Economic conditions
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1266 Collections and/or Records:
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"My Political Life": Volume III, "The Unforgiving Years", original typescript chapters 1-11, 1953-08 - 1954-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/86
Scope and Contents
Annotated typescript, covering: economic and Empire policy, 1929-31; the collapse of the Conservative Government and formation of the Coalition Government; Imperial Preference; the India Act; LSA's travels in Europe, meeting with Hitler and LSA's non-political work; pacifism, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] and the drift to war; the abdication crisis; appeasement.
Dates:
1953-08 - 1954-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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National and monetary crisis 1931: booklets and publications on monetary policy, 1887-03 - 1935-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/22
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Monetary Leadership, with plan for an Empire Currency" and "A New International Currency", by John Darling; Lloyds Bank Limited monthly review, on the world depression and economic relations between France and Germany (March 1932); "On Money" by 1st Lord Desborough [earlier William Grenfell]; London Chamber of Commerce report on monetary policy, with notes by LSA; article on remedies for fluctuations of general prices, by Alfred Marshall [Professor of Political Economy, Cambridge...
Dates:
1887-03 - 1935-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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National and monetary crisis 1931: correspondence, 1931-05 - 1933-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/21
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers, with correspondents including: Professor Gustav Cassel; Sir Cecil Kisch [Secretary, Financial Department, India Office]; Sir Henry Strakosch.
Also includes: texts of articles and letters to the press by LSA on the crisis; published statements by Sir John Simon, [James] Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, and Stanley Baldwin on the need for national unity; statement by Sir James Lithgow, President of the Federation of British Industries, on correcting the...
Dates:
1931-05 - 1933-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes, 1964 - 1967
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 1/4/12
Scope and Contents
Subjects include diplomacy, Atlantic trade and the world economy.
Dates:
1964 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes for "The Awakening", 1945-12 - 1947-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/30
Scope and Contents
Including printed material concerning international trade and the Trade Charter; reports from the Geneva Conference of September 1947.
Dates:
1945-12 - 1947-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes for "The Awakening", 1947-08 - 1947-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/31
Scope and Contents
Including newspaper cuttings on economic affairs used as source material.
Dates:
1947-08 - 1947-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes for "The Awakening", 1947-06 - 1947-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/32
Scope and Contents
Including newspaper cuttings on economic affairs used as source material and a letter from LSA to the Times on short and long-term economic policy.
Dates:
1947-06 - 1947-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes for "The Awakening", 1947-04 - 1947-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/33
Scope and Contents
Including printed material and newspaper cuttings on economic affairs.
Dates:
1947-04 - 1947-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes for "The Awakening", 1947-06 - 1947-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/34
Scope and Contents
Including [mostly] newspaper cuttings on economic affairs, with notes on the Marshall Plan.
Dates:
1947-06 - 1947-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes for "The Awakening", 1944-10 - 1947-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/35
Scope and Contents
Includes: printed material, 'The Vital Issue - An Economic Policy for Britain and the Empire' and 'Agriculture in Britain's National Economy'; typescript of 'Peacetime Mutual Aid', an article by LSA for the Economist; handwritten notes; newspaper cuttings; a memorandum by [Stanley] Paul Chambers on dealing with the economic crisis.
Also includes correspondence with: Sir Norman Kipling, Director General of the Federation of British Industries; Sir Hubert Henderson, Professor of...
Dates:
1944-10 - 1947-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes for "The Awakening", 1944-02 - 1947-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/36
Scope and Contents
Includes: printed material, 'The Uses and Abuses of Economic Planning', by Sir Hubert Henderson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford; correspondence with Sir Hubert Henderson, with typescripts of papers written by him while Economic Advisor to the Treasury; newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1944-02 - 1947-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Notes for "The Awakening", 1944-10 - 1947-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 8/37
Scope and Contents
Includes: newspaper cuttings; notes; correspondence with Sir Hubert Henderson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford; annotated typescript of speech [delivered by LSA?] in Cardiff [Wales] May 1946.
Dates:
1944-10 - 1947-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Now's your chance": recording of a Brighton local radio phone-in programme with JA, 1976-07-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 11/15
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: lack of confidence in the Government's economic policy; social security; the sale of council housing; charging foreign visitors for National Health Service treatment; Uganda and Soviet influence in Africa; defence, particularly relating to the Soviet Union, cuts to naval power and building up European defence; rail transport policy; immigration and race relations; unemployment.
Dates:
1976-07-30
Conditions Governing Access:
Access copy available.
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"Observations on 'The case for and against a legal minimum wage for sewated workers' published by the Women's Industrial Council", 27 April [1908]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/16/13-20
Scope and Contents
Includes: observations on "the case for" by Mis B L Hutchins which highlights difficulties with the figures for wages cited in the report and observations on "the case against" by Mrs J Ramsay MacDonald stressing that the experience in Victoria [Australia] should be taken into account with the Trade Boards Bill, specifically the role of Wages Boards and experience of determining wages in the tailoring trade, and discussing minimum wages.Carbon typescript initialled CEC [Clara Collett, Senior...
Dates:
27 April [1908]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
Official: Board of Trade, 1906 - 1911
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11
Scope and Contents
The Board of Trade papers contain correspondence, memoranda, printed material and other papers arising from WSC's activities as President of the Board of Trade, a position which he held from 12 April 1908 to 14 February 1910. The papers have been divided into correspondence and subject-based files, and are arranged chronologically.The Board of Trade material covers WSC's routine ministerial duties, as well as the specific issues of the period. These include: state unemployment insurance,...
Dates:
1906 - 1911
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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Official: Board of Trade: Anglo-French Commercial Relations: notes and papers., 22 Dec 1907 - 08 Nov 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/13
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Harold Cox; Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] on the revision of the French tariff and the Gambia-Muscat [later Muscat and Oman] negotiations (2); Sir Francis Bertie [British Ambassador to France]; Herbert Asquith [Chancellor of the Exchequer, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the revision of wine duty. Also includes: a memorandum on commercial relations with France by WSC, on imports with false origins, the wine surtax, wine duty and the French surtaxe...
Dates:
22 Dec 1907 - 08 Nov 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: Companies' Bills: prints., 09 Mar 1908 - 25 May 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/12
Scope and Contents
Includes: a draft of the Companies (Consolidation) Bill; a draft of the Assurance Companies Bill.
Dates:
09 Mar 1908 - 25 May 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: correspondence., 01 Nov 1908 - 01 Dec 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [? Ernest Steinkamp] Managing Editor of Curtis Brown international publishing bureau, on having an interview about the new Industrial Arbitration Court (4); Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] (4); George Cave, MP for Kingston [Surrey] on the Port of London Bill and its effect on Richmond [Surrey]; William Brace; Arthur Wilson Fox [Comptroller-General of the Commercial, Labour and Statistical Departments of the Board of Trade] on Board of Trade recruitment; 4th...
Dates:
01 Nov 1908 - 01 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: correspondence., Apr 1901 - 30 Dec 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Marks [Liberal MP for Launceston, Cornwall] and Sir John Barker [Liberal MP for Penryn and Falmouth, Cornwall] on the appointment of a Conservative to the post of Official Receiver in Cornwall; Ailwyn Fellowes [Deputy Chairman, Great Eastern Railway, later 1st Lord Ailwyn]; William Ridgeway, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, on the importance of colonial officials learning anthropology; Joseph Pease [Patronage Secretary to the Treasury, later...
Dates:
Apr 1901 - 30 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: correspondence., 04 Jan 1909 - 30 Nov 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/19
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sidney Webb [later 1st Lord Passfield] on Beatrice Webb [later Beatrice, Lady Passfield]'s Minority Report for the Poor Law Commission; Herbert Asquith [the Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the need to press on with the Board of Trade's unemployment proposals (2); Gilbert Upcott (Treasury) on trade cycles; Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith [Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade] on current Board of Trade proposals, internal promotion and press leaks...
Dates:
04 Jan 1909 - 30 Nov 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: German Imperial Finance: notes and papers., Feb 1908 - 29 Dec 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/33
Scope and Contents
Includes: a copy of the Foreign Office Diplomatic and Consular Report on the Finances of the German Empire for 1907, with estimates for 1908, by Count John de Salis, Councillor of the British Embassy, Berlin [Germany]; a draft memorandum on Public Finance in Britain and Germany by Alfred Flux; press cuttings on new German taxes; a report on German Imperial Revenue and Expenditure, 1905-1909; a note on the strains in the German economy by WSC; reports on German shipyards building warships for...
Dates:
Feb 1908 - 29 Dec 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: International Trade; National Revenue: notes and papers., Feb 1904 - 24 Dec 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/21
Scope and Contents
Includes: WSC's conclusions on the factors behind economic recovery; a general summary by Alfred Flux on the duration of the depression after commercial crises, in Britain and the United States; memoranda on Tariff Reform, including current employment levels, investment abroad and commercial relations between the United States and Germany; reports on Tariff Wars in Europe; a memorandum on Preferential Trade; annotated notes on retaliation; tables of relative increases in food prices in...
Dates:
Feb 1904 - 24 Dec 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: International Trade; National Revenue: notes and papers., 11 Aug 1904 - 30 Dec 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/22
Scope and Contents
Includes: notes by WSC on import duty; a memorandum by Alfred Flux on import duty; a memorandum on the financial aspect of 10% import duty on manufactured goods; note on the establishment of Liverpool as a Free Port, with a parliamentary paper on continental Free Ports; a memorandum on British investments abroad with notes by Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith [Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade]; a copy of the Corn Trade News, with accompanying comments and a letter from Sir Robert Hudson;...
Dates:
11 Aug 1904 - 30 Dec 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: notes and papers., 28 May 1907 - Jan 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/18
Scope and Contents
Includes: an extract from the "Transvaal Leader" on gold production in the Transvaal [South Africa]; a draft of the Board of Trade (Provisional Orders) Bill; notes on the Licensing Law Amendment Bill (1890); notes for a question in the House of Lords on Sunday Labour in the Mercantile Marine, in Britain and abroad, including a letter from Sir Walter Howell [Marine Secretary to the Board of Trade]; an annotated leaflet on the Budget and Unemployment by Sir Francis Mowatt; a draft memorandum...
Dates:
28 May 1907 - Jan 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Board of Trade: Patents and Designs Act: notes and papers., 03 Jul 1908 - 30 Nov 1909
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/15
Scope and Contents
Includes: a memorandum by Cornelius Dalton [Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks] on the results of the 1907 Patents and Designs Act; note from Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith [Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade] on the restricted role of the Comptroller of Patents, compared to the Board of Trade, in gathering information; a list of firms which have commenced or will commence work under the 1907 act.
Dates:
03 Jul 1908 - 30 Nov 1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Open