Second World War (1939-1945)
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2742 Collections and/or Records:
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Q., 02 Nov 1943 - 19 Feb 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/89
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: postponement of call-up; rehousing bombing victims.
Dates:
02 Nov 1943 - 19 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ra-Ri., 28 Oct 1941 - 31 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/90
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6); L R Prescott [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] (5).Subjects include: rehousing evacuees; the Post-war Credit savings scheme; opposition to the new medical service (June 1944); bomb damage claims, repair and new housing; the extra London allowance for servicemen's dependants; the Location of Retail Businesses Order; requests for...
Dates:
28 Oct 1941 - 31 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ro-Ru., 25 Sep 1940 - 25 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/91A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Sydney Walter Robinson; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6); Duncan Sandys [Financial Secretary of the War Office]; Royal Wanstead School (6); R A Butler [Minister of Education] on the liability of teachers for military service.Other subjects include: RAF engineers' training; length of overseas service; bomb damage claims; air raid shelter prices; local gunpowder and small arms...
Dates:
25 Sep 1940 - 25 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Sa-Se., 13 Sep 1939 - 30 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/92
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Mottistone [earlier John Seely]; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (9); S A Scoffin, Managing Director of Scoffin and Willmott Ltd, Manufacturing Engineers (5).Subjects include: age limits for Far Eastern service; the "Salute the Soldier" fund-raising campaign; pension enquiries; repair of bomb damage; requisitioning of housing; rehousing bombing victims.Also includes: WSC's...
Dates:
13 Sep 1939 - 30 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Sh-Si., 28 Jun 1940 - 22 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/93A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (12); Lieutenant Ralph Drummond, commanding officer of HMS/M Sickle (4); J Worsfold [Private Secretary to the Minister of Pensions] (5).Subjects include: the reinstatement of ex-servicemen in civil life; the Emergency Powers Act; the long service leave scheme; War Service Grants; HMS Churchill; HMS/M Sickle; rehousing bombing victims; repair of war damage.
Dates:
28 Jun 1940 - 22 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Sk-So., 01 Aug 1940 - 24 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/94
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: David Skyrme-Jones (5); Frederick Bellenger.Subjects include: war damage claims; service pay enquiries; tax enquiries; rehousing bombing victims; naval pensions; prevention of foot-and-mouth disease; local air raid shelter provision.
Dates:
01 Aug 1940 - 24 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Sp-Sw., 01 Nov 1939 - 16 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/95
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Correspondents include: M R J Stacey (5); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (10).Subjects include: billeting of evacuees; use of clergy as teachers; repairs of bomb damage; rehousing bombing victims; internment of aliens.
Dates:
01 Nov 1939 - 16 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ta-Th., 05 Nov 1942 - 23 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/96
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (10); L R Prescott [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] (6).Subjects include: repair of bomb damage; evacuation; requisitioning of houses and the housing shortage; new housing and the green belt; women medical students.
Dates:
05 Nov 1942 - 23 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ti-Ty., 10 May 1941 - 06 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/97
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (11); F J Tucker (7); L R Prescott [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] (5).Subjects include: RAF ground trades promotion system; cinema film rental; de-requisitioning of houses; local refuse collection; age limits for Far Eastern service; war damage claims and repair; call up of doctors; famine relief for Europe (particularly Greece).Also...
Dates:
10 May 1941 - 06 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Wh-Wi., 09 Jan 1940 - 27 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/102A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (13); E A Baker [secretary at the Ministry of Food] (4); I C Wilson (4).Subjects include: rehousing bomb victims; compassionate leave requests; defence bonds; war damage repair claims; tax allowances; pension enquiries; poultry feed rationing.Also includes: an extract from a House of Commons report on war damage to property; "The Surplus Women", a booklet by...
Dates:
09 Jan 1940 - 27 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, L-R., Jun 1945 - May 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/26A-B
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Correspondents include: [Claud] Wright, [Principal] (3) and M L Elder (8) of the War Office; J H Hughes of the Air Ministry (9); constituent R W McOwen (5); Sir James Hawkey [Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association] (8); Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee]; [Hugh] Farmar [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air] (2); Sir George Harvie Watt; Archie Moore, Surgeon to the London Hospital, on a constituent's health; Joyce Gordon...
Dates:
Jun 1945 - May 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, (folios 173-9 and 207-9 opened in 2022)
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“Political letters to Mr Garvin, the Times, Sir John Simon, in which MAR foretold the war of 1939-45”, 1925 - 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RBTN 5/16
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From the Fonds:
Collection includes a copy of Robertson's autobiography, ca. 1945; correspondence with his mother and wife, 1900-1946; papers relating to Robertson's Foreign Office career; speeches and articles; and papers relating to later aspects of Robertson's career.
Dates:
1925 - 1935
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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Postcards sent by Higgins as a Prisoner of War, 1941-11-30 - 1942-06-19
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/8/Higgins/1
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3 manuscript postcards signed from Higgins to Bryan Earle King [matriculated at Pembroke in 1924, latterly a Fellow in Law] sent whilst Higgins was a prisoner of war regarding his career after the war.
Dates:
1941-11-30 - 1942-06-19
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Potsdam Conference, 1938 - 2001
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LEGT 1
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From the Fonds:
The collection comprises George Leggett's diary of the Potsdam conference, souvenirs and papers connected with his time in Potsdam, and electronic transcripts of the diary.
Dates:
1938 - 2001
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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Press cuttings, 1939-06 - 1940-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 9/20
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From the Fonds:
The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...
Dates:
1939-06 - 1940-01
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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Press cuttings, 1940-01 - 1940-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 9/21
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...
Dates:
1940-01 - 1940-03
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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Press cuttings, 1943-11 - 1946-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 9/24
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...
Dates:
1943-11 - 1946-05
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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Press cuttings: war, 1939-05 - 1945-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 9/23
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...
Dates:
1939-05 - 1945-09
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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Private letters from LSA to the Governor of Burma and source material for memoirs, 1941-01 - 1955-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/20
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Copies of letters from LSA to Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith on subjects including: reasons for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union; Chinese immigration into Burma [later Myanmar]; British parliamentary business; the future Burmese constitution; the war situation, particularly relating to Japan; Burmese relations with India over immigration; the visit of U Saw, Premier of Burma, to Britain, with letter from Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord...
Dates:
1941-01 - 1955-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Private letters from LSA to the Viceroy of India, 1940-05 - 1940-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/22
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Printed copies of letters from LSA to 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] on subjects including: the war situation; aircraft and munitions production; the constitutional problem; Indian defence; talks with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League] and Mohandas Gandhi; dealings with the Indian Congress; the imprisonment of Jawaharlal Nehru; the appointment of General Sir Claude Auchinleck [as Commander-in-Chief, India].
Dates:
1940-05 - 1940-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Private letters from LSA to the Viceroy of India, 1941-01 - 1941-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/24
Scope and Contents
Printed copies of letters from LSA to 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] on subjects including: negotiations with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League], Mohandas Gandhi, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and the Indian Congress; the war situation; Sir Alexander Roger and his Ministry of Supply mission to India; inventions by Chaim Weizmann in yeast and molasses-based food and fuel production; the Indian Seamen's Union; Pakistan; the enlargement of Linlithgow's Council, particularly...
Dates:
1941-01 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Private letters from LSA to the Viceroy of India, 1942-01 - 1942-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/26
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Printed copies of letters from LSA to 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] on subjects including: finding a successor to General Sir Archibald Wavell as Commander-in-Chief, India; the transfer of control of Iraq and Iran from India to the Middle Eastern command; negotiations with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League], Mohandas Gandhi, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and the Indian Congress; the war situation; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to Congress; recommendations of the...
Dates:
1942-01 - 1942-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Private letters from the Governor of Burma to LSA, 1941-05 - 1945-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/21
Scope and Contents
Letters from Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith to LSA on subjects including: his impressions of Burma [later Myanmar] and his meetings with officials from the Government of India; the political situation in Burma, including Chinese immigration; local hostility towards Indians; setting up a Government in exile following the Japanese invasion; poor relations between Dorman-Smith's staff and the Army; the future of post-war Burma; meetings with General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, India]...
Dates:
1941-05 - 1945-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Private letters from the Viceroy of India to LSA, 1940-05 - 1940-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/23
Scope and Contents
Printed copies of letters from 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] to LSA on subjects including: Linlithgow's dealings with the previous Secretary of State for India, 2nd Lord Zetland [earlier Lawrence Dundas]; negotiations with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League], Mohandas Gandhi and the Indian Congress; the war situation; aircraft and munitions production; appointing a Defence Minister; governorships; the composition of Linlithgow's council; feeling among the Sikh...
Dates:
1940-05 - 1940-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Private letters from the Viceroy of India to LSA, 1941-01 - 1941-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/25
Scope and Contents
Printed copies of letters from 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] to LSA on subjects including: negotiations with Mahomed Jinnah [Leader of the Muslim League], Mohandas Gandhi, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and the Indian Congress; the war situation; Sir Alexander Roger and his Ministry of Supply mission to India; the Bombay Conference; Linlithgow's Executive Council, particularly expansion; filling governorships; inventions by Chaim Weizmann in yeast and molasses-based food and fuel...
Dates:
1941-01 - 1941-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.