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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), 28 Jan 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/21A/39-40
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Letter from WSC to Major Albert Braithwaite, thanking him for suggestions on improvements in the agricultural sphere, particularly relating to shortages of labour and building supplies.

Dates: 28 Jan 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Jul 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/12/99-102
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Letter from Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy to WSC criticising the economic situation ("percentage increases for the cost of living") and agricultural policy (ploughing up of grazing land resulting in slaughter of Dairy cattle); encloses copy of letter to Captain Harry Crookshank MP [Financial Secretary to Treasury] and a newspaper article from the Warwick Advertiser.

Dates: 28 Jul 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Sep 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/12/107-110
Scope and Contents Letter from [David] Roseway [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for War] to [Cecil] Syers [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] suggesting [1st] Lord Perry [Director of Ford Motor Company] for the Ministry of Supply or the Food Defence (Plans) Department as during World War I he was Director of Food Production Department, of the Agricultural Machinery Department (Ministry of Munitions), and of Traction (Ministry of Munitions); encloses copy of letter to Perry promising to alert suitable...
Dates: 18 Sep 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Sep 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/22B/123-124
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Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Addison on the separate responsibilities of the Development Committee and the Agricultural Research Council; the former confined to recommendations to the Treasury of how funds should be distributed.

Dates: 12 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Oct 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/22B/156-158
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Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Addison [Development Commission] enquiring about the outcome of conversations with the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Kingsley Wood] and the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries [Robert Hudson] about their division of responsibility.

Dates: 03 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Oct 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/43/100-104
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] on Cabinet opinion that the Wheat Conference cannot be settled as agreement would imply Anglo-United States interference in European Agricultural policy. [See CHAR 20/44/17-19 for Roosevelt's reply].

Dates: 08 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Oct 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/44/17-19
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Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC on distribution of wheat on international basis, with implications for post-war Europe. [First page of telegram at folio 19; see also CHAR 20/43/100-104 ].

Dates: 18 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Oct 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/44/75
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Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] advising that discussions on Wheat Agreement are progressing.

Dates: 27 Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Nov 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54C/239
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Letter from WSC to Sir John Sutherland thanking him for his service to the Forestry Commission, on his resignation.

Dates: 25 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Dec 1942

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54C/257-259
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Letter from WSC to Sir William Jowitt [Paymaster-General] advising discretion on reconstruction plans, for example on agriculture, which may have international implications.

Dates: 02 Dec 1942
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Feb 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/4A/45-48
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Letter from Sir Arthur Lee, Director-General of Food Production to the Prime Minister [David Lloyd George] on means of boosting food production. [Copy].

Dates: 15 Feb 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Jun 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/4A/49-50
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Letter from Sir Arthur Lee [Director-General of Food Production] to Rowland Prothero [later 1st Lord Ernle], President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, asking for increased independence for his own department. [Copy].

Dates: 11 Jun 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Jul 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/4A/51
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Letter from J T Davies to all departments concerned explaining the extent of Sir Arthur Lee [Director-General of Food Production]'s authority. [Copy].

Dates: 01 Jul 1918
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Jun 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/205/8-9
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Letter from J W Whittome (Eastmoor House, Doddington, March, Cambridgeshire) to Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, asserting that the Government's agricultural and trade policies have impoverished farmers and unfairly enriched tradesmen. Copy sent with CHAR 2/205/7.

Dates: 14 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), [Jun] [1934]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/205/11-12
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Letter from Arthur Hazlerigg [Noseley Hall, Leicester] to John Shakespear (17 Wellington Street, Leicester) on arrangements for a meeting in Leicester on the fat stock situation. Copy 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), 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), 29 May 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/34/51
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Letter from Henry Rider Haggard (Royal Commission on Coast Erosion, 35 Great George Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC accompanying a copy of Rural England [not present] and advocating a scheme of national afforestation to encourage small-holders and thereby combat rural depopulation.

Dates: 29 May 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Nov 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/17
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Letter from J Nash (10 Downing Street) to Edward Marsh on the nomination of chairmen of royal commissions and the refusal of Herbert Asquith [alter 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to see a deputation about Canadian cattle.

Dates: 17 Nov 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Dec 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/45-46
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC ([Blenheim]) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] on: 5th Lord Lansdowne's rejection of the suggestion that the House of Lords will reject the Budget Bill; the formulation of legislation on unemployment and infirmity insurance and labour exchanges; the need for some form of state control of the amalgamations of railway companies; the impending large government measures on finance and unemployment; the report of the Afforestation Commission. Copy in the hand of...
Dates: 26 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Dec 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/50-51
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] agreeing that Harold Tennant should replace Sir Hudson Kearley at the Board of Trade and enclosing the report of the trade unionists who went to Germany to study unemployment insurance and labour exchanges. Advocates following the German example with a large programme of social legislation to underpin existing voluntary agencies; in particular: labour exchanges and unemployed insurance, infirmity insurance, a...
Dates: 29 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1910]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/42/66-78
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Part of a speech to a committee of the House of Commons on unemployment insurance and government meausures to encourage agriculture. Typescript annotated by WSC.

Dates: [1910]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Mar 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/45/64
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Letter from Edwin Montagu (House of Commons) to WSC endorsing WSC's attack on the inactivity of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and pointing out that in south- west Norfolk and West Cambridgeshire the Small Holdings Acts were successful and therefore nurtured Liberalism. Argues against the resignation of the Government. An annotated typescript copy of this letter is at CHAR 2/45/65.

Dates: 14 Mar 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Jun 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/8-9
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Letter from Lucien Wolf (15 Brunswick Square, London) to WSC urging that the Board of Agriculture be revitalised and advocating a scheme of land reform and other measures as the most effective way of countering Tariff Reform. Signed typescript. Annotated that WSC protests against Wolf's attributing to him an idea for a system of bounties.

Dates: 24 Jun 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 30 Mar 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/51/79
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Letter from Sir John Elliott (Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) to WSC on a scheme to clear off the unsatisfied demand for small holdings. Annotated that the letter was acknowledged saying WSC will be glad to help.

Dates: 30 Mar 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Sep 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/72
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Letter from Goldwin Smith to WSC, on the failure of the Canadian harvest, and on opposition to protective tariffs in Canada.

Dates: 23 Sep 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open