Colonialism
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1176 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), [1912]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/13/187-189
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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary to the Board of Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene] on the public and secret memoranda for Canada concerning the Canadian emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy. [Carbon].
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[1912]
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(Untitled), 26 May 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/75/76
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Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] marked "most secret and personal" informing him that the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII] is anxious to have a wider sphere of activity and asking for personal views on his appointment as Governor of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe].
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26 May 1942
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(Untitled), 29 May 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/75/107
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Telegram from Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC outlining his reasons for opposing the appointment of the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier Edward, Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII,] as Governor of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe].
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29 May 1942
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(Untitled), 01 Apr 1944 - 30 Apr 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/4
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; General Sir Bernard Montgomery [General Officer Commanding the Eighth Army]; Director of Military Intelligence [Major-General Francis...
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01 Apr 1944 - 30 Apr 1944
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(Untitled), 01 May 1944 - 31 May 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/5
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the...
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01 May 1944 - 31 May 1944
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(Untitled), 01 Jun 1944 - 30 Jun 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/152/6
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, June 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the Chiefs of Staff; Major-General Leslie Hollis and Colonel Ian Jacob...
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01 Jun 1944 - 30 Jun 1944
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1944 - 30 Sep 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/153/3
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, September 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Major-General Leslie Hollis and Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretaries to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of...
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01 Sep 1944 - 30 Sep 1944
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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1944 - 31 Oct 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/153/4
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, October 1944.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris [Commander in Chief Bomber Command]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers, particularly Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; the...
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01 Oct 1944 - 31 Oct 1944
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/93A/39
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Letter from WSC to Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar] marked "Private" agreeing with the "robust line you take regarding the Empire" and the importance of securing defence interests in the post war settlement Initialled.
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02 Jan 1943
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(Untitled), 06 Oct 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94B/172
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Letter from WSC to Stanley Bruce [Australian High Commissioner] explaining that although he was not permitted to be present at the War Cabinet meeting for United Kingdom Ministers the previous day he is hoping to arrange a meeting for him and the High Commissioners of the other dominions with the Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon] to discuss the issues which may arise at the Moscow conference [of foreign ministers] and the line he proposes to take. Signature in typescript....
Dates:
06 Oct 1943
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(Untitled), 31 Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/95A/32-33
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Letter from Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar] to WSC stating that he was pleased that he had spoken up about Kowloon [Hong Kong], as there is no point in leasing land to the United States from China which they may have to apologise for having done; that whatever is said about not wanting to annex land it will become essential to make sure of certain points in order to secure Britain's post war defence, particularly air protection and communications and that he...
Dates:
31 Dec 1942
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(Untitled), Mar 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/95B/217-221
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Memorandum entitled "The Attitude of Members of the RAF Serving in South Africa" by John Colville stating how disappointed he was by the attitude of the RAF towards South Africa and the South Africans which he blames on ignorance, home sickness and boredom and suggesting that careful and intelligent preparation is given to all those drafted to South Africa. He adds that he has met a South African officer Captain Lennox Short, a former Information Officer, who is very keen to be consulted if...
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Mar 1943
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(Untitled), 16 Mar 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/96B/113-114
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Letter from Amy Guest (Villa Artemis, Palm Beach, United States) regarding the question of India after the war and asking if he thinks it might be possible to separate India into Hindu and Mohammedan states controlled by a central capital which would administer national departments but would leave religion and education to be governed locally Signed.
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16 Mar 1943
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(Untitled), 12 Apr 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/110/12
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Telegram from WSC to Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] containing an advanced copy of a telegram which he is proposing to send to the Dominions suggesting that a meeting should be held between the five Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth to discuss the planning of the future world organisation.
Dates:
12 Apr 1943
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(Untitled), 15 Apr 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/110/30
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Telegram from WSC to Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada], John Curtin [Prime Minister of Australia], Peter Fraser [Prime Minister of New Zealand], General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] suggesting that they should meet to discuss the role that the British Commonwealth should take in the organisation of post-war world affairs.
Dates:
15 Apr 1943
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(Untitled), 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/104/1
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Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, July 1943.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; senior civil servants, including Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; "C" [Major General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service].Subjects covered by the minutes...
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01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
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(Untitled), 19 Oct 1914 - 10 Feb 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/47/34-35
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Letter from Lewis Harcourt [Secretary of State for the Colonies], to WSC, on Admiralty allegations of laxity regarding the supervision of enemy subjects in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka]. Includes copy of a minute from Sir [William] Graham Greene [Secretary to the Admiralty] to the Colonial Office on the original allegations (1914).
Dates:
19 Oct 1914 - 10 Feb 1915
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(Untitled), 05 Feb 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183/2
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Letter from WSC to John Whitley [Chairman of the BBC] asking for an opportunity to broadcast on India and explaining why he thinks that the permission given to Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] to broadcast on Empire Free Trade has set a precedent for this. Signed carbon typescript copy.
Dates:
05 Feb 1931
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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), 12 May 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/28-31
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Letter from A R T Richards (Via di Quarto 10, Castello, Florence, [Italy]) to [WSC] complaining about the corrupt native administration of Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] and the failure of the British government to protect the interests of the British tea planters on the island. Typescript copies at CHAR 2/189/32-36 and CHAR 2/189/37-41.
Dates:
12 May 1932
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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), 12 May 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/32-36
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Typescript copy of CHAR 2/189/28-31.
Dates:
12 May 1932
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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), 12 May 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/37-41
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Typescript copy of CHAR 2/189/28-31.
Dates:
12 May 1932
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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), [May] [1932]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/43
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Proof of article by George Cornwallis West on the defects of the new constitution in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka]. Sent with CHAR 2/189/42.
Dates:
[May] [1932]
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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), 24 May 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/52
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Letter from [WSC] to George Cornwallis-West stating that it would be better for him to raise the matter of the constitution of Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] in the House of Commons rather than write a letter to the "Daily Telegraph". Carbon typescript copy.
Dates:
24 May 1932
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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), 26 May 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/53
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Letter from George Cornwallis-West (8 Sterling Street, Knightsbridge, [London]) to WSC on his article on the political situation in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka].
Dates:
26 May 1932
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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), 09 Mar 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/192/70
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Letter from Frank Morrish, honorary secretary of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Home Counties North Area Women's Advisory Committee (Palace Chambers, Westminster, [London] to Ellen Stutely [chairman of the women's section of the South Chingford Conservative and Unionist Association] (22 Silverthorne Gardens, Chingford, Essex) giving the principal Conservative conference resolution approving government policy, in particular the success of the Ottawa Conference,...
Dates:
09 Mar 1933
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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.