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Found in 709 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: Cabinet: papers 180 - 200., 30 Jun 1924 - 08 Apr 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/33
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on the teachers' salary awards of [1st] Lord Burnham [Chairman of the Standing Joint Committees of Education Authorities and Teachers], and on Church Schools; a copy of the Burnham Report; a survey by William Strang [1st Secretary, Foreign Office] on the economic situation of the Soviet Union; Sir William Joynson-Hicks, [later 1st Lord Brentford] Home Secretary, on...
Dates:
30 Jun 1924 - 08 Apr 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 201 to 220., Jul 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/161
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Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the position of the heavy steel industry; the report of a committee on the representation of the British government in the dominions including notes on the situations in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; a report on affairs in the Soviet Union; the Committee of...
Dates:
Jul 1927
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Official: Cabinet: papers 210 - 219., 24 Jan 1925 - 02 May 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/35
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on the Factories Bill and the Washington [United States] Hours Convention; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on International Labour Policy; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, on the position of aliens and immigrants under the Widows and Orphans Bill; the report of departmental representatives on the Conference...
Dates:
24 Jan 1925 - 02 May 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 221 - 234., 10 Jul 1928 - 16 Jul 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/202
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple], Minister of Transport, on railways bills; Sir John Gilmour, Secretary of State for Scotland, on a bill relating to the slaughter of animals in Scotland; Arthur Balfour, Lord President of the Council, on proposals by the United States for the renunciation of war; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on...
Dates:
10 Jul 1928 - 16 Jul 1928
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Official: Cabinet: papers 246 to 270., Sep 1927 - Nov 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/163
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Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: an account of the proceedings of the Trade Union Congress; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the trade outlook and poor economic situation including details of various industries, exports and colonial trade and on mining subsidies; special reports on unemployment; [1st] Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor, on the transport of troops between Great...
Dates:
Sep 1927 - Nov 1927
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Official: Cabinet: papers 276 - 300., 26 Sep 1928 - 15 Oct 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/205
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on church schools; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on future British garrisons in China; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including reparations and war debts, unemployment insurance in Northern Ireland and the reduction of armaments; Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple], Minister of Transport, on railway freight relief...
Dates:
26 Sep 1928 - 15 Oct 1928
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Official: Cabinet: papers 301 - 325., 12 Oct 1928 - 02 Nov 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/206
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on church schools; [1st] Lord Cushendun [earlier Ronald McNeill], Acting Foreign Secretary, on the renewal of arbitration treaties; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on the functions of dominion ministers and the title of His Majesty's Government; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board...
Dates:
12 Oct 1928 - 02 Nov 1928
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Official: Cabinet: papers 340 - 359., 09 Feb 1926 - 25 Oct 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/102
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: a letter from the National Confederation of Employers Organization on the coal dispute; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions, on the status of the Union of South Africa, and as Secretary of State for the Colonies, on rubber exports restriction; James Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, on status; Harry Batterbee [Assistant Secretary], Dominions Office, on the dominions' claims to seats on the...
Dates:
09 Feb 1926 - 25 Oct 1926
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Official: Cabinet: papers 351 - 380., 19 Nov 1928 - 03 Dec 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/208
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on the reduction of British forces in China and the China Boxer indemnity; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including the limitation of naval armaments, Anglo-American relations and the fighting services estimates; [1st Lord] Cushendun [earlier Ronald McNeill] Acting Foreign Secretary, on the limitation of naval armaments and Anglo American relations;...
Dates:
19 Nov 1928 - 03 Dec 1928
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Official: Cabinet: papers 400 - 428., 30 Mar 1926 - 29 Dec 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/105
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury], on the possible reduction of the British Army of Occupation in the Rhineland [Germany]; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet; extracts from the draft minutes of the Committee of Imperial Defence on South West Arabia and Egypt; draft instructions to Miles Lampson [later 1st Lord Killearn], British Minister-designate at Peking [later Beijing, China]; 1st Lord...
Dates:
30 Mar 1926 - 29 Dec 1926
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Official: Cabinet: papers 401 - 429., 24 Oct 1924 - 21 Oct 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/43
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Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: the Board of Trade Advisory Council's monthly review of the trade outlook; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith], Secretary of State for India, on the position at Canton [later Guangzhou, China]; Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on Turkey's position over the Iraq frontier, and the German attitude to security negotiations; Joseph Caillaux, the French Minister of Finance, on the French war debt to Britain; William...
Dates:
24 Oct 1924 - 21 Oct 1925
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Official: Cabinet: papers 479 - 499., 05 Jul 1923 - 19 Nov 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/20
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: 1st Lord Olivier [Secretary for India] on action intended on the report of the Royal Commission (Lord Lee's) [1st Lord Lee of Fareham] on the Superior Civil Services in India; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet, on Cabinet procedure and the composition of the Home Affairs Committee and the Unemployment Committee; instructions to the Secretary of the Cabinet; a note on the constitution and terms of reference of...
Dates:
05 Jul 1923 - 19 Nov 1924
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Official: Cabinet: papers and correspondence., 11 Mar 1920 - 21 Apr 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/5
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Correspondents include: Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal].Also includes: a memorandum by Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India, with a telegram from Sir Percy Cox [High Commissioner in Mesopotamia, later Iraq] on railway policy in Mesopotamia; a draft telegram by [WSC] on preserving freedom of naval action in Singapore; a memorandum on changes in recent Russian trade agreements; memoranda on imperial exchange and currencies by Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Minister of Pensions, Leo...
Dates:
11 Mar 1920 - 21 Apr 1921
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Official: Cabinet: printed papers., 02 Feb 1911 - 31 Aug 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/26
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Cabinet papers on various subjects including: the deposition given by the Sultan of Zanzibar [Tanzania]; an "all British" route between the United Kingdom and Canada; legal precedents relating to the King appearing in court as a witness [relating to a libel case involving King George V]; the mental infirmity bill; report on national expenditure; the treatment of the feeble minded; labour exchanges and the Dominions; unemployment insurance; a new Science Museum in South Kensington [London];...
Dates:
02 Feb 1911 - 31 Aug 1911
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Official: Cabinet: printed papers on World War I., Jun 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/39
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Cabinet papers by various individuals on various subjects including: WSC on the war situation including the Dardanelles; Walter Runciman [President of the Board of Trade] on food supplies to Germany and the effects on diminished exports; the effects of an air raid on London; national registration and military service; the supply of information to neutral countries; negotiations with the French; Sir William Max-Muller on the economic situation of Germany and Austria-Hungary; literary...
Dates:
Jun 1916
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Official: Cabinet: Standing Committee on Expenditure: conclusions 7 - 11., 17 Nov 1925 - 30 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/50
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Subjects include: the grant for marketing Empire foodstuffs in Britain; Ministry of Labour provisional estimates (1926-1927) for unemployment insurance and training ex-service men; provision for unemployment relief; admission fees for national galleries and museums; Board of Trade provisional estimates (1926-1927); Ministry of Health services; the Navy, Army and Air Force Insurance Fund; the Road Fund; public opinion on the economy; the National Health Insurance Fund; Post Office estimates;...
Dates:
17 Nov 1925 - 30 Dec 1925
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Official: Cabinet: Standing Committee on Expenditure: Papers 13 - 27., 10 Feb 1925 - 17 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/52
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Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on marketing Empire foodstuffs in Britain; extracts from speeches by Leo Amery, WSC, (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Stanley Baldwin, (Prime Minister), and from a meeting of the Council of Agriculture, on Empire foodstuffs; a Treasury memorandum on admission fees for national galleries and museums; a Treasury and Board of Education statement on the reduction of Education...
Dates:
10 Feb 1925 - 17 Dec 1925
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Official: Cabinet: Unemployment Committee: Conclusions (CU) 79 - 82., 11 Nov 1924 - 19 Dec 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/24
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Conclusions of meetings of the Unemployment Committee on the following subjects: the Unemployment Grants Committee; gas and electricity statutory orders; the Trade Facilities Committee; the Ministry of Transport's new road and bridge programme; the current position of unemployment; assistance to shipbuilding; the Severn Barrage Scheme; the dockyards and unemployment; building trade labour; Post Office works; assistance to public utilities, including railways; the Leith [Edinburgh, Scotland]...
Dates:
11 Nov 1924 - 19 Dec 1924
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Official: Cabinet: Unemployment Committee: papers 724 - 737., 09 Jan 1925 - 27 Apr 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/71
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Includes papers from various individuals on unemployment, including: a Ministry of Labour report on the "Black Country" [Staffordshire] reclamation scheme; Charles Rey, Secretary to the Unemployment Grants Committee, on works for unemployment relief, 1925-1926; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on Scottish oil shale mines; Sir John Gilmour, Secretary for Scotland; a Scottish Board of Health memorandum on the...
Dates:
09 Jan 1925 - 27 Apr 1925
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Official: Cabinet: Unemployment Committee: papers 741 - 754., 15 Apr 1925 - 25 Jun 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/72
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Includes papers from various individuals on unemployment, including: 1st Lord Aberconway [earlier Charles M'Laren] on extending the Trade Facilities Acts; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on subsidies to reduce unemployment; Mines Department memoranda on subsidised employment in the coal industry; a Ministry of Labour memorandum on unemployment relief in Germany; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of...
Dates:
15 Apr 1925 - 25 Jun 1925
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Official: Cabinet: Unemployment Committee: papers 755 - 766., 23 Jun 1925 - 16 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/73
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Includes papers from various individuals on unemployment, including: Sir John Gilmour, Secretary for Scotland, on land drainage relief schemes; a Department of Overseas Trade report on the export credits scheme, and a note on agricultural machinery for Argentina; Wilfrid Ashley, Minister of Transport, on additional road and bridge schemes for the relief of unemployment; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour; Sir Alfred Mond [later 1st Lord Melchett] on subsidies for unemployment...
Dates:
23 Jun 1925 - 16 Dec 1925
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Official: Cabinet: Unemployment Committee: Papers (CU) 704 - 723., 07 Jul 1924 - 16 Dec 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/25
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Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Charles Rey, Secretary to the Unemployment Grants Committee, on the work of the committee, and relief of the unemployed, winter 1924-1925; the third (interim) report of the proceedings of the Unemployment Grants Committee; Wilfrid Ashley, Minister of Transport, on the current position of the programme of road works for relief of the unemployed, electrical development, and the ability of the road fund to finance further...
Dates:
07 Jul 1924 - 16 Dec 1924
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Official: Cabinet: War Policy Committee: statements., 19 Aug 1915 - 23 Aug 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/58
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Includes 2 copies of statements by: Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, on numbers of people employed in services "of national importance", the employment of women in the railway industry and the extent of enlistment from the industrial classes; Walter Long, President of the Local Government Board, on the use of the national register to recall skilled men from the army for munitions work and on compulsory service; and Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on economic...
Dates:
19 Aug 1915 - 23 Aug 1915
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Official: Colonial Office: All Red Route: papers., 1907 - 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/52
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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...
Dates:
1907 - 1908
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Official: Colonial Office: Colonial Office and Committee of Imperial Defence: printed papers (where indicated items have been prepared by WSC)., Oct 1904 - Nov 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/3
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Includes a report of a meeting of the Inter-departmental Council on Military Rewards; the Colonial Defence Committee constitution and work, 1885-1904; and papers prepared by Colonial Office officials on the constitution of responsible government in the Transvaal [South Africa] (WSC), the introduction of Chinese labour into the Transvaal, the political views of Johannesburg [South Africa] Town Council, the corporal punishment of Chinese labourers, the position of the British South Africa...
Dates:
Oct 1904 - Nov 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.