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Family

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 659 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), [16] [May] [1898]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/25/9
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC (4th (The Queen's Own) Hussars, Bangalore [India]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] discussing "Jack's" future career in the City [of London] as an "arrogant plutocrat".

Dates: [16] [May] [1898]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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.
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(Untitled), 22 Aug 1899

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/26/30-31
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC (Hartham Park, Corsham, Wiltshire on the notepaper of 35A Great Cumberland Place) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses the likelihood of an engagement between P[amela Plowden, later Lady Lytton] and himself, Everard Baring or [2nd Lord Revelstoke]. He also discusses the objections of the [Cornwallis-West] family to [Lady Randolph's] proposed [marriage to George Cornwallis-West]. He says that he will support her in her decision and suggests that she should...
Dates: 22 Aug 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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.
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(Untitled), 03 Sep [1899]

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/26/32-33
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC ([Blenheim Palace] on the notepaper of 35A Great Cumberland Place) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] enclosing a letter [not present] from Colonel [William Cornwallis-]West which he instructs her to destroy. He discusses speaking engagements in Scotland and an invitation from the Scottish Conservative Club; his fondness for Pamela [Plowden, later Lady Lytton]; the progress of ["The River War"] and ["The Anglo-Saxon Review"]. In a postscript he comments that he does not...
Dates: 03 Sep [1899]
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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.
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(Untitled), 08 Jun 1964

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/136/234-235
Scope and Contents Letter from Mary [Lady Soames, earlier Mary Churchill] ((Hamsell Manor, Eridge Green, Near Tunbridge Wells [Kent]) to "Papa" [WSC] thanking him for a cheque "the fruit of your thoughts and labours" and for his love; for making solid arrangements for his children and grandchildren ("it is truly a 'house' whose strong walls have been built - every brick- by your genius and unceasing toil"); and for her family's home. She ends "I wish I could express more adequately my love and gratitude - but...
Dates: 08 Jun 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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War letters from parents, 1941-10-29 - 1943-10-14

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/1/6
Scope and Contents

Letters to JEP in [Cairo, Egypt, and Tunisia] from his parents, on subjects including: JEP's promotion prospects; his finances; his concerns for A W J Thomas.

Dates: 1941-10-29 - 1943-10-14
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

William Smith (1756-1835) and family correspondence, journals and other papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7621
Scope and Contents The larger part of the collection dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chronicling William Smith's personal and political career, as well as illustrating the lives of his wife Frances and their children. The collection includes letters from Smith's friends, among them Charles James Fox, William Wilberforce and Sir Francis Burdett. The papers also chronicle Smith's time in Paris in 1790, where he witnessed and recorded his reactions to the 14th July celebrations. The...
Dates: 1678-1951
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).
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"With Lady Randolph [Churchill] and brother Jack", 1889

Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Photo 1/8
Scope and Contents

Portrait photograph showing John S Churchill and WSC, as young boys, leaning gently on Lady Randolph Churchill (centre).

Dates: 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Digital copies are available, to protect the fragile original.
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Women, 1952 - 1969

Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS 5/45
Scope and Contents Working papers on women and families in Britain, Europe, and the USA, covering subjects such as employment, including part-time work; the 'double burden'; girls' education; women in science and industry; feminism; marriage and single women; fatherhood; and divorce. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's notes. Includes a copy of Pelican paperback 'The Captive Wife: Conflicts of Housebound Mothers' (1966) by Hannah Gavron, and typescript of a lecture...
Dates: 1952 - 1969
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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WSC's history notebook., c 1892

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/11
Scope and Contents

Contains accounts and maps of the First Duke of Marlborough's campaigns and general notes on eighteenth and nineteenth century history.

Dates: c 1892
Conditions Governing Access: Open.