Elections
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 1062 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: Cabinet: papers 141 - 150., 07 May 1929 - 24 May 1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/234
Scope and Contents
Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: a draft election address by Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, outlining Conservative policies on various issues including the economic situation, agriculture and social reform; Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour, on seamen's terms of employment; Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, on the oil position in Iraq and the trans-desert pipeline and railway to the Mediterranean; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier...
Dates:
07 May 1929 - 24 May 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, mainly on South African affairs., 01 Jan 1906 - 31 Jan 1906
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Israel Zangwill; Sidney Greville [Private Secretary to HM Queen Alexandria] on King Edward VII's approval of a critical article about WSC; Sir Arthur Havelock [former Governor of Madras, India, and Natal, South Africa]; Henry Massingham (2); 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (5) including one letter on the experiences of Elgin's father as Governor-General of Canada; Jan Smuts (2); Frederic Tatham, member of the Legislative Assembly,...
Dates:
01 Jan 1906 - 31 Jan 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, mainly on South African affairs., 01 Feb 1906 - 28 Feb 1906
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/8
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Henry Massingham (2); Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir John Walton [Attorney-General]; Sir Leander Jameson [Premier, Cape Colony, South Africa] on the Lisbon Railway agreement; Leo Amery, of the Times; George Wyndham MP giving advice on WSC's career as a minister; Joseph Chamberlain (2) and Henry Labouchere MP (2) on WSC finding work for an acquaintance; William Stead, Editor of the Review of Reviews, on WSC meeting...
Dates:
01 Feb 1906 - 28 Feb 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
File
Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, mainly on South African affairs., 01 Mar 1906 - 31 Mar 1906
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Joseph Chamberlain taking back his allegation that WSC had exploited the issue of Chinese indentured labour in the Transvaal [South Africa] in his election campaign; 2nd Lord Selborne, [Governor of the Transvaal] and High Commissioner for South Africa (5); Sir John Vine; Abe Bailey (2); Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson [Governor and Commander in Chief, Cape Colony, South Africa] on his future prospects and career to date; Sir Godfrey Lagden, the Commissioner for Native...
Dates:
01 Mar 1906 - 31 Mar 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
Series
Official: Prime Minister, 1951 - 1955
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6
Scope and Contents
The papers in this class relating to WSC's second period as Prime Minister are few.The files mainly concern WSC's patronage and relate to Government appointments and changes (CHUR 6/1, 6/2, 6/4 and 6/5). There is one file containing copies of WSC's correspondence with President Dwight D Eisenhower of the United States (CHUR 6/3). There is also a single file containing copies of WSC's outgoing correspondence for the last months of his administration (CHUR 6/6). File CHUR 6/8, apparently...
Dates:
1951 - 1955
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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Official: Prime Minister: correspondence mainly relating to change of administration., 24 Aug 1953 - 31 Mar 1955
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Gordon Wilson and Paul Beards (Private Secretaries, War Office) on South African war graves; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (6); R A Butler [Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); Harold Macmillan [later Lord Stockton, Minister of Housing and Local Government]; Duncan Sandys [Minister of Supply] (2); Christopher Soames [Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister]; John Colville [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] on subjects...
Dates:
24 Aug 1953 - 31 Mar 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Official: Prime Minister: lists and correspondence regarding Ministerial and Government appointments., 13 Oct 1951 - 13 Nov 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/1A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Patrick Buchan Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Government Chief Whip] (4), Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton, Minister of Housing and Local Government] (2), Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley], James Stuart [later 1st Lord Stuart of Findhorn, Secretary of State for Scotland], 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne, Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal] (4), David Pitblado [Prime Minister's...
Dates:
13 Oct 1951 - 13 Nov 1951
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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Official: Treasury: correspondence from WSC (carbon copies)., 02 Jan 1929 - 04 Jun 1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/102
Scope and Contents
Recipients include: Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (4), on subjects including recommendations for honours and WSC completing ["the Aftermath", published as volume 4 of "The World Crisis"]; First Lord of the Admiralty, William Bridgeman, on reducing the navy estimates (3); Sir Henri Deterding; Sir Charles Addis [British Representative on General Council of Reichsbank]; Sir Basil Blackett; Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health]; Leo Amery [Secretary of State for the Dominions] on a...
Dates:
02 Jan 1929 - 04 Jun 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Official: Treasury: note by James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] on election expenses for 1923 election, enclosing a Home Office pamphlet on the return of expenses from candidates., Feb 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 18/17
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Treasury papers contain correspondence, minutes, tables, printed reports, and other papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position held from November 1924 to June 1929. The papers have been divided into general correspondence, WSC's outgoing minutes, and subject-based files and are arranged chronologically.The Treasury material covers WSC's ministerial duties as Chancellor, including the annual production of the budget,...
Dates:
Feb 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Official: War Cabinet: Emergency Business Committee., 27 May 1945 - 09 Jul 1945
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 23/16
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to Cabinet] on the function of the committee during the General Election, and its formation (5); 1st Lord Margesson, accepting a place on the committee; Sir James Edmondson [later 1st Lord Sandford, Deputy Chief Whip] accepting a place on the committee; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, Minister of Civil Aviation] accepting the chairmanship of the committee, and acknowledging the work...
Dates:
27 May 1945 - 09 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
"On the way to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the King [George VI]", 1951-10-26
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/370
Scope and Contents
Photo shows WSC leaving the entrance [of 28, Hyde Park Gate, London]. He is wearing an overcoat and top hat and smiling towards the camera. A policeman is seen beside the doorway.
Dates:
1951-10-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
File
Pamphlets, correspondence and speeches on Beckenham constituency in General Election, 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAIS 1/17
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:
1951
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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Papers and correspondence on Europe, 1983-10 - 1984-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 8/4
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers on the European election campaign and the organisation of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, particularly relating to a proposal by the MEP Richard Caborn.
Dates:
1983-10 - 1984-02
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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Papers and correspondence re Oxford by-election in which GNWR stood down as Labour candidate for the Master of Balliol, A. D. Lindsay, who stood as an Independent, 1938
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GNWR 2/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The most interesting items in the collection are the diaries, interleaved with letters and papers, which Lord Gordon-Walker kept throughout his political career and which shed fascinating light upon his fellow Members of Parliament and Cabinet Ministers and upon the events and personalities involved in international -and especially Commonwealth - affairs. There are numerous articles and speeches by Lord Gordon-Walker together with notes and reviews pertaining to his book ‘The Cabinet’ and a...
Dates:
1938
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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Papers collected by David Wolfson, March 1978-August 1981 (mainly 1978), 1978-03 - 1981-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/187
Scope and Contents
Includes: MT’s handwritten annotations
Part 1, 1978-79: includes material relating to planning for the 1979 General Election, with minutes of meetings: in the Chairman’s office at CCO, 7 July 1978 (not attended by MT); to discuss social services (attended by MT); in the Chairman’s office at CCO, 12 July 1978 (not attended by MT); 13 July 1978 (attended by MT); in the Chairman’s office at CCO, 18 July 1978 (not attended by MT); law and order (attended by MT), 1 August 1978); and on...
Dates:
1978-03 - 1981-08
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2012
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
Series
Papers etc to support "Scraps that illustrate", chapter 5, pt 1, 1938 - 1940
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WILL 3
Scope and Contents
Includes Willink's draft and final election manifesto for the Ipswich by-election and his particulars maintained by Conservative Central Office for the election, February 1938; correspondence with Stanley Morrison relating to Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia], October 1938; correspondence with Archbishop of York [William Temple], March 1940 and telegram from Winston S Churchill relating to the Croydon by-election, June 1940
Dates:
1938 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Papers etc to support "Scraps that illustrate", chapter 5, pt 2, 1940 - 1969
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WILL 4
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Anthony Eden, Sir Ernest Gowers, Anthony Jay, Malcolm Macdonald, Leslie Rowan, James Stuart and Richard Titmuss; speeches, including his "maiden speech", June 1941; papers relating to his appointment as Minister of Health and as a Privy Councillor. November 1943; letters relating to the 1945 General Election, July 1945; and photographs
Dates:
1940 - 1969
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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Papers relating to animal welfare, February 1979, 1979-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/12
Scope and Contents
Includes briefing note for MT from John Stanley MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary) on the General Election Co-ordinating Committee for Animal Welfare
Dates:
1979-02
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Papers relating to by-elections, June 1975-January 1978, 1975-06 - 1978-01
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/15
Scope and Contents
Includes copies of MT's messages to candidates, with Conservative Central Office reports on the performance of candidates and agents
Also includes correspondence with Winston S Churchill MP, Nigel Forman, Sir John Taylor and Lord (Peter) Thorneycroft (Chairman, Conservative Party)
Dates:
1975-06 - 1978-01
Conditions Governing Access:
Open in 2054 (data protection)
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Papers relating to by-elections, September 1979-June 1980, 1979-09 - 1980-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/23
Scope and Contents
Part 1, 1979
Part 2, 1980
Dates:
1979-09 - 1980-06
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1 opened in February 2010; and part 2 in March 2011
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Papers relating to direct elections to the European Parliament, January 1976-July 1977, 1976-01 - 1977-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/115
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Humphrey Atkins MP, Paul Channon MP, Douglas Hurd MP, Neil Marten MP, Reginald Maudling MP and Lord (Peter) Thorneycroft
Dates:
1976-01 - 1977-07
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in January 2008
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Papers relating to direct elections to the European Parliament, January-May 1976, 1976-01 - 1976-05
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/116
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with George Gardiner MP, Douglas Hurd MP, Neil Marten MP and Sir Anthony Royle MP
Dates:
1976-01 - 1976-05
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in January 2007
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to direct elections to the European Parliament, July 1977-March 1979, 1977-07 - 1979-06
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/117
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Hugh Dykes MP, Douglas Hurd MP, Neil Marten MP, Frederick Edward Neuflize Ponsonby (10th Earl of Bessborough), and Lord (Peter) Thorneycroft
Also includes Opinion Research Centre opinion polling survey research, on direct elections, with attached note for MT from Keith Britto (Conservative Research Department), March 1979; and draft of European elections manifesto, 27 March 1979
Notes on individual candidates extracted from file and closed by cataloguing...
Dates:
1977-07 - 1979-06
Conditions Governing Access:
Opened in November 2003
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to local government elections (1), May 1979-March 1983, 1979-05 - 1983-03
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/108
Scope and Contents
Part 1, 1979: includes copies of "Local Government Brief", June-July, September and November 1979; and note from Joan Varley (Conservative Central Office), "Local Government election results 4th May 1979 as at 17.30", 4 May 1979
Part 2, 1980
Part 3, 1981: includes copies of MT’s letters to Conservative local government leaders, May 1981; correspondence with Sir Horace Cutler and Lord (Frank) Marshall of Leeds; analysis by Keith Britto (Conservative Research...
Dates:
1979-05 - 1983-03
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2011; part 3 in March 20l2; part 4 in March 2013; and part 5 in October 2013
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
File
Papers relating to local government elections (2), February 1981-February 1982, 1981-02 - 1982-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/109
Scope and Contents
Part 1, 1981: includes Conservative Central Office briefing note on County Council elections, 1981; and Conservative Research Department briefing note on "Local Government elections 1981", 27 April 1981; paper, "The Threat from the left in the Greater London Council elections of May 1981; and copies of the CRD’s "Local Government", in "Politics Today", no 2 (February 1981) and "Education", in "Politics Today", no 5 (March 1981)
Part...
Dates:
1981-02 - 1982-02
Conditions Governing Access:
Part 1 opened in March 2012; and part 2 in March 2013
It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.