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First World War (1914-1918)

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1502 Collections and/or Records:

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Cabinet papers on naval policy and naval statistics, 1917-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 7/1
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Includes: memorandum by Winston Churchill on naval war policy, particularly the ineffectiveness of the distant blockade and the Navy's defensive approach, while submarines were attacking commercial shipping, and the advantages of inshore offensives from an overseas base close to Germany, such as the Frisian Islands, Borkum or Sylt; comparative tables for the Anglo-American and German fleets, supplied by Churchill.

Dates: 1917-07
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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"Camblain L’Abbe [France], 1915", 1915-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/66
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WSC in soldier's uniform and metal helmet in a group of people including (3rd from left) Captain Edward Spears and (to WSC's left) General Emile Fayolle. Just seen behind the General is a German prisoner wearing a cap.

Dates: 1915-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"Camblain L’Abbe [France], 1915: With General Fayolle", 1915-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/67
Scope and Contents

Photo shows WSC in soldier's uniform and metal helmet with General Emile Fayolle.

Dates: 1915-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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Captain Edward D. Ridley: diaries and letters

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7065-7070
Scope and Contents

Transcripts of diaries and letters, photgraphs, telegrams, postcards, cuttings and maps from the First World War.

Dates: 1914-1918
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Charles Hamilton Sorley: Memorial volume compiled by his parents Professor William Sorley and Mrs Janetta Sorley

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10156
Scope and Contents This collection, comprised of a bound volume and a folder of loose material, has been catalogued following the original pagination (marked in pencil) in the following order: MS Add.10156/1 (pages 1-28 of the bound volume) contains an index to publications and extracts from reviews of ‘Marlborough and other Poems’, 1916-18 with some items of related correspondence; MS Add.10156/2/1-26 (pages 29-59) contains letters of appreciation to Professor and Mrs Sorley of Charles Sorley’s poems,...
Dates: 1912-1986
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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"Clementine Churchill": correspondence between CSC and Churchill, May-Nov 1915, 1970-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/45
Scope and Contents

Transcripts, also including notes by Margot Levy on the Dardanelles Campaign.

Dates: 1970-08
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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"Clementine Churchill": Nellie Romilly, 1914-15, 1966 - 1992

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/42
Scope and Contents

Notes on CSC's younger sister Nellie Hozier, particularly on her marriage to Bertram Romilly in 1915 and her work with Angela Manners's nursing unit in Belgium in 1914. Includes a copy of Nellie Hozier's article for the English Review, 1915, on her adventures when the unit was taken prisoner during the retreat from Mons, Belgium, and copies of letters from a nurse with the unit.

Dates: 1966 - 1992
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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"Clementine Churchill": YMCA, 1915-16, 1964 - 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/47
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Notes and correspondence on CSC's work for the YMCA [Young Men's Christian Association] during the First World War, including a copy of a letter from CSC to David Lloyd George [Minister of Munitions] on the YMCA's work in the munitions factories and copies of letters and articles from YM magazine covering CSC's opening of the Munition Workers' Centres at Waltham Abbey [Essex] and Enfield Lock [London] and her work on the YMCA Canteens for Munition Workers.

Dates: 1964 - 1966
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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Col. Bertram Romilly: Letters from Sudan and France

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9656
Scope and Contents

Letters written to Romilly's father describing his military experiences.

Dates: 1912-1915
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Commemorative medallion/ coin to mark the end of the First World War (WW1), 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/KEN2/19/1/1
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King's head on one side, 'Welcome peace 1914-1919' on the other.

Dates: 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods: 30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files; 50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees; 100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years. Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
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"Conditions of armistice with Austria-Hungary", 31 Oct 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/53/37-40
Scope and Contents Paper discussed by the Supreme War Council at Versailles, France setting out the terms of an armistice with Austria-Hungary. Includes military clauses about the ending of hostilities, the demobilisation of Austro-Hungarian forces, evacuation of territories occupied by Austro-Hungarian forces; rights for Allied troops to make use of transport links; evacuation of German troops from Italian and Balkan fronts and all Austro-Hungarian territory; and repatriation of Allied prisoners....
Dates: 31 Oct 1918
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Conscientious objection in the First World War, 1914 - 1923, 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 1/2
Scope and Contents Includes: notes for a speech on "Democrats and Diplomats", 1915; cuttings of articles by AFB; AFB's court summons, 1916; press cutting on his third court martial trial at Chester Castle [1916]; typed copy of the prison newspaper [from Walton Prison, Liverpool, edited by AFB], 'The Walton Leader' and a small booklet about Conscientious Objector prison newspapers, "The C.O. Clink Chronicle"; flyer for the Resist the War Committee; open letter from AFB to the German Socialists with a covering...
Dates: 1914 - 1923; 1959
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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Conscientious Objectors , c 1976-80

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 3/19
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Ms draft and typed copy of a memorandum by AFB, "The Opposition to the War", particularly on the role of the Independent Labour Party and the International Socialist movement in opposing the First World War.

Dates: c 1976-80
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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Copy of an unpublished memoir, 1865-1926, 1926 - 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CAVN 1/1
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Comprising: Home, Clevedon, Eton; Sandhurst and Examinations; The Grenadier Guards; Racing: a Story of the Inevitable; Ireland; Canada; South African War 1900-1902; Tennis, Hunting, Stalking, Golf, Fishing and Shooting; The First German War: France and Belgium; Italy; Some Notes on the Battle of Vittorio Veneto and After; From Aldershot to Washington; and War Office 1922-26.
With correspondence with Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1925 (2).

Dates: 1926 - 1946
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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Correspondence, 1913-01 - 1915-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/2
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Letters from LSA to: Major-General Charles Callwell [Director of Military Operations at the War Office] on the Dardanelles campaign, particularly effects on Bulgaria and Greece; Sir Edward Carson on policy towards Ulster [Northern Ireland]; Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] on Andrew Bonar Law's threat to resign as leader of the Conservative Party over Imperial Preference.

Also includes: paper by LSA on Imperial Preference.

Dates: 1913-01 - 1915-04
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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Correspondence A - Z, 1918-01 - 1918-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/1
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, warning LSA that by writing as a private individual on military questions (while also Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet), he was acting improperly; Lord Curzon, Lord President of the Council, commenting on a paper by LSA on foreign affairs and on the future of Palestine (3); Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, thanking LSA for his congratulations over the Palestine Campaign and commenting on the political situation in Palestine and...
Dates: 1918-01 - 1918-12
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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Correspondence about conscription resignations, 1915-12 - 1916-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCKN 5/9
Scope and Contents Correspondence on McKenna's threat to resign over the Military Service Act, with correspondents including: Margot Asquith [later Lady Oxford and Asquith], reporting Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]'s view that Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War] had bungled the matter and asking McKenna not to desert Asquith (2); Maurice Hankey [Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence] begging McKenna not to resign; John Whitehouse...
Dates: 1915-12 - 1916-01
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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Correspondence and papers on the Legion d’Honneur, 1918-02 - 1919-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 11/2/2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on the award, and the refusal of the Foreign Office to ratify it. Includes the certificate awarding MS membership of the Legion.

Dates: 1918-02 - 1919-05
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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Correspondence including Jutland controversy, 1918 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SLGF 6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection includes: letters collected by Leslie while working on the biography of Beatty, notes by him, and extracts from a diary, and his manuscript and typescript drafts; letters dealing both with the production of "The Epic of Jutland" and its reception; and letters from Beatty to Eugenie Godfrey Faussett.

Dates: 1918 - 1961
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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Correspondence on military service, 1914 - 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 8/36
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with or concerning staff members of the Royal Observatory on active war service, covering pay, changes of address, commissions, operations, demobilisation and re-employment. There letters are foliated in one sequence, beginning with volumes for 1914-1916 and 1916-1918, and concluding with an envelope of loose letters for 1918-1919. The volumes have been incorrectly bound as part of the series of Annual Visitation Official Correspondence (formerly A6).

Dates: 1914 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence on MS's First World War hospital work, 1915-07 - 1917-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 11/2/1
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Subjects include: a complaint against the hospital by General Ragueneau and MS's defence of her work; her wish to stay with the French; whether the hospital would be retained after 1916; obtaining permission for her to work with the 6th Army.

Includes a certificate of thanks from the French army medical service for the work done by MS during the battle of the Somme.

Dates: 1915-07 - 1917-03
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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Correspondence with family and friends, 1911-04 - 1922-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCHL 4/8
Scope and Contents Includes: a letter from Jack to Lady Randolph Churchill on his and Winston's distress at her husband [George Cornwallis-West]'s affair with Mrs Patrick Campbell; report from Jack to Winston on a conversation with Field Marshal Sir John French [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France, later 1st Lord Ypres] in October 1914, on the fighting round Ypres [Belgium], help from Winston, the defence of Antwerp, French's view of conscription and the future of the war; two letters from...
Dates: 1911-04 - 1922-08
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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Cuttings, 1913-10-21 - 1915-10-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 21
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Cuttings and cartoons of WSC suggesting 'naval holiday' for Britain and Germany; articles (some German and French) on relations between Britain, Germany and Austria-Hungary; photos of WSC inspecting seaplanes; cartoons and WSC’s speeches on Home Rule, Navy, Antwerp [Belgium], Dardanelles.

Dates: 1913-10-21 - 1915-10-30
Conditions Governing Access: Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
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"Dardanelles Calendar", showing warships from the Allied nations, 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 5/11
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

Dates: 1916
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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Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: documents handed in relating to the statement by WSC on operations to the end of the first phase., 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/81
Scope and Contents

Includes 6 sets of duplicates, with 1 additional document not present in the original set.

Dates: 1916
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.