Economic conditions
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 141 Collections and/or Records:
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Speeches: speech notes., 04 Feb 1950 - 09 Feb 1950
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/31A-D
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's election address (4 February, Town Hall, Leeds [Yorkshire]) including: criticism of the Labour government's economic policy and manifesto; party politics and the numbers of candidates fielded by the Liberal Party; quotes by [Clement] Attlee [Prime Minister] on socialism; the rejection of socialism in Canada, Australia and New Zealand; nationalisation and its effect on the coal industry; the planned nationalisation of the steel industry; the continuation of rationing;...
Dates:
04 Feb 1950 - 09 Feb 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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"The Gold Standard", 10 Feb 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/87/46
Scope and Contents
Cabinet Paper with introduction by WSC on the impact of the return to the Gold Standard. Includes analysis by the heads of the banks - Sir Felix Schuster, Director of the National Provincial Bank, Walter Leaf, Chairman of Westminster Bank, Frederick Goodenough, Chairman of Barclays' Bank, Reginald McKenna, Chairman of Midland Bank, John Pease [later 1st Lord Wardington], Chairman of Lloyd's Bank- and Gustav Cassel, of the University of Stockholm [Sweden]. Issues covered include the impact on...
Dates:
10 Feb 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
Treasury Papers, 1780 - 1947
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HTRY 1
Scope and Contents
Includes files on America, Germany, India, and on various subjects including inflation and the Bank of England.
Dates:
1780 - 1947
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From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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(Untitled), 04 May 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/71/62-93
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Speech notes for WSC's statement for the 2nd reading of the Gold Standard Bill, on the proposed Labour amendment, the timing of the return to the Gold Standard, the view of John Maynard Keynes, reasons for the return, the role of the United States, and the effect on interest rates.Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style" annotated in manuscript by WSC. Filing envelope present.
Dates:
04 May 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jan 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/234/15-16
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Letter from "Bob" [Robert Boothby] (The French House, Lympne, Kent) to WSC, explaining the Treasury case against [international currency] stabilisation, as "the dollar is hopelessly undervalued and the franc is hopelessly overvalued", and the position of the United States and France; the opinion of [Sir Frederick] Leith-Ross [Chief Economic Adviser to the Government] on the proper dollar-sterling rate. Manuscript.
Dates:
15 Jan 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 16 Nov 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/64-66
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Chartwell) to Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise] querying figures: reduced revenue from McKenna duties; whether increased consumption and taxation have been accompanied by increased production and depletion of capital reserves; whether levels of saving have been reduced given the rise in unemployment. He concludes by asking Hamilton to forecast figures.Typescript signed with initials annotated by WSC "Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary, Treasury]...
Dates:
16 Nov 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 24 Apr [1924]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/7/141-143
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Memorandum from Frederick Leith-Ross [British representative on Finance Board of the Reparation Commission] to WSC responding to his queries. He explains the delay between the collection of reparations and payment into the Exchequer and £6 million interest earned from investment of German funds; discusses reasons to avoid specific public mention of this and the basis for lower estimates this year.Typescript.
Dates:
24 Apr [1924]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 10 Jan 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/36/1-13
Scope and Contents
Carbon copy of WSC's proposal for the betting tax.
Dates:
10 Jan 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 26 Jan 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/40/55-58
Scope and Contents
Memorandum from WSC to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] marked "Private & Personal To be returned" on subjects including: conversion; the addition of £37 million to the national debt; contrast to the freedom from debt in Germany and France; and WSC's view that the Treasury will be criticised for favouring a 'rentier' class over 'social, moral or manufacturing' interests. He ends by asking Niemeyer to prepare proposals for using forced loans and government bonds as part...
Dates:
26 Jan 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 06 Jun 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/64/3-13
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, marked "secret and personal" on the need to "dominate events lest we be submerged by them", reflecting on achievements of the government but predicting bleak prospects for the next year as the government has not been successful, his own efforts to reduce expenditure have failed, the Factory and Poor Law Bills and Franchise will not support them, and advising that a constructive measure is needed. He seeks Baldwin's support for...
Dates:
06 Jun 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jul 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/134-137
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Copy of a memorandum from WSC to Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] instructing him to present WSC's view to the President of the Board of Trade [Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] on the impact of the attitude of [Sir Otto] Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] "of letting everything smash into bankruptcy and unemployment in order that reconstruction can be built up upon the ruins" He discusses forest...
Dates:
22 Jul 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 14 Sep 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75/167-173
Scope and Contents
Copy of a memorandum from WSC to Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary] "and others concerned" on: the possibility of shortening the occupation of Germany if Germany makes improvements in payment of reparations; the economic impact of the early return of troops; disarmament and the need for France to retain a strong army to uphold the Locarno treaty; repayment of United States debt and the need to pass on costs to Germany; the need for the Treasury to adopt am attitude of "extreme reserve...
Dates:
14 Sep 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 29 Jan 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/77/2-4
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, enclosing a paper on efforts to save £11 million expenditure and reporting that only a little over half the figure has been realised. He discusses the need for the "Boxer money" to meet the expense of keeping troops in China; naval estimates and the Admiralty's failure to find economies "They are so accustomed to carrying all before them by threats of resignation that they feel able to do themselves sumptuously in every branch and...
Dates:
29 Jan 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 18 Mar 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/100/89-98
Scope and Contents
Report on Total Nominal Dead Weight Debt, with a covering note from Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services] to James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]. The introduction explains the fall of nominal dead weight debt by £107 millions since Mar 1925 and that the period has also seen the conversion of short term bonds into long term debt, and that the proportion of external debt and treasury bills and savings certificates have also...
Dates:
18 Mar 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 29-31 Mar 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/100/137-138
Scope and Contents
Memorandum from Frederick Leith-Ross [Deputy Controller of Finance] to Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services] and Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] on government expenditure, countering criticism by [David] Lloyd George by explaining government development and expenditure on housing, roads, telephones etc, and guarantees under the Trade Facilities Act and Colonial Development schemes equating to over £300 million expenditure,...
Dates:
29-31 Mar 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 04 Mar 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/28-30
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: discussion of the passage of the [1909] Budget; the suggestion by the Opposition that the Budget should be divided into a series of separate resolutions and the Government's objection to this idea. WSC expresses his hopes that the "catastrophe" which would result from the loss of the Budget can be avoided.
Dates:
04 Mar 1910
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