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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.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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,...

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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.

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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.

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Souvenir issues of magazines for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

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This section of the papers relates to "The Windsors" and mainly consists of transcribed interviews with various individuals concerning their recollections, or opinions of the Royal Family.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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Public and private correspondence, including letters from Churchill describing the Battle of Omdurman and life on the Western Front, correspondence with the Royal Family, cabinet colleagues and with Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and de Gaulle.

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Photographs and souvenirs from the Queen's State visit.

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Printed souvenir edition presented to LSA by Sir William Brass [later 1st Lord Chattisham] recording the presentation of addresses by both Houses of Parliament to King George V on his Silver Jubilee.

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Quotation from Wordsworth's "The Excursion", written out for Churchill by the Queen [later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother].

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with representatives of the SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) and SPCK Sheldon Press, on the publication and sales of a collection of JEP's writings on the Gospel, Wrestling with the Angel. Other correspondents include: Bryan Magee, on including the text of a television dialogue between himself and JEP in the book (3); James Kinlay, Features Editor of the Sunday Express, on JEP's article Why I Believe in God (3). Also includes: royalty...

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Mainly 12" gramophone recordings by or concerning WSC, originally kept in a wooden cabinet together with the items listed under WCHL 12/25-29.