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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), 17 Feb 1925

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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]

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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.
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/142/74-75
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Chartwell) to [Stanley Baldwin] on: the plan to appoint Ronald McNeill [later Lord Cushendun] [Financial Secretary to the Treasury]; WSC's confidence that things will turn out well under Baldwin's leadership as long as the Government keeps to its general election platform and the Conservative party is not rushed "on to the slippery slope of Protection" by Leo Amery. Argues that a general tariff is not a greater departure from pledges than a protective duty on steel and...
Dates: 01 Nov 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), 08 May 1820

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/157/21-24
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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]

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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), 02 Sep 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/159/12-14
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Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to [Stanley Baldwin] arguing that the Government should proceed along the lines of Baldwin's letter [to Robert Eyres Monsell stating that there would be no general reintroduction of Protection] and that new talent should be introduced into the Government team. Reports that he has been building a cottage and dictating a book at Chartwell and that Sir Douglas Hogg [later 1st Lord Hailsham] is grateful [for his appointment as Lord Chancellor]. Typescript copy.

Dates: 02 Sep 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), 28 Jul 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/176/138-145
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Memorandum by the agricultural committee of the Conservative Research Department on the use of a system of quotas to grant Imperial Preference to wheat without recourse to an import duty.

Dates: 28 Jul 1930
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Apr 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/105/48
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Cutting from the Nottingham Guardian: article on: WSC's pre-war rejection of Imperial Preference and the present government's commitment to it; the opposition to the measure of the Asquithian Liberals; the large numbers of soldiers and others emigrating overseas and the benefits to be derived from economic measures to tie the Empire together more firmly.

Dates: 16 Apr 1919
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 Apr 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/105/53-54
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Letter from [Edward Marsh] to the editor of the Nottingham Journal correcting the impression given in a recent article in that paper [see CHAR 2/105/48] that before the war WSC had declared against Imperial Preference rather than specifically against the Imperial taxation of food, which David Lloyd George and Andrew Bonar Law have excluded from their declaration of policy. Typescript copy.

Dates: 28 Apr 1919
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), [21 Nov 1904]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/142-145
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Letter from WSC [105 Mount Street] to the Editor of the Times reasserting his view that C Arthur Pearson bought the Standard in order to change it into an anti-Free Trade paper. Typescript copy with annotations in the hand of Annette Anning.

Dates: [21 Nov 1904]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Aug 1904]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/146-147
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Letter from WSC (Salisbury Hall, St Albans, [Hertfordshire]) to [F G Stokes] pointing out that Free Trade has not prevented the growth of the British Empire or made the people less war-like, although at home the contentment produced by cheap food has weakened the impulse towards social reform. Copy in the hand of WSC.

Dates: [Aug 1904]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1904]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/156-159
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Typescript list of Unionist Free Food League MPs and the Liberal candidates standing in their constituencies, annotated to indicate the MPs' future voting behaviour.

Dates: [1904]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/19/56
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Letter from Hartman Morgan (Holly Terrace House, Holly Hill, Hampstead, [London]) to WSC announcing his intention of writing temporarily for the Manchester Guardian and referring to WSC's possible consultation of him on certain aspects of the fiscal question.

Dates: 23 Apr 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Aug 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/19/138
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Letter from Walter T Williams, secretary of the Cardiff and District Free Trade League (17 Working Street, Cardiff, [Wales]), to WSC (105 Mount Street) inviting him to address meetings at Cardiff and Merthyr [Glamorgan], where support for Tariff Reform is strong. Signed typescript. Annotated in shorthand.

Dates: 04 Aug 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Aug 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/19/139
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Letter from Rev W C Trevelyan Parker, secretary of the Harwich Division Liberal Association (First Avenue, Dovercourt, Essex), to WSC inviting him to address a meeting in the Division to counter Joseph Chamberlain's forthcoming campaign. Annotated in shorthand.

Dates: 08 Aug 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Jan 1924

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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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/132/33-35
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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), [14 Jul 1903]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/8
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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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/10
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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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/22
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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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/26
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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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/28
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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

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/39/29
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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), 09 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/106-108
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Letter from [?] S C Thomas (Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch [London]) to WSC, regretting that they won't have time to meet, and describing his interview with the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Malcolm MacDonald] about the sugar industry in Barbados, and the plan to introduce worldwide sugar quotas.

Dates: 09 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Mar 1901 - 07 Aug 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/236/40-41
Scope and Contents Copies of 4 letters from WSC (105 Mount Street [London], and Gopsall, Atherstone, Leicestershire) to Sidney Low, on Low's nomination as an Alderman on London County Council, WSC's wish that he could have accepted a nomination, and belief that if the Moderate Party on the Council are to do anything, they need a clear programme with 1 or 2 main principles; WSC's proof reading of Low's book ["Dictionary of English History" or "The Governance of England"]; WSC's support for 5th Lord Rosebery's...
Dates: 23 Mar 1901 - 07 Aug 1903
Conditions Governing Access: Open