Scope and Contents Correspondents include: "Freddie" [Frederick Guest, Secretary of State for Air] on the transfer of control in Iraq from the War Office to the Air Ministry, and on the risk of having the Air Force broken up (5); Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet] on subjects including WSC's views on the cancellation of naval contracts (6); James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Robert Horne [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on a memorandum by WSC on taxation,...

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of statements made by [4th] Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] Lord Privy Seal, [1st] Lord Cecil of Chelwood, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor, Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood], Secretary of State for Air, [1st] Lord Peel, 1st Commissioner of Works, and the members of a deputation of Independent Unionist Peers on the reform of the House of Lords and the amendment of the 1911 Parliament Act.Also includes: draft resolutions and...

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Includes papers by various individuals on the House of Lords, including: the committee's final conclusions; WSC; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to WSC]; the draft report of the committee; the report of the 2nd Chamber Executive Committee; Robert Sanders [later 1st Lord Bayford]; 2nd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer].

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Subjects include: the future powers of the House of Lords; Money Bills; indirect election to the House of Lords; the future composition of the House; the future composition of electoral colleges; the right of ministers to sit in both Houses of Parliament; the future constitution of the House.

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Includes papers from various individuals on the House of Lords, including: 1st Lord Cave, the Lord Chancellor; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; the report of the Second Chamber Conference, 1918.

Scope and Contents Includes papers from various individuals on the House of Lords, including: Sir Charles Eliot, British Ambassador to Japan, on the reform of the House of Peers in Japan; the Japanese Imperial Ordinance on the reform of the House of Peers; proposals from the preceding 40 years on the reform of the House of Lords; the report of the Second Chamber Conference (1918); the report of the Select Committee on the House of Lords (1908); a copy of the Parliament Act, 1911; 1st Lord Curzon of Kedleston,...

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Includes papers from various individuals on the House of Lords, including: 1st Lord Peel, 1st Commissioner of Works, on the selection of peers; 4th Lord Salisbury, [earlier Lord Cranborne], the Lord Privy Seal; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; the report of the Committee of Conservative Peers; 1st Lord Cave, the Lord Chancellor; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith], Secretary of State for India.

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet, on subjects including bills coming before the Home Affairs Committee; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, on reform of the constitution of the University of London; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith], Secretary of State for India and 1st Lord Reading [earlier Rufus Isaacs], Viceroy of India, on Indian immigrants in South Africa; a Ministry of Labour...

Scope and Contents Includes: a paper by [Sir Maurice] Hankey [Cabinet Secretary] on the parliamentary programme; a paper on the political parties, personalities and ministers in China; [Sir Hugh] Trenchard [Chief of Air Staff] on aircraft in China; [1st] Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] and [Sir Austen Chamberlain] Foreign Secretary on diplomatic relations and communications with the Soviet Union; [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal, on House of Lords reform; [Sir] Philip...

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor and [1st] Lord Cecil [of Chelwood] on equal franchise and the effect of the enfranchisement of more women; a report by John Davidson, Chairman of the Unionist Party, on the distribution of female electors; notes of a deputation to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on equal...

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, on the Judicial Proceedings (Regulation of Reports) Bill; drafts of the Judicial Proceedings Bill and the Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including the Empire Marketing Grant and Australia; [Sir Warren Fisher], Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, on Government lands and buildings; Leo Amery,...

Scope and Contents Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: a report of the Crown proceedings committee; Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, and Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the boundary between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State [later Ireland]; Amery on reform of the House of Lords and information on the coastal defences of Southern Ireland [Ireland]; [1st] Lord Peel, 1st Commissioner of Works, and Walter Guinness [later...

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on subjects including the loan for the completion of the Benguela [Angola] Railway and the objections of the Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe and Zambia] railway companies, the handling of Dominion affairs by the Colonial Office, moving the Imperial Institute to London University, granting oil concessions in Iraq to the Turkish Petroleum Company and the proposed Washington [United...

Scope and Contents Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: two special reports on unemployment; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on Italy's interests in Albania, a request for assistance from Portugal, an arms embargo and the supply of arms to Canton [China]; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on unemployment in the coal industry, the inspection of emigrants and the unemployment insurance bill; [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal,...

Scope and Contents Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: the chiefs of staff on the defence of Wei Hai Wei [China]; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on relations with Iman of the Yemen, the entry of Iraq into the League of Nations, policy on East Africa, the New Hebrides [now Vanuatu] and the political situation in Cyprus; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the trade outlook...

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: notes of a meeting between the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, and a deputation of Conservative members of both Houses of Parliament, on reform of the House of Lords; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, on compensation for Irish loyalists; 1st Lord Byng [Governor-General of Canada]; Mackenzie King, former Prime Minister of Canada, on the Canadian constitutional crisis; the interim report of the inter-...

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on the reduction of British forces in China and the China Boxer indemnity; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including the limitation of naval armaments, Anglo-American relations and the fighting services estimates; [1st Lord] Cushendun [earlier Ronald McNeill] Acting Foreign Secretary, on the limitation of naval armaments and Anglo American relations;...

Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury], on the possible reduction of the British Army of Occupation in the Rhineland [Germany]; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet; extracts from the draft minutes of the Committee of Imperial Defence on South West Arabia and Egypt; draft instructions to Miles Lampson [later 1st Lord Killearn], British Minister-designate at Peking [later Beijing, China]; 1st Lord...

Scope and Contents Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on Empire foodstuffs to be considered by the Imperial Economic Committee; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne], Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, on the Tithe Bill; Sir John Gilmour, Secretary for Scotland, on the Rating (Scotland) Bill; a draft of the Rating Bill; [Sir Francis Humphrys], British...

Scope and Contents Printed Cabinet papers on various subjects including: relations between the House of Commons and the House of Lords including the latter's powers of veto; the financial impact of the rejection of the 1909 [People's] Budget by the Lords including the collection of taxes and duty on tea; the parliamentary register; the positions of Upper Houses in the Dominions and states in Europe; a draft bill for the reform of the constitutional position of the House of Lords and limitation of the power of...

Scope and Contents Includes copies and drafts of official papers prepared by WSC, 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and officials of the Colonial Office. These papers also include the texts of correspondence from 2nd Lord Selborne, Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for South Africa, General Sir Henry Hildyard, Acting Governor of the Transvaal, officials of the India Office and the Foreign Office, and Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Matthew Nathan, Governor of Natal [South...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Israel Zangwill; Sidney Greville [Private Secretary to HM Queen Alexandria] on King Edward VII's approval of a critical article about WSC; Sir Arthur Havelock [former Governor of Madras, India, and Natal, South Africa]; Henry Massingham (2); 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (5) including one letter on the experiences of Elgin's father as Governor-General of Canada; Jan Smuts (2); Frederic Tatham, member of the Legislative Assembly,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Henry Massingham (2); Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir John Walton [Attorney-General]; Sir Leander Jameson [Premier, Cape Colony, South Africa] on the Lisbon Railway agreement; Leo Amery, of the Times; George Wyndham MP giving advice on WSC's career as a minister; Joseph Chamberlain (2) and Henry Labouchere MP (2) on WSC finding work for an acquaintance; William Stead, Editor of the Review of Reviews, on WSC meeting...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Joseph Chamberlain taking back his allegation that WSC had exploited the issue of Chinese indentured labour in the Transvaal [South Africa] in his election campaign; 2nd Lord Selborne, [Governor of the Transvaal] and High Commissioner for South Africa (5); Sir John Vine; Abe Bailey (2); Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson [Governor and Commander in Chief, Cape Colony, South Africa] on his future prospects and career to date; Sir Godfrey Lagden, the Commissioner for Native...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Cecil Grenfell; Dudley Marjoribanks [later 3rd Lord Tweedmouth, Military Secretary to Lord Selborne] and his wife (2); Abe Bailey (2); Leonard Courtney; 2nd Lord Selborne [Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for South Africa] (4); Herbert de Reuter [Auguste Reuter] on criticism by WSC of bias in Reuter's coverage of South African affairs and the Munshi expedition in Nigeria (3); James Hutton, [Vice President] of the British Cotton Growing Association; Jan...