Monarchy
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 141 Collections and/or Records:
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Programmes and guest lists with biographical notes for visit to West Indies by HRH the Princess Royal, 1960-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HAIS 7/13
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:
1960-02
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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Programmes and menus for Queen Elizabeth II's State Visit to Germany, 1965-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBT 11/68
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Mainly photographs of official and social events.
Dates:
1965-05
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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Queen and Commonwealth, 1986-06 - 1988-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/38
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with the general public on the Queen's role in the Commonwealth, particularly referring to an article and television interview by JEP. Correspondents include: Ivor Stanbrook; David Tudor-Pole (7); Timothy Eggar, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on allegiance owed to the Queen by Commonwealth citizens; Robert Fellowes [Deputy Private Secretary to the Queen]; Lord Simon of Glaisdale, congratulating JEP on his article about the Queen and...
Dates:
1986-06 - 1988-12
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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Queen's Titles, 1953-03 - 1961-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/1/9
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly with the general public, on JEP's speech during the debate on the Royal Titles Bill (3 March 1953), with correspondents including: Peter Marriott (6); Muriel Burton-Watkins (4); Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir], Home Secretary; [John] Harley Williams, Secretary-General of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (2); Iain Macleod; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; John Connell [Leader-writer, The Evening News]; Sir Percy McElwaine.
Also...
Dates:
1953-03 - 1961-10
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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Recording of Laurence Olivier on the death of King George VI, 1952
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 12/2/5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes later copies of speeches and writings by Sir Winston Churchill, as well as radio interviews and recordings of speeches by MS herself.
Dates:
1952
Conditions Governing Access:
Access copy available.
Sub-Fonds
Royal Correspondence, 1922 - 1980
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/LASL 2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre include Lascelles' diaries; Royal correspondence; correspondence and papers concerning Edward, Prince of Wales [later Edward VIII]; correspondence with colleagues and family concerning members of the Royal family or Royal duties; correspondence during and concerning the First World War; correspondence from India while serving as Aide-de-Camp to George Lloyd; family correspondence; personal correspondence with friends and colleagues; miscellaneous...
Dates:
1922 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
LASL 2/1 open; majority of LASL 2/2-3 closed
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Royal Correspondence, 1969 - 1975
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SLKN 11/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with HM Queen Elizabeth II and the Court.
Dates:
1969 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures of individual files are noted in the paper catalogue, please ask staff for further details.
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Royal correspondence, 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/41
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, on Churchill's recovery [from pneumonia], March 1943, and on the good reports she had heard of Clementine's Fulmer Chase maternity hospital for officers' wives; Queen Elizabeth, on her and King George VI's gratitude to Churchill, following Clementine's thanks [draft enclosed] for a letter from the King to Churchill on the success of the North African campaign, May 1943, and inviting Churchill to lunch, June 1943, as with the King...
Dates:
1943
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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Royal correspondence, 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/45
Scope and Contents
Letters to Clementine from: Queen Elizabeth, inviting her to tea following the christening of the Duke of Gloucester's younger son [Richard] and thanking Clementine for her sympathy on the death of her father [14th Lord Strathmore] (2); Henry, Duke of Gloucester, on the christening; Mary, the Princess Royal [also Lady Harewood] thanking Clementine for her sympathy (letter enclosed) on the wounding and capture of her son, Lord Lascelles [later 7th Lord Harewood, see also CSCT 3/55]; Sir Alan...
Dates:
1944
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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"Royal visit, Paris", 1972-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 12/1/28
Scope and Contents
Footage of Queen Elizabeth II’s State visit to Paris, France.
Dates:
1972-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Access copies must be requested in advance.
Sub-Series
Royal visits to Paris, 1955 - 1960
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD 1/6
Scope and Contents
Arrangements for visits to Paris [France] by members of the Royal Family while GJ was British Ambassador to France.
Dates:
1955 - 1960
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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Silver Jubilee of King George V, 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HSBR 5/1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Unfortunately few political papers or correspondence exist, and the most valuable section is Horsbrugh's own collection of presscuttings, HSBR 2.
Dates:
1935
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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
Scope and Contents
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, 1911-03 - 1911-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/4
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: an offer from George Cornwallis-West [Churchill's stepfather] to return to Lady Randolph Churchill [Jennie Cornwallis-West, earlier Jennie Jerome]; an argument between Churchill and 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour] in the House of Commons; a visit to the Gaiety Theatre; David Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer] elbowing Churchill out of his Unemployment Insurance scheme; difficulties caused by the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and...
Dates:
1911-03 - 1911-09
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, 1912-01 - 1912-08, 1914-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/5
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: objections from the Belfast Orangemen, to a speech on Home Rule that Churchill was to give to the Ulster Liberal Association, February 1912; a miscarriage suffered by Clementine and her slow recovery; a coal strike; the Navy's war plans; cutting waste in the naval dockyards; the progress of Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys] and Randolph Churchill; the gambling of Clementine's brother William Hozier; the Titanic disaster; a house party at Taplow Court,...
Dates:
1912-01 - 1912-08; 1914-09
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, 1912-06, 1913
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/6
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the atrocious behaviour of Smart [Churchill's chauffeur/valet] during a house party with the Lyttons at Knebworth [Hertfordshire, June 1912]; plans for a dancing club; the sentencing of 'Mrs P' [Emmeline Pankhurst], April 1913; moving to Admiralty House; Churchill's concerns about events in the Adriatic and sympathy for Montenegro; a speech by Churchill in Dundee [Scotland], January 1913; his suffering from nerves; worries about parcel bombs from the suffragettes; naval...
Dates:
1912-06; 1913
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, 1928-04 - 1928-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/21
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: Cabinet's agreement with Churchill's scheme for deregulation of local taxation [the De-rating Bill]; the farm and garden at Chartwell [Kent], particularly the swans and the sheep; the court martial of Kenneth Dewar; concerns for the health of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland; Randolph Churchill's development at Eton, method of argument and problem with authority; fees for articles and future work [on volume 4 of "The World Crisis"]; work on the Budget speech, April 1928; stay with...
Dates:
1928-04 - 1928-11
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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South Africa, 1924-11 - 1926-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/4/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with 1st Lord Athlone, Governor General and with General James Hertzog, Prime Minister, on subjects including: the Imperial Conference, 1926, particularly changes to the status of Governors General with the creation of High Commissioners and the impression made by Hertzog; the South African flag; transferring Swaziland [later Eswatini] to South Africa; communications between the British and Dominion Governments; 1st Lord Byng, Governor General of Canada and his refusal to...
Dates:
1924-11 - 1926-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Speeches, 1974-03 - 1974-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/10
Scope and Contents
Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the balance of payments and international exchange rates; Northern Ireland, particularly the Constitutional Convention, representation of Ulster in the British Parliament, the General Election in Northern Ireland, including JEP's election speech, agriculture and the 1973 constitution; relations between the Church and the monarchy; political responsibility, relating to the Conservative Party's abandonment of its principles; housing;...
Dates:
1974-03 - 1974-12
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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Speeches, 1977-01 - 1978-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/12
Scope and Contents
Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Common Market, including the European Monetary System, the views of David Owen, Foreign Secretary, on the Common Agricultural Policy, a directly elected European Parliament, fisheries policy and human rights policy; the Gospels; the Orange Order; the marriage of the heir to the throne to a Catholic; North Sea gas and oil; the representation of Northern Ireland in government, its constitution, the use of the Irish currency,...
Dates:
1977-01 - 1978-12
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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Speeches, 1983-01 - 1984-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/16
Scope and Contents
Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the uses of education; ending direct rule in Ulster, the Anglo-Irish Council, the past attitudes of the British Government to Ulster, interventions by the United States and representation for Ulster in Parliament; the results of past immigration policy; NATO defence policy; international exchange rates, the floating pound, the international monetary system and international monetary fund; British membership of the European Economic...
Dates:
1983-01 - 1984-12
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.
Fonds
Spencer Perceval: Correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8713
Scope and Contents
The papers provide a most useful insight into the working of both administrations, comprising as they do some of Perceval's most intimate political correspondence both as chancellor of the exchequer under Portland (1807-9) and subsequently as prime minister (1809-12). All the major events of the day are considered, including the scandals surrounding the princess of Wales and the duke of York, the ill-fated military expedition to Walcheren in 1809, George III's recurring mental illness, and...
Dates:
1806-1906 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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The Abdication, 1935-12 - 1936-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/25
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the death of King George V and the abdication of King Edward VIII, later Edward Duke of Windsor, including: copy of the Abdication Bill; telegrams from Queen Mary and Edward VIII, thanking LSA for his condolences on the death of George V; note from LSA's memoirs on advice given to Edward VIII, not to send out a broadcast during the Abdication Crisis; press cuttings.
Dates:
1935-12 - 1936-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Coronation, 1952 - 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FICA 2/4/1
Scope and Contents
Information papers, press and television correspondence on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, including: details of recording sent to Canada; commemorative and information publications; programme of events; minutes of press liaison meetings and the Earl Marshal's conference.
Dates:
1952 - 1953
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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The Coronation, 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FICA 2/4/2
Scope and Contents
Souvenir issues of magazines for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Dates:
1953
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.