| Title |
Prints: Admiralty, Committee of Imperial Defence; Cabinet and "White" Papers |
| Reference |
FISR 8 |
| Covering Dates |
1899–1919 |
| Extent and Medium |
17 archive boxes |
|
| Content and context |
Subjects include: fleet operations; shipbuilding; battleship design; naval training; naval dockyards; Imperial defence; naval reforms; Admiralty policy; the Channel Tunnel; armaments; the conduct of the war; the Dardanelles Commission; submarines; the naval forces of the dominions; war plans. |
| Further information |
A more detailed printed catalogue of the material in this section, listing the authors and subjects of individual papers, is available at Churchill Archives Centre. |
| Index Terms |
| Committee of Imperial Defence |
| Cecil, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne - (1861-1947) 4th Marquess of Salisbury, politician |
| Churchill/FISR 8 contains: |
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1
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Admiralty printed papers. Subjects include: fleet manoeuvres and HMS Renown; the state of the Mediterranean Fleet.
1 file. |
1899–1902 |
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2
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Admiralty printed papers. 'Remarks on tactical exercises etc'.
1 file. |
1902 |
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3
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Admiralty printed papers. "Naval necessities" Vol 3: policy, administrative reform and types of fighting vessels.
1 file. |
1906 |
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4
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Admiralty printed papers. "Naval necessities" Vol 1 and report of committee on designs.
1 file. |
1904 |
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5
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Admiralty printed papers. "Naval necessities" Vol 2.
1 file. |
1905 |
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6
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Admiralty printed papers. Includes reports from the Naval Establishments Enquiry Committee on naval dockyards and reports of the Navy Estimates Committee.
1 file. |
1905–1906 |
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7
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Admiralty printed papers. Reports on naval dockyards, including the development of Rosyth [Fife, Scotland].
1 file. |
1906 |
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8
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Admiralty printed papers. Subjects include: the naval building programme; training for engineers and officers; HMSS Dreadnought and Invincible; battleship speed, armaments and design.
1 file. |
1906 |
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9
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Admiralty printed papers. Subjects include: Admiralty reforms and replies to criticism of policy.
1 file. |
1906–1907 |
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10
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Admiralty printed papers. Subjects include: naval estimates; the Home Fleet; design of armoured ships.
1 file. |
1906–1908 |
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11
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Admiralty printed papers. Subjects include: naval estimates; training of cadets, midshipmen and junior officers.
1 file. |
1908–1913 |
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12
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Admiralty printed papers. Includes final report of the Dardanelles Commission and the Versailles peace treaty.
1 file. |
1919 |
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13
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: Mediterranean Fleet exercises; the New Admiralty Scheme.
1 file. |
1902–1903 |
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14
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: gas engines; a visit to Portsmouth dockyard [Hampshire] and the Royal Naval College, Osborne [Isle of Wight]; the Navy Estimates, 1905-6; the Royal Naval Reserve; ships struck off the effective list; the defence of Canada; the case of the Canadian schooner Agnes G Donahoe, seized by the Government of Uruguay for illegal seal hunting.
1 file. |
1903–1905 |
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15
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance; the balance of naval power in the Far East; the transfer of Gibraltar from the War Office to the Admiralty; defence of naval and commercial harbours; strategic aspects of the naval building programme; engineer officers; officering in the Royal Marines; designs for new ships built 1906-7, and the employment of armed mercantile cruisers; French Navy Estimates.
1 file. |
1905–1906 |
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16
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: Fleet auxiliaries; State education in the Navy.
1 file. |
1906 |
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17
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: the new system of entry, training and employment of Royal Marine officers; entry and training of naval officers; the transfer of Gibraltar from the War Office to the Admiralty; the defence of colonial and Indian ports.
1 file. |
1906 |
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18
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: criticism of naval reform; education of Royal Marine officers and engineers; British manoeuvres in German commercial waters; the navigation school at Portsmouth [Hampshire]; recruitment of engineers; future shipbuilding arrangements; the dangerous division of responsibility between the War Office and Admiralty over ordnance of the Fleet.
1 file. |
1906 |
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19
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: naval aspects to the question of forcing the Dardanelles; recent disturbances at Zanzibar; use of gunboats; the case of the Canadian schooner Agnes G Donahoe, seized by the Government of Uruguay for illegal seal hunting.
1 file. |
1906 |
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20
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: replies to criticism of Admiralty policy; new construction, 1907-8; naval notes and intelligence from Germany; shipbuilding, 1906-7; a visit to Portsmouth dockyard [Hampshire] and the Royal Naval College, Osborne [Isle of Wight]; Admiral Lord Charles Beresford [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet] and Admiralty policy.
1 file. |
1906–1907 |
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21
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: naval reforms; the Dreadnought; views of Admiralty policy from foreign and colonial officers and German naval officials; the Imperial German Navy; redistribution of the squadrons; the Committee of Engineer Officers.
1 file. |
1906–1907 |
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22
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: training of Royal Marine officers; a Channel Tunnel; a proposed enquiry into Admiralty policy and criticism of policy; the Home Fleet and Admiralty reforms; Danish neutrality; a draft treaty with Norway; cruisers, exercises and manoeuvres of the Channel, Atlantic and Home Fleets; the constitution and exercises of fleets at home.
1 file. |
1907 |
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23
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: German views of the Home Fleet; providing detached ships for diplomatic and police work abroad; reason for and constitution of the Home Fleet; defects and repairs of the Fleet; provision of a salvage plant; manning the Fleet.
1 file. |
1907 |
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24
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: a proposed increase in the numbers of ships used in non-fighting services; the position of engineer and Royal Marine officers under the new scheme of training; general war plans.
1 file. |
1907 |
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25
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: a conference on Anglo-Japanese naval co-operation; the Peace Party; comparative naval strengths of Britain, France, the United States and Germany; war arrangements, particularly for the Home Fleet and Channel Fleet.
1 file. |
1907 |
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26
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: the New Scheme of training for engineer and Royal Marine officers; the revived naval scare; comparison of the Channel Fleet with that of 1906 and with the German High Sea Fleet.
1 file. |
1907 |
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27
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: the report of the British naval attache in Berlin [Germany]; repairs to the Fleet; German feelings about war with Britain; armament of cruisers in the 1908-09 programme; mobilisation.
1 file. |
1907 |
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28
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: naval reforms; disturbances at Zanzibar; the French naval view of submarines; the supercession of Admiral Lord Hood in 1795.
1 file. |
1907–1908 |
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29
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: the building programme for cruisers and destroyers, 1908-09; repairs; the Coast Guard; the manning vote, 1908-09; the Royal Naval Reserve; efficiency of the Home Fleet; improvement in gunnery; active service ratings; the formation of the Home Fleet; battleship armaments; entry and training of officers, ratings and engineers.
1 file. |
1908 |
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30
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: mobilisation; the Two-Power Standard; the Home Fleet; destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines.
1 file. |
1908 |
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31
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: the one-calibre big gun armament; battleship armament; mobilisation of the Fleet; officer training.
1 file. |
1908–1909 |
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32
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: the proposed inquiry into Admiralty policy; Navy Estimates, 1912-13; naval defence requirements (prepared for the Government of Canada); boats and davits; courts-martial and summary punishments, 1911; docking accommodation on the east coast.
1 file. |
1909–1913 |
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33
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Subjects include: requirements for the Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, Olivia, Olaf and Olna; oil engines; the Dreadnought and the argument against small slow battleships; the battleship of the future; limitations of naval armaments and the size of battleships; Admiralty orders for fishing vessels; events leading up to the rupture of relations of Turkey; fast battlecruisers with 20 inch guns; the conduct of the war; Fisher's correspondence with Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the war; the submarine; the Fleet's steady pressure policy; the possibility of using British command of the sea to influence the military situation on the Continent more drastically.
1 file. |
1913–1916 |
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34
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Mainly material relating to the Dardanelles Commission and Fisher's narrative of his connection with the Dardanelles Campaign.
1 file. |
1916 |
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35
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Mainly material relating to the Dardanelles Commission.
1 file. |
1916 |
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36
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Admiralty printed papers: uncovered prints. Material relating to the Dardanelles Commission.
1 file. |
1916–1918 |
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37
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Admiralty printed papers: Admiralty House prints. Material assembled for the use of the War Office (Reconstruction) Committee. Also includes notes on the submarine as a contribution to the consideration of future sea fighting, and extracts from the report of the Admiralty Engineering Laboratory, June 1918.
1 file. |
1903–1918 |
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38
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Admiralty printed papers: Admiralty House prints. Subjects include: the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Portsmouth [Hampshire]; the future of the army; naval reform; the fighting characteristics of ships of war.
1 file. |
1904 |
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39
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Admiralty printed papers: Admiralty House prints. Subjects include: French naval estimates for 1904; Admiralty and War Office administration; the New Scheme of naval training, particularly relating to nucleus crews; invasion and submarines.
1 file. |
1903 |
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40
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Admiralty printed papers: Admiralty House prints. Subjects include: the effect of submarines; Nelson.
1 file. |
1903 |
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41
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Includes report on the military requirements of the empire as affected by Egypt and the Sudan.
1 file. |
1909 |
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42
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: the constitution of the Defence Committee; the Channel Tunnel; the possibility of joint naval and military attack on the Dardanelles; manning of the Fleet; war plans; communications between the Admiralty and Admiral Lord Charles Beresford; invasion; limits of responsibility for the different Commanders-in-Chief.
1 file. |
1904–1907 |
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43
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: invasion and raids; future battleship building; the final development of the distribution of the Fleet; the responsibility of the Board of Admiralty for war direction.
1 file. |
1906–1907 |
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44
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: mobilising the Fleet; a request from Admiral Lord Charles Beresford to have a committee hear his complaints against Admiralty policy; the proposed inquiry into policy; Naval Estimates, 1908-09; conversations with Admiral Yamamoto, Japanese Minister of Marine, during the Russo-Japanese War.
1 file. |
1907–1908 |
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45
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: the responsibility of the Board of Admiralty for war direction; conversations with Admiral Yamamoto, Japanese Minister of Marine, during the Russo-Japanese War; the effectiveness of naval fire; warships on the great lakes of the United States; Fleet exercises, July 1908.
1 file. |
1908 |
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46
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: the military needs of the Empire; the employment of the army if Germany attacked France; the Imperial Conference on defence; investigations into the organisation of the Home Fleet, small craft and destroyers and war plans; responsibilities of the navy and army for defence of the Suez Canal [Egypt]; the progress of aeronautics in various countries.
1 file. |
1908–1910 |
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47
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: the defences of Hong Kong; defence of Egypt's eastern frontier; scale of a possible attack on Prince Rupert, Canada; scale of a possible attack on Australia; the international status of the dominions of Britain was at war. Includes papers for the 1911 Imperial Conference on matters of naval and military defence.
1 file. |
1911 |
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48
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: a possible attack on Prince Rupert, Canada and Australia; the treatment of neutral and enemy merchant ships during a war; principles of imperial defence; the status of dominion ships of war; co-operation with the dominions' naval forces; co-ordinating organisation of military forces of the empire.
1 file. |
1911 |
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49
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: local transportation and distribution of supplies in time of war; the situation in the Mediterranean; the defences of Malta, Egypt and Cyprus; maintenance of overseas commerce in time of war.
1 file. |
1911 |
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50
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: British trade in the Mediterranean; airships; treatment of neutral and enemy merchant ships in time of war; internal distribution of supplies in time of war; the effect of losing sea power in the Mediterranean; the strategical situation in the Mediterranean; representation of the dominions on the Committee of Imperial Defence; fixed defences in Cromarty [Ross and Cromarty, Scotland].
1 file. |
1912 |
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51
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: treatment of neutral and enemy merchant ships in time of war; airship policy; trading with the enemy; the Air Committee; armaments of defended ports; provision of long range guns; the strength of the infantry garrison at Hong Kong.
1 file. |
1912 |
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52
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: north-east coast defences; representation of the dominions on the Committee of Imperial Defence; the treatment of neutrals domiciled in an area at war; alien enemies' rights of access to courts of law.
1 file. |
1912 |
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53
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: control of aircraft; military conditions governing an attack on Hong Kong; treatment of neutral or enemy merchant ships during a time of war; the maintenance of overseas commerce in time of war; press and postal censorship in time of war.
1 file. |
1913 |
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54
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: the maintenance of overseas commerce in time of war; naval policy in the Pacific; airship navigation; control of aircraft; press and postal censorship in time of war; treatment of neutral vessels in British ports; an attack on Britain from overseas; the fixed defences of west coast ports; treatment of neutral and enemy merchant ships in time of war; preparation of defence schemes for Australia; representation of the dominions on the Committee of Imperial Defence.
1 file. |
1913 |
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55
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: the treatment of aliens in time of war; the strategical aspects of the Channel Tunnel; postal and press censorship.
1 file. |
1913 |
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56
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: trading with the enemy; naval defences at Cromarty [Ross and Cromarty, Scotland]; the future work of the Committee of Imperial Defence's historical section.
1 file. |
1913–1914 |
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57
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: supplies in time of war; Canadian defence; measures to prevent blocking of commercial harbours; economic aspects of the Channel Tunnel scheme; the establishment of radio telegraphic communication between inland stations.
1 file. |
1913–1914 |
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58
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: attack from overseas; insurance of British shipping in time of war; strategical aspects of the Channel Tunnel scheme; coastal defences and the question of a coast watch.
1 file. |
1914 |
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59
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: the Royal Flying Corps; coastal defences; defence of the Humber; the establishment of radiotelegraphic communication between inland stations; overseas attack; the Channel Tunnel scheme; support of customs and excise in the Orkneys, Shetlands and Scilly Islands in time of war; insurance of British shipping in time of war.
1 file. |
1914 |
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60
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: defence of St Helena; military aspects of the Channel Tunnel scheme; co-ordination of departmental action on the outbreak of war; the establishment of radiotelegraphic communication between inland stations; submarine cable communications; telegraphic communications; wireless communication with France; direct wireless communication with Russia; censorship of wireless messages in time of war; ambush mining and blockade mining.
1 file. |
1913–1914 |
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61
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Committee of Imperial Defence and Cabinet Prints: white papers. Subjects include: the deadlock on the Western Front; progress of the war after six months; Russia and Constantinople [later Istanbul, Turkey]; the importance of Alexandretta [Iskenderun, Turkey] as a future base; Mesopotamia [Iraq]; lists of war commissions and committees.
1 file. |
1915 |
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62
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White Papers. Subjects include: the Royal Aircraft Factory; staff employed in government departments; the American Aviation Mission; the cost of naval and military operations in Russia from the armistice to November 1919; an investigation into the sinking of the Lusitania.
1 file. |
1916–1919 |
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