Tanks
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Item
"Inspecting tanks", 1919-08
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/88
Scope and Contents
Photo shows WSC wearing a top hat and carrying a walking cane looking intently at a tank during visit to inspect British forces in Cologne, Germany. Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, is walking alongside WSC.
Dates:
1919-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
File
Literary: 'The Second World War': Volume 3 'The Grand Alliance': Appendices, 10 May 1941-1 Jun 1942 and 9 Dec 1949-6 Apr 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/3/42
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Many files relate to ‘The Second World War’ and include correspondence with WSC’s literary assistants (William Deakin and Denis Kelly), Henry Pownall (military consultant), George Gordon Allen (naval consultant) and other consultants including Hastings Ismay and Isaiah Berlin. Also includes war-time documents which were source material for ‘The Second World War’.
Dates:
10 May 1941-1 Jun 1942 and 9 Dec 1949-6 Apr 1950
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.
File
Literary: The World Crisis, Vol. 3: Printed Cabinet papers by WSC, annotated [source material for 'The World Crisis'], Nov 1916-c.1923
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/5/3
Scope and Contents
Comprising papers on "Mechanical Power in the Offensive" relating to the use of tanks (9 Nov 1916) and "Naval War Policy, 1917" (7 Jul 1917).
Dates:
Nov 1916-c.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.
Sub-Series
Medical Research Council (MRC), 1943 - 1945
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/3377/KJCraik/2/4
Dates:
1943 - 1945
File
Memoranda on tanks, 1940
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRFT 2/7
Scope and Contents
Includes tank organisation and production, and counter-measures.
Dates:
1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Memoranda submitted to 1st Lord Milner, 1917
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRFT 2/1
Scope and Contents
Memoranda on manpower, co-operation of aircraft during the offensive and the tactical use of tanks.
Dates:
1917
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Official files relating to tanks and tank policy, 1942 - 1944
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 2/2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.
Dates:
1942 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
File
Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1916-01 - 1916-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/9
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill’s frustration with the direction of the war; the importance of Clementine keeping up relations with David Lloyd George [Minister of Munitions]; Churchill’s new battalion, the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, with ‘Archie’ [Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso] as his second in command; Churchill’s disillusionment with Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; slow progress on ‘the caterpillars’ [tanks] recommended by Churchill in his...
Dates:
1916-01 - 1916-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1918-02 - 1918-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/11
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill's wish to send Clementine and the children out of London, because of the risk of Zeppelin raids; visit to France for talks on munitions supplies, February 1918; returning to see his old military position at 'Plugstreet' [Ploegsteert, Belgium], the Ypres salient, Glencorse Wood and Polygon Wood; the success of Jack [John S Churchill]; a meeting with Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston; visit to headquarters in France, March 1918 [during the German Spring...
Dates:
1918-02 - 1918-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
"Tank enquiry at Lincoln's Inn", 1919-10-07
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/74
Scope and Contents
WSC standing in a witness box in the courtroom.
Dates:
1919-10-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
File
"The Churchill Tank: a story in pictures", 1946-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 2/8
Scope and Contents
Commemorative booklet on the tank produced by Vauxhall Motors Limited and presented to Churchill by the Director.
Dates:
1946-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.