Unemployment
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 269 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), Feb 1930
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/89
Scope and Contents
Supplement to the "Ministry of Labour Gazette" containing graphs illustrating labour statistics.
Dates:
Feb 1930
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), 01 Mar 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/93-97
Scope and Contents
Letter and statement from J H Wilson (Lord Privy Seal's Office) to WSC giving an analysis of recent unemployment figures in the cotton industry and other trades.
Dates:
01 Mar 1930
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), Dec 1927 - Apr 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/187/142
Scope and Contents
Table showing the relation between falling prices of commodities and decrease of employment.
Dates:
Dec 1927 - Apr 1932
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), May 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/170/14-28
Scope and Contents
Weekly unemployment figures since 1921 issued by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations to show the worsening position under Labour.
Dates:
May 1930
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), 26 May 1930 - 06 Jun 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/170/69
Scope and Contents
Syllabus of a conference course on unemployment and local government at Bonar Law College, Ashridge, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
Dates:
26 May 1930 - 06 Jun 1930
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), 16 Dec 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/170/78
Scope and Contents
"Parliamentary Debates" in the House of Commons, including discussion of the Unemployment Insurance (No 2) Bill.
Dates:
16 Dec 1929
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), 16 Oct 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/164/54-56
Scope and Contents
Letter from David Lloyd George (25 Old Queen Street, Westminster, London) to WSC arguing that the Government have gained great strength from the praise it has received, assessing the Government's prospects with regard to unemployment, the coal industry and the economic situation, criticising [Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] for promoting division in the Conservative Party, expressing the wish to discuss the political situation with WSC and stressing the need for the anti-Socialist...
Dates:
16 Oct 1929
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), 26 Feb 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/40
Scope and Contents
Minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on labour policy, training, and unemployed manpower. [Copies; given running numbers 245a and 245B].
Dates:
26 Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 21 Sep 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/257/6
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC [on board the Queen Mary returning to Britain from the United States] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire 294" and "Personal and Top Secret" referring to [Attlee's] "Cordite 381 (1) Para. (3)" and stating that he considers it of the "greatest importance" that soldiers [who may be transferred to the Far East following the end of hostilities in Europe] are assured that they will be given "special unprecedented treatment" in terms of...
Dates:
21 Sep 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: WSC's Personal Telegrams from Quebec [Canada] ("Octagon"). [arranged in reverse chronological order; with some later notes by WSC and his literary assistant Denis Kelly from the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/257/21-22
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC [in North America] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] and others concerned marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire No. 231" and "Personal and Top Secret" referring to "Cordite 159" and commenting on arrangements for the release of service personnel, drawing particular attention to the problem of men serving in the Far East and their probability of reemployment in the labour market, and the imprecise nature of the benefits to be given to personnel not serving in the...
Dates:
17 Sep 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Official: Prime Minister
/
Official: Prime Minister: WSC's Personal Telegrams from Quebec [Canada] ("Octagon"). [arranged in reverse chronological order; with some later notes by WSC and his literary assistant Denis Kelly from the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"].
Unknown
(Untitled), 17 Apr 1929
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/238/18-41
Scope and Contents
Minutes of Cabinet meeting recording Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, outlining his forthcoming speech about government policy; discussion of the government's reply to a speech by Philip Snowden [later Lord Snowden] about the Balfour Note and repayment of war debts; negotiations with the United States on reduction and limitation of armaments, the proposed Baghdad [Iraq]- Haifa [Israel]; chemical warfare policy; the political situation in Iraq and negotiations with King Feisal; policy on...
Dates:
17 Apr 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 12 Apr 1912
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/9/3
Scope and Contents
Admiralty memorandum to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on alterations to HMS Lion; also suggesting that work should be given to the yards at Devonport [Devon], because of the political damage arising from the laying-off of men there.
Dates:
12 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 16 Nov 1924
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/64-66
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Chartwell) to Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] querying figures: reduced revenue from McKenna duties; whether increased consumption and taxation have been accompanied by increased production and depletion of capital reserves; whether levels of saving have been reduced given the rise in unemployment. He concludes by asking Hamilton to forecast figures.Typescript signed with initials annotated by WSC "Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury]...
Dates:
16 Nov 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 22 Feb 1925
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/12A/96-99
Scope and Contents
Minute from WSC to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance] marked "private and confidential" querying statements made by Niemeyer about the gap between Britain and the United States, bank rates and the 1.25 million unemployed, remarking "while that unemployment exists, no one is entitled to plume himself on the financial or credit policy which we have pursued".Carbon typescript.
Dates:
22 Feb 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 20 Apr 1927
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/71/10-16
Scope and Contents
Memorandum from WSC to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] on the economic position of Germany and Great Britain and the negative impact of the rigid policy of the Bank of England, high taxation, poor trade and high unemployment. WSC argues that the policy is unsatisfactory on social, industrial and political grounds; that Germany is in a healthier economic state and that the allies may need to reduce the reparations burden on Germany and that misleading conclusions will be...
Dates:
20 Apr 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 29 May 1928
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/72
Scope and Contents
Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] on opposition amendments to the Finance Bill, seeking figures to show that the majority of the relief will go to the industries where profits are lowest and unemployment is highest.Carbon typescript. Unsigned.
Dates:
29 May 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 27 Mar 1929
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/101/34-41
Scope and Contents
Covering letter from Harold Macmillan [[later 1st Lord Stockton](Macmillan and Co Ltd, St Martin's Street, London) to WSC enclosing his handwritten notes about the election including arguments to counter [David] Lloyd George's plans for government efforts to deal with unemployment by encouraging industry to employ more men. He suggests a slogan "Modernization at Home. Markets Abroad"; and suggests that the railways and telephones should be modernised, that an Economic General Staff under...
Dates:
27 Mar 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 05 Dec 1887
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/8/49
Scope and Contents
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] including the end of excitement in the French Chamber at the election of the new president; a meeting about the unemployed in [South] Paddington [London] which resulted in the establishment of a relief fund; his intention to see WSC when he visits Brighton [East Sussex] and an outline of his planned itinerary.
Dates:
05 Dec 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 and telegrams from Lord Randolph Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill. Several items relate to Lord Randolph's visit to Africa. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
File
Wales Labour Party conference, Llandudno, 1991-05-17
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/164
Scope and Contents
NK's speech to the conference, on subjects including: Labour's success in the previous day's Monmouth by-election; Labour gains in the local elections, particularly in Wales; the Government's record on unemployment and the economy; inflation; the state of industry; the need for community support; Labour's plans for taxation and public spending; Conservative tax rises.
Dates:
1991-05-17
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Series:
Access copies available.