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Draft of NK’s speech at a rally to celebrate the anniversary.

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Working papers connected with surveys conducted by Mark Abrams for the Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College London.

Scope and Contents Comprising: "The Chipped White Cups of Dover", 1960; with Hildred Geertz, "Old Age in London and San Francisco", 1961; "A Note for Discussion on the Mother-Daughter Tie", 1961; "Is Your Child in the Unlucky Generation?", 1962; with John Gibson, "In Search of an Explanation of Social Mobility", 1963; with Bernard Benjamin and Chris Wallis, "The Mortality of Widowers", 1963; "Policy for Public Schools", 1963; "What Sort of People", 1963; "Family Life in 1984", 1963; "Announcing the National...

Scope and Contents Comprising: "SSRC Grants - the First Three Years", undated [1990]; "Slaves of Time", 1991; article on death for the "Encyclopedia of Time", 1992; "Open University Open About Death", 1993; introduction to "Innovations in Information", 1993; comment on the Commission on Social Justice, 1994; "Moral Intelligence", 1994; "The Significance of U3A", 1994; with Chelly Halsey, "Family and Community Socialism", 1995; " Why Where?", 1995; "Threatened Americanisation of Privatised Crematoria", 1995;...

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Correspondence with representatives of Help The Aged and the Charities Tax Reform Group on VAT on charities. Includes copies of correspondence between Nicholas Brown and John Marek [Treasury and economic affairs spokesmen].

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Copies of correspondence between NK and Margaret Thatcher, then John Major, Prime Minister, research papers, press releases, extracts from Hansard etc on winter fuel payments to the elderly.

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Cuttings, press releases and background papers on winter fuel payments to the elderly.

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Briefings and reports on winter fuel payments to the elderly and social security issues.

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Copies of correspondence between representatives of the National Concessionary Fuel Office, Kevin Barron [energy spokesman] and representatives of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on British Coal Corporation’s cash in lieu of concessionary coal scheme for retired miners.

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LinkAge gave elderly people and children the opportunity to spend time together.

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The University of the Third Age encourages mutual education of older people.

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Third Age Clubs were established as social and educational centres for older people.

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Letters from pensioners on their difficulties with social security and income support, with supporting briefs and papers "One Year On", on the results of the Social Security Act (1986), implemented in April 1988.

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Briefings, reports and correspondence on winter fuel payments to the elderly and the Old and Cold campaign. Correspondents include: Robin Cook [health spokesman]; Peter Walker, Secretary of State for Energy.

Scope and Contents Comprising: "The Labour Party and the Middle Class Mind", given at the Fabian Society's Easter School, 1954; "Family and Kinship", given at the Annual Conference of the Family Welfare Association, 4 November 1955; "Studying Kinship in East London", given at Professor [Max] Gluckman's seminar in Manchester, 24 June 1957; a talk on "The Human Group" by Professor [George] Homans, given at the Family Seminar, September 1957; "The Responsibility of the Parent and the School", given at the Annual...

Scope and Contents Comprising: "Death and Modern Culture", given at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 25 February 1990; "The Future of Education", Dartington Annual Lecture, 22 June 1990; "Buddhist Attitude to Death", a response to a talk given by Stephen Batchelor to the Buddhist Hospice Trust, 15 July 1990; "Liberating the Old and the Young: the case for an ageless society", Presidential Address to the British Association, 23 August 1990; and "The Future of the Family", ESRC Annual Lecture, 6...

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A survey of older people in East London, studying the effects of longer life expectancy.
Comprising interview transcripts, completed questionnaires, field notes and letters.

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Correspondence with Jack Jones, President of the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) Retired Members Associations, with supporting papers, on pension provision.

Scope and Contents Working papers on ageing in Britain and the USA, enclosed in file originally entitled 'Old People and Pensions', covering subjects such as government and voluntary provision of services for the elderly; experiences of retirement; private and occupational pensions; older workers and their occupational roles; leisure and housing for the elderly; generational differences in political attitudes; loneliness and community life; and gerontology. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and...

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Correspondence on Labour’s policies for pensioners, including the Maxwell Pensioners [those affected by Robert Maxwell’s diversion of money from the Mirror Group pension fund].

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Correspondence and briefings on pensions, including the Maxwell Pensioners [those affected by Robert Maxwell’s diversion of money from the Mirror Group pension fund], pensioners in Wales and options for equality in state pension age. Correspondents include Michael Meacher [social security spokesman].

Scope and Contents Includes: briefings for and notes from NK’s meetings with the forum (the joint committee of pensioners’ organisations); correspondence with the forum, various pensioners’ organisations and Jack Jones, President of the Transport and General Workers’ Retired Members Associations; notes from the Policy Review relating to pensioners; note on the forum’s purpose; text of a speech by Edwina Currie, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, at a Pensioners’ health day; paper on...

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Cuttings, briefings and background papers on pensions policy, including a draft press release from Michael Meacher, health and social security spokesman, on Labour’s housing finance rescue package.

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Briefings and cuttings on pension provision, party policy and fuel poverty, including notes from the National Pensioners’ Convention.

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Briefings and cuttings on pension provision and SERPS [State Earnings Related Pension Scheme], including texts of speeches by NK and material from the British Labour Group European information campaign for pensioners press conference.