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Scope and Contents An interview with Virginia Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (b.1948), conducted by Deborah McGurran at Westminster in London. Topics discussed include: close relationships with Douglas Jay [uncle] and Peggy Jay [aunt]; Virigina and her husband, Peter growing up in public service families; supporting Peter Bottomley’s political career; work in social reform; Margaret Thatcher’s support for Bottomley; support from Peggy Jay and mother-in-law [Barbara Evelyn Bottomley,...

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The sixth episode in the Groundbreakers podcast series featuring interviews with Baroness Virgina Bottomley and Baroness Margaret Hodge.

Duration: 45:38

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Including correspondence with Roger Freeman, Virginia Bottomley, and Peter Thurnham.

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Including correspondence with Virginia Bottomley.

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Including correspondence with Kenneth Clarke, Virginia Bottomley, Charles Kennedy, Jack Ashley, and Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale.

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Including correspondence with Kenneth Clarke, Virginia Bottomley, Paddy Ashdown, Jack Ashley, Charles Kennedy, and Maureen Oswin.

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Including correspondence with Harriet Harman, Kenneth Clarke, Jack Ashley, Peter Thurnham, Roger Freeman, and Virginia Bottomley.

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Including correspondence with Jack Ashley, Lucy Faithfull, Baroness Faithfull, Virginia Bottomley, Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale, and Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington.

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Correspondence on Surrey Ambulance Service, including copies of letters from Virginia Bottomley [Minister for Health] (3).

Scope and Contents The seventh and final episode in the Groundbreakers podcast series featuring discussions with all interviewees as they reflect on their political journeys and work including: Baroness Helene Hayman, Baroness Margaret Beckett, Baroness Harriet Harman, Baroness Emma Nicholson, Baroness Gillian Shephard, Baroness Anne Jenkin, Baroness Virigina Bottomley, Baroness Hilary Armstrong, Anne Campbell, Baroness Morris, Baroness Margaret Hodge, Dame Caroline Spelman, Baroness Susan Kramer, and Allen...

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Including correspondence with Virginia Bottomley, Jack Ashley, Lucy Faithfull, Baroness Faithfull, Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale, Norman Fowler, Maureen Oswin, Robert J. Maxwell (King Edward's Hospital Fund), and Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington.

Scope and Contents Including photographs of Richard Stanton-Jones, undated (2); Richard Stanton-Jones and Earl Mountbatten at sea trials of the SR N4 Mk 3 (Super 4), 1978 (2); Richard Stanton-Jones with the Duke of Kent and a delegation from Saudi Arabia, 1981 (3); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation from Nigeria, undated [1970s] or [1980s] (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation from China, 1979 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation from Italy, 1981 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation...

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Including a letter from her brother John Garnett, about the donation of Horestone Point to the National Trust, 1982; letters from Maureen Oswin, 1981-2; and a note from Peter and Virginia Bottomley, 1975.

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Including letters from Diana Hopkinson (earlier Hubback), 1991; postcards from Roland Hunt, 1991; an order of service for the funeral of David Hubback, 23 March 1991; and a note from Virginia Bottomley, 14 February 1992.

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Including papers about the Jay Report, 1979; correpondence about the proposed closure of Old Court House in Hampstead, which provided residential care for the elderly, 1993; and correspondence with Virginia Bottomley (Health Secretary), about Exodus, 1991-3.

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Including correspondence and papers about children with disabilities and Exodus and contributions for a memorial book to Stan Segal, 1994-5, with drafts of Peggy Jay's chapter "The Children Who Were Left Behind" and a letter from Virginia Bottomley (Health Secretary), 1994.

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Including a letter from her sister Pauline Hunt, 1944; a letter from her mother Margaret Lucy Garnett, undated; letters from her aunt Hilda Garnett, undated, 1929-65, with a reply from Peggy Jay, undated; and a letter from her niece Virginia Garnett (later Virgina Bottomley), undated.

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Correspondence with John Spiers, chairman of the group, with other correspondents (responding to invitations) including: Margaret Thatcher (2); Virginia Bottomley; Norman Tebbit; Peter Lilley; Christopher Patten; John Major; Michael Heseltine (2); Kenneth Baker (2); Cecil Parkinson; Edwina Currie; Sir Rhodes Boyson.

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Including a letter from Peggy Jay, about Douglas Jay's funeral, 17 March 1996.
With letters of condolence on the death of Douglas Jay, March 1996, and press cuttings. Correspondents include Virginia Bottomley and Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue.
Also with letters about Peter Jay's Panorama programme on Europe, April 1996.

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Including a postcard from her brother John Garnett, 2 August 1987; a postcard from Roland Hunt, undated; letters from Virginia Bottomley,1989, 1994; a letter from Shiela Grant Duff, undated; and a photocopy of a letter from Isaiah Berlin, about the death of Douglas Jay, 8 March 1996.

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Correspondents include: Virginia Bottomley; Margaret Jay; Mark Fisher; and Sir Michael Palliser.
With correspondence and papers about the arrangements for Peggy Jay's funeral at St John-at-Hampstead, 28 January 2008, including a copy of the order of service and press cuttings.

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Mainly comprising informal photographs of Peggy Jay with her family and friends, many of them taken at home in Hampstead or on family holidays, probably on the Isle of Wight, including family groups at the beach, in the garden and on picnics.
Family members pictured include Virginia Bottomley, Peter Jay, Margaret Jay, Martin Jay, Catherine Jay and Helen Jay

Scope and Contents Including letters from John Birt, partly about TV-am, 1981, 1985 (2); correspondence with Samuel Brittan, enclosing correspondence with Milton Friedman, about Peter Jay's book "The Crisis for Western Political Economy and Other Essays" and correspondence with Rob Shepherd, about the Common Agricultural Policy, January-May 1985 (4); a note to Virginia Bottomley, about holiday plans, 11 February 1985; and correspondence with Nora Beloff, about Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...

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Mainly comprising informal photographs of Peggy Jay's family and friends, many of them taken at home in Hampstead or on family holidays, probably on the Isle of Wight, including family groups at the beach, sailing, on picnics and in the garden.
Family members pictured include Peter Jay, Helen Jay, Catherine Jay and Virginia Bottomley.
With a photograph of Adrian Boult with Isobel and Imogen Holst outside Gustav Holst's former home in Thaxted, Essex, 1963.

Scope and Contents Mainly concerning children in hospital and support for children with disabilities, including a report on educational opportunities for children in hospital by Virginia Bottomley, [1973]; a letter from Margaret Wynn, about genetic counselling, undated; a draft letter from Maureen Oswin to David Owen, about children in long-stay hospitals, 30 January 1974; and papers about the Donald Court Committee (Committee of Child Health Services), 1974. With some papers of the North-West Metropolitan...