First World War (1914-1918)
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Series
Official: War Cabinet, 1917 - 1919
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27
Scope and Contents
The War Cabinet papers contain mainly of printed material, and some notes and correspondence. Although WSC did not become a member of the War Cabinet, he was present at some of its meetings and served on some of its committees. The papers in this class consist of papers produced or acquired by WSC which do not arise directly out of his functions as Minister of Munitions and Secretary of State for War and Air. There is, however, some overlap with the papers in CHAR 15 (Official: Munitions)...
Dates:
1917 - 1919
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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Official: War Cabinet: Correspondence., 18 Jan 1918 - 03 Oct 1918
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/32
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, on munitions requirements for the Admiralty (1); Sir Eric Geddes [First Lord of the Admiralty] on munitions; Sir Auckland Geddes [Minister of National Service and Reconstruction] on a ministry of supply; and Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France and Flanders] (2).Also includes copy letters from WSC to the individuals mentioned above including 12 letters to Lloyd George about his...
Dates:
18 Jan 1918 - 03 Oct 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: Supreme War Council and Allied Conversations., 01 Dec 1917 - 03 Dec 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/53
Scope and Contents
Includes minutes of meetings of the Supreme War Council at Versailles [France]. French representatives include [Georges] Clemenceau [Prime Minister of France], General [Ferdinand] Foch, Chief of Staff, Major-General [Maxime] Weygand. British representatives include David Lloyd George [Prime Minister], Arthur Balfour [Foreign Secretary], Sir Eric Geddes [First Lord of the Admiralty], [1st] Lord Milner, General Sir William Robertson [Chief of Imperial General Staff until 1918], General Sir...
Dates:
01 Dec 1917 - 03 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 03 Apr 1917 - 27 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/2
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on various subjects by various individuals including: a War Cabinet paper on airship construction policy; Jan Smuts [South African Representative on the Imperial War Cabinet] on air preparations and offensives; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet, on airship construction; Sir Edward Carson [First Lord of the Admiralty], Sir Albert Stanley [later 1st Lord Ashfield] President of the Board of Trade, and Ernest Pollock on the proposed economic offensive against Germany;...
Dates:
03 Apr 1917 - 27 Sep 1917
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 03 Jan 1918 - 18 Feb 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/33
Scope and Contents
Papers by various individuals including: General Jan Smuts on the dissolution of the war organisation committee; [17th] Lord Derby [earlier Edward Stanley] Secretary of State for War, on gun ammunition and salvage; [1st ] Lord Rhondda [earlier David Thomas] Food Controller, recommending a National Salvage Board; Colonel [Lancelot] Storr on the extension of the British front in France; Rowland Prothero [later 1st Lord Ernle] President of the Board of Agriculture, Christopher Addison [Minister...
Dates:
03 Jan 1918 - 18 Feb 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 02 Apr 1918 - 26 Apr 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/35
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence or papers by various individuals including: Christopher Addison, Minister of Reconstruction, on military service; Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service, on anti-recruiting strikes, the release of men employed by the Admiralty, and the proposed proclamation by King George V; WSC, Minister of Munitions, on the Eastern Front, manpower and munitions, and "certain hypothetical contingencies" on war strategy; [1st] Lord Bertie [British Ambassador to France]; Sir...
Dates:
02 Apr 1918 - 26 Apr 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 07 May 1918 - 30 May 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/37
Scope and Contents
Papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Imperial War Cabinet, on the extension of the British line in France; [Lieutenant-General George Bridges] British military representative in the United States, on the transportation of American troops; Sir William Weir, Secretary of State for Air, on the policy of the Air Ministry and the long-range bombing of Germany; Sir Auckland Geddes [Minister of National Service and Reconstruction] on the...
Dates:
07 May 1918 - 30 May 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 07 Jul 1918 - 25 Jul 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/38
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on military policy including: WSC, Minister of Munitions, on German colonies and on war strategy; William Robinson, Permanent Secretary, Air Ministry, on using Indian army personnel with the RAF in Egypt; General Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of Imperial General Staff, on plans for the offensive in 1919 in all theatres of the war with details of forces and munitions required.Also includes copies of letters to WSC from Bertram Cubitt and Major-General Charles...
Dates:
07 Jul 1918 - 25 Jul 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: various papers., 01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/39A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and papers by various individuals including: Sir Auckland Geddes [Minister of National Service and Reconstruction] on manpower; Colonel Richard Steel and Major-General Percy Radcliffe on allied and enemy manpower and rifle strengths; WSC, Minister of Munitions, on the murder of Captain Cromie at Petrograd [later Leningrad and St Petersburg, Russia]; the award of the 1914 star and the Gallipoli star, horse-racing, the French ministry of national reconstitution, and...
Dates:
01 Aug 1918 - 03 Dec 1918
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Cabinet: Weekly Intelligence Reports: Eastern., 19 Sep 1917 - 26 Sep 1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 27/30
Scope and Contents
Includes printed summaries of affairs in various countries including Russia and Egypt with notes by William Ormsby-Gore [later 4th Lord Harlech, Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered include: T E Lawrence [later T E Shaw, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia"] and the Arab movement in Syria; affairs in Russia including [Alexander] Kerensky's ministerial crisis and the surrender of General Korniloff; the political and religious situation in Sudan and East Africa; and enemy...
Dates:
19 Sep 1917 - 26 Sep 1917
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Council., 09 Aug 1914 - 31 Dec 1914
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/1
Scope and Contents
General Correspondence Correspondents include Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, on Yeomanry Organisation, the possible use of Russian troops on the Western Front and at Gallipoli, and his visit to the British Expeditionary Force in France; General Sir John French, (later Lord Ypres) C. in C., British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front; Herbert Asquith (later Lord Oxford and Asquith), Prime Minister, giving permission for WSC to visit Dunkirk to look into Naval matters, but...
Dates:
09 Aug 1914 - 31 Dec 1914
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Council., Jan 1915 - May 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/2
Scope and Contents
General Correspondence.Correspondents include 1st Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, (3) mainly on Russia; General Sir John French [later 1st Lord Ypres] (9), mainly on the Western Front; General Sir Ian Hamilton (8); on the Territorial Army; Major-General William Birdwood, the 2nd London Division and the Dardanelles; F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] (2); Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], Prime Minister (2), on the War Council and the Dardanelles; David Lloyd...
Dates:
Jan 1915 - May 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Council., 01 Jan 1915 - 31 May 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/3
Scope and Contents
Various papers including Report from G.O.C., Egypt on Turkish forces; Report by Gilbert Parker on opinions of Public Men in the United States concerning the War; memo by General Sir John French [later 1st Lord Ypres], on the strength of the BEF in France; Note by Admiral Sir Henry Jackson on ultimate terms for the peace settlement in the Middle East; Note and private telegram from the Viceroy of India on the future settlement of Eastern Turkey in Asia and Arabia; Note by WSC on German...
Dates:
01 Jan 1915 - 31 May 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: War Council., 01 Jan 1915 - 14 Mar 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/4
Scope and Contents
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
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26/5
Scope and Contents
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
Series
Official: War Council, 1914-1915
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 26
Scope and Contents
The War Council was established in November 1914 to direct the overall conduct of the War. This class contains all of WSC's correspondence and papers relating to the discharge of this responsibility except those relating to the Admiralty and certain other specific bodies such as the Cabinet and its various committees. The two correspondence files (26/1 and 26/2) contain valuable correspondence with Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War and General Sir John French [later 1st Lord Ypres],...
Dates:
1914-1915
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.
Sub-Series
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos: letters and papers, 1906 - 1972
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/8/1-12
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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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"Outside the Right": additional material, 1915 - 1963
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 7/7
Scope and Contents
Includes: copy of the pamphlet "Is Britain Blameless?", the published version of a speech made to Manchester University Fabian Society by AFB on responsibility for the First World War, 1915, with a copy of a preface by George Bernard Shaw, annotated by AFB; photographs for the illustrations for "Outside the Right", mainly of AFB, mounted up with captions; original design for the cover of AFB's earlier memoir "Inside the Left", 1942; pencil/charcoal sketch of AFB.
Dates:
1915 - 1963
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.
Series
Papers: army reform, 1896 - 1920
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 16
Scope and Contents
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.
Series
Papers: Navy and Admiral 1st Lord Fisher, 1902 - 1919-01
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 17
Scope and Contents
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.
Fonds
Papers of Admiral Sir Frederick Parham
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PARM
Scope and Contents
Album from HMS Malaya and a recording of Parham's reminiscences.
Dates:
1917 - 1990-08
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
Papers of James Dick relating to Southern Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 193
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Dick in South Africa, 164 pages, with two maps and four photographs relating to Southern Africa. The collection is accompanied by two pieces of correspondence between Nancy Dick and D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, 1976, regarding the presentation of the papers to the Society.
Dates:
1905 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Papers of Rear Admiral Edward Villiers, 1881 - 1924
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/VILL 1/1
Scope and Contents
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