.
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" film: correspondence., 05 Jan 1945 - 09 Aug 1945
Correspondents include: representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company [solicitors] (8); Phyllis Love, Secretary to Sir Alexander Korda.Subjects include: assigning the film rights for the "English-Speaking Peoples" to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer London Films Limited for 50,000 pounds.Also includes: bill and receipt of payment for the services of Nicholl, Manisty and Few and Charles Henderson [barrister].
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": miscellaneous notes, correspondence on the content and production of the book, and other material., 1938 - 1956
Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": Printed reference material., c 1931
(1) Year book of the Bristol branch of the Royal Empire Society: with compliments slip of the Sheriff of Bristol referring to pages 26 and 27 concerning John Cabot's voyages to the United States.(2) Ordnance Survey maps of Britain in the Dark Ages: south sheet (1935) and north sheet (1938); scale 1: 1000,000.(3) Printed French edition of Queen Matilda's tapestry at Bayeux [France] depicting the Norman conquest of England in 1066.