First World War (1914-1918)
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Found in 1514 Collections and/or Records:
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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, 28 Mar 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/27-28
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC having decided to come back [from the trenches] as soon as possible; Colonel [Troker] receiving command of a brigade rather than WSC; criticism of the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith]; United Kingdom loans to Italy; Clare Sheridan [née Frewen] and Oswald [Frewen, WSC's cousins], staying with Lady Randolph Churchill; Clara and Moreton [Frewen, Lady Randolph Churchill's sister and brother-in-law] being ill; a telegram from Jack [Churchill] in Alexandria [Egypt]; Lady...
Dates:
28 Mar 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.
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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 5 Dec 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/10-12
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC being out of the trenches; a matinee of a play which Lady Randolph had organised in aid of the London Bridge Buffet which was feeding 1200 people a day; attending the "Asquith wedding" of [Violet Asquith and Maurice Bonham Carter] and going to Nellie [Hozier's house, later Nellie Romilly]; the danger of Austria coming under German rule; the Calais Conference and a rumour about [Lord Kitchener] having a row with Briand [French Prime Minister] and the Russians about...
Dates:
5 Dec 1915
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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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (Ladies Athenaeum Club, Dover Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 27 Nov 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/7-9
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC being "in the trenches", having dinner with Adele Essex [Adele Capell, Countess of Essex] who had heard that WSC had been offered command of a brigade but refused it, dining with G [?] and George Curzon [Lord Curzon of Kedleston], and inviting [Andrew] Bonar Law [later Prime Minister]; giving WSC's address to George Curzon so he could write; dining at "C R" [41 Cromwell Road, London] with CSC, Lady Helen Mitford and [Nellie Hozier, later Romilly]; contributing £40 a...
Dates:
27 Nov 1915
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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Letter from Sir Roger Keyes, 08 Sep 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/28/28-30
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (HMS Warspite, Mediterranean Fleet, Off Thaso [Thasos, Greece] marked "private" to WSC on subjects including: WSC's role in leading the government during the miners' strike; observations about [1st Lord] Beatty and his position [as Admiral of the Fleet] recommending that Beatty should remain in his role to oversee any further naval reductions, Beatty's role at the Battle of Jutland ("he saved the honour of the British Navy"); WSC's account...
Dates:
08 Sep 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Letter to MacCurdy from Sigmund Freud in Vienna about their respective academic projects, and assuring him that work continues as usual in Vienna in spite of the War, 19150212
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/JTMacC/1/1
Dates:
19150212
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Letter to Rivers from Allen Hurst, with thanks for sending a paper on Freud's theories, 1917-07-12
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/3/5
Scope and Contents
Hurst complains about the misuse of Freud's theories in the treatment of trauma patients, but concedes that Freud's theories properly understood are valuable.
Dates:
1917-07-12
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Letter to Rivers from C. S. Myers on 'shell shock' and repressed memory, 1917-08-20
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/3/13
Scope and Contents
Myers writes that he envies Rivers his freedom to publish his findings, since Myers was prevented by the military from circulating his work on 'reassociative' treatments.
Dates:
1917-08-20
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Letter to Rivers from C. S. Myers with thanks for sending the 'Lancet' paper and commenting on it, 1917-08-02
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/3/12
Scope and Contents
Myers praises Rivers for his work, but goes on to try to convince Rivers that hypnosis can be used effectively to reveal repressed memories (something Rivers is against).
Dates:
1917-08-02
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Letter to Rivers from Edward A. Bolt of the University of Toronto, 1917-09-13
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/3/16
Scope and Contents
The writer explains that, having visited some centres of rehabilitation and treatment in France, he is now on his way to Canada and so will be unable to join Rivers at Craig Lockhart as hoped. The letter is written from the Berners Hotel, Berners Street.
Dates:
1917-09-13
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Letter to Rivers from Leonard Blumgart, a practitioner in New York, 1917-07-24
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/3/10
Scope and Contents
Blumgart asks if Rivers would consider entering into an exchange with him, since he has been following Freud's methods in New York for five years and would like to discuss results.
Dates:
1917-07-24
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Letter to Rivers from Maurice Nicoll with thanks for sending the paper on Freud's theories, 1917-07-16
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/3/6
Scope and Contents
Nicoll writes from the Empire Hospital for neurological cases at Vincent Square, Pimlico, and hopes that Rivers's work will influence young practitioners for the good since there are too many smug and complacent doctors who do not know how to treat neurological cases.
Dates:
1917-07-16
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Letter to Rivers from W McAlpine about progress at the Red Cross Military Hospital at Maghull, near Liverpool, 1917-09-11
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/3/14
Scope and Contents
McAlpine is treating patients and trying to study at the same time, and comments on the complexity of the field and how much there is to learn. He himself is recovering but writes that he is gaining strength and speaking better. See also McAlpine's later letter (dated 1919) which is WHRivers/3/19.
Dates:
1917-09-11
Series
Letters and memoranda, 1898-01 - 1919-12
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 4
Scope and Contents
This series contains a vast array of correspondents from both the Royal Household and political and military notables of the period. Some of the key correspondents have been noted here, with additional information about the topics discussed, which are mainly related to the war effort and to politics. Many of the volumes have a brief contents page at the back. Most of the volumes contain copies of outgoing correspondence, although several have original incoming letters, inparticular from...
Dates:
1898-01 - 1919-12
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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Letters from Archer Geoffrey Lyttelton to Margaret Lucy Becher and photograph of Lyttelton, 1914 - 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN III/01
Scope and Contents
Lyttelton writes of experiences during the war, of his experience at Ypres in 1914 as Lieutenant Colonel - he writes on a typewriter, missing the P. Includes a letter regarding Archer being fit for service again.
Dates:
1914 - 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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Letters from ELS, 1918-01 - 1918-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 11/1/3
Scope and Contents
Love letters from ELS to MS with other subjects including support from Winston Churchill, his difficulties with General Sir Henry Wilson and Marshal Ferdinand Foch, their marriage settlement, his promised promotion to Brigadier-General, the Supreme War Council at Versailles and her health.
Also includes letters from her former husband [George] Douglas Turner.
Dates:
1918-01 - 1918-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Letters from Fisher to George Lambert and papers collected by Lambert, 1901 - 1971
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FISR 16
Scope and Contents
Letters from Fisher to Lambert [Civil Lord of the Admiralty], papers relating to Fisher's part in the Dardanelles Inquiry, other letters and papers by Fisher, and correspondence with Fisher's friends on his letters, collected by Lambert as Fisher’s literary executor, for use in his biography.
Dates:
1901 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Letters from Indian Army Troops
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6170
Scope and Contents
English translations by D.C. Phillott of letters from Indian Army troops serving in Palestine.
Dates:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Letters from Lady Gwendeline ("Goonie") to Jack Churchill and Peregrine Churchill, 1914 - 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PCHL 5/1
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered include: looking after Winston and Clementine Churchill's children while they were on holiday in Overstrand [Norfolk] and trouble with their French nurse as her family was in occupied territory; her fear of a German invasion and wish that Jack Churchill could be with her; her distress that the Oxfordshire Yeomanry were going to be sent to France; meeting Roger Keyes [Captain and Commodore in charge of the Submarine Service]; cheering reports of the army from Field Marshal...
Dates:
1914 - 1940
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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Letters from Maurice and Adeline Hankey to Robin Hankey and Ursula Hankey [later Benn], 1919-02-17 - 1919-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AHKY 1/1/26
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered include: a trip to France including visits to St Germain and the battlefield at Chemin des Dames and [Georges] Clemenceau's shooting.
Dates:
1919-02-17 - 1919-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
One item within the collection (AHKY 3/1/6) is currently closed for conservation reasons.
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Letters from Maurice to Adeline Hankey, 1917-07-03 - 1917-07-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AHKY 1/1/19
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered include: Maurice's trip to Rome [Italy]; his work for David Lloyd George [Prime Minister] and the War Cabinet; concern that the War Cabinet is overburdened; hopes to return home; meeting the [8th] Duke of Rutland; and Maurice's influential report on the Admiralty.
Dates:
1917-07-03 - 1917-07-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
One item within the collection (AHKY 3/1/6) is currently closed for conservation reasons.
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Letters from Maurice to Adeline Hankey, 1917-08-07 - 1917-09-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AHKY 1/1/20
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered include: a diary of one of Maurice's typical days, the workload of the War Cabinet, his hopes to return home and account of an air raid.
Dates:
1917-08-07 - 1917-09-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
One item within the collection (AHKY 3/1/6) is currently closed for conservation reasons.
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Letters from Winston Churchill to AS, 1915 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THRS I/1/1-28
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill wishing he could share AS's time in the trenches with him and finding a constituency for him after the war; Churchill's speech in Dundee [Scotland, 5 June 1915, explaining his actions as First Lord on his departure from the Admiralty] being 'the best that is in me'; the bitterness of his situation and his bewilderment and resentment at the actions of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, David Lloyd George [Minister of Munitions] and Herbert Asquith [Prime...
Dates:
1915 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the fire-damaged material in section VI, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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'Letters Home from Members of Cambridge University in the War, 2014-12
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/1/Alston/1
Scope and Contents
Within the volume is one letter from Alston, written from Germany.
Dates:
Publication: 2014-12
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Letters on ELS, 1971-05 - 1972-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 2/25
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on mentions of ELS in histories of the First World War, also relating to his Alsatian dog, Rex. Correspondents include 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton].
Also includes copies of letters relating to ELS from the First World War, with letters from Winston Churchill (1915-16), on trying to get ELS promoted and his admiration for him (originals at SPRS 1/76), from Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Imperial War Cabinet] on the value of his work (original at...
Dates:
1971-05 - 1972-10
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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Letters to Beatrice Bateson, 1917-1918, 1917 & Jan. 1918
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8634/A.21
Scope and Contents
Includes letters sent by Bateson from France and England. Some are written on the back of torn pages from the Journal of Genetics (items 10-11 & 13-14). Two 1918 letters are on paper headed ‘Y.M.C.A. On Active Service with the British Expeditionary Force’ (items 15 [15:1r] and 20 [20:1r]).
Dates:
1917 & Jan. 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).