Foreign policy
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 692 Collections and/or Records:
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Public and Political: General: Political: The Eden Memoirs., Jan 1951 - May 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/517A-B
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Correspondents concerning the publication of the memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] include: Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] concerning financial matters connected with WSC's papers (3); Denis Kelly regarding correspondence between WSC and Eden; Alan Hodge forwarding sections of the book (7); Anthony Eden on his progress with the book, relations with France and requests regarding facts (7).Also includes copies of minutes and letters from Eden to WSC...
Dates:
Jan 1951 - May 1961
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Public and Political: General: Political: various Conservative Party papers., Jul 1946 - Feb 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/17
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Includes copies of: papers on road, rail, and London Transport, the European Recovery Programme, trade, and the 1953 conference location; Conservative "Weekend Talking Points" on prices, unemployment, the liberal vote, and the cost of living; propaganda flyers; public opinion summary; galley proofs of "We shall win through" (October 1952) on the economy, domestic and foreign policy, and defence; Weekly News Letters.Also includes correspondence from: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord...
Dates:
Jul 1946 - Feb 1953
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Public and Political: General: press cuttings of articles, letters, and leader comments, on the international situation and British politics, mainly from national and local British newspapers and magazines, such as the Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Manchester Guardian, the Illustrated London News, and Picture Post, as well as United States and German articles., Dec 1938 - Oct 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/389A-B
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Includes: articles by John Morgan, [William] Stephen King-Hall, Sir Abe Bailey, A G Gardiner, Hannen Swaffer, Ellen Wilkinson, Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine], and "Scrutator" [Robert Ensor]; letters to papers by Francis Pakenham [later 7th Lord Longford], [Edward] Mozley, James Bridie, Sir Reginald St Johnston, Sir Francis Anderton, [John] Chamier, and Eleanor Rathbone. Subjects covered by the cuttings include: the threat posed by the Axis powers; Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic...
Dates:
Dec 1938 - Oct 1939
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, Heath - Kurn., Mar 1956 - Jan 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/526A-B
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Correspondents include: Robin McLare, Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Privy Seal; Edward Heath, Lord Privy Seal; Sir James Henderson-Stewart; Sylvia Henley (4); Sir Patrick Hennessy (3); Harold Macmillan [later1st Lord Stockton], Prime Minister; "Hinch", Lord Hinchingbrooke [later 10th Lord Sandwich] on the death of [9th] Lord Sandwich; [9th] Lord Sandwich [earlier Lord Hinchingbrooke]; Alan Hodge, Editor of History Today, enclosing books for WSC and on the History of the...
Dates:
Mar 1956 - Jan 1965
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, L., Apr 1952 - May 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/527A-B
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Correspondents include: Lord Lambton; Patrick de Laszlo; Henry Laughlin on subjects including an exhibition of WSC's paintings (4); Vivien Leigh [later Vivien, Lady Olivier]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd] on WSC signing a book for the Aga Khan (4); Sir Shane Leslie (2); [1st] Lord Tenby [earlier Gwilym Lloyd George]; Henry Cabot Lodge, United States representative to the United Nations; "Edie" [Edith, Lady] Londonderry (4); [7th Lord] Lonsdale [earlier Lord Lowther]; Henry Luce;...
Dates:
Apr 1952 - May 1964
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, Moran - Nixon., Jul 1953 - Dec 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/530A-B
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Correspondents include: various doctors on WSC's health, hearing aids and on gifts from WSC including Charles [1st Lord] Moran [earlier Sir Charles Wilson] (4), Dorothy, Lady Moran [earlier Dorothy, Lady Wilson], Herbert Seddon (5), Dr D Roberts (4), Jacques Vialle (3) and Philip Yeoman; [1st] Lord Morrison of Lambeth; Prince Hassan Ben El Mehdi, Moroccan Ambassador to Great Britain on a disaster in Agadir; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; John Colville on the...
Dates:
Jul 1953 - Dec 1964
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Ros - Ry., 01 Apr 1946 - 28 Aug 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/197
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Correspondents include: Alan Hodge, Joint Editor, History Today, on WSC writing the preface to a paper by 5th Lord Rosebery (3); 6th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord Dalmeny] on his father's papers (7); Lewis Rosenstiel on subjects including gifts of cigars and whisky for WSC (11); Bernard Baruch; 2nd Lord Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth, Chairman, Daily Mail] on subjects including WSC's retirement (5); Anthony de Rothschild; John Graham [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign...
Dates:
01 Apr 1946 - 28 Aug 1958
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Sc - St., 27 Jul 1945 - 09 Jul 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/199
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Correspondents include: Robert Schuman on the European Movement; Albert Schweitzer; Peter Scott, Director, the Wildfowl Trust, on WSC's black swans; John Robertson Scott on using letters from WSC and Lord Randolph Churchill in his history of the Pall Mall Gazette (2); Ronald Scott-Miller; Sekon Toure, President of Guinea; "Top", 3rd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer] on WSC's support for SOE and the Special Forces Club; Seymour [2nd Lord Camrose, earlier John Seymour Berry]; Horatia...
Dates:
27 Jul 1945 - 09 Jul 1960
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Harold Macmillan., 06 Jul 1953 - 21 Aug 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/220
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Correspondence between WSC and Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], Foreign Secretary and later Prime Minister, on subjects including gifts of books from WSC, pensions for Polish generals, the success of the 1955 General Election, Anthony Montague Browne continuing to work as WSC's Private Secretary, the 4-Power summit at Geneva [Switzerland], and the death of 1st Lord Bracken. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel] WSC's...
Dates:
06 Jul 1953 - 21 Aug 1959
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with President Eisenhower., 04 Feb 1952 - 22 Aug 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/217
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Correspondence between WSC and Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States, on subjects including the 4-Power Summit at Geneva, American foreign policy, particularly on the Far East, former relations between Eisenhower and WSC, the declassification of war records, the defence of Formosa [later Taiwan], a medallion for WSC's 81st birthday, Western unity, Eisenhower's health, his relations with Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], atomic...
Dates:
04 Feb 1952 - 22 Aug 1959
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Sir Anthony Eden and Clarissa, Lady Eden., 12 Apr 1952 - 14 Jun 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/216
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Correspondence between WSC and Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister] on subjects including gifts from WSC, [the dismissal of] Lavrenti Beria [head of Soviet Ministry of International Affairs], the timing of the 1955 General Election, the 4-Power summit at Geneva [Switzerland], United States policy on the Middle East, rail and docks strikes, the Suez Crisis [Egypt], Eden's health, the Canadian elections, the Canadian and American attitude to Suez, supplying arms to...
Dates:
12 Apr 1952 - 14 Jun 1958
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Public and Political: General: Resignation of Foreign Secretary., 26 Jan 1938 - 25 Feb 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/346
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Messages from the general public on the resignation of Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, with correspondents including: [?] Dennis Haselgrove; 1st Lord Askwith; Norman Holden; [?] Peter Freeman; Hugh Adair; Margaret Kidd [Margaret Macdonald]; Sir Bernard Pares.Subjects include: support for WSC and Eden and hostility to the Government's negotiations with Italy; WSC's speech supporting Eden [22 February]; the danger of alienating the United States; suggestions that WSC...
Dates:
26 Jan 1938 - 25 Feb 1938
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Public and Political: General: Various Papers., Jul 1937 - May 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/335
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Papers and memoranda on various subjects, including: timetable of the Munich Crisis by Randolph Churchill; a note on the Anglo-Italian Agreement on Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]; printed extracts of speeches by Neville Chamberlain on British relations with Italy, 1935 - 9; pamphlet published by the Abyssinia Association, "Italy's Failure in Abyssinia"; extract from a speech by WSC on relations with Italy (5 November 1936, House of Commons); pamphlet by Arnold Wienholt, former member of the...
Dates:
Jul 1937 - May 1939
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States (January - March 1946) H - K., 03 Dec 1945 - 21 Aug 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/227
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: 1st Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin], British Ambassador to the United States, on subjects including arrangements for WSC's visit, trade negotiations, the illness of Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to Franklin Roosevelt], invitations, the Anglo-American Loan, and WSC speaking at Williamsburg and before Congress (16); Frank Clarke (2); Winthrop Aldrich; Eugene Meyer; Sir Harold Butler [Minister at the British Embassy,...
Dates:
03 Dec 1945 - 21 Aug 1946
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Public and political: Later subject files, 1921 - 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 17
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Files on Africa and Asia, Egypt, India and general topics.
Dates:
1921 - 1940
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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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Public and political: Political papers, 1930 - 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 19
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Correspondence, particularly relating to the British Council, but including a file on the Invergordon Mutiny and papers on the Political Fund.
Dates:
1930 - 1940
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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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Record of interview with Lord Attlee and Lord Chandos, 1968
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRNT 6
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Barnett's manuscript record of the interview held in Attlee's rooms in the Temple about the Second World War. Questions cover a range of subjects including: foreign policy and grand strategy; policy towards Russia, Japan and the Unites States; Winston Churchill; opinions of wartime generals Dill, Alan Brooke, Pound; military operations.
Dates:
1968
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From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Shall we all commit suicide?", Sep 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/200B/202-206
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Press cutting of article by WSC published in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, illustrated with a portrait photograph of WSC. Covers progress and developments in knowledge, technology and science and their use in World War I; the potential for extermination of the human race; possibility of another war in Europe; speculation on the development of explosive weapons "Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power", and of pilot-less aircraft, chemical and biological...
Dates:
Sep 1924
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Sir Alan Campbell: material for book, 1978-12 - 1982-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 10/6
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Drafts and a final copy of an article by Campbell, former Head of Chancery in Paris when CS was Ambassador, 'Embassy to France: an account of Anglo-French relations, 1968-72', with accompanying correspondence between Campbell and CS.
Dates:
1978-12 - 1982-09
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From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir Donald MacKenzie Wallace: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7341
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Boxes 1-8. The completed text, with notes, of Wallace's history of European Foreign Policy. Chapter I. The Labyrinth and how it is to be explored; II. Birth and innate perculiarities of modern nations; III. Motives, aims and methods of action; IV. Spain's Predominance and Decline (1914); V. The Dutch Interlude (1916); VI. French preponderance under the Bourbons (1913); VII. Balance of Power and England's maritime preponderance. (i) National enrichment. (ii) England's colonial expansion;...
Dates:
1890-1910 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Speech ideas papers: foreign affairs
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 5/1/3/10
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Includes: MT's handwritten notes and annotations
Includes: letter to MT from Michael Foot MP relating to British Leyland, April 1976; draft and other material relating to MT's speech to the Institute of International Affairs, Wellington, New Zealand, 10 September 1976 (see also THCR 5/1/2/83); correspondence with Stephen Hastings MP relating to the EEC, April 1977; and Conservative Research Department briefing note on foreign affairs, June 1978
Also includes excerpts of remarks by...
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Opened in July 2009
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Speech notes: House of Commons., 26 May 1942 - 25 Jun 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/6A-C
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Speech notes and Hansard report of WSC's speech (5 June 1946, House of Commons) on foreign affairs on various subjects including: the cold war and the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union; Communism; the report of the Trade Union delegation to Athens [Greece] and the elections held there; affairs and events in Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Poland; a broadcast delivered by Field Marshal Jan Smuts; reconstruction in Belgium and the Netherlands; and the United Nations. Source...
Dates:
26 May 1942 - 25 Jun 1946
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Speeches, 1983-01 - 1984-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/16
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Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the uses of education; ending direct rule in Ulster, the Anglo-Irish Council, the past attitudes of the British Government to Ulster, interventions by the United States and representation for Ulster in Parliament; the results of past immigration policy; NATO defence policy; international exchange rates, the floating pound, the international monetary system and international monetary fund; British membership of the European Economic...
Dates:
1983-01 - 1984-12
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From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Speeches, 1986 - 1986-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/18
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Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Ian Paisley [co-founder of the Democratic Unionist Party]; ethnic monitoring; pressure from the United States on Ulster, the Anglo-Irish Conference and Anglo-Irish Agreement, betrayal of Ulster by the British Government, and acceding to the demands of the IRA; harmful results of overseas aid; the purpose of higher education; protection of civil liberties; interference in the internal affairs of other countries, particularly South...
Dates:
1986 - 1986-11
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From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Speeches, 1987-01 - 1987-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/19
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Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the betrayal of Ulster by the British Government, the influence of the United States, and representation in Parliament; New Commonwealth immigrants; the economic situation, including the balance of payments; defence policy, including the nuclear deterrent; trade with Japan; interference in other countries, particularly Iran and Iraq; British membership of the European Community; A E Housman; the Gospels; the...
Dates:
1987-01 - 1987-12
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From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.