War devastated countries
Found in 207 Collections and/or Records:
Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 30 Sep 1941 - 11 Dec 1941
Speeches: House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 03 May 1944 - 06 Jul 1944
Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 09 Jan 1941 - 27 Apr 1941
Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 01 Feb 1943 - 31 Mar 1943
Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 11 May 1943 - 30 Jun 1943
Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 06 Jun 1943 - 09 Nov 1943
Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, newspaper cuttings and source material., 19 May 1940 - 23 Dec 1940
Speeches: speech notes and other material., 09 Oct 1940 - 24 Dec 1940
Speeches: speech notes and other material., 09 Jan 1941 - 27 Apr 1941
Speeches: speech notes and other material., 14 Jul 1941 - 11 Nov 1941
Speeches: speech notes (some by WSC as First Lord of the Admiralty) and other material., 08 Aug 1939 - 24 Jan 1940
Speeches: speech notes (some by WSC as First Lord of the Admiralty) and other material., 30 Mar 1940 - 01 Oct 1940
The Papers of Harold Ingrams
Papers mainly comprising official reports, minutes and correspondence about the British Control Commission in Germany, 1945-6.
The Papers of Sir Donald MacDougall
Papers relating to economic policy, including correspondence, diaries, notes, articles, speeches, a draft autobiography and photographs.
"Touring the ruins Berlin [Germany]", 1945-07-16
Photo shows WSC seated in the passenger seat of a jeep facing away from the camera. Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary is seated in the back seat, smiling. There are several other unidentified people in the jeep. Behind it the ruins of the city are seen and a small crowd of civilians.
(Untitled), 02 Dec 1940
Letter from Philip Allen [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Home Security] to Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC], confirming that a second Anderson Shelter had been sent to Chartwell [Kent].
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1940
Letter from Philip Allen [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Home Security], to Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC], confirming that an Anderson Shelter big enough to accommodate 10 people had been despatched to Chartwell [Kent], at a cost of 11l 15s.
(Untitled), 31 Aug 1940
Letter from Mary Shearburn [Secretary to WSC, later Mary Thompson] to Philip Allen [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Home Security], requesting an Anderson Shelter to fit 10 people to be delivered to Chartwell [Kent]. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 30 Aug 1940
Note from Mary Shearburn [Secretary to WSC, later Mary Thompson] to WSC, confirming that although construction of Anderson Shelters had ceased, there were a few available, at 10 pounds for a six seater, and 15 pounds for one accommodating up to 10 people [annotated by WSC, asking her to buy a large shelter for Chartwell, Kent].
(Untitled), 28 Aug 1940
Note from Mary Shearburn [Secretary to WSC, later Mary Thompson] to WSC, on air raid precautions at Chartwell [Kent], noting that there were adequate shelters for the staff and the cottages, that for anyone sleeping in the "big house" there was a cellar which would make a splendid shelter, leading out of the day nursery, and that if an Anderson Shelter were required for CSC when staying in the new cottage, a good place for it would be opposite the door to the muniment room.
(Untitled), 03 May 1943
Minute from Leslie Rowan [Private Secretary to WSC] to WSC, on the ration of sugar for the bees at Chartwell [Kent].
(Untitled), [Apr] [1943]
Note by A E Hill, Head Gardener, Chartwell [Kent], on the ration of sugar for the bees at Chartwell.
(Untitled), 22 Apr [1943]
Minute from Robert Hudson [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries], and 1st Lord Woolton [Minister of Food, earlier Frederick Marquis] on the provision of a sugar ration for bees.
(Untitled), 19 Apr 1943
Minute from WSC to the Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] and the Minister of Food [1st Lord Woolton, earlier Frederick Marquis] on the discontinuance of the sugar ration to domestic bee keepers, demanding to know the saving in "starving the bees of private owners". [Carbon].
(Untitled), 20 Jul 1942
Letter from the Private Secretary to CSC [Grace Hamblin] to Benham and Sons Limited, Heating Engineers, London, requesting an estimate for regulating all of the radiators at Chartwell [Kent], as it was not possible to turn off individual radiators, and with fuel rationing this would be necessary. [Carbon].