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First World War (1914-1918)

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1434 Collections and/or Records:

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Official: War Council., 01 Jan 1915 - 14 Mar 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/4
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Foreign Office telegrams from Russia, France, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania [Romania], Italy; mainly on Esatern and Western Fronts.

Dates: 01 Jan 1915 - 14 Mar 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: War Council., 27 Jan 1915 - Nov 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/5
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War Office Prints concerning Russia including: Despatches by Colonel Alfred Knox, Military Attache, Petrograd on Armament, Operations around Lodz; the South West Front in the Eastern Theatre; Events in Northern Poland, Mar 1915.

Dates: 27 Jan 1915 - Nov 1915
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos: letters and papers, 1906 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/8/1-12
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Includes childhood and war time letters to his parents.

Dates: 1906 - 1972
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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Orders issued during the Dardanelles campaign, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 5/1
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Mainly concerning wireless telegraphy.

Dates: 1915
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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Pamphlets, 1914 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 3/88
Scope and Contents Includes: "The Outbreak of War", 1914, reissued as "England, Germany and Europe", 1914, and as "L'Angleterre, L'Allemagne et L'Europe" and "England, Deutschland und Europa", 1915; "Letter to a Neutral", 1915, also "The Truth about England exposed in a Letter to a Neutral"; "The War: a New Crisis", 1917 (review of various books, including Prince Bernhard von Bülow's 'Imperial Germany' with a foreword by JWHM); "The Dead Lands of Europe", 1917; "Belgium and Greece", 1917 (also issued as the...
Dates: 1914 - 1917
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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Papers: army reform, 1896 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 16
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Includes: papers of the Military Education Committee; papers on the employment of Royal Engineers in the construction of barracks, etc; papers of the War Office Reconstruction Committee; papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence; Allied propaganda and military intelligence from the First World War; papers of the Army in India Committee.

Dates: 1896 - 1920
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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Papers: Navy and Admiral 1st Lord Fisher, 1902 - 1919-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 17
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Printed papers, including: papers on the Mediterranean Fleet; the new Admiralty training scheme; memoranda by Fisher; naval necessities; 'Some notes by Lord Fisher for his Friends'.

Dates: 1902 - 1919-01
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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Papers of Rear Admiral Edward Villiers, 1881 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/VILL 1/1
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Certificates of competency and appoinmtents on a number of naval ships, 1881-1906; correspondence 1899-1924, including photographs and material relating to naval history of World War One, 1881-1924

Dates: 1881 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Papers relating to Germany and Britain before and during the war, 1909 - 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 2/2/21
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Includes: pamphlet "Germany and England", a reprint of a series of Daily Mail articles by Robert Blatchford, Editor of the Clarion, on the chances of Germany declaring war on Britain, given to Else by JWHM; part of the pamphlet "The Jutland Battle, By Two Who Took part in It", typed letters from a sailor to his parents following the Battle of Jutland.

Dates: 1909 - 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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Papers relating to Lord Wester Wemyss's service as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and Egypt Station, 1916-01 - 1917-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WMYS 4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers include: material on the Dardanelles Campaign and Wemyss's service as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and Egypt Station; literary drafts and other material for Wemyss's memoirs, his account of the Dardanelles Campaign and Lady Wemyss's biography; Wemyss's correspondence, including letters to his wife; Lady Wemyss's diaries and correspondence; photographs and press cuttings.

Dates: 1916-01 - 1917-06
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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Pembroke Sherwood Foresters, 2014

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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/27/7
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Notes on Edward Henry Noble Cordeux, John Radley Eddison and Harold Ashworth Leggett compiled by David Sneath.

Dates: 2014
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Pen that signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918, 1918, c 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 5/1
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Pen used by Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn ['Rosie'] Wemyss, [1st Sea Lord] to sign the Armistice on behalf of the British Government. Also includes a letter from his nephew, on giving the pen to Clementine, Lady Churchill.

Dates: 1918; c 1965
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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Personal and private letters A - Z, 1913-01 - 1914-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/5/13
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Lord Charles Beresford; Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada on the panic in the Conservative Party over food taxes, on preferential trade within the Empire and the Canadian political situation (3); [?] Charles Boyd; Sir Edward Carson (2); Lord [Edgar] Robert Cecil [later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood] on subjects including an enquiry into the Dublin Police, the involvement of Sir Harold Harmsworth [later 1st Lord Rothermere] in the Marconi Affair and Conservative...
Dates: 1913-01 - 1914-12
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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Personal: Clementine S Churchill: Correspondence., Dec 1915 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/118A-B
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Includes letters from CSC to WSC written while he served on the Western Front. Part A comprises original letters: part B comprises typescript transcripts prepared circa 1945.

Dates: Dec 1915 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Correspondence, 26 Jul-19 Dec 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/5
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Comprising letters, mainly to WSC, gathered together by CSC. Correspondents include Sir John French [later Lord French and 1st Lord Ypres] and Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso].

Dates: 26 Jul-19 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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Personal: Lady Lloyd and additional material, 1901 - 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 4
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Includes correspondence with Lord Lloyd and with other members of Lady Lloyd's family.

Dates: 1901 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, GLLD
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Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1914-01 - 1914-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/32
Scope and Contents Subjects include: LSA's visit to Ulster and his stay with 6th Lord Londonderry; speeches, LSA's growing popularity as a speaker and his view that Arthur Balfour and Andrew Bonar Law [Leader of the Conservative Party] were not pressing Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] hard enough in debate; LSA's intelligence work on General Sir Henry Rawlinson's staff with the 4th Corps in Flanders [Belgium]; the First Battle of Ypres; finding his brother Harold Amery in...
Dates: 1914-01 - 1914-12
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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Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1915-01 - 1915-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/33
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Subjects include: LSA's posting to the Balkans; his time in Athens [Greece], Serbia and Romania, collecting information on the Danube; the importance of Greek support to the success of the Dardanelles expedition; rumours of Bulgaria's entry into the war; doubts as to the intentions of Russia; the effect of Italy's entry into the war; LSA's feeling that he would soon be returning to political work.

Dates: 1915-01 - 1915-06
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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Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1915-06 - 1915-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/34
Scope and Contents Subjects include: LSA's view of Sir Henry Bax-Ironside [Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria]; the muddle made of diplomacy between Serbia and Bulgaria; LSA's surprise that Winston Churchill was staying in the British Government in a lower position [as Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster], following his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty; LSA's view of his own journalistic skills, compared with those of John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; the political stalemate in the Balkans;...
Dates: 1915-06 - 1915-10
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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Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1916-01 - 1916-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/35
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Subjects include: events in Parliament, particularly debates on Compulsory Service and the lack of leadership from "Squiff" [Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; LSA's attachment to the Staff in Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece].

Dates: 1916-01 - 1916-11
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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Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1917-05 - 1917-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/36
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Subjects include: LSA's work at the Supreme War Council in Paris [France] with 1st Lord Milner and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Wilson; the success of Milner and David Lloyd George [Prime Minister]; the effect of the Russian Revolution; LSA's support for Lloyd George.

Dates: 1917-05 - 1917-12
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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Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1918-01 - 1918-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/37
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Subjects include: LSA's election campaign (December 1918); a stay with David Lloyd George [Prime Minister] at Criccieth [Gwynedd, Wales]; the death of Geoffrey Amery at Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp [Germany]; meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet; the Supreme War Council at Versailles [France]; the German spring offensive; LSA's visit to Allied forces in Egypt.

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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Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1918-09 - 1918-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/38
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Subjects include: Geoffrey Amery's detention and death at Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp [Germany]; John Amery's education; the Imperial War Cabinet; the Allied victory in Palestine; the Supreme War Council at Versailles [France]; drawing up peace terms for Austria and Turkey; finding a political post for LSA, particularly with the help of 1st Lord Milner; LSA's election campaign; combining campaign ideas with [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain.

Dates: 1918-09 - 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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Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1914-02 - 1915-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/58
Scope and Contents Chiefly love letters, and with other subjects including: LSA's visit to Northern Ireland, the popularity of Sir Edward Carson and the state of the Home Rule debate; LSA's stay at Cliveden [Buckinghamshire] with Waldorf Astor and Nancy Astor; public meetings and speeches on raising troops for the army; the funeral of 1st Lord Roberts; personal letters while LSA was on General Sir Henry Rawlinson's staff with the 4th Corps in Flanders [Belgium]; the effect of LSA's criticism of Herbert Asquith...
Dates: 1914-02 - 1915-01
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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Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1915-06 - 1916-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/60
Scope and Contents Chiefly love letters written while LSA was at Headquarters in Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece], and with other subjects including: the state of the naval war; LSA's concerns with domestic politics, particularly over Ireland; being taken up in an aeroplane; the death of Brigadier-General Philip Howell; LSA's justified doubts about the Romanian army; whether he should return home or stay with the army; a court of inquiry into accusations of spying. Also includes a letter from Lady...
Dates: 1915-06 - 1916-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.