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Agriculture

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 298 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), [1929]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/167/53-54
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Memorandum on unemployment insurance for agricultural workers. Sent with CHAR 2/167/52.

Dates: [1929]
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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(Untitled), 29 Oct 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/167/55-61
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Cabinet memorandum by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries [Walter Guinness, later Lord Moyne] on unemployment insurance for agricultural workers. Sent with CHAR 2/167/52.

Dates: 29 Oct 1926
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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(Untitled), [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/55
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Extract from a speech at Pretoria [South Africa] by Sir Robert Greig on the importance of agriculture.

Dates: [1930]
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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(Untitled), [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/56
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Reprint from the "Farmer and stockbreeder and agricultural gazette": article by G Holt-Thomas "explaining to the electors in urban districts that a tax on food imports would not result in dearer living.".

Dates: [1930]
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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(Untitled), [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/176/2
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Paragraph one of the terms of reference of the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Dates: [1930]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/176/3
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List of members of the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Dates: [1930]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Apr 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/176/4-5
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Letter from Lord Wolmer [later 3rd Lord Selborne) (3 Chester Gate, Regent's Park,[London]) to Neville Chamberlain describing the work of the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee and enclosing CHAR 2/176/6-46. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Dates: 17 Apr 1930
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Apr] [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/176/6-11
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Headings for a speech on agricultural policy produced by the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Dates: [Apr] [1930]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Apr] [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/176/12-18
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"Argument" on agricultural policy produced by the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Dates: [Apr] [1930]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Apr] [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/176/19-46
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Notes on agricultural policy produced by the Conservative Agricultural Research Committee. Interleaved with agricultural publications. Copy sent with CHAR 2/176/1.

Dates: [Apr] [1930]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Jul 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/176/138-145
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Memorandum by the agricultural committee of the Conservative Research Department on the use of a system of quotas to grant Imperial Preference to wheat without recourse to an import duty.

Dates: 28 Jul 1930
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Aug 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/178/23-27
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Memorandum advocating innovation and the application of scientific knowledge to agriculture and industry.

Dates: 16 Aug 1931
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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(Untitled), 10 Sep 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/178/28
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Letter from the private secretary of Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to Violet Pearman returning CHAR 2/178/29-36.

Dates: 10 Sep 1931
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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(Untitled), 20 Nov 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/168/27-28
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Letter from Lord Bledisloe (52 Sloane Street, [London]) to WSC asking him to stress the important role played by Bristol University in agricultural education in his speech at his installation as chancellor. Summary of this letter at CHAR 2/168/29.

Dates: 20 Nov 1929
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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(Untitled), [Oct] [1935]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/245/114-123
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Memorandum on Increases in Agricultural Production in Great Britain, 1931-35.

Dates: [Oct] [1935]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Nov [1935]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/245/124-128
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Press notice of speech by Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Agriculture and Fisheries, at a National Government meeting at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

Dates: 02 Nov [1935]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/106-108
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Letter from [?] S C Thomas (Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch [London]) to WSC, regretting that they won't have time to meet, and describing his interview with the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Malcolm MacDonald] about the sugar industry in Barbados, and the plan to introduce worldwide sugar quotas.

Dates: 09 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Jun 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/236/50-53
Scope and Contents Memorandum by K Pipe, [Agricultural Correspondent for the Daily Express] sent to A Whelan [Private Secretary to 1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken, owner of the Daily Express] on the letter from J Whittome [passed on by WSC] concerning the state of agriculture. Pipe agrees with much of what Whittome says, but adds that in many instances he speaks from an entirely local viewpoint, as in his figures for bankruptcy among farmers and the costs of beef production. Pipe comments on the...
Dates: 14 Jun 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 30 May 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/236/54-57
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from J Whittome (Eastmoor, Doddington, Cambridgeshire) to Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, thanking her for her stand for the preservation of the agricultural industry, and pointing out the terrible results of the current agricultural policy. He mentions the costs of beef production, which ruins the cattle industry, the chaos and injustice arising from the Potato and Milk Boards, the unemployment caused by mechanisation, and the unfairness of food prices. Covering letters CHAR...
Dates: 30 May 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Mar 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/20
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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on attending the Food Policy Committee and discussions on the cheese ration and live-stock policy. [Copy; given running number 256].

Dates: 15 Mar 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Mar 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/24-27
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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the import shortage, livestock reductions, the move towards the basal diet, non-food imports, and the value of animal proteins. [Copy; given running number 253a].

Dates: 12 Mar 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Feb 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/76
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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC attaching a draft minute to the Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] on the possibility of a quantity of Northern Ireland potatoes being destroyed. [Copy; given running number 223(B)].

Dates: 03 Feb 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Jan 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258A/82
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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC referring to a memorandum by Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] on destroying Northern Ireland potatoes because of the decline in the pig population. [Copy; given running number 221A].

Dates: 30 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/303-318
Scope and Contents Series of minutes from [1st] Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. an improvement in the maximum bomb load; 2. mustard gas bombs; 3. decisions to be taken about munitions and aircraft production, army size, supplying the Soviet Union, and possible theatres of operation, with WSC's reply (13 September); 4. attaching a draft to the First Lord of the Admiralty [A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] and Secretary of State for...
Dates: 10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/11
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Letter from WSC to the 10th Duke of Beaufort [earlier the Marquess of Worcester] thanking him for his letter about the two types of proposed agricultural cottages which he has asked the Minister of Works to examine, and stating that he enjoyed his visit to Badminton [Gloucestershire] [carbon].

Dates: 10 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open