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Suffragettes

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, The majority of folios date from 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/2
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Subjects include: Clementine's health and her second pregnancy [with Randolph Churchill]; an attack on Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] by suffragettes on the road to Stirling [Scotland]; Clementine's low opinion of Arthur Balfour; the deportation of a Mr Cole from British East Africa [later Kenya and Uganda]; delivering a speech at Swanage on Churchill's behalf [during the by-election campaign of Churchill's cousin Henry Guest for East Dorset, 1910].

Dates: The majority of folios date from 1909
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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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/3
Scope and Contents Subjects include: decorating their new house [33 Eccleston Square, London]; Clementine's health and her pregnancy [with Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys]; the pregnancy of 'Goonie' [Lady Gwendeline Churchill] and the birth of John G Churchill; a speech by 5th Lord Rosebery on the Budget; the attack on the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and Herbert Gladstone [Home Secretary] by three suffragettes; Diana Churchill's progress; a political...
Dates: 1909
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.