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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 1176 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 21 Jan 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/32-34
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Letter from Mary [Lady Curzon] (Government House, Calcutta [India]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she says that she was disappointed at not having seen her, discusses the success of [the Anglo Saxon] Review, the possibility of WSC marrying Pamela [Plowden, later Lady Lytton] and [Lady Randolph's] successes at matchmaking. She also comments on the death of Queen [Victoria] and the personal popularity she enjoyed in India.

Dates: 21 Jan 1901
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 Oct 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/35
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Letter from Mary [Curzon](Viceroy's Camp, India) to Jenny [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she discusses [Lady Randolph's] future stay with her and asks her to tell [WSC] not to attack the Viceroy [of India, Lord Curzon, later Lord Curzon of Kedleston] about financial affairs in India.

Dates: 08 Oct 1902
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), 14 Jan 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/40-44
Scope and Contents Letter from [Lady Minto](Government House, Ottawa [Canada]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: her appreciation of letters from [Lady Randolph]; illnesses that her family have had; homesickness for England; a description of society in Ottawa and skating; an invitation to Lady Randolph; her budget for improvements to the house; regards to Leonie [Lady Leslie formerly Leonie Jerome]; the impression created by her jewellery and a promise to subscribe to [the Anglo Saxon Review] "at...
Dates: 14 Jan 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), 23 Aug 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/67/3-4
Scope and Contents Letter from [Sir] Bindon Blood (Plaisange, Mussoorie, North West Provinces [India]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he discusses the reports of her visit to Oldham [Lancashire] by the Pioneer; says that several people (including the Maharajah of Kapurthala) have promised to subscribe to the Anglo Saxon Review; reports that the son [of the Maharajah of] Cooch Behar has been refused entry into the Life Guards on grounds of nationality and discusses the question of the admission of the sons...
Dates: 23 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), 31 Jan 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/75/11-12
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Letter from King Edward VII (Windsor Castle) to Mrs George Cornwallis West [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he thanks her for sending him a letter from [Leonie, Lady Leslie, formerly Leonie Jerome] about her visit to India [see CHAR 28/62] and expresses approval for the Viceroy of India [Lord Curzon, later Lord Curzon of Kedleston]. Envelope sealed with red wax present.

Dates: 31 Jan 1903
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), 29 Jan 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/77/22
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Letter from Cyril Davenport (The British Museum, London) to Mrs Cornwallis West [Lady Randolph Churchill] suggesting that he should write an article about English Coronations [for the Anglo Saxon Review] in which he could include the point that the crown of [King Edward VII] should include the mark of India as one of the colonies.

Dates: 29 Jan 1901
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), 27 Oct 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 5/28A/20-30
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to J C Robertson [President, Dundee Liberal Association to be read out on WSC's behalf to electors] on subjects including: criticism of the Conservative government; the position of the House of Commons with 4 Secretaries of State in the House of Lords; his hope to be adopted as their parliamentary candidate as a "Liberal and a Free Trader"; socialism; commitments in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Palestine and WSC's responsibility for reducing expenditure; his pride in his...
Dates: 27 Oct 1922
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Mar 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/193A/85-116
Scope and Contents Draft copy of speech notes for WSC's broadcast on post war plans including: his illness; India; the difficulty of forecasting post war expenditure; anticipation of victory against Germany and Japan; the need for a 4 year plan; the Beveridge report; WSC's conviction of the need for social reform; agriculture; public health; education; unemployment. Extracts from the draft [unused] notes include criticism of Gandhi's fast and of the Beveridge report. Carbon typescript with annotations by...
Dates: 21 Mar 1943
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Nov 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/27/66-69
Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC (In camp near Mrali, Victoria Nile, Uganda [Africa]) to [King Edward VII] about his visit to Africa and impressions of the country. WSC expresses admiration for "these noble and spacious posessions" recently added to the Dominions, especially the East African Protectorate and Kenya; describes Mount Kenya and Uganda; notes the "evil effects" of the climate on Europeans and the danger of diseases especially sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly; praises the...
Dates: 27 Nov 1911
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Nov 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/7-8
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Empire Industries News Service no. 167: the policy of the Empire Industries Association.

Dates: 22 Nov 1929
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 Dec 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/10-11
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Empire Industries News Service no. 170: safeguarding and revenue: customs report; imperial preference and imports.

Dates: 13 Dec 1929
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), [Jan] [1930]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/32-41
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Memorandum [by a committee of Conservative MPs] indicating the practical objections to the scheme of Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] for encouraging the movement of Free Trade within the Empire. Sent with CHAR 2/173/31.

Dates: [Jan] [1930]
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), Oct 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/173/53
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Pamphlet: "The key to Empire trade" by Harold Pooley, director of the British Empire Producers' Organisation.

Dates: Oct 1929
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), 05 Feb 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/183/2
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Letter from WSC to John Whitley [Chairman of the BBC] asking for an opportunity to broadcast on India and explaining why he thinks that the permission given to Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] to broadcast on Empire Free Trade has set a precedent for this. Signed carbon typescript copy.

Dates: 05 Feb 1931
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), 12 May 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/28-31
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Letter from A R T Richards (Via di Quarto 10, Castello, Florence, [Italy]) to [WSC] complaining about the corrupt native administration of Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] and the failure of the British government to protect the interests of the British tea planters on the island. Typescript copies at CHAR 2/189/32-36 and CHAR 2/189/37-41.

Dates: 12 May 1932
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), 12 May 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/32-36
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Typescript copy of CHAR 2/189/28-31.

Dates: 12 May 1932
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), 12 May 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/37-41
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Typescript copy of CHAR 2/189/28-31.

Dates: 12 May 1932
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), [May] [1932]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/43
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Proof of article by George Cornwallis West on the defects of the new constitution in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka]. Sent with CHAR 2/189/42.

Dates: [May] [1932]
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 May 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/52
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Letter from [WSC] to George Cornwallis-West stating that it would be better for him to raise the matter of the constitution of Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] in the House of Commons rather than write a letter to the "Daily Telegraph". Carbon typescript copy.

Dates: 24 May 1932
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 May 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/189/53
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Letter from George Cornwallis-West (8 Sterling Street, Knightsbridge, [London]) to WSC on his article on the political situation in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka].

Dates: 26 May 1932
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), 09 Mar 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/192/70
Scope and Contents Letter from Frank Morrish, honorary secretary of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Home Counties North Area Women's Advisory Committee (Palace Chambers, Westminster, [London] to Ellen Stutely [chairman of the women's section of the South Chingford Conservative and Unionist Association] (22 Silverthorne Gardens, Chingford, Essex) giving the principal Conservative conference resolution approving government policy, in particular the success of the Ottawa Conference,...
Dates: 09 Mar 1933
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), 14 Apr 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/5/18-22
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Letter from WSC to Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on the naval policy for the Dominions, proposing the establishment of a joint Imperial Squadron, consisting of three battle cruisers, and three light cruisers, provided by Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and India. [Manuscript copy in letter book].

Dates: 14 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Nov 1911 - 30 Nov 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/1/37-39
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Report by Reuters on WSC's speech in the House of Commons on the resignation of three Sea Lords, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson [1st Sea Lord], Admiral Sir George Egerton [2nd Sea Lord] and Rear Admiral Charles Madden [4th Sea Lord]; includes covering letter from [? Alexander Murray, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, later 1st Lord Murray of Elibank] (12 Downing Street) to WSC, on the advantages of transmitting such speeches to the Colonies. [Duplicated typescript].

Dates: 29 Nov 1911 - 30 Nov 1911
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6B/353-355
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Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to [? Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada], on the shipbuilding programme and the provision of Canadian ships to help in the defence of the Empire. [Carbon].

Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Aug [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/6B/462
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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on the defence of St Helena, and the appointment of the Governor. [Carbon].

Dates: 13 Aug [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open