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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 224 Collections and/or Records:
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Personal: Family etc: Preparations for death and state funeral., Jan 1958 - Nov 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/137
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on various aspects of the organisation of WSC's funeral and burial (code named "Operation Hope Not") include: David Stephens, Secretary of Appointments to Prime Minister (11); John Walker, Lancaster Herald, on invitations and arrangements at St Paul's Cathedral (23); Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill]; H Woods, vicar of Bladon [Oxfordshire] on WSC's burial; Sir Norman Brook, Secretary to the Cabinet; and Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms.Also includes notes...
Dates:
Jan 1958 - Nov 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Personal: Family etc: Preparations for death and state funeral., Jan 1962 - Dec 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/138
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on various aspects of the organisation of WSC's funeral and burial (code named "Operation Hope Not") include: Dugald Malcolm, Her Majesty's Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (2); John Walker, Lancaster Herald, on the guest list (17); Rodney Dennys (10); Kenneth Macintosh, Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain, on arrangements for the lying in state at Westminster Hall (3); Burke Trend, Secretary to the Cabinet; Kenneth Jamieson; Major Sir Ian Jardine; [17th Lord] Sinclair...
Dates:
Jan 1962 - Dec 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Personal: Financial: Lloyds Bank, First National Bank of New York [United States]., Aug 1951 - Jun 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/14A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from: representatives of Lloyds Bank, Cox's and King's Branch, London, including Geoffrey Mason, on managing WSC's accounts (188); Richard Griffiths [Assistant Secretary, Treasury]; representatives of Fladgate and Company, including Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (9); Sverker Astrom [Counsellor at Swedish Embassy, London] on WSC's Nobel prize money; representatives of the First National Bank (4). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Jo...
Dates:
Aug 1951 - Jun 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Personal: Honorary DCL Oxon: Certificate and oration., 24 Jun 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/181
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates:
24 Jun 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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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.
Sub-Series
Prize poems, 1817 - 1837
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Misc.Collect.59-60
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series - University Registry miscellanea - chiefly consists of compilations of practical use within the administration.
Dates:
1817 - 1837
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
Prolusiones, 1827 - 1939
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Misc.Collect.64-75
Scope and Contents
This term distinguishes such winning compositions for University prizes as were recited in whole or in part in the Senate House, namely the Greek and Latin odes and epigrams for which Browne medals were awarded, the Greek verse translation winning the Porson Prize, and, later, the Latin hexameters of the Montagu Butler and the English poem awarded the Chancellor's medal. The classical verses were collected at sundry times (as for example a collection for the years 1814 to 1837 printed at...
Dates:
1827 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
Prolusiones or prize exercises and related correspondence, 1921 - 1965
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Misc.Collect.76-9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series - University Registry miscellanea - chiefly consists of compilations of practical use within the administration.
Dates:
1921 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Public and political: Chancellorship of Bristol University., 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/168
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relating to WSC's installation as Chancellor.
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.
Series
Public and Political: General, 1945 - 1965
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2
Scope and Contents
The files assigned to this series fall naturally into sub-series or groups, most of which derive from an original classification, as follows:.Political.P(rivate) and P(ersonal).Visits.Patronage.Gifts.Greetings.Various.Even where there are original series the lines of distinction between them, as between this class and others, could not be made rigid and there are consequently doubtful cases and inconsistencies.POLITICAL The Political series (CHUR 2/1-139 and CHUR 2/506-517) consists of...
Dates:
1945 - 1965
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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Public and Political: General: congratulations on WSC's appointment as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports., Sep 1941 - Oct 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/430
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [Charles] Tonks, Vicar of Walmer [Kent]; Marie, Lady Willingdon [earlier Marie Freeman-Thomas] also on Walmer Castle and her husband [1st Lord Willingdon], WSC's predecessor as Lord Warden; Jack, [4th] Lord Camden [John Pratt]; [5th] Lord Harris [of Seringapatam and Mysore, and of Belmont, Kent]; [Pieter] Gerbrandy, [Prime Minister] of the Netherlands; General [Georges] Catroux [Commander-in-Chief Free French in Levant]; "Birdie", [1st] Lord Birdwood, also on Lord...
Dates:
Sep 1941 - Oct 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Coronation Committee., 1911 - Jul 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/596
Scope and Contents
Correspondents concerning the Privy Council Coronation Committee and arrangements for the coronations of [King Edward VIII, earlier Edward Prince of Wales and later Duke of Windsor (whose coronation did not take place) and King George VI] include: Eric Leadbitter, Senior Clerk of the Privy Council Office (2); Maurice Hankey [Cabinet Secretary]; Osmund Cleverly, Private Secretary to Prime Minister, appointing WSC as a member of the Privy Council Coronation Committee (2); Charles te Water,...
Dates:
1911 - Jul 1937
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence., 28 Jan 1939 - 30 Apr 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/358A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Charles Pears, President of the Society of Marine Artists (2); Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, on allegations of Nationalist atrocities in Spain; Group-Captain Lachlan Maclean (2); "Reggie" [Reginald Fellowes] (3); [James] Vincent Sheean; [Lionel] Archer Cust, Secretary, Royal Empire Society; 9th Lord de la Warr [President, Board of Education, earlier Lord Buckhurst]; Sir Horace Rumbold [former British Ambassador to Germany] on the Government's policy towards Hitler;...
Dates:
28 Jan 1939 - 30 Apr 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Correspondence: Equine Defence League - Exmouth., Jun 1955 - Nov 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/554
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: Alfred Brisco, Secretary of the National Equine and Smaller Animals Defence League (3); Colonel Sir John Ruggles-Brise and Sir Stuart Mallinson (11) on WSC's support for the foundation of the University of Essex; Nicholas Fenn [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary], Thomas Bridges [Private Secretary to...
Dates:
Jun 1955 - Nov 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Gifts F-I., 1883 - Dec 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/401A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Maria Floris (3); Desmond Flower, Literary Director of Cassell and Company Limited; Dorothy Foot; Oswald Frewen; Louis Golding; Victor Gollancz; Colonel Maurice Grant (3); David Green (4); Amy Guest; John Gunther; 2nd Lord Haig [earlier Lord Dawick]; Hamish Hamilton, Managing Director of Hamish Hamilton Limited; Sir Roy Harrod; Herbert Haseltine (4); Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Lionel Horton-Smith; Henry Laughlin, Houghton...
Dates:
1883 - Dec 1952
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Knight of the Garter: congratulations., 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/466
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: John Graham, Lord Provost of Aberdeen [Scotland]; Sydney Tapper-Jones, Town Clerk of Cardiff [Wales]; [1st] Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson], Chairman of the Carlton Club; James Farley, Chairman of the Board, Coca Cola Export Corporation; Harriet Cohen; Noel Coward; [Frederick] Potter, Mayor of Deal [Kent]; Sir William Darling, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Scottish Conservative Club; [Theodore] Feilden; Keith Feiling; "Gracie" Fields; Sir...
Dates:
1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Knight of the Garter (installation): congratulations., 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/469
Scope and Contents
Correspondents (congratulating WSC on his installation as a Knight of the Garter) include: Sir George Bellew, Garter Principal King of Arms; [Lord] Ivor [Guest]; Antonio Giraudier; Hadj Thami El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakesh [Morocco]; James Greenwood; "Betty", Lady Hastings; Anne, Lady Islington; and Harold Soper (4) regarding WSC's garter plate.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; a photograph of WSC in garter robes; newspaper cuttings (including...
Dates:
1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Nobel Prize: congratulations., 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/468A-C
Scope and Contents
Correspondents (congratulating WSC on receiving the Nobel Prize for literature) include: Winthrop Aldrich, United States Ambassador to Great Britain; Andrew Stark, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary; Olaf Nobel; [James] Vincent Sheean; Joyce Hall; Francois Mauriac; Sir Alexander Korda; Eugene Meyer; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; King Peter II of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Prince Bertil of...
Dates:
1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Order of Merit: congratulations., Dec 1945 - Jan 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/450
Scope and Contents
Correspondents (congratulating WSC on receiving the Order of Merit) include: Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese; Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe [later 1st Lord Killmuir], Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Nazi war criminals; Charles Peat; General Sir Reginald Wingate; Robert Menzies; the Maharajah of Nepal; the Maharajah of Kashmir [region in India, China and Pakistan]; the Maharajah of Bikaner [India]; the Maharajah of Jodhpur [India]; Richard Casey, Governor of Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India];...
Dates:
Dec 1945 - Jan 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: League of Nations Union., 23 Jun 1938 - 06 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/345
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on the League of Nations Union include: 2nd Lord Lytton, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations Union; 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil], President of the League of Nations Union, on subjects including a proposed meeting at the Albert Hall [London] (2); Robert Hunter.Other subjects include: meetings of the League of Nations Union; requests for WSC to give speeches.Also includes: print of League of Nations Union policy; copy of a...
Dates:
23 Jun 1938 - 06 Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage., Jan 1944 - Dec 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/562A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents concerning honours to be given to WSC, or tributes made to him include: [John] Nicholas Henderson, Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary (3), Pierson Dixon, Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary, Guy Millard of the Foreign Office and Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary advising WSC on overseas honours; Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill]; Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ambassador to Brussels [Belgium]; Edgar Clements, Mayor of...
Dates:
Jan 1944 - Dec 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Cincinnati - Czechoslovak Legionaries., Jan 1952 - Dec 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/549A-B
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from various organisations and individuals informing WSC of tributes paid to him or requesting his support for various projects. Correspondents include: Francis Hatch, President General of the Society of the Cincinnati on WSC's descent from Lieutenant Reuben Murray (through Lady Randolph Churchill) (3); Sir Irving Gane on WSC's admission to the freedom of the City of London; Kenneth Post, Director of the Civic Trust; R Osborne, Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service...
Dates:
Jan 1952 - Dec 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Cinque Ports A-D., 1941 - 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/353
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and Papers on WSC's duties as Lord Warden of The Cinque Ports, including: The War Office on appointment as Honorary Colonel of the 89th (Cinque Ports) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1941-42, with note by WSC, commenting that he was becoming Colonel of too many regiments, but that he did not want to hurt the feelings of a unit serving in the Middle East; Lord Beauchamp, (2) offering his father's full-dress uniform as Lord Warden, 1946 (declined); Anthony Bevir,...
Dates:
1941 - 1957
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: correspondence., Jan 1940 - Nov 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/409
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Rennie Smith, Secretary, Friends of Europe, on receiving the text of a broadcast by WSC and his subscription (3); Sir Louis Stuart on the [Sir Michael] O'Dwyer Memorial Fund; Sir Patrick Hannon, as Chairman of the Early Closing Association wishing WSC well, and as Chairman of the Constitutional Club inviting WSC to be its President (2); Sir Howard d'Egville, [Cyril] Costley-White (Dominions Office), and [Sir] Drummond Shiels, Deputy and Acting Secretary of the Empire...
Dates:
Jan 1940 - Nov 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Patronage: correspondence., Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/432A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: James Stuart [Chief Whip] (2) and Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald Weigall, Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Films Association, on WSC becoming Patron of the National Society of Conservative and Unionist Agents and President of the Films Association; [Vernon] Bovenizer of the War Office (2); Sir Reginald Barnes (3), Secretary of State for War David Margesson, and Military Secretary [to the Secretary of State for War] Lieutenant-General [Arthur] Floyd-Acland,...
Dates:
Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open