Correspondence, 1977-11 - 1977-12
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Anthony Dyson, on sponsors for his charter of homosexual rights; Lord Harris of Greenwich, Minister of State, Home Office, on the transfer of certain Irish prisoners to Northern Ireland; [George] Peter Lloyd, Deputy Governor of Bermuda, on a request for a reprieve for Erskine Burrows and Larry Tacklyn [both sentenced to death for the murder of Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda]; Judith Hart, Minister of Overseas Development, thanking AFB for his speech in Lord Chalfont [earlier Alun Gwynne Jones]'s debate on Bolivia, December 1977; John Concannon, Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office, on AFB's visit to Armagh Prison to see Dolours and Marian Price [both members of the IRA, convicted for their part in the London car bombing campaign, 1973]; Peter Cadogan, General Secretary of the South Place Ethical Society, on AFB taking part in a debate, December 1977, and the ending of their right to conduct weddings at Conway Hall [London] (2); Bhag Mal, President of Sant Nirankari Mandal, inviting AFB to be the guest of honour at their annual assembly; Imre Hofbauer on missing AFB at an exhibition of his work; Louise Ouwerkerk on her book "I Too Was a Jailbird"; Lord MacLeod of Fuinary on the work of the Iona Community and the Mobilisation for Survival disarmament campaign; Martin Wright, Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, on a meeting of the Inter-Party Penal Affairs Group to discuss the report of the Conservative working group on the proper use of prisons (summary of the report enclosed); Sir Bernard Braine on the campaign to support the people of Banaba, or Ocean Island, in separating from the Gilbert Islands [later Kiribati] (2); [John] Jeremy Thorpe, thanking AFB for a message of support; Jinadasa Vijayatunga on writing about his encounters with AFB in the 1930s in his autobiography; Robert Parry on a meeting of the Anglo-Hong Kong group (2); [Margaret] Pat Arrowsmith, asking AFB to vouch for her on an obstruction charge.
Also includes: papers from the Amnesty International British section on a petition for the release of the former Tanzanian Minister for Economic Affairs, Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, and on the human rights situation generally in Tanzania; photograph of AFB with the wife of the Soviet Ambassador to Britain, Nikolai Lunkov; letters sent by AFB on "Peace Within Reach", the pamphlet written by himself and Lord Noel-Baker [earlier Philip Baker] on achievements in nuclear disarmament since the Helsinki Final Act [the declaration signed during the third phase of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), 1975]; notes from the Parliamentary Human Rights group on the cases of the Argentinian and Soviet detainees Hector Campora and Andrei Sakharov.
Dates
- Creation: 1977-11 - 1977-12
Creator
- From the Fonds: Brockway, Archibald Fenner, 1888 - 1988 (Baron Brockway of Eton and Slough, politician) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
File 2 closed as it contains sensitive personal information on potentially living individuals.
Extent
2 file(s)
Other Finding Aids
Former reference: box F13 #103
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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