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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 1 [eventually entitled "The Birth of Britain"]: "New Discovery": spare proofs., [1938] - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/417A-B
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Includes galley proofs (some marked second revise) for: the prologue; book 1, "The Origin of the English Speaking Peoples" [eventually entitled "The Island Race"] featuring chapters entitled "Britannia", "Subjugation", "The Roman Province", "The Lost Island", "England", "The Vikings", "Alfred the Great" and "The Saxon Dust"; book 2, "The Making of the Nation" featuring chapters entitled "The Norman Invasion", "William the Conqueror", "The Progress of Norman Feudalism", "Henry Plantagenet and...
Dates:
[1938] - 1955
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 1 [eventually entitled "The Birth of Britain"]: superseded version (pre-war proofs)., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/413A-B
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Includes galley proofs (marked first proofs and printer's copy) for: introductions to the books; a note on spelling; chapters or sections entitled "Britannia", "The Lost Island", "England", "The Normans", "The Battle of Stamford Bridge", "The Battle of Hastings", "The Plantagenets", "Richard I", "Edward II", "Edward III", "The Government of the Lancastrians", "Joan of Arc", "Causes and Events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381", "Wyclif", "King Henry IV", "Henry V", "Henry VI", "Edward IV",...
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[1938] - [1945]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 2 "1485-1688, The Tudors and the Stuarts" [eventually entitled "The New World"]: superseded version (pre-war proofs) [with later notes and amendments]., [1938] - [1955]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/414A-B
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Includes galley proofs (marked first revise of 1 May 1954) for: a chapter list; chapters or sections entitled "Tudor Rule", "Henry VIII and the Reformation", "Protestant and Catholic: the Reigns of Edward VI and Mary I", "Queen Elizabeth I", "Notes on the History of Law Under the Tudors", "The Government of the Stuarts", "The Age of Expansion", "Charles I and the Great Rebellion", "Cromwell and the Protectorate", "Monarchy Restored, 1660-1685", "The American Colonies under the Stuarts,...
Dates:
[1938] - [1955]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 2 [eventually entitled "The New World"]: main pre-war revise., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/422A-B
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Includes galley proofs (some marked printer's copy) for: chapter lists; book 4, "The Rise of Britain" [eventually entitled "Renaissance and Reformation"] featuring chapters entitled "The Dictatorship of Henry VII", "The Field of the Cloth of Gold", "The Break with Rome", "Dissolution", "The English Reformation and its Martyrs", "The Catholic Counterblast", "Good Queen Bess", and "The Invincible Armada"; book 5, "Liberty and Sovereignty" [eventually entitled "The Civil War"] featuring...
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[1938] - [1945]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 2 [eventually entitled "The New World"]: "New Discovery": spare proofs., [1938] - [1955]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/423A-B
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Includes galley proofs (some marked "revised") for: chapter lists; book 4, "The Rise of Britain" [eventually entitled "Renaissance and Reformation"] featuring chapters entitled "The Dictatorship of Henry VII", "The Field of the Cloth of Gold", "The Break with Rome", "Dissolution", "The English Reformation and its Martyrs", "Good Queen Bess", and "The Invincible Armada"; book 5, "Liberty and Sovereignty" [eventually entitled "The Civil War"] featuring chapters entitled "The United Crowns",...
Dates:
[1938] - [1955]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 3 [eventually entitled "The Age of Revolution"]: corrected proofs from Professor [Denis] Brogan., 1946 - 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/430
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Includes galley proofs (some described as first revise or marked "printer's copy") and typed drafts for: provisional chapter lists; book 8, "The First British Empire", and some of book 9 [eventually entitled "Napoleon"], featuring chapters entitled "The Monopoly of the Whigs", "The Austrian Succession and the Forty-Five", "The War of Independence", "George III", "William Pitt the Younger", "The First World War", "The Conflict of the Peoples", "The United States or the Second World War", and...
Dates:
1946 - 1954
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 3, "The Age of Revolution": final proofs., Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/434A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs of the entire volume [with the exception of the index]: introductory pages and books 7-9, "England's Advance to World Power", "The First British Empire", and "Napoleon".With very minor suggested amendments from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [Alan Hodge].
Dates:
Jan 1957
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volume 4, "The Great Democracies": final proofs., Jan 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/439A-B
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Includes galley proofs of the entire volume [with the exception of the index]: introductory pages and books 10-12, "Recovery and Reform", "The Great Republic", and "The Victorian Age" [chapter 7 of which, "The Dawn of the Twentieth Century" is renamed "The South African War" in the published volume].With very minor suggested amendments and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [Alan Hodge].
Dates:
Jan 1957
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 1-4, "From Earliest Years to 1485", "1485-1688, The Tudors and Stuarts", "Confronting the French, 1689-1815", and "The Nineteenth Century" [eventually entitled "The Birth of Britain", "The New World", "The Age of Revolution", and "The Great Democracies"]: superseded version (pre-war and post-war proofs)., [1938] - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/415A-E
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Includes galley proofs (some described as "R E's" [returned empties] or debris; some marked first revise of 1 May 1954 or printer's copy) for: chapters or sections entitled "Church and State, 1066-1215, and the Quarrel with Beckett", "Tudor Rule", "Henry VIII and the Reformation", "Protestant and Catholic: the Reigns of Edward VI and Mary I", "Queen Elizabeth I", "Notes on the History of Law under the Tudors", "The Government of the Stuarts", "The Age of Expansion", "Charles I and the Great...
Dates:
[1938] - 1955
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 1 and 2 [eventually entitled "The Birth of Britain" and "The New World"]: Amalgamated Press version., [1945] - 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/440A-C
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Includes long galley proofs for: [book 1, eventually entitled "The Island Race" featuring] chapters entitled "Britannia", "Subjugation", "The Roman Province", "The Lost Island", "England", "The Vikings", "Alfred the Great", and "The Saxon Dusk"; book 2, "The Making of the Nation", featuring chapters entitled "The Norman Invasion", "William the Conqueror", "The Progress of Norman Feudalism", "Henry Plantagenet and the Medieval Church", "Coeur de Lion", "Magna Carta", "The Mother of...
Dates:
[1945] - 1955
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 1 and 2, "The Birth of Britain" [and "The New World"]: prefaces and contents tables., [1938] - 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/418A-B
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Includes typed and manuscript drafts and galley proofs (some described as "R E's" [returned empties] or debris; some marked with revise dates from November 1954 to April 1956) for: the prefaces to volumes 1 and 2; sections from prologues originally intended for volumes 1 and 2; chapter lists for books 1 to 10; acknowledgements.With suggested corrections, amendments, notes and correspondence (including details of the preparation of the work) from various people [secretaries, literary...
Dates:
[1938] - 1956
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 1 to 4, "The Birth of Britain", "The New World", "The Age of Revolution", and "The Great Democracies": page proofs., 1955 - 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/441A-D
Scope and Contents
Includes loose and bound page proofs for the above volumes, with suggested corrections, amendments, and notes [mainly for volume 1] from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, printers, etc.] or organisations including: "C C W" [Charles Wood], "A H" [Alan Hodge], WSC, [John] Sundell of Cassell [and Company], "D K" [Denis Kelly], Time-Life [International], and [George Gordon] Allen.
Dates:
1955 - 1958
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 1 to 4, "The Birth of Britain", "The New World", "The Age of Revolution", and "The Great Democracies": press reviews., Apr 1956 - Apr 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/444A-C
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Includes cuttings and proofs of reviews and publicity material, published in United States, United Kingdom, German and Irish newspapers. Reviewers include: Arthur Schlesinger; Alan Simpson of the University of Chicago [United States]; A L Rowse (3 including proofs of 2 broadcast reviews); Peter Woon; [Gustaaf] Renier; Harold Nicolson (3); [Charles] Lambert, Archdeacon of Blackburn [Lancashire] (3); C V Wedgwood (2); Geoffrey Barraclough (4); D C Somervell (2); 1st Lord Attlee (2); George...
Dates:
Apr 1956 - Apr 1958
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 3 and 4 [eventually entitled "The Age of Revolution" and "The Great Democracies"]: main pre-war revise., [1938] - [1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/427A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some marked printer's copy and revised galley) for: chapter lists; book 7, [eventually entitled] "[England's] Advance to World Power" featuring chapters entitled "William III and Europe", "The Spanish Succession", "Marlborough: Blenheim and Ramillies", "Oudenarde and Malplaquet", and "The Treaty of Utrecht"; book 8, "The First British Empire" featuring chapters entitled "The Monopoly of the Whigs", "The Austrian Succession and the Forty-Five", "Colonial America", "The...
Dates:
[1938] - [1945]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 3 and 4 [eventually entitled "The Age of Revolution" and "The Great Democracies"]: "New Discovery": spare proofs., [1938] - [1955]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/428A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes galley proofs (some "revised" or "first revise") for: chapter lists; book 7, [eventually entitled] "[England's] Advance to World Power" featuring chapters entitled "William III and Europe", "The Spanish Succession", "Marlborough: Blenheim and Ramillies", "Oudenarde and Malplaquet", and "The Treaty of Utrecht"; book 8, "The First British Empire" featuring chapters entitled "The Monopoly of the Whigs", "The Austrian Succession and the Forty-Five", "Colonial America", "The First World...
Dates:
[1938] - [1955]
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Literary: "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples": volumes 3 and 4 [eventually entitled "The Age of Revolution" and "The Great Democracies"]: prefaces and acknowledgements., Dec 1956 - Feb 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/429
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Includes typescript drafts and galley proofs with suggested corrections, amendments, and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [Denis Kelly], WSC, [Alan Hodge], and [Charles Wood].
Dates:
Dec 1956 - Feb 1957
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Literary: Accounts., 12 Feb 1929 - 15 May 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/230
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Statements of accounts of royalty fees due to WSC for sales of Volumes 1-3 of "The World Crisis" and Volume 4 "The Aftermath" from Curtis Brown Limited, Charles Scribner and Thornton Butterworth Limited.
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12 Feb 1929 - 15 May 1933
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Literary: accounts paid., 21 Jan 1938 - 30 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/608
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Includes invoices for the use of a messenger service, office equipment, car hire, postage, printing, copying, maps, expenses, book-binding, copies of Hansard; hotel, telephone and telegram bills.Includes invoices/ thanks for payment from the District Messenger and Theatre Ticket Company Limited, Discavox Dictating Machine Company, Edenbridge Motor Company, Thornton Butterworth Limited, George G Harrap and Company, Imperial Airways Limited, Hilda Neal, J Kearney and Company, Ridley...
Dates:
21 Jan 1938 - 30 Dec 1938
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Literary: accounts paid., 02 Jan 1939 - Mar 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/639
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Includes invoices for car hire, the use of a messenger service, printing, secretarial services, copies of WSC's books, maps, train journeys, office equipment, book repair and binding, press cuttings, general expenses, including stays in the South of France; hotel, telephone and telegram bills.Includes invoices from the Edenbridge Motor Company, the District Messenger and Theatre Ticket Company Limited, F L Jenner Cars for Hire, Hilda Neal, George G Harrap and Company, Thornton Butterworth...
Dates:
02 Jan 1939 - Mar 1940
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Literary: accounts paid., 08 Jan 1936 - 29 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/539
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Includes correspondence and invoices from Thomas Cook and Son Limited (4); Sir Frederick Butler, Finance Officer at the Foreign Office; the Edenbridge Motor Company (6); Ridley Pakenham-Walsh (2) and William Deakin (4) [WSC's literary assistants]; the District Messenger and Theatre Tickets Company Limited (14); Hotel Ritz, Paris (9).Also includes: monthly lists of literary expenses for 1935.
Dates:
08 Jan 1936 - 29 Dec 1936
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Literary: accounts paid., 23 Jan 1937 - 24 Feb 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/562
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Includes invoices and correspondence from: the District Messenger and Theatre Ticket Company Limited (17); the London Library (4); the Edenbridge Motor Company (14); Thornton Butterworth Limited (7); St Peter's Secretarial College (7); Hotel Ritz, Paris [France] (5); Cap Martin Hotel [France] (6); Lieutenant-Commander J H Owen and Ridley Pakenham-Walsh [WSC's literary assistants]; Imperial Airways Limited (7); Post Office Telephones (7).Also includes: a monthly statement of expenses for...
Dates:
23 Jan 1937 - 24 Feb 1938
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Literary: Amalgamated Press articles: correspondence., 03 Jan 1934 - 24 Nov 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/492
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Correspondents include: representatives of the Amalgamated Press Limited including William Blackwood, Literary Editor (15).
Dates:
03 Jan 1934 - 24 Nov 1934
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Literary: "Arms and the Covenant" (and "Great Contemporaries"): letters of congratulations and thanks for complimentary copies., 06 Jan 1938 - 01 Jan 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/599
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Correspondents include (many commenting on contemporary foreign affairs and praising the foresight of WSC's speeches): Representatives of George G Harrap and Company on sending out the copies (2); Clement Attlee; Sybil, Lady Cholmondeley; "Robin" [Lord Castlereagh, later 8th Lord Londonderry]; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood; Sir Arthur Cory-Wright; Sir Emsley Carr [Chairman and Editor of the News of the World]; 1st Lord Craigavon [earlier James Craig]; [David] Percy Davies [Deputy Editor and...
Dates:
06 Jan 1938 - 01 Jan 1939
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Literary: "Arms and the Covenant": correspondence., 03 Apr 1938 - 11 Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/598
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Correspondents include: representatives of George G Harrap and Company, including George Harrap, on details of publishing in the United Kingdom and abroad, and correction costs (20); Randolph Churchill on collating speeches for the book.Also includes: copy and draft letters from WSC to Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence] stating his intention of publishing statements made when he accompanied the deputation to Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister] and Sir Thomas...
Dates:
03 Apr 1938 - 11 Nov 1938
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Literary: "Arms and the Covenant": correspondence., 23 Jan 1939 - 29 May 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/627
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Correspondents include: Morgan Price on WSC signing a copy of the book; representatives of George G Harrap and Company including Walter Harrap on unsold and stock copies of "Arms and the Covenant", producing a cheaper version, and its adoption by the Right Book Club (5).
Dates:
23 Jan 1939 - 29 May 1939
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