Military equipment
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1412 Collections and/or Records:
Item
(Untitled), [11] [Dec] [1873]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/3/59-60
Scope and Contents
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Blenheim Palace) to Jennie [Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill] including discussion of the popularity of Lachand in France and a description of the shooting and entertainment at Blenheim for the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Dates:
[11] [Dec] [1873]
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers: Letters from Lord Randolph Churchill to Jennie Jerome [later Lady Randolph Churchill]. Includes material on their relationship and engagement, Lord Randolph's canvassing activities in Woodstock, Oxfordshire and the visit of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales to Blenheim Palace. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 22 Sep [1895]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/31/27
Scope and Contents
Letter from "Jack" [John S Churchill] (Harrow [School, Middlesex]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses celebrations for the reign of Queen [Victoria], comments on the roughness of WSC's voyage and reports that electricity has been installed.
Dates:
22 Sep [1895]
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), 24 Jan 1895
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/48/33-34
Scope and Contents
Letter from Albert Edward [Prince of Wales](Sandringham, Norfolk) to Lady Randolph [Churchill] in which he expresses sorrow at the news of [Lord] Randolph [Churchill's] death, comments on "the cloud" in their friendship, and says that he has asked [Sir] Francis [Knollys] to represent him at the funeral. Envelope present.
Dates:
24 Jan 1895
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 Jan 1888
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/46/27-28
Scope and Contents
Letter from Marie [Duchess of Edinburgh](Malta) to Lady Randolph [Churchill] in which she thanks her for her letters; apologises for not writing previously; asks whether Lady Randolph can now understand why she misses Russia; comments on the "monotonous and unanimated" British society; says that she would like to see Lord Randolph [Churchill] and that she has heard that Queen [Victoria] is furious that he has visited Russia; reports that she is entertaining Captain Maurice Bourke and that...
Dates:
13 Jan 1888
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers. Letters to Lady Randolph Churchill from Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh. Many of the letters contain several phrases in French. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 20 Mar 1896
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/46/29
Scope and Contents
Letter from Marie [Duchess of Edinburgh](London) to Lady Randolph [Churchill] in which she apologises for not replying to her note, says that she would love to see her and describes preparations for the marriage of her daughter [Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh to Ernst, 7th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg] and for a coronation.
Dates:
20 Mar 1896
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers. Letters to Lady Randolph Churchill from Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh. Many of the letters contain several phrases in French. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), [Jun] [1887]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/46/30
Scope and Contents
Letter from Marie [Duchess of Edinburgh](Osborne Cottage, East Cowes, Isle of Wight) to Lady Randolph [Churchill] asking whether she may bring [Prince Alfred of Edinburgh] to play with WSC and saying that she would like to hear some more of Lord Randolph [Churchill's] royal stories, commenting that [Queen Victoria] would not be pleased to hear that she was "encouraging a minister 'en disgrace'".
Dates:
[Jun] [1887]
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers. Letters to Lady Randolph Churchill from Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh. Many of the letters contain several phrases in French. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 1880s
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/46/42
Scope and Contents
Letter from Marie [Duchess of Edinburgh] to Lady Randolph [Churchill] in which she says that she will not be able to play the piano with her as she has to go to Windsor [Castle], that she has been ill, is looking forward to going to Cannes [France] and that she would like Lady Randolph to join her there and to "dispense" with her lady [in waiting].
Dates:
1880s
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers. Letters to Lady Randolph Churchill from Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh. Many of the letters contain several phrases in French. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Unknown
(Untitled), 05 Jan 1915
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 15/97/10-12
Scope and Contents
Typescript copy of a letter from WSC to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] agreeing with Colonel [Maurice] Hankey's comments on "special mechanical devices for taking trenches"; describing the impact of trench warfare on military theory and weapons; urging the deployment of steam tractors equipped with armoured shelters, trials of "shields on wheels", systematic use of artificial smoke, and stressing the importance of swift development and production of new weapons. Unsigned annotated with...
Dates:
05 Jan 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Visits and meetings, 1991-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/119
Scope and Contents
Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: visit to New York [United States], including texts of speeches by John Brademas, President of New York University; visit to Australia [cancelled]; visit to Waltham Forest housing developments, London; visit to Liverpool for Eric Heffer’s award of the freedom of the city; the launch of a biography of Mary Robinson, President of Ireland; a photocall with Vickers workers, including briefings on the replacement of the Chieftain...
Dates:
1991-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Unknown
"War Cabinet: Chiefs of Staff Committee: Weekly Resume (no.56) of the naval, military and air situation from 12 noon September to 12 noon September 26th, 1940", 27 Sep 1940
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/6/86-99
Scope and Contents
Summary of events including: attempted landing at Dakar by General [Charles] de Gaulle; U boat activity in the North Atlantic and shipping losses; operations by German raiders; information about the disposition of German and Italian troops; events in Greece, Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Bulgaria, the Mediterranean and the Middle East; air attacks on Germany (including Berlin) and on invasion ports in France and...
Dates:
27 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
War Cabinet Paper, 08 Dec 1940
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/4/11
Scope and Contents
Printed copy of a letter from WSC to President Roosevelt setting out the prospects for 1941 covering various subjects including: shared interests between Great Britain and the United States; the importance of sea and air power against Germany; reassurance about not requesting a large expeditionary army from the United States; the crucial importance of shipping to feed people and transport munitions and armies; shipping losses; battleship strength; the dangers posed by the Vichy French...
Dates:
08 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
War ideas: correspondence, 1939-01 - 1945-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/6/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] on LSA's ideas for holding Imperial War Cabinet meetings by wireless telephone or television [conference calls] and bomb disposal (2); Bernard Sendall, Admiralty; Major Ernest Belcher on improving fuel consumption in naval engines (6); Geoffrey Shakespeare [Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty] (2); Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd, Secretary for Mines; John Postlethwaite; Ashley Brown on problems with billeting...
Dates:
1939-01 - 1945-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.