Correspondence, 1975-02 - 1975-04
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: David Sheppard [Bishop Suffragan of Woolwich] on his final lecture as chairman of the Martin Luther King Fund; Barbara Castle, Secretary of State for Social Services, on special benefit payments; Lord Harris of Greenwich, Minister of State, Home Office, on setting the broadcasting licence fee; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway on her joy in having AFB for a brother and her memories of their childhood in Pitlochry [Scotland]; Lord Goronwy-Roberts, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on social welfare cases in Hong Kong; David Holland, Librarian of the House of Commons, on an incident when AFB wore a Gandhi Cap in the House in 1931; Joan Lestor, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on an advertisement for dentists in Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] which had appeared in the British Dental Journal.
Also includes: Alternative White Paper on Northern Ireland, from the Troops Out Movement; report of a speech by AFB at the Humanist Group Association annual general meeting, on the need for Humanists to campaign on moral issues and also clarify what humanism meant; transcript of AFB's interview for Cornell University's oral history program on penal reform, particularly on his work as joint Secretary of the Prison System Inquiry Committee, set up by the Fabian Society, also on the Penal Reform League, the Howard League, Winston Churchill's role in prison reform as Home Secretary, AFB's own time in prison as a Conscientious Objector, capital punishment and the future of prisons.
Dates
- Creation: 1975-02 - 1975-04
Creator
- From the Fonds: Brockway, Archibald Fenner, 1888 - 1988 (Baron Brockway of Eton and Slough, politician) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
File 1 closed as it contains sensitive personal information on a potentially living individual.
Extent
2 file(s)
Other Finding Aids
Former reference: box F6 #78
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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