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Literary: Speeches, 1909 - 1957

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 22
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Typescripts, notes and material for speeches.

Dates: 1909 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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Literary: "Step by Step": letters of congratulations and thanks for complimentary copies., 11 May 1939 - 09 Jul 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/628
Scope and Contents Correspondents include (many commenting on contemporary foreign affairs and praising the foresight of WSC's articles): Edward Marsh; Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon]; 1st Lord Craigavon [earlier James Craig]; Sir Reginald Barnes; 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth]; Fred Pelly; John Kitto, Librarian, House of Commons; Desmond Morton; Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Lady Audley]; Sir Roger Keyes; Sir Henry Strakosch; Frederick Leathers; 1st Lord...
Dates: 11 May 1939 - 09 Jul 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: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 7., 29 Sep 1940 - 10 Nov 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/671
Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "The British Working Man" on WSC's views on the rights and responsibilities of trade unions, strikes, the role of government in industrial disputes, and the birth of the Labour Party; "A Very Great Englishman" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell, his role at the siege of Mafeking [South Africa] and the founding of the Boy Scouts Movement; "The March of Progress" on scientific developments and their effect on mankind from the Stone Age to the mid-twentieth...
Dates: 29 Sep 1940 - 10 Nov 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/253
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Notes for WSC's book "The Aftermath" on demobilisation and indemnity including: a copy letter from WSC to [David Lloyd George]; corrections to chapter 2 entitled "Demob"; a report of the Imperial War Cabinet on indemnity; a Treasury report on the cost of the war to Great Britain; notes from Sir [Maurice] Hankey [Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence] on the calculation of reparations due from Germany and extracts from several speeches by David Lloyd George on indemnity.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1928 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/254
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Notes concerning the United States naval building programme; the peace conference and peace treaties following the end of World War I; President [Woodrow] Wilson's attitude to Austria; parliamentary speeches by David Lloyd George; war casualties and proofs of chapter entitled "The Unfinished Task".Includes letters from [Brigadier General] James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section.

Dates: 1928 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/255
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Notes by James Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor to the Foreign Office] on peace treaties with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria following the end of World War I and the actions of [David] Lloyd George, President [Woodrow] Wilson, [Georges] Clemenceau and [Vittorio] Orlando. Includes official reports about the Peace Conference on the agreements reached with Germany and the treaty of Versailles and a memorandum by Lord Robert Cecil on diminishing the likelihood of future wars.

Dates: 1924
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1922 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/258
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Notes for chapters entitled "Turkey Alive", "The Greek Tragedy" and "Chanak". Includes material on the attitude of President [Woodrow] Wilson to Turkey and Austria; the early history of Greece and Turkey; the occupation of Smyrna; the attitude of David Lloyd George to Greece; Armenian history and draft proofs.Includes correspondence with James Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor to the Foreign Office].

Dates: 1922 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Aftermath", Volume 4 of "The World Crisis"., 1917 - 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/261
Scope and Contents Notes and material on affairs in Russia and Eastern Europe including: President [Woodrow] Wilson's attitude to Russia and Communism; biographical material on Lenin; intervention by the Allies into Russian affairs; civil war in Russia; the last days of [Alexander] Kolchak and the action of General [Pierre] Janin; the Russian Gold Reserve; affairs in Poland, Finland and Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia]; an official diary of events in Russia; notes on leading Communist figures...
Dates: 1917 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1 "The Gathering Storm": Book 1: Master copy proofs., 30 Jan 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/119
Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: Chapter 1 "The Follies of the Victors, 1919 - 1929"; Chapter 2 "Peace at its Zenith, 1922 - 1931"; Chapter 3 "Lurking Dangers"; Chapter 4 "Adolf Hitler"; Chapter 5 "The Locust Years, 1931 - 1935"; Chapter 6 "The Darkening Scene, 1934"; Chapter 7 "Air Parity Lost, 1934 - 1935"; Chapter 8 "Challenge and Response, 1935"; Chapter 9 "Problems of Air and Sea, 1935 - 1939"; Chapter 10 "Sanctions Against Italy, 1935"; Chapter 11 "Hitler Strikes, 1936"; Chapter 12 "The...
Dates: 30 Jan 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1, "The Gathering Storm": chapter 14 "Mr [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] at the Foreign Office: his resignation": copy and provisional proofs., [Jan] 1947 - Dec 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/88
Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs annotated with suggested corrections and amendments from various people including: WSC, [William] Deakin [literary assistant], "E M" [Sir Edward Marsh], and [secretary Elizabeth Gilliatt].Also includes: copies of contemporary letters from WSC for incorporation into the chapter; file notes by [secretaries] "L M M" [Lettice Marston, later Lettice Shillingford] and "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow]; sections provisionally intended to feature in chapters...
Dates: [Jan] 1947 - Dec 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1, "The Gathering Storm": chapter 17 "The Tragedy of Munich [Germany]": copy and provisional proofs., [Jan] 1947 - Oct 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/91
Scope and Contents Includes typescript, manuscript, and galley proofs annotated with suggested corrections and amendments from various people including: WSC, [William] Deakin [literary assistant], "E R" [Emery Reves, earlier Imre Revesz], "E M" [Sir Edward Marsh], [Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall], [Isaiah] Berlin, "Van" [1st Lord Vansittart], and "O S" [Sir Orme Sargent, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs].Also includes: sections provisionally intended to feature in chapters entitled...
Dates: [Jan] 1947 - Oct 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1, "The Gathering Storm": chapter 19 "Prague [Czechoslovakia, later Czech Republic and Slovakia], Albania, and the Polish Guarantee": copy and provisional proofs., [Jan] 1947 - Sep 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/93
Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs annotated with suggested corrections and amendments from various people including: "F W D" or "Mr D" [William Deakin, literary assistant], WSC, "E M" [Sir Edward Marsh], [Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall], [Isaiah] Berlin, and "O S" [Sir Orme Sargent, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs].Also includes: provisional chapter proofs entitled "After Munich"; proofs and copies of contemporary letters from WSC and Oliver Stanley for...
Dates: [Jan] 1947 - Sep 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1, "The Gathering Storm": chapter 20 "The Soviet Enigma": copy and provisional proofs., [Jan] 1947 - Oct 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/94
Scope and Contents Includes typescript, manuscript, and galley proofs annotated with suggested corrections and amendments from various people including: [William] Deakin [literary assistant], WSC, "E M" [Sir Edward Marsh], and [Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall].Also includes: provisional chapter proofs entitled "USSR?"; notes on negotiations between Great Britain and the Soviet Union and [Maxim] Litvinov's [Soviet Foreign Minister] resignation; file note by secretary "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady...
Dates: [Jan] 1947 - Oct 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1 "The Gathering Storm": Chapters 1 - 10: 'Returned empties'., 24 Dec 1947 - 27 Apr 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/113A-J
Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: Chapter 1 "The Follies of the Victors, 1919 - 1929" (provisionally entitled "Germany Disarmed"; Chapter 2 "Peace at its Zenith, 1922 - 1931" (provisionally entitled "Domestic Interlude - Mr [Stanley] Baldwin" and "Locarno: the Economic Blizzard, 1925 - 1931"); Chapter 3 "Lurking Dangers"; Chapter 4 "Adolf Hitler"; Chapter 5 "The Locust Years, 1931 - 1935"; Chapter 6 "The Darkening Scene, 1934"; Chapter 7 "Air Parity Lost, 1934 - 1935"; Chapter 8 "Challenge and...
Dates: 24 Dec 1947 - 27 Apr 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1 "The Gathering Storm": Chapters 11 - 21: 'Returned empties'., 29 Dec 1947 - 12 Feb 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/114A-K
Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of: Chapter 11 "Hitler Strikes, 1936"; Chapter 12 "The Loaded Pause - Spain 1936 - 1937); Chapter 13 "Germany Armed, 1936 - 1938"; Chapter 14 "Mr [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] at the Foreign Office and His Resignation"; Chapter 15 "The Rape of Austria, February 1938"; Chapter 16 "Czechoslovakia"; Chapter 17 "The Tragedy of Munich" [Germany]; Chapter 18 "Munich Winter"; Chapter 19 "Prague, Albania and the Polish Guarantee"; Chapter 20 "The Soviet...
Dates: 29 Dec 1947 - 12 Feb 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1 "The Gathering Storm": Norwegian campaign: Material., 25 Nov 1939 - 06 Jun 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/142
Scope and Contents Includes notes and correspondence concerning research and corrections for Volume 1 of "The Second World War" by individuals including: WSC on subjects including operations in Trondheim and Bergen; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall on subjects including the campaign in Narvik, from the interrogation of General Nicholas von Falkenhorst [commander of German forces in Norway] and the report of General Eduard Dietl [commander of German land forces in Norway], and commenting on Chapter 34...
Dates: 25 Nov 1939 - 06 Jun 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 1 "The Gathering Storm": Various comments., 31 Jan 1935 - 20 Feb 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/141A-B
Scope and Contents Includes notes and correspondence on corrections to be made to Volume 1 of "The Second World War" from individuals including: Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall on subjects including leading German generals and German air strength (13); Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet] on subjects including the use of Cabinet papers (7); Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] (2); George [Gordon] Allen on subjects including the Irish Treaty and the Chiefs of Staff (8);...
Dates: 31 Jan 1935 - 20 Feb 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: The Second World War, Volume 4 "The Hinge of Fate", Chapter 27 "Moscow [Soviet Union]. The First Meeting" and Chapter 28 "Moscow. A relationship established"., Aug 1942 - Sep 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/279A-C
Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 27 "Moscow. The First Meeting" and Chapter 28 "Moscow. A relationship established" annotated with suggested amendments and corrections by various people including Denis Kelly, William Deakin, WSC, CSC, Charles Wood, 1st Lord Ismay, Sir Edward Marsh, Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet] and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall.Also includes: outline notes by WSC for the...
Dates: Aug 1942 - Sep 1952
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: typescript proofs and draft copies [some annotated by WSC] of WSC's article entitled "One Way to Stop a Third World War"., 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/71
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First published in Collier's magazine, on the aftermath of World War II, the roles of France, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union with regard to Europe, the United Nations, the need for a Council of Europe, and the atomic bomb.

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: various articles by WSC., Jan 1938 - Nov 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/609
Scope and Contents Includes: Press cutting for "1938 - World's Year of Fate", published in Answers (29 January 1938), briefly commenting on rearmament, the Spanish Civil War, the threat of Japan, Italy and Germany, and the role of Britain, France and the United States. Cuttings and proofs for "Women in War", published in the February edition of the Strand Magazine, looking at the subject from both an historical perspective, focusing on figures such as Joan of Arc, and examining the contemporary situation...
Dates: Jan 1938 - Nov 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: various articles by WSC., c 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/641
Scope and Contents Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings for: an interview with WSC for the New Statesman and Nation, in which he defends western democracies against totalitarianism, discusses the possible effect of war on the democratic system and civil liberties, and his views on the inadequacies of ARP, conscription, and how to prevent war; the introduction to a catalogue of the artist Paul Maze, in which WSC recalls Maze during World War I (with a copy of a catalogue for a French exhibition...
Dates: c 1939
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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Literary: various correspondence., 14 Sep 1937 - 31 Dec 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/594
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir John Marriott on the projected 1910 Coalition Government; Maurice Gamelin, Vice-Admiral Emile-Paul Guepratte and others thanking WSC for copies of ["My Early Life"]; Arthur Asquith praising "The River War"; Longmans, Green and Company (8) on subjects including WSC writing the foreword for "Alarms and Excursions" by General Sir Tom Bridges (6); General Sir Hubert Gough on a memorial to the 5th Army; Adam Marshall Diston (15) on subjects including the preparation of...
Dates: 14 Sep 1937 - 31 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: volume 4 of "Marlborough: His Life and Times": letters of congratulations and thanks for complimentary copies., 05 Sep 1938 - 23 Dec 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/596
Scope and Contents Correspondents include (many commenting on contemporary foreign affairs): Maurice Ashley [WSC's researcher]; Consuelo [Balsan, earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough]; Alfred Burne [Assistant Editor of the Fighting Forces]; Sir Bindon Blood; Edward Cadogan (2); 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry]; Hendrikus Colijn [Prime Minister of the Netherlands]; 1st Lord Craigavon [earlier James Craig]; Neville Chamberlain; Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds; 2nd Lord Wimborne [earlier Ivor...
Dates: 05 Sep 1938 - 23 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Literary: "While England Slept": abridged edition., Feb 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/640
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Cuttings from February edition of Omnibook magazine containing abridged version of "While England Slept" [United States title of "Arms and the Covenant"], including a "Foreword to the Omnibook Edition" commenting on the foresight of WSC's speeches.

Dates: Feb 1939
Conditions Governing Access: Open.