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Photographs from Winston Churchill's last day of hunting, with the Old Surrey and Burstow hunt, during the meet at Chartwell Farm [Kent]. Includes both Churchill and MS on horseback, together with "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster] and "Nancy" [Anne, Duchess of Westminster] and [Arthur] Nicholas Soames as a baby.

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Photographs from Winston Churchill's last day of hunting, with the Old Surrey and Burstow hunt, during the meet at Chartwell Farm [Kent]. Includes both Churchill and MS on horseback, together with "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster] and "Nancy" [Anne, Duchess of Westminster] and [Arthur] Nicholas Soames as a baby.

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Photograph of WSC and Randolph Churchill in [? Dampierre, near Dieppe, France], standing in a road beside a hedge. They are both in profile, looking to the left; WSC, nearest the camera, in a dark overcoat with astrakhan collar, hard hat and spurred riding boots, has a cigar in his mouth and his riding whip in his right hand, while Randolph is also in overcoat, hard hat and boots, and holding a whip.

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Photograph of WSC and Randolph Churchill on horseback in France, on a muddy road beside a fence. WSC, in a dark riding jacket, breeches, riding boots and a hard hat, is on a tall grey horse, looking directly towards the camera, with one hand holding a [? Handkerchief]. Randolph, beside him, on a smaller bay horse, is also in riding clothes, and looking at the camera.

Scope and Contents Photograph of WSC with Randolph Churchill and [Gabrielle] "Coco" Chanel in [? Dampierre, near Dieppe, France], standing beside a bank with some hounds. All three are smiling, WSC on the right, looking to the side, Randolph on the left looking at him, and Chanel in the middle, looking slightly down. WSC and Randolph are both in dark overcoats (WSC with an astrakhan collar), hard hats and spurred riding boots, carrying riding whip in their hands, while Chanel is wearing a dark belted suit...

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Photograph of WSC and Randolph Churchill on horseback in France, on a muddy road beside a hedge. WSC, in a dark riding jacket, breeches, riding boots and a hard hat, is on a tall grey horse, looking directly towards the camera, with one hand holding a [? handkerchief] and the other holding the reins. Randolph, beside him, on a smaller bay horse, is also in riding clothes, looking slightly sideways at the camera, with one hand on his thigh and the other holding the reins.

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Includes: briefing and correspondence on allegations by Lord Glenamara [earlier Edward Short] that the security services set up a false Swiss bank account in his name in 1974; note on a Police Inspectorate lunch; briefing for a meeting with Lim Kit Siang, General Secretary of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party; briefing for a meeting with Sam McCluskie on hunting; note for a meeting with Joan Lestor and Lord Pitt on the ethnic minority vote.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the European Economic Community, with correspondents including: James Molyneaux; Nigel Spearing, Chairman of the Select Committee on EEC Legislation (6); William Ross; Lord Bruce of Donington. Also includes: copies of letters from Nigel Spearing to James Molyneaux and the Prime Minister [Margaret Thatcher] on the constitutional effects of the Single European Act; press cuttings, including a copy of an interview with Edward Heath for Marxism Today;...

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Comprising: Home, Clevedon, Eton; Sandhurst and Examinations; The Grenadier Guards; Racing: a Story of the Inevitable; Ireland; Canada; South African War 1900-1902; Tennis, Hunting, Stalking, Golf, Fishing and Shooting; The First German War: France and Belgium; Italy; Some Notes on the Battle of Vittorio Veneto and After; From Aldershot to Washington; and War Office 1922-26.
With correspondence with Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1925 (2).

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Photo shows WSC in profile, wearing riding clothes and hat, carrying a whip under his arm and ?drinking from a flask.

Scope and Contents Letters from JEP to his parents, mostly from India. Subjects include: JEP's affection for A W J Thomas; hunting and learning to ride; broadcasts; Wolverhampton [Staffordshire] affairs; speaking engagements, including trying to make his maiden speech in Parliament; JEP's return to Cambridge; the writing and publication of JEP's poems in Dancer's End; the illness of Ellen Powell; JEP's return from India; taking an examination in Urdu; [Henry] James Wickenden; JEP's report on the post-war...

Scope and Contents Includes: articles on free trade and the currency, 1847-57; offprint of an article on the history of London government; report on the polls and the 1970 election by Richard Rose, Professor of Politics, Strathclyde University; copies of immigration and nationality legislation, 1948-80; correspondence on immigration statistics with David Ennals, Secretary of State for Social Services and Jennifer Tanfield, Head of Statistical Section, House of Commons Library, with tables for the 1976...

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Photo shows WSC looking up into the sky holding a gun, wearing a tweed plus fours suit.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: a holiday with General 1st Lord Rawlinson, March 1920, boar hunting, riding and painting at Bendor [2nd Duke of Westminster]'s estate in Mimizan, France; complaints against Britain by André Lefèvre, the French Minister of War; considering taking a house near Mimizan for the autumn; Churchill's view of the wars of the future; the helpful effect of a hostile speech by Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; Churchill's admiration for F E Smith [later 1st Lord...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Churchill's Mediterranean cruise with 'the Rabbit' [Randolph Churchill] and Jack [John S Churchill], January 1927, work on the proofs [of "The World Crisis"] and his relief that the book was finished; impressions of Italy under the Fascist regime; the value of the Lawrence books [? "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T E Lawrence, also T E Shaw, 'Lawrence of Arabia']; finding another school for Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys]; seeing the excavations at...

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Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Edmund Burke; the campaign against hunting; the parliamentary legacy of Magna Carta; the balance of payments and exchange rates; Britain and the European Community, particularly the balance of power in Europe; memorial address for John Vaughan-Morgan [Lord Reigate]; Greek and the New Testament, and the Gospels.

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Correspondence on Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, by Robert Smith Surtees.