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Land reform

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 10 May 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/17/50
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Letter from Henry Massingham (34 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, [London]) to WSC an mentioning article on Liberal land policy in the Contemporary Review and recommending that WSC meet Mr Outhwaite, former editor of the labour newspaper in Johannesburg, who can give him important information about South Africa.

Dates: 10 May 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Apr 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/21/17
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Cutting from the Times: criticism of the campaign of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and WSC for land reform.

Dates: 09 Apr 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Apr 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/21/20
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Cutting from the Times: letter from Henry Rider Haggard on land reform.

Dates: 29 Apr 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 May 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/21/21
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Cutting from the Times: letters from WSC and others on land reform.

Dates: 02 May 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Jan 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/22/29
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Letter from George Keeble (Peterborough) to WSC predicting that WSC will become Prime Minister and urging him to take up the question of land reform.

Dates: 22 Jan 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Feb 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/22/43
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Letter from A B ?Martin (Chatterville, Woodbourne Road, Edgbaston, [Birmingham]) to WSC asserting that Joseph Chamberlain's influence should be checked by a campaign for land reform, which would greatly benefit the poor. Annotated in shorthand.

Dates: 07 Feb 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 May 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/22/56
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Letter from Lindsay Talbot-Crosbie (Kildare Street Club, Dublin, [Ireland]) to WSC noting that WSC has advocated the same policies as the Irish Reform Association.

Dates: 03 May 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [May 1905]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/22/56a
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Cutting: letter to the Daily Chronicle by Lindsay Talbot- Crosbie criticising the Government's attitude to the implementation of the 1903 Land Act and endorsing WSC's proposals for the reform of Irish administration.

Dates: [May 1905]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Nov 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/23/39-40
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Letter from Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and Lord Wimborne (2nd baron, 1st viscount)] (Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby, [Warwickshire]) on the need for Liberalism to offer a definite alternative to government policies and increasingly influential socialist ideas. Advocates leasehold enfranchisement, land reform and reduction in military spending.

Dates: 13 Nov 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Nov 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/103/73
Scope and Contents Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (71 Savoy Court, Strand, [London]) to David Lloyd George asserting that Lloyd George's coalition owes its survival to its supporters in the press and complaining about the attacks made on him [Rothermere], Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] and Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] at meetings of the Unionist War Committee. States that he will not work for the return of Conservative MPs, whom he believes will...
Dates: 14 Nov 1918
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), 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), [Jul 1911]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/52/57
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Notes by WSC for a message referring to Land Reform and National Insurance in support of the candidature of Cecil Harmsworth for the Luton Division of Bedfordshire.

Dates: [Jul 1911]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Jan 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/50/1
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Letter from Sir John Dewar [later Lord Forteviot] (The Royal Hotel, Portree, Isle of Skye [Inverness-shire, Scotland] to WSC (Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) enclosing a memorandum on the land question in the highlands of Scotland [see CHAR 2/50/2-3]. He thinks the Small Landholders (Scotland) Bill meets the wishes of the crofters and small-holders whilst Lord Lovat's bill does not.

Dates: 09 Jan 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Jan 1910]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/50/2-3
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Memorandum [by Sir John Dewar, later Lord Forteviot] explaining why the crofters of the highlands of Scotland support the Government's Small Landholders Bill as the best means of making more land available to be held on crofting tenure, and why they oppose Lord Lovat's rival measure, which would entail the merging of the Crofters' Commission with the Congested Districts Board. Sent with CHAR 2/50/1.

Dates: [Jan 1910]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Jan 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/50/4-6
Scope and Contents Telegram from [Alexander Murray, Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank] (Edinburgh, [Scotland]) to WSC (Queens Hotel, Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) stating that the Lords having twice rejected the Land Bill the Government is free to make further proposals on the issue. He is sending a copy of the Prime Minister's speech at Earlston [Berwickshire, Scotland] and mentions that he has asked [Sir John Dewar, later Lord Forteviot] to write on the shortcomings of 14th Lord Lovat's and 3rd...
Dates: 06 Jan 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Feb 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/50/7
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Printed cabinet memorandum by "J S" [John Sinclair, 1st Lord Pentland, Secretary for Scotland] summarising the proposals of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Bill. Annotated that this memorandum was first printed on 2 Mar 1907. 4p.

Dates: 22 Feb 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/51/7-13
Scope and Contents Letter from W H Shaw, port steward of the British Yukon Navigation Company (White Horse, Yukon Territory, Canada) to WSC praising him, David Lloyd-George and the Government generally for their measures "for the benefit of the struggling masses." He describes: the poor living conditions he experienced in Huddersfield [Yorkshire] before leaving about 27 years earlier and their bad effects on morality and on the fitness of men enlisting for the Army; his approval of the Government's land reform...
Dates: 08 Jan 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/55/2
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Notes to clauses of the Land Transfer Bill. Annotated: "3 April". 6,[1p. Leaves printed on one side only.].

Dates: 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/55/3
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Table showing the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Land Transfer Acts and their treatment in the draft land transfer and registration of assurances bills.

Dates: 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/55/4
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Draft of a bill intituled an act to amend the land transfer acts, 1875 and 1897. Annotated: "3 April". 12,[1p. Leaves printed on one side only.].

Dates: 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Jan 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/14
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Cutting from the Irish Times on the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond and the advocacy by Lord Randolph Churchill in 1889 of measures of local government and land purchase for Ireland.

Dates: 06 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Jan 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/60/18
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Cutting from the Aberdeen Free Press on the Belfast meeting as the start of a campaign to promote a Home Rule bill; the advocacy by Lord Randolph Churchill in 1889 of local government and land purchase for Ireland; the decline in opposition to Home Rule within the Conservative party.

Dates: 06 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Mar 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/62/15-16
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Letter from WSC to ? thanking him for articles [on Land Reform] and referring to his preparations for his speech on the Naval Estimates on 26 March Typescript copy.

Dates: 17 Mar 1913
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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