Crime
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Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A - B., 16 Oct 1951 - 23 Dec 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/75
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman and W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (12); Brian Robson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State of Air (2); [Margaret] Barbara Sloman, Assistant Principal, Treasury (2); P M Ibbotson, Private Secretary, Ministry of Health (7); John Leeming, Private Secretary to the Chairman, HM Customs and Excise; George Moseley, Private Secretary to the...
Dates:
16 Oct 1951 - 23 Dec 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A-J., Sep 1946 - Mar 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/40A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: constituent F C Bacon (4); [Anthony] Ridge, [Principal Private Secretary to the Postmaster General]; constituent M A F Hayhow (4); Frederick Mummery, Assistant Secretary, Woodford Conservative Association (19); Stuart Mallinson; [Edward] Butler, Surgeon, London Hospital; H J Backwell, Deputy Regional Petroleum Officer, Ministry of Fuel and Power (4); Robert McAlpine [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on George Cantacuzino, father of Sherban...
Dates:
Sep 1946 - Mar 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 2-6 which have been removed on grounds of data protection due to presence of sensitive personal information about a potentially living individual until 1 January 2024.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, C - D., 15 Apr 1951 - 16 Dec 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/76A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (17); Peter Hudson, Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport (5); [Margaret] Barbara Sloman [Assistant Principal], Treasury; Stuart Mallinson; Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War; Arthur Hockaday, Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty; Stuart Gilbert, Private Secretary to the Minister of...
Dates:
15 Apr 1951 - 16 Dec 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 199 - 203 and 269 - 273, closed for 75 years until 2029, and folios 79 - 83, closed for 100 years until 2054, on grounds of data protection due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on potentially living individuals.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, C - E., 18 Nov 1954 - 11 Jan 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/92A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (6); Gordon Wilson [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War]; J R Jameson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Education (5); E S Sledmere, Honorary Secretary, Wanstead and Woodford Catholic Parents and Electors Association (5); Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation; Robert Armstrong [later Lord Armstrong of Ilminster], Private...
Dates:
18 Nov 1954 - 11 Jan 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 209 - 213, closed for 75 years until 2031 on data protection grounds due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on a potentially living individual.
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence H-K., 1910 - May 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/574A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: John Hayes, Editor of the Police Review; Sir Maurice Hankey, Cabinet Secretary, on subjects including meetings of the Cabinet, imperial defence, German military capacity and the impetus for sending the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to Antwerp [Belgium] (9); A P Herbert on licensing laws; [1st Lord] Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg], Secretary of State for War, on subjects including WSC's health (2); William Birdwood on military affairs; John Clynes, Home Secretary,...
Dates:
1910 - May 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence N-Z., 1880 - Jun 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/576A-C
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Correspondents include: [Sir] Walton Newbold on economic issues; Harold Nicolson; Terence O'Connor on subjects including wireless broadcasting, Ireland and WSC's attacks on his speech; Sir Michael O'Dwyer; Herman Ould on the role of John Galsworthy's play "Justice" on prison reform; Edward Marsh on subjects including submarine campaigns (3); [Thomas] Guy Paget; [1st Lord] Portsea [earlier Bertram Falle]; [Frederick] Ponsonby [later 1st Lord Sysonby] on a libel case and distress to King...
Dates:
1880 - Jun 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Indian Affairs., 15 Jan 1937 - 19 Nov 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/301
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on India include: R A Butler [Under-Secretary of State for India] on the fall in British cotton exports to India and general balance of trade; John Morgan, Counsel to the Indian Chamber of Princes, on subjects including the probable need to amend the Government of India Act, and asking WSC to meet Jam Saheb, Maharaja of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Indian Chamber of Princes (6); Sir Michael O'Dwyer [former Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab] on subjects including the...
Dates:
15 Jan 1937 - 19 Nov 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: New Commonwealth Society for the promotion of International Law and Order: correspondence mainly with General Secretary N B Foot., Jan 1939 - Oct 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/377
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Society publications, including publishing the text of a broadcast by WSC, [16] October 1938; involving Emile Bure in the Society; the Society's International Summer School and Delegate Conference; a meeting of the British Parliamentary Group; a suggested letter to be sent by sympathetic MPs to newspapers in their constituency; Hungarian members; a Europa Union Congress.Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from WSC's secretaries including [Kathleen] Hill.
Dates:
Jan 1939 - Oct 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-C., Jun 1947 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/67A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams (4); Reginald Maudling; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe] (3); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (7); Garry Allighan; Leo Amery (6); John Andrews; Michael Astor; Henry Hopkinson [later 1st Lord Colyton, Head of Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat and Joint Director, Conservative Research...
Dates:
Jun 1947 - Dec 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 166-7 which have been removed on grounds of data protection due to presence of sensitive personal information about living individuals until 1 January 2024.
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-I., Jun 1946 - Dec 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/54A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Prime Minister's salary (2); Nigel Davies on WSC's support for his candidacy at Epping [Essex]; Kenneth de Courcy; Rupert de la Bere on ex-service civil servants; Lord Pakenham [later 7th Lord Longford] (2); representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Mark Chapman-Walker and Sir Robert Cary (7); Irving Dix (United States Representative) on US political and economic affairs; James Stuart [Chief...
Dates:
Jun 1946 - Dec 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence M-Q. (includes copies of wartime documents)., Feb 1941 - Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/7A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Baronessa Bettina de Malfatti on Italian royal affairs (2); 1st Lord Marchwood [earlier Frederick Penny] resigning as Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] (5) and Marjorie Maxse, Vice-Chairmen of Conservative and Unionist Party; Duncan Sandys on "Maycrete" houses; "Scribe", 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee], Sir Herbert Williams, and...
Dates:
Feb 1941 - Dec 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence O-P., Nov 1946 - Nov 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/56A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Press Officer Gerald O'Brien and 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman] (14); James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip] on the summoning of Parliament; George Benson, Derick Heathcote-Amory, and [Rhys] Hopkin Morris (joint letter) on the death penalty; Thomas Hopkinson, Editor of Picture Post, on WSC writing an article on economic policy; 1st Lord Portal [of Laverstoke, earlier Sir...
Dates:
Nov 1946 - Nov 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open (folios 84-7 were opened in 2022).
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Speeches: speech notes., 22 Oct 1945 - 26 Apr 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/17A-G
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (8 March 1948, House of Commons) on navy estimates including: the absence of enemies at sea; the importance of the navy to sustaining the British empire; criticism of the Labour government's secrecy about their naval policy and naval estimates; previous mistakes in naval policy; the scrapping of ships; and his experiences as First Lord of the Admiralty. Source material includes: notes from Elizabeth Gilliatt [Secretary to WSC] and "N S" ["Jo" Sturdee, later Lady...
Dates:
22 Oct 1945 - 26 Apr 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: speech notes., 10 Jul 1948 - 30 Jul 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/20A-D
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (10 July, Woodford [Essex]) at an open air constituency meeting entitled "A new parliament" on subjects including: praise for Sir James Hawkey as Chairman of the Woodford Conservative Association; the strength of the Conservative Party; his involvement with social policy; the National Health service; the need to oppose communism; the possibility of war with the Soviet Union; the Labour government's economic policy; and the pledges of the Conservative Party. Also...
Dates:
10 Jul 1948 - 30 Jul 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: speech notes and source material., 24 Jun 1933 - 17 Nov 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/106
Scope and Contents
Notes for WSC's speech (12 July, Clarke Hall Fellowship address) on Sir William Hall and penal reform.Rough notes for WSC's speech (7 July, Epping [Essex]) on the India White Paper. Source material includes notes for WSC's speech (24 June, Gloucester) on subjects including the National Government and the economy. Part published: Complete Speeches V pp 5279-80.Notes for WSC's speech (12 August, Theydon Bois [Essex]) entitled "Europe's hour of danger" on subjects including the National...
Dates:
24 Jun 1933 - 17 Nov 1933
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Teenagers and Youth Culture, 1954 - 1970
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS 5/42
Scope and Contents
Working papers on adolescents and young people, covering subjects such as the teenage market, clothing, leisure and youth club membership, crime and deviance, employment, girls and young housewives, sex and marriage, and the 'generation gap'. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's annotations and notes. Including drafts of Mark Abrams's articles "Britain's Youth" (1955), "The New Consumer" (1958), "Advertising and the Teenage Market" (1959), and...
Dates:
1954 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
The Papers of Lord Gardiner
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GARD
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects Lord Gardiner's involvement and interest in law reform and the justice system. There are many Law Commission reports as well as other printed papers. There is correspondence about rehabilitation of offenders, laws and acts, as well as source material for reports. The texts of a number of articles and speeches given by Lord Gardiner are here, including those during his time as Lord Chancellor. Official and press photographs are also included.
Dates:
1922 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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(Untitled), 21 Sep 1910-28 Sep 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/32
Scope and Contents
Note from WSC (Home Office) to John Pedder enclosing a memorandum [not present] from the Socialist Lord Provost of Dundee [Scotland] on the reduction in crime following the imposition of a new whisky duty, 21 Sep 1910 Typescript annotated with Pedder's comments on the memorandum, 23 Sep [1910, and with note that it was sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], 28 Sep [1910]].
Dates:
21 Sep 1910-28 Sep 1910
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 17 Feb 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/48/19
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Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [later Lord Southborough] (Colonial Office) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Home Secretary and urging him to reduce prison sentences whenever possible.
Dates:
17 Feb 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1942 - 28 Feb 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/67/1
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, January and February 1942. Some written by WSC when in the United States.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States]; the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to...
Dates:
02 Jan 1942 - 28 Feb 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 02 Sep 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54A/71
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Cardinal Arthur Hinsley on lifting of the death sentence from six murderers in Belfast [Ulster, Northern Ireland].
Dates:
02 Sep 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
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(Untitled), 04 Sep 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54A/72
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Letter from WSC to John Andrews [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland] commending his decision to lift the death sentence.
Dates:
04 Sep 1942
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From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 28 Oct [1909] - 26 Oct 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/13/1-5
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Capital sentence schedule containing the following information: Home Office number, convict's name, judge's name, location of assize court, date of conviction, prison, date on which time for appealing expired, provisional and final dates of execution, and note of whether the prisoner was executed or respited. Includes a record for Hawley Harvey Crippen. Manuscript.
Dates:
28 Oct [1909] - 26 Oct 1911
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), 06 Jan 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/14/5
Scope and Contents
Draft letter from WSC (Home Office) to King George V informing him that Sir Edward Henry [Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police] has been invited to form proposals to increase the powers of the police to deal with foreign criminals. Subjects covered include: possible legislative measures (including the power to arrest an alien "who has no lawful means of earning a living" and bring him before a magistrate who could pass an expulsion order); the number of aliens in the country; and the...
Dates:
06 Jan 1911
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), [Jan] [1911]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/14/6
Scope and Contents
Part of a letter from WSC (Home Office) to King George V informing him that Sir Edward Henry [Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police] has been invited to form proposals to increase the powers of the police to deal with foreign criminals. Subjects covered include: possible legislative measures (including the power to arrest an alien "who has no lawful means of earning a living" and bring him before a magistrate who could pass an expulsion order); the number of aliens in the country; and the...
Dates:
[Jan] [1911]
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.