Papers from Child's work as part of Neil Kinnock's private office, including: briefings and other papers relating to South Africa and the Commonwealth; General Election papers, particularly briefings on key seats and marginals and briefings for the 1992 election tour.

The Papers consist of political papers, correspondence, speeches and press cuttings, mainly relating to Trade Unions, the Ministry of Labour and National Service, and the Foreign Office.

The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.

Speech drafts written for Neil Kinnock, as Leader of the Labour Party, with notes on speech writing strategy, and also papers on Labour's Black Sections policy and ethnic minority representation in the Party.

The collection comprises a small collection of personal papers, ephemera, and photographs; printed copies of Hamilton's published articles and talks; biographical materials prepared by Hamilton's niece and nephew; and a series of Mary Agnes Hamilton's handwritten private diaries in small notebooks compiled between January 1938 and August 1945. The sequence of diaries is complete, apart from one diary dating from November 1942-March 1943.

The collection contains Kinnock's papers as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, 1983-92, and also from his work for the European Commission, 1995-2004.

The papers include political papers (mainly relating to Kinnock's leadership of the Labour Party), engagements diaries and visits papers, copies of his speeches and public statements, constituency correspondence, photographs and some audio-visual material.

The material held at Churchill Archives Centre deals with Sir Dingle's career as a Liberal and then a Labour Member of Parliament, as well as with his distinguished position in the legal profession, particularly with regard to Commonwealth countries and with his literary skills.

The papers comprise correspondence, subject files, visit files, literary papers, diaries and audio-visual material.

Summary of press comment on: the future of Constantinople [Turkey]; the Paisley by-election [Lanarkshire, Scotland]; the lack of effective leadership of the Parliamentary Labour Party and other evidence to support WSC's belief that they are not fit to govern; Cardinal Logue and Sinn Fein; the growing strength of Irish nationalism.

Letter from [WSC] to the secretary of the Leicester and District Trades Council asserting that whilst the Parliamentary Labour Party allow their supporters in the country to make violent attacks on WSC's Russian policy, they know that they could not sustain such attacks in the House of Commons. Typescript copy.

Letter from Edward Shortt, Home Secretary, to WSC announcing his intention of withdrawing special police protection for Cabinet ministers against attacks from Sinn Fein and asking for WSC's views, 13 Jan. Annotated by WSC that he answered agreeing in general but stating that protection should still be provided on special occasions such as public meetings, 14 Jan.

Letter from William Hill (Dorland House, 16 Regent Street, London) to WSC enclosing a copy of his reply to an invitation to attend a National Liberal Club meeting to celebrate the Irish settlement [see CHAR 2/118/104-114], describing his scheme for the formation of a chartered company for the economic development of Greece and warning that in the event of a general election high taxes and unemployment may benefit the Labour Party.

Letter from Frederick Guest (Air Ministry) to WSC (Maryland, Frinton-on-Sea, [Essex]) arguing that in a general election in which the Coalition held together the Government would defeat the combined forces of Labour and the "Wee Frees" [independent Liberals], but if the Unionists broke away the Coalition Liberals would only retain about forty seats and Labour would make great gains.