First World War (1914-1918)
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1504 Collections and/or Records:
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Interviews, 1963-04 - 1968-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 3/6/1/33
Scope and Contents
Notes of Martin Gilbert's interviews with: Sir Herbert Creedy on his experiences of WSC at the War Office; Major-General Sir Edmund Hakewill Smith on his memories of WSC during the First World War with the Sixth Royal Scots Fusiliers; Vice-Admiral Richard Bell Davies, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse and Group Captain Ivon Courtney on their memories of WSC learning to fly at Eastchurch [Kent] and his interest in the future of air warfare.
Dates:
1963-04 - 1968-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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'Jim Counsell's War 1914-18' by M. Counsell, 2014
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/3/Counsell/6
Scope and Contents
An account of Counsell's father's time as an artillery officer in World War I.
Dates:
Publication: 2014
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Journal, 1914-10-25 - 1915-01-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/7
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army.
Dates:
1914-10-25 - 1915-01-07
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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Journal, 1915-03-09 - 1915-05-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/8
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army, including meetings with Winston Churchill.
Dates:
1915-03-09 - 1915-05-21
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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Journal, 1915-06-09 - 1915-08-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/9
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army.
Dates:
1915-06-09 - 1915-08-12
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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Journal, 1915-08-30 - 1915-10-13
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/10
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army.
Dates:
1915-08-30 - 1915-10-13
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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Journal, 1915-10-14 - 1915-12-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/11
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army, including discussions with Winston Churchill, particularly on ELS joining him.
Dates:
1915-10-14 - 1915-12-15
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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Journal, 1915-12-16 - 1916-02-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/12
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army, including discussions with Winston Churchill.
Dates:
1915-12-16 - 1916-02-26
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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Journal, 1916-02 - 1916-06-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/13
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth and Sixth Armies, also including a letter from General Victor d'Urbal, commander of the Tenth Army, to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig [Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Forces] on his high regard for ELS and regret at losing him.
Dates:
1916-02 - 1916-06-03
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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Journal, 1916-06-14 - 1916-09-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/14
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Sixth Army.
Dates:
1916-06-14 - 1916-09-11
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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Journal, 1916-09-12 - 1916-12-24
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/15
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Sixth and Tenth Armies, also including a letter from General Emile Fayolle, commander of the Sixth Army, to General Joseph Joffre, Commander-in-Chief of the French armies, recommending ELS for Citation a L'Ordre de L'Armee, and a telegram cancelling ELS's leave and ordering his return.
Dates:
1916-09-12 - 1916-12-24
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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Journal, 1917-01 - 1917-05-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/16
Scope and Contents
ELS’s journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army and as part of the British military mission to the French Ministry of War. Also includes: messages from the British Fourth Army on prisoner statements and the German advance (25 February), and the situation on 17 March; a telegram from Marshal Robert Nivelle, French Commander-in-Chief, on the United States entering the war (7 April); messages from the British headquarters on the German offensive of 15 April and progress on 19...
Dates:
1917-01 - 1917-05-05
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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Journal, 1914-08 - 1914-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 2/1
Scope and Contents
With a press cutting about HMS Marlborough, a postcard and a copy of torpedo orders, nos. 57-62, 1914.
Dates:
1914-08 - 1914-11
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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Journal of ELS and MS, 1917-10-23 - 1919-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/17
Scope and Contents
Journal kept by ELS and MS while ELS was Head of the British Military Mission in Paris, also including: telegrams from MS to ELS from St Jean de Luz on subjects including her distress [following a miscarriage] and assuring him of her affection; ELS's letter of appointment as Brigadier-General; a letter from ELS to Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice [Director of Military Operations, Imperial General Staff] on attempts by General Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of General Staff and Marshal Ferdinand...
Dates:
1917-10-23 - 1919-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Jutland: publications and notes, 1930 - 1963
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SLGF 13
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection includes: letters collected by Leslie while working on the biography of Beatty, notes by him, and extracts from a diary, and his manuscript and typescript drafts; letters dealing both with the production of "The Epic of Jutland" and its reception; and letters from Beatty to Eugenie Godfrey Faussett.
Dates:
1930 - 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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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1914
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/8
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Clementine's health and her pregnancy [with Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley]; her appeals to Churchill not to fly; a swarm of bees in the house (Pear Tree Cottage [Overstrand, Norfolk]); King George V's speech on the State Opening of Parliament, July 1914 and a mention of civil war; the break down of the Home Rule conference and Clementine's fears that the Ulster rebels would force an election; the trial of Henriette Caillaux; the...
Dates:
1914
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1915-11 - 1915-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/9
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Clementine's fears for Churchill, and his progress on the Western Front; Clementine's YMCA canteens for munitions workers in London; public reaction to Churchill going to the front; the engagement of Clementine's sister Nellie Hozier to Bertram Romilly; Violet Asquith's marriage to Maurice Bonham Carter; an attack by Sir John Simon [Attorney-General] on Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] in Parliament; the death of [(Wilfred) William Sheridan], the husband of...
Dates:
1915-11 - 1915-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Land and Water, 1915 - 1919
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PLLN 2
Scope and Contents
Published copies of AHP's articles in 'Land and Water: The World's War', edited by Hilaire Belloc.
Dates:
1915 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the correspondence between Anthony Pollen and Jon Sumida, which remains closed until 2029, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lecture on British submarine operations, 1914-18, 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MIER 3/1
Scope and Contents
Given at the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, 1938.
With a draft.
Dates:
1938
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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Letter from Churchill to Lady Randolph Churchill, 1916-01-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 1/4
Scope and Contents
Letter from Churchill to his mother [earlier Jennie Jerome] written from the Western Front, on subjects including his fatalistic view of the danger and his happiness at being in the front line, his view of his battalion (the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers) and having his bath spoiled by German shelling.
Dates:
1916-01-29
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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Letter from Freud to MacCurdy dated 24th January 1916 discussing the impact of the conflict on Freud's work, 19160124
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Reference Code: GBR/3377/JTMacC/1/2
Scope and Contents
The 'Zeitschrift' is continuing, though reduced because of the War. Freud hopes that the continuing international interest in psychoanalysis, particularly in America, will ensure the future of the work. He comments that America could help to shorten the War if it wanted. Freud fears that because his school is based in Austria (an aggressor in the conflict) this has negative associations, noting that Jungian work fares better for being more associated with Switzerland, a neutral country....
Dates:
19160124
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Letter from "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, earlier Lady Gwendeline Bertie] (41 Cromwell Road, [London]) to WSC, 21 Jan 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/4/4-7
Scope and Contents
On subjects including being distressed that WSC and his battalion [6th Royal Scots Fusiliers] would go into the trenches in five days; WSC's satire of [Edwin] Montagu [Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster] which had delayed a decision in the Cabinet on whether there should be a minister for all 18 committees at the Foreign Office; the likely formation of an air ministry and suggesting WSC should be Air Minister; missing Jack [Churchill] and not knowing exactly where he was, though he was...
Dates:
21 Jan 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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, up the end of his first term as Prime Minister
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Personal
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Personal: Jack Churchill and "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, earlier Lady Gwendeline Bertie]: Correspondence
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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, 23 Jan 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/22-23
Scope and Contents
On subjects including expecting Zeppelins [air raids] that evening; Maudie [Lady Maud] Warrender telling Lady Randolph that the Navy and [Admiral Sir John] Jellicoe [later 1st Lord Jellicoe] were in despair about the blockade [of Germany]; questions to be asked in the House of Commons about "Geordie" Sutherland [George, 5th Duke of Sutherland] getting command of motor boats [motor flotilla sailing between Egypt and the Adriatic sea]; Sir John Leslie dying; and meeting Eustace Fiennes.
Dates:
23 Jan 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, 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.