Colonialism
Found in 1173 Collections and/or Records:
Transcript of interview: John Sankey, 2010
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
Transcript of interview: Sir Brian Barder, 1997 - 2009
Uganda, 1952-08 - 1952-12
Memoranda on the Uganda Development Corporation Limited.
(Untitled), 02 Dec 1931 - 20 Dec 1931
Copy of memorial by P Jaswantsingh, Guaranteed Chief of Lalgarh Estate, India, sent to WSC, and also sent to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [1st Lord Willingdon, earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] on the proposed change in the status of the Guaranteed Chiefships.
(Untitled), 28 Nov 1923
Letter from D C Robertson to [WSC] proposing that unemployment should be relieved by the provision of Government money to set up a school for the training of tradesmen and to facilitate emigration of "our surplus population" to the colonies. Refers to Japan's need to expand and expresses opposition to Protection. Copy sent with CHAR 2/132/32.
(Untitled), 02 Jul 1924
Letter from Gideon Murray, the Master of Elibank (8 Great George Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC asking if he is correct in inferring from WSC's article in the "Weekly Despatch" that WSC would be prepared to be associated with David Lloyd George in the new alignment of parties, a position which Murray and others could not accept. Congratulates WSC on turning the tables on J H Thomas in his speech on imperial policy.
(Untitled), 11 Jul 1924
Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Walter Grant Morden expressing the hope that his late arrival [at a dinner at the Thames Yacht Club] did not upset Morden's friends, approving his Empire settlement scheme but declining to take a financial interest in it because his political work might be hampered if he were associated with a private corporation. Carbon copy.
(Untitled), 09 Jul 1924
Letter from Walter Grant Morden ("The People", 49 Wellington Street, Strand, London) to WSC on: Dr Black, former Deputy Minister of Emigration in Canada, and Mervyn Brown, founder of the Canada Colonisation Association, who will be dining with WSC and Morden to discuss the scheme to form a private corporation to aid the transfer of "our surplus unproductive population from here to other parts of the Empire; the Government's attitude to the scheme.
(Untitled), 02 Jul 1924
(Untitled), 07 Jul 1924
Letter from Walter Grant Morden ("The People", 49 1 Wellington Street, Strand, London) to WSC on: the wish of Terence Macnaghten, vice-chairman of the Oversea Settlement Committee, to arrange a conference with Morden at the Colonial Office; the wish of Christopher Lowther to act as secretary to the proposed land settlement corporation and of Sir Robert Lynn to join its board as a representative of Ulster [Ireland]. Proposes a meeting with 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith].
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1924
Letter from T H Deakin, mining engineer (Parkend, Lydney, Gloucestershire) to WSC (Chartwell) enclosing CHAR 2/134/52 and wondering whether a system of Free Trade within the Empire could be suggested when the Dominion Prime Ministers visit.
(Untitled), 04 Aug 1887
Letter from T H Deakin (Parkend, [Lydney, Gloucestershire]) to Lord Hartington [later 10th Duke of Devonshire] suggesting a system of Free Trade within the Empire to be extended to other countries only if they reciprocate. Copy sent with CHAR 2/134/51.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1924]
Proof of a statement by WSC on his interest in the tour of the New Zealand rugby team and his belief that sport served a good purpose in bringing together men from every part of the Empire. Sent with CHAR 2/136/121.
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1924
Letter from A Grosvenor Deeny (Madresfield, 95 Wentworth Road, Harborne, Birmingham) to WSC urging him to form a new constitutionalist and anti-Socialist party and to remember the stress by Australian Prime Minister Stanley Bruce [later Lord Bruce] on the importance of trade within the Empire and the construction of a naval base in Singapore.
(Untitled), 26 May 1922
Introduction by General Jan Smuts to the history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa]. Sent with CHAR 2/124B/121.
(Untitled), [Sep] [1922]
Introductory note to the history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa]. Draft written in WSC's name by C W Hobley and sent with CHAR 2/124B/129 for WSC's approval.
(Untitled), 09 Sep 1922 - 11 Sep 1922
Notes from [Edward Marsh] to [WSC] asking whether WSC is prepared to write anything for Leo Weinthal's history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa] and whether he agrees to let Weinthal publish a passage from "My African Journey" and reproduce his pictures of Egypt. Annotated by WSC that he will not write anything and that he agrees to the publication of the passage but not to the reproduction of the pictures.
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1922
Letter from the Duke of Devonshire (2 Carlton Gardens, [London]) to WSC asking him to become a vice-president of the British Empire League and enclosing a statement of its objects and constitution [see CHAR 2/123/156].
(Untitled), [1922]
Printed statement of the objects and constitution of the British Empire League. Sent with CHAR 2/123/154.
(Untitled), 12 Apr 1925
(Untitled), 1924
Pamphlet: "The destruction of the British Empire as planned by the Communist International". Published by the Russian National Students' Association.
(Untitled), 27 Oct 1919
Letter from Sir Abe Bailey (38 Bryanston Square, [London]) to WSC urging him to comment on the proposal of 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] that Jamaica or other colonies should be sold, and making suggestions for the paying off of the National Debt.
(Untitled), 13 Dec 1905
Letter from Sir Vincent Caillard (National Bank of Egypt, London Agency, 4 & 5 King William Street, London) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and predicting that WSC will become a keen imperialist and might even come to favour preferential trade with the colonies. Carbon typescript.
(Untitled), 13 Dec 1905
Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (3 Whitehall Court, [London]) to WSC reporting that he and others are keen that Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] should get a government post that will give him scope, but it has been decided that the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office should sit in the House of Lords. Thinks colonial affairs "will be Joseph Chamberlain's point of attack.".
(Untitled), [1907]
Notes by "H W" on fixing a uniform fee for naturalization certificates throughout the Empire.