Military equipment
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Found in 1412 Collections and/or Records:
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, Haile Selassie - Hearst., Mar 1958 - Dec 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/525
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Correspondents include: Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (7); Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone [earlier Quintin Hogg] (2); Joyce Hall, President of Hallmark Cards on subjects including the 'People to People' programme, gifts to WSC, a meeting with Hailsham, Oscar Nemon, the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the United States, a Churchill museum and a project to microfilm WSC's papers (25); Conrad Knickerbocker, Manager of Public Relations at Hallmark Cards on the loan of films to WSC (4);...
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Mar 1958 - Dec 1964
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence K., 03 Jan 1946 - 12 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/171
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Correspondents include: Edward Keeling; Rear Admiral Piers Kekewich on the funeral of Admiral Sir Max Horton; Sir Gerald Kelly, President, Royal Academy of Arts, on subjects including a speech by WSC and adverse press comment on the Academy (4); 1st Lord Kemsley [earlier Sir James Berry, Chairman, Kemsley Newspapers] on subjects including covering the General Election in Manchester, and supporting the Conservative Party (5); General George Kennedy, United States Air Force; Marina, Duchess of...
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03 Jan 1946 - 12 Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence L., 09 Jan 1949 - 22 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/172
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Correspondents include: George Lambert; Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] on the King's health (4); Simone de Lattre de Tassigny, thanking WSC for his sympathy on the death of her son; Greta Lauder on the death of Sir Harry Lauder (4); Evelyn Laye; 1st Lord Leathers on his inability to accept a ministerial position under a new Government (2); Sir Alexander Leith; Oliver Locker-Lampson on subjects including General Election strategy (9); "Edie", Edith, Lady Londonderry...
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09 Jan 1949 - 22 Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence M - Q., 31 Oct 1945 - 27 Jan 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/153A-B
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Correspondents include: William Mabane [Director, Kemsley Newspapers] asking if WSC could contribute to the Sunday Chronicle on United Europe and fears of a Socialist State; Marjorie Madan on publishing quotations from WSC (4); Stuart Mais on dedicating a book to WSC; 1st Lord Margesson; Louis Marin, member, French National Assembly; Reginald Marnham [WSC's neighbour] (4); Douglas Marshall, MP for Bodmin [Cornwall] conveying greetings from his constituency; John Martin [former Private...
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31 Oct 1945 - 27 Jan 1950
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence N - O., 03 May 1946 - 23 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/174
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Correspondents include: Margaret Nairn; Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (earlier Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands] on gifts of books from WSC (5); Queen Juliana of the Netherlands on making WSC godfather to her daughter (7); Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (3); CSC (2); Baron Adolph Bentinck [Minister of the Netherlands in London]; Michiels van Verduynen, Netherlands Ambassador to Britain (3); 6th Lord Clarendon [earlier Lord Hyde], Lord Chamberlain, on Queen Juliana's state...
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03 May 1946 - 23 Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence O - R., 01 Nov 1945 - 22 Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/164
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Correspondents include: Ridley Pakenham-Walsh [former literary assistant to WSC] on General Douglas MacArthur's view of WSC's achievement in holding back the Allied invasion of Europe; 5th Duke of Palmella, Portuguese Ambassador to Britain; George Paynter (3); 1st Lord Portal of Hungerford, President, Ex-Services Welfare Society; CSC on Portal; 1st Lord Portal of Laverstoke; 11th Lord Queensberry [earlier Lord Drumlanrig] on correspondence between WSC and Lord Alfred Douglas in his book...
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01 Nov 1945 - 22 Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, Pollock - Reeves., Dec 1951 - Nov 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/532A-B
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Correspondents include: Jean Pol Roger; Odette Pol Roger; [1st Lord] Portal of Hungerford; Henry Pownall; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh Protheroe-Smith on the anniversary of the Battle of Omdurman (9); Queen Elizabeth II thanking WSC for his messages (11); Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh [earlier Philip Mountbatten] (3); Edward, Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward Prince of Wales and Edward VIII] and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor [earlier Wallis Simpson]; Princess Margaret; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir...
Dates:
Dec 1951 - Nov 1964
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Ros - Ry., 01 Apr 1946 - 28 Aug 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/197
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Correspondents include: Alan Hodge, Joint Editor, History Today, on WSC writing the preface to a paper by 5th Lord Rosebery (3); 6th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord Dalmeny] on his father's papers (7); Lewis Rosenstiel on subjects including gifts of cigars and whisky for WSC (11); Bernard Baruch; 2nd Lord Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth, Chairman, Daily Mail] on subjects including WSC's retirement (5); Anthony de Rothschild; John Graham [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign...
Dates:
01 Apr 1946 - 28 Aug 1958
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Sa., 28 Apr 1948 - 12 Oct 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/198
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Correspondents include: Emir Zeid [Iraqi Ambassador to Britain]; [? Nourias Said, Prime Minister of Iraq]; 2nd Lord St Aldwyn [earlier Lord Quenington]; "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Leader of the House of Lords and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, on subjects including Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Salisbury himself being unable to continue at the Commonwealth Relations Office, the de-nationalization of steel, appointing a deputy Foreign...
Dates:
28 Apr 1948 - 12 Oct 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
Open except folios 14-16 which are closed under S37(1), S40 and S41(1) of the Freedom of Information Act on advice from the Cabinet Office. Review 2027.
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence T - Z., 29 Jan 1945 - 20 Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/157A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Robert Tasker; General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, apologizing for missing WSC's visit to Metz [France]; Charles Taylor [MP for Eastbourne]; Myron Taylor; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, MP for Hereford and Vice-Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Party] (3); "Tommy", Charles Thompson [former Personal Assistant to WSC] on subjects including applying for a post at the Jockey Club, and books and photographs for WSC (9); 6th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord...
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29 Jan 1945 - 20 Dec 1948
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence V - Z., 24 Jun 1951 - 10 Oct 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/202A-C
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Correspondents include: Sarita, Lady Vansittart on the death of 1st Lord Vansittart; Baron D van Lynden, Dutch Embassy, on a bust of WSC by Wilhelm Verbon for Rotterdam [the Netherlands] (4); Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch [earlier Margaret, Lady Dalkeith] on the bust (3); General Robert Astier de Villatte; Elaine [? Hunter, earlier Elaine Villiers and Elaine Guest]; Vivienne Entwistle, on photographs of WSC; Nathalie, Countess Volpi; Anthony Kendall [British Consul, Venice, Italy]; Lady...
Dates:
24 Jun 1951 - 10 Oct 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
Open except folio 421 which has been closed on the instructions of the Royal Archives under sections 40 and 41(1) of the Freedom of Information Act. Review 2027.
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence W - Z., 15 Nov 1945 - 26 Sep 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/178
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Correspondents include: Sir Cecil Wakeley, President, Royal College of Surgeons; [Alfred] Walford and Olive Walford (2); Sir Alexander Walker; Sophie, Lady Wavertree [Sophie Fisher] on subjects including racing and gifts of WSC's books (5); Sir Simon Marks; Sumner Welles; 16th Lady Wentworth [earlier Judith Blunt-Lytton]; "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster] (7); Sir Charles Davis, Lord Mayor of London; Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet] on a memorial...
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15 Nov 1945 - 26 Sep 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery., 15 Feb 1943 - 18 Nov 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/143
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Subjects include: Alamein dinners and reunions; Montgomery's book ["El Alamein to the River Sangro"]; pamphlets by Montgomery on military matters; bringing Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel to battle (February 1943); Montgomery's book "Ten Chapters"; political and military problems in post-war Egypt; mis-statements in Alan Moorehead's biography of Montgomery on WSC's part in the dismissal of Field-Marshal Archibald Wavell and in the D-Day landings; the mutual respect between WSC and Stalin;...
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15 Feb 1943 - 18 Nov 1957
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Public and Political: General: Rearmament: Plessey Company Limited., 05 May 1936 - 30 Oct 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/280
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Correspondents include: Herbert Williams on Allen Clark, [Joint Managing Director] of Plessey Company Limited (2); Allen Clark on his report of a visit to munitions works abroad, and Plessey's plans for a similar mortar- shell plant (7); Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh Elles [Master General of Ordnance] on Clark's report and armour-piercing bullet tests (2).Also includes: copy of Clark's report on his visit to munitions works in Germany, Switzerland and France; copies of correspondence by WSC...
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05 May 1936 - 30 Oct 1936
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Public and Political: General: Rearmament: Plessey Company Limited., 04 Mar 1937 - 19 Mar 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/309
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Correspondence between WSC and Allen Clark, Joint Managing Director of the Plessey Company Limited, on Plessey's installation of German munitions plants for the Air Ministry.Also includes: copy of a letter from WSC to Sir Thomas Inskip [Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, later 1st Lord Caldecote] on the Plessey plants.
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04 Mar 1937 - 19 Mar 1937
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Public and Political: General: Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm., 11 Feb 1936 - 21 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/272
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Lloyd [of Dolobran, President of the Navy League] on WSC speaking to the League (2); Sir John Thornycroft [President and Director, J I Thornycroft and Company Limited] on his firm's designs for an aircraft carrier and anti-submarine craft and cuts in the shipbuilding industry (with a description of the anti-submarine craft); Maitland Boucher [former member of the Naval Air Division] on meeting WSC about the Fleet Air Arm (3); Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald...
Dates:
11 Feb 1936 - 21 Dec 1936
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Public and Political: General: telegrams on the abdication crisis, mainly supporting WSC's stance, several from the Dominions, and a celebratory calendar of King Edward VIII [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, later the Duke of Windsor]., 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/599
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Correspondents include: Louis Bromfield; Sir Reginald Banks on New Zealand opinion; [Marion] Cran; Lieutenant-Colonel [Augustus] Duke; Therese and [Walter] Richard Sickert.Other subjects include: suggestions that WSC broadcast on the crisis to Australia or the United States; Edward's health.
Dates:
1936
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Public and Political: General: Various: Correspondence concerning historical events and documents., 1949 - 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/500
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Correspondents include: Charles Morgan, M P, with notes on WSC's founding of the Naval Division in 1914; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] with his recollections of WSC's exclusion from the "Sidney Herbert Committee" which opposed Neville Chamberlain and events surrounding the resignation of Anthony [Eden, later 1st Lord Avon] as Foreign Secretary (4); John Wheeler Bennett of the Foreign Office Library; Randolph Churchill requesting access to WSC's papers; Sir Norman Brook [later 1st...
Dates:
1949 - 1956
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Public and Political: General: Various Papers., Jul 1937 - May 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/335
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Papers and memoranda on various subjects, including: timetable of the Munich Crisis by Randolph Churchill; a note on the Anglo-Italian Agreement on Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]; printed extracts of speeches by Neville Chamberlain on British relations with Italy, 1935 - 9; pamphlet published by the Abyssinia Association, "Italy's Failure in Abyssinia"; extract from a speech by WSC on relations with Italy (5 November 1936, House of Commons); pamphlet by Arnold Wienholt, former member of the...
Dates:
Jul 1937 - May 1939
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Public and Political: General: Various: "War time tank production" Command paper (proofs)., 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/497
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Includes galley proofs of an official report entitled "Wartime tank production: reports by the Select Committee on National Expenditure and the replies to those reports by the government of the day" presented to Parliament by the Prime Minister and Minister of Defence [WSC]. The report covers subjects including: the provision of weapons for the army, arrangements at the War Office, and tank production.
Dates:
1946
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Paris, Brussels and Antwerp (November 1945)., 13 Oct 1945 - 04 Apr 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/222
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Correspondents on WSC's visit to France and Belgium include: 1st Lord Cunningham [Chief of Naval Staff] on transport for WSC (2); Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador to Belgium, on the risks of appearing to support Leopold, King of Belgium, WSC's speech to the Belgian Parliament, and the programme for the visit (9); Edward [Duke of Windsor, earlier Edward Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII]; 13th Lord Reay [earlier Aeneas Mackay], Foreign Office (3); Duff Cooper [later 1st...
Dates:
13 Oct 1945 - 04 Apr 1946
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Public and political: papers relating to the Tank Awards Committee and the investigation into the invention of tanks by the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors., 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/109
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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:
1919
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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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Public and Political: Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trading in Arms., 07 Nov 1935 - 25 Feb 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/281
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Correspondents include: Desmond Morton, Director, Industrial Intelligence Centre; Charles Tennyson [Secretary, Dunlop Rubber Company Limited].Also includes: copies of papers on a reported German move to capture the world armaments trade, and France's armaments programme and plans for industrial mobilisation, including a translated report on the reorganization of the departments in the French War Ministry dealing with armaments; copy of minutes from the Royal Commission of evidence given by...
Dates:
07 Nov 1935 - 25 Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
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Regional visits: Vickers Defence Systems, 1988-10 - 1988-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 3/3/10
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Briefings for and correspondence on NK’s visit to the Vickers factory in Leeds [Yorkshire], including a brief on the Challenger tank as a replacement for the Chieftain, a report from the House of Commons Defence Committee on defence procurement, issues of Hansard including defence debates.
Dates:
1988-10 - 1988-12
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From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Shall we all commit suicide?", Sep 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/200B/202-206
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Press cutting of article by WSC published in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, illustrated with a portrait photograph of WSC. Covers progress and developments in knowledge, technology and science and their use in World War I; the potential for extermination of the human race; possibility of another war in Europe; speculation on the development of explosive weapons "Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power", and of pilot-less aircraft, chemical and biological...
Dates:
Sep 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
Open