Scope and Contents From the Series: The Colonial Office papers contain correspondence, printed material and papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, a position held from December 1905 to April 1908. The papers have been divided into correspondence (until the end of 1907 only) and subject-based files and are arranged chronologically.The Colonial Office material covers WSC's routine ministerial duties as well as the specific issues of the period...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Charles Rey [Secretary to All Red Route Committee, Board of Trade] (3); Sir James Mackay [later 1st Lord Inchcape]; Sir Alfred Jones (2); Sir Wilfrid Laurier [Prime Minister of Canada]; David Lloyd George [President of the Board of Trade].Subjects include: steamship services and subsidies; matters concerning the choice of route for the Imperial Route: Great Britain to Canada, Australia, New Zealand (and Hong Kong); the inter-colonial railway of Canada.Also...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on his working relationship with WSC and those attending the Colonial Conference; Francis Hopwood [later 1st Lord Southborough, Permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies] on the Imperial Institute; ?George Bryce and the Archbishop of the West Indies [Enos Nuttall] on matters concerning the Jamaica earthquake, including publishing correspondence on the Governor's [Sir Alexander Swettenham] role and...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Charles King-Harman [High Commissioner of Cyprus] (5); Lieutenant-General J C Gore [Receiver-General, Cyprus]; Hesketh Bell [Governor of Uganda].Subjects include: tree planting, public works and expenditure on Cyprus; WSC's promotion to President of the Board of Trade; steamer services between Cyprus and Egypt.Also includes: printed correspondence from Colonial Office officials and King-Harman; a memorandum by WSC; a report on expenditure; agendas and minutes of...

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Evidence given before and a report of the Inter-departmental Committee on East Africa Steamship Subsidies, set up to establish direct British Imperial Communication with East Africa through the Suez Canal; details of mail services to and from East Africa; draft agenda for the first meeting of the East Africa Shipping Facilities Committee.

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Includes Colonial Office papers and correspondence on the West Indian steamer subsidy and inter-colonial mail service; contract with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company; reports of the Interdepartmental Committee on West Indian Telegraphic Communication (chaired by WSC).

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on aerial navigation and the Forth-Clyde Canal, including: Richard Haldane [Secretary of State for War] on Sir Hiram Maxim's views on aircraft development (2); a summary of the evidence and the conclusions of the Committee of Imperial Defence Sub-Committee on aerial navigation; notes by the Secretary of the Sub-Committee on the strategical aspects of the Forth-Clyde Canal; an Admiralty memorandum on the strategical aspects of the canal; records of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Charles Ottley [Secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence], on the cession of the island of Heligoland to Germany in 1890, the advantage a base on the island would be against Germany, the annual mobilization of German troops, the report on the military needs of the empire, the security of the naval magazines at Marchwood [Hampshire] and Chattenden [Kent], the risks of aircraft development, forming a Naval War Staff, combining a naval and military school of...

Scope and Contents M (Materials) Papers on overseas transport including: memorandum "Proposal to Secure Absolutely the National Safety by Concentrating Shipping in the Atlantic by Sir Leo Chiozza Money; letter from Robert Burton-Chadwick to Christopher Addison (Minister of Munitions) on his appointment as the Minister's adviser on shipping matters; statements and tables showing import of munitions, Apr-Dec 1917; memorandum by Sir Joseph Maclay, Ministry of Shipping, on the position of merchant shipbuilding;...

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M (Materials) Papers on overseas transport including: statements of munitions requirements and estimates of shipments from overseas , July-Aug 1918; Allied Maritime Transport Council - General Report, Mar-Sep 1918, Executive Report Aug-Sep 1918.

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S (Steel and Iron) Various papers including memo from the First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Eric Geddes) to the War Cabinet on merchant shipbuilding; minute from Sir John Hunter, Director of Steel Production, stating that there was no steel available for Admiralty programme of three airship sheds, except at the expense of other munitions production; papers on supply of steel to Italy; papers on the steel budget for 1919.

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Includes bar charts on the Battle of the Atlantic and merchant shipping and statistics on bombs dropped and ammunition.

Scope and Contents Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller]; Sir Warren Fisher...

Scope and Contents Chiefs of Staff Committee minutes and memoranda of the proceedings of the conferences at Malta and Yalta [Soviet Union] on subjects including: the U-boat threat during 1945; co-ordination of Anglo-American and Soviet air operations in Eastern Germany; Mediterranean strategy; the South East Asia Command; a review of merchant shipping; fuel supplies; zones of occupation in Germany; strategy in North West Europe; German bomb and rocket attacks; Pacific operations; prisoners of war;...

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of statements made by: Austen Chamberlain; George Barnes; [Sir] Edwin Montagu; Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction]; and Sir Alfred Mond, First Commissioner of Works. Subjects discussed include: the control of raw cotton in India; allocation of materials; economic policy; shipping; the quality of bread; allied propaganda; disposal of government factories; ship-building; supply of food to enemy countries and between allies.Also includes: papers by Lord...

Scope and Contents Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: the battle of the Atlantic; food imports; army scales; the naval programme; the Mediterranean; warning Stalin against Germany (including extracts of correspondence between WSC, the Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon] and Sir Stafford Cripps [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union]; policy in Syria; Egypt and the Middle East; security of cabinet papers; the maintenance of forces in the Middle East; the...

Scope and Contents Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: the future conduct of the war; the Pacific and the Japanese fleet; the entry of the United States into the war; the Atlantic Front; the Indian Ocean; the function of the Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey]; Vichy France's co-operation with Germany; the function of the Minister Resident in West Africa [1st Lord Swinton, earlier Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame]; Fleet Air Arm...

Scope and Contents Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: a forecast of the arrival of American forces in Britain; enemy strength in Tunisia, including notes by General Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to WSC]; over- optimism on post-war conditions; Sir William Beveridge's report on social security; demands on shipping by overseas cereal requirements; the ringing of church bells; telegrams between WSC and Stalin on Soviet-Polish relations; Jewish immigration into Palestine,...

Scope and Contents Printed directives by the Prime Minister, WSC, on subjects including: records of conversations at the Anglo-American- Russian conference in Teheran [Persia, later Iran] between delegates including WSC, Stalin, President Franklin Roosevelt, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Foreign Minister] and Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to President Roosevelt], on Turkey, using Italian ships, Poland, Finland and a date for "Overlord"...

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Includes committee minutes recording statements made by: [1st] Lord Milner, WSC [Minister of Munitions], Sir Albert Stanley [later 1st Lord Ashfield, President of the Board of Trade] and Sir Joseph Maclay [Minister of Shipping]. Issues discussed include the need to reduce shipping, the scale of imports required to meet the Allies demands, submarine losses and the success of convoys of merchant shipping.

Scope and Contents Includes committee minutes of discussions on restrictions on various materials including glucose and barley for brewing, petroleum, cotton, sugar, meat, munitions.Also includes: copies of correspondence between General John Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, and General Sir William Robertson, Chief of Imperial General Staff, on the transport of United States troops; [1st ] Lord Rhondda [earlier David Thomas] Food Controller, on the effect of a...

Scope and Contents Includes papers by: Arthur Balfour, Foreign Secretary, on shipping and the transport of troops to France; William Elderton and Alfred Watson on shipping and imports in 1918; Lord Curzon of Kedleston [Lord President of the Council] on the restriction of imports and WSC, Minister of Munitions, on the munitions budget. Also includes Ministry of Shipping papers on the Allied food problem, the tonnage position, food requirement, munitions supply from the United States and a Board of Trade paper...

Scope and Contents Includes copies of letters from and papers by various individuals including: [1st ] Lord Rhondda [earlier David Thomas] Food Controller on shipping tonnage required for food; Walter Layton on proposals for reduction of munitions tonnage and the effect on gun ammunition; WSC, Minister of Munitions; and Lord Wolmer [later 3rd Lord Selbourne] on trans-shipment and re-exportation.Also includes papers and reports on various subjects including: reduced tonnage for munitions; munitions tonnage...

Scope and Contents Papers by various individuals including: General Jan Smuts on the dissolution of the war organisation committee; [17th] Lord Derby [earlier Edward Stanley] Secretary of State for War, on gun ammunition and salvage; [1st ] Lord Rhondda [earlier David Thomas] Food Controller, recommending a National Salvage Board; Colonel [Lancelot] Storr on the extension of the British front in France; Rowland Prothero [later 1st Lord Ernle] President of the Board of Agriculture, Christopher Addison [Minister...

Scope and Contents Papers by various individuals including: Captain Pierron on anti-submarine patrols by aeroplanes in France; WSC, Minister of Munitions, on the United States and shipping; Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service, on the control of labour supply and the maintenance of the forces; James Barlow [Private Secretary to WSC] on manpower; George Roberts, Minister of Labour, on control of the labour supply; Robert Munro, Secretary of State for Scotland, William Fisher [later 1st Lord...