Politics
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
The Papers of Peter Rawlinson
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RWSN
Scope and Contents
Papers including correspondence, legal case papers, speeches and articles.
Dates:
1873 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Philip Cunliffe-Lister, First Earl of Swinton
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SWIN
Scope and Contents
The papers in this collection reflect the events of both Swinton's personal and professional lives. There are family letters and mementoes as well as speech notes, engagement diaries and political correspondence.
Dates:
1833 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open (except for 1 closure marked on the catalogue) for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Reginald Maudling
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MLNG
Scope and Contents
These files contain constituency correspondence.
Dates:
1971-06 - 1979-04
Conditions Governing Access:
These papers are CLOSED to researchers. This collection contains sensitive personal information about living individuals. It is closed under the terms of the 1997 Data Protection Act for 100 years from the last date in each file. Enquiries should be made to Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Richard Thorpe
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/THRP
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to a biography of Alec Douglas-Home, comprising a manuscript of the book with drafts, notes, correspondence, transcripts of interviews, press cuttings and copies of original documents.
Dates:
1989 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/GEDD
Scope and Contents
This collection mainly consists of private papers and correspondence, 1885-1954, and family papers, 1783-1963. The material, especially the ministerial and ambassadorial papers, collected together by David Geddes provides an insight into the 1910s and 1920s. The collection also includes Geddes' writings on medical, spiritual and military matters.
Dates:
1783 - 1991
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Frederick Corfield
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CFLD
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of political papers, speeches and articles selected by Sir Frederick Corfield for deposit at Churchill Archives Centre. The political papers include letters received by Corfield while Minister of Aviation, publications about aerospace companies such as Rolls Royce, and Corfield's decision not to stand at the 1974 election. There are also some publications relating to the British Waterways Board. The speeches and articles are mostly those written by Corfield...
Dates:
1958 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access:
he collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir George Harvie-Watt
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HARV
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises Sir George's reports to Sir Winston Churchill as his Parliamentary Private Secretary. The reports cover the business of the House of Commons and Harvie Watt's observations on the mood of the Members of the House and reactions to WSC's speeches, policies, and the events of the Second World War. They have been annotated in red by Sir Winston Churchill. Also includes a small amount of correspondence.
Dates:
1941 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Ian Lloyd
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ILLD
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Sir Ian Lloyd's personal life, career, work for Parliamentary Science and Technology Committees, speeches, articles and press cuttings.
Dates:
1942 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access:
The papers are mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Certain papers remain closed on data protection grounds.
There are some closures on grounds of data protection which are marked in the catalogue.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir John Colville
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CLVL
Scope and Contents
The material held at Churchill Archives Centre mainly consists of Colville's diaries. They provide an insight into the decision-making of three Prime Ministers and the meetings held with other top officials, as well as the lives of key figures during World War II, and its aftermath.
Dates:
1939 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir John Hoskyns
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HOSK
Scope and Contents
Briefing notes produced by Hoskyns and his team, mainly for Margaret Thatcher MP
Dates:
1974 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir John Nott
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/NOTT
Scope and Contents
The papers chiefly relate to Sir John Nott's time in Margaret Thatcher's government, particularly his tenure as Secretary of State for Defence during the Falklands War. They include: papers relating to Nott's search for employment, 1975; papers collected for the production of Sir John's memoirs, including annotated drafts, original correspondence and dictation tapes; personal correspondence and other papers, 1982-1998; papers relating to his career with Lazards, mid 1980s onwards; material...
Dates:
1936-08 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access:
Most of this collection is open for consultation by readers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Julian Ridsdale
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RIDS
Scope and Contents
The papers mainly consist of a numbered series of scrapbooks including invitations, press cuttings, photographs, correspondence and other ephemera relating to Julian Ridsdale's political career and personal life with his family.
Dates:
1949 - 2000
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir William Bull
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BULL
Scope and Contents
BULL 1 - 10 is made up of diaries kept faithfully by William (or Paul, as he was known to his family and close friends) Bull from 1878, when he was thirteen years old until some three weeks before his death in January 1931. The earlier diaries were illustrated and all the diaries are interleaved with letters, press cuttings, menus, theatre programmes and photographs relating to the events they describe. Twice yearly, in June and December, Bull compiled a 'Retrospect' of the past six months...
Dates:
1862 - 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir William John Haley
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/HALY
Scope and Contents
Includes diaries 1922-86, correspondence 1935-83, and press cuttings.
Dates:
1920 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers with prior permission at Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill throughout his life (1874-1965). They have been divided into two sections: the Chartwell Papers (CHAR) and the Churchill Papers (CHUR). Together, the two sets of papers cover the following major areas:
Personal (CHAR 1 and CHUR 1), 1884-1965
The papers of Churchill as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics and papers relating to...
Dates:
The majority of files date from the 1870s to 1965.
Conditions Governing Access:
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Tam Dalyell
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/TADA
Scope and Contents
The papers comprise correspondence, subject files, visit files, literary papers, diaries and audio-visual material.
Dates:
1936 - 2008
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
Fonds
The Papers of Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNT
Scope and Contents
Personal, political and literary papers
Dates:
1927 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed until catalogued (please contact Archives Centre to enquire about progress)
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
File
The senators remembrancer, c 1771
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.06.34
Scope and Contents
Begins 'A statesman when he is to deliberate must observe three things ….' These are stated in tabular form, and subdivided into 'Revenue', 'Warr', 'Peace', 'Provision', 'Laws', 'The heads or chiefe topics handled in deliberation', and 'The method or artifice', which are treated in seven analytical tables, of which the work consists.
Dates:
c 1771
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Fonds
Thomas Walpole: Correspondence
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8708-8712
Scope and Contents
Five volumes comprising: papers relating to Thomas Walpole joining the firm of George Clifford and Sons in Amsterdam; marriage contract with Elizabeth Vanneck, 1749; correspondence on political matters including the Duke of Newcastle's administration, the breakdown of relations between Britian and America, the Falkland Islands, the American Declaration of Independence, trade and affairs in the West Indies and the situation in France prior to the Revolution; family correspondence with his...
Dates:
1744-1796
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
File
Three political tracts, Seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ll.04.08
Scope and Contents
(1) 'The Humble Answer and Plea of George Duke of Buckingham to the Declaration and impeachment made against him before your Lordships by the Commons House of Parliament. Anno 1626.' (2) 'A Brief and faithfull relation touching matters of Priviledges, ordered and adjudged by the Commons in Parliament assembled at the Parliament beegunne and holden at Westminster, in the 19th day of Febr. in the 21st yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne Lord King James and there continued untill the 24th day...
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Fonds
Tomline: the papers of George Pretyman Tomline
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1058/TOM
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of drafts and notebooks created during the preparation of Tomline's biography of his friend William Pitt the Younger: 'Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable William Pitt' by George Tomline, first published in 1821. There are also 2 small sets of correspondence (GBR/1058/TOM/10).
Dates:
1753 - 1827
Found in:
Pembroke College Library
File
Transcripts of documents relating to Ireland, Late seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ff.02.02
Scope and Contents
A transcript of letters, patents, warrants and other documents relating to Ireland during the lieutenancy of John Lord Berkeley, 1670-71. The volume is incomplete at the beginning: the first two pages contain part of a warrant dated Whitehall, 7 June 1670.
Dates:
Late seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
File
Treaties and other documents relating to diplomatic affairs, Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.09.03
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘Tractatus Blesensis de arctissima amicitia in [inter] Charolum 9m christianissimum [regem], et reginam Anglie Elizabetham pro mutua defensione suarum personarum, dominiorum, et subditorum initus Blesis ad Ligerim, 19 Aprilis, 1572’; the treaty is followed by the commissions to the ambassadors and the forms of ratification, those of Queen Elizabeth I in Latin, those of King Charles IX in French; (2) ‘Tractatus et confederatio inter Francorum regem Henricum eius nominis quartum et...
Dates:
Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
File
Treatise on parliament, Seventeenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.12.66
Scope and Contents
A treatise on the parliament of England, beginning 'Parliament. Of what persons this court consisteth. Of the king in his royall politique capacity, and of the 3 estates of the realm, (vizt.) the lords spiritual …'.
Dates:
Seventeenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).
Item
Treaty of peace and amity, 1678
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.13.31.09
Scope and Contents
A copy of a treaty of peace and amity concluded between the French and English governors of the American islands.
Dates:
1678
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
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).