Speeches from the 1929 General Election campaign, the opening of the Five-Power Naval Conference in London and a wartime broadcast by LSA to Turkey.

Cassette recordings of speeches and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP.

The duties of the Orator are 'to write addresses for presentation to the Sovereign and formal letters for presentation to other Universities and institutions' and to 'present to the Chancellor and University persons on whom the titles of degrees are conferred honoris causa'. The office was founded by statute in (probably) 1521, but there are both earlier and later records of one-off payments for such compositions. The title changed from ‘Public Orator’ to ‘Orator’ in 1926.

Correspondence, mainly with representatives of Anaya Publishers Limited, and representatives of Belinda Harley Associates, publicists, on the publication of Ritchie's edition of speeches by JEP on Europe. Other correspondents include: Frank Bough; Mark Lennox-Boyd, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (3); John Major; Richard Ritchie (3).

Also includes: publicity material; proof and draft text of JEP's preface to the book.

Text of speech at [?] the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool [Lancashire].

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.

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.

Also Northern Ireland.

Annotated advance copy of a speech to Parliament by LSA on British proposals for India's new constitution.

Also expenses.

Speech drafts written for Neil Kinnock, as Leader of the Labour Party, with notes on speech writing strategy, and also papers on Labour's Black Sections policy and ethnic minority representation in the Party.

Minutes of meetings and texts, including papers on speech strategy, notes on a speech on defence policy, summaries of campaign speeches in Cardiff [Wales] and for the Pontypridd by-election, and the text of the Pontypridd speech.

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.

Notes for WSC's speech (Washington) on his American ancestry; his democratic convictions ("I am a child of the House of Commons"); the resources available to the United States and Britain and the production of munitions; relations between the Unites States and Britain; his observations of morale and "Olympian fortitude" in the United States; the north African campaign, and the war with Japan in the Far East.Typescript speaking notes with manuscript annotations by WSC.

Annotated notes for speeches by LSA, on subjects including: the new army system; LSA's election addresses (1905, 1908); Canada; the Army Bill (in a speech written for Field Marshal 1st Lord Roberts, 1907); the defence of the Empire and federal problems; women's suffrage; Germany's naval menace; the new era in South Africa; mountaineering; policies on the constitution, Empire and home affairs.

Annotated typescripts, prints, cuttings, notes and manuscripts of speeches by LSA on subjects including: imperial unity, particularly on Canada, the possibility of an Imperial council and separating the Colonial Office from an Imperial Office, and including a speech written for 1st Lord Roberts; taxation (in LSA's maiden speech in the House of Commons); temperance; links between defence policy and strategy; the need for a national policy for dealing with syphilis; blocking motions.

Reprints and texts of speeches by LSA on subjects including: the famine in India; the new Indian constitution, Indian Army and plans for reconstruction; the Empire; post-war organic reconstruction and social and economic development in the Commonwealth.

Also includes: list of LSA's speeches (from AMEL 1/6/44-6).

Notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: India and the war; the suspension of self-government in provinces controlled by the Congress Party; India's post-war future; Britain's external trade after the war; regenerating Europe, the Commonwealth and the Empire.

Cuttings of WSC’s speeches on Boer War, Education, Budget, Trade Unions.