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Photograph of WSC facing away from the camera, standing with his hat in his hand, in a half-walled passenger lift, being hoisted off a ship, following his escape from Pretoria [South Africa].

Scope and Contents Correspondence (mainly congratulations) on a libel action brought against LSA by a soldier from the South African War, with correspondents including: representatives of Crowders, Vizard, Oldham and Company, solicitors (13); Francis Mildmay; Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wight-Boycott; Harold Prichard; [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain; 1st Lord Haldane; Robert Philipson-Stow; Major-General Sir Frederick Benson; Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Duncombe; 3rd Lord Denman; General Sir [Henry] Leslie Rundle; L J...

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Reports and interviews used in LSA's defence in a libel action brought against him by a soldier from the South African War, including: accounts of a battle at Leliefontein, near Senekal (1900); annotated proofs from the Times History of the South African War; witness statements and other legal papers; material from an earlier action brought against General Sir [Henry] Leslie Rundle and others.

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Image shows WSC (head and shoulders) in Durban smiling to camera holding his hat to his chest with a crowd of people and ship in the background.

Scope and Contents Letters on LSA's Times History of the South African War, with correspondents including: General 1st Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, authorising officers to send information of historical value to LSA; [Henry] Montague Bell [Times War Correspondent, South African War] (7); Richard Haldane; Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Hamilton on the Boers and Somaliland [later Somalia]; Bernard Holland [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Colonies] on the new constitution of the...

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The records include records (transcripts, video and audio tapes) of interviews with people regarding their (or their relatives') personal recollections of Sir Winston Churchill or their experiences of events related to Sir Winston's career (e.g. the bombing of Dresden). There are also files of transcripts of Sir Martin Gilbert's 'pieces to camera'.

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Interviews with Mr Boshoff, Elizabeth Nel [formerly Elizabeth Layton], Don Burnham (a nephew of the man who helped WSC escape from the Boers), Chris de Souza (the grandson of Louis de Souza, Secretary of War), Errol Dewsnap, Nancy Horsefall, Judith Wulfse Roos and Denzil Hollis. Footage of South Africa (slates 631-660).

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Issue of the London Gazette on the South African despatches from Field Marshal 1st Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, to the War Office, on events in the Boer War, and an issue of John Bull.

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Letter from Churchill to Colonel Frederick Stopford [Military Secretary to General Sir Redvers Buller in South Africa], asking to be listed amongst prisoners to be exchanged.

Scope and Contents Subjects covered include: the Boer War and anxieties about the safety of Winston Churchill and Jack, her work on the hospital ship Maine; Winston's political aspirations, opinion of her writing, and mention of his relationship with Pamela Plowden [later Pamela, Lady Lytton]; Lady Randolph's plans to marry George Cornwallis West, reassurance of her feelings for her sons; financial worries; meeting King Edward VII; arrangements for leasing Winston's house. Also includes a draft letter to her...

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Letters from LSA to his mother Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner] on subjects including: his progress at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford; whether to go into the Diplomatic Service and his hopes for a future political career; his brother Geoffrey Amery's progress at Oxford; her health and travels in Europe; his work as a war correspondent for the Times in South Africa; his visit to Canada (1905); the Times History of the War in South Africa.

Scope and Contents Letters from LSA to his mother Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner] on subjects including: a visit to Turkey, including Constantinople [later Istanbul] and Salonika [later Thessaloniki]; his election to a fellowship at All Souls College [University of Oxford]; a visit to Vienna [Austria] and meeting William Lavino, correspondent for the Times; LSA's travels in Bulgaria, Serbia and Macedonia [later North Macedonia] and difficulties with the Turkish authorities; his visit to Bosnia...

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Includes galley proofs of the entire volume [with the exception of the index]: introductory pages and books 10-12, "Recovery and Reform", "The Great Republic", and "The Victorian Age" [chapter 7 of which, "The Dawn of the Twentieth Century" is renamed "The South African War" in the published volume].With very minor suggested amendments and notes from various people [secretaries, literary assistants, etc.] including: [Alan Hodge].

Scope and Contents Proofs for various articles by WSC for the Strand Magazine: "[Georges] Clemenceau: the man and the tiger" including his relationship with [Field Marshal Ferdinand] Foch, French politics and World War I; "If I lived my life over again" on various decisions taken by WSC, gambling, his experiences during the Boer War and at the Admiralty and his attitude towards the Conservative Party; "People who have influenced or impressed me" on Lord Randolph Churchill, William Bourke Cockran, Sir Francis...

Scope and Contents Proofs and cutting of various articles and short pieces by WSC: an introduction to a biography of 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] by 2nd Lord Birkenhead [earlier Frederick Smith]; "Great fighters in lost causes" on the careers of various historical figures; "Shakespeare's plays as short stories: Julius Caesar"; "Life - the greatest secret of all and how to tackle all its trials and problems"; "England. My England" in which WSC dwells on his pride in his country; "If I lived my life...

Scope and Contents Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Big Navy" on the possibilities of war between Japan and China, or Japan and the United States; "A King is Crowned" on the relationship between the Crown and the Empire, George VI and past coronations; "The Better Way" on the similarities between Nazism and Communism, Benito Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler; "Menace Over Europe" on the threat of war arising from the economic strains in Germany, Italy and Japan; "Jellicoe" on...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Viola [Violet] Lady Apsley [earlier Violet Bathurst] on quoting WSC on fox-hunting (2); representatives of Odhams Press Limited including [William] Surrey Dane [Vice-Chairman and Managerial Consultant] (15); representatives of the BBC (17); Allen Lane of Penguin Books offering to publish the book; Sir George Bull; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (2); B W Cummins, honorary editor of the Swimming Times, on quoting WSC on swimming (5). Also...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Charles Eade, [editor] of the Sunday Dispatch, proposing the book publication of WSC's articles on monarchs (2); Sir Robert Hodgson on a letter from WSC on King Alfonso XIII of Spain; representatives of Odhams Press Limited particularly G C Piper of the Book Department (20); representatives of Fladgate and Company particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (24); James Thornton, Assistant Controller, (2) and Mary Somerville, Controller, Talks Division, BBC, and John,...

Scope and Contents Others correspondents include: Sir William Haley, [Editor] of the Times, on WSC writing a tribute on Marsh's death (2); 10th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [earlier Lord Bruce]; James Stewart-Murray [?9th Duke of Atholl]; David Garnett on his publishing a volume of T E Lawrence's [T E Shaw, "Lawrence of Arabia"] letters. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: Denis Kelly [literary assistant to WSC]; secretaries Grace Hamblin, Anthony Montague Browne, Lettice Marston [later Lettice...

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Typescript of article, "Lord Roberts", published in World's Work", Jun 1901, reprinted in "The Windsor Magazine", Jul 1901, with letters (2) from Colonel Neville Chamberlain, former Staff Officer to Lord Roberts, making comments on the text.

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Includes notes about the Boer War, the treatment of rebels in South Africa and sport at Harrow school. Also includes transcripts of letters to WSC from [3rd Lord] Salisbury, [Evelyn, 1st Lord] Cromer criticising WSC's writing, Albert Edward [Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII] on WSC's letters to the Daily Telegraph concerning battles on the North West Frontier in India and a letter from "De Profundis" [?to the Harrovian] concerning conditions at Harrow school.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Henry Morton on WSC's escape from the Boers; Antony Brett-James; Winifred Bull on her WSC quotation calendars (4); Randolph Churchill on Collier's magazine taking colour pictures of WSC; Sir Charles Petrie (2); John Lockhart; Allen Lane of Penguin Books (2); representatives of H A and W L Pitkin Limited (11) on subjects including reproducing a 1941 letter from King George VI to WSC and various of their publications; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall; Sir Norman...

Scope and Contents Carbon copies of the following articles by WSC: "My Life" [in 12 parts]: "Looking Back on Sixty Years" on WSC's childhood, education and time at Sandhurst; "Frontier Days in India" on WSC's expedition to India with the 4th Hussars, and the frontier risings of 1897; "Charge of the 21st Lancers" on the battle of Omdurman and the Sudan Campaign; "Taken Prisoner by the Boers" on WSC as a war correspondent in South Africa; "My Escape from Pretoria"; "My Entry into Politics" on writing Lord...

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Cuttings of the following articles by WSC from "My Life": "Taken Prisoner by the Boers" on WSC as a war correspondent in South Africa; "My Escape from Pretoria"; "My Entry into Politics" on writing Lord Randolph Churchill's autobiography and the Free Trade issue; "Changing the Political Camp" on going over to the Liberals, South Africa and the Board of Trade; Looking Back on Sixty Years" on WSC's childhood, education and time at Sandhurst.

Scope and Contents Galley proofs of the following articles by WSC: "My Life" [in 12 parts]: "Looking Back on Sixty Years" on WSC's childhood, education and time at Sandhurst; "Frontier Days in India" on WSC's expedition to India with the 4th Hussars, and the frontier risings of 1897; "Charge of the 21st Lancers" on the battle of Omdurman and the Sudan Campaign; "Taken Prisoner by the Boers" on WSC as a war correspondent in South Africa; "My Escape from Pretoria"; "My Entry into Politics" on writing Lord...