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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.

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 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 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...