| Title |
Public and political: Early subject files |
| Reference |
GLLD 16 |
| Covering Dates |
1896–1919 |
| Extent and Medium |
17 boxes [68 files and 2 volumes] |
|
| Content and context |
Files on home politics, colonial affairs and foreign policy, particularly relating to the Middle East. |
| Index Terms |
| Africa |
| Agricultural Policy |
| Asia |
| Colonialism |
| Europe |
| Foreign Policy |
| Government |
| Iraq |
| Politics |
| Taxation |
| Turkey |
| Churchill/GLLD 16 contains: |
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1
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Home: Agriculture. Includes: note by Lloyd; press cuttings; issue of 'The Journal of the Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture and The Agricultural Record' [May 1912], and 'Memorandum on the present position of the Beet Sugar Question, and the possibility of establishing a new British Industry', by the Earl of Denbigh [Mar 1910].
1 file. |
1910–1915 |
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2
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Home: Army. Including: press cuttings; memoranda on subjects including National Service; copies of government papers including 'Memorandum by the Army Council on the Existing Army System and on the Present State of the Military Forces of the United Kingdom' [1909] and 'Correspondence relating to recent events in the Irish Command' [1914].
1 file. |
1909–1915 |
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3
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Home: Cotton. Including: statistics on Indian cotton trade, 1903-10; government papers including 'Report to the Board of Trade on Cotton Cultivation in the British Empire and in Egypt' [1904]; press cuttings; speech by S. M. Johnson [President and then Vice-President of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce] on the Indian cotton industry, made in Calcutta in 1905, and article by him in 'The Empire Review' [1912].
1 file. |
c 1904-c 1914 |
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4
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Home: Disestablishment of Welsh Church. Mostly press cuttings. Also includes: pamphlet, 'The Welsh Disestablishment Bill in the House of Commons, session 1912-13', published by the Central Church Committee for Defence and Instruction; programme of hymns and speeches for protest in Hyde Park against the Welsh Church Bill, and booklet 'The Indictment and Defence of the Church in Wales' by the Rev H. J. Clayton [1911].
1 file. |
1911–1916 |
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5
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Home: Education. Including: pamphlets by the Parents' League and synopsis of speech given to the league by Balfour; retrospect on 'The Education Question'; answers to Parliamentary questions; press cuttings, and draft report of the Unionist Social Reform Committee's sub-committee on Education.
1 file. |
1910–1914 |
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6
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Home: Immigration of Aliens. Including: Acts of Parliament, bills, and reports ['Aliens (Prevention of Crime) Bill, Apr 1911; 'Report of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration', 1903; 'Aliens Act', 1905]; pamphlet, 'The Alien Immigrant allowed to war on our Working Classes. By Whom?'; notes by Lloyd with statistics, and press cuttings.
1 file. |
1903–1912 |
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7
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Home: National Insurance. Including: press cuttings; correspondence with H. Percy Jones, chemist; correspondence betweem V. I. Robins [Honorary Secretary of the Stafford and District Protest Committee], Lloyd, and Mr Masterman [National Health Insurance Joint Committee], with written parliamentary questions from Lloyd to Masterman and his responses; letter to Lloyd from the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society on behalf of friendly societies, requesting his aid in having proposed regulation by the National Insurance Commissioners withdrawn, and copy of report of Parliamentary committee to consider the drug tariff under the National Insurance Acts.
2 files. |
1912–1915 |
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8
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Home: Irish Home Rule. Press cuttings and leaflets. Leaflets are mostly extracts from newspapers, and include: 'More Nationalist Lying' [reprinted from the Northern Whig, Jan 1915]; 'Nationalist Volunteers' [account of speeches by Joseph Devlin and John Dillon, MPs, reprinted from the Belfast News-Letter, Mar 1915], and 'Mr Redmond's Fallacy' [reprinted from the Belfast Evening Telegraph, Dec 1914]. Also includes flyer showing Northern Ireland's contributions to the war effort and printing Edward Carson's 'Ulster's Appeal to the British People', and pamphlet entitled 'How Ulster Helped the Empire: A Review of the Year 1914' [reprinted from the Belfast News-Letter]. Also includes published government paper, 'Army: Correspondence relating to recent events in the Irish Command'.
1 file. |
1914–1915 |
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9
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Home: Land. Press cuttings, mostly on David Lloyd Geoge's land reforms, both agricultural and urban. Includes cuttings relating to the Duke of Sutherland's offer to sell some of his estates to the government. Also includes issue of 'The Land Union Journal' [Nov 1913].
1 file. |
1913–1914 |
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10
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Home: Licensing Laws. Memorandum on the Licensing Bill [1908] and press cutting from the Manchester Guardian: 'Licensed Victuallers and the Government' [26 Sept 1912].
1 file. |
1908–1912 |
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11
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Home: House of Lords Reform. Memoranda [on 'The Constitutional Question' and on the 'Reconstruction of the Second Chamber'], press cuttings, and government papers. Also includes notes by Lloyd of quotations relating to the subject, and statistics relating to Bills brought before the House of Lords in the years 1902-09.
1 file. |
1910–1913 |
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12
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Home: Navy. Including: compilations of statistics from various sources, including the Naval Annual; comparison of expenditures and personnel strengths of main naval powers in 1914; press cuttings.
1 file. |
1910–1915 |
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13
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Home: Shipping. Including: notes on the history of shipping; government papers, on subjects including the insurance of British shipping in time of war, the general lighthouse fund, and merchant shipping; memoranda, including on government encouragement of the German export trade, combined railway and shipping rates for export from Germany, and the load line. Also includes agreement for regulating the Persian Gulf trade, with related documents, and agreement for the establishment of a service of steamers between Britain and East Africa, via the Suez Canal.
1 file. |
1908–1915 |
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14
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Home: Women's Suffrage. Draft article by Herbert G. Williams entitled 'Woman Suffrage in New Zealand', sent to Lloyd for comment, and press cuttings.
1 file. |
1912–1914 |
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15
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Home: Tariff Reform. Including articles, speeches, press cuttings, government publications, notes and statistics. Includes: speech by W. A. S. Hewins, MP, on 'Tariff Reform and Home Rule'; article in the 'National Review', 'Cocoa and Cant: A Study in Radical Ethics'; notes comparing the taxation situation in Germany and the UK; report of the British Delegate to the International Sugar Commission [Dec 1911]; tables showing production of iron and steel in the UK and other countries, and statistics regarding its import and export; monthly statements by Herbert Lewis to the House of Commons on 'pauperism', and publication by the Tariff Commission, 'The Economic Position of Ireland and its Relation to Tariff Reform' [June 1912].
1 file. |
1908–1914 |
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16
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Home: Imperial and Local Taxation. Contains: minutes of the conference of representatives of administrative counties and county boroughs, held at the London Guildhall [24 Apr 1913]; press cuttings, and exposition of the opinion of the Motor Trade Association on the taxation of imports.
1 file. |
1913–1914 |
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17
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Home: Trade Unions. Includes: material relating to the Trade Unions (No 2) Bill, including copy of the Bill, of proposed amendments, and of Hansard reporting debate on it; press cuttings, and note to Lloyd from the owner of Edwin Bostock & Co. Ltd., shoe manufacturer, enclosing press cutting reporting meeting of employees to discuss the firm's recognition of their union, and Bostock's statement in response.
1 file. |
1912–1914 |
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18
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Home: Wages. Containing: introduction to T. A. Ingram's report on wages and prices for the Unionist Social Reform Committee; graph showing movement of wages and profits between 1900 and 1910; leaflet on 'The Minimum Wage for Agricultural Labourers'; pamphlet by the Rural League reporting on agricultural labourers' wages and earnings, and press cuttings.
1 file. |
1913–1914 |
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19
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Colonies: African Colonies. Contains: press cuttings; report presented to Parliament on the trade and commerce of Liberia in 1909; government correspondence relating to the position of British Indians under the Gold Law and Townships Amendment Acts, 1908, of the Transvaal [1912], and statistics on Gambia for the period 1896-1910.
1 file. |
1909–1912 |
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20
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Colonies: American Colonies. Including: tables of statistics on Canadian trade, including with Britain; press cuttings, and article by Loudon M. Douglas on 'Swine Husbandry and Bacon Production'.
1 file. |
1909–1910 |
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21
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Colonies: Asian Colonies. Empty folder - contents noted as missing 02 Feb 1998.
1 file. |
1910 |
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22
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Colonies: Australasian Colonies. Press cuttings, and 'Note on a visit to Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji, in 1909' by Sir Charles Lucas [Assistant Under Secretary of State for the Colonies], presented to Parliament in Apr 1910 [2 copies].
1 file. |
1909–1910 |
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23
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Colonies: European Colonies. One press cutting, on disturbances in Cyprus.
1 file. |
1912 |
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24
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Colonies: East Africa. Including: government papers and reports; statistics on the Uganda railway; correspondence concerning acquiring statistics about freight to British and German East Africa [now Tanzania]; press cuttings; rules and minutes of the British East African Association; article in 'The National Review' by Lord Cranworth [Bertram Gurdon, 2nd Baron Cranworth] on 'Some Present-Day Problems in British East Africa', and draft short article on Zanzibar [Tanzania]. Government papers include published official correspondence relating to the East Africa Protectorate [now Kenya], annual reports on the East Africa Protectorate, and the East African Protectorates (Loans) Bill.
1 file. |
1905–1915 |
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25
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Colonies: Canada. Includes: booklet by J. Windsor Lewis, 'Prosperous Canada: The Report of a Personal Inquiry into Wages, Prices, Cost of Living, and Preferential Policy'; pamphlet on the Southern Alberta Land Company, Limited; pamphlet on whether Canada should be British or American; press cuttings and whole newspapers; letters to S. P. [Samuel Pepys] Cockerell from the Canadian Manufacturers' Association on the Canadian Tariff; copy of the Canadian Customs Tariff; paper by Major G. W. Stephens, 'The St Lawrence River the Great Imperial Highway of Imperial Transportation' [Aug 1909]; correspondence with Alexander McFee concerning the grain business, and speech notes. Also includes copy of the memorial read to the Prime Minister of Canada by the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, with related documents.
1 file. |
1907–1911 |
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26
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Colonies: India. Including: press cuttings, including on Indian tariff reform and on the cotton trade; written replies to Parliamentary questions by Lloyd; notes on military commissions for Indians, by 'P.H.' at the War Office; notes for speech by Lloyd on Indo-British trade routes; government papers, including 'Report of the Committee on Distressed Colonial and Indian Subjects' [Apr 1910] and 'Statistical Abstract relating to British India from 1900-01 to 1909-10'; letter to Lloyd from Vivian Gabriel, from the Viceregal Lodge in Simla [June 1909]; notes on India and Lancashire; published booklets and pamphlets on aspects of India, including Frederic MacKarness [Chairman of the Executive of the India Civil Rights Committee] on 'The Methods of the Indian Police in the 20th Century', address by Sir W. Wedderburn to the 25th Indian National Congress, and address by Lord Kurzon of Kedleston to the Philosophical Institute of Edinburgh on 'The Place of India in the Empire' [1909]; minutes of special meeting of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce [May 1912], and note by James Begbie with draft Parliamentary question for consideration by Lloyd.
1 file. |
1909–1912 |
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27
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Foreign: Albanian Rising. Press cuttings; article on Crete [in French] with some annotations by Lloyd, and article by 'L.W.' entitled 'The Balkan War. The Cause. The Campaign. The Future of Turkey' [Oct 1913]. Press cuttings include map to illustrate the Albanian Rising.
1 file. |
1910–1913 |
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28
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Foreign: Austria. Three press cuttings.
1 file. |
1909–1912 |
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29
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Foreign: China. Contains: press cuttings; collated typed extracts from newspapers; copy of letter to the Foreign Office from F. Anderson of the China Association, and copy of 'Agreement between the United Kingdom and China relating to Opium' [08 May 1911].
1 file. |
1910–1915 |
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30
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Foreign: Crete. Article in 'The Morning Post' entitled 'Crete and the Powers: The Case Re-stated' [07 Feb 1911], and two drafts of letters by Lloyd to the editor in response to the article.
1 file. |
1911 |
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31
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Foreign: France. Contains press cuttings and Parliamentary report on the French budget for 1910. Press cuttings include reports on the Moroccan Crisis and German demands in West Africa.
1 file. |
1909–1912 |
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32
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Foreign: Germany. Press cuttings, and three government publications presented to Parliament: 'Report for the year 1909 on the trade of the consular district of German South-West Africa [Namibia]'; 'Report for the year 1909 on the trade, etc of Port Sudan and District', and 'Despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin transmitting translation of a speech delivered in the Reichstag by the Imperial German Chancellor on the subject of the events preceding the Franco-German Morocco Agreement on December 5, 1911'. Also includes Parliamentary question and answer concerning relative rise in wages of German miners and of food prices.
1 file. |
1909–1913 |
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33
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Foreign: Greece. Contains one official government report: 'Report for the year 1909 on the Trade and Agriculture of Thessaly'.
1 file [1 item]. |
1910 |
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34
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Foreign: Japan. Press cuttings, and Parliamentary question put by Lloyd to the Foreign Secretary on the consumption tax in Japan, with written response that the issue is under examination and therefore the question cannot be answered.
1 file. |
1909–1910 |
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35
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Foreign: Macedonia. Including: statistics; press cuttings; the Greek proclamation against the Bulgarians [in French translation]; notes on finances of Balkan countries; letter to Lloyd from Gertrude Bell on Colonel Ramsay's despatch on irrigation and the Euphrates Valley Railway; documents relating to the Persia or Baghdad railway, including Parliamentary question by Lloyd and letter to Mr Morton on the subject, and draft paper by G. Bernard entitled 'The failure of the Young Turks in Macedonia'. Also includes copies from the Intelligence Office Bureau of Information of statements by Lord Lansdowne in 1903 on the Persian Gulf, and by Sir Edward Grey in 1905 on Liberal foreign policy.
1 file. |
1908–1910 |
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36
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Foreign: Muscat [Oman]. Press cuttings; written answers to Parliamentary questions asked by Lloyd; one page of notes by Lloyd, and letter to him from the India Office. Mostly on the subject of the arms trade through Muscat [Oman].
1 file. |
1911–1913 |
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37
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Foreign: Russia. Includes: proceedings of international conference in London on Finland and Russia [1910]; Convention between the UK and Russia relating to Persia, Afghanistan and Thibet [Tibet] [1907]; press cuttings, and first volume of 'The Russian Review' [1912].
1 file. |
1907–1912 |
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38
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Foreign: USA. Press cuttings, and government reports on trade in the US states of New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Connecticut, the consular district of St Louis, and the region of Cartagena in Colombia [all 1909].
1 file. |
1909–1912 |
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39
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Foreign: Miscellaneous. Contains: Memorandum on the Morocco Question [14 pages, with supplementary note, appendices, and map]; newspaper article in French on the Polish question and the Franco-Russian alliance; press cutting on Belgium and the Congo, and note on foreign affairs [primarily Belgium] probably for remarks to be made by Lloyd in the House of Commons.
1 file. |
1910–1911 |
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40
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Middle East: Baghdad Railway [Iraq]: letters, reports and articles. Including draft letters and articles by Lloyd, notes and research. Articles by Lloyd include a series for the Evening Times, entitled 'The Bagdad [Baghdad] Railway Question. Its History and British interests therein'. Includes letter from Mr Crow to the British Embassy in response to request for observations on the effect of the Baghdad Railway on British interests in Basra [Iraq], and copy of statement by the Kazi of Baghdad [Nejmeddin] to Major J. Ramsay, to be communicated to the Consul General in Baghdad. With correspondents including H. F. B. Lynch of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited and Charles Watney, editor of the London Evening Times, enclosing initial part of Sir William Willcock's report [in French].
1 file. |
1906–1911 |
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41
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Middle East: Baghdad Railway [Iraq]: pamphlets and newspaper cuttings. Includes articles by H. F. B. Lynch, 'The Baghdad Railway: The New Conventions' [May 1911] and 'Turkish Customs Duties and The Baghdad Railway: A Grave National Issue' [1906]. Also includes government published documents on the Baghdad Railway, including the Baghdad Railway Conventions [05 Mar 1903 and 02 June 1908].
1 file. |
1903–1915 |
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42
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Middle East: Egypt. Press cutting on the close of the Egyptian Congress, and two government reports: 'Report for the year 1909 on the trade and commerce of Port Said and Suez' and 'Reports by His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General on the finances, administration, and condition of Egypt and the Soudan [Sudan] in 1908'.
1 file. |
1908–1911 |
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43
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Middle East: Egypt and the Copts. Containing: press cuttings; account by P. W. Machell of the Copts in Egypt and letter from him to Lloyd; resumé and transcripts of speeches at the Coptic Congress at Assiout [6-8 Mar 1911], and pamphlet entitled 'The Copts and Sir Eldon Gorst's Report' [name of author not given].
1 file. |
1911 |
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44
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Middle East: Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Press cuttings, letter to Lloyd from Maurice Hankey [as Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence, 26 Mar 1908] with transcript of Lloyd's evidence given before Parliamentary Committee [chaired by Morley] on the Germans in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf.
1 file. |
1908–1913 |
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45
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Middle East: 'The Irrigation of Mesopotamia [Iraq]' by Sir William Willcocks.
1 volume. |
1905 |
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46
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Middle East: Persia [Iran]. Including: statistics on trade; correspondence; account of relations between Persia, Russia, and the former Shah of Persia [author unknown]; drafts of account of the history of Persia, and press cuttings. Correspondents include: G. H. Fitzmaurice, in locations including Pera and Constantinople; Charles Watney [editor of 'The Evening Times'], and Jack H. Miller, in Kuldja in Chinese Turkestan [Yining, China].
1 file. |
1908–1913 |
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47
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Middle East: Trans-Persian Railway. Includes: press cuttings; consideration of arguments for and against the Trans-Persian Railway, and correspondence concerning whether Lloyd should join the board of the Trans-Persian Railway. With correspondents including Earl Curzon of Kedleston [George Curzon, later 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston], Viscount Errington [later 4th Earl of Cromer], and Sir Richmond Ritchie.
1 file. |
1912 |
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48
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Middle East: Persian Gulf [and Bulgaria]. Including: correspondence; reports; statistics; memoranda; press cuttings, and government papers, all mostly concerning trade in the Persian Gulf. Including letter from Lloyd to Sir Edward Grey on competing German and British shipping interests in the Persian Gulf, and to Sir Charles Hardinge on the Tigris Euphrates Company's steamers. Also includes copy of despatch from Col Ramsay at Baghdad to Sir Gerard Lowther [10 Mar 1909], and copy of letter from the shipping company Frank C. Strick and Company's Basra office [Iraq] to its London office [30 Apr 1908]. Also includes letter, notes, record of interview [in French], and statistics on Bulgaria [1906 and 1909].
1 file. |
1906–1912 |
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49
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Middle East: Persian Gulf Gazetteer notes. Printed notes compiled by Major L. S. Newmarch [Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and Consul-General, Baghdad] for preparation of the Persian Gulf Gazetteer.
1 file. |
1905 |
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50
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Middle East: Report of the Indian Currency Committee, 1898. Also includes proofs of report or comment on the Levant Consular Service [?by Lloyd] [undated].
1 file. |
1899 |
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51
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Middle East: Turkey. Includes press cuttings, articles [in French], and government reports on regional trade. Includes reports on trade of: Constantinople and district [Turkey], Basra [Iraq], Baghdad [Iraq], and Damascus [Syria].
1 file. |
1908–1913 |
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52
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Middle East: 'Report by Major Law on Railways in Asiatic Turkey'.
1 file [1 item]. |
1896 |
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53
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Middle East: English Boys School at Constantinople [now Istanbul, Turkey]. Including: correspondence, including fundraising appeal letters and thanks for donations; reports; press cuttings, and annual reports and statements of accounts for the English High School for Boys at Constantinople. With correspondents including A. T. Waugh, Sir John Knill [Lord Mayor of the City of London], Sir Gerard Lowther [British Ambassador at Constantinople], and Sir William Tyrrell. Also includes correspondence between third parties, mostly concerning donations to the appeal.
1 file. |
1910–1911 |
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54
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Middle East: Turkish delegation to London in July 1909. Includes programme of events, lists of delegates with brief biographies, dinner menu and seating plan, and correspondence relating to the visit. With correspondents including a member of the staff of the 'Yeni Gazetta' in Constantinople, and the 4th Earl of Onslow [William Hillier Onslow]. Also includes small number of documents relating to visit of members of the Russian legislative bodies to England in June 1909.
1 file. |
1909 |
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55
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Institutions: General Election pamphlets. Including: 'Fighting notes, with a few general directions upon canvassing'; 'Unionists and Insurance', and 'Mines and Miners'.
1 file. |
1911–1913 |
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56
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Institutions: Publication by the 'Pall Mall Gazette': 'The New House of Commons 1910'. Guide to the newly elected House of Commons, including brief biographies and sketches of MPs, particulars of the polls, and list of unsuccessful candidates.
1 volume. |
1910 |
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57
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Institutions: National Unionist Association. Includes reports and proceedings of Committees and Sub-Committees. On subjects including pensions for National Unionist agents, the General Election, and speeches to be made by members. Also includes report of speech made by the Honorable George Foster, MP [Minister of Trade and Commerce, Canada] at the Constitutional Club [2 July 1912].
1 file. |
1912–1915 |
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58
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Institutions: Tariff Reform League. Including: reports; articles; agendas for meetings; financial accounts; summaries of work undertaken by members, including by region; correspondence, and lists of subscribers. Includes publications by the Tariff Commission: 'The Problems of the Imperial Conference and the Policy of Preference' [May 1911] and 'The Abandonment of Cobdenism: A Seven Years' Survey of Fiscal Developments in the United Kingdom and the British Empire' [Oct 1913]. Also includes menu and seating plan for Vice-Presidents' Dinner in honour of Austen Chamberlain and Viscount Ridley [6 Mar 1914].
2 files. |
1911–1915 |
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59
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Miscellaneous: Foreign Industries: statistics on production of crude steel. Small handwritten card, showing the annual average and the increase in production of crude steel in the UK, France, Germany, and the USA, for the years 1880-84 and 1905-08.
0.5 file [1 item]. |
1908 |
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60
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Miscellaneous: Oriental Languages School. Written answers to Parliamentary questions by Lloyd, and terms of reference for committee appointed by the Secretary of State for India to prepare scheme for institution of an School of Oriental Languages in London.
0.5 file. |
1910 |
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61
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Miscellaneous: Slavery - Chinese Labour in Africa. Including press cuttings, pamphlets, and notes. Also includes copy of 'Convention between the United Kingdom and France concerning the New Hebrides' [signed 20 Oct 1906] and report by Joseph Burtt and W. Claude Horton of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, entitled 'Report on the Conditions of Coloured Labour on the Cocoa Plantations of S Thomé and Principe, and the Methods of Procuring it in Angola' [July 1907].
1 file. |
1907–1909 |
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62
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Miscellaneous: Newspaper cuttings. Relating to Lloyd's career and mostly from local newspapers, including the 'Staffordshire Advertiser', 'Staffordshire Sentinel', 'Cannock Advertiser', 'Brewood Courier', 'Birmingham Post', and 'Express and Star'. Includes accounts of speeches by Lloyd, letters from him to the editors of various newspapers, and reports on events and issues with which he was engaged or concerned, including: the Minimum Wage Act, disestablishment of the Welsh Church, the Balkan Crisis, Home Rule, trade unionism, and local politics in West Staffordshire, including accounts of Liberal Party events.
1 file. |
1912 |
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63
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Miscellaneous: Newspaper cuttings. Relating to Lloyd's career and mostly from local newspapers, including the 'Staffordshire Advertiser', 'Staffordshire Sentinel', 'Cannock Advertiser', 'Brewood Courier', and 'Birmingham Post'. Includes accounts of speeches by Lloyd, and reports on events and issues with which he was engaged or concerned both locally and nationally, including: tariff reform, National Insurance, and land reform. Also includes articles about his successor as MP for West Staffordshire, Philip H. Ashworth.
1 file. |
1913 |
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64
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Miscellaneous: Newspaper cuttings. Relating to Lloyd's career and mostly from local newspapers, including the 'Staffordshire Advertiser', 'Midland Evening News', 'Cannock Advertiser', 'Brewood Courier', and 'Shrewsbury Chronicle'. Includes accounts of speeches by Lloyd, letters from him to the editors of various newspapers, and reports on events and issues with which he was concerned or involved both locally and nationally, including: local politics and adoption of Lloyd as prospective candidate for Shrewsbury; Irish Home Rule, and tariff reform. Also includes notices of Lloyd leaving for Egypt on special service with the Army of Occupation.
1 file. |
1914 |
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65
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Miscellaneous: Newspaper cuttings. Relating to Lloyd's political and military career, with cuttings from national and local newspapers including the 'Staffordshire Advertiser', 'Staffordshire Sentinel', 'Midland Evening News', and 'Express and Star', as well as the 'Near East'. Including reports on events with which he was concerned or involved both locally and nationally, primarily the First World War. On subjects including: Egypt; Mesopotamia [Iraq]; Lloyd's service in the Dardanelles; appeal for books for soldiers, and Lloyds Bank. Also includes: letters sent by Lloyd to colleagues in Britain and to be published in local newspapers; journal articles on Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf, and accounts of Josiah Wedgwood, MP's reception on his return from the front and his comments on two political opponents [Lloyd and Harold Smith] who had helped him in the Dardanelles.
1 file. |
1915 |
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66
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Miscellaneous: Newspaper cuttings. Relating to Lloyd's political and military career, and events and issues with which he was concerned or involved. From local and national newspapers, including the 'Aberdeen Journal', the 'Times', and the 'Yorkshire Post'. On subjects including: politics; book by Lloyd and Major Edward Wood, 'The Great Opportunity'; speeches by Lloyd, and Lloyd's appointment as Governor of Bombay [now Mumbai, India].
1 file. |
1918–1919 |
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67
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Wartime: Civil Service Commission. Including: Fifth Report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service [1914]; Estimates for the Civil Services for the year ending 31 March 1919; government correspondence and memoranda on the Commission, and letter to Lloyd from Alwyn Parker [23 Mar 1918]. Also includes proofs of report or comment on the Levant Consular Service [?by Lloyd] [undated], duplicated in GLLD 16/50.
1 file. |
1914–1918 |
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68
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Wartime: Economics. Containing: Fifth Report from the Select Committee on National Expenditure; notes on cotton from Egypt reaching Germany; government memorandum on recent German pronouncements on economic policy; handwritten notes by Lloyd on the Overseas Trade department, and three memoranda by Arthur G. Marshall on the situation in Russia and the proposed Russian trade department, with his proposals for British action in regards to this. Also includes communications between government officials concerning Swedish and Finnish banks.
1 file. |
1918 |
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69
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Wartime: Prisoners in Turkey. Memoranda, notes, and booklet 'Prisoners-of-War in Turkey. Regulations and Notes for the help of relatives and friends', issued by the Prisoners in Turkey Committee.
1 file. |
1918 |
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