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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 225 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 26 May 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/122-126
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Introduction by General Jan Smuts to the history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa]. Sent with CHAR 2/124B/121.

Dates: 26 May 1922
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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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/51/7-13
Scope and Contents Letter from W H Shaw, port steward of the British Yukon Navigation Company (White Horse, Yukon Territory, Canada) to WSC praising him, David Lloyd-George and the Government generally for their measures "for the benefit of the struggling masses." He describes: the poor living conditions he experienced in Huddersfield [Yorkshire] before leaving about 27 years earlier and their bad effects on morality and on the fitness of men enlisting for the Army; his approval of the Government's land reform...
Dates: 08 Jan 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 May 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/52/23
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Letter from Louis Brennan (Brennan Factory, Gillingham, Kent] to WSC (Home Office) on his work to produce improved designs for the construction of his [monorail] cars in Germany. Signed typescript.

Dates: 16 May 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Feb 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/59/33
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Letter from Sir Bindon Blood (Dartmouth House, 2 Queen Anne's Gate, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his successful speech in Belfast [Ulster] and enclosing a memorandum and correspondence on the Trans-Persia [Iran] railway scheme [not present].

Dates: 09 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Jan 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/45
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Cutting from the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury" on the forthcoming discussion at the conference of the Royal Economic Society on railway nationalisation and the financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland.

Dates: 10 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), Apr 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/65/31
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Pamphlet: Particulars concerning the Bachelet Railway Company Sent with CHAR 2/65/30.

Dates: Apr 1915
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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(Untitled), 13 Mar 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/29/56
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Letter from John Morley [later Lord Morley] (India Office) to WSC on government funding [for Louis Brennan's gyroscopic monorail system].

Dates: 13 Mar 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Apr 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/30/7
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Letter from Louis Brennan (Woodland, Gillingham, Kent) to WSC announcing that the India Office have agreed to grant him (Brennan) £5000 and that the War Office will give him the use of the torpedo factory and other facilities for the development of his monorail system.

Dates: 11 Apr 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Apr 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/30/8
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Letter from John Morley [later Lord Morley (India Office) to WSC enjoining secrecy [? about the grant to Louis Brennan for his monorail system].

Dates: 15 Apr 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 May 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/30/38-40
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Telegram from Alfred Jones (Liverpool) to WSC congratulating him on his recent remarks about monopolies and reporting that he (Jones) is about to go to Manchester to meet Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and to discuss policy on the railways and cotton-growing.

Dates: 10 May 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Apr 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/34/38
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Letter from Frederick Verney MP (12 Connaught Place, Marble Arch, [London]) to WSC inviting him to a dinner at the House of Commons to be attended by David Lloyd George and managers and workers in the railway industry with an interest in Boards of Conciliation. Praises the remarks of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] about Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

Dates: 27 Apr 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 May 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/34/41-42
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Letter from Lord Churchill (Rolleston, Billesdon, Leicester) to WSC congratulating him [on his election for Dundee [Scotland]]. Refers to his experience on the board of the Great Western Railway, offers to provide information about the railways and urges WSC to meet the GWR's general manager.

Dates: 10 May 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Aug 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/35/12-13
Scope and Contents Letter from ? Paul Schoeberg (W.Behren-Strasse 62, [Berlin, Germany]) to WSC on: the copy of the life of Lord Randolph Churchill which WSC sent him; the current slowness of business being blamed by many people in England on free trade in Germany; the unpopularity in Turkey of the Dette Publique and the Regie des Tabacs and what the attitude of the "Powers" should be to this issue; Schoeberg's forthcoming trip to see the Baghdad Railway [Iraq]. Typescript copy of this letter at CHAR...
Dates: 13 Aug 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Dec 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/45-46
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC ([Blenheim]) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] on: 5th Lord Lansdowne's rejection of the suggestion that the House of Lords will reject the Budget Bill; the formulation of legislation on unemployment and infirmity insurance and labour exchanges; the need for some form of state control of the amalgamations of railway companies; the impending large government measures on finance and unemployment; the report of the Afforestation Commission. Copy in the hand of...
Dates: 26 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Dec 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/50-51
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] agreeing that Harold Tennant should replace Sir Hudson Kearley at the Board of Trade and enclosing the report of the trade unionists who went to Germany to study unemployment insurance and labour exchanges. Advocates following the German example with a large programme of social legislation to underpin existing voluntary agencies; in particular: labour exchanges and unemployed insurance, infirmity insurance, a...
Dates: 29 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Apr 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/45/85
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Letter from R V Vernon (Colonial Office) to Edward Marsh returning and commenting on a telegram received by WSC from the mayor of Larnaca [Cyprus] [see CHAR 2/45/86-87] on the Government's rejection of proposals for a railway between Larnaca and Nicosia, and enclosing a copy of a related despatch by Lord Crewe [see CHAR 2/45/90]. Signed typescript.

Dates: 15 Apr 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/45/86-87
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Telegram from the mayor of Larnaca [Cyprus] to WSC conveying the disappointment in Larnaca over the Government's rejection of proposals for a railway between Larnaca and Nicosia. Returned with CHAR 2/45/85.

Dates: 23 Apr 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Jan 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/45/90
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Despatch from Lord Crewe (Colonial Office) to [the High Commissioner of Cyprus] explaining why the Governmnent cannot support a scheme for a railway between Larnaca and Nicosia. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/45/85.

Dates: 28 Jan 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/70
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Letter from Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] (War Office) to WSC reporting that he is going to Aldershot [Hampshire] to examine the airship construction department there, and that he does not think the Government can usefully intervene in the deveopment of [Louis Brennan's] monorail system. States that he is ready to take up WSC's plan of a police territorial brigade.

Dates: 03 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/71
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Letter from General Sir William Nicholson [later Lord Nicholson] (War Office) to WSC on the shortcomings of [Louis] Brennan's monorail system.

Dates: 03 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/74-79
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Letter from F B Behr (20 Bury Street, St James's, [London]) to WSC (Home Office) describing the advantages of his monorail system over that of Louis Brennan. Encloses the prospectus for the Manchester and Liverpool Electric Railway Company [see CHAR 2/46/92-93]. Signed typescript annotated by WSC.

Dates: 07 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Nov 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/80-81
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Letter from S H Pollen (7 Embankment Gardens, [London]) explaining the shortcomings, from a commercial point of view, of Louis Brennan's monorail system. Signed typescript. Annotated that WSC replied on 27 Jan [1911].

Dates: 07 Nov 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1910]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/82-90
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Description by Louis Brennan of the technical and commercial development of his monorail system. Typescript.

Dates: [1910]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [c 1903]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/91
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Diagram of a passenger car for the Manchester and Liverpool Electric Express Railway.

Dates: [c 1903]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/92-93
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Prospectus of the Manchester and Liverpool Electric Express Railway Company. Printed. 6, [2p. Sent with CHAR 2/46/74-49].

Dates: 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open