Second World War (1939-1945)
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2715 Collections and/or Records:
File
Diary, 1944-06-07 - 1944-11-05
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/12
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: news of D-Day; V1 bombing raids; 481 battery moving from Hyde Park [London] to Kent; distress caused by Randolph Churchill; Randolph being in a plane crash (copy of his letter describing it enclosed); Churchill's pleasure in the exploits of MS's guns (telegram enclosed, Aug 1944); the 5th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
Also includes photographs of Churchill visiting MS's battery.
Dates:
1944-06-07 - 1944-11-05
Conditions Governing Access:
Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
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Diary, 1944-11-10 - 1945-01-07
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/13
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: visiting France with Churchill for Armistice Day; Churchill's seventieth birthday.
Dates:
1944-11-10 - 1945-01-07
Conditions Governing Access:
Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
File
Diary, 1939-01 - 1939-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 7/33
Scope and Contents
Bound typescripts.
Dates:
1939-01 - 1939-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
AMEL 7/54-97: for all pocket diaries, Conservation must be consulted before issuing.
File
Diary, 1940-01 - 1940-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 7/34
Scope and Contents
Bound typescripts.
Dates:
1940-01 - 1940-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
AMEL 7/54-97: for all pocket diaries, Conservation must be consulted before issuing.
File
Diary, 1941-01 - 1941-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 7/35
Scope and Contents
Bound typescripts.
Dates:
1941-01 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
AMEL 7/54-97: for all pocket diaries, Conservation must be consulted before issuing.
File
Diary, 1942-01 - 1942-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 7/36
Scope and Contents
Bound typescripts.
Dates:
1942-01 - 1942-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
AMEL 7/54-97: for all pocket diaries, Conservation must be consulted before issuing.
File
Diary, 1943-01 - 1943-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 7/37
Scope and Contents
Bound typescripts.
Dates:
1943-01 - 1943-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
AMEL 7/54-97: for all pocket diaries, Conservation must be consulted before issuing.
File
Diary, 1944-01 - 1944-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 7/38
Scope and Contents
Bound typescripts.
Dates:
1944-01 - 1944-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
AMEL 7/54-97: for all pocket diaries, Conservation must be consulted before issuing.
File
Diary, 1945-01 - 1945-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 7/39
Scope and Contents
Bound typescripts.
Dates:
1945-01 - 1945-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
AMEL 7/54-97: for all pocket diaries, Conservation must be consulted before issuing.
File
Diary, 1939
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/8
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships inside the Foreign Office and diplomatic service with a sense of the complexities of British governmental policy; a trip to Rome in January 1939 to visit Mussolini regarding Hitler's in Europe; Franco and the Spanish Civil War; the German occupation of Prague in March 1939; Italian occupation of Albania; the challenges of working with the Soviet Union; the build up to war, with the declaration of war against Germany and her allies, and the...
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1940
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/9
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships within the Foreign Office and diplomatic service, including with Samuel Hore-Belisha and The Viscount Halifax; the work load at the Foreign Office and Cadogan's increasing strain; the crisis with the ice-free harbour at Narvik in Norway in April 1940; the intrigue surrounding a new prime minister and the invasion of Holland and Belgium in May 1940 as well as the general progress of war and the consequences of the fall of France in the summer of...
Dates:
1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1941
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/10
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships within the Foreign Office, in particular with Anthony Eden; Cadogan's insight into the Axis campaigns in the Balkans; diplomatic concerns regarding Britain's activities in North Africa and Persia [now Iran]; reception of intelligence in advance of Hitler’s planned attack on Russia; Cadogan's opinions and influence upon Churchill's communications with Roosevelt, the voyage to the USA aboard the H.M.S. Prince of Wales and the drafting of the Joint...
Dates:
1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/11
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the Foreign Office, War Cabinet, and Special Operations Executive; Cadogan's role and interventions in ongoing strategic discussions between Churchill and Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Stalin, and De Gaulle; Cadogan's opinions on the Allied negotiations over future Soviet frontiers and the second front; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits, and the hosting of Soviet diplomats in Edinburgh and London; plans for an Allied...
Dates:
1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1943
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/12
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's role as an intermediary between Churchill and statesmen including Anthony Eden and Charles De Gaulle; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits; Turkey's relationship with the Allied powers and strained relations with the Soviet Union, including discussions with Ismet Inönü at the Adana Conference; the increasingly hostile relations between the Soviet Union and Poland...
Dates:
1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/13
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits; ongoing disputes between the Soviet Union and Poland relating to borders and the Curzon Line; meetings and preparations for Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings; notes on the progress of the Italian Campaign and Allied progress in France, Belgium, and Greece; discussions on 'World Organisation' and post-war planning; concerns...
Dates:
1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1944-08-05 - 1944-09-29
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/14
Scope and Contents
Diary of Cadogan's involvement in the Dumbarton Oaks and Second Quebec Conferences in the autumn of 1944. Subjects covered include: discussions surrounding the formation of the United Nations Security Council, including negotiations over voting procedure and rights of veto for member states; interaction with the press and photographers; Cadogan's reaction to hearing his own voice on a Paramount film of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference; and comments on travel, dinners, and books read.
Dates:
1944-08-05 - 1944-09-29
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1945
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/15
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits, including meetings at Alupka, Athens, Cairo, Washington, and San Francisco; Cadogan's role in the Malta Conference, Yalta Conference, and the United Nations Conference on International Organisation; the Allied invasion of Germany; negotiations over the Polish question and Soviet actions in Eastern Europe; reactions to the death of...
Dates:
1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Draft chapter of the official naval history of the Second World War
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRES 6/7
Scope and Contents
Chapter entitled 'Defence against major warships, British dispositions and initial moves', never published.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Fonds
Eastern Fleet, 1942 - 1990
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 8
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:
1942 - 1990
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Economic Section of War Cabinet Office 1939-42, 1939 - 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBN 1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers relating to the Ministry of Production in World War II; the Board of Trade and HM Treasury, Marshall Aid, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Dates:
1939 - 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
'Events of the day', 1937 - 1944
Reference Code: GBR/0014/STKH 1/2
Scope and Contents
Comprising a typescript of diary entries, comments, conversations, cuttings and letters mostly about the war. Also includes 'The events of the day' typescripts, and letters from Maurice Hankey about the proposal for a war cabinet, including a circular by LS Amery, 1940; and letter of thanks from Neville Chamberlain, 1938.
Dates:
1937 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
'Events of the day' and correspondence, 1940 - 1966
Reference Code: GBR/0014/STKH 1/7
Scope and Contents
Comprising miscellaneous notes of conversations, memos, typescript accounts of events and meetings, and diary entries. Includes 'Events of the day' typescripts. Topics include German attempts at invasion, ministerial decision making, parliamentary activities, and other political issues. Also includes correspondence with the Ministry of Aircraft production, 1940; Admiral Sir Edward Evans, 1940; Anthony Eden, 1940; and the Crown office about King-Hall's appointment to the House of Lords,...
Dates:
1940 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Unknown
"Every man to his post", 11 Sep 1940
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/176A/37-41
Scope and Contents
Draft speaking notes for WSC's broadcast (BBC) on subjects including: the night bombing of London; the Battle of Britain and the successes of British fighter squadrons; the possibility of invasion and German deployment of barges, ships and troops in readiness; a call for every man and woman to do his duty; and the strength of British fleets and flotillas, air power, fortification and the million and a half men of the Home Guard. Includes the phrase "This wicked man [Adolf Hitler]...this...
Dates:
11 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
"Every man to his post", 11 Sep 1940
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/144/61-68
Scope and Contents
Notes for WSC's broadcast (BBC) on subjects including: the night bombing of London; the Battle of Britain and the successes of British fighter squadrons; the possibility of invasion and German deployment of barges, ships and troops in readiness; a call for every man and woman to do his duty; and the strength of British fleets and flotillas, air power, fortification and the million and a half men of the Home Guard. Includes the phrase "This wicked man [Adolf Hitler]...this monstrous product...
Dates:
11 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
"Führer Conferences on Naval Affairs", 1947
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRES 5
Scope and Contents
The documents known as the "Führer Conferences" were among the German Naval Archives captured by the British and Americans at Tambach Castle during the Second World War. They are minutes of staff meetings between Hitler and his naval commanders and they were translated and published by the Admiralty in 1947.
Dates:
1947
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.