Second World War (1939-1945)
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2737 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Reminiscences of Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Gretton
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GRTN
Scope and Contents
Unpublished memoirs of Admiral Gretton, based on his occasional diaries, photo albums, naval papers and family histories, and particularly concentrating on the earlier and later years of Gretton's career.
Dates:
1979 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
A digital surrogate of the volume is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Report on reconnaissance of Qattara Depression [Egypt], and other wartime papers, 1942-04 - 1968-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/6/2
Scope and Contents
Includes: report by JEP, with photographs and maps, on routes across the Qattara Depression (1942); memoranda by JEP on the threat to the Empire from Japan, the United States, Germany and the Soviet Union (1942), conditions for an armistice with Germany (1943) and conditions of victory in 1943 (1942).
Also includes: correspondence with Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1968), on borrowing the papers, and also on the modern threat from the Soviet Union's submarine fleet.
Dates:
1942-04 - 1968-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
File
Reports on London Region to the Minister of Home Security from Ernest Gowers [Senior Regional Commissioner], 1941-07 - 1945-03-31
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRKR 2
Scope and Contents
These regular reports include regular sections on attacks by the enemy; civil defence; fire services; preparations for invasion; preparation of plans for attack; lessons from raids; and movement of population.
Dates:
1941-07 - 1945-03-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Sub-Series
Roger Joyce Bushell (1910 -1944) , 2011 - 2013
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/11/2/Bushell
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Material relating to those with a surname beginning 'B'.
Dates:
2011 - 2013
Series
Scientific work, 1938 - 1951
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PRTZ 2
Scope and Contents
This series includes material relating to Max Perutz's work, mostly in relation to his research work on glaciers during the Second World War and the Habakkuk project.
Dates:
1938 - 1951
Fonds
"Scottish Soldier": the Autobiography of Major-General Douglas Wimberley
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WIMB
Scope and Contents
Churchill Archives Centre holds excerpts from volume one and a complete copy of volume two of the autobiography. Subjects covered include Wimberley's service in the First World War, between the wars and during the Second World War.
Dates:
1973
Conditions Governing Access:
The autobiography is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Sub-Fonds
Second World War, 1941 - 1942
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MIER 1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Papers comprising lectures, official reports and correspondence, mainly about Second World War naval operations in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, 1941-5, and the Cyprus Emergency, 1955-9.
Dates:
1941 - 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Second World War, 1939 - 1992
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNA 1
Scope and Contents
Mainly papers and photographs of the various visits and conferences which Kinna attended with Churchill, also including some contemporary newspapers and magazines.
Dates:
1939 - 1992
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
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The Papers of Patrick Kinna
Sub-sub-class
Second World War, 1939 - 1944
Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BGND A.25-A.26
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes two drafts of Bagnold's autobiography, published by the University of Arizona Press in 1991. There is a sequence of Bagnold's childhood letters to his family from St Wilfrid's School, Bexhill-on-Sea, and Malvern College, and also a letter to Bagnold from T. E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') dated 7 March 1928.
Dates:
1939 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Second World War material, 1935 - 1997
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LUNG 1
Scope and Contents
Includes: papers from the British Military Mission to Moscow [Soviet Union]; papers from the wartime conferences at Tehran [Iran], Yalta and Potsdam [Germany]; files and a book found by Lunghi in the Reich Chancellery and Hitler's bunker, 1945.
Dates:
1935 - 1997
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
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The Papers of Hugh Lunghi
Sub-Series
"Second World War papers", including material relating to anti-aircraft defence, 1935-61, 1935 - 1961
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AVHL I 2/1-16
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The first batch of papers of Professor A V Hill were deposited by him in September 1966 in two sections entitled "First World War Papers" and "Second World War' Papers". These titles were chosen since the papers clearly relate to A V Hill's work on anti-aircraft defence although the periods covered in both sections are wider than the durations of the first and second world wars.
Several further accessions including memoirs and pamphlets were added to the original...
Dates:
1935 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Second World War photographs, 1939-45
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HSBR 3/4
Scope and Contents
With some photographs dating from the 1930s and a Christmas card of the Coronation, 1937.
Dates:
1939-45
Fonds
Sir Arthur Pedder's Memoirs of World War II
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/PEDR
Scope and Contents
In 1977 Sir Jock Colville suggested that Churchill Archives Centre should approach Sir Arthur Pedder about his memoirs of World War II. Correlli Barnett (the then Keeper of the Archives Centre) did so and the Archives Centre staff then recorded Pedder's memoirs on tape and transcribed them. Captain Stephen Roskill and Sir Arthur Pedder were then sent the transcript to check. The transcript does not seem to have ever been re-typed to include their corrections so they remain clear in PEDR 2....
Dates:
1939 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
The transcript is open (please consult staff about access to the tapes) for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College,
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1941-09, 1941-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/30
Scope and Contents
Letter from Churchill to Clementine begun in December 1941 while he was at sea aboard HMS Duke of York and ended from the White House, while he was visiting President Franklin Roosevelt after the United States entered the war. Subjects include: the difficulty of the journey; bad news from Hong Kong and Malaya [later Malaysia], with Allied forces retreating to defend Singapore; the sinking of a number of U-boats off Gibraltar; the successful advance of General Sir Claude Auchinleck...
Dates:
1941-09; 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
Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1942-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/31
Scope and Contents
Top copy and carbon copy of a letter from Churchill to Clementine from the British Embassy, Cairo [Egypt] on subjects including: the need for new commanders in the Middle East; Churchill's gratitude to Field Marshal Jan Smuts for his support and his distress at the death of Lieutenant-General William Gott; his view of Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery; bad appointments made by General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief Middle East]; Churchill's visits to see the armoured brigades;...
Dates:
1942-08
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
Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1943-01, 1943-05, 1943-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/32
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the Casablanca conference, January 1943; Churchill's good relationship with "the Don" [Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States]; the difficult relationship between General Charles de Gaulle [President of French Committee of National Liberation] and General Henri Giraud [commander of French Forces in North Africa]; a visit from Randolph Churchill; the good atmosphere between the British and American commanders; the Washington Conference, May 1943; the success of...
Dates:
1943-01; 1943-05; 1943-11
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
Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1944-08 - 1944-12
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/33
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill's visit to Italy, August 1944; viewing the front off the south coast of France ['Operation Anvil']; differences between the Americans and British over strategy; the rude response by General Charles de Gaulle [President of Provisional Government of the French Republic and Head Chief of Armies] to Churchill's suggestion of a meeting and Churchill's view that Gaullist France would be hostile to Britain; meetings with Josip Tito [Marshal of Yugoslavia]; Allied...
Dates:
1944-08 - 1944-12
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
Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1945-02 - 1945-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/34
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the Yalta Conference, February 1945; the value of Clementine's tour of the Soviet Union for Anglo-Russian relations; revelations about the Nazi concentration camps; Jack [John S Churchill]'s heart attack; the whereabouts of Clementine's nephew Giles Romilly, being kept as a hostage by the Germans; the collapse of the German forces; the Potsdam Conference, July 1945; worries about Churchill's health on his way to Yalta; his depression about the future of India; the hostile...
Dates:
1945-02 - 1945-09
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
SOE: Albanian diary, 1944-04 - 1944-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/31
Scope and Contents
Diary of JA's mission as a liaison officer with the Albanian resistance.
Dates:
1944-04 - 1944-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
SOE: Albanian diary typescript, 1944-04 - 1944-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/32
Scope and Contents
Diary of JA's mission as a liaison officer with the Albanian resistance. Top copy.
Dates:
1944-04 - 1944-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
SOE: Albanian diary typescript, 1944-04 - 1944-11
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/33
Scope and Contents
Diary of JA's mission as a liaison officer with the Albanian resistance. Carbon copy with some small annotations.
Dates:
1944-04 - 1944-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
SOE: Albanian telegrams, 1944-05 - 1944
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/35
Scope and Contents
Book of telegrams to and from the SOE mission with the Albanian resistance.
Dates:
1944-05 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
SOE: Albanian telegrams in, 1944-05 - 1944-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/34
Scope and Contents
Telegrams to the SOE mission with the Albanian resistance.
Dates:
1944-05 - 1944-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
SOE: Albanian telegrams in, Bari [Italy] to Field, 1944-05 - 1944-10
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/37
Scope and Contents
Typescript telegrams to the SOE mission with the Albanian resistance.
Dates:
1944-05 - 1944-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
File
SOE: Albanian telegrams out, Field to Bari [Italy], 1944-05 - 1944-10
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/36
Scope and Contents
Typescript telegrams from the SOE mission with the Albanian resistance.
Dates:
1944-05 - 1944-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.