Papers documenting Marshall’s Chairmanship of the CEGB, 1982-1989, including his resignation on 19 December 1989 and aftermath. Includes his notes for meetings with successive Secretaries of State for Energy and the Prime Minister, 1983-89, covering both the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike and the privatisation process of the electricity supply industry in the late 1980s. These are followed by a substantial body of reference material bearing on the latter and other topics. Two further series provide more documentation of the privatisation process. Marshall also accumulated an extensive collection of press coverage of the government’s decision not to privatise nuclear power and his ensuing resignation from the CEGB. The bulk of the material relates to the privatisation of the UK electricity supply industry.
C.1-C.80: "Early correspondence", "Meetings" and "Privatisation + coal strike"
C.81-174: reference material
C.175-257: privatisation papers (1)
C.258-266: privatisation papers (2)
C.267-342: press cuttings

Note: in MRSL C.141 page 3 of a letter from Marshall of Goring to Cecil Parkinson was noted as missing, April 2025.