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NB: this file contains no copies of replies by MT or her office

Scope and Contents Colonial Office correspondence and memoranda on Malta, with correspondents including: Sir Gerald Strickland [Member of Malta Legislative Assembly] on circulating Empire news to counter propaganda, the new constitution, the influence of Italy, the use of English in Malta and the behaviour of ministers in Parliament (8); Edward Wood [Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, later 1st Lord Irwin and 1st Lord Halifax]; 1st Lord Plumer, Governor of Malta, on subjects including the Malta...

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Photocopied articles, press releases and interviews on subjects including: the practice of freedom; defence and nuclear disarmament; NK’s green credentials; and the rights of immigrants in Europe. Includes a letter from Hanif Kureishi explaining that he had been set up into giving an interview critical of NK; NK’s interview with NME; text of Mikhail Gorbachev’s address to the UN on nuclear disarmament.

Scope and Contents Includes: articles on free trade and the currency, 1847-57; offprint of an article on the history of London government; report on the polls and the 1970 election by Richard Rose, Professor of Politics, Strathclyde University; copies of immigration and nationality legislation, 1948-80; correspondence on immigration statistics with David Ennals, Secretary of State for Social Services and Jennifer Tanfield, Head of Statistical Section, House of Commons Library, with tables for the 1976...

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Subjects include: lack of confidence in the Government's economic policy; social security; the sale of council housing; charging foreign visitors for National Health Service treatment; Uganda and Soviet influence in Africa; defence, particularly relating to the Soviet Union, cuts to naval power and building up European defence; rail transport policy; immigration and race relations; unemployment.

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Letters from members of the general public on various issues including: immigration; complaints about the Conservatives and requests for JEP to form a new party; Britain and the Common Market; the Conservative Party Conference.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...

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Includes correspondence from Patrick Cosgrave (Special Adviser to MT), David Lane (Commission for Racial Equality) and Narindar Saroop (UK Anglo-Asian Conservative Society)

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Includes report by Adam Butler MP (MT's Parliamentary Private Secretary) on the Home Affairs Committee meeting, 6 February 1978 (MT did not attend)
Also includes correspondence with Humphrey Atkins MP, Wyn Roberts MP, Narindar Saroop (UK Anglo-Asian Conservative Society), Dudley Smith MP and Ivor Stanbrook MP

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Includes report by Alison Ward and Matthew Parris of MT’s Private Office on correspondence received by MT on this subject, April 1978

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Includes correspondence with Mark Carlisle MP, Andrew Faulds MP, Geoffrey Finsberg MP, Nigel Lawson MP, Peter Preston, Sir George Sinclair MP, Ivor Stanbrook MP and Nicholas Winterton MP

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Arthur Askey; Sir Ian Horobin on JEP's review of his poetry, and economic policy (2); Humphrey Atkins [Government Chief Whip] on JEP's voting position on incomes policy; Reginald Paget, on taking JEP hunting (2); Milton Friedman [Professor of Economics, University of Chicago] on price control and the oil crisis (2); William Deedes on One Nation; Gerald Kaufman; Hugh Jenkins; Robert Jenkins, congratulating JEP on various speeches and articles, and commenting on Edward...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Jonathan Guinness [later 3rd Lord Moyne] on Conservative Central Office's cancellation of JEP's visit to speak at his by-election for Lincoln [Lincolnshire]; Patrick Wall (2); [James] Colin Welch [Deputy Editor, Daily Telegraph]; Francis Pym [Government Chief Whip] on JEP's differences from the party line (6); Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms (4); Reginald Prentice; Richard Dring, Editor of Hansard; Robert Jenkins (4); Richard Body; Henry Croly; 6th...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Michael Foot [Leader of the House of Commons] on subjects including asking JEP to abstain in a confidence vote, December 1978 (2); William Whitelaw [Conservative spokesman on home affairs] on subjects including accusing JEP of recruiting Asian hospital staff while Minister of Health (2); Nigel Lawson [Conservative spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs] debating with JEP on anti-inflation policy and wage control (2); [Leonard] James Callaghan, Prime Minister; Lord...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Winston Churchill, on subjects including the presence of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in Parliament (2); R A Butler, on subjects including his thanks to JEP for his work in the Conservative Research Department (8); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman of Conservative Central Office (2); Iain Macleod, Minister of Health, reproaching JEP for his attitude and asking for his help; Leo Amery on the position taken up by JEP and Julian Amery on the Suez...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Kenneth Boardman (2); Horace Maybray-King, Speaker of the House of Commons (2); William Whitelaw [Chief Opposition Whip] (4); Gerald Williams on subjects including JEP's interview with [Ernest] Trevor Huddleston [Bishop Suffragan of Stepney, London]; Edgar Kingston-McLoughry; Michael Strachan (6); Andrew Freeth on a portrait of JEP by [Augustus] Ruskin Spear; Nicholas Ridley, congratulating JEP on the Parliament (No. 2) Bill [on reform of the House of Lords]; [Henry]...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: William Tatton Brown [Chief Architect, Ministry of Health] on carrying out JEP's previous suggestions in hospital design; Jasper More [Assistant Opposition Whip] on concerns about Shadow Cabinet policy, particularly setting up a Conservative Long Term Policy Group; Antony Peck; Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Prime Minister, earlier 14th Lord Home] on subjects including the General Election; Nathaniel Micklem, President of Liberal International, in support of JEP's...

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Material distinct from Enoch Powell's own papers as it has a different provenance (it was not maintained with Powell's own archive) and cannot be considered as having been generated by the same processes as Powell's papers.

Scope and Contents Articles and commentaries covering subjects such as the single currency and European monetary union (EMU); Britain's rebate from the EU; trade, regulations on foreign investment, and multinational corporations; the relationship between finance and industry in Britain, and the rise of the City; the Schengen area and the resettlement of asylum seekers and refugees in Britain; Europe and the politics of taxation; the Europol Convention; Labour's education policy; the Bundesbank and German...

Scope and Contents Articles and commentaries covering subjects such as the European Constitution; the history of Britain's entry into the European Economic Community; the Nice summit; plans for a 'European army'; the Schengen area and EU common immigration policy; European directives on religious discrimination; the infrastructure of the London Underground; the single currency and European monetary union (EMU); qualified majority voting; the impact of European directives on consumer credit and the housing...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Hugh Arnold-Forster [former Secretary of State for War] on subjects including writing a series of articles on military matters and thanking LSA for writing a preface [? to Arnold-Forster's "English Socialism of To-Day"] (3); Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman [Prime Minister]; Arthur Balfour [Leader of the Conservative Party], on citing trade figures from Wolverhampton [Staffordshire] during a debate (2); Sir Hesketh Bell [Governor of Uganda] on his sleeping...

Scope and Contents Leader's Consultative Committee papers and minutes on subjects including: powers to control incomes, by [Leonard] Robert Carr and Iain Macleod; regional government; Greater London Council rent policy; the effects of devaluation, by Iain Macleod; family poverty, by [Irene] Mervyn Pike; the Speaker's Conference on electoral reform, by the Chairman of the Conservative Party [Anthony Barber], and also by Edward du Cann; redistribution of seats, by [Anthony Barber] and also by Edward du Cann;...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Anglo-Irish Agreement, calling for Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, to counter the influence of the United States on Ulster, preserving the Union, assistance for the IRA and Ulster's parity of status with Britain; the Channel Tunnel; ethnic minorities; Christianity and science, studying the Gospels and resurrection; legal reform; the influence of the United States in British policy, particularly the economy, Europe, NATO and...

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Mainly cuttings on specific events.

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the uses of education; ending direct rule in Ulster, the Anglo-Irish Council, the past attitudes of the British Government to Ulster, interventions by the United States and representation for Ulster in Parliament; the results of past immigration policy; NATO defence policy; international exchange rates, the floating pound, the international monetary system and international monetary fund; British membership of the European Economic...