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First World War (1914-1918)

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1504 Collections and/or Records:

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The Papers of Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ANCG
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise signals, letters and miscellaneous papers relating to Admiral Cunninghame Graham's Naval service in both world wars and the inter-war period; his correspondence with Professor Arthur Marder and his correspondence on the subject of the libel action brought by Captain Jack Broome, RN, against David Irving for his book on convoy PQ 17; and papers, press-cuttings and recollections dating from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1913 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Harold Hartley

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HART
Scope and Contents The papers include: diaries and engagement books; personal and general correspondence; early scientific papers and laboratory notebooks; papers and correspondence relating to Balliol College; papers relating to Hartley's chemical warfare work in the First World War; papers of the Axis Oil Committees, concerned with the problem of oil supplies to the Axis in the Second World War; the FIDO papers, from a committee headed by Hartley on Fog Investigation Dispersal Operations, also during the...
Dates: 1890-08 - 1978-08
Conditions Governing Access: With the exception of some royal correspondence, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Henry Willink

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WILL
Scope and Contents

Personal papers and memoirs

Dates: 1914 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LEJO
Scope and Contents

Personal and scientific papers

Dates: 1906 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Norman Leslie

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LESL
Scope and Contents

Papers about merchant shipping convoys during the First World War
With a letter from Cecilia Mary Leslie about her father's work, 1978

Dates: 1933 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR, CHUR and CHAQ
Scope and Contents The papers consist of original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill throughout his life (1874-1965). They have been divided into three sections: the Chartwell Papers (CHAR) and the Churchill Papers (CHUR), with some additional material (CHAQ). Together, the three sets of papers cover the following major areas: Personal (CHAR 1, CHUR 1 and CHAQ 1/1 and 2/1), 1884-1965 The papers of Churchill as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his...
Dates: The majority of files date from the 1870s to 1965.
Conditions Governing Access: 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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The Papers of the 1st Viscount Hood of Catherington and of Rear Admiral Horace Hood

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOOD
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a small group of papers relating to the first Viscount Hood (1724-1816), a larger, mostly personal, group of the papers of Admiral Horace Hood (1870-1916) and the Pocock sketches.

Dates: 1782 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of the Fairbank family

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10082
Scope and Contents

The papers consist principally of letters, journals and photographs relating to the service of Harold Arthur Thomas Fairbank in the South African War and First World War, and of Thomas John Fairbank in the Second World War.

Dates: 1899-1945
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for researchers using Cambridge University Library.
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The Papers of Vice-Admiral John Harper

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/JEHR
Scope and Contents

Some papers relate to the compilation of the official record of the Battle of Jutland
With a list of the papers compiled by David Erskine, 1980.
Also includes biographical material.

Dates: 1875 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Vice-Admiral Sir (Arthur) Francis Pridham

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRID
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of 5 volumes of his First World War diaries and 4 files relating to his memoirs.

Dates: 1914 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access: This collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Vice-Admiral Wilfred Tomkinson

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/TOMK
Scope and Contents

Many of the papers relate to the Invergordon Mutiny and Tomkinson's subsequent treatment by the Admiralty. The British attacks on Zeebrugge and Ostend in 1918 also feature in some of the documents. Tomkinson left a large number of photographs which illustrate his naval career and his family life.

Dates: 1892 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of William Bernard Robinson King

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Reference Code: GBR/590/WBRK
Scope and Contents The collection contains notebooks from the Second World War concerning water boreholes; rolls of maps; lantern plates marked "Channel"; typed manuscripts; a presentation copy of "Work of Royal Engineers in the European War 1914-1919, Geological Work on the western Front 1922"; handwritten notes on the retreat to Dunkirk; reports on specimens; dress medals; OBE and Military Cross; a silver cigarette case from colleagues at the Geological Survey, 1916; certificates of honorary degrees and...
Dates: 1909 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. The Collections Research Centre [West Cambridge] is open from Monday to Friday, 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00. A prior appointment made at least two weeks in advance, and one form of identification is required.
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The personal papers of Admiral Sir Sackville Hamilton Carden.

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CARD
Scope and Contents

The collection contains papers and correspondence, mainly relating to the period of the First World War, and especially to Carden's involvement in the naval campaign at the Dardanelles.

Dates: 1869 - 1930
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Three issues of The New Europe, with articles by JWHM, 1917-11 - 1918-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 3/93
Scope and Contents

"The internal crisis in Germany" I and II; and "Mittel-Europa Again". Includes typescripts of two of the articles.

Dates: 1917-11 - 1918-03
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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Tipperary Club papers, 1915 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4/3/2/1
Scope and Contents Includes: card announcing visit of Lady French, 30 April 1915; letter from Courtney Kenny accepting invitation to speak, 4 Dec. 1915 (or 1918); names of subscribers of the Tipperary Club, 1916; printed address of M. R. James, Provost of King's College, at the unveiling of the Roll of Honour of the Cambridge Tipperary Club on 12 July 1916; card announcing possible visit of the Queen while on a visit to the First Eastern General Hospital, 4 Oct. 1918; printed address to members of the...
Dates: 1915 - 1924
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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Transcripts of Basil Sanderson's Diaries

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BSAN
Scope and Contents

Typed transcript of diaries and memoir of Sanderson's time in France during the First World War. Includes a note from Sanderson dated February 1969 explaining that some of the original books had been destroyed by a typist.

Dates: 1915-08 - 1969-08
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Transcripts of diaries, 1914-18, 1918 - 1926

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HRPR 2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Diaries, photograph albums and some personal papers.

Dates: 1918 - 1926
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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Travelling kitchens of First World War: album, c 1914-18

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HSBR 2/1
Scope and Contents

Horsbrugh was initially based in a kitchen in Chelsea [London], but extended the provision of food to a broader audience with a travelling kitchen via donkey and cart. She offered nutritious food at reasonable prices, with dishes available from 2d to 7d. Her cart was laden with all sorts of food, from sausage-rolls to dumplings and fishcakes.

Dates: c 1914-18
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Two issues of The Nineteenth Century and After, with articles by JWHM, 1916-05 - 1916-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 3/90
Scope and Contents

"The Real Aims of the 'Peaceful' German Nation" and "The German Chancellor and Peace".

Dates: 1916-05 - 1916-07
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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"Two men who saved France": text, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 8/37
Scope and Contents

Text of ELS’s "Petain and the French Mutinies".

Dates: 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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"Two men who saved France": texts, 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 8/38
Scope and Contents

Texts of "General Petain in 1917" [incomplete] and "General de Gaulle in 1940".

Dates: 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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Typescript copies of letters to Lady Diana from Raymond Asquith, 1913-08 - 1916-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/4/3
Scope and Contents

Includes one original letter.

Dates: 1913-08 - 1916-09
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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Typescripts and proofs of articles on Germany for The New Europe, 1918-04 - 1918-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 3/94
Scope and Contents

"Revolution and Reaction in Germany"; "Germany and Revolution"; "Germany in Defeat"; "Cross Currents in Germany"; "Germany in Dissolution".

Dates: 1918-04 - 1918-11
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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U-boats in World War I, 1940-08 - 1945-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FWCT 2/5
Scope and Contents

Reports and diagrams.

Dates: 1940-08 - 1945-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.