Economic policy
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Official: Treasury: various papers on reviving the trade facilities scheme and intervention to reduce unemployment., 16 Oct 1928 - 11 Apr 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/106
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Includes memoranda, letters, minutes and notes by: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade] (3); [Sir Arthur Duckham]; President of the Board of Trade [Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (2); William Brown [Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade].Also includes: Conference on industrial reorganisation and industrial relations report...
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16 Oct 1928 - 11 Apr 1929
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Official: Treasury: various papers on sketch estimates and economies., 18 Nov 1927 - 19 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/47
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Includes memoranda and notes from Treasury officials including: Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Gilbert Upcott [Deputy Controller]; Alfred Hurst; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Alfred Watson, Government Actuary.Also includes drafts and copies of minutes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services, Treasury]; copy of WSC's speech on making the 1927 budget financial...
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18 Nov 1927 - 19 Dec 1927
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 16 Nov 1924 - 24 Dec 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/3
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin]; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne, Financial Secretary]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller]; Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the...
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16 Nov 1924 - 24 Dec 1924
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 01 Jan 1925 - 19 Sep 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/12A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC]; Financial Secretary [Walter Guinness, later 1st Lord Moyne]; Sir Horace...
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01 Jan 1925 - 19 Sep 1925
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 11 Oct 1925 - 27 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/13A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller]; Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Alfred Hurst; Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; Sir Horace Hamilton...
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11 Oct 1925 - 27 Dec 1925
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 02 Jan 1926 - 14 Dec 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/30A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller]; Sir Warren Fisher...
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02 Jan 1926 - 14 Dec 1926
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 19 Jan 1927 - 30 Jun 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/45A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Alfred Hurst; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War]; Sir...
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19 Jan 1927 - 30 Jun 1927
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 03 Jul 1927 - 31 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/46A-B
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue until 1927, then Controller of Finance and Supply Services]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin]; Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; John Gretton MP; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent...
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03 Jul 1927 - 31 Dec 1927
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 01 Jan 1928 - 31 Mar 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/74
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise];...
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01 Jan 1928 - 31 Mar 1928
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 04 Apr 1928 - 20 Dec 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/75
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Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Alfred Hurst [Principal Assistant Secretary]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Permanent Secretary, Board of...
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04 Apr 1928 - 20 Dec 1928
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Official: Treasury: WSC's minutes., 28 Jan 1929 - 23 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/103
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Includes carbon copies of minutes from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: Sir Richard Hopkins [Controller of Finance and Supply Services]; Gilbert Upcott [Deputy Controller]; Sir Francis Floud [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary]; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Frederick Leith-Ross [Deputy Controller...
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28 Jan 1929 - 23 May 1929
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Official: War and Air: correspondence, minutes, notes, and other papers., 31 Dec 1920 - 31 Jan 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/71
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Correspondents include: Colonel Walter Kirke [Deputy Director Military Operations]; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (4); Secretary to the Cabinet [Sir Maurice Hankey].Also includes minutes and notes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; a map of Persia [later Iran]; WSC's notes on a visit to Paris [France] and talks with Alexandre Millerand...
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31 Dec 1920 - 31 Jan 1921
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russia., 05 May 1919 - 30 Aug 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/24
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Correspondents include: Major Sir Ernest Shackleton; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (12); Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Briggs (5); General Sir Henry Wilson [Chief of Imperial General Staff]; William de Ropp; Vladimir Litvinov-Falynsky; C Nabokov.Also includes copy minutes, telegrams and notes from WSC to some of those mentioned above and to Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington];...
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05 May 1919 - 30 Aug 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russia., 02 Sep 1919 - 22 Sep 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/25
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Correspondents include: Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (7); Gregori Alexinsky; Lieutenant-General Sir Hubert Gough [Chief, Allied Mission Baltic]; General Nikolai Youdenitch; Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Kisch (2); Major-General Neill Malcolm [British Military Mission, Berlin, Germany]; Brigadier-General Edward Spears [Head of the British Military Mission to Paris, France]; local government officials from north...
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02 Sep 1919 - 22 Sep 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russian economic affairs., 18 Jun 1919 - 30 Sep 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/27
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Correspondents include: Oliver Locker-Lampson; Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (18); Vladimir Litvinov-Falynsky (2); Sir Picton Bagge (6); George Young (2); 1st Lord Curzon [Lord President of Council] (2); Frederick Butler (Department of Overseas Trade) (2); Colonel Richard Steel; Piotr Rutenberg; and Sidney Reilly on intelligence reports about Rutenberg.Subjects covered by the file include: economic assistance for...
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18 Jun 1919 - 30 Sep 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russian economic affairs., 03 Oct 1919 - 10 Dec 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/28
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Correspondents include: Sir Picton Bagge (8); Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War] (9); William Peters; Carol Yaroshinsky; Sir William Clark (Department of Overseas Trade); Peter Bark; Brigadier-General Edward Spears [Head of the British Military Mission to Paris]; Sidney Reilly with information about fund-raising for Russia in France and the United States, and a paper on the situation in Russia (3).Subjects covered by the...
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03 Oct 1919 - 10 Dec 1919
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Official: War and Air: memoranda, notes, and other correspondence on Russian economic affairs for WSC and Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso, Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary State for War]., 03 Jan 1920 - 19 Oct 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/57
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Correspondents include: Sidney Reilly (3); Sir Picton Bagge (3); a representative of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company.Also includes copy letter from Sinclair to Peter Bark.Subjects include: Reilly's scheme for trade with Russia; German assistance to the Russian economy; reopening regular channels of communication with Russia.
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03 Jan 1920 - 19 Oct 1920
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Official: War Cabinet: Correspondence and papers., 31 Dec 1918 - 31 Aug 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/57
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Letters or papers from various individuals including: [Major General Sir] William Thwaites [Director of Military Intelligence, War Office]; [Major-General Tasker] Bliss regarding the United States' view on the Peace Conference; Lord Curzon of Kedlestone [Lord President of the Council] on British policy in Russia and Bolshevism (2); 5th Lord Kilmarnock on Bolshevik atrocities; Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on a disagreement with WSC over the relationship between Secretaries...
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31 Dec 1918 - 31 Aug 1919
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Official: War Cabinet: Demobilisation Committee: memoranda., 02 Nov 1918 - 26 Nov 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/50
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Includes papers by various individuals on demobilisation issues including: [1st] Lord Cave, Home Secretary, on the demobilisation of enemy aliens; WSC, Minister of Munitions; [Sir Arthur] Duckham on industrial transition; [1st] Lord Inchcape [earlier James Mackay] on capital issues; Sir Stephenson Kent [Controller-General of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement] on training for women and building licenses; Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction] on subjects including the...
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02 Nov 1918 - 26 Nov 1918
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Official: War Cabinet: Economic Development Committee: minutes and memoranda., 18 Jun 1918 - 05 Nov 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/47
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Includes minutes of statements made by: Austen Chamberlain; George Barnes; [Sir] Edwin Montagu; Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction]; and Sir Alfred Mond, First Commissioner of Works. Subjects discussed include: the control of raw cotton in India; allocation of materials; economic policy; shipping; the quality of bread; allied propaganda; disposal of government factories; ship-building; supply of food to enemy countries and between allies.Also includes: papers by Lord...
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18 Jun 1918 - 05 Nov 1918
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office reports on the economic situation in Germany and Austria-Hungary., 23 Jul 1917 - 22 Nov 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/13
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Includes three reports from [William] Max-Muller addressed to [1st] Lord Hardinge of Penshurst [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] including details of the food supply, labour difficulties and trade and industry in Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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23 Jul 1917 - 22 Nov 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Foreign Office reports on the economic situation in Germany and Austria-Hungary., 26 Jan 1918 - 26 Oct 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/56
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Includes printed reports from [William] Max-Muller and Michael Sadler addressed to [1st] Lord Hardinge of Penshurst [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] including details of the food supply, labour difficulties and trade and industry in Germany and Austria-Hungary.
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26 Jan 1918 - 26 Oct 1918
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 03 Apr 1917 - 27 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/2
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Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: a War Cabinet paper on airship construction policy; Jan Smuts [South African Representative on the Imperial War Cabinet] on air preparations and offensives; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet, on airship construction; Sir Edward Carson [First Lord of the Admiralty], Sir Albert Stanley [later 1st Lord Ashfield] President of the Board of Trade, and Ernest Pollock on the proposed economic offensive against Germany;...
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03 Apr 1917 - 27 Sep 1917
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Official: War Cabinet: Weekly Intelligence Reports: Western and General., 03 Oct 1917 - 27 Dec 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/29
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Includes printed summaries of affairs throughout the British empire and Africa and other parts of the world with notes by Leo Amery [Secretary of State for the Colonies and for the Dominions].Subjects covered include: shipping; peace discussions; Germany's attitude towards a post-war trade war; the Allied war conference; enemy agents in Italy; and affairs in Germany.
Dates:
03 Oct 1917 - 27 Dec 1917
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Papers received from the Conservative Research Department, August- December 1977, 1977-08 - 1977-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/11/9/5
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From the Series:
Includes: papers from the Bow Group, Bruges Group, Centre for Policy Studies, Conservatives Abroad, Conservative Political Centre, Conservative Research Department, Conservative Trade Unionists, Conservative Way Forward Group, European Democratic Group, Federation of Conservative Students, IDU, Monday Club, No Turning Back Group and the Selsdon Group
Dates:
1977-08 - 1977-12
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