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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence C - D., 25 Dec 1946 - 22 Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/168A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Hughes [former Prime Minister of Australia] introducing Archibald Cameron, Speaker of the Australian Parliament; "Bill", 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, owner of the Daily Telegraph] on racing, and Daily Telegraph criticism of Conservative taxation pledges (7); Tilly Losch-Carnarvon [Ottilie, Lady Carnarvon]; Admiral Robert Carney, Commander- in-Chief, Allied Forces in Southern Europe (2); Sir Robert Cary (2); Richard Casey, Australian Minister...
Dates:
25 Dec 1946 - 22 Oct 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes, press cuttings and source material., [Jan] [1928] - 03 Apr 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/85
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Speech notes for WSC's speech (3 February 1928, Town Hall, Birmingham), entitled "Liberal Party Economic Policy" on the next General Election, the Government's economic record, criticism from Philip Snowden [former Chancellor of the Exchequer], cuts in the Fighting Services, the betting tax and Ramsay MacDonald [Leader of the Opposition]'s views on it, income tax and Liberal economic policy. Source material includes press cuttings from the Times reporting Arthur Henderson's [later Lord...
Dates:
[Jan] [1928] - 03 Apr 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 30 Aug 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124A/78
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Frederick Guest expressing regret that he (WSC) is not fit enough to play polo, and asking for background information, particularly on the figures relating to the Coalition Liberals and the number of Ulster [Ireland] members, in Guests's estimate of the General Election, which [David Lloyd George] thinks is too optimistic. Carbon copy.
Dates:
30 Aug 1922
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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 Sep 1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/124B/155-159
Scope and Contents
Letter from [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan, Altnabraec, Caithness [Scotland]) to WSC on: the wintering of polo ponies; the determination of the Duke of Atholl and the Duchess of Atholl to assert their political influence in East Perthshire against the Liberals; the need for the newly formed association of National Liberals in the constituency to be supported by Liberal headquarters; Frederick Cripps' belief that his business enterprise in Soviet Russia has been...
Dates:
13 Sep 1922
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), 24 Jul [1895]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/21/54-55
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (4th Hussars, Aldershot [Hampshire]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] describing a dinner at Government House at which he met the Duke and Duchess of York and the Duke of Connaught; his progress at polo and observations on the decline of the Radical Party in the absence of [William] Gladstone.
Dates:
24 Jul [1895]
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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Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Acquired Papers: Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described. The file includes letters written from WSC from the 4th Hussars, and about his visits to New York and to Cuba to join Spanish forces which were attempting to quell a local rebellion.
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(Untitled), 31 Aug 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/27/42-43
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby [Warwickshire]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: the progress of [his biography of Lord Randolph Churchill] which is nearly finished; his stay in Switzerland; polo; his support for [Lord] Curzon [later Lord Curzon of Kedleston] against [Sir Herbert] Kitchener and "for Constitutional Authority against military power"; Liberal Party policy on India; comments on the appointments of [4th Lord] Minto and [Sir John] Brodrick. Manuscript in...
Dates:
31 Aug 1905
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), 26 Aug 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/134/78
Scope and Contents
Letter from Frederick Guest (on board SS "Homeric") to WSC noting that Lord Grey [earlier Sir Edward Grey] has resigned the Liberal leadership in the House of Lords and that Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] will not contest Paisley [Renfrewshire, Scotland] and asking for WSC's views on David Lloyd George's probable bid for the Liberal leadership. Expresses the wish not to become involved in controversy over the Irish treaty amendment bill so as not to threaten the "perfect...
Dates:
26 Aug 1924
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.