Military equipment
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Public and political: correspondence and other papers relating to the invention of the tank., 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/143
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
1925
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From the Fonds:
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Public and Political: General: Abdication of Edward VIII: American press cuttings., 12 Apr 1936 - 04 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/265
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings on the abdication of King Edward VIII [earlier Edward Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor] and his marriage to Wallis Simpson [later Wallis, Duchess of Windsor], from United States' and Canadian newspapers, including the New York Journal, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Examiner, the Kansas City Star, the Topeka State Journal and Hush.
Dates:
12 Apr 1936 - 04 Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Abdication of Edward VIII: Correspondence and memoranda., 02 Jul 1936 - 18 Jul 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/264
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Walter Monckton [former Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, and Duke of Windsor] (2); King Edward on subjects including military ceremonies before the Abdication Crisis, an attack on himself by [George Andrew McMahon] and his gratitude to WSC (6); Amy Guest; Josiah Wedgwood; Robert Boothby on subjects including harm done to the King's cause and WSC himself by WSC's actions, WSC's political enemies, and the possibility of Windsor returning...
Dates:
02 Jul 1936 - 18 Jul 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Air Defence: Deputations to the Prime Minister., 21 Jul 1936 - 21 Jan 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/270
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Correspondents include: Clement Attlee [Leader of the Opposition] refusing to join the deputations to the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin; Osmund Cleverly [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]; Henry Pownall [Deputy Secretary], Committee of Imperial Defence; Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary], Committee of Imperial Defence] (2).Also includes: extracts from the transcript of the first deputation, including [?] WSC on the Government's failure to expand the air industry and the RAF...
Dates:
21 Jul 1936 - 21 Jan 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Air Defence: Wing-Commander Anderson., 20 May 1936 - 24 Nov 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/271
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Correspondence and notes from Wing-Commander Charles Anderson, Director of Training, Air Ministry, later commander of RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, including: RAF personnel statistics; notes on training Air Observers; a memorandum on RAF training policy in general, including morale, the RAF's function, its readiness for war, reserves, funding, the dangers of over-specialization, the problems of rapid expansion, the shortage and increase in training schools, and specialised training;...
Dates:
20 May 1936 - 24 Nov 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Air Defence: Wing Commander Anderson., 27 Jan 1937 - 07 Jul 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/303
Scope and Contents
Includes notes, memoranda and correspondence by and from Wing Commander Charles Anderson [former Director of Training, Air Ministry] and commander of RAF Hucknall [Nottinghamshire], including: Anderson on RAF intake, obsolete armaments and aircraft, poor facilities, the retirement of Air Chief Marshal Sir John Steel, the difficulties arising from expansion of the RAF, a mass flight over London, German war economics, and building up the RAF Reserve; correspondence and notes by Group Captain...
Dates:
27 Jan 1937 - 07 Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Air Defence: Wing Commander Anderson., 22 Oct 1935 - 23 Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/304
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Includes notes, memoranda and correspondence from and by Wing Commander Charles Anderson [former Director of Training, Air Ministry] and commander of RAF Hucknall [Nottinghamshire] and Group Captain Lachlan MacLean, including: Anderson on the RAF's lack of inspiration and poor morale, new Home Commands organization and levels of debt among RAF officers; MacLean on subjects including the shortcomings of aircraft, aircraft production and maintenance, officer levels, air defence exercises,...
Dates:
22 Oct 1935 - 23 Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Coronation Committee., 1911 - Jul 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/596
Scope and Contents
Correspondents concerning the Privy Council Coronation Committee and arrangements for the coronations of [King Edward VIII, earlier Edward Prince of Wales and later Duke of Windsor (whose coronation did not take place) and King George VI] include: Eric Leadbitter, Senior Clerk of the Privy Council Office (2); Maurice Hankey [Cabinet Secretary]; Osmund Cleverly, Private Secretary to Prime Minister, appointing WSC as a member of the Privy Council Coronation Committee (2); Charles te Water,...
Dates:
1911 - Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General Correspondence., 01 Jan 1936 - 29 Feb 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/251
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates:
01 Jan 1936 - 29 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 17 Nov 1936 - 26 Feb 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/294
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [President, League of Nations Union, earlier Lord Robert Cecil] on signatories to [?] a declaration by the union; Marie Belloc Lowndes [Marie Lowndes] on the effect of the press campaign by William Randolph Hearst on behalf of the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor [earlier Wallis Simpson] during the Abdication Crisis; Yvonne de Rothschild, asking WSC to support an appeal for...
Dates:
17 Nov 1936 - 26 Feb 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 10 Jan 1935 - 30 Jun 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/296A-B
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Correspondents include: Carl Bechhofer Roberts on subjects including his biography of WSC, and particularly the Abdication Crisis [of King Edward VIII, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor] (2); Ivy, Lady Chamberlain; Cosmo Lang [Archbishop of Canterbury]; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, on a speech by WSC in a foreign affairs debate, and his tribute to the Foreign Office; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [President, League of Nations Union, earlier Lord...
Dates:
10 Jan 1935 - 30 Jun 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 13 Apr 1937 - 05 Aug 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/297
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Correspondents include: Clifford Norton [Private Secretary to the Permanent Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on the Samy family, former Sultans of Turkey (2); Prince M Bahaeddin Samy asking WSC for help on his family's position, and the Turkish succession (3); Sir Josiah Stamp [Chairman, London, Midland and Scottish Railway]; Sir Montague Burton, asking WSC to write the foreword to his book "Globe Girdling"; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil], President of...
Dates:
13 Apr 1937 - 05 Aug 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 11 Dec 1935 - 30 Sep 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/298
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Robert Cary on his attempt to visit the Maginot Line [France] (2); 1st Lord Iliffe, President, National Advertising Benevolent Society; Basil Liddell Hart [personal adviser to the Secretary of State for War]; Major-General Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt [Military Attache, Paris, France]; 1st Lord Mottistone [earlier John Seely]; King Haakon VII of Norway; Sir Hubert Young [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia] on subjects including the...
Dates:
11 Dec 1935 - 30 Sep 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 12 Dec 1938 - 27 Feb 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/357A-B
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Correspondents include: Laura, Lady Lovat (3); Bernard Baruch (3); Ian Roy, Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs; 1st Lord Hailey [former Director of the African Research Survey]; "Edward" [Lord Halifax, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] on a meeting of the Focus in Defence of Freedom and Peace (2); Sir Henry Fildes; Vice-Amiral Paul Guepratte; Hugh Fraser; Vice-Admiral Kenneth Dewar on his book "The Navy from Within" (5);...
Dates:
12 Dec 1938 - 27 Feb 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: correspondence congratulating WSC on becoming Prime Minister., May 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/405
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Correspondents include: Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood], Secretary of State for Air; [1st] Lord Nuffield [earlier William Morris]; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Forbes, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, also on Norway and naval forces; Lieutenant-General Sir William Furse; Lord Stanley of Alderley [later 6th Lord Sheffield, earlier Edward Stanley]; General [Alphonse] Georges; Samuel Hammersley also on tanks; [1st] Lord Greenwood; Austin Hudson [Civil Lord of the Admiralty];...
Dates:
May 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: correspondence from the general public on the abdication crisis, A-K, mainly supporting WSC's stance., Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/597A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Gerald Bullett on King Edward VIII's [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, later the Duke of Windsor] statements; [Robert] Kenneth Bowes on the views of the "younger generation"; Christopher Addison; Phyllis Forbes Dennis (Phyllis Bottome); Charles Franklyn, Honorary Assistant Editor of Burke's Landed Gentry; [Herbert] Stanley Jevons on matters including Labour attitudes; Bernard Wright. Also includes: note by WSC's secretary [Violet] Pearman; "The truth about the crisis"...
Dates:
Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: correspondence from the general public on the abdication crisis, L-Z, mainly supporting WSC's stance., Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/598A-B
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Correspondents include: ?[Oliver Locker-Lampson] sending on a letter; [John] Walton Newbold; [Arthur] Nicholson on the constitutional position; Stephen Taylor offering to stand in north Lambeth [London] for WSC and the King [Edward VIII, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, later the Duke of Windsor]; [Harold] Hamel Smith, Editor of Tropical Life and Stockfarming, sending on a letter from him to the Daily Mirror on comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury [Cosmo Lang].Other subjects include:...
Dates:
Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence N-Z., 1880 - Jun 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/576A-C
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Correspondents include: [Sir] Walton Newbold on economic issues; Harold Nicolson; Terence O'Connor on subjects including wireless broadcasting, Ireland and WSC's attacks on his speech; Sir Michael O'Dwyer; Herman Ould on the role of John Galsworthy's play "Justice" on prison reform; Edward Marsh on subjects including submarine campaigns (3); [Thomas] Guy Paget; [1st Lord] Portsea [earlier Bertram Falle]; [Frederick] Ponsonby [later 1st Lord Sysonby] on a libel case and distress to King...
Dates:
1880 - Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: correspondence on gifts to WSC, A-E. [please note the majority of the file dates from 1943]., Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/486
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Correspondents include: [Guy] Millard of the Foreign Office on matters concerning gifts from abroad (2); General Sir Reginald Wingate, President of the Friends of the Fighting Forces, on the Friends' Chairman delivering a present of sweaters from the Philadelphia (United States) branch; Reverend [Percy] Middleton Brumwell sending a brochure on the Royal Army Chaplains Department [not included]; Thomas Hunter on a paper weight from a constituent; [Arthur] Clark [Private Secretary to the...
Dates:
Nov 1941 - Dec 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Defence., 08 Jan 1938 - [1940]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/336
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on defence issues include: 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffry FitzClarence] (2); Robert Cary on developments in Japanese naval armaments and the implications for Singapore; Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, on WSC's notes on aircraft types (2); Sir Henry Strakosch (3); F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] on Strakosch's figures for the air raids on Barcelona [Spain]; [Eric] John Hodsoll [Inspector-General], Home Office ARP Department, on the state of the ARP programme,...
Dates:
08 Jan 1938 - [1940]
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Defence: Correspondence and papers., 09 Jan 1937 - 23 Feb 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/302
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Correspondents include: Sir Philip Gibbs on the inefficiency of the RAF; Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt [former Vice-President of the Tank Board] (2); Sir William Beveridge [Director of London School of Economics and Political Science]; Oswald Frewen on working with German and Italian sailors, German fanaticism, Italian aid to Franco and how the policies of Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister] encourage Germany and Italy; Leo Amery; Basil Liddell Hart; Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson...
Dates:
09 Jan 1937 - 23 Feb 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Defence: Correspondence etc., 12 Jan 1936 - 27 Nov 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/266A-B
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Correspondents include: Basil Liddell Hart [Military Correspondent to the Times] on the troop system used in India; "Harold R" [1st Lord Rothermere, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on subjects including 1st Lord Weir's position in defence [as Adviser to the Air Ministry], the likely stop to any battleship programme, pilot training, the likelihood of a quick German victory against Britain and France, German contempt for the British Government, and the Government's refusal to discuss the...
Dates:
12 Jan 1936 - 27 Nov 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, (folio 93 opened as a 'sanitised' photocopy, original closed on advice of Cabinet Office).
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Public and Political: General: Defence: Correspondence etc., 09 Feb 1920 - 28 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/267
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Correspondents include: Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt [Military Attache, Paris, France] on WSC's visit to see French military manoeuvres at Aix-en-Provence and the Maginot Line (2); "George L" [1st Lord Lloyd of Dolobran]; Alan Herbert, introducing Major-General Sir Percy Hobart [Inspector, Royal Tank Corps, and Commander, Tank Brigade] (2); Desmond Morton on subjects including meeting the representative of the Spanish Nationalists, the Marques del Moral, Communist atrocities in Spain, the...
Dates:
09 Feb 1920 - 28 Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Defence: Inventions and suggestions., Nov 1935 - 31 Jul 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/278
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on defence inventions and suggestions from the general public include: Richard Powell [Assistant Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty] (3); Desmond Morton [Director, Industrial Intelligence Centre]; Sir Christopher Bullock [Permanent Secretary], Air Ministry; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Colonel George Turner [former Superintendent, Design Department, Royal Arsenal]; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Thoroton on the advantages of Admiralty control of the...
Dates:
Nov 1935 - 31 Jul 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Public and Political: General: Defence: Inventions and suggestions., 09 Mar 1936 - 31 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/279
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Correspondents on defence inventions and suggestions from the general public include: K N Coates [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence] (4); Vernon Bovenizer, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War (2); [Edward] Jerome Dyer; Harry Sellar [Private Secretary to the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence] (2); P Warburton, [Assistant Secretary], Committee of Imperial Defence (4); Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Elles, Master General of the...
Dates:
09 Mar 1936 - 31 Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open