Coal mining
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 308 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), 30 Mar 1926
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/147/71
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir Lewis Coward (56 Evelyn Gardens, [London]) to WSC thanking him for his hospitality and reporting that the Law Lords will all support his (Coward's) memorandum [on the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act, 1923].
Dates:
30 Mar 1926
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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), [1926]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/150/7
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet: "Simple facts about the coal industry". Claims that miners' conditions have improved, their wages have risen and their output has declined. Published by Coal Industry Publications.
Dates:
[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), 21 Jul 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/158/86
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to H A Gwynne asserting that there is a large surplus capacity of coal to be absorbed before the existing unemployed miners could be re-engaged. Carbon typescript copy.
Dates:
21 Jul 1928
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), 23 Nov 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/159/111-113
Scope and Contents
Letter from A Herbert Hart, chairman of the Southall-Norwood Urban District Council Maternity, Infant and Child Welfare Centre (Kilworth Lodge, 55 South Road, Southall, Middlesex) to WSC arguing that the Government should promote the extraction of oil and gas from coal as a means of tackling the unemployment problem in the coal producing areas.
Dates:
23 Nov 1928
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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), 16 Oct 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/164/54-56
Scope and Contents
Letter from David Lloyd George (25 Old Queen Street, Westminster, London) to WSC arguing that the Government have gained great strength from the praise it has received, assessing the Government's prospects with regard to unemployment, the coal industry and the economic situation, criticising [Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] for promoting division in the Conservative Party, expressing the wish to discuss the political situation with WSC and stressing the need for the anti-Socialist...
Dates:
16 Oct 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), 11 Oct 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/12-13
Scope and Contents
Empire Industries News Service no. 162: coal and safeguarding; Manchester and the principles of Free Trade.
Dates:
11 Oct 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), 25 Feb 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/175/16-17
Scope and Contents
Circular letter from the joint honorary secretaries of the Conjoint Conference of Public Utility Associations(28 Grosvenor gardens, London) arguing that the Coal Mines Bill will cause the prices paid for coal by public utilities, and hence the general cost of living and manufacturing, to rise. With list of the members of the Conference.
Dates:
25 Feb 1930
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), [1931]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/178/22
Scope and Contents
Notes on the economic benefits of the construction of units for the distillation of oil from coal.
Dates:
[1931]
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), 16 Aug 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/178/23-27
Scope and Contents
Memorandum advocating innovation and the application of scientific knowledge to agriculture and industry.
Dates:
16 Aug 1931
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), 10 Sep 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/178/28
Scope and Contents
Letter from the private secretary of Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to Violet Pearman returning CHAR 2/178/29-36.
Dates:
10 Sep 1931
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), 05 Jun 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/255/9-11
Scope and Contents
Letter from Henry Woodall, Chairman, Tottenham and District Gas Council on the Coal Mines Bill and the proposed coal sales monopoly.
Dates:
05 Jun 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jul 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/256/24-27
Scope and Contents
Letter from Lt-Col Norman Thwaites, British Smokeless & Oil Fuels Ltd to WSC, on the production of smokeless fuel and fuel oils by the low temperature carbinisation process.
Dates:
08 Jul 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 09 Jul 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/256/28
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Lt-Col Norman Thwaites, thanks for letter on the production of smokeless fuel and fuel oil by low temperature carbonisation of coal [carbon].
Dates:
09 Jul 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 14 May 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/262/42-43
Scope and Contents
Resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the Federation of British Industries on The Coal Mines Bill: Compulsory Amalgamations.
Dates:
14 May 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/30/4
Scope and Contents
Newsprint issue of the Miners' Campaign Special (number 5), by the Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain. It details the Government's responsibility to the miners, particularly following the failure to modernise, wasteful competition through the use of coal selling agencies, the disastrous results of the 1930 Coal Mines Act and reiterates the need for the Government to increase miners' wages. It also quotes from a speech by George Peake, Chairman of the Airedale Collieries Limited,...
Dates:
Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 6 Aug 1925
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/72A/41-60
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's statement on the coal subsidy, the crisis in the coal industry, the alternative risk of a strike, and hopes of a settlement.Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style", annotated by WSC, and manuscript notes [?in the hand of Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC].
Dates:
6 Aug 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 18 Mar 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/2/20
Scope and Contents
Letter from Lord Knollys [Private Secretary to King George V] (Buckingham Palace) to WSC congratulating him on behalf of the King for the carrying of the second reading of the Coal Mines Bill, which the King hopes will be passed in the present parliamentary session. Signed manuscript.
Dates:
18 Mar 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), 24 Aug 1910 - 26 Sep 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/2/93-98
Scope and Contents
Draft letter from [WSC] (Home Office) to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith ] about Home Office business for the following year and two Home Office Bills. The first proposes amendments to the Coal Mines Regulations Act to improve safety through technical regulations. The second Bill (or group of Bills) covers the punishment of offenders. [WSC] expresses satisfaction with reaction to his administrative prison reforms, and suggests that a "scientific and benevolent measure" would be...
Dates:
24 Aug 1910 - 26 Sep 1910
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), 27 Sep 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/2/99-112
Scope and Contents
Copy of letter from [WSC] ([Home Office]) to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] about Home Office business for the following year and two Home Office Bills. The first proposes amendments to the Coal Mines Regulations Act to improve safety through technical regulations. The second Bill (or group of Bills) covers the punishment of offenders. [WSC] expresses satisfaction with reaction to his administrative prison reforms, and suggests that a "scientific and benevolent measure" would be...
Dates:
27 Sep 1910
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), 25 Oct 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/3/20
Scope and Contents
Letter from Joseph Pease [later Lord Gainford] (Crown Hotel, Rotherham [Yorkshire]), on the notepaper of the Duchy of Lancaster, to WSC concerning addresses he is to make to miners in his constituency. He wishes to know whether he may say that the Government is considering appointing additional [Mines] Inspectors; requests a summary of recent fatal and non-fatal mining accidents; and asks whether there is any truth in the statement that the position of bodies found at Whitehaven [Cumberland]...
Dates:
25 Oct 1910
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), 22 Dec 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/3/50
Scope and Contents
Letter from David Shackleton [Labour Advisor to the Home Office] (55 Belgrave Road, Darwen [Lancashire]) to WSC concerning the colliery disaster [at the Pretoria Pit, near Bolton, Lancashire]. He says that searches in the mine have confirmed WSC's fears; that [Richard] Redmayne [Chief Inspector of Mines] will inform WSC about the state of the mine; that he is pleased that the members of a Consultative Committee (including the District Mine Inspector and Mining Officials) are working...
Dates:
22 Dec 1910
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), 26 Mar 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/1
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] to WSC enclosing a letter to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] concerning proceedings in South Wales [see CHAR 12/6/2-3]. He warns that to settle the dispute between mine owners and miners it may be necessary to alter the Eight Hours Act to accommodate a half day holiday for miners on Saturdays. Signed manuscript.
Dates:
26 Mar 1910
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), [Mar] [1910]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/2-3
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] to Herbert Asquith detailing the progress of a dispute between mine owners and miners in South Wales which may develop into a "very serious and far-reaching strike". He reports that the representatives of the Board of Trade, [George] Askwith and [I H ] Mitchell, found that negotiations between the two sides had broken off, and therefore arranged a meeting between Buxton and two representatives of the mine owners. Buxton...
Dates:
[Mar] [1910]
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), 09 Nov 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/28
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir Arthur Bigge [later Lord Stamfordham, Permanent Secretary to King George V] (York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk) to WSC expressing concern on behalf of the King at reports of riots in South Wales and requesting a report of events from WSC. Signed manuscript.
Dates:
09 Nov 1910
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), 10 Nov 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/6/29
Scope and Contents
Letter from Alexander Murray [Master of Elibank, later Lord Murray of Elibank, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury] to WSC marked "confidentially dictated" enclosing newspaper cuttings [concerning the miners' strike at Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales] and commenting "the principal Liberal papers...are backing you" Signed typescript. See CHAR 12/6/30 and CHAR 12/6/31.
Dates:
10 Nov 1910
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.