Soundscriber recording of a conversation about using the Soundscriber machine

Reference Code:

CHWL 6/5/16 side 1

Date:

1947-08 (creation)

Description:

Conversation between WSC and others including Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill] and "Tommy" [? Commander Charles Thompson, former Personal Assistant to WSC], including the phrase "it’s a great lesson against megalomania".

Collection:

Chartwell Manuscripts

Soundscriber recording of a draft version of "The Second World War", Volume 1, "The Gathering Storm": chapter 7 "Air Parity Lost", pp 97, 99

Reference Code:

CHWL 6/5/24a side 1

Date:

1947-08 (creation)

Description:

Subjects include reaction to the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin’s admission of the loss of air parity with Germany, including the poem "Death and his brother sleep". Note that there is no side 2.

Collection:

Chartwell Manuscripts

Soundscriber recording of a draft version of "The Second World War", Volume 1, "The Gathering Storm": chapter 17 "The Tragedy of Munich", c pp 243-50

Reference Code:

CHWL 6/5/9a side 1

Date:

1947-08 (creation)

Description:

Subjects include Generals von Beck and von Halder and a German Army plot against Hitler.

Collection:

Chartwell Manuscripts

Soundscriber recording of a draft version of "The Second World War", Volume 1, "The Gathering Storm": chapter 17 "The Tragedy of Munich", pp 250-51

Reference Code:

CHWL 6/5/9a side 2

Date:

1947-08 (creation)

Description:

Subjects include Hitler and the German generals. Includes the sound of a dog barking and WSC saying "That dog must be silent."

Collection:

Chartwell Manuscripts

Speech by WSC at the Jubilee Dinner of the Association of HM Inspectors of Taxes

Reference Code:

WCHL 12/24/29

Date:

1952-05-23 (creation)

Collection:

Other Deposited Collections Relating to Sir Winston Churchill