Price sisters, 1974
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence relating to AFB's visit to the Price sisters [Dolours and Marian Price], both members of the IRA, convicted for their part in the London car bombing campaign, 1973, including: hate mail, mainly on the Price sisters, but also against AFB's Private Members' Bill to amend the Race Relations Act; other letters on the Price sisters, many congratulating AFB when they abandoned their hunger strike; rough notes for AFB's statement on the sisters; the text of AFB's speech at a civil rights rally in Tyrone, demanding the release of all internees; statement by the Home Secretary [(Leonard) Robert Carr] on the sisters; memorandum on the sisters by the Quakers.
Dates
- Creation: 1974
Creator
- From the Fonds: Brockway, Archibald Fenner, 1888 - 1988 (Baron Brockway of Eton and Slough, politician) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Hate mail closed for data protection reasons.
Extent
2 file(s)
Other Finding Aids
Former reference: box 11 #42
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
Churchill Archives Centre
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