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Author : Winston Churchill
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Release Date : 2012
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The papers in this class relate to WSC's activities as a person in public life other than those as MP for a particular constituency or as a Minister, and the class inevitably forms a miscellany of papers of widely differing kinds and value. They include notes and correspondence with colleagues, acquaintances, and the general public, on topics of contemporary general interest, on party political matters, and on appointments to various positions, together with invitations to speak at meetings and multifarious letters from members of the public drawn to write to an influential public figure. In particular it should be noted that the class includes papers relating to governmental business with which WSC was not at the relevant time concerned as Minister of a Department or a member of the Cabinet; notable examples occur in 1916 in connection with the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry, and 1930-39 in connection with India and defence matters, except where the latter concerned him as a member of the Air Defence Research Committee of the Committe of Imperial Defence. The class also includes the papers kept by the Personal Office during World War II. This Office, as opposed to the Private Office, dealt with non-official matters but the distinction is not drawn very clearly and the difference is largely one of administration. While the Personal Office material, viewed as a whole, falls naturally into this class, there are numerous individual items which would in other circumstances have been placed elsewhere, particularly in Personal (CHAR 1). The main series of Personal Office correspondence was known at the time as P(rivate?) and P(ersonal?). It includes some correspondence on gifts made or offered to WSC, although there was also a series know as Gifts which dealt with this topic and has been preserved. Similarly, although there is a series called General Public (formerly Ordinaries), much correspondence from the general public is to be found in the main correspondence series. The Patronage series concerns the activities of WSC as patron or member of, or subscriber to various associations and institutions. There are also files of congratulations on various occasions.
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Author : Winston Churchill
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Author : Winston Churchill
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The files assigned to this series fall naturally into sub-series or groups, most of which derive from an original classification, as follows: Political, P(rivate) and P(ersonal), Visits, Patronage, Gifts, Greetings, Various. Even where there are original series the lines of distinction between them, as between this class and others, could not be made rigid and there are consequently doubtful cases and inconsistencies. POLITICAL: The Political series (CHUR 2/1-139 and CHUR 2/506-517) consists of papers dealing with matters of current political moment though similar papers may also be found in the P and P series. The basic structure of the group is chronological, with an alphabetically arranged main series of correspondence for each chronological period, followed by a number of additional files. These additional files are mainly subject arrangements and are placed chronologically by their earliest date. In some cases the files are formed into sub-series and are then placed according to the date of the earliest file in the sub-series (e.g. the whole of the sub-series relating to defence appears under 1946). Some of these additional files were separated from the alphabetical series because of their bulk at a particular time, and it should be noted that papers under the same head may be found at other dates within the alphabetical series. From 1951 this group is less comprehensive than formerly. For the period 1951-1955 parallel papers were presumably in the Prime Minister's Private Office where they could not be listed, and after WSC's retirement the bulk is naturally less.
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Author : Winston Churchill
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This class of papers includes correspondence and papers relating to WSC's business, financial, and legal affairs, including permission for the exhibition and reproduction of his paintings, to the Chartwell estate, including Frenchstreet and Bardogs farms, and to his family, medical advisors, illnesses and pets. There are also sections relating to his staff, to private visits abroad and invitations received, and to his racing interests. There is, finally, a considerable number of photographs together with some scrapbook material. Arrangement: The series is arranged in groups in the order given at the start of this introduction. Most of the papers are arranged alphabetically within the files under the names of persons or subjects but the arrangement within the financial papers is generally chronological. Visits WSC made as a public figure are part of the class CHUR 2 (Public and Political: General) although among them are papers relating to a few visits made privately in which important public engagements were carried out.
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The Admiralty papers contain correspondence, minutes, and War Cabinet papers created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as First Lord of the Admiralty, a position held from 23 October 1911 to 24 May 1915. The material contains correspondence with senior Admiralty figures, politicians including the Prime Minister, public and foreign figures on subjects including naval strategy and engagements, armament production, merchant shipping, and more general political considerations. It also contains material about the Dardanelles Expedition, the scheme for the combined naval and military attack on the Gallipoli Peninsula against the Turkish empire which was intended to relieve pressure on Russia and persuade the Balkan states to join the Allies against Germany. Arrangement: However much material relating to WSC's first term as First Lord of the Admiralty will be found in the material about the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry in Chartwell 2 (Public and Political: General) and it is also possible that material which was printed for the use of the Commission has been placed within this class. Similarly other papers were acquired after the First World War for WSC's history "The World Crisis" but they have been placed in the Admiralty papers because of the difficulty of making the distinction. Files CHAR 13/43, CHAR 13/44 and CHAR 13/45 were found in the Cabinet Offices in 1962. They are of the same character for the most part as the other papers in this class, but because of their long separation have been kept as they were found; other similar papers not having the same connection with WSC which were found at the same time have been placed in the Cabinet Class held at the Public Record Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Surrey.
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These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature in this sense can also be found in the Private Office (CHAR 20) and Personal Office (CHAR 2) correspondence series which were left largely undisturbed in the new arrangement. Receipts for personal expenditure incurred in his constituencies are placed in this class except those which are noted as belonging to the 'Dundee Fund', and, similarly, some expenditure of a personal kind was originally treated as literary expenses and the documents appear in CHAR 8.
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The Colonial Office papers contain correspondence, printed material and papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, a position held from December 1905 to April 1908. The papers have been divided into correspondence (until the end of 1907 only) and subject-based files and are arranged chronologically. The Colonial Office material covers WSC's routine ministerial duties as well as the specific issues of the period including: South African affairs, such as the framing of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony [later Orange Free State] constitutions, the use of Chinese indentured labour in the Transvaal mining industry, and the Zulu revolt in Natal; colonial railway schemes and land settlement; the cotton growing and fishing industries, communication between Great Britain and the Colonies; and trade between the Dominions. The Colonial Conference in London in April 1907 and WSC's journey to East Africa from September 1907 to January 1908, also feature. The material contains correspondence with leading politicians of the day, particularly 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and various colonial officials, such as 2nd Lord Selborne, Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for South Africa.
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Author : Winston Churchill
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This class of papers was acquired by WSC at various times either by inheritance or gift and has been arranged in groups according to the presumed original owner: Lady Randolph Churchill; Lord Randolph Churchill; John S Churchill; W Bernau of Lloyds Bank and others. The major groups may be broken into sub-series by correspondents and the papers thereafter are arranged chronologically (e.g. Lady Randolph Churchill's letters from WSC are mainly found at CHAR 28/13-28). The series includes a number of letters from WSC himself. Some of the Lord Randolph Churchill papers may have been acquired for WSC's biography of his father but they have been placed in this class because of the impossibility of making a sure distinction. Similarly there are a number of original documents of the period of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and some of these may have been acquired for literary reasons. They have been placed at the end of this class together with other documents relating to the earlier history of the Churchill family. Letters explaining the acquisition of the papers have generally been placed with the papers concerned. The papers in this series document many subjects and include, for example, the correspondence between Lady Randolph Churchill and her three husbands, Lord Randolph Churchill, George Cornwallis West and Montagu Porch. There is a long series of correspondence (originally kept by Lady Randolph Churchill) of her letters from WSC. This correspondence documents WSC's schooldays, early military career (there is interesting material relating to the Boer War), and early political career.
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Author : Winston Churchill
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The Home Office papers contain correspondence, printed material and papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Home Secretary. The papers have been arranged into correspondence and subject-based files. The Home Office papers form a departmental sub-class of the official class of the Chartwell Papers which was divided according to the various offices held by WSC. Files containing varying numbers of items were created within each sub-class and include subject based files (e.g. CHAR 12/4 devoted to prison reform) and chronologically arranged correspondence files (e.g. CHAR 12/2). This introduction comprises four sections: 1. The historical background to the Home Office papers; 2. The administrative position and responsibilities of Home Secretary; 3. WSC as Home Secretary: including sections on prison reform, shops, social reform, the "Siege of Sidney Street", aliens, industrial relations and strikes, female suffrage and the Peers versus the People crisis; 4. WSC's politics: including sections on his commitment to social reform, his attitude to the working class and party politics.
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Author : Winston Churchill
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This class of papers comprises one file of miscellaneous material of various dates which proved impossible to assign to any class.