Elections
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1057 Collections and/or Records:
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Political: Constituency: Dundee By-Election: Letters of congratulation on WSC's victory., 10 May 1915 - 12 May 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/3
Scope and Contents
Mainly from Liberal Associations and supporters.
Dates:
10 May 1915 - 12 May 1915
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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Political: Constituency: Dundee By-Election: : Letters of congratulation on WSC's victory., 29 Apr 1908 - 14 May 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/4
Scope and Contents
Mainly from Liberal Associations and individual supporters Also includes pre-election letter from the Master of Elibank [later 1st Viscount Elibank] on WSC's candidacy.
Dates:
29 Apr 1908 - 14 May 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Dundee By-Election: notes and correspondence:., 30 Apr 1908 - 12 May 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on WSC's candidacy in the Dundee By Election.Correspondents include Thomas Gibson Bowles [who stood down as Liberal Candidate to make room for WSC]; Havelock Wilson MP; The Master of Elibank [later 1st Viscount Elibank] and R Macaulay Smith.Also includes signed letter from WSC to the Electors of Dundee and postcard of ?WSC as "Cock of the North" in Highland Dress.
Dates:
30 Apr 1908 - 12 May 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Dundee: Correpondence:., 12 May 1908 - 31 Dec 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include John Sinclair [later Lord Pentland], Sec of State for Scotland; Prof Patrick Geddes; Constituency Chairman George Ritchie and Agent P F Husband Subjects include the Education (Scotland) Bill; The British Medical Association; The Town Planning Bill; a possible "Pageant of Dundee" in 1909; the Canadian Cattle Trade; dissatisfaction with Sheriff Campbell Smith; and Socialist and Labour movements in Scotland.
Dates:
12 May 1908 - 31 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Dundee: Correspondence:., 01 Jun 1922 - 15 Nov 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/27
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Constituency affairs, particularly General Election campaign; Trade Union Act Amendment Bill; honours and patronage.
Dates:
01 Jun 1922 - 15 Nov 1922
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Dundee: General Election December 1910., 01 Nov 1910 - 31 Dec 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/11
Scope and Contents
Election correspondence and literature, including signed copy of Election Address, and letter to Sir George Ritchie on the constitutional crisis.
Dates:
01 Nov 1910 - 31 Dec 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Dundee: General Elections., Jan 1910 - Dec 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/10
Scope and Contents
Election literature including Liberal Party Campaign Notes and WSC's Election Address (mainly on reform of the House of Lords), daily canvass returns, and Election expenses.Mainly relating to Election of Jan 1910, but also containing his letter of thanks to electors following victory in Dec 1910.
Dates:
Jan 1910 - Dec 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Epping [Essex], 1924 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7
Scope and Contents
This class of papers covers that part of WSC's time as Conservative MP for Epping contained in the Chartwell papers (up to 26 July 1945). The remainder of his time as MP (for Woodford) can be found in the post-1945 Churchill papers at CHUR 3.The papers contain correspondence between WSC's office and local officials, particularly the Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association, Sir James Hawkey, discussing standard constituency business (such as WSC's support for various local...
Dates:
1924 - 1945
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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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence., 05 Aug 1924 - 06 Nov 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association] (8); F Stanley Jackson [Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party]; Sir Raymond Greene; James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (2); Sir George Lloyd; Richard Colvin; Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour]; Lord Carson [earlier Sir Edward Carson]; Esmond Harmsworth [later 2nd Lord Rothermere]; Lord Rochdale [earlier George Kemp]; Sir Ian Hamilton; Ralph Bury;...
Dates:
05 Aug 1924 - 06 Nov 1924
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence A-C., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/16A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams [MP for West Leeds, Yorkshire] on an engagement in WSC's constituency; R A Butler [MP for Saffron Walden, Essex] inviting WSC to a visit by Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; Sir Thomas Buxton, President of the Waltham Abbey [Essex] Branch [of Epping Division Conservative Association] on his lack of political confidence in WSC (4); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (4); Richard Colvin congratulating WSC on...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ci-Co., 19 Feb 1941 - 22 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/67A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Arthur L Cole (4); Colonel Sir Edward Warner, President of the Connaught Hospital (3); Colonel Sir Francis Whitmore, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (4); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (12).Subjects include: repair of bomb damage; transfer of Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses to the Auxiliary Territorial Service; repossession of requisitioned land.Also includes: telegrams supporting WSC in the...
Dates:
19 Feb 1941 - 22 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence D-G., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/17A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (3); Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] on WSC writing the forward of a book on Income Tax by one of his constituents; Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association] (4) on subjects including constituency opinion on WSC's stance, particularly over India (2).Other subjects include: a statement by WSC on the behaviour of "Socialists"...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Go-Gu., 10 Oct 1940 - 23 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/75A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association]; Mrs S Gould (7); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (7).Subjects include: reparations to Jews; loss of SS Almeda Star; Conservative Central Office guidance to candidates in the 1945 General Election on opticians; Women's Land Army; bomb damage repair and rehousing; war widows' pensions; land reclamation for agriculture;...
Dates:
10 Oct 1940 - 23 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence H., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/18A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of Transport, on a rail accident at Wormley [Hertfordshire] (2); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (31); Cecil Pike [MP for Attercliffe, Sheffield, Yorkshire] and Robert Hudson [MP for Whitehaven Division of Cumberland] on speaking in WSC's constituency; Sir Kingsley Wood [Minister of Health] on local housing and health provision.Other subjects include: constituency opinion on WSC's stance over...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence H., Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/46
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (19).Subjects include: proportional representation; local commerce; Felsted Grammar School [Essex]; constituency feeling towards WSC following the Munich [Germany] Crisis; founding a British Institute of Photographic Propaganda; general constituency business.Also includes: copy letters from WSC to Hawkey outlining his position on British foreign policy and the National Government; letters to...
Dates:
Jan 1938 - Dec 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence I-L., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/19
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (2); Mary, Lady Lloyd [widow of Sir Francis Lloyd] and Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] supporting WSC's election campaign.Other subjects include: capital punishment; the Civil Service; post office matters; European rearmament; pensions; equal pay for women; animal welfare; the duty on industrial oils; the brick industry; donating to local causes; WSC's support for the National...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence M-O., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/20
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: John Maitland on naval matters; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of the Epping Division Conservative Association (2); [John] Walton Newbold supporting WSC's stand on European rearmament and foreign affairs.Other subjects include: herbal medicine; equal pay for women; local transport issues; male unemployment; Abyssinia [Ethiopia]; divorce law; noise pollution; telephone and electricity provision; employment and pension queries from constituents; constituency opinion on...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence P., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/21
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sylvia Pankhurst (4) on subjects including an immigration case, German rearmament and the Italian situation; Ernest Parry (3); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of the Epping Division Conservative Association; Dinah Pratt, Honorary Secretary of Epping Division Conservative Association (9).Other subjects include: local transport issues; equal pay for women; importing goods; the manufacture of poisons; employment queries from constituents; constituency opinion on WSC;...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence R-T., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/22
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Ralph Gould on WSC becoming President of Epping and District Branch of the Scientific Poultry Breeders' Association Ltd. (4); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (3); Ellen Stutely [a local party worker] (7).Other subjects include: European rearmament; Indian affairs; permission to fish at Chartwell; a pension query from a constituent; local transport issues; Abyssinia [Ethiopia]; WSC's perceived lack of support for the National...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex] Election: correspondence., 02 Mar 1929 - 29 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/106A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Mary, Lady Blandford [later Mary, Duchess of Marlborough]; 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, on the bookmakers' opposition to the Conservatives because of the Tote Bill; Stanley Baldwin; John Walton Newbold; Arthur Duffes on Liberal wrecking tactics; Sir Percy Girouard.Other subjects include: the sale of the Casino and Hotel Napoleon, St Raphael [France]; Chingford [Essex] telephone system; recollections of Sir Henry Hozier; David Lloyd George's disappointing performance...
Dates:
02 Mar 1929 - 29 May 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: election materials., Oct 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/8
Scope and Contents
Includes: election pamphlets; polling reports; daily canvas returns.
Dates:
Oct 1931
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: election materials., Nov 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/24
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from Gilbert Granville-Sharp [Liberal candidate for Epping]; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association.Also includes: election pamphlets and flyers for WSC, Granville-Sharp and James Ranger [Labour candidate for Epping]; an advertisement for Westminster Public Address Equipment for vehicles.Subjects include: British foreign policy with regard to rearmament and European dictatorships; the economy.
Dates:
Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: miscellanea., May 1929 - 23 Dec 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/6
Scope and Contents
Includes: accounts of General Election expenditure; an election pamphlet; receipt of WSC's subscription for the West Essex Central Unionist Association.
Dates:
May 1929 - 23 Dec 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: North West Manchester., Dec 1905 - Jan 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 4/8
Scope and Contents
Material relating to WSC standing for election as Liberal candidate for Manchester. Includes correspondence with constituents concerning WSC's stance on various issues including: pharmacies, the Education Act and working conditions for teachers, vaccination, the identification of boxes manufactured abroad, railways, the registration of architects and accountants, female suffrage, Home Rule, Income Tax, temperance, taxation, Free Trade, shops, vivisection, and Chinese labour in South...
Dates:
Dec 1905 - Jan 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: North West Manchester: By election defeat., Apr 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 4/18
Scope and Contents
Letters expressing disappointment at WSC's defeat from correspondents including: George Cornwallis West; Lord Loreburn; Captain [Ronald] Kincaid-Smith; [Sir William] Ronaldson-Nicoll; H G Spicer; Lady Kitty Somerset; Frederick Verney MP; 2nd Lord Dudley; Dr J Dulberg; William Royle, Chairman of the Manchester Liberal Federation; Charles Masterman; Frederic Mackarness MP; Austin Taylor, MP; and W P Byles.Other subjects include the Licensing Bill; WSC's popularity with the Manchester Jewish...
Dates:
Apr 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
Open