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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 414 Collections and/or Records:

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Embryo Bill, 1985: data, 1983-01 - 1990-02

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/55
Scope and Contents Papers relating to JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985), including: copy of proceedings from the European Bioethics Conference on human embryos and research (1988); pamphlet on the Christian response to the Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1985); press cuttings and articles on embryo research, including an article by JEP on his bill; issues of the Genesis Review and papers on medical ethics seminar; Department of Health and Social Security framework for...
Dates: 1983-01 - 1990-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill 1985 (The Story in Press-cuttings), 1985

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 12/3/22
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Mainly cuttings on specific events.

Dates: 1985
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: committee, to 21 March, 1985-02 - 1985-03

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/48
Scope and Contents Correspondence on the committee stage of JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985), with correspondents including: [Bruce] Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons; [George] Victor le Fanu, Serjeant at Arms; Professor Malcolm Macnaughton, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (3); James Willcox [Clerk of Public Bills, House of Commons]; Peter Bruinvels (2) and Sir Bernard Braine [Chairman, All-party Pro Life Committee]; [William] John Biffen, Lord...
Dates: 1985-02 - 1985-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: correspondence, 1985-07 - 1986-12

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/52
Scope and Contents Correspondence with the general public or Members of Parliament on behalf of their constituents on issues in JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985). Correspondents include: [Joseph] Kenneth Hargreaves (2); Josephine Richardson; Robin Kent, Producer of Hypotheticals, Granada Television Limited, on a television conference on Society, Science and Sex (8); Phyllis Bowman, National Director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (5); Sir Bernard Braine [Chairman, All-party...
Dates: 1985-07 - 1986-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: data, to 24 July 1985, 1984-11 - 1985-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/50
Scope and Contents Correspondence with the general public and papers on JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985), with correspondents including: Sir Bernard Braine [Chairman, All-party Pro Life Committee] (4); Martin Bobrow [Professor of Paediatric Research]; Professor Malcolm Macnaughton, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; Anne Lapping, Producer of A Week in Politics; Ian Kennedy, Professor of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College, London; Maud, Lady Watherston,...
Dates: 1984-11 - 1985-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: general correspondence, 1985-05 - 1987-02

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/43
Scope and Contents Correspondence on JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985), with correspondents including: Robert Edwards [Professor of Human Reproduction, Cambridge University] on the research value of work on embryos (5); Peter Thurnham; Lord Rawlinson of Ewell, on handling the bill; Andrew Bowden on taking the bill forward; [William] John Biffen, Lord Privy Seal; George Cubie, Clerk, House of Commons; Sir Bernard Braine on taking the bill forward; John Maddox, Editor of Nature. Also...
Dates: 1985-05 - 1987-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: general correspondence, 1985-05 - 1985-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/47
Scope and Contents Correspondence on JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985), with correspondents including: William Ross (2); Ian Kennedy, Professor of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College, London (2); Godfrey Carter [former Parliamentary Counsel] (2); Andrew Bowden; David Poole; Frank Dobson [Labour front bench spokesman on health]; William Hamilton; Professor Michael Lawrence, President of the Clinical Genetics Society; Dame [Dorothy] Mary Donaldson, Chairman, Voluntary Licensing Authority for...
Dates: 1985-05 - 1985-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: general correspondence, 1988-12 - 1989-01

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/49
Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on an amended version of JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill, with correspondents including: 17th Duke of Norfolk [earlier Miles Fitzalan-Howard] on adopting the bill (2); Gerard Wright. Papers include: Report of the Warnock Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology; list of peers supporting or against the bill; memorandum by Gerard Wright on IVF legislation; paper on ethical alternatives to human embryo research from the...
Dates: 1988-12 - 1989-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: general correspondence and committee report on bill, 1985-03 - 1985-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/46
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985), with correspondents including: Sir Bernard Braine [Chairman, All-party Pro Life Committee] (2); Thomas Hill, Cambridge University Law Society (4).

Also includes: report of the standing committee on the bill.

Dates: 1985-03 - 1985-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: remaining stages, 1985-03 - 1985-04

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/45
Scope and Contents Correspondence on JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985), with correspondents including: Robert Edwards [Professor of Human Reproduction, Cambridge University], with Patrick Steptoe [Medical Director, Bourn Hall Clinic, Cambridgeshire (2); [Joseph] Kevin McNamara; Clifford Boulton [Clerk, House of Commons]; David Trippier; Peter Bruinvels; Godfrey Carter [former Parliamentary Counsel]; Professor Ian Craft, Director of Gynaecology, Cromwell Hospital, London (2); Alan Beith [Liberal...
Dates: 1985-03 - 1985-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: substantive replies to public, 1985-02 - 1985-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/51
Scope and Contents Correspondence on JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985), with the general public or Members of Parliament on behalf of their constituents. Correspondents include: Dennis Skinner; Jean, Baroness Trumpington, Joint Parliamentary Under-Sec. of State, Department of Health and Social Security; Timothy Flesher, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; John Carlisle; Stephen Ross (2); Gerard Wright; David Poole (2); Gareth Wardell; Sir Anthony Grant (2); Sir Hugh Rossi; Graham Bright;...
Dates: 1985-02 - 1985-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Embryo Bill: to second reading, 1984-11 - 1985-02

Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/44
Scope and Contents Correspondence on JEP's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill (1985), with correspondents including: [James] Gregor Mackenzie on his opposition to the bill; [Cardinal (George) Basil Hume], Archbishop of Westminster; Lord Rawlinson of Ewell on sponsoring the bill (3); Professor Malcolm Macnaughton, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, on restrictions in IVF treatment in the bill; Norman St John-Stevas [later Lord St John of Fawsley] (2); Sir Ian Percival [Chairman...
Dates: 1984-11 - 1985-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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European Commission speeches, 2003-05 - 2003-11

Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/2/138
Scope and Contents Oral questions by MEPs at the European Parliament (EP) Strasbourg, and NK’s responses. Subjects include: free trade with Gulf countries; the employment of ethnic minorities in European Union institutions; the appointment of a Portuguese Director-General for Press and Communications; human rights in Indonesia; freedom of religion in Vietnam; peace talks in Sri Lanka; women’s rights in EU organisations; the promotion of active civic participation in Europe; the abolition of grants for...
Dates: 2003-05 - 2003-11
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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Extracts from the Times and other sources relating to the Churchill family: 1908, general, 1971-08

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/8/101
Scope and Contents

Subjects include encounters with suffragettes in Dundee [Scotland], May-June 1908.

Dates: 1971-08
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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Extracts from the Times and other sources relating to the Churchill family: 1909-11, 1911-10 - 1970-08

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/8/103
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: the christening of Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys]; King Edward VII's view of Churchill; encounters with suffragettes, including Hugh Franklyn's attempted attack on Churchill with a dog whip; rail and miners' strikes, 1911. Also includes two letters from Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, on Clementine Churchill launching the battleship HMS Centurion.

Dates: 1911-10 - 1970-08
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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Extracts from the Times and other sources relating to the Churchill family: 1912-13, general, 1912-04 - 1968-01

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/8/106
Scope and Contents

Subjects include Home Rule and a visit to Belfast [Northern Ireland], and women's suffrage, including a copy of Sir Almroth Wright's letter to the Times against suffrage and an original press cutting of Clementine Churchill's response, "Ought not women to be abolished?". Also includes a letter from Clementine's sister Nellie Hozier [later Nellie Romilly].

Dates: 1912-04 - 1968-01
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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Extracts from the Times and other sources relating to the Churchill family: 1912, general, 1970-08

Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/8/105
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: a voyage on the Admiralty yacht the Enchantress in the Mediterranean; women's suffrage, including Sir Almroth Wright's letter to the Times against suffrage and Clementine Churchill's response, "Ought not women to be abolished?".

Dates: 1970-08
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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Family Correspondence, 1903 - 2003

Reference Code: GBR/0014/AHKY 1
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection of material held at Churchill Archives Centre provides a comprehensive picture of life in the Hankey family. The family correspondence in AHKY 1 illustrates the relationship between Adeline and her husband and provides detail of their life together and relationship with their children. Adeline's diaries (AHKY 2) mainly document the various journeys she made throughout her life, often accompanying Maurice. Scrapbooks and photographs (AHKY 3) provide a pictorial record....
Dates: 1903 - 2003
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. One item within the collection (AHKY 3/1/6) is currently closed for conservation reasons.
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Family policy, 1990-07

Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 11/2/27
Scope and Contents

Notes on the need to focus on women and the family, and correspondence on splits in the Shadow Cabinet over the issue between Joan Lestor [children’s affairs spokesperson], Jo Richardson [women’s rights spokesperson], Michael Meacher [social security spokesman], Harriet Harman [health spokesperson] and Hilary Armstrong [education spokesperson].

Dates: 1990-07
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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Female MPs on #Vote100 - 'Women speaking up for Women', 2018-02-06

Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/8
Scope and Contents Female MPs speak about their speeches and debates (6 February 2018), Sones hears from Dame Caroline Spelman MP, Theresa May MP, Vicky Ford MP and Helen Whately MP. Introduced by Dame Spelman live from the event. Theresa May introduces the evening before Vicky Ford speaks from central lobby about social media and using it for good causes and the importance of the Year of Engineering for women. Sones and Ford walk toward a glass display case in Central Lobby which has four acts of Parliament:...
Dates: 2018-02-06
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'Femina Vie Heureuse Prize', English Committee: Minutes and Papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8900
Scope and Contents Minutes, accounts, lists of books recommended and considered, letters from English and French committee members and prizewinners, and newscuttings. Letters from prizewinners: Percy Lubbock, Mary Webb (6), Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, H.M. Tomlinson, Charles Morgan (7), Stella Gibbons/Webb (4), Elizabeth Jenkins (2), L.H. Myers (2), Margaret Lane, Richard Church (2), and Robert Graves. Letters from French prizewinners: Joseph Kessel, François Mauriac, Marion Gilbert (2), étienne Burnet...
Dates: 1919-1940 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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General suffrage material, 1911 - 1914

Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 2/2/20
Scope and Contents

Various flyers, leaflets, membership cards, press cuttings etc, including: service cards of the Votes for Women Fellowship; annual report of the Actresses' Franchise League; programme for the women's march from Edinburgh [Scotland] to London, Nov 1912; issue of the Humanitarian.

Dates: 1911 - 1914
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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Harriet Harman MP #IWD2018, 2018-03-06

Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/11
Scope and Contents The Mother of the House Harriet Harman MP delivered her 2018 International Women's Day speech to a specially convened House of Commons Works of Art Committee Audience in Westminster. Harman is introduced by Alison McGovern MP. Harman begins by thanking McGovern and paying tribute to other female MPs, as well as Helen Pankhurst. Harman discusses the relationship between men and women as she was growing up as a woman. Harman talks about feeling out of place and seeing the ranks of men in grey...
Dates: 2018-03-06
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Harriet Harman Q and As for #IWD2018 after her speech, 2018-03-06

Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/12
Scope and Contents Harriet Harman MP gives her view on getting more women and black, asian, minority ethnic MPs into Westminster and the barriers they face. She comments: 'what are we training them for, to become Winston Churchill in the Darkest Hour!". Harman says that this is not about doing different groups of people 'a favour', Parliament has to be representative, it is a necessity. Harman notes that when she came into Parliament it was like it was during the 'Darkest Hour' film. It is not Harman's...
Dates: 2018-03-06
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Health: cancer screening, 1987-02 - 1987-09

Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 11/1/11
Scope and Contents

Briefing papers and cuttings on breast cancer screening.

Dates: 1987-02 - 1987-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.