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Papers including: drafts of a strategy note on phase 2; policy submissions on transport, defence and disarmament, economy, urban and regional policy, Britain in the world.

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Working papers on population trends, migration, and housing, covering subjects such as population statistics; British emigration to Commonwealth countries; refugees from Continental Europe in Britain; generational differences in cultural memory; commuting and suburban sprawl. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's notes on population trends, class, and social change. Includes draft of Mark Abrams's article "1951 Census Results" (1952).

Scope and Contents Includes: speech at Party headquarters, Walworth Road; draft of NK’s resignation speech, with statements from Bryan Gould, environment spokesman, and Jack Cunningham, campaign co-ordinator; speech for the Queen’s Speech debate; speech to the Parliamentary party; speech for debate on the Government’s opt out from the Social Chapter and majority voting on economic and monetary union, in the Maastricht Treaty; speech on the European Council meeting, Lisbon [Portugal, June 1992]; statement on...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: JA's view of China; the by-election for Brighton Pavilion [Sussex], including Desmond Donnelly's support for JA; the rising costs of Concorde; reviews of Vols 5 and 6 of JA's biography of Joseph Chamberlain; the sanctions policy against Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; televising debates in the House of Commons; [John] Enoch Powell; Soviet influence in the Middle East; the Monday Club; protests against the South African cricket tour; Edward Heath's new administration;...

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The cuttings mainly relate to housing, but other subjects include a demonstration against JA by students at the University of Sussex.

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The cuttings mainly relate to housing.

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Subjects include: housing; the cod war with Iceland; Cyprus; the Conservative leadership election, won by Margaret Thatcher, 1975; Thatcher's speech on the threat from the Soviet Union, Jan 1976; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; Concorde; the deaths of British mercenaries in Angola.

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Cuttings from the Manchester Evening News, Bolton Evening News and other newspapers on statements made by GK while Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment, about council housing, particularly in the north-west.

Scope and Contents Subjects include invitations from various local associations, asking JA to visit them or become a patron. Other correspondents include: Alfred Robens, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power, on dealing with individual petrol allowance cases; Hilary Marquand, Minister of Pensions; Benjamin Pollard, Bishop of Lancaster; Sir Norman Seddon-Brown (2); John Townley on policy towards pensioners and petrol supply (4); [Frances] Joan, Lady Davidson, Chairman of the Young Britons...

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Papers and correspondence, mainly on council estate heating provisions.

Scope and Contents Box 1: 15 subject files, mainly concerning Davies's works as an M.P. - Parliamentary Labour Party, local government, bills, correspondence, etc. Box 2: Planning, 11 files - Guildhall, traffic and roads, University development, etc. Box 3: Housing, Rating, Public Health, and Education, 11 files. Box 4: Correspondence, etc. Only files 7 and 8 (Planning) and 11 (Cambridge City Labour Party) are open to readers. Box 5: Various committees, etc., 6 files and printed items - local government...

Scope and Contents Includes: notes on the publication of "Making Our Way", with comments and drafts of the introduction; NK’s Party Conference speech on non-nuclear defence policy; speech for the launch of the Investing in People campaign; address to the Royal Society of Arts on education for capability; speech at the launch of Students for a Labour Victory; speech for the Pensioners’ consultative conference. Other subjects include: paralysis in international affairs, particularly on nuclear...

Scope and Contents Includes: New Year message to the Soviet Union; speech for the launch of the London Pride campaign; statement for the launch of Industry 2000; speech to the Confederation of European Socialist Parties, Berlin [Germany] on Eastern Europe; speech to the Labour local government conference; speech to the National Farmers’ Union on agricultural policy; speech for the launch of the Policy Review update "Looking to the Future"; speech to the Southern Africa Coalition lobby on sanctions against...

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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.

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Includes: briefings for visit to the London Housing Unit exhibition, Hammersmith and Fulham sheltered housing scheme and a crime prevention initiative; briefing for a meeting with Poll Tax petitioners; briefing for and notes on a meeting with Deniz Baykal [Turkish Republican People Party's General Secretary].

Scope and Contents Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: visit to New York [United States], including texts of speeches by John Brademas, President of New York University; visit to Australia [cancelled]; visit to Waltham Forest housing developments, London; visit to Liverpool for Eric Heffer’s award of the freedom of the city; the launch of a biography of Mary Robinson, President of Ireland; a photocall with Vickers workers, including briefings on the replacement of the Chieftain...

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Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: a reception on housing policy, including a copy of a letter from NK to John Major, Prime Minister on the mortgage crisis; a meeting with President Alberto Fujimori of Peru; a dinner given by the Asian community for the Speaker of the House of Commons, [Bruce] Bernard Weatherill, including a letter from Donald Gray, Chaplain to the Speaker.

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Letters, speeches and papers relating to Woodford Conservative Association including: Wanstead and Woodford Borough Council reports on post-war housing and a speech by Clementine on council housing; memorandum on political education.

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Papers and correspondence on the Young Women's Christian Association National Hostels Committee and other YWCA business including a YWCA survey of the housing needs of women and girls in Great Britain and the condition of various hostels. Includes some later material from Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill]'s research for her biography of Clementine.

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Papers and correspondence on the Young Women's Christian Association, including: a survey of the housing needs of women and girls; report by Clementine on a visit to a hostel in Sheffield [Yorkshire]; National Hostels Committee papers; correspondence and reports on various hostels, including a new hostel in Exeter [Devon], and hostels in Cheltenham [Gloucestershire] and Northampton.