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Subjects include: racial equality, relating to China, the Middle East and Africa; Joseph Chamberlain's memoirs; the Commonwealth in the post-war world; the future of the Suez Canal Zone [Egypt]; review of "Tito Speaks"; Europe's view of the United States; the future of Eastern Europe; Europe or the Commonwealth.

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Subjects include: a tribute to Randolph Churchill; JA's return to Parliament as MP for Brighton Pavilion [Sussex] and the economic record of the Government; the state of the West; Joseph Chamberlain.

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Delighted to hear result of Worcester meeting; 'The enthusiasm in Scotland was extraordinary'; Chamberlain saw nothing like it 'even during the Home Rule times'; thanks for Baldwin's promise of financial help for literature [for Tariff Reform League, or Imperial Tariff Committee?]

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'The so-called Unionist Free-Traders are simply acting as jackals for the Radicals'; there should be retaliation in their constituencies; branches must be formed in 'all considerable centres'; Mr Vince, Secretary of Liberal Unionist Association and Imperial Tariff Committee will assist; Chamberlain supposes Lord Cobham, formerly hesitant, has 'now finally gone over to the enemy.'

Scope and Contents 341 x 284 mm. Mounted on card. Group portrait of guests at a weekend house party at Joseph Chamberlain's residence near Birmingham. The figures in the group are:Sir Henry Hesketh BELL: see introduction to collection for biographical notes.Sir Edward Walter HAMILTON (1847-1908): Treasury official 1870-1902.Thomas Henry SANDERSON (1841-1923), 1st Baron Sanderson: entered Foreign Office 1859; Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1894-1906.Mrs Mary C....

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Eighteen autographs of delegates and officials at the Imperial Conference headed by Joseph Chamberlain. At the bottom of the page is written 'Colonial Office June 24 1897'. The names of the signatories are also listed on a separate typescript page.

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Cannot accept invitation: "Every moment of my time is now engaged until the meeting of Parliament"

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Three short letters to Colquhoun concerning his work 'Greater America'.

Scope and Contents Letters to Mary Jeune [earlier Mary Stanley, later Lady St Helier] and also to Francis Jeune [later 1st Lord St Helier], from: Joseph Chamberlain, sympathising with her on an accident, on the importance of the forthcoming General Election, 1885, and his depression about the amount of speaking involved and the improved health and forthcoming marriage of Sir Charles Dilke; Lord Randolph Churchill on subjects including his sudden departure abroad following his break with the Conservatives,...

Scope and Contents Political and personal correspondence, including letters from most leading political figures of the time, Joseph Chamberlain, the Lord Justice Gerald Fitzgibbon, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. The correspondence with Gerald Fitzgibbon sheds much light on Churchill's own career. Comprises letters written to Churchill by political and personal associates, and copies of letters written by him, covering the period 1870 - 1895,...

Scope and Contents Miniature of Queen Victoria presented on navy velvet inside wooden box. An inscription on the reverse reads, 'This original miniature which was painted by Ernest Rinzi in 1898 as a design for portraits of Her Majesty to be enclosed in Lockets for presentation to native chiefs in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, was presented to the Royal Colonial Institute by the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain M.P. Secretary of State for the Colonies on behalf of the Gold Coast Government in Mar....

Scope and Contents Notes, with some source material for LSA's memoirs ["My Political Life"], including: speech notes, including a speech by LSA on Imperial unity at the inauguration of the Chatham Club; notes on a meeting with Joseph Chamberlain in 1909; notes on conversations with Sir Ian Hamilton on why Hamilton was sent out as Chief of Staff to General 1st Lord Kitchener [Commander-in-Chief, India] in 1904, and with Sir Wodehouse Richardson on army catering fraud during the South African War; text of...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection comprises primarily the correspondence of Louisa Baldwin, née Macdonald (mother of Stanley Baldwin, first Earl Baldwin), with her mother and sisters; and correspondence and papers of her grandson Windham, third Earl Baldwin, concerning his group biography of the Macdonald sisters and his interest in his father's cousin Rudyard Kipling. It also includes letters and papers of members of the Kipling, Burne-Jones and Poynter families, into which three of Louisa Baldwin's sisters...

Scope and Contents Speech notes, texts and press cuttings on subjects including: JA's election campaign for Preston [Lancashire]; economic and foreign policy; the threat from the Soviet Union; maintaining national security; the importance of production; the Empire; Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Joseph Chamberlain and foreign policy; Chamberlain and the Unionist Party; Soviet demands over Berlin [Germany]; the state of the...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia] [following the "Prague Spring"]; the state of the economy following devaluation; relations with southern Africa, particularly South Africa and Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; finding a successor to Antonio Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal; the 1969 Budget; youth and Britain's future; Vietnam; the Arab summit, Rabat [Morocco], 1969; Joseph Chamberlain, including lessons for a United Europe...

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Subjects include: Joseph Chamberlain; the threat from the Soviet Union; Scottish and Welsh devolution; the Labour leadership crisis; the situation in China; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; the crisis in Southern Africa; the success of Concorde.

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Subjects include: the Westland affair; the legacy of Tito; South Africa; arms control; Joseph Chamberlain; the legacy of the Suez Crisis.

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Advice by LSA to Julian Amery on his biography of Joseph Chamberlain, particularly on Free Trade.

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Letters to Joseph Chamberlain and used by LSA, from correspondents including: Michael Davitt on the Nationalist view of a proposed visit by Chamberlain to Ireland and misrepresentation of his own view of the Irish political situation and Irish Home Rule (5); Ernest Pretyman.

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Cuttings of speeches and letters to the press, either written by Chamberlain [Secretary of State for the Colonies] or concerning him, on subjects including: tariff reform and Free Trade; colonial policy and South Africa.

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Set of printed maps for correction: West Africa, 1898; Fashoda and after [later Kodok, Sudan]; the Boer War.

Scope and Contents Consists of source material passed on to JA by J L Garvin, and Garvin's and JA's drafts, typescripts and proofs for JA's continuation of Garvin's official biography of Joseph Chamberlain. Garvin had finished the first three volumes between 1932 and 1934, but died in 1947 before he could complete his work. Initially, JA was supposed to end the biography with volume IV, so much of the material in this series relates to this volume, "1901-3: At the Height of his Power", which was published in...