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Powell, John Enoch, 1912-1998 (politician and author)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1912 - 1998

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Correspondence 1973-1992, 1973-04-16 - 1992-12-15

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRG 1/1
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Edward Heath, on White Papers and open government, 16 April 1973; Harold Wilson, on sugar, 4 November 1974; letters to Benjamin Short, on the EEC Scrutiny Committee, June-July 1979; letter to John Biffen MP, on the Single European Act, 27 February 1986; Enoch Powell MP, enclosing correspondence on the Single European Act, 12 March 1986; Margaret Thatcher, on the outcome of the Brussels Summit, 17 February 1988; Lord [James] Callaghan, on the Single European Act, 13...
Dates: 1973-04-16 - 1992-12-15
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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'Dissenting Organisations', 1971 - 2005-01

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRG 2/5
Scope and Contents Notes, correspondence, and drafts for publications connected with 'dissenting' individuals and pressure groups opposed to the UK's continued membership of the EEC and EU. Including correspondence and memoranda sent between Nigel Spearing and Peter Shore, Enoch Powell, and other politicians; notes and press releases; committee reports; and newspaper cuttings; and ephemera, circulars, and grey literature connected with the Labour Common Market Safeguards Committee (LCMSC) [later Labour Euro...
Dates: 1971 - 2005-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Sub-Series

General Transparencies, 1983 - 1997

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/3/4/3
Scope and Contents Seven boxes with numerous sleeves of 63mm and 35mm photographic transparencies and slides, along with a small amount of photographs, which mostly feature images of Spitting Image puppets. These images were produced for a number of purposes, including use in external publications and corporate literature, and general use by the media. The images found in these transparencies were taken by John Lawrence Jones, Steve Bendelack, Andy de Emmony and other...
Dates: 1983 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for information on access conditions.
 Item

J. Enoch Powell: note on adversaria to Herodotus, 30 Nov. 1937

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9750/216
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Comprises single items or small collections, chiefly correspondence, donated to or purchased by Cambridge University Library, together with a number of items and fragments found in Cambridge University Library books and bindings.

Dates: 30 Nov. 1937
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Labour Common Market Safeguards Committee, 1975-06-30 - 1980-10-19

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRG 2/8
Scope and Contents Handwritten notes and papers connected with meetings of the Labour Common Market Safeguards Committee (LCMSC) [later Labour Euro Safeguards Campaign], attended by Spearing along with politicians including Douglas Jay, Peter Shore, Enoch Powell, Bryan Gould, Neil Marten, and various others. With an agenda for a meeting of the Common Market Study Group, 4 August 1975, and notes on political strategy; voting in European elections; and Britain's future relationship with Europe. Also including...
Dates: 1975-06-30 - 1980-10-19
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Large Transparencies, 1968 - 1975

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/3/2/2
Scope and Contents A file of mostly 10" x 8" colour photographic transparencies, featuring images of plasticine model illustrations made by Roger Law, which were published in The Sunday Times Magazine and other outlets. There are other large sizes of transparencies present. The file holds the following:1. A transparency with an image of one of the models featured in the article, Who Counts in the Country Set, written by Roy Perrott,...
Dates: 1968 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for any information on access restrictions or closures of material.
 File

Letter from Enoch Powell to Peter Hawkes; London, 1 Mar. 1965

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9846/179
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Letters and related items, mostly addressed to the editors of the Cambridge Review, and predominantly to Peter Hawkes. Some letters were intended for publication; most of the others concern the contribution (or otherwise) of articles and book reviews.

Dates: 1 Mar. 1965
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Series

Letters to her brother and sisters, 1941 - 1963

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RUSM 1
Scope and Contents

Comprising letters to her brother, Ray, in Somalia and Kenya, and her sisters, Nan (Le Poer Trench), in Kenya, and Barbe, in Devon.
The letters contain details of her professional and personal life, including observations about the day-to-day working of the Ministry of Health and its various Ministers, in particular Nye Bevan, Iain Macleod and Enoch Powell.

Dates: 1941 - 1963
 Sub-Sub-Series

Miscellaneous Magazines with Commissioned Work, 1975 - 1982

 Sub-Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/2/3/12
Scope and Contents An assortment of British and international magazines, along with tearsheets, which feature plasticine model illustrations by Luck & Flaw.The following are present:1. Issue November-December 1975 of the magazine, Drive, published by the British motoring association, The AA. Pages 16 to 22 feature illustrations that accompany an article about the MOT test. The photographic image was taken by Bob Cramp (L+F/90 (a)-(b)).2. Issue...
Dates: Publication: 1975 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Newscuttings, 1958 - 1968

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 321/1
Scope and Contents Cuttings from 'The Daily Express', 'The Daily Mail', 'The Daily Mirror', 'The Daily Telegraph', 'The Evening Standard', 'The Guardian', 'The Kensington Post', 'The News of the World', 'The Observer', 'The People' and 'The Times' regarding Commonwealth immigration into Britain. Some of the subjects covered include legislative counter-measures, health issues, notably the spread of smallpox, and the pronouncements of Enoch Powell. Many of cuttings have been dated by the donor. In some cases...
Dates: 1958 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Photographs, 1962 - 1974

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/3/3
Scope and Contents A box holding an assortment of mainly black and white photographs, which feature images of pencil and plasticine model illustrations produced by Roger Law. These images were published in various magazines and newspapers, along with featuring on the cover and interior of books. There are both single photographs and sets of images. The material present is labelled or in packaging labelled with their original reference numbers (i.e. RL/Pre-/number), which can be used to search the record forms...
Dates: 1962 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for any information on access restrictions or closures of material.
 Sub-Sub-Sub-Sub-Series

Research Material, 1983 - 1986

 Sub-Sub-Sub-Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/3/3/8/2/1/1
Scope and Contents Files with research material collected by Lewis Chester, as part of his work on the publication, Tooth & Claw: The Inside Story of Spitting Image. The following are present, and their accompanying number corresponds to their file reference number within this sub-sub-sub-sub-series: 1. A folder with letters received by Chester from Spitting Image's 'victims' (i.e. the celebrities and politicians that were the subjects of the...
Dates: 1983 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for information on access conditions.
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Royal United Services Institution, 1968-10 - 1969-09

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/40
Scope and Contents Text of a lecture by JA to the institution on Britain's military role in the 1970s, Jan 1969, including correspondence on arrangements, with Air Vice-Marshal Stewart "Paddy" Menaul, Director-General. Also includes: a RUSI case study on the TSR-2 strike and reconnaissance aircraft; a paper on men, money and war; text of a lecture by [John] Enoch Powell [to RUSI, Sept 1968, to which JA was responding], also on Britain's military role in the 1970s, with comments; report of...
Dates: 1968-10 - 1969-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
 Fonds

The Papers of Enoch Powell

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal and public papers of Enoch Powell. The papers include: personal correspondence, literary and academic material and some wartime papers, 1922-1998; diaries, 1946-1995; political papers, including some ministerial and shadow cabinet papers, election material, subject files on a wide range of political issues, papers from Powell's various constituencies and letters from the public on various issues, and also papers from Powell's long-running...
Dates: 1650 - 2023
Conditions Governing Access: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
 Sub-Series

Transparencies, 1975 - 1983

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/2/3/2
Scope and Contents Four boxes containing an assortment of 63mm x 63mm and 126mm x 120mm photographic transparencies, along with 35mm slides, which feature images of Luck & Flaw plasticine model illustrations that were published in various magazines, newspapers and other mediums. The contents of the four boxes are in alphabetical order, based on the subject(s) of the illustrations or the title of the work, and they are split into the following: A to C, D to G, H to R, and S to W. The final box...
Dates: 1975 - 1983
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Special Collections Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. Please see specific entries within the catalogue for any access restrictions present for particular files or items. For further details on conditions governing access please contact specialcollections@lib.cam.ac.uk . Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).