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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), Jun 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/205/13
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Agrictultural Party bulletin. Sent with CHAR 2/205/7.

Dates: Jun 1934
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), Dec 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/150/4
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"Journal of the Farmers' Club": "Modern Swine Husbandry" by Lord Bledisloe, and reports of the annual meeting and annual dinner.

Dates: Dec 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), 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), 11 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/21
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Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [Commander 21st Army Group] to WSC marked "Top Secret" and "Personal" commenting on conditions in occupied Germany: the agricultural position, the general food situation, coal production, and discharging prisoners of war.

Dates: 11 Jun 1945
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), 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), 19 May 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/254/71-73
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Circular letter from W Hill Forster, Secretary, Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture, inviting WSC to become a member, enclosing copy of "Journal".

Dates: 19 May 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 May 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/255/2
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Letter from W Hill Forster, Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture, to WSC, asking him to speak at meeting on "Food Production in relation both to Defence and National Health".

Dates: 28 May 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Oct 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/259/59-62
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Letter from Reginald Franklin, PS to Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, on the Pigs and Bacon Marketing schemes and their effect on the price of bacon, enclosing cutting from "The Times".

Dates: 14 Oct 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Oct 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/259/90
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Letter from Reginald Franklin, Ministry of Agriculture, and Fisheries, to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, giving figures for the consumption of bacon in the UK in 1935.

Dates: 22 Oct 1936
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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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), 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
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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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Visits and meetings, 1988-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/68
Scope and Contents Includes: note of a call from Sir Robin Butler [Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service] on a leak to Labour from No 10; a briefing for a meeting with Butler and correspondence with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister and Tam Dalyell on a file concerning Hugh Gaitskell, former leader of the Labour Party, which had not been released under the 30-year rule; briefing for a photo-call with a delegation from the Transport and General Workers Union’s Agricultural and Allied Workers Trade...
Dates: 1988-03
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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Walter of Henley: 'Hosebondrie'

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4026
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Transcribed by Henry Thomas Riley from Liber Horn in the Guildhall Library, London. Prefixed are letters from John Willis Clark to Francis Jenkinson, 19 July, no year; and from H.T. Riley to Henry Richards Luard, 20 November 1860. The versos are blank, with the exception of the final folio.

Dates: 1860 (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).
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WAM 1959 cruise, 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/2/50
Scope and Contents In 1959 Lord Taylour embarks on a cruise around villages, towns and cities in Italy, Greece, France and England. Places stayed at include Ravenna, Ephesus, Mistra, Capri, Filitosa, Brundish and Sherringham. Assembled together are a broad range of themes, encompassing ancient Italian mosaics, ancient Roman and Greek monuments and architecture, fortresses, views of harbours and streets, traditional dancing in Hagios Ghallini, landscapes, medieval Christian art, gardens, menhirs, palaces and...
Dates: 1959
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Women’s Parliamentary Radio publications and podcasts, conducted by Boni Sones with contributions by Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA
Scope and Contents Podcasts produced by Women's Parliamentary Radio , consisting mainly of interviews with British MPs, and publications based on those interviwes. The material focuses mainly on the work experiences of women MPs, along with some broader interviews regarding issues affecting women.Publications and associated podcasts covered are the 'When There's a Woman in the Room' series, parts 2-4...
Dates: 2017-11-15 - 2019-11-14