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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes and typescript., 05 Jun 1931 - 31 Oct 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/97
Scope and Contents Memorandum by WSC (5 June, Select Committee on Procedure on Public Business) on forming a non-political Economic Sub-Parliament.Speech notes and typescript (10 June, Folkestone, Kent), entitled "India (Government Policy) on the Gateshead by-election [County Durham], the Labour Government's record, the need for Conservatives to have a separate policy on India, British interests in India and the Cawnpore Riots. Source material includes a press cutting from the Times on the Round Table...
Dates: 05 Jun 1931 - 31 Oct 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, source material, typescript and press cuttings., 04 May 1923 - 03 Nov 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/70A-B
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (2 July 1924, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Centenary dinner, Hotel Cecil, London). Source material includes notes on the founding of the service, modern lifeboats, typical rescues and funding. Published: Complete Speeches IV p 3463 (part).Speech notes for WSC's speech (17 July 1924, Association of Advertising Clubs of the World Convention, Wembley, London), on the cause of depression in trade and consumption, and the need for advertising to strengthen...
Dates: 04 May 1923 - 03 Nov 1924
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, typescript and press cuttings., 04 May 1923 - 08 Dec 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/67
Scope and Contents Typescript for WSC's speech (4 May, Aldwych Club luncheon, London), entitled "The political scene at a distance" on the Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law's breaking of the coalition, the risk of party strife letting in the Labour Party, the British constitution and the results of a Labour Government. Published: Complete Speeches IV pp 3381 - 3388. Speech notes at CHAR 9/70/124-147.Speech notes for WSC's speech (16 November, Free Trade Hall, Manchester), entitled "Free Trade", on the...
Dates: 04 May 1923 - 08 Dec 1923
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, typescript and press cuttings., 19 Feb 1930 - 25 Dec 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/91A-B
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (19 February, 1900 Club) on the failure of the Labour Government, a 3 party General Election, the Labour and Liberal alliance, Conservative proposals for protective food taxation and agriculture.Typescript for WSC's speech (26 March, Harlow, Essex), entitled "The Economic Situation" on Conservative proposals for protective food taxation, the Labour and Liberal alliance, the next Labour Budget and agricultural policy. Also includes a note (1934) from Violet...
Dates: 19 Feb 1930 - 25 Dec 1930
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: speech notes., 12 Nov 1946 - 12 Dec 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/10A-C
Scope and Contents Speech notes and Hansard report of WSC's speech (12 November, House of Commons) entitled "The international scene" on subjects including: the cold war, the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union and the strength of the Soviet army; support for the United Nations; the need to aid Germany but prevent rearmament; the Nuremberg trials and war crimes; Imperial Preference; affairs in countries including India, Egypt and the Suez canal, Palestine, National Service and the armed forces;...
Dates: 12 Nov 1946 - 12 Dec 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Speeches: speech notes., 12 Nov 1948 - 11 Feb 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/22A-B
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (12 November 1948, Westminster Abbey) at the unveiling of a memorial to President Franklin Roosevelt in which WSC pays tribute to Roosevelt. Published: Complete Speeches VII, pp 7730-31.Speech notes for WSC's speech (16 November 1948, House of Commons) entitled "The Iron and Steel Bill" on the nationalisation of the steel industry including: the contrast between unemployment after World War I and full employment after World War II; a loan from the United States...
Dates: 12 Nov 1948 - 11 Feb 1949
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Tariff reform, 1902-10 - 1904-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/63
Scope and Contents Letters on tariff and fiscal reform, written to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph [John Le Sage], following a series of articles by J L Garvin on "Imperial Reciprocity". Correspondents include: William Ecroyd; Harold Cox, Secretary of the Cobden Club; Julius Bertram; Sir Guilford Molesworth. Also includes letters from: Joseph Chamberlain, writing to J L Garvin on the publication of the articles (4); J Wilson, secretary to Chamberlain, writing to Garvin (2); 6th Lord...
Dates: 1902-10 - 1904-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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(Untitled), 09 Apr 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/51-53
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Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the carrying of the resolution to abolish the financial veto of the House of Lords; [Richard] Haldane's speech on the constitutional reform of the House of Lords; a "really delicious" speech by [Arthur] Balfour concerning his previous statements about the power of the House of Lords regarding financial measures; and the division on Tariff Reform.

Dates: 09 Apr 1910
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 Feb 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/8-10
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Letter from WSC (House of Commons) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: a debate over Free Trade and Protection between [Alfred] Mond and Samuel Storey [later Lord Buckton]; the maiden speech of [Eliot] Crawshay Williams; [Arthur] Balfour's speech in favour of Protection and WSC's comments on the issue. WSC also discusses the small Government majority and the task of carrying through "tremendous constitutional changes".

Dates: 24 Feb 1910
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), 23 Feb 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/11-12
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Letter from WSC (House of Commons) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: attacks on the Government concerning the political situation and a debate between Austen Chamberlain and Sydney Buxton over Free Trade which WSC comments is "ground upon which the two parties meet with tireless zeal". WSC asks that Lord Knollys should advise him if the King would like him to describe additional issues in his letters.

Dates: 23 Feb 1910
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), 05 Feb 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183/2
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Letter from WSC to John Whitley [Chairman of the BBC] asking for an opportunity to broadcast on India and explaining why he thinks that the permission given to Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] to broadcast on Empire Free Trade has set a precedent for this. Signed carbon typescript copy.

Dates: 05 Feb 1931
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 [May] 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/187/24-28
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Letter from A S Darroch (97 Muswell Hill Road, [London]) to WSC arguing that free trade in money and in goods are no longer workable systems in the modern world and that the level of general morality determines what monetary system is used. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/187/71-76.

Dates: 24 [May] 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), 23 Apr 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/150-164
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer [WSC] to King George V about his budget proposals. He explains that the budget has two main objectives: to provide security for the wage earning population against misfortune and to encourage the "enterprise of the nation" by remission of income taxes; that the 1925 budget is based on tax revenue of £826 million set against expenditure of £799.5 million; proposals to increase estate duty and taxes on luxury goods and to re-introduce the...
Dates: 23 Apr 1925
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jun 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/11/15-22
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, about a possible enquiry into protection of the steel industry, pointing out that there will be consequences because it underpins the rest of British industry, which make it likely that an enquiry would over-ride the claims of the steel industry, or if it didn't, that Free Trade will become a dominant feature of British politics. WSC suggests that the government is not obliged to set up an enquiry, and that a Royal Commission...
Dates: 12 Jun 1925
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 May 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/222/105-113
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from Richard Bond, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood, Secretary of State for India] in which he thanks him for his appreciation of the difficulties of the Lancashire cotton trade; passes on the view of the Chamber deploring the statement that the new Indian constitution will not include any provision to limit the right of India to impose taxes on goods imported from Britain; notes that the Chamber considers this...
Dates: 23 May 1933
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Apr [1908] - 25 Apr 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/34/35A-35B
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Cutting: letter from E P Stevenson to the editor of the Westminster Gazette asserting WSC's claims to the support of Free Trade Unionists in the North-West Manchester election and criticising his opponents' campaigning on the Licensing Bill and other issues; also includes covering note for letter [not present] from [?] Bertram Straus [MP for Mile End, London] offering to give up his seat to WSC.

Dates: 21 Apr [1908] - 25 Apr 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Aug 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/35/12-13
Scope and Contents Letter from ? Paul Schoeberg (W.Behren-Strasse 62, [Berlin, Germany]) to WSC on: the copy of the life of Lord Randolph Churchill which WSC sent him; the current slowness of business being blamed by many people in England on free trade in Germany; the unpopularity in Turkey of the Dette Publique and the Regie des Tabacs and what the attitude of the "Powers" should be to this issue; Schoeberg's forthcoming trip to see the Baghdad Railway [Iraq]. Typescript copy of this letter at CHAR...
Dates: 13 Aug 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Oct 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/35/27
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Letter from Jesse Herbert (Liberal Central Association, 41 Parliament Street, London) to Mr Clark stating that George Renwick did not put forward Tariff Reform as a complete remedy for unemployment in his election address in Newcastle-on-Tyne and enclosing a leaflet on the leading Tariff Reformers' views on the subject [see CHAR 2/35/28].

Dates: 07 Oct 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Jun 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/35/28
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Leaflet published by the Liberal Publication Department showing that the leading Tariff Reformers have discarded their promise that Tariff Reform would lead to full employment. Sent with CHAR 2/35/27.

Dates: 18 Jun 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Nov 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/4
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Letter from Harold Tennant MP (Brooks's, St James's Street, [London]) to WSC suggesting he speak at the Liberal Colonial Club either on the hollowness of the claim that Tariff Reform would be a cure for unemployment, or women's suffrage, or colonial preference in relation to foodstuffs.

Dates: 03 Nov 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Apr 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/26-28
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Letter from Arthur Witley (13 Westborne Road, Huddersfield, [Yorkshire]) to WSC (House of Commons) advocating the taxation of land values, which he sees as a pre-requisite for Free Trade, and attacking taxation of capital and the earnings derived from it. Describes the good economic effects of the taxation of land values in New Zealand and New South Wales [Australia] and urges the Government to take on the House of Lords by including such taxation in the Budget. Signed typescript.

Dates: 07 Apr 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/32
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Letter from F E A Graham (Kintore, Tower Road, St Leonard's-on-Sea, [Sussex]) to WSC enclosing his pamphlet The Free Trade Delusion [see CHAR 2/38/33] and outlining his case against Free Trade.

Dates: 23 Apr 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Jan 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/33
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Phamplet entitled "The Free Trade Delusion, being part of the series Some writing on the wall by "Akaroa" (F E A Graham). Sent with CHAR 2/38/32 11,[1p].

Dates: 01 Jan 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 05 May 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/36
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Resolution of a meeting of inhabitants of Nantyglo in Monmouthshire [Wales] in favour of the Licensing Bill. Signed by J L Jones, chairman, and Herbert Williams, honorary secretary (77 High Street, Blaina, Monmouthshire) Copy with original signatures.

Dates: 05 May 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jun 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/48-49
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Extract from a speech in the House of Lords by the 8th Duke of Devonshire warning that whereas an alteration to the current system of Free Trade might benefit "the higher ranks of labour" it might produce starvation among those lower down the social scale. Typescript.

Dates: 15 Jun 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open