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Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.

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Gives: weekly and quarterly totals received, plus dividends, etc., and notes of payments, with printed annual statements from 1907.

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Records fortnightly contributions, totalled quarterly.

Scope and Contents Minutes, papers and correspondence of the Conservative Policy Study Group on subjects including: education (including memorandum by 2nd Lord Hailsham, [Minister of Education, earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]); agriculture; industrial policy; national insurance; taxation; defence regulations; social services; pensions; nationalised industries; the structure of the Social Services Ministries; the People's League for the Defence of Freedom and the Middle Class...

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Subjects include: NK’s poll rating; the National Pensioners’ Convention; NK’s visit to Sheffield [Yorkshire]; NK’s early life and political career; the miners’ strike.

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Press review of a European Parliament Socialist Bureau meeting in London, a pensioners’ rally and a European textiles forum in Bradford, Yorkshire.

Scope and Contents Briefings for visits including: a pensioners’ press conference and sheltered housing project, Islington South, and a visit to Ealing, [London], June 1989; women taxi drivers in Islington, Oct 1989; Nottingham and the East Midlands, including visits to GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) and Boots and a meeting with local manufacturers, and Reading [Berkshire], Feb 1990; meeting with manufacturers, Cambridge, May 1990; Barnsley [Yorkshire], to open the Metrodome Leisure Centre, July 1990;...

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Briefings for NK’s visits including: the "Old and Cold" visit to Hammersmith and Fulham [London]; a delegation campaigning for Birmingham Children’s Hospital; visit to Edinburgh, Scotland, for a campaign against the Poll Tax.

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Briefings for NK’s visits including: visit to the East Midlands, for the "Leader Listens" event in Loughborough [Leicestershire]; a delegation from the National Pensioners’ Convention (also relating to the "Old and Cold" Hammersmith and Fulham visit in London), including copies of correspondence with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on winter fuel allowances; visit to a Social Security office and geriatric hospital in Cardiff [Wales] and for a Poll Tax photo call.

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Comprise three copies; one of them is interleaved and annotated.

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Correspondence, notes and press releases on Labour’s response to the Mirror Group pension fund scandal. Includes: notes of a meeting between NK and Alastair Campbell [Political Editor of the Daily Mirror]; copy of a letter from Gordon Brown, Trade and Industry spokesman, to Peter Lilley, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry; statements by Marjorie 'Mo' Mowlam, City and Corporate Affairs spokesman, and Michael Meacher, Social Security spokesman; briefings.

Scope and Contents Leader's Consultative Committee papers and minutes on subjects including: powers to control incomes, by [Leonard] Robert Carr and Iain Macleod; regional government; Greater London Council rent policy; the effects of devaluation, by Iain Macleod; family poverty, by [Irene] Mervyn Pike; the Speaker's Conference on electoral reform, by the Chairman of the Conservative Party [Anthony Barber], and also by Edward du Cann; redistribution of seats, by [Anthony Barber] and also by Edward du Cann;...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: various speeches, May 1954; Clementine's treatment [for neuritis]; a weekend at Chequers [Buckinghamshire], May 1954; the health of Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa Churchill, later Clarissa, Lady Avon], Churchill's agreement with [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] over the Geneva conference [on Indochina and Korea] and hopes for a ceasefire, while also avoiding a break with the United States; a debate on MPs' pay and a row in the Conservative...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Labour economic policy, particularly price and income policy and savings policy; the extension of higher education; the coverage of race issues by the press and BBC; industrial relations, trade union law and strikes, including the teachers' strike; Britain's entry into the Common Market and the effects of the Market on Germany; immigration; the balance of payments and the exchange rate; housing; Training Boards; pension policy;...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: agricultural policy; industrial relations and trade union law reform; immigration; political violence, particularly in Northern Ireland and in the universities; inflation; nationalised industry; Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe and Zambia]; exports and productivity; industrial safety legislation; the General Election; Britain's entry into the Common Market; Vietnam; taxation; housing; the free market; teachers' strikes; the nuclear deterrent;...

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: speech for the launch of the policy document "Labour’s Better Way for the 1990s"; speech for the local election campaign launch; lecture to the European Industrial Policy conference, "The Learning Society and the Creative Economy"; speech to the Scottish Trades Union Congress; speech for the launch of a family policy document; speech for NK’s annual meeting with pensioners and [James] Jack Jones [Life President, National Pensioners’ Convention]; speech for the Monmouth by-election...

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Correspondence with teachers and representatives of teachers' unions from JA's Preston constituency, Lancashire, protesting against increases in their pension contributions. Other correspondents include Sir David Eccles, Minister of Education.

Scope and Contents The collection includes material relating to Hynd's spell as Minister for Germany and Austria from 1945 to 1947 and his consequent life-long interest in Germany and in promoting good relations between Germany and Great Britain. There are several files of papers in the collection illustrating this aspect of his career as well as his involvement in other aspects of foreign relations. Having started his career as a railway clerk in his home town of Perth, Hynd kept some of his early...

Scope and Contents Papers on NK’s contribution to a BBC programme, including: rough notes on socialist principles; correspondence with Peter Kellner on Clause IV of the Labour Party constitution, on the party’s aims and values; background papers on subjects including pensions and working conditions; annotated script on subjects including: the divisions in American society; the combination of capitalism and ethical socialism in Europe; the need to rewrite Labour’s Clause IV; taxation; pension provision in...

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Hundreds of women marched from Hyde Park to Westminster from all over the country, in protest again at the rise to their state pension age. Carrying banners, and bringing traffic to a standstill outside Parliament several of the campaign groups associated with the SPA rises for women joined together #ShoulderToShoulder to raise the issue yet again with politicians and Theresa May's government.

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Briefings, arrangements (including correspondence with Peter Mandelson, producer) and transcripts for NK’s interviews with Brian Walden for Weekend World. Subjects include: economic policy and Labour’s attitude to the City; NK’s visits to Europe, the Stockholm Conference on arms control [Sweden] and the situation in the Lebanon; foreign policy; renationalisation; pensions; defence; energy.

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Briefings, arrangements and transcripts for NK’s interview with Brian Walden for Weekend World, Jan 1984. Subjects include: electoral strategy; economic policy; renationalisation; trade unions; defence; pensions. Includes a transcript of an earlier Weekend World interview with [William] John Biffen, Leader of the House of Commons, on Government cuts to public spending.