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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 28 Apr 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/132/114-115
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Letter from Captain Edward Altham (United Service Club, Pall Mall, [London]) to WSC explaining that at a forthcoming debate staged by the newly-formed Conservative Training Association he is going to argue that the return of WSC for the Abbey Division of Westminster would have heralded an new era of concerted action against Socialism and arguing that young Conservatives are receptive to the idea of co-operating with Liberals.

Dates: 28 Apr 1924
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), 18 Jun 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/133/71-72
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Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] (18 Cadogan Gardens, [London]) asserting that he can develop a successful independent candidature in the Abbey Division of Westminster, promising to draw up an outline of the arrangement for the cooperation of Conservatives and Liberals in certain constituencies and suggesting that candidates standing under this arrangement should be called Liberal Conservatives, citing precedents in Canada and Spain. Carbon copy.

Dates: 18 Jun 1924
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), 17 Jun 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/133/73
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Letter from Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] (18 Cadogan Gardens, [London]) to WSC on: his belief, resulting from a meeting with Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] and F Stanley Jackson, that there will be trouble if WSC stands in Westminster and that they have another constituency in mind for him; the Conservative view of Frederick Guest's proposals for electoral cooperation between Liberals and Conservatives in some constituencies.

Dates: 17 Jun 1924
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), 06 Oct 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/135/29-31
Scope and Contents Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Sir Robert Horne [later Lord Horne of Slamannan] on the grave threat posed to the Government by the Liberal amendment calling for an enquiry [into the dropping of charges against John Campbell] and the need to ensure that it is carried. Warns of the difficulties the Conservatives would face if they took office in the present parliament with the support of the Asquithian Liberals and argues that now is the time when a general election will do maximum damage to...
Dates: 06 Oct 1924
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), 15 Oct 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/135/77
Scope and Contents Circular letter from Unionist Central Office (Palace Chambers, Bridge Street, Westminster, [London]) to the chairmen of Conservative Associations supporting "Constitutional and Anti-Socialist" candidates suggesting that the candidates be invited to undertake to support the Conservative Party, on its present programme, in the next parliament and to agree to be called "Liberal Unionist" or "Constitutional and Anti-Socialist" rather than "Liberal" alone. Suggested draft sent with CHAR...
Dates: 15 Oct 1924
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 Oct 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/135/96-97
Scope and Contents Letter from [WSC] (Unionist Central Committee Rooms, 66 High road, South Woodford, Essex) to Godfrey W James, chairman of the Pontypool Unionist Association [Monmouthshire, Wales] asserting that whereas Socialist leaders have declared their intention of destroying the Liberal Party, the Conservatives have in some constituencies withdrawn in favour of Liberal candidates, and that the ideological gulf between Liberalism and Socialism is unbridgeable whilst Liberals and Conservatives share the...
Dates: 23 Oct 1924
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), 10 Nov 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/138/79-80
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Letter from Frederick Kellaway (16 Eliot Park, Lewisham, [London]) to WSC recalling their time working together at the Ministry of Munitions, congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, asserting that the Liberals deserved their "punishment" at the polls for putting Labour into office, mentioning that for the first time in his life he worked and voted for a Conservative candidate, and hoping that the country is free from experiments in nationalisation.

Dates: 10 Nov 1924
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), 10 Apr 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/34/11
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Letter from Sir Francis Channing (40 Eaton Place, [London]) to WSC passing on an invitation to address a meeting from the branches of the Young Liberals League in East Northamptonshire and describing the branches' work in counteracting socialism and rallying opinion on the Licensing Bill. Comments on WSC's forthcoming by-election in North-West Manchester.

Dates: 10 Apr 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Apr 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/34/31
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Letter from Robert Outhwaite MP (National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his campaign in North-West Manchester and asserting that WSC is destined to lead Liberalism "back to first principles".

Dates: 25 Apr 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Dec 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/42
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Letter from Captain The Honorable H S Stanhope RN, treasurer of the Home Counties Liberal Federation (42 Parliament Street, London) to WSC inviting him to address the Federation's next annual meeting, possibly in the Saffron Walden Division of Essex, and giving the number of seats won by the Liberals in general elections since 1885 Annotated by WSC that he will be too busy to accept.

Dates: 23 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 23 Dec 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/43/14
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Letter from Joseph Pease (Headlam Hall, Gainford, [County Durham]) to WSC on: WSC's involvement in the production and distribution of election campaign posters; David Lloyd George's promises of honours in return for money [contributions to Liberal Party funds]; the offer of money to help the cause of Free Trade from James Caird [a jute manufacturer of Dundee, Angus, Scotland]; the prospects for the general election.

Dates: 23 Dec 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/43/18-19
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List of constituencies with Liberal candidates. Annotated typescript. The third and fourth pages of this document are at CHAR 2/43/21-22.

Dates: [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/43/21-22
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List of constituencies with Liberal candidates. Annotated typescript. The first and second pages of this document are at CHAR 2/43/18-19.

Dates: [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/43/23
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Statement of the representation and candidates of constituencies within the area of the Western Counties Liberal Federation. Annotated typescript.

Dates: [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1909]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/43/24-26
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List of the Liberal and other candidates standing for constituencies within the area of the Lancashire and Cheshire Liberal Federation, with coloured crosses to indicate actual or predicted election results. Annotated typescript.

Dates: [1909]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Dec 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/125
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Letter from Arthur Ponsonby (Shulbrede Priory, Lynchmere, Haslemere, [Hampshire]) to WSC expressing enthusiasm about the Liberals' success in the general election but reporting that this feeling is not shared by two members of the Cabinet, who still doubt that the Government will have a strong enough mandate. Believes most Liberals in the country wish the Government to lose no time in pursuing its policies.

Dates: 16 Dec 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Oct 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/114
Scope and Contents Letter from "Archie" [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso, Leader, Liberal Parliamentary Party] (Dalnawillan, Altnabreac, Caithness [Scotland]), to WSC, regretting that he is unable to accept WSC's dinner invitation. He comments on his admiration for WSC's speeches, and his delight at seeing WSC's "stock soaring!", but thinks that "a November election would be a rotten trick to play", particularly unfair on the Labour Party and also the Liberals, as they have been supporting the...
Dates: 13 Oct 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Apr 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/15/47-50
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the debate on the motion that the resolutions on the veto of the House of Lords should go to committee; a speech by Sir Robert Finlay on the legal aspects of the reform of the House of Lords; the financial implications of general elections on Members of Parliament; WSC's speech on the necessity of intervention by the King (for which he takes full responsibility); and the Government's...
Dates: 02 Apr 1910
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), [1935]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/246/134
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Liberal Party Leaflet "A Few Reasons Why You Should Support the Liberal Party".

Dates: [1935]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Feb 1935

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/246/135
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Election address of Artro Morris, Liberal Candidate in the Wavertree by-election.

Dates: Feb 1935
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/26-28
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Letter from WSC to Archibald Sinclair [later Lord Thurso, Secretary of State for Air and Leader of the Liberal Party] proposing a continuation of the coalition until a decisive victory has been gained over Japan [carbon].

Dates: 18 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 18 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/29-31
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Letter from WSC to Ernest Brown [Leader of the Liberal National Group] proposing a continuation of the coalition until a decisive victory has been gained over Japan [carbon].

Dates: 18 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/47-48
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Letter from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later Lord Thurso, Secretary of State for Air and Leader of the Liberal Party] marked "private" commenting on the Liberal separation from the Government With additional sentence added in pencil: "I am happy to think that you have conducted the mighty air power through all the course of this 5 years hard war." [carbon].

Dates: 26 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194A/49
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Letter from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later Lord Thurso, Secretary of State for Air and Leader of the Liberal Party] marked "private" commenting on the Liberal separation from the Government [typescript copy].

Dates: 26 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jul 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/26/26
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Letter from WSC (Birch House, Lees, Oldham [Lancashire]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he asks her to come to Oldham and accompany him on his election campaign and says that the Liberals are better at "placarding and pushing their propaganda" Manuscript in the hand of WSC.

Dates: 02 Jul 1899
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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