Skip to main content

First World War (1914-1918)

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1434 Collections and/or Records:

 Series

Personal: Photographs, 1892 - 1940

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLLD 3
Scope and Contents

Includes albums from the Dardanelles, the Arab war, India and Egypt.

Dates: 1892 - 1940
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
 File

Photographs and negatives from the First World War, 1917-04

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 10/2/19
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...
Dates: 1917-04
Conditions Governing Access: Please notify staff at least 5 working days in advance if you would like to consult this material as it will need to be removed from freezer storage
 File

Photographs of events and visits, 1914 - 1923

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/2/2
Scope and Contents Includes: interior of the Tipperary Club meeting room in Fitzroy Street; several photographs of Tipperary meetings and social events, including women with children and garden party (with children's train track) in Downing Master's Lodge garden and sewing sand bags for the war effort; exhibits for homemade toy exhibition, including dolls' house (2) and Red Cross hospital (6) made by Marion and Margery Seward; visit of Admiral Weekes (in naval uniform), Lady Jellicoe (with Mrs Keynes), Lady...
Dates: 1914 - 1923
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
 File

Photographs of Lise Meitner and others, 1915 - 1916

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/4/3
Scope and Contents

Comprising 17 black-and-white photographs and 7 original negatives.
Photographs of Lise Meitner during the First World War, including the military hospital in Lemberg [now L'viv, Ukraine], where she served as a nurse and X-ray technician, 1915-16 (10), and photographs of Trient [now Trento, Italy] and the Lublin Ghetto [now in Poland], which she visited, 1916 (8).

Dates: 1915 - 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Photographs of others: Max Planck, 1908 - 1944

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/8/9
Scope and Contents Comprising 35 black-and-white photographs. Including photographs of Max Planck reading in a library, 1908 (1); Max Planck hiking in the mountains, undated, 1938-9 (3); and portrait photographs of Max Planck by Lotte Meitner-Graf, undated (6). With a press cutting of a photograph of Max Planck (in German), undated. Also with photographs of Max Planck's wife, Marga (née von Hösslin), children and grandchildren, undated, 1913-44 (25). Including a portrait photograph of Marga Planck...
Dates: 1908 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Photographs of others: Otto Hahn, 1915 - 1916

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MTNR 8/8/6/2
Scope and Contents

Comprising 26 black-and-white photographs.
Photographs of Otto Hahn during the First World War. Including a photograph of destruction at Verdun and a completed postcard to Lise Meitner from Otto and Edith Hahn.
During the First World War, Otto Hahn saw action in Belgium and was then recruited to Pioneer Regiment No. 36, a specialist unit in chemical warfare organised by Fritz Haber.

Dates: 1915 - 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Photographs of Somerville as Fleet Wireless Officer on the staff of Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck in the Dardanelles, 1915

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 5/10
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: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Photographs of Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill during the war, 1915 - 1970-08

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 6/2/13
Scope and Contents Subjects include: Churchill with Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge, Portsmouth [Hampshire]; on a seaplane in Portsmouth harbour, Apr 1914; stepping down into a launch before inspecting naval installations in Scotland, summer 1914; inspecting cadets from HMS St Vincent, 1914; Clementine speaking at the YMCA canteen for munitions workers, Edmonton [London], Aug 1915; Churchill speaking to munitions workers at Enfield, Sept 1915; with General Emile Fayolle [Commander 33rd Army Corps], France, Dec...
Dates: 1915 - 1970-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Pocket diary, 1914

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/5
Scope and Contents

Including First World War service.

Dates: 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Pocket diary, 1915

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/6
Scope and Contents

Including First World War service during the Dardanelles campaign.
With a press cutting.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Pocket diary, 1916

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/7
Scope and Contents

Including First World War service.

Dates: 1916
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Pocket diary, 1917

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/8
Scope and Contents

Including First World War service.

Dates: 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Pocket diary, 1918

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 1/9
Scope and Contents

Including First World War service.

Dates: 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Press cutting album, 1915 - 1925

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 9/113
Scope and Contents

Notices of decorations and honours awarded to ELS and of his being wounded. Includes a photograph of black American soldiers on the Verdun road during the First World War.

Dates: 1915 - 1925
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Press Cuttings, 1914 - 1924

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 5/16
Scope and Contents

Including: LSA and the First World War; Britain and her Dominions.

Dates: 1914 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

Propaganda, political intelligence and Foreign Office work, 1914 - 1929

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 6
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers including: material from JWHM's work for the War Propaganda Bureau (Wellington House), 1914–17, and subsequently the Political Intelligence Bureau, 1917-18 and Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, 1918–20; correspondence and papers on JWHM's role as Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office, particularly on the history of the war and of the Peace Conference; correspondence on the founding of the British Institute of International Affairs (later...
Dates: 1914 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Item

'Psychiatry and the War', 19190418

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/4/16
Scope and Contents

The article highlights the relevance of Sigmund Freud's theories to this area of study.

Dates: 19190418
 File

Public and political: account of the operations of the 189th infantry brigade on 28-29 Sep., 1918

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/104
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates: 1918
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.
 File

Public and political: chapters 1 to 10 of Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Ellison's history of the Gallipoli and Dardanelles campaign, with related papers., 1924

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/140
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates: 1924
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.
 File

Public and political: chapters VI and XII of the official history of the Gallipoli campaign, with related correspondence., 1928

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/162
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates: 1928
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.
 File

Public and political: correspondence of 1917 concerning the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry., 1915 - 1917

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/97
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of letters from 1915, and proposals for an attack on the island of Sylt in the North Sea.

Dates: 1915 - 1917
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.
 File

Public and political: correspondence relating to the naval memoirs of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes., 1933

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/203
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates: 1933
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.
 File

Public and political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: copies of documents., 1915 - 1916

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/88
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates: 1915 - 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.
 File

Public and Political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: correspondence and other papers., Jan 1915-Feb 1917

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/74
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
Dates: Jan 1915-Feb 1917
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.
 File

Public and political: Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry: drafts of the statement by WSC on operations to the end of the first phase., 1916

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/75
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings...
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.