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Labour Party

 Organization

Found in 235 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/96A/53
Scope and Contents Note from George Harvie Watt [Parliamentary Private Secretary to WSC] to WSC describing the political career of [1st] Lord Elton stating that: he contested the Thornbury Division of Gloucestershire as a Socialist in 1924 and 1929; that he was expelled from the Labour Party for supporting Ramsay MacDonald; that he then became honorary Political Secretary of the National Labour Committee and was editor of the National Labour Group's newsletter; that he was created a peer in 1934 by Ramsay...
Dates: 01 Nov 1943
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/26
Scope and Contents Letter from Harold Laski [Professor of political science at the University of London and member of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] (Devon Lodge, Addison Bridge Place, W14 [London]) to WSC informing him that he is enclosing a copy of an article he has written for the Chicago Sun about President Roosevelt [see CHAR 20/198A/ 22-24], and stating that he has become the Acting Chairman of the Labour Party, "So may I say that whatever remarks I may make in this official capacity are...
Dates: 21 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 21 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/28-29
Scope and Contents Text of letter from Harold Laski [Professor of political science at the University of London and member of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] (Devon Lodge, Addison Bridge Place, W14 [London]) to WSC informing him that he is enclosing a copy of an article he has written for the Chicago Sun about President Roosevelt [see CHAR 20/198A/ 22-24], and stating that he has become the Acting Chairman of the Labour Party, "So may I say that whatever remarks I may make in this official...
Dates: 21 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 03 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/30
Scope and Contents Letter from Harold Laski [Professor of political science at the University of London and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] (Devon Lodge, Addison Bridge Place, W14 [London]) to WSC marked "private and confidential" informing him of the decision taken at the last meeting of the Labour Party National Executive not to put a Labour Party candidate in the field against him "not because we thought he might win, but because, on personal grounds, we did not wish to add , even...
Dates: 03 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 03 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/31-32
Scope and Contents Text of letter from Harold Laski [Professor of political science at the University of London and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] (Devon Lodge, Addison Bridge Place, W14 [London]) to WSC marked "private and confidential" informing him of the decision taken at the last meeting of the Labour Party National Executive not to put a Labour Party candidate in the field against him "not because we thought he might win, but because, on personal grounds, we did not wish to add...
Dates: 03 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 17 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198A/33
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Note by WSC for Private Office: "I do not know on what official grounds Mr Laski [Harold Laski, Professor of political science at the University of London and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party] writes to me. I have no personal relations with him".

Dates: 17 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 28 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/201/6
Scope and Contents Letter from Major-General Sir Hugh Tudor (42 Circular Road, St Johns, Newfoundland [Canada]) thanking WSC for seeing his son. He expresses sorrow that WSC is being put through the strain of an election campaign, and comments on the Labour Party and Clement Attlee, "Now that we have smashed National Socialism in Germany Labour apparantly wants to start something like it in England. The present Labour leader as one of the Big Three seems to me rather like a mouse in a rat's job!". He expresses...
Dates: 28 May 1945
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), 13 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/54-55
Scope and Contents Letter from Sir Edward Cadogan [Conservative MP for Bolton] (Carlton Club) to WSC expressing his gratitude to WSC on the eve of the dissolution of the House of Commons: states how proud he has been to serve under WSC's leadership "in the most memorable Parliament of all time"; comments on the decision of the Socialists to terminate the Coalition and states that the "issues at present are too grave to become the sport of party politics"; expresses the hope that WSC will long be spared "not...
Dates: 13 Jun 1945
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), 13 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/56
Scope and Contents Letter from Sir Edward Cadogan [Conservative MP for Bolton] (Carlton Club) to WSC expressing his gratitude to WSC on the eve of the dissolution of the House of Commons: states how proud he has been to serve under WSC's leadership "in the most memorable Parliament of all time"; comments on the decision of the Socialists to terminate the Coalition and states that the "issues at present are too grave to become the sport of party politics"; expresses the hope that WSC will long be spared "not...
Dates: 13 Jun 1945
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), [23] [May] [1945]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/197A/4
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Hand-written note from ? Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] to WSC asking whether [Joseph] Davies should be allowed to contact "[Ernest] Bevin & Co". Annotated by WSC in red, "Certainly not, repeat not nor anyone else" and dated and initialled. Also a note from Kathleen Hill to Private Office instructing them to find out if Mr [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] is aware of this.

Dates: [23] [May] [1945]
Conditions Governing Access: Open