Western Front (1914-1918)
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Acquired Papers: Letters and telegrams from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., 1915 - 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/120
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This class of papers was acquired by WSC at various times either by inheritance or gift and has been arranged in groups according to the presumed original owner: Lady Randolph Churchill; Lord Randolph Churchill; John S Churchill; W Bernau of Lloyds Bank and others.The major groups may be broken into sub-series by correspondents and the papers thereafter are arranged chronologically (e.g. Lady Randolph Churchill's letters from WSC are mainly found at CHAR 28/13-28).The series includes a...
Dates:
1915 - 1919
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Copy of a letter from WSC (6 RSF [6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers]) to F E [Smith, later 1st Lord Birkenhead], 6 Apr 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/2/6/19
Scope and Contents
On subjects including the [Conscription Bill] and that A [Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister] would [support it in Parliament] at the last minute; asking F E [Smith] to make enquiries of K [Lord Kitchener]; WSC's experience of fighting on the Western Front including the death of about 100 officers and men out of 500 who were in the trenches with WSC in ten weeks; WSC's ignorance of the overall war situation; the Battle of Verdun; WSC thinking that German forces would invade Russia; the...
Dates:
6 Apr 1916
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, up the end of his first term as Prime Minister
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Public and Political: General
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence, a report and memorandum, mainly political
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Copy of a letter from WSC (General Headquarters, British Army in the Field) to [F E Smith, later Lord Birkenhead], 18 Dec 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/2/5
Scope and Contents
On subjects including asking [F E Smith] to visit, seeking command of a Brigade, meeting [Field Marshal Lord Douglas] Haig, the departure of [Sir John] French, and planning to be "in the line" in the next week.
Dates:
18 Dec 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Fonds
Edward Dent: Letters to him
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973
Scope and Contents
The collection consists almost exclusively of letters received by Dent between 1914 and 1918, and probably sorted and weeded by him subsequently. Several letters have been endorsed by Dent with identifications and comments, and he has also supplied biographical notes on most of the correspondents, although these are not always reliable. The letters reflect Dent's heavy involvement in the teaching of music in Cambridge during the First World War, and his work on the translation of hitherto...
Dates:
1950 (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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1915-11 - 1915-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/9
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Clementine's fears for Churchill, and his progress on the Western Front; Clementine's YMCA canteens for munitions workers in London; public reaction to Churchill going to the front; the engagement of Clementine's sister Nellie Hozier to Bertram Romilly; Violet Asquith's marriage to Maurice Bonham Carter; an attack by Sir John Simon [Attorney-General] on Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] in Parliament; the death of [(Wilfred) William Sheridan], the husband of...
Dates:
1915-11 - 1915-12
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.
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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, 28 Mar 1916
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/27-28
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC having decided to come back [from the trenches] as soon as possible; Colonel [Troker] receiving command of a brigade rather than WSC; criticism of the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith]; United Kingdom loans to Italy; Clare Sheridan [née Frewen] and Oswald [Frewen, WSC's cousins], staying with Lady Randolph Churchill; Clara and Moreton [Frewen, Lady Randolph Churchill's sister and brother-in-law] being ill; a telegram from Jack [Churchill] in Alexandria [Egypt]; Lady...
Dates:
28 Mar 1916
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 21 Nov 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/4-6
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC going to France; the Paris Conference; "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, earlier Lady Gwendeline Bertie] having dinner with the [Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; Lady Randolph Churchill intending to let out her house and contribute towards housekeeping at "C R" [41 Cromwell Road, London, the house of Jack and Gwendeline Churchill]; inviting people for dinner including [Andrew] Bonar Law [later Prime Minister] and George Curzon...
Dates:
21 Nov 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 5 Dec 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/10-12
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC being out of the trenches; a matinee of a play which Lady Randolph had organised in aid of the London Bridge Buffet which was feeding 1200 people a day; attending the "Asquith wedding" of [Violet Asquith and Maurice Bonham Carter] and going to Nellie [Hozier's house, later Nellie Romilly]; the danger of Austria coming under German rule; the Calais Conference and a rumour about [Lord Kitchener] having a row with Briand [French Prime Minister] and the Russians about...
Dates:
5 Dec 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (Ladies Athenaeum Club, Dover Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 27 Nov 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/7-9
Scope and Contents
On subjects including WSC being "in the trenches", having dinner with Adele Essex [Adele Capell, Countess of Essex] who had heard that WSC had been offered command of a brigade but refused it, dining with G [?] and George Curzon [Lord Curzon of Kedleston], and inviting [Andrew] Bonar Law [later Prime Minister]; giving WSC's address to George Curzon so he could write; dining at "C R" [41 Cromwell Road, London] with CSC, Lady Helen Mitford and [Nellie Hozier, later Romilly]; contributing £40 a...
Dates:
27 Nov 1915
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Letters from Winston Churchill to AS, 1915 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THRS I/1/1-28
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Churchill wishing he could share AS's time in the trenches with him and finding a constituency for him after the war; Churchill's speech in Dundee [Scotland, 5 June 1915, explaining his actions as First Lord on his departure from the Admiralty] being 'the best that is in me'; the bitterness of his situation and his bewilderment and resentment at the actions of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, David Lloyd George [Minister of Munitions] and Herbert Asquith [Prime...
Dates:
1915 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the fire-damaged material in section VI, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Literary., Mar 1927 - Nov 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/215
Scope and Contents
Offprint of WSC's article in the Pall Mall Magazine entitled "The Bulldog and the Tiger: a day with [Georges] Clemenceau amid the bursting shrapnel of the French battlefields" on WSC's visit to the Western Front with [2nd] Duke of Westminster which includes WSC's opinions of [Field Marshal Ferdinand] Foch and [General Lord] Rawlinson.Corrected proofs for WSC's article entitled "H G Wells and the British Empire" in which WSC criticises Wells' opinions and discusses world trade and the...
Dates:
Mar 1927 - Nov 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/281
Scope and Contents
Proofs, newspaper cuttings and research notes for various articles by WSC for the Daily Telegraph: "Fleets of Britain and America" on the naval building programmes of Great Britain and the United States; "Mr Churchill on the abuse of the dole" on WSC's opinions of the dole, the live register of unemployment and national insurance; a series of articles on "The Crucial Crises of the [First World] War" on the Battle of the Marne [France], Admiral [John] De Robeck and the minefields at the...
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/283
Scope and Contents
Proofs and offprints of articles by WSC about World War I for Collier's Magazine and the Daily Telegraph including: "Panic in the East" on attacks on Germany by Russian forces; "[Field Marshal von] Ludendorff at Tannenberg" on the Battle of Tannenberg [Stebark, Poland]; "The man who saved Paris [France]" about General [Joseph] Gallieni; "The mystery of the Marne" on the Battle of the Marne [France]; "The mission of Colonel Hentsch" and "Ludendorff's last card".
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/282A-B
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Proofs for various articles by WSC for the Strand Magazine: "[Georges] Clemenceau: the man and the tiger" including his relationship with [Field Marshal Ferdinand] Foch, French politics and World War I; "If I lived my life over again" on various decisions taken by WSC, gambling, his experiences during the Boer War and at the Admiralty and his attitude towards the Conservative Party; "People who have influenced or impressed me" on Lord Randolph Churchill, William Bourke Cockran, Sir Francis...
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/280
Scope and Contents
Proofs and newspaper cuttings of various articles by WSC for the Sunday Chronicle: "With The Grenadiers" on WSC's time on the Western Front with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, meetings with [1st Lord Ypres, earlier] Sir John French and conditions in the trenches; an article about George Bernard Shaw in which WSC describes his relationship with Shaw and Shaw's career; "A Man's Hobbies" on WSC's pastimes including painting and "Men Who Change Their Minds" on politicians who alter their...
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles 2., Feb 1934 - Aug 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/499
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "The Last Night of the Old World" on the beginning of the First World War; "The Dominance of Nationalism" on the power of nationalism; "Cavalcade 1909-1934" on changes since 1909; "Broadcasting as an Influence in Politics" on the use of radio in elections; an obituary for Charles, 9th Duke of Marlborough; the foreword to the reprint of John Paget's "Examen"; the foreword to Paul Maze's "A Frenchman in Khaki".Also includes:...
Dates:
Feb 1934 - Aug 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles: Daily Mail., Feb 1934 - Sep 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/500
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Clive of India" on the achievements of Robert Clive; "B-P" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell; "The Greatest Half-Hour in our History" on the Magna Carta; "This Year's Royal Academy is Exhilarating" on the 1934 exhibition; "Great Deeds that gave us the Empire" celebrating Empire Day; "How I would procure peace" on the futility of the current foreign policy and need to rearm; "August 4, 1914" on the beginning of the First World War...
Dates:
Feb 1934 - Sep 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: articles, News of the World 1., Jan 1936 - Feb 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/541
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Great Men of Our Time": "Kitchener" on 1st Lord Kitchener of Khartoum [Sudan]; "Admiral Fisher" on 1st Lord Fisher; "King George V"; "Sir John French" on 1st Lord Ypres; "Douglas Haig" on 1st Lord Haig; "Asquith" on 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith [earlier Herbert Asquith].Also includes: "Truth about the Bacon Letters", a cutting of an article by Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon in answer to WSC's article on Fisher.
Dates:
Jan 1936 - Feb 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: articles: Sunday Chronicle., 21 Feb 1937 - 26 Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/574
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Big Navy" on the possibilities of war between Japan and China, or Japan and the United States; "A King is Crowned" on the relationship between the Crown and the Empire, George VI and past coronations; "The Better Way" on the similarities between Nazism and Communism, Benito Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler; "Menace Over Europe" on the threat of war arising from the economic strains in Germany, Italy and Japan; "Jellicoe" on...
Dates:
21 Feb 1937 - 26 Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Corrections to Volume 3 of "The World Crisis"., 14 Feb 1927 - 01 Nov 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/212
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with representatives of several organisations about corrections to Volume 3 of "The World Crisis" including: Thornton Butterworth Limited about the inclusion of erratum slips about casualty statistics; [Basil] Liddell Hart; [Brigadier General] James Edmonds [of the Military Branch of the Historical Section] (4); John Balderston of the New York World about the number of American divisions on the Western Front; [Alfred] Gordon Robbins of the Times; [1st Lord] Beatty [Admiral of...
Dates:
14 Feb 1927 - 01 Nov 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence., 02 Jun 1927 - 11 Dec 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/210
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Albert, Bishop of Liverpool; H G Wells praising "The World Crisis" and WSC as a historian (2); [Lord] Curzon [of Kedleston]; [Charles, 9th] Duke of Marlborough about WSC's plans to write about John, 1st Duke of Marlborough; [1st Lord] Beatty [Admiral of the Fleet]; Ernle Chatfield [3rd Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy] about the weaponry of Battle Cruisers as demonstrated in action at Heligoland, Dogger Bank and Jutland; [James] Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor...
Dates:
02 Jun 1927 - 11 Dec 1927
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence concerning corrections to and research for Volume 3 of "The World Crisis"., Nov 1926 - Dec 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/204
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beatty [Admiral of the Fleet] (2); Kenneth Dewar [of the Naval Staff Intelligence Division](2); J L Garvin (2); Bernard Baruch on subjects including WSC's treatment of President [Woodrow] Wilson, the supply of munitions from the United States and the work of the Allied Purchasing Commission; Sir Herbert Creedy [Under Secretary of State for War]; Reginald Hume [Acting Military Attache to the British Embassy in Berlin, Germany] on numbers of casualties (6);...
Dates:
Nov 1926 - Dec 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence concerning WSC's research for Volume 3 of "The World Crisis"., 20 Jan 1926 - 31 Oct 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/203
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet; James Headlam-Morley [Historical Advisor to the Foreign Office] (2); Kenneth Dewar of the Naval Staff Intelligence Division (5); 1st Lord D'Abernon [earlier Sir Edgar Vincent] (4) on statistics of German casualties (4); Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] (3); Brigadier General James Edmonds of the Military Branch of the Historical Section (13); John Du Cane (3); Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Committee of Imperial...
Dates:
20 Jan 1926 - 31 Oct 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": copy., 04 May 1930 - 22 Jun 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/578
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs, copy and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "The Truth About Douglas Haig"; on 1st Lord Haig; "Mr Lloyd George" on David Lloyd George; "Boris Savinkov" on his part in the Russian army on the Eastern Front, and fighting against the Bolsheviks; "Lord Ypres" on Sir John French; "B-P" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell; "Trotsky" on Leon Trotsky; "Hindenburg" on Field-Marshal Paul von Hindenburg; "The Tragic Story of Parnell" on Charles Parnell; "Lawrence of Arabia" on T E...
Dates:
04 May 1930 - 22 Jun 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": correspondence., 12 Nov 1936 - 13 Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/548
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Madeleine Clemenceau Jacquemaire on WSC's account of her father Georges Clemenceau; Adam Marshall Diston on research on Neville Chamberlain and 1st Lord Curzon (4); "Eddie" [Sir Edward Marsh] (3); "Ettie" [Ethel, Lady Desborough] (2); Clifford Norton [Foreign Office] advising on the toning down of the chapter on Hitler for fear of offending Germany; 1st Lord Wigram [Keeper of the King's Archives] on T E Lawrence's refusal of the C B; 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord...
Dates:
12 Nov 1936 - 13 Dec 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open