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Found in 2141 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC 2., Jul 1938 - Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/612
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Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and regional newspapers carrying the article) for: "Acute Indigestion: Germany's Absorption of Austria", reporting on the situation in annexed Austria for Jews, Catholics, monarchists, Austrian Nazis, and workers; "Thoughts on the Royal Visit" to Paris, France, by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth [earlier the Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother], praising the visit for strengthening the ties...
Dates:
Jul 1938 - Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC: 2., Apr 1939 - Jun 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/646
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Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and the Belfast Telegraph) for: "Would Peace or War Better Serve Mussolini's Interests?" on Italy's violation of the Anglo-Italian Agreement particularly over the invasion of Albania, Italy's potential weakness in a Mediterranean war and WSC's hopes of the Italian people's reluctance to become involved in such a war; "President Roosevelt and Franco's choice" on Roosevelt's stance towards Europe and arguing for Spanish...
Dates:
Apr 1939 - Jun 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC 3., Oct 1938 - Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/613
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Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and regional newspapers carrying the article) for: "France, Britain, and the Future Fate of Europe" on the need for unity between Britain and France, and apportioning blame for the situation in Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia]; "Palestine at the Cross-roads" on Jewish and Arab conflict, arguing against partition, and advocating the restoration of order; "All is Not Lost in China" on the state of the...
Dates:
Oct 1938 - Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles: correspondence., 04 Apr 1938 - 15 Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/601
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry] offering to publish WSC's series of articles on foreign affairs (3).Also includes: a copy letter from WSC to Seymour Berry [later 2nd Lord Camrose] on writing an article on King George VI's visit to France; account statements for articles.
Dates:
04 Apr 1938 - 15 Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles: correspondence., 13 Jan 1939 - 20 Jun 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/630
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Correspondents include: Arthur Watson, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph, on subjects including a proposed article by WSC on German colonial demands, sending cuttings and extracts relating to the German attitude to the British Empire (2); Sir Alexander Cadogan (Foreign Office) approving an article by WSC.Also includes: copy letters from WSC to those mentioned above and to 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry] on the end of his Telegraph contract; account statements for...
Dates:
13 Jan 1939 - 20 Jun 1939
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: Davar Publishing Company, Breach of Copyright: correspondence., 28 Jun 1941 - 16 Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/688
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Eade, Editor of the Sunday Dispatch (4); Oskar Rabinowicz (6); Christopher Eastwood and Colin Thornley (3) of the Colonial Office; Sir Harold MacMichael, High Commissioner [and Commander in Chief] for Palestine; representatives of MacMillan and Company including Lovat Dickson [Director] (5).Also includes: copy letters from officials of WSC's Private Office including John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] and John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal...
Dates:
28 Jun 1941 - 16 Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Electoral reform: proofs [for an unpublished book] (reprints of WSC articles and speeches by the Chiswick Press)., [1945] - [1950]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/73
Scope and Contents
No file cover has been found for this file. Material accumulated has come from two sources.Material returned to the Archives Centre by Martin Gilbert [official biographer of WSC]: 1 page, an extract from an address by WSC to Essex Conservatives (15 December 1932) on elections and [4th] Lord Salisbury's [earlier Lord Cranborne] Committee, plus an envelope. These were replaced in this box in May 1998 to be incorporated into file CHUR 4/73 (which was duly noted missing in May 1998).Material...
Dates:
[1945] - [1950]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open (file cover and rest of file may be missing)
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Literary: "End of the Beginning": correspondence regarding the publication of a third collection of WSC's speeches in the United Kingdom and around the world., 24 Oct 1942 - 28 Jan 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/805
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: H Aubrey Gentry [Director of Cassell and Company Ltd] (30); Charles Eade (10); Daniel Macmillan [Chairman of Macmillan and Comapny Ltd (1); Dr Robert Chapman [Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford] (1); Sir Edward Marsh (10).
Dates:
24 Oct 1942 - 28 Jan 1944
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: "Europe since the Russian Revolution": correspondence and legal papers., 05 Aug 1943 - 02 Jan 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/710
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Correspondents include (some of whom are writing to John S Churchill, in WSC's absence): representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company [solicitors] (40), representatives of George G Harrap and Company including Walter Harrap (12), Sir Walter Monkton, Brendan Bracken (3), F J Wearing (clerk to Sir William Raeburn), and a representative of George Newnes Limited, on a dispute between WSC and Harrap's over the termination of an agreement to publish the above book.Also includes: notes by...
Dates:
05 Aug 1943 - 02 Jan 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Evening Standard articles by WSC., Jan 1938 - Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/610
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs and cuttings from the Standard (and regional newspapers carrying the article) for: "Britain Rearms" on British naval, army and air strength; "What Japan Thinks of Us" on the Japanese racial attitude to the British and Americans, Japan's naval strength and US policy concerning the Sino-Japanese War; "The League [of Nations] is not Dead Yet" on the power of the dictatorships in Europe, a defence of the League, and asserting the need for Britain and France to show...
Dates:
Jan 1938 - Sep 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: Evening Standard articles: correspondence., 13 Jan 1938 - 04 Nov 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/600
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Representatives of the Evening Standard (30) including the editor, R J Thompson, on subjects including the termination of WSC's series of articles for political reasons (2) and WSC's reply; Sir Robert Vansittart on an article on Germany and Austria.Also includes: account statements for the syndication of articles to regional newspapers.
Dates:
13 Jan 1938 - 04 Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Evening Standard articles: correspondence., 08 Jan 1935 - 22 May 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/508
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of the Evening Standard, including Percy Cudlipp, Editor (9) on a series of articles by WSC commemorating the Silver Jubilee.Also includes: copies of the press releases on the articles; a note by Martin Gilbert [c1970's].
Dates:
08 Jan 1935 - 22 May 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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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
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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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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:
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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
Scope and Contents
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:
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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., 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:
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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
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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", illustrations: proofs., [May] 1937 - [Jul] 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/587
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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