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Colonialism

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1176 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 03 Oct 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/9B/193
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Telegram from Foreign Office to 11th Lord Lothian [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Philip Kerr] suggesting that Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States] should give notice of his desire to visit the Bahamas and that the subject of the visit by the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] to the United States be dropped. [Copy].

Dates: 03 Oct 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Aug 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 16/48B/169-173
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (War Office, Whitehall, SW1 [London]) to David Lloyd George about the situation in Mesopotamia [later Iraq] and Persia [later Iran] including: demands by [Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer] Haldane [Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamia] for troops and cavalry forces which cannot be met; WSC's suggestions for moving troops from India, Palestine, Constantinople [later Istanbul] and the Rhine; the need for troops in India; the difficulty of the position against the Bolsheviks in Persia;...
Dates: 31 Aug 1920
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Oct 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/10/20-22
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] about the need for the Cabinet to consider the transfer of Aden [later Yemen]; India's position and responsibilities for Aden; the possibility that the administration and expenses of Somaliland [later Somalia] should also be transferred to India; observations about the positions of East Africa and opposition to equality with Europeans; warnings against the idea of India being a Dominion; and the suggestion that Ghandhi...
Dates: 08 Oct 1921
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/27/29-36
Scope and Contents Two copies of a letter from WSC to David Lloyd George [Prime Minister] about Iraq and the impossibility of WSC's task. WSC explains his difficulties: low numbers of forces; King Feisal who is "playing the fool, if not the knave"; overstretched finances combined with the need to retain troops; the hostility of the press; and lack of progress in developing oil. He recommends that Feisal is given an ultimatum that Britian will evacuate Iraq but explains that, if they are asked to stay, it will...
Dates: 01 Sep 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Nov 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/9/40-41
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Letter from J.M. Maclean to WSC, on India's place in an Imperial Federation.

Dates: 27 Nov 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Dec 1903]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/9/55
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Letter from The Society of Arts to WSC, invitation to attend lecture by J.M. Maclean on "India's Place in an Imperial Federation".

Dates: [Dec 1903]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Mar 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/16/91-92
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Letter from WSC to [ ], explaining reasons for voting against the Government's proposal to introduce Chinese labour into the Transvaal [South Africa], stating opposition to "debased labour with no hope of advance for skills or thrift, and no right to share in the general life of the country to whose welfare it contributes" [Ms copy by A. Anning].

Dates: 23 Mar 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Apr 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/17/30
Scope and Contents Letter from Professor Goldwin Smith (The Grange, Toronto, [Canada]) to WSC enclosing a cutting on Free Trade from the Winnipeg Tribune [not present] and stating that he has yet to see an expression of definite support for Joseph Chamberlain's policy in any major journal in Canada or in the Canadian parliament. Refutes Chamberlain's assertion that only preferential duties could prevent the colonies severing themselves from the mother country and attributes the agitation to Chamberlain's...
Dates: 16 Apr 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1903]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/7/72-76
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Extract from the Empire Review - article by H. Kopson How to Solve the South African Labour Question: A Plan for Chinese Immigration [printed].

Dates: [1903]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jul 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/5
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Letter from Colonel J. Mitford to WSC, on free trade, asking him for his alternative to Chamberlain's scheme for protective tariffs in favour of the colonies.

Dates: 02 Jul 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Oct 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/82
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Letter from J.W. Bradley to WSC, suggesting formation of an Imperial Federal Council, enabling the "free trade" party to appeal on popular lines to the Colonies and the "man in the street" annotated by WSC ack - a valuable suggestion".

Dates: 12 Oct 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Feb 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/16/7-9
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Letter from J M Neuburger to WSC, criticising the Colonial Office's policy in South Africa, enclosing printed memorandum Reflections on Joseph Chamberlain's Transvaal Policy.

Dates: 03 Feb 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Feb 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/16/43-44
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Letter from H. Locke to WSC, on the Chinese Labour question in South Africa, enclosing cuttings from the Johannesburg Star.

Dates: 27 Feb 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), Feb 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/16/55
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Letter from J. Andrews Manning to WSC on the Chinese labour question in South Africa.

Dates: Feb 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jun 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/17/85
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Letter from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (House of Commons) to WSC on the forthcoming vote and debate on colonial trade and the collapse of the government's proposals for reform of the army.

Dates: 15 Jun 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jul 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/17/123
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Letter from John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone] (Villa Adria, Langenschwalbach, Germany) to WSC expressing the hope that WSC will not allow Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] to put off the colonial vote and approving WSC's resolution on the new scheme of army reform. Mentions his horse rides through the mountains of the area and the fact that the local people think he is a spy.

Dates: 17 Jul 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Aug 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/7
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Letter from F G Stokes (6 Sandwell Mansions, West Hampstead, [London]; notepaper of the Grand Axen-Fels Hotel, Vierwaldstattersee, [Switzerland]) to WSC discussing the effect on bread prices of the abolition of the Corn Laws and attacking the idea of a self-sufficient British Empire.

Dates: 10 Aug 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Oct 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/48-50
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Letter from Charles Trevelyan (Cambo, Northumberland) to WSC discussing what should be the Liberal approach to devolution for Ireland, Scotland and Wales, reform of the House of Lords, the alternative to Protection, colonial policy and other issues.

Dates: 17 Oct 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), Oct 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/57
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Letter from Moreton Frewen (Inver Lodge, Maam Cross, [County Galway, Ireland]) to WSC praising WSC's latest speech on Ireland, which he believes will split the Unionists, and expressing support for Joseph Chamberlain's policy of Imperial Federation.

Dates: Oct 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jul 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/20
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Letter from John Beasley Thornhill to WSC, asking for help in obtaining post with the Colonial Service.

Dates: 15 Jul 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Jul 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/34
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Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn] to WSC, suggesting question to be put to Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, asking whether representatives of Canada had expressed the opinion that Britain was not sufficiently protecting the Empire against German discrimination and that Britain should retaliate by imposing duties on German goods.

Dates: 25 Jul 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Aug 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/43-44
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Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn] to WSC, congratulations on speech against the Sugar Convention, enclosing copy of question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the amount of the cost of the Pacific Cable to be borne by the Colonies.

Dates: 02 Aug 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Dec 1931 - 20 Dec 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/399B/118-119
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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.

Dates: 02 Dec 1931 - 20 Dec 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Apr 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/45/85
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Letter from R V Vernon (Colonial Office) to Edward Marsh returning and commenting on a telegram received by WSC from the mayor of Larnaca [Cyprus] [see CHAR 2/45/86-87] on the Government's rejection of proposals for a railway between Larnaca and Nicosia, and enclosing a copy of a related despatch by Lord Crewe [see CHAR 2/45/90]. Signed typescript.

Dates: 15 Apr 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Apr 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/45/86-87
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Telegram from the mayor of Larnaca [Cyprus] to WSC conveying the disappointment in Larnaca over the Government's rejection of proposals for a railway between Larnaca and Nicosia. Returned with CHAR 2/45/85.

Dates: 23 Apr 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open