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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1062 Collections and/or Records:

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Randolph Churchill : press cuttings, 1935-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 8/1/28
Scope and Contents

Cuttings on the West Toxteth by-election, Liverpool.

Dates: 1935-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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Randolph Churchill : press cuttings, 1935-12 - 1936-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 8/1/29
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Cuttings on the Ross and Cromarty [Scotland] by-election, vol 1.

Dates: 1935-12 - 1936-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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Randolph Churchill : press cuttings, 1936-01 - 1936-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 8/1/31
Scope and Contents

Cuttings on the Ross and Cromarty [Scotland] by-election, vol 3.

Dates: 1936-01 - 1936-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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Randolph Churchill : press cuttings, 1936-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 8/1/32
Scope and Contents

Cuttings on the Ross and Cromarty [Scotland] by-election, vol 4.

Dates: 1936-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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"Re-elected [1951 General Election]", 1951-10-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/368
Scope and Contents

Photo shows WSC on the balcony [?of a house in Woodford, Essex] with a small crowd gathered beneath.

Dates: 1951-10-25
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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Records relating to University representatives in Parliament, 1654 - 1895

 Sub-sub-mangmt group
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/O.III
Scope and Contents

From 1604 until the abolition of the University constituencies in 1950, the University returned two members of Parliament.

Dates: 1654 - 1895
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Registrary's printed pamphlet collection, 1642 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/PP
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The printed pamphlet collection was begun in the early nineteeth century by William Hustler, Registrary 1816-32, and continued by his successors Joseph Romilly, Registrary 1832-62, Henry Richard Luard, Registrary 1862-91 and John Willis Clark, Registrary 1891-1910. The pamphlets cover a wide range of subjects such as educational reform, foreign education, university and parliamentary elections, religion, politics, academic exercises, local history, and the University Library.

Dates: 1642 - 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Representation of the People, 1983-11 - 1985-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 9/2/37
Scope and Contents Correspondence on the Representation of the People Bill, mainly between James Molyneaux, Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (6) and other correspondents, including: Nicholas Scott, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office; Leon Brittan, Home Secretary (6); Douglas Hurd, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; Adam Butler, Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office. Also includes: Home Office note on absent voting in Northern Ireland under the bill; review of...
Dates: 1983-11 - 1985-01
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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Rhodesia cuttings, 1980-03-01 - 1980-03-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 7/15
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Civil Service Department cuttings on the election in Zimbabwe Rhodesia.

Dates: 1980-03-01 - 1980-03-07
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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RSC family correspondence, 1950-01 - 1950-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 1/3/10
Scope and Contents Correspondence with WSC, CSC, Pamela Churchill [earlier Pamela Digby, later Pamela Hayward and Pamela Harriman] and RSC's son Winston on subjects including: RSC's campaign for Plymouth Devonport; a Conservative rally in Plymouth where WSC gave a speech; RSC's finances and inability to support himself; editing WSC's speeches. Includes some modern photocopies and a draft extract from Winston's biography of RSC for 1950, on RSC's campaign for Plymouth Devonport, and meeting Ernest...
Dates: 1950-01 - 1950-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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RSC family correspondence, 1951-05 - 1951-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 1/3/11
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Correspondence with WSC, CSC and RSC's son Winston on subjects including editing WSC's speeches and RSC's campaign at Plymouth Devonport. Includes some modern photocopies.

Dates: 1951-05 - 1951-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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Schedule, 1984-09 - 1985-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 23/10
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Includes: local election hit list of marginal seats and an analysis of hit-list seats by county; lists of speeches and visits to regions.

Dates: 1984-09 - 1985-04
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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Secretary of State, GNWR's, press cuttings covering Leyton (Essex) constituency and election, 1964-12 - 1965-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GNWR 7/21
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: 1964-12 - 1965-01
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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Shadow Cabinet meeting, Rottingdean, 1988-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/1/122
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Notes from a meeting held at Rottingdean [Sussex] on the campaign framework for 1989, including: the Quality of Life theme; appealing to women voters; the loss of the Govan by-election [Glasgow, Scotland]; public spending; Labour’s economic campaign; environmental policy.

Dates: 1988-11
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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Shadow Cabinet Papers, 1966-05 - 1968-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/8
Scope and Contents Leader's Consultative Committee papers and minutes on subjects including: powers to control incomes, by [Leonard] Robert Carr and Iain Macleod; regional government; Greater London Council rent policy; the effects of devaluation, by Iain Macleod; family poverty, by [Irene] Mervyn Pike; the Speaker's Conference on electoral reform, by the Chairman of the Conservative Party [Anthony Barber], and also by Edward du Cann; redistribution of seats, by [Anthony Barber] and also by Edward du Cann;...
Dates: 1966-05 - 1968-04
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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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1908-04 - 1908-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/1
Scope and Contents Subjects include: Churchill's hopes for a "frank and clear-eyed friendship" with Clementine; Churchill's by-election in North West Manchester, including assistance from Lady Dorothy Howard [Clementine's cousin, later Lady Dorothy Eden and Lady Henley]; Churchill's joy in their engagement; the wedding of Jack [John S Churchill] and Lady Gwendeline Bertie ['Goonie']; Clementine's visit to Blenheim Palace [Oxfordshire]; Churchill's affection for his cousin Sunny [9th Duke of Marlborough] and...
Dates: 1908-04 - 1908-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1910-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/3
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Subjects include: a ball and shooting parties at Alderley Park [Cheshire] and Warter Priory, Yorkshire; results coming in from the General Election; permission given by the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] for Churchill to begin an action to clear King George V from a false accusation [by Edward Mylius] of bigamy.

Dates: 1910-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1924-02 - 1924-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/17
Scope and Contents Subjects include: Churchill's stay at Mimizan [France], February 1924, including boar hunting and gambling and whether to return because of the political situation; pressing work on articles for the Sunday Chronicle and Ray Long [Vice-President and Editor in Chief, International Magazine Company]; a planned debate with Stanley Baldwin at the Cambridge Union on rhetoric; progress on the works at Chartwell [Kent]; standing in the Westminster Abbey by-election as an Independent candidate,...
Dates: 1924-02 - 1924-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1935-01 - 1935-04, 1935-09 - 1935-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/25
Scope and Contents Mainly "Chartwell Bulletins" [while Clementine was on a cruise aboard the Rosaura, to the Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia], on subjects including: work at Chartwell [Kent], particularly the use of the mechanical digger in the grounds and garden, work on the lake and island, and the installation of additional bookcases in Churchill's bedroom and the drawing room; progress of his film script for Sir Alexander Korda on the Silver Jubilee of King George V; the India Bill, family finances; the...
Dates: 1935-01 - 1935-04; 1935-09 - 1935-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1950-01 - 1950-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/38
Scope and Contents Subjects include: the General Election; Churchill's and Randolph Churchill's constituency campaigns; [Arthur] Christopher Soames's duodenal ulcer; tensions in Randolph's marriage to June Churchill [earlier June Osborne]; work on Volume IV of the war memoirs; Chartwell [Kent], including the black swans, improvements in the farms, particularly Bardogs, the cattle, the stud farm, "the sulky, ill-mannered cat" and Rufus the poodle; the racehorse Colonist II's entry in the Winston Churchill...
Dates: 1950-01 - 1950-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Sky News: interview with Kenneth Clarke [Secretary of State for Education and Science], 1992-03-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/264
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Election special, also including footage of Conservative and Liberal Democrat press conferences, particularly on party funding and Liberal environmental policy.

Dates: 1992-03-26
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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Slough Election, 1950 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/8
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Press cuttings on AFB's loss of his Eton and Slough constituency [Buckinghamshire] in the 1964 General Election, also including some earlier Labour Party election material for the 1950, 1955 and 1959 General Elections.

Dates: 1950 - 1964
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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Southport Liberal Organisation, 1938-02 - 1939-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THRS II/67/9
Scope and Contents

Notes on publicity, policy and manifesto for by-election.

Dates: 1938-02 - 1939-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the fire-damaged material in section VI, 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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"Special election message from the Rt Hon Winston Churchill", 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL 12/24/22
Scope and Contents

Also includes messages from [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis].

Dates: 1951
Conditions Governing Access: Access copy available.
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Speech drafts and notes, 1983 - 1999

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NEWB 1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Speech drafts written for Neil Kinnock, as Leader of the Labour Party, with notes on speech writing strategy, and also papers on Labour's Black Sections policy and ethnic minority representation in the Party.

Dates: 1983 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.