Colonialism
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1173 Collections and/or Records:
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Correspondence A - M, 1953-01 - 1953-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/48
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Rosalind, Duchess of Abercorn; Konrad Adenauer [Chancellor of West Germany, later part of Germany]; Cyril Alington; John Allen; John Astor [owner of the Times] on LSA's hopes for an Imperial Preference policy being unrealistic; Nancy, Lady Astor; Archduke Robert of Austria (2); Thomas Balogh; Jacques Bardoux; [George] Herbert Baxter (2); Edward Beddington-Behrens; Kenneth Goodenough, British High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; Princess Marthe...
Dates:
1953-01 - 1953-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1918-01 - 1918-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, warning LSA that by writing as a private individual on military questions (while also Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet), he was acting improperly; Lord Curzon, Lord President of the Council, commenting on a paper by LSA on foreign affairs and on the future of Palestine (3); Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, thanking LSA for his congratulations over the Palestine Campaign and commenting on the political situation in Palestine and...
Dates:
1918-01 - 1918-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1919-01 - 1920-01
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/2
Scope and Contents
Correspondents (mainly congratulating LSA on his appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies) include: Sir William Allardyce, Governor of the Bahamas (2); Brigadier-General Sir Hugh Baikie; Henry Birchenough; General Sir William Birdwood; Reginald Brock; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; Lionel Curtis on the British colonial section in the peace negotiations; Lord Curzon; Thomas Comyn-Platt, offering to work as LSA's Private Secretary (2); Alison Cuninghame; Violet...
Dates:
1919-01 - 1920-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1922-01 - 1922-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Lord Burnham, commenting on LSA's work at the Overseas Settlement Committee; General 1st Lord Birdwood [General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Army in India], congratulating LSA on his Emigration Bill; 1st Lord Blyth; [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain [Leader of the Conservative Party] on the disagreements between himself and LSA over the break up of the Coalition Government (4); [Austen] Neville Chamberlain, congratulating LSA on becoming a Privy Councillor and...
Dates:
1922-01 - 1922-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1924-01 - 1924-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Maurice Hankey, Clerk of the Privy Council; Sir Robert Borden, congratulating LSA on becoming Secretary of State for the Colonies, commenting on the November General Election and the caucus system, and on a federal system for Ireland (3); Estella, Lady Cave (2); [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on a row with LSA in the Shadow Cabinet; Winston Churchill, on subjects including a story from Herodotus, Churchill’s distress at the political situation, with the Empire being...
Dates:
1924-01 - 1924-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1925-01 - 1925-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/10
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham], on taking up his position as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya, a vote on his salary and his work as Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees (2); Sir Kenneth Anderson; Sir Abe Bailey, supporting LSA's position on Iraq; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister; Sir Otto Beit on appointing Grigg's successor as Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees (2); Gertrude Bell [Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner for Iraq, Sir Henry Dobbs]...
Dates:
1925-01 - 1925-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1928-12 - 1929-06
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/17
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on the report of the commission on East African Closer Union, particularly probable attempts to use the report as an excuse for inactivity and trying to avoid attacks on party lines from the opposition, and also the Government's refusal to use expert advice (2); Stephen Gaselee, Foreign Office; Sir Geoffrey Archer; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on subjects including granting Sir Hamar Greenwood a...
Dates:
1928-12 - 1929-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1928-12 - 1929-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/18
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Philip Allan (3); Sir [Christopher] James Parr, High Commissioner in London for New Zealand (2); Patrick Duncan; Florence, Lady Bell, recalling LSA's visit to Iraq and meeting with her daughter, Gertrude Bell [former Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner of the Iraq]; William Bankes Amery, Oversea Settlement Department; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [earlier Lord Hopetoun] asking LSA to chair the Imperial Committee of the British Social Hygiene Council; Sir John Ducane...
Dates:
1928-12 - 1929-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1929-12 - 1930-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/19
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Edward Arnold, Edward Arnold and Company, publishers, on distributing LSA's Empire Tour speeches, "The Empire in the New Era" to schools; Stanley Baldwin [Leader of the Conservative Party] on subjects including LSA having made his position more difficult over Imperial Preference (3); Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Sir Abe Bailey; Richard Baggallay; John Davidson, Chairman of the Conservative Party (2); Sir Hesketh Bell on the report of the Colonial Appointments ...
Dates:
1929-12 - 1930-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1946-07 - 1948-01
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/41
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir [Leslie] Patrick Abercrombie; A V Alexander, Minister of Defence on subjects including LSA's ideas on the National Service Bill (2); [Albert] Spenser Allberry (2); Carleton Allen; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Sir Algernon Aspinall; Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees, on subjects including the chances of civil war in Palestine; [William] Bankes Amery [Head of British Food Mission to Australia] on the food parcels sent to...
Dates:
1946-07 - 1948-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence A - Z, 1951-01 - 1952-03
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/45
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] asking LSA to write an article on the state of sterling; Sir Denis Boyd, Principal of Ashridge College; Clement Attlee on receiving the Order of Merit; David Ben-Gurion; Sir Ernest Benn; John Biggs-Davison on his biography of George Wyndham; Sir Oswald Birley; Basil Blackwell [Chairman of Basil Blackwell and Mott Limited] on LSA's "The Elizabethan Spirit" and his miscellaneous writings (3); William Bowly on...
Dates:
1951-01 - 1952-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence Am-As, 1918 - 1945
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CRFT 1/2
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Leo Amery on subjects including Croft's suggestion of intervention in Russia, to restore the monarchy, tariff reform, free trade and Imperial Preference, the Socialist notion of making all colonies mandated territories, the future of Europe as some form of European Commonwealth and Amery's attempt as Secretary of State for India to steer a course between Congress and the Moslems (11); 2nd Lord Ampthill [earlier Arthur Russell]; Sir John Anderson [Home Secretary and...
Dates:
1918 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence G - Z, 1941-01 - 1964-04
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/33
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Major-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet]; [Willoughby] Clive Garsia [Guy Cottar] on his book "Planning the War"; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] on subjects including LSA's tribute to 1st Lord Lloyd and Mahomed Jinnah [President of the All India Muslim League] (5); Admiral Sir William Goodenough; 1st Lord Greenwood; Francis Pember on LSA's tribute to Edward Grenfell [1st Lord St Just]; Sir Lloyd Griscom on subjects...
Dates:
1941-01 - 1964-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence L - Z, 1925-12 - 1926-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/12
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Lloyd, High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, congratulating LSA on the negotiations over Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq] and his difficulties with Saad Zaghlul Pasha [President of Egypt] and the weakened British position in Egypt; Beryl Lafone on the enforced retirement of her husband, Edgar Lafone [Chief Constable Metropolitan Police]; Edgar Lafone; Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary [later 1st Lord Brentford]; 14th Lord Lovat [earlier Simon Fraser] (2);...
Dates:
1925-12 - 1926-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence L - Z, 1928-01 - 1929-01
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/16
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Henry Lewin (2); Basil Liddell Hart on an article by LSA on army reform; O Louwers, General Secretary of the Institut Colonial International, inviting LSA to join the institute (3); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War, on a suggested honour for Major-General Charles Luard [General Officer Commanding Forces in South China]; Harry Luke, thanking LSA for his appointment as Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone; Joseph Lyons, Premier of Tasmania; 14th...
Dates:
1928-01 - 1929-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence M - Z, 1927-01 - 1927-12
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/14
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Roderick Macleod (3); 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor, on a memorandum by LSA on House of Lords reform; 1st Lord Midleton [earlier St John Brodrick] on House of Lords reform; Howard Moffat, Premier and Minister of Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] on the death of Sir Charles Coghlan [former Premier] and on LSA's visit to Rhodesia; John Lockhart, Philip Allan and Company Limited, publishers, on LSA's proposed book on Imperial economics (3); Michael...
Dates:
1927-01 - 1927-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence on Central African Federation, 1952-06 - 1954-03
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/3/15
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly with representatives of the United Central Africa Association, including John Wallace (5) and [Ferdinand] Stephen Joelson (2) on LSA's help in establishing an organization to support Britain's colonial interests and LSA's acting chairmanship of the United Central Africa Association.
Other correspondents include: 1st Lord Trenchard; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]; Roy Welensky [Roland Welensky].
Also includes: foreword by LSA to a United...
Dates:
1952-06 - 1954-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with 1st Lord Milner, 1903-01 - 1928-11
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/40
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Milner and LSA on subjects including: training troops in South Africa; the South African labour problem and immigration from China; LSA's foundation of an Imperialist group; the success of General Sir Paul Methuen [Commander-in-Chief Eastern Command] in the South African War, and Milner's concerns about Methuen's military position; the Cape Colony [part of the Union of South Africa from 1910, later the Republic of South Africa]; Milner's own future after leaving South...
Dates:
1903-01 - 1928-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Currency papers, 1920-03 - 1921-04
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/60
Scope and Contents
Memoranda and Cabinet papers on currency issues, including: pamphlet on "The Real Yellow Peril" or problems caused by exchange rates with China, by 1st Lord Desborough [earlier William Grenfell]; memorandum by LSA and Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Minister of Pensions] on Imperial Exchange and currency, including suggestions for an Empire currency and bank, by John Darling; India Office memorandum on a new Imperial currency system for India; memoranda by Basil Blackett [Controller of...
Dates:
1920-03 - 1921-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Current politics: miscellaneous notes, 1947 - 1950
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/74
Scope and Contents
Conservative Research Department pamphlets and other publications on subjects including: the Conservative Party Conference, 1949; the Iron and Steel Bill, 1948; finance, trade and industry under the Labour Government; the earnings of industry; nationalization; Conservative policy in the 1950 General Election; the housing shortage; social and general policy under the Labour Government; Conservative Imperial policy; recent developments in the Empire (1949); points on trade and Imperial...
Dates:
1947 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Cuttings, 1906-11-19 - 1908-05-20
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 13
Scope and Contents
Cuttings of WSC’s speeches as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; photos of WSC’s Polo-playing and WSC at Manchester Garden party; articles on WSC’s African Tour, General Election and WSC as President of Board of Trade.
Dates:
1906-11-19 - 1908-05-20
Conditions Governing Access:
Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
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Diary and notebook of tour to Africa, 1962-03 - 1962-11
Reference Code: GBR/0014/STVS 8/25 b
Scope and Contents
Including: Stevens' observations on colonial policy and administration during his tour of Luanda, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Salisbury, Khartoum, Cairo and Tripoli; press cuttings regarding peace settlement in Congo and Angola; Stevens' view of apartheid; and a Foreign Office letter regarding the negative reaction to Stevens' potential appointment as Ambassador to South Africa.
Dates:
1962-03 - 1962-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is available for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Dominion Students Hall Trust (London House), 1955-11 - 1956-10
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/129
Scope and Contents
General papers and correspondence on the Trust (of which JA was a governor).
Dates:
1955-11 - 1956-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Economic articles, 1929-11 - 1948-11
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/15
Scope and Contents
Texts of articles by LSA on economic affairs, including: the Empire and economic unity, and the business men's manifesto; improving trade with Imperial Preference; Conservative policy on safeguarding British industry and Imperial trade; the state of the iron and steel industry; the Import Duties Bill (1932); faults in the National Government and Cabinet system; the history of the campaign for Imperial Preference, including Joseph Chamberlain and Free Trade; the International Economic...
Dates:
1929-11 - 1948-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Empire and Imperial Preference, 1942-12 - 1947-01
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/1
Scope and Contents
Speech notes and texts of speeches and articles by LSA on the Empire, Imperial Preference and expansionist policy, including a speech to the Empire Industries Association on British trading policy.
Dates:
1942-12 - 1947-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.