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Elections

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1050 Collections and/or Records:

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"1923 (not elected)", 1923-11 - 1923-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 2/87
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Photograph of a Wolseley car (registration XO 7385) used during the General Election for WSC's unsuccessful campaign to return to Parliament as MP for West Leicester. The car has the sign "Churchill for West Leicester" on the front and is driving along a street with crowds of people on either side looking in [presumably with WSC inside, though he is not visible in the photograph]. In the foreground, a policeman is holding people back.

Dates: 1923-11 - 1923-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"1924, Member for Epping", 1924-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 2/90
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Photograph of WSC addressing a crowd from an outside stage during the election campaign for Epping [Essex]. He is standing to the left of the stage, arms outspread, wearing formal dress, with his hat in his hand, while CSC (wearing a long dark fur coat and close hat) and a line of men are standing behind him.

Dates: 1924-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"1924, Member for Epping", 1924-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 2/91
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Photograph of WSC and others as passengers on top of a coach drawn by four horses, which is travelling along a [?] village street, alongside a car decked with ribbons [presumably during the election campaign for Epping, Essex]. WSC is just visible behind the coach driver, smiling and wearing a dark coat with an astrakhan collar and tall bowler hat, while CSC is beside the driver, in a light coloured coat with a large fur collar (which has an election ribbon pinned to it) and close hat.

Dates: 1924-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"1924, Member for Epping", 1924-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 2/92
Scope and Contents Photograph of WSC and others as passengers on top of a coach drawn by four horses, which is travelling along a street [presumably during the election campaign for Epping, Essex]. WSC is smiling and waving to men on the street, and is wearing a dark coat with an astrakhan collar with an election ribbon pinned to it, while CSC is beside the driver, waving one arm, while wearing a light coloured coat with a large fur collar (also with a ribbon pinned to it) and close hat. Behind them on the...
Dates: 1924-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"1924, Member for Epping", 1924-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 2/93
Scope and Contents Photograph of WSC, CSC and a coachman standing beside two horses [the leading pair of four which were pulling a coach during the election campaign for Epping, Essex]. WSC is smiling, looking slightly to the right of the camera, his hat in his hand, and wearing a dark coat with an astrakhan collar and cuffs, with an election ribbon pinned to it. CSC is beside him, wearing a light coloured coat with a large fur collar and close hat, with an election ribbon and bunch of flowers on her coat. ...
Dates: 1924-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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"1935, at the Sun Hall, Liverpool", 1935-11-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 3/3/8
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Half-length photograph of WSC making a speech in Liverpool during the General Election campaign. He is photographed slightly from below, and is mid-speech, with both fists in the air, wearing a dark suit and spotted bow tie.

Dates: 1935-11-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original
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"1935, at the Sun Hall, Liverpool", 1935-11-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 3/3/9
Scope and Contents

Half-length photograph of WSC making a speech in Liverpool during the General Election campaign. He is photographed slightly from below, and is mid-speech, turning to the left with one hand raised in the air, and is wearing a dark suit and spotted bow tie.

Dates: 1935-11-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original
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1944-1945 Diary, 1944-08-12 - 1945-08-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HMTN 1/12
Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Ministry of Information and her satisfaction with the American Division; Erwin Schuller and his past; news of the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of France and Belgium; a PEN conference, at which E. M. Forster gave an address; the Dartington Hall Arts Enquiry; reflections on the need for a new guiding philosophy and the meaning of life; Mary Agnes Hamilton's broadcasts for the BBC and the Brains Trust; her work on salvage for the...
Dates: 1944-08-12 - 1945-08-10
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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1964 Election, 1964-05 - 1964-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/1/26
Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly letters of congratulation to JEP for retaining his seat and on his appointment as Transport Spokesman, with correspondents including: Lord Sandon [President, Wolverhampton South West Conservative Association, later 7th Lord Harrowby] (3); Edgar Kingston-McCloughry; Gilbert Longden; Bernard Braine; David Butler [Co-Editor of Electoral Studies]; William Rees-Davies; Paul Hawkins; Sir John Russell; Roland Wilson; Robert Jenkins; Anthony Bourne-Arton (2); Sir Reginald...
Dates: 1964-05 - 1964-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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1987 General Election: press images, 1987-05 - 1987-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 25/41
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Chiefly Press Association images, with some from Pontypool local press.

Dates: 1987-05 - 1987-06
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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1987 General Election: press images, 1987-05 - 1987-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 25/42
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Chiefly press images of NK, includes NK playing with a jazz band in Birmingham, a visit to [?] the South Wales Argus, a visit to Bristol and various images of Glenys Kinnock.

Dates: 1987-05 - 1987-06
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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1987 General Election: press images, 1987-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 25/43
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Photographs from the Sun of the General Election campaign.

Dates: 1987-06
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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1992 Scottish Labour Party conference, 1991-08 - 1992-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 12/2/6
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Briefings and press-cuttings, particularly on constitutional and devolution issues and the forthcoming General Election. Includes a copy of Labour’s manifesto for Scotland and a copy of a speech by John Smith, Treasury and economic affairs spokesman, calling for a Scottish Parliament.

Dates: 1991-08 - 1992-03
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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Accounts and correspondence regarding Buchan-Hepburn's expenses for General Election, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAIS 1/19
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...
Dates: 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Individual closures of files are indicated in the catalogue.
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Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams concerning the Woodstock by-election which Lady Randolph Churchill canvassed on behalf of Lord Randolph Churchill, and which he won with an increased majority. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described., 29 Jun 1885 - 04 Jul 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/45
Scope and Contents From the Series: This class of papers was acquired by WSC at various times either by inheritance or gift and has been arranged in groups according to the presumed original owner: Lady Randolph Churchill; Lord Randolph Churchill; John S Churchill; W Bernau of Lloyds Bank and others.The major groups may be broken into sub-series by correspondents and the papers thereafter are arranged chronologically (e.g. Lady Randolph Churchill's letters from WSC are mainly found at CHAR 28/13-28).The series includes a...
Dates: 29 Jun 1885 - 04 Jul 1885
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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“Address by Earl Kedleston”, 1922 - 1923

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RBTN 3/12
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Print of a speech by 1st Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary, to the electors of the City of London during the 1922 General Election campaign. Also includes a Foreign Office memorandum on the freedom of the Dardanelles straits and maps from the peace treaty with Turkey, 1923.

Dates: 1922 - 1923
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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AFA's correspondence concerning elections fought by LSA, 1922-45, 1920-12 - 1945-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/128
Scope and Contents Includes: election material and pamphlets on subjects including LSA's record as Secretary of State for India; report on the Indian Comforts Fund; text of statement by LSA on Indian policy; summaries of letters from constituents, 1939-45; some election material for Julian Amery's and Randolph Churchill's campaign at Preston [Lancashire]; election addresses; details of meetings; letters to AFA from constituency campaign workers and election programme for her, 1945; official constituency...
Dates: 1920-12 - 1945-06
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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AFA's correspondence concerning elections fought by LSA, 1922-45, 1920-04 - 1945-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/129
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Includes: election material and pamphlets on subjects including LSA's record as Secretary of State for India; copy of Hansard with LSA's statement on policy towards India (June 1945); summaries of letters from constituents, 1940-45; letters from constituents to AFA; annual report of the women's central committee of the divisional Conservative Association with lists of members and of the committee.

Dates: 1920-04 - 1945-07
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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"Aftermath: after the war: Churchill’s Defeat", BBC 2 Timewatch, 2005

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 12/1/101
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Documentary on the 1945 General Election.

Dates: 2005
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: Access copies must be requested in advance.
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Annotated transcript of Tribune interview, 1983-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 17/6
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Interview on why Labour lost the 1983 General Election, the future of Labour and NK’s bid for the party leadership.

Dates: 1983-07
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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Appointments, invitations and meetings, 1991-10 - 1992-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/1/14
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Professor Sir David Williams, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge; Donald Gray, Rector of St Margaret’s, Westminster; Sir Allen Sheppard, Chairman of Grand Metropolitan plc; Malcolm Ross, Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain’s Office; John Major, Prime Minister, on the Dissolution of Parliament before the General Election; Bill Morris, General Secretary Elect, Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU); Bill Owen; Joan Lestor; [?] Patricia Hewitt on subjects including...
Dates: 1991-10 - 1992-06
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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"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter 46, "Proud Preston", 1967-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/46
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This section of the archive includes some source material, notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs of JA's autobiography. It was written in the 1960s (though not published until 1973), after JA lost first his ministerial office and then his Parliamentary seat after the General Elections of 1964 and 1966. Asked by the publishers Hutchinson Limited to write his political memoirs, JA preferred instead to write about his earlier career (being unable to write about sensitive recent events, and...
Dates: 1967-08
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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"Approach March": annotated draft of chapter 46, "Proud Preston", 1967-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/3/47
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This section of the archive includes some source material, notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs of JA's autobiography. It was written in the 1960s (though not published until 1973), after JA lost first his ministerial office and then his Parliamentary seat after the General Elections of 1964 and 1966. Asked by the publishers Hutchinson Limited to write his political memoirs, JA preferred instead to write about his earlier career (being unable to write about sensitive recent events, and...
Dates: 1967-08
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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Articles by and on NK, 1983-03 - 1984-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 17/1
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Includes: issues of New Socialist and Marxism Today with articles on Europe, the Labour manifesto and the 1983 General Election; series of articles by NK for the Daily Mirror, "Why I am angry", Jan 1984; transcript of a Weekend World interview with NK on the way back from the 1983 General Election; statement and background papers on a BBC investigation into Old People’s Homes; issue of the Observer with article on NK’s life.

Dates: 1983-03 - 1984-04
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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Audio podcasts for interviews conducted during the Centenary Year of Women in Parliament, 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1
Scope and Contents

76 podcast interviews collated for the publication 'When There's a Woman in the Room - #Vote 100 year January 2018 to January 2019' and written with journalists Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother. Sones' focus was primarily on recording interviews with MPs who champion public policy reforms through debates in Westminster Hall or by asking questions at PMQs.

For most podcasts, both 'raw' and 'edited' versions exist.

Dates: 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31