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Free trade

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 604 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), [28] [Feb] [1886]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/1/46-48
Scope and Contents Letter from [Leonard Jerome] (Victoria Hotel, Monte Carlo [Monaco]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] thanking her for writing to Travers [see CHAR 28/1/45]. He writes of his success at Monte Carlo; newspaper reports of [Lord] Randolph [Churchill's] passage to Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] and the magnificent ovation he received; [Lord Randolph's] appeal to the Irish Protestants; [Jerome's] faith in the Primrose League and his hopes that [Lord Randolph] will soon be able to speak on the...
Dates: [28] [Feb] [1886]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Aug 1886

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/1/49-50
Scope and Contents

Letter from [Leonard Jerome] (Union Club, Fifth Avenue and 21st Street [New York, United States]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: the magnificent success of [Lord] Randolph [Churchill]; hopes that Randolph may be able to speak on the issue of Protection; and financial affairs.

Dates: 20 Aug 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Jan] [1906]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/51/15-16
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from Jennie Cornwallis-West [Lady Randolph Churchill] to Alice Balfour in which she disputes the right of the Executive Committee of the Primrose League to expel members or Vice Presidents and argues that membership of the League is open to those who are not members of the Conservative Party. She describes herself as a "Unionist Free Trader and not a Radical", discusses the original intentions of the founders of the league and says that she would not resist the power of the...
Dates: [Jan] [1906]
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), [14 Jul 1903]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/8
Scope and Contents

Letter from Beatrice Webb (later Lady Passfield), 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, London, to WSC, on working class feeling against taxes on food and its relation to the growth of socialism, recommending that he should consult Eduard Bernstein of Berlin.

Dates: [14 Jul 1903]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Jul 1903

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/10
Scope and Contents

Letter from Sidney Low, Durham Place, Chelsea, to WSC, on free trade.

Dates: 23 Jul 1903
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Oct 1903

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/22
Scope and Contents

Letter from Lord James of Hereford to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times on free trade.

Dates: 12 Oct 1903
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Oct 1903

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/26
Scope and Contents

Letter from Lord Morley of Blackburn to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times on free trade.

Dates: 14 Oct 1903
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Oct 1903

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/28
Scope and Contents

Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne to WSC, advising him that "there is no future for Free Traders in the Conservative Party".

Dates: 15 Oct 1903
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Oct 1903

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/29
Scope and Contents

Letter from Lord Rosebery to WSC, congratulations on letter in The Times on free trade.

Dates: 16 Oct 1903
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 May 1820

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/157/21-24
Scope and Contents

Petition to the House of Commons from the merchants of the City of London against Protectionism. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/157/20.

Dates: 08 May 1820
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), [25] [Jul] [1928]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/158/63-67
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Letter from WSC to Sir Henry Page Croft [later 1st Lord Croft] giving a detailed explanation of his position on the safeguarding of industries and expressing the wish that he had been invited to speak at the meeting held by Page Croft [and other supporters of Protection such as Patrick Hannon]. Annotated typescript draft. Carbon copy without annotations at CHAR 2/158/68-72.

Dates: [25] [Jul] [1928]
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), 09 Dec 1923

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/126/97
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Letter from Herbert Fisher (Thursley, Godalming, Surrey) to WSC congratulating him on his fight for Liberalism and Free Trade at Leicester, regretting that he (Fisher) did not help in the constituency and stressing the need for the Liberals to create an efficient national electoral machine because it is clear that most of the country supports Free Trade and is anti-Socialist.

Dates: 09 Dec 1923
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), 19 Jan 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/132/21
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Letter from Sir Alfred Goodson (Waddeton Court, Brixham, Devon) to WSC opposing the policy of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and David Lloyd George of supporting the Labour party, arguing that the Liberals' success in the recent general election was due to their support for Free Trade and their opposition to Socialism, and assuring WSC of support if he takes a lead in this matter.

Dates: 19 Jan 1924
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), 28 Nov 1923

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/132/33-35
Scope and Contents

Letter from D C Robertson to [WSC] proposing that unemployment should be relieved by the provision of Government money to set up a school for the training of tradesmen and to facilitate emigration of "our surplus population" to the colonies. Refers to Japan's need to expand and expresses opposition to Protection. Copy sent with CHAR 2/132/32.

Dates: 28 Nov 1923
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 May 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/133/8-9
Scope and Contents Letter from R Somervell, honorary secretary of the Sevenoaks and Holmesdale Hospital (19 The Drive, Sevenoaks, [Kent]) to WSC asking whether he would like to become a subscriber to the hospital, offering to show WSC and CSC round it, agreeing that Liberals and Conservatives should cooperate against Socialism but wondering whether, in view of the fact that government intervention has increased in such fields as employment and education, it is unrealistic to resist it in the economic sphere by...
Dates: 01 May 1924
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 Aug 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/134/49-50
Scope and Contents

Letter from George Terrell (1a Gloucester Gardens, Richmond, Surrey) to WSC conveying a resolution of the National Union of Manufacturers in favour of a tariff on manufactured goods, other than food, which are produced under conditions which make British competition impossible, and asking to speak to WSC on the subject.

Dates: 01 Aug 1924
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 Aug 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/134/51
Scope and Contents

Letter from T H Deakin, mining engineer (Parkend, Lydney, Gloucestershire) to WSC (Chartwell) enclosing CHAR 2/134/52 and wondering whether a system of Free Trade within the Empire could be suggested when the Dominion Prime Ministers visit.

Dates: 01 Aug 1924
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), 04 Aug 1887

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/134/52
Scope and Contents

Letter from T H Deakin (Parkend, [Lydney, Gloucestershire]) to Lord Hartington [later 10th Duke of Devonshire] suggesting a system of Free Trade within the Empire to be extended to other countries only if they reciprocate. Copy sent with CHAR 2/134/51.

Dates: 04 Aug 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.
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(Untitled), 02 Oct 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/135/3
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Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Rear-Admiral Arthur Smith-Dorrien asserting that he has always been in favour of Home Rule and Free Trade and opposed to Socialism and that the present Conservative programme differs from that adopted by Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour] in 1904 only in its exclusion of the question of Protection. Carbon copy.

Dates: 02 Oct 1924
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), 31 Dec 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/136/124-126
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Lord Carson [earlier Sir Edward Carson] (Cleve Court, Minster, Thanet, [Kent]) on: some "damaging admissions" by Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; the need to preserve the Government's unity by keeping discussion of fiscal policy "within limits which everyone can understand"; the current opportunity to "steady" Egypt and India and consolidate the social structure at home; the improving economic situation; WSC's efforts to reduce direct taxation; housing;...
Dates: 31 Dec 1924
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), 03 Jan 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/137/6-8
Scope and Contents Letter from [Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Robinson] (The Homestead, Neeld Crescent, Hendon [Middlesex]) to [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] stating that he would be prepared to support Protection if it could be proved that it would benefit the country, which Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] failed to do, and arguing that since the Liberals cannot form a government themselves they should support the Conservatives in order to promote moderate policies. Copy sent with CHAR...
Dates: 03 Jan 1924
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), 20 Jan 1924

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/137/41
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Letter from Edith Dar??st-Smith (62 Rutland Gate, [London]) to WSC urging him to form a party consisting of Conservatives and moderate Liberals who differ from the former only on "the now unimportant issue of Protection", the existence of which would make James Ramsay Macdonald's position as Prime Minister untenable.

Dates: 20 Jan 1924
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), 17 Feb 1925

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/141/45
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Letter from J A Beamont, (245 Battersea Park Road, [London]) to the editor of the "Daily Express" welcoming the Labour Party's adoption of Protection, which he sees as a vindication of his long campaign in Battersea, and arguing that Free Trade is unsuited to the new economic situation in which Britain is "no longer the workshop of the world" and her industries need to be safeguarded. Copy sent with CHAR 2/141/44.

Dates: 17 Feb 1925
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), [1914]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/141/46
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Pamphlet on J A Beamont's campaigns in Battersea in favour of Tariff Reform between 1906 and 1914, including illustrations of flags and banners and reprints of press articles.

Dates: [1914]
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.