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Second World War (1939-1945)

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 2725 Collections and/or Records:

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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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/AMEL, The Papers of Leopold Amery / Diaries
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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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/AMEL, The Papers of Leopold Amery / Diaries
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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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/AMEL, The Papers of Leopold Amery / Diaries
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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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/AMEL, The Papers of Leopold Amery / Diaries
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Diary, 1939

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/1
Scope and Contents Subjects include: riding and hunting (on MS's new horse, Patsy); the worsening international situation; the conscription debate, Apr 1939; her pride in her father; the Thetis submarine disaster, Jun 1939; visiting Paris [France]; leaving Manor House school; visits from General Sir Edmund Ironside [Chief of Imperial General Staff] and Noel Coward, Aug 1939; the arrival of evacuees at Chartwell [Kent]; the outbreak of war; moving to London; Randolph Churchill's wedding to Pamela Digby [later...
Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1940

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/2
Scope and Contents Subjects include: visiting the naval base at Portsmouth [Hampshire] and Manchester [for Winston Churchill's speech at the Free Trade Hall], Jan 1940; the inspection of the officers and men of HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter [following the Battle of the River Plate], Feb 1940; MS's debut, Mar 1940; the launch of HMS Indomitable, Mar 1940; the debate on the Norwegian campaign, May 1940; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain's resignation as Prime Minister; MS's anxiety over the situation in France and the...
Dates: 1940
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1941-01-01 - 1941-07-21

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/3
Scope and Contents Subjects include: the capture of Bardia from Italian forces, Libya, Jan 1941; Winston Churchill's broadcast ["Give us the tools"], Feb 1941; visit to Liverpool to see HMS Gurkha, Feb 1941; Queen Charlotte’s Ball during an air raid, Mar 1941; tours of Swansea [Wales] and Bristol, Apr 1941; injuries suffered by MS's brother-in-law, Duncan Sandys, in a car accident; MS's engagement to Lord Duncannon [later 10th Lord Bessborough], May 1941; MS's decision to join the ATS [the Auxiliary...
Dates: 1941-01-01 - 1941-07-21
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1941-07-22 - 1941-10-16

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/4
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: MS's decision to join the ATS [the Auxiliary Territorial Service], Jul-Aug 1941; reaction to the Atlantic Charter, Aug 1941; life in the ATS, Sept-Oct 1941.

Dates: 1941-07-22 - 1941-10-16
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1942-02-16 - 1942-03-28

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/5
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: concerns for Winston Churchill's health, Feb 1942; rows between Churchill and Randolph Churchill, Mar 1942 and MS's view of Randolph.

Dates: 1942-02-16 - 1942-03-28
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1942-03-29 - 1942-04-19

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/6
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: MS's homesickness for Chartwell [Kent].

Dates: 1942-03-29 - 1942-04-19
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1942-05-18 - 1942-09-24

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/7
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: looking back over the war years; a vote of censure against Churchill, Jul 1942; MS's battery going into action; Churchill's departure for Egypt; the end of Randolph Churchill's marriage to Pamela Digby [later Pamela Hayward and Pamela Harriman].

Dates: 1942-05-18 - 1942-09-24
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1942-09-25 - 1943-01-17

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/8
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: leaving 469 Battery to go on an officer training course; MS's crush on Edwin Conklin; news of the battle of El Alamein and the invasion of North Africa; a Thanksgiving Day party for American officers at Buckingham Palace, Nov 1942; concerns about Winston Churchill's health, Jan 1943; MS's dislike of Randolph Churchill, Jan 1943.

Dates: 1942-09-25 - 1943-01-17
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1943-01-31 - 1943-06-05

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/9
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: General de Gaulle's view of England, Feb 1943; Winston Churchill's attack of pneumonia, Feb 1943; MS's posting to Whitby [Yorkshire]; MS's view of Randolph Churchill, Mar 1943; MS's posting to Newport [Wales].

Dates: 1943-01-31 - 1943-06-05
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1943-06-29 - 1944-06-06

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/10
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: anxieties about Winston Churchill's health following the Teheran Conference, Dec 1943; Churchill's fears for the future, Feb 1944; D Day.

Dates: 1943-06-29 - 1944-06-06
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary, 1943-07-29 - 1943-09-19

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 1/1/11
Scope and Contents

Covers MS's visit to the Quebec Conference and in Washington [United States] as an aide to Winston Churchill.

Dates: 1943-07-29 - 1943-09-19
Conditions Governing Access: Also available in a digital format, and as an edited transcript. Please contact the Archives Centre for further information.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/MCHL, The Papers of Lady Soames / Diaries / Diaries
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Diary of Kenneth Albert Watson

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 406
Content Description Diary written in the Argyle Street Camp, a Japanese internment camp for officers in Kowloon, Hong Kong, during the Second World War, covering the period 1942-1945. Comprises diary pages written in pencil; section 1 covering 1 Jan. 1942 - 31 Mar. 1942; section 2 covering 1 Apr. 1942 - 31 Jul. 1942; section 3 covering 1 Aug. 1942 - 9 July 1943; section 4 covering 25 Nov. 1943 - end of Feb. 1944; section 5 covering Mar. 1944 - Sept. 1945. Together with a typed transcription of the diary,...
Dates: 1942 - 1945
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Diary of Kenneth Albert Watson
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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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CRES, The Papers of Captain John Creswell / Literary papers
 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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/SMVL, The Papers of Admiral Sir James Somerville
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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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/ROBN, The Papers of Sir Austin Robinson
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Etchings by Joseph Gray and Cedric Hodgson , c 1920-40

Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 2/17
Scope and Contents Five mounted etchings: two by Cedric Hodgson, of [? possibly ballet dancers on stage] in a rural scene and of boys on a bridge, entitled "The Bridge"; three by Joseph Gray [from the Battle of Britain series, 1940], showing a street scene at night [during the Blitz, entitled "Albemarle Street"], a ruined church interior with fallen bells in the foreground [St. Clement Danes church, London, entitled "‘The Bells of St. Clements"], and a river scene of the Thames embankment, with industrial...
Dates: c 1920-40
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/BRDW, The Broadwater Collection / Papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill / Papers
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'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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/STKH, The papers of Baron King-Hall of Headley / Personal
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'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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/STKH, The papers of Baron King-Hall of Headley / Personal
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"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
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Speeches / Speeches: speech notes (some by WSC as First Lord of the Admiralty) and other material.

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