Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's experiences of air-raids and bombing near her flat in Chelsea; reflections on the impact of the war in comparison with the First World War; comments on the marriage, personalities, and domestic life of Nancy and Wilfred Greene; the transfer of her section at the Ministry of Information to the Public Relations division; comments on her writing projects and working conditions at Senate House; a lunch with Clement Attlee at the House of Commons; taking up...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Reconstruction Secretariat and the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS); a meeting with Mary Glasgow to discuss the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA); her experiences of air-raids and bomb damage near her flat in Chelsea; Ministry of Information Planning Committee meetings; Myra Curtis and the principalship of Newnham College; a visit to Eton College; reflections on the role of economists in wartime; the departure of...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work at the Reconstruction Secretariat; her work on salvage, refugees, and rationing for the Women's Voluntary Service; Ministry of Information Planning Committee meetings and a discussion on 'American Understanding (publicity)'; a lunch with Storm Jameson; bomb damage in central London; the emotional and psychological impact of the war and her fear of invasion; writing, including the impact of war on the modern novel; her move to Richmond Terrace; a...

Scope and Contents Subjects include an uncomfortable dinner with Lord Reith; Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Ministry of Information Planning and Women's International Advisory committees; her work on the Barlow Committee, with comments on training for women and a row over family allowances; the Foreign Research and Press Service (FRPS); her writing, with comments on the progress of her memoirs; home decorating; her reflection on selfhood and war work, following a broadcast speech by Winston Churchill;...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's participation in the Brains Trust, including with Florence Horsburgh; Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Reconstruction Secretariat, including on child welfare, USA-UK cooperation, and demobilisation, and her comments on the new minister, Sir William Jowitt; the Beveridge Committee, including discussion of 'spinsters' and means tests; her writing, including revisions to a novel and her journalism; a visit to a London County Council hospital to see...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's return following her USA tour; her work for the Reconstruction Secretariat, including writing a brief for a minister's speech on women; her work for the Women's Voluntary Service; a lunch with Herbert Morrison and discussion of relationships between individuals in the war coalition; her writing, including for broadcasts, Ministry of Information pamphlets on democracy and reconstruction, and the progress of her memoirs; home decorating; news of internal...

Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's work for the Ministry of Information and her satisfaction with the American Division; Erwin Schuller and his past; news of the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of France and Belgium; a PEN conference, at which E. M. Forster gave an address; the Dartington Hall Arts Enquiry; reflections on the need for a new guiding philosophy and the meaning of life; Mary Agnes Hamilton's broadcasts for the BBC and the Brains Trust; her work on salvage for the...

Scope and Contents Includes: notes and briefing on the launch of Labour’s arts policy document; copy of a letter from Roy Hattersley [home affairs spokesman] on discussions with the BBC about which ministry would be responsible for television under a Labour Government; memorandum from British Sky Broadcasting on the development of satellite television services; information pack from Independent Television Publications Limited on programme schedules and licensing arrangements; note on cultural diplomacy;...

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76 podcast interviews collated for the publication 'When There's a Woman in the Room - #Vote 100 year January 2018 to January 2019' and written with journalists Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother. Sones' focus was primarily on recording interviews with MPs who champion public policy reforms through debates in Westminster Hall or by asking questions at PMQs.

For most podcasts, both 'raw' and 'edited' versions exist.

Scope and Contents Recording of television news bulletin on subjects including: the Government’s white paper on broadcasting; financial help for pensioners in need; a strike over the ban on trades union membership at GCHQ; the United States election; the stuation in the Soviet Union; the CBI [Confederation of British Industry] conference. Also includes a [BBC Panorama] television interview with Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on subjects including: financial help for pensioners and other...

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The collection contains press cuttings and correspondence relating to Sir Geoffrey's kidnap, and 8-month captivity, by the Tupamaros while he was Ambassador to Uruguay in 1971. This experience is reflected in his subsequent writings, lectures, broadcasts and interests covered in the rest of the collection. There is relatively little material on Sir Geoffrey's earlier diplomatic career.

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The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

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Papers relating to BBC meetings discussing audience research methods. With a copy of a document entitled 'H. L. R.'s observations on Dr. Abrams's report on the Listener Research Department' (n.d.).

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Mainly consists of letters from the general public following radio interviews and television appearances by JEP, but also includes correspondence with the BBC and some transcripts of interviews, particularly for the "Odd Man Out" documentary.

Scope and Contents Photocopies of transcripts, and one original transcript, of Mary Agnes Hamilton's BBC broadcasts. Comprising: 'The Week in Geneva' (relayed from Geneva), 2 October 1930; 'The Month in the North II', 25 November 1930; 'The Month in the North III', 23 December 1930; 'The Week in Westminster', 15 April 1931; 'The Week in Westminster', 30 September 1931; 'The Boat Train', 4 June 1934; 'Have You Been Following the News?', 19 November 1938; 'Some Doings of the Week', 3 May 1939; 'Calling All...

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Copy of 'Broadcast Talks', with listings of Mary Agnes Hamilton's talks on politics in the North of England.

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The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Plowden Papers include: engagement diaries (1947-93); a wide range of political and personal correspondence (1946-94); copies of speeches (1960-90); working papers and correspondence on Plowden's autobiography "An Industrialist in the Treasury"; a large amount of papers relating to public commitments such as atomic energy, Plowden's various committees, political groups and business interests, enquiries into the police, the review board on top salaries etc (1957-95); press cuttings and...

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Draft copy of Labour policy on broadcasting, with accompanying correspondence and papers from Norman Buchan, arts spokesman.

Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: immigration; defence, particularly cuts in the Middle East, British withdrawal from Singapore (in interviews with Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1967), and retaining use of nuclear weapons; floating exchange rates; JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics; Parliamentary privilege and...

Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: Britain and the Common Market, regulation of capitalism and immigration (included in a Politics in the 70's radio debate with Roy Jenkins); the Labour Party and Conservative Party (in Politics in the 70's radio debates with Roy Jenkins, Reginald Maudling and Michael Foot); legislation on equal rights for women; the Commonwealth; the relation between immigration and Christian duty (in a...

Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: Charles Bradlaugh; the aims of the Ulster Unionists; collective Cabinet responsibility for policy; control of Britain's money supply and national and Parliamentary sovereignty; the trial of Socrates; the powers of the monarchy; Thomas Hobbes; the role of the House of Lords; JEP's career; Shakespeare's sonnets; Sir Martin Gilbert's biography of Sir Winston Churchill; the causes of the...

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Gramophone record collection (plus other sound recordings) owned by Sir Winston Churchill. Includes large metal deed box marked 'The Rt Hon Winston Spencer Churchill' on the outside, containing the following items 12/1-3.

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Lists and transcripts of broadcasts, and copies of correspondence with the BBC about them.

Scope and Contents Leader's Consultative Committee papers on subjects including: nationalisation of steel, by Iain Macleod, including a minute to Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Leader of the Conservative Party, earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; relations with the trade unions, by Joseph Godber [former Minister of Labour] and Sir John Hobson [former Attorney-General]; general policy on the economy, Europe, industry, social security, education, law and order, defence and foreign affairs, by...