Second World War (1939-1945)
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2725 Collections and/or Records:
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"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
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.
Series
'Field Marshal Lord Wavell : commander-in-chief and viceroy', 1940 - 1981
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RLEW 4
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Lewin's book on Wavell and the Burma [later Myanmar] Campaign, including notes from interviews, correspondence, photographs and reviews.
Dates:
1940 - 1981
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
For Intellectual Liberty: Correspondence and papers
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9369
Scope and Contents
Comprises: minutes of meetings of the F.I.L. committee, 1935-1940; scrpabook of press cuttings, chiefly letters written by F.I.L. members to the press on a range of subjects in the lead-up to the Second World War; printed publications and statements; papers of the British Section of the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture, 1938-40, including letters of Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie and Sylvia Townsend Warner; papers relating to refugees; publications; index of...
Dates:
1936-1940
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).
Sub-Fonds
Force H, 1940 - 1948
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 7
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:
1940 - 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
German Newsletters, 1939
Reference Code: GBR/0014/STKH 1/5
Scope and Contents
Comprising a colour facsimile copy of a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings about King-Hall's German newsletters to the middle classes, professional men and Nazi officials, including Dr. Goebbels.
Dates:
1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Unknown
"Give us the tools", 9 Feb 1941
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/150A/52-75
Scope and Contents
Notes for WSC's broadcast (BBC) on the war situation including: the repulsion of the threat of German invasion, the Blitz and the bombing of Britain; the strength of British spirit; the Italian attack on Greece; successes in Libya and Egypt, including victory at Sidi Barrani under General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander in Chief Middle East] and General [Henry] Wilson; successes of the British Mediterranean Fleet against the Italian navy under Admiral [Sir Andrew] Cunningham...
Dates:
9 Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Series
"Haste to the Battle" (1963), 1962 - 1965
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MLTN 1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to military history
Dates:
1962 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Historical papers: Second World War, 1939-1941, 1950-08 - 1980-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK 4
Scope and Contents
[?] Papers used in the official naval history of the Second World War.
Dates:
1950-08 - 1980-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Historical papers: Second World War, 1942-1945, 1949-08 - 1982-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROSK 5
Scope and Contents
Papers used in the official naval history of the Second World War. Many files contain later transcripts of wartime documents
Dates:
1949-08 - 1982-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Honor Earl: Pastel portraits ('Warriors of the Empire') and papers
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9397
Scope and Contents
During the Second World War, Earl was commissioned to prepare a series of pastel portraits of service men and women from what were then British dominions and colonies (described as 'Empire servicemen'), including Trinida, Newfoundland, Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] and Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka]. The portraits were exhibited at the Royal Empire (late Commonwealth) Society in December 1945 as 'Warriors of the Empire'. The collection also includes a series of portraits of North American...
Dates:
1939-1946 (Circa)
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).
Sub-Series
India Office and the Second World War, 1934 - 1955
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/6
Scope and Contents
Papers, correspondence and speeches from LSA's time in the War Cabinet as Secretary of State for India and Burma [later Myanmar], including: memoranda written by LSA on India and other subjects for the War Cabinet; telegrams and minutes issued and received by LSA on Indian political and military affairs, mainly consisting of messages to and from the Viceroy of India (initially 2nd Lord Linlithgow, [earlier Lord Hopetoun], then 1st Lord Wavell) and also the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill;...
Dates:
1934 - 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
Jean Kilgour Hart: diaries
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10262
Dates:
1942-1943
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).
File
JEP War Memories (for Imperial War Museum), reels 1-8, 1987 - 1988
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 5/1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Cassette recordings of speeches and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP.
Dates:
1987 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
As the original cassettes are too fragile to play, it would be helpful if access copies could be ordered in advance, unless the catalogue states that a copy exists already.
File
Journal, 1943-10 - 1944-08
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 2/2
Scope and Contents
Including Second World War service in command of the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean.
Indexed.
Dates:
1943-10 - 1944-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Journal, 1944-10 - 1945-03
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 2/3
Scope and Contents
Including Second World War service as head of the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington and at the Yalta Conference.
Dates:
1944-10 - 1945-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Journal and accompanying papers, 1940-10-25 - 1940-11-19
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 5/37
Scope and Contents
ELS's journal kept following "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings at Dakar [Senegal], including a large number of copies of telegrams and correspondence from the same period between ELS and individuals including: Major Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to Winston Churchill]; MS; General Charles de Gaulle, Chief of Free French.
Also includes aerial photographs of the Dakar expedition.
Dates:
1940-10-25 - 1940-11-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1940-06-27
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/24
Scope and Contents
Letter on Clementine's concern that Churchill was unpopular among his colleagues and staff because of his rough, sarcastic and overbearing manner.
Dates:
1940-06-27
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.
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1941-08 - 1941-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/25
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Clementine's view that Churchill should take his doctor, Sir Charles Wilson [later 1st Lord Moran] with him on the journey to [Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, for the Atlantic Charter meeting]; Clementine's rest cure [at Champneys, Buckinghamshire]; Randolph Churchill's new post [attached to the fact-finding mission of Averell Harriman, President Franklin Roosevelt’s Special Representative, in the Middle East]; the bad handling of rail transport on the Bank Holiday;...
Dates:
1941-08 - 1941-12
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.
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston , 1942
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/26
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Clementine's Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund; the changes to Churchill's War Cabinet, and Clementine's view that it would be better to leave 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] out of it and have Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps instead; her distress about Randolph Churchill joining a parachute unit [part of the SAS, Special Air Service] rather than rejoining his regiment, because of the anxiety it would cause Churchill; Churchill's visit to Washington...
Dates:
1942
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.
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1942-08, 1943
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/27
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill's departure [for Casablanca, Morocco, January 1943] and the bad behaviour of Smoky the cat; Churchill's extra journey to Turkey; stories of atrocities carried out by German soldiers in the Soviet Union against both Soviet forces and Italians; news of the Allied forces entering Tunis and Bizerta [Tunisia]; an unexpected visit from Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley]; the success of the campaign in North Africa and...
Dates:
1942-08; 1943
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.
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1944-06 - 1944-12, 1945-01
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/28
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill's flight to Malta [on his way to the Yalta Conference], January 1945; searching for a new house in London [28 Hyde Park Gate]; the suspense of the D-Day landings; Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]'s ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Service] battery firing at V-1 rockets; Clementine's difficult relationship with Randolph Churchill; the rudeness of General Charles de Gaulle; visits to Chequers [Buckinghamshire], including one from Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the...
Dates:
1944-06 - 1944-12; 1945-01
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.
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston including telegrams from Russia, 1945-02 - 1945-07
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/29
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the journey to the Yalta Conference; the death of Admiral Sir William Goodenough; public concern at conditions in France and Clementine's suggestion that Churchill could influence the Americans to release transport for food and coal distribution; Churchill's success at Yalta [Soviet Union]; a V-2 rocket attack on part of the Fulmer Chase Maternity Home for officers' wives [of which Clementine was Chairman]; Clementine's journey to the Soviet Union for the Red Cross Aid to...
Dates:
1945-02 - 1945-07
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.
Fonds
Lady Isabel Marian Schonland: papers, photographs and printed material relating to South African affairs
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8703
Scope and Contents
Papers, correspondence and research materials concerning Schonland's authorship of parts of the narrative of the 'Union War Histories', a history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War, and her work in promoting harmonious race-relations in South Africa, including work with the Institute of Race Relations. The collection includes papers relating to a survey commissioned by the South African Institute of Race Relations on 'the needs of Urban African Women'. A small amount of...
Dates:
1939-1964 (Circa)
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).
Item
Letter from Searle to an Unknown Recipient, 1941-04-03
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/19/SearleCS/1
Scope and Contents
1 pencil manuscript letter signed from Searle to 'Sir' [likely a member of Pembroke College] detailing Searle's new posting as Regimental Medical Officer. He notes his pleasure at receiving the Pembroke College Magazine.
Dates:
1941-04-03