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Archives of the Society for Visiting Scholars, 1966 - 2015

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/VS
Scope and Contents

The records relate chiefly to the accommodation service offered by the Society for Visiting Scholars and, to a lesser degree, to social events such as talks and outings. They include the records of the Newcomers Group.

Dates: 1966 - 2015
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Articles, 1953 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 2/1/2
Scope and Contents Comprising: with Ed Shils, "The Meaning of the Coronation", 1953; "The Planners and the Planned. The Family", 1954; "The Role of the Extended Family in a Disaster", 1954; "Kinship and Family in East London", 1954; with Peter Willmott, "Seven Million Bathrooms", 1955; "Challenge to Labour" or "Secret Social Services", 1955; with Ed Shils, "What is Living and What is Dead in Socialism", 1956; with Peter Willmott, "Mothers and Daughters: a discussion of some family research in London", 1959;...
Dates: 1953 - 1959
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Bethnal Green and Debden surveys, 1950 - 1955

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 1/5/1
Scope and Contents

Survey data used for Micheal Young's PhD thesis "A Study of the Extended Family in East London" (London School of Economics, 1955) and in Michael Young and Peter Willmott, "Family and Kinship in East London" (1957).

Dates: 1950 - 1955
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Campaign Strategy Committee, 1985-01 - 1985-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/1/67
Scope and Contents Memoranda and minutes on strategy for campaigns, including: the Social Policy Campaign; the Defence Campaign; the Caring Community and Personal Freedom campaign; Freedom and Fairness; housing and the local elections; the Jobs and Industry Campaign. Also includes a memorandum on proposed public relations activities by Lynne Franks Limited, a report on the Brecon and Radnor by-election, a paper on the decline of class politics and a paper on the presentation of Labour’s approach to suburban...
Dates: 1985-01 - 1985-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Committees and Policy Groups: Environment- Land and Housing Policy Group, November 1975-February 1977, 1975-11 - 1977-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/42
Scope and Contents Includes copy minutes and papers of the Group; including some papers of the Home Ownership Policy Group (January 1976) and the Policy Group on Town and Country Planning (January-February 1976) Also includes papers for the Group by Patrick Rock, "Housing finance" and "The Community Land Bill" (November 1975), Michael Latham MP, "Thoughts on the paper 'A scheme for shared purchase'", December 1975, and by "CEB/JW", "The sale of council...
Dates: 1975-11 - 1977-02
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Committees and Policy Groups: Environment- Private Rented Sector [housing] Policy Group, April 1975-February 1976, 1975-04 - 1976-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/43
Scope and Contents

Includes copy minutes and papers of the Group, April-December 1975
Also includes briefing notes for the Group from Professor J Parry Lewis on taxation and planning law, February 1976; and copy minutes of a meeting of the Policy Group on Town and Country Planning, 16 February 1976

Dates: 1975-04 - 1976-02
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Correspondence about Tower Hamlets housing database, 1995 - 1998

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 1/6/15
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Comprising correspondence and papers about projects, visits and ideas.

Dates: 1995 - 1998
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Correspondence with R.A. Fieldhouse, 1974-07 - 1976-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/2/17
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with County Councillor Arnold Fieldhouse, mainly on the sale of council houses in Manchester, which JA had given permission for as Minister of Housing and Construction, and which the Labour-controlled Council had then abandoned.

Dates: 1974-07 - 1976-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Department of the Environment, 1969 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/8
Scope and Contents

Papers from JA's time as Minister of Public Building and Works and then Minister for Housing and Construction, at the Department of the Environment, including ministerial correspondence, personal correspondence on foreign affairs, papers from an inquiry by the Select Committee on Parliamentary Questions, private office papers and personal papers.

Dates: 1969 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Housing, 1947 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS 5/18
Scope and Contents Working papers on housing in England, Scotland, and Wales, covering subjects such as house building, town planning, and urban renewal; homelessness and housing shortages; household amenities and consumer goods; community and everyday life in new towns; rents and house prices, mortgages, and the property market; council housing; and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century domestic architecture. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's notes. Including...
Dates: 1947 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Housing and works, 1971-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/2/7
Scope and Contents

Copy of a speech by JA, as Minister for Housing and Construction, in a debate on the Housing Bill, on grants for housing improvements.

Dates: 1971-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Housing: articles by Sandys and press cuttings, 1946

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 3/10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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Leader’s Reception: North Wales, 1988-10-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/68
Scope and Contents

Questions answered by NK on subjects including: housing; the trades union ban in GCHQ; the timing of the Party Conference; funding for Wales; share ownership; the role of the unions in the Labour Party; financial support for students; pension policy; strengthening the shipping industry; the accountability of the security services; relations with Europe; the need for proportional representation.

Dates: 1988-10-17
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Minutes, agendas, correspondence and papers of the Committee of Management of the Student Housing Fund, 1994 - 1996

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.VII.142
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Corporate management records - embraces records of the central decision-making bodies, University officers such as the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrary, and their administrative support. It includes constitutional records.

Dates: 1994 - 1996
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Management Group: The minutes of some Committees are closed to scholars for periods of years; see each catalogue entry for further detail.
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Minutes of meetings of the Committee on Residences for Clinical Medical Students, 1976 - 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.VII.135
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Corporate management records - embraces records of the central decision-making bodies, University officers such as the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrary, and their administrative support. It includes constitutional records.

Dates: 1976 - 1977
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Management Group: The minutes of some Committees are closed to scholars for periods of years; see each catalogue entry for further detail.
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Minutes of meetings of the Committee on the Vice-Chancellor's Residence, 1991 - 1992

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Min.VII.140
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Corporate management records - embraces records of the central decision-making bodies, University officers such as the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrary, and their administrative support. It includes constitutional records.

Dates: 1991 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Management Group: The minutes of some Committees are closed to scholars for periods of years; see each catalogue entry for further detail.
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New Towns, 1972 - 1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SLKN 5/3
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.

Dates: 1972 - 1976
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures of individual files are noted in the paper catalogue, please ask staff for further details.
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"Now's your chance": recording of a Brighton local radio phone-in programme with JA, 1976-07-30

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 11/15
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1976-07-30
Conditions Governing Access: Access copy available.
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Papers collected by David Wolfson, March 1978-August 1981 (mainly 1978), 1978-03 - 1981-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/187
Scope and Contents Includes: MT’s handwritten annotations Part 1, 1978-79: includes material relating to planning for the 1979 General Election, with minutes of meetings: in the Chairman’s office at CCO, 7 July 1978 (not attended by MT); to discuss social services (attended by MT); in the Chairman’s office at CCO, 12 July 1978 (not attended by MT); 13 July 1978 (attended by MT); in the Chairman’s office at CCO, 18 July 1978 (not attended by MT); law and order (attended by MT), 1 August 1978); and on...
Dates: 1978-03 - 1981-08
Conditions Governing Access: Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2012 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to housing, 30 July 1985- 20 March 1987, 1985-07 - 1987-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/12/35
Scope and Contents Part 1, 1985: includes briefing notes for MT from John Redwood (Head, Prime Minister's Policy Unit) on "Green belts [housing] and concrete jungles", 30 July 1985 Part 2, 1986: includes: copy of Conservative Party Conference speech by Nicholas Ridley MP (Secretary of State for the Environment), 8 October 1986; note from Peter Stredder (Member, PM's Policy Unit) on "Housing Policy", 21 November 1986; Part 3, 1987: includes copy of an Occasional paper by the Audit...
Dates: 1985-07 - 1987-03
Conditions Governing Access: Part 1, opened in October 2015; part 2, opened in January 2017; and part 3, opened in October 2017 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to Housing and Land, November 1975-March 1979, 1975-11 - 1979-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/138
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with Norman Griggs (Secretary General, Building Societies Association), Ralph Stow (its Chairman), George Nigel Douglas-Hamilton (10th Earl of Selkirk), Professor John Jewkes and Hugh Rossi MP
Also includes minutes of meeting to discuss the Party’s policy on rates, 27 June 1977 (attended by MT)

Dates: 1975-11 - 1979-03
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to issues concerning the [Department of the] Environment (1), May 1979-May 1981, 1979-05 - 1981-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/2/59
Scope and Contents Part 1, 1979: includes copy of briefing note for MT from 'MH, Secretary of State for the Environment [Michael Heseltine MP]' on "Local authority manpower", 18 May 1979; copy of circulars by Heseltine via Conservative Central Office on "Sale of council and new town houses and flats", May-August 1979 Part 2, 1980: includes record of a meeting attended by MT with certain ministerial colleagues, civil servants and other parties to discuss "the relationship between...
Dates: 1979-05 - 1981-05
Conditions Governing Access: Part 1 opened in February 2010; part 2 in March 2011; part 3 in March 2012 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to Sandys' time as Minister of Housing and Local Government, 1955 - 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.

Dates: 1955 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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Policy Review: follow through, 1989-05 - 1989-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/2/44
Scope and Contents Includes: an analysis of Parliamentary candidates’ election addresses, mentioning aspects of defence; draft of NK’s speech on defence policy [? for the Welsh Labour Party Conference]; analysis of the Review by the Conservative Research Department; campaign briefing on the Review; annotated copy of the final report, "Meet the challenge, make the change"; background briefing on defence policy; note from Larry Whitty [General Secretary] on organising responses from the constituency parties;...
Dates: 1989-05 - 1989-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Policy Review: Physical and Social Environment group, 1988-01 - 1989-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/2/24
Scope and Contents

Minutes, submissions and papers from group meetings, on subjects including: planning; housing; out of town shopping; rural housing; inner cities; protecting the natural environment; transport. Also includes the group’s phase 2 report.

Dates: 1988-01 - 1989-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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