| Title |
Printed ephemera |
| Reference |
CHWL/PE |
| Covering Dates |
1704–1980 (The majority of folios date from 1900-1965.) |
| Extent and Medium |
66 files |
|
| Content and context |
Printed items sent to WSC as gifts, tributes, press cuttings on his career etc. |
| Churchill/CHWL/PE contains: |
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4 (box 68)
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Packaging for prints of WSC's paintings. Includes printed portrait of WSC, with quotation and biographical note.
1 file. |
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14 (box 13)
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Set of Churchill stamps commemorating 35 years of the United Nations. The stamps show WSC painting and at Chartwell [Kent].
1 file. |
c 1980 |
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20 (box 13)
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Eight brown Soundscriber Disk Filer envelopes.
1 file. |
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21 (box 38)
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Coronation year souvenir broadsheet ballads. "Seven Queens", written by Godfrey Turton and printed by George Buday, with a note to WSC from Turton and Buday.
1 file. |
Jun 1953-Aug 1953 |
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22 (box 1)
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Coastal Command War Record, 1939-45.
1 file. |
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23 (box 79)
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Riverside Conservative Club, Cardiff [Wales]. Programme for the opening of the club's new premises by WSC, 1899, presented to WSC in 1941 with accompanying correspondence and press cutting.
1 file. |
1899–1941 |
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24 (box 78)
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Commemorative folders for a dinner in honour of WSC. Includes speeches, programme and photographs, inscribed to WSC from Henry Luce.
1 file. |
25 Mar 1949 |
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25 (box 38)
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"A Briton's Creed". Poem "The Test", mounted with an extract from WSC's speech "We shall go on to the end" and a photograph of WSC, from the Universal Life Assurance and Annuity Company of Winnipeg, Canada.
1 file. |
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26 (box 65)
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Invitation to WSC to address the 2nd Annual Congress of Distribution and the 12th Annual Convention of the National Federation of Sales Executives, Los Angeles, United States.
1 file. |
Jun 1947 |
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27 (box 80)
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Portfolio of newspapers from the General Strike. Includes the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror and Sunday Pictorial, with a copy of King George V's message to the nation, issued after the end of the strike.
1 file. |
May 1926 |
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28 (box 81)
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Portfolio of 16 German newspapers covering WSC's retirement.
1 file. |
06 Apr 1955 |
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29 (box 1)
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Press cuttings from American newspapers.
1 file. |
05 Aug 1947–18 Aug 1955 |
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30 (box 1)
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Portfolio of press cuttings on "Closing the Ring", vol V of WSC's "The Second World War".
1 file. |
1952-Mar 1953 |
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31 (box 68)
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"Le Pantheon de la Liberation". Printed souvenir memorial folder to those who died in the liberation of Paris [France], with photographs and names, with an inscription to WSC. Includes note on reverse, "found under the floorboards at No. 10 in Jan 1963".
1 file. |
22 Sep 1952 |
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32 (box 2)
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Album of press cuttings from British newspapers.
1 file. |
09 Aug 1945–31 Aug 1945 |
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33 (box 1)
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Printed pages removed from a volume containing biographical notes on Lady Randolph Churchill. Includes press cuttings and a newspaper photograph portrait.
1 file. |
1889–1903 |
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34 (box 13)
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Sets of engraved designs for the Brazilian "Victory Series" of postage stamps. 3 sets covering Memorial, Glory, Victory, Peace and Co-operation, in presentation folders, sent to WSC by a Major Lielinsky.
1 file. |
20 Oct 1948–15 Nov 1948 |
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35 (box 13)
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Special issue of Miroir de l'Histoire" on WSC. Includes covering note from Alan Hodge, Editor of History Today.
1 file. |
21 Jan 1965 |
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36 (box 59)
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2 copies of the ceremonies in honour of WSC at Harvard University [United States]. Proceedings of an academic meeting and an assembly of American naval and military forces in training at Harvard.
1 file. |
06 Sep 1943 |
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37 (box 13)
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Scrapbook of press photographs and cuttings on WSC. Sent by Mrs Vernall, Wellesley Court Hotel, Cheltenham [Gloucestershire].
1 file. |
1954 |
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38 (box 13)
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Cuban press cuttings on WSC's visit to Cuba.
1 file. |
25 Jan 1946–01 Feb 1946 |
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39 (box 38)
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Commemorative itinerary of a BEA Viscount Special Flight for WSC from London to Sicily.
1 file. |
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40 (box 13)
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Framed seating plan of a luncheon for WSC in the Queen's Robing Room, House of Lords.
1 file. |
09 Feb 1955 |
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41 (box 14)
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Press cutting from the Western Daily Press. Cutting reporting court proceedings after the assault on WSC by Miss Theresa Garnett, Bristol suffragist.
1 item. |
23 Dec 1909 |
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42 (box 45)
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Album of enlarged reproductions of National Liberal cartoons. Cartoons by W E Morgan and others, on Lord Randolph Churchill's political career.
1 file. |
1886–1887 |
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43 (box 38)
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Site for United Nations. Dossier of evidence submitted by the Virginia Peninsula Committee in support of its offering a location as site of the permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
1 file. |
Dec 1945 |
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44 (box 1)
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Two copies of the Anti-Bread Tax circular. No. 123, vol IV, 18 April 1843, and no. 124, vol IV, 25 April 1843, with a manuscript note, sent from a Mrs E Lenton, Liverpool, 1946.
1 file. |
Apr 1843-Jul 1946 |
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45 (box 1)
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Monthly News and Current History magazine, vol I, no. 3. American magazine with a special section ("Finest Hour, 1962") on WSC.
1 file. |
Jun 1962 |
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46a (box 66)
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Collected press cuttings, reviews etc from American publications on WSC's "History of the English-speaking Peoples". Cuttings relating to Vol 3, "The Age of Revolution".
1 file. |
Oct 1957 |
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46b (box 38)
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Collected press cuttings, reviews etc from American publications on WSC's "History of the English-speaking Peoples". Cuttings relating to Vol 4, "The Great Democracies".
1 file. |
Mar 1958 |
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47 (box 1)
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Freedom Documents Foundation. Copies of the American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Monroe Doctrine, the Gettysburg Address and the Star-spangled Banner, inscribed to WSC from the Freedom Documents Foundation. Includes a letter from the foundation's director and testimonials from three former American Presidents.
1 file. |
13 Apr 1963 |
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48 (box 2)
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Album of Korean press cuttings on WSC's final illness and death.
1 file. |
Jan 1965 |
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49 (box 39)
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Album of press cuttings on WSC's and CSC's golden wedding anniversary.
1 file. |
12 Sep 1958 |
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50 (box 3)
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Press cuttings relating to Lady Randolph Churchill's "Shakespeare's England" exhibition, Earl's Court [London].
1 file. |
c 1905-c 1910 |
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53 (box 3)
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"The Telex". Special and first free edition of an underground Dutch resistance newspaper, from Liberation Day.
1 file. |
1945 |
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54a (box 14)
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Parliamentary election poster for WSC, Woodford division [Essex].
1 file. |
08 Oct 1959 |
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54b (box 3)
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Framed Parliamentary election poster for WSC, Woodford division [Essex].
1 file. |
08 Oct 1959 |
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56 (box 14)
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Newspaper and printed matter. Includes: copy of the Daily Sketch, Nov 1937; copy of the Daily Mirror, Nov 1936; printed matter, mainly satires.
1 file. |
12 Nov 1936–12 Nov 1937 |
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57 (box 14)
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Pamphlets from ceremonies at Harrow School. Includes: prayer to be used in laying the Foundation stone of the memorial aisle of the chapel, 1856; commemoration sermon preached in the chapel, 1869; tercentenary festival order of service, 1871; tercentenary festival songsheet, 1871.
1 file. |
Jun 1856-Jun 1871 |
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58 (box 14)
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Cover pages of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post on WSC's funeral.
1 file. |
30 Jan 1965 |
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59 (box 3)
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"Tribute to Sir Winston Churchill". Commemorative colour supplement to the Sunday Telegraph.
1 file. |
1965 |
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60 (box 3)
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Commemorative album of press cuttings on the life of WSC. Collected from British and foreign newspapers.
1 file. |
c 1965 |
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61 (box 3)
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Printed reproduction of the poem "The Oak", in tribute to WSC, by [? E M Cromwell].
1 item. |
27 Nov 1964 |
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63 (box 4)
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Invitation to the International Olympic Committee to the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. Sent to WSC by the High Commissioner for Australia in London.
1 item. |
Sep 1948 |
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65 (box 14)
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Programme for "The Philadelphia Story", with Sarah Churchill and Jeffrey Lynn. Programme for a special benefit performance, Washington Hospital Committee American Theatre Wing, inscribed to WSC "from his good friend Harry Truman".
1 item. |
26 Sep 1949 |
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67 (box 4)
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Royal proclamation for a public thanksgiving following the Duke of Marlborough's victory at Blenheim.
1 item. |
17 Aug 1704 |
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68 (box 4)
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Copy of a map of the Western Mediterranean showing Operation Husky [Allied landings in Sicily].
1 item. |
c 1943 |
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69 (box 14)
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Collection of cuttings from Swiss newspapers and magazines. Includes accompanying letter thanking Mr Mori for sending them.
1 file. |
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70 (box 82)
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Record of American tributes to WSC on his retirement. Album of cuttings and photocopies, sent by members of the British Foreign Service in the United States.
1 item. |
05 Apr 1955 |
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71 (box 46)
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Statutes of Dover Castle, Kent. Translated from Norman French, from the reign of Henry III.
1 item. |
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72 (box 54)
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Treasury and Office of Works organisation chart, under Sir Malcolm Fraser.
1 item. |
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74 (box 14)
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Copy of the University of Bristol Gazette, on WSC's Chancellorship, 1929-65.
1 item. |
1965 |
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75 (box 54)
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WSC Centenary Exhibition poster.
1 item. |
c 1974 |
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76 (box 14)
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Other Club rule book and list of members. Includes presentation box with a note on a snuff box belonging to Admiral Nelson [snuff box not present].
1 item. |
1940 |
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77 (box 59)
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The Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange list of members.
1 item. |
1963 |
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78 (box 14)
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Transaction relating to Hudson Bay [Canada].
1 item. |
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79 (box 59)
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Trinity House lists of elder brethren.
1 item. |
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80a (box 5)
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Collected press reviews of WSC's "The Second World War": volumes 1-3. Reviews of "The Gathering Storm", "Their Finest Hour" and "The Grand Alliance".
1 file. |
21 Jun 1948–24 Apr 1950 |
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80b (box 5)
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Collected press reviews of WSC's "The Second World War": volume 4. Reviews of "The Hinge of Fate".
1 file. |
27 Nov 1950 |
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80c (box 15)
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Collected press reviews of WSC's "The Second World War": volume 5. Reviews of "Closing the Ring".
1 file. |
Sep 1952 |
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80d (box 5)
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Collected press reviews of WSC's "The Second World War": volume 6. Reviews of "Triumph and Tragedy".
1 file. |
May 1954 |
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81 (box 6)
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Magazine tributes to WSC. Includes: The Illustrated London News, 6 Feb 1965; Paris Match, 30 Jan 1965; Churchill, a souvenir of his life and times, a Daily Mail publication; The Illustrated London News, 30 Jan 1965; Thai UK magazine, with 3 memorial notes and envelope.
1 file. |
Jan 1965-Feb 1965 |
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82 (box 15)
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Bladon and Woodstock News, vol 9, no. 3.
1 item. |
Mar 1965 |
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83 (box 6)
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Press cuttings on the Lord Alfred Douglas case.
1 file. |
c 1923 |
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84 (box 15)
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2 copies of the Harrovian, vol 80, nos 8-9.
1 file. |
02 Dec 1966–09 Dec 1966 |
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85 (box 15-16)
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24 Parliamentary debates. Copies of Hansard volume 640, no. 114 and volume 650, no. 23.
2 archive boxes. |
19 May 1961–30 Nov 1961 |
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