Elections
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1057 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), 05 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/217/88-89
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Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (San Francisco [United States]) marked "Top Secret" and "personal" reiterating his view that Marshal Stalin, President Harry Truman and he need to meet to prevent "a great catastrophe"; reporting on Marshal Tito's [Premier of Yugoslavia (later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia)] "breach of faith" over occupying disputed territories in north-east Italy; the Allied...
Dates:
05 May 1945
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From the File:
Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/220/50
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Telegram from Sir Archibald Clark Kerr [British Ambassador in the Soviet Union] to WSC marked "Secret and Personal" informing him that Marshal Stalin expects WSC to win the British election. [Annotated carbon copy].
Dates:
02 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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(Untitled), 12 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/25
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Telegram from Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham, Minister of State, Middle East] to WSC marked "Personal" suggesting how WSC could respond to the controversy surrounding his [election] comments on "a socialist state" and its need for a "Gestapo".
Dates:
12 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 14 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/30
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Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he will be taking Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] with him to the Berlin [Germany] Conference [Potsdam Conference].
Dates:
14 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 14 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/31
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Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he will be taking Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] with him to the Berlin [Germany] Conference [Potsdam Conference].
Dates:
14 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 16 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/51-52
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Telegram from WSC to the Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand marked "Top Secret" informing them of the location of the meeting between the leaders of the three main Allied Powers [Marshal Stalin, President Harry Truman and WSC]; and explaining that Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party] will accompany him to Berlin [Germany] because the meeting will take place before the British election results are known.
Dates:
16 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 28 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/200/66
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Telegram from James Stuart [Chief Conservative Whip] to WSC expressing his pleasure that WSC is in Scotland and offering "best wishes for a victory which will satisfy you and give you all you require for the future".
Dates:
28 Jun 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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(Untitled), 02 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/200/70
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Letter from General Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] enclosing a book on defence by Brigadier J G Smyth, a military correspondent and the Conservative candidate for Central Wandsworth [London] which the author has asked be presented to WSC. He suggests that WSC might be interested in the chapter on "Leaders and Leadership" and, in view of the author's standing in the Conservative interest, ought to be...
Dates:
02 May 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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(Untitled), 28 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/6
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Letter from Major-General Sir Hugh Tudor (42 Circular Road, St Johns, Newfoundland [Canada]) thanking WSC for seeing his son. He expresses sorrow that WSC is being put through the strain of an election campaign, and comments on the Labour Party and Clement Attlee, "Now that we have smashed National Socialism in Germany Labour apparantly wants to start something like it in England. The present Labour leader as one of the Big Three seems to me rather like a mouse in a rat's job!". He expresses...
Dates:
28 May 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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(Untitled), 23 May 1945 - 26 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/19
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Letter from the 7th Earl of Warwick (Warwick Castle, [Warwick, Warwickshire]) to WSC offering his "small measure of thanks...for the last years of endeavour", wishing WSC every success "in our next job", and bringing "good omens". He recounts how he heard news of WSC's resignation while with local workmen, who had been depressed until told that it was only a prelude to a General Election: " 'Oh' says one of them 'is that all!' 'I was feared we was going to lose him - General election don't...
Dates:
23 May 1945 - 26 Jul 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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(Untitled), 23 May 1945 - 26 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/20-21
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Copy of letter from the 7th Earl of Warwick (Warwick Castle, [Warwick, Warwickshire]) to WSC offering his "small measure of thanks...for the last years of endeavour", wishing WSC every success "in our next job", and bringing "good omens". He recounts how he heard news of WSC's resignation while with local workmen, who had been depressed until told that it was only a prelude to a General Election: " 'Oh' says one of them 'is that all!' 'I was feared we was going to lose him - General election...
Dates:
23 May 1945 - 26 Jul 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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(Untitled), 02 Mar 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/205/12
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Letter from Leslie Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to Randolph Churchill stating that Preston [Lancashire] will not be affected by any redistribution of constituencies before the General Election. Initialled. Carbon copy.
Dates:
02 Mar 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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(Untitled), 03 May 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/205/45
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Telegram from WSC to Harold MacMillan [later Lord Stockton, British High Commissioner for Italy] marked "Personal and Secret" passing on message for Randolph Churchill stating that CSC will probably leave Moscow [Soviet Union] on 9 or 10 May; advising him against going to Belgrade [Yugoslavia, now Serbia]; commenting on the need to work hard for the forthcoming General Election; and stating that he is worried about John S Churchill's state of health. Carbon copy.
Dates:
03 May 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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(Untitled), 16 Apr 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/9/14
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Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Cairnton, Banchory [Kincardineshire, Scotland]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] enclosing a letter [not present] from [Marquis de] Breteuil which he asks her to reply to; commenting "Birmingham is rather disgusting; I don't think it would have been much of a compliment to be elected by them" and that it [his decision not to stand as parliamentary candidate for Birmingham] was a triumph for "Joe" [Joseph Chamberlain] and [Arthur] Balfour; and reporting on his...
Dates:
16 Apr 1889
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), 16 Mar 1884
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/13/34
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Letter from WSC ([St George's School, Ascot, Berkshire]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] reporting that Mrs Kynnersley [the headmaster's wife] had visited Birmingham where people were betting that [Lord Randolph Churchill] would be [elected as MP for Birmingham Central] and describing a game in a sand pit. Illustrated with a drawing of a bearded man.
Dates:
16 Mar 1884
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers: Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. Includes material relating to WSC's time at St George's School, Ascot, Berkshire and at Brunswick Road, Brighton, East Sussex. All letters are manuscript unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/13/84
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Letter from WSC (29 & 30 Brunswick Road, Brighton [Hove, East Sussex]) to "Papa" [Lord Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he hopes that his father will be elected as MP for Birmingham [Central] and says that if Colonel Tottenham, the father of another school boy, is elected for Winchester, they may have a "supper".
Dates:
28 Nov 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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers: Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. Includes material relating to WSC's time at St George's School, Ascot, Berkshire and at Brunswick Road, Brighton, East Sussex. All letters are manuscript unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), [Jul] [1886]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/13/89
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Letter from WSC ([29 & 30 Brunswick Road, Brighton [Hove, East Sussex]) to "Mummy" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he would like her to visit him and expresses his pleasure that [Lord Randolph Churchill] has been elected as MP for South Paddington.
Dates:
[Jul] [1886]
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers: Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. Includes material relating to WSC's time at St George's School, Ascot, Berkshire and at Brunswick Road, Brighton, East Sussex. All letters are manuscript unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 10 Jul 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/22/6-7
Scope and Contents
Letter from Arthur Balfour, 10 Downing Street, London to WSC, sympathy on By-Election defeat at Oldham.
Dates:
10 Jul 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 18 Jul 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/22/8
Scope and Contents
Letter from G W Steevens, Merton Abbey, Surrey, to WSC, on the proofs of "The River War", and on WSC's election defeat at Oldham [Lancashire].
Dates:
18 Jul 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 10 Aug 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/22/9
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Letter from Lord Cromer, 12A Curzon Street, London to WSC, on use of photograph of Cromer in The River War, also offering sympathy on election defeat at Oldham.
Dates:
10 Aug 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 08 Aug 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/25/25
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Letter from Walter Runciman, Windsor Terrace, Newcastle- Upon-Tyne, to WSC, thanks for letter of congratulation for speech on the Spion Kop despatches, also commenting on the forthcoming election, [Runciman was one of the Liberal candidates in Oldham], stating that in a double seat "the success of either us need not necessarily mean the discomfiture of the other - It would be odd to find that we were to become colleagues", but conceding that this was a remote chance and that "one of us will...
Dates:
08 Aug 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 08 Oct 1890
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/25/45-47
Scope and Contents
Letter from Sir Alfred Milner, Government House, Cape Town, to WSC, on South African affairs, and on WSC's election victory at Oldham.
Dates:
08 Oct 1890
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 14 Oct 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/25/50
Scope and Contents
Letter from Joseph Chamberlain [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham) to WSC, congratulating him on his election victory in Oldham [Lancashire]: "You have worked well for the Party and it will be counted to you in the future". Chamberlain states that he would be happy to act as chairman for WSC at a meeting in Birmingham on 14th November, but warns that he would probably be away at that time, as he hadn't had a holiday in three years. He adds that he would...
Dates:
14 Oct 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 13 Feb 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/26/6
Scope and Contents
Letter from Joseph Cheetham, Sereda, Central Russia, to WSC, on WSC's escape from the Boers and on WSC's election chances in Oldham.
Dates:
13 Feb 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), Mar 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/95A/5-6
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Draft letter from WSC to Sir Richard Acland [Independent MP for Barnstaple, Devon] stating: that he did not believe that there would be any point in their meeting; that he did not think that the results of a few by elections was significant and that a future general election would return different allegiances and stating that after the war he would work hard to remove the black fish from his pool which have done very well considering they only get what they can find on their own....
Dates:
Mar 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open