Colonialism
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1175 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), 30 Apr 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/235/57-58
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Extract from the Official Report on the statement by J H Thomas, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, confirming the Government's pledges to consult the native and white populations of the Protectorates before their transfer to the Union of South Africa. [Covering letter CHAR 2/235/56].
Dates:
30 Apr 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 29 Mar 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/235/59-61
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Letter from J G D Hooper (204 Loop Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa] to WSC, on the Status Bill designating the British in the Union of South Africa as "Nationals", and on the British Protectorates of Basutoland [later Lesotho], Swaziland [later Eswatini] and Bechuanaland [later Botswana], which should belong to the natives, being handed over by the British Government to the Union of South Africa. [Covering letter CHAR 2/235/56]. Manuscript.
Dates:
29 Mar 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), [Jun] 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/236/43
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Memoranda sent by [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] to WSC on: customs union with the crown colonies; colonial resources; India and Empire Free Trade policy. [Covering letter CHAR 2/236/42].
Dates:
[Jun] 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 15 Feb 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/240A/59-61
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Letter from WSC to the Times, replying to a letter by 2nd Lord Zetland [former Governor of Bengal, India (later also part of Bangladesh), earlier Lawrence Dundas] of 14 February, denying that he was "one of the first, if not the first, to encourage Indians to look forward to the attainment of Dominion Status" in 1917. [Carbon].
Dates:
15 Feb 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 21 Feb 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/169/92
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Letter from Jan Smuts (House of Assembly, Cape Town, [South Africa]) to WSC commenting on the unsettled state of British politics, noting the support for David Lloyd George in Conservative circles, and arguing that the British Empire is not holding its own "in the industrial war which is going to settle our fate".
Dates:
21 Feb 1930
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From the File:
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(Untitled), 22 Nov 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/7-8
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Empire Industries News Service no. 167: the policy of the Empire Industries Association.
Dates:
22 Nov 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), 13 Dec 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/10-11
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Empire Industries News Service no. 170: safeguarding and revenue: customs report; imperial preference and imports.
Dates:
13 Dec 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), [Jan] [1930]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/32-41
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Memorandum [by a committee of Conservative MPs] indicating the practical objections to the scheme of Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] for encouraging the movement of Free Trade within the Empire. Sent with CHAR 2/173/31.
Dates:
[Jan] [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), Oct 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/53
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet: "The key to Empire trade" by Harold Pooley, director of the British Empire Producers' Organisation.
Dates:
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), 20 Nov 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/194/117-118
Scope and Contents
Letter from [?Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman] (61 Tufton Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC on what he sees as the unsatisfactory answer given by [Stanley Baldwin, later Lord Baldwin] to his question in the House of Commons about whether Dominion status can be granted to any part of the Empire without the concurrence of the existing Dominions.
Dates:
20 Nov 1933
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 Nov 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/194/119
Scope and Contents
Letter from Aslett Baldwin (31 Abercorn Place, St John's Wood, London) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/194/120.
Dates:
21 Nov 1933
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 Jun 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/30/64
Scope and Contents
Letter from T W Killick (Townfield House, Altrincham, [Cheshire]) to WSC informing him that the executive committee of the Free Trade League have resolved to keep working and asking whether he would consider addressing a meeting in the Free Trade Hall on colonial preference.
Dates:
09 Jun 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
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(Untitled), 13 Feb 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/240A/52-57
Scope and Contents
Draft letter from WSC to the Times, on reported comments by 2nd Lord Zetland [former Governor of Bengal (India, later also part of Bangladesh), earlier Lawrence Dundas] that WSC was one of the first to encourage India to seek Dominion status in 1917, commenting that the statements were substantially untrue and directly misleading, with comments by Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet]. [Carbon].
Dates:
13 Feb 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 27 Oct 1922
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/28A/20-30
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC to J C Robertson [President, Dundee Liberal Association to be read out on WSC's behalf to electors] on subjects including: criticism of the Conservative government; the position of the House of Commons with 4 Secretaries of State in the House of Lords; his hope to be adopted as their parliamentary candidate as a "Liberal and a Free Trader"; socialism; commitments in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Palestine and WSC's responsibility for reducing expenditure; his pride in his...
Dates:
27 Oct 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 14 Jun 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/10/51-52
Scope and Contents
Letter from Albert Cartwright (National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place [London]) to WSC. Subjects covered include: his prison sentence for publishing a letter in the South African News concerning orders given to a British Colonel [during the Boer War]; an appeal for the Royal pardon for himself and for all those convicted of political offences connected with South Africa since 1896; and his resignation of the editorship of the Transvaal Leader to demonstrate his objection to the treatment of...
Dates:
14 Jun 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
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Unknown
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1943
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/193A/85-116
Scope and Contents
Draft copy of speech notes for WSC's broadcast on post war plans including: his illness; India; the difficulty of forecasting post war expenditure; anticipation of victory against Germany and Japan; the need for a 4 year plan; the Beveridge report; WSC's conviction of the need for social reform; agriculture; public health; education; unemployment. Extracts from the draft [unused] notes include criticism of Gandhi's fast and of the Beveridge report. Carbon typescript with annotations by...
Dates:
21 Mar 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 27 Nov 1911
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/27/66-69
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC (In camp near Mrali, Victoria Nile, Uganda [Africa]) to [King Edward VII] about his visit to Africa and impressions of the country. WSC expresses admiration for "these noble and spacious posessions" recently added to the Dominions, especially the East African Protectorate and Kenya; describes Mount Kenya and Uganda; notes the "evil effects" of the climate on Europeans and the danger of diseases especially sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly; praises the...
Dates:
27 Nov 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 22 Jul 1954
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3B/176-180
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from "Ike" [Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States] (The White House) to WSC marked "eyes only- top secret" in which he reflects on WSC's desires to make a joint pronouncement; to transfer responsibility to his successor [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; and to achieve a recognisable milestone towards peace which [Eisenhower] feels lies behind WSC's attempts to meet [Vyacheslav] Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister]. He suggests that WSC might make a speech...
Dates:
22 Jul 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Visit to South Africa, 1968-11 - 1969-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/7/32
Scope and Contents
Papers from JA's visit to South Africa, Jan-Feb 1969, including correspondence on arrangements, particularly relating to meetings of the Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining Company Limited (of which JA was a director), with minutes of company meetings.
Also includes: text of a speech by JA to a Conservative May Day rally on the threat to Britain's overseas trade from the Government's colonial policy; draft of an article on China, American power in the Far East and the British...
Dates:
1968-11 - 1969-02
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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War Office memoranda, 1917-01 - 1917-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/49
Scope and Contents
Papers including: report of the Committee of Imperial Defence sub-committee on territorial changes (in Equatorial Africa); memorandum by LSA on Allied unity of control; notes by 1st Lord Curzon and [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, on railways in Persia [later Iran]; telegrams and letter from General Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate [High Commissioner, Egypt] on Allied territorial claims in North Africa and Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] (8); paper by Lieutenant-Colonel...
Dates:
1917-01 - 1917-06
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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War Office memoranda, 1917-06 - 1917-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/50
Scope and Contents
Papers including: telegram from General Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate [High Commissioner, Egypt] on Allied territorial claims in North Africa; note from General Sir William Robertson, Chief of Imperial General Staff, to 1st Lord Hardinge of Penshurst [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on Italy's contribution to the war; memorandum by Lord Robert Cecil [Minister of Blockade, later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood] on Italian claims in Asia Minor [Turkey]; summary of a...
Dates:
1917-06 - 1917-12
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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War Office memoranda, 1918-01 - 1918-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/51
Scope and Contents
Notes and memoranda by LSA on subjects including: prospects for 1918; summarising arms supplies and battalion strengths; advances in Palestine and Syria; the future status of Egypt; the political aspects of campaigns in 1919; unity of operations in the East; the future of the Supreme War Council; Allied policy in Russia; the Irish Convention, Irish federalism, Irish passive resistance and the exclusion of Ulster from a Home Rule Bill; future military policy; the German spring offensive on...
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.
Fonds
West Indian documents
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 263
Scope and Contents
Loose papers and one newspaper from Patrick and his son James Colquhoun's correspondence files. RCMS 263/1-9 have a cover headed 'Nevis 1820' and RCMS 263/11-31 are in a similar cover '1832 West Indies'. Each has a note of contents, but these do not tally exactly with the items now present.
Dates:
1820 - 1832
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Westcott Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8316
Scope and Contents
Letters and papers of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, and also letters of his wife, Sarah Louisa Mary Westcott, and their son, Arthur Westcott. Comprises both personal and professional correspondence, as well as some letters evidently retained as part of a collecton of autographs. Correspondents include: 3rd Marquess of Bute; various landowners in County Durham, including 9th Lord Barnard, 6th Marquess of Londonderry and 2nd Earl of Ravensworth; Arthur Westcott, principally to Sarah...
Dates:
1880-1949
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
William Ayres: Journal of Maori Wars [also called the New Zealand Wars or Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9538
Scope and Contents
A handwritten journal with several sketches and pasted-in newspaper cuttings, providing a detailed account of the principal events during the cruise of HMS Harrier, 28 November 1860 - 17 March 1865, 189 pages. The account includes a detailed description of the main events of the Waikato river campaign of 1863, including the Battle of Rangiriri of 20 November 1863, in which Ayre himself took part. The journal is unsigned, and was evidently written up after the events it describes. The author...
Dates:
1860-1865
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library