Scope and Contents Correspondents include: "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne] and Leo Amery on Cabinet positions in the event of a Conservative election victory; Sir Arthur Salter; Duncan Sandys on his visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and Marshal Tito; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (10); Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Ernest Taylor; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] on Ivor Thomas [later Ivor Bulmer-Thomas]; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (4); Sir Herbert Thompson on the Indian civil service and police; R Robinson, Lord Mayor of Cardiff, on matters including the Tonypandy riots [Glamorgan, Wales] and naming a road after WSC (7); representatives of the Conservative Research Department...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe], Chairman of the Conservative Party [until July 1946]; Duncan Sandys; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office [from July 1946]; Hugh Molson; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] on the situation at constituency level; James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip until 1948]; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Leo Amery on subjects including offering his services in government, money for colonial development, WSC's speech [28 March 1950, "European Unity"] and the failure of Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary] to respond to it, and Israel's relations with Britain (8); Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] (2); Philip Moore [later 1st Lord Moore of Wolvercote], Assistant Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, on the commemoration of the United...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, on the death of her mother, Queen Mary; David Astor [Editor], the Observer, on the paper's attitude to WSC; Cyril Osborne; [Kenneth] Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] (2); George Jellicoe, [1st Secretary], British Embassy, Brussels [Belgium]; C M Arthur, Honorary Secretary, Parliamentary Press Gallery, on a presentation to WSC on his 80th birthday (9); Trevor Evans, Chairman, the Press Club, on a...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Randolph Churchill on subjects including his adoption as Conservative candidate for Ross and Cromarty [Scotland], his willingness to support a Liberal candidate, canvassing, the [National Government] candidate, Malcolm MacDonald, local support, press reaction to his candidature, local agricultural conditions and economic distress, and WSC's popularity in the area (9); Brendan Bracken on Randolph's poor chances; John Astor [owner of the Times] on a suggestion in the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Sir Ronald Matthews, Chairman, London and North Eastern Railway, on travel arrangements; Sir Thomas Mitchell, Lord Provost of Aberdeen, on arrangements for WSC's visit and granting him the Freedom of the City (16); Sir Thomas Jaffrey; Helen, Lady Jaffrey, on accommodation for WSC; Sir Hastings Ismay [Additional Secretary (Military) to the Cabinet] on statistics for Scots in the Armed Forces for WSC's speech in Aberdeen ("The Needs of a Sick World", 27...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Sir Charles MacAndrew on accommodation for WSC; Robert Brown, Town Clerk, Ayr, on arrangements for WSC receiving an honorary burgess-ship (14); Sir Thomas Moore [MP for Ayr Burgh] on invitations for WSC, and WSC's speech at Ayr ["Trust the People", 16 May 1947] (3); Sir Arthur Young [MP for Partick, Glasgow] (6); Lieutenant- General Sir Robert Sturges, Royal Marines Association, asking WSC to visit the Ayrshire branch of the association; James Stuart...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on arrangements for visit to Glasgow, 16-17 Apr 1953, to address Annual Meeting of the Scottish Unionist Association, Green's Playhouse, Renfield Street.File includes correspondence with Colonel Patrick Blair, Political Secretary, Office of the Chairman of the Unionist Party in Scotland (4); John Cranna, Secretary, Scottish Unionist Association, Western Divisional Council (2); James Stuart, [later Lord Stuart of Findhorn], Secretary of State for Scotland (3); Evelyn...

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Correspondents and papers on WSC's visit to Perth, 27-28 May 1948, to receive the Freedom of the City, and to address meeting of the Scottish Unionist Association Correspondents include Lord Mansfield; Alan Gomme-Duncan MP (4); The Maclaine of Lochbuie (4), Airborne Forces Security Fund, asking him to act as patron of the Churchill Ball; Sir Arthur Young MP, Scottish Unionist Association (2); Lord Dunglass (later Lord Home), Scottish Unionist Association.

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Interview with NK on subjects including: a Scottish Parliament; devolution; a possible coalition with the Liberals; electoral reform.

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With letters to his brother and mother (1835), wife and aunt, M.A. Lowe (w.m. 1854)

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Incomplete at end, the last case breaking off at foot of fo. 68r. fos. 68v-140: blank. fo. 2: 'David Hope Empt. 17mo die Novembris 1735'. fo. 3: Puttick and Simpson sale reference.

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Includes: text of speech by NK at the annual conference of the Scottish Labour Party council, Perth, 1986; Scottish economic, employment and earning figures; notes by John Eatwell [Economic Adviser to NK]; cuttings from the financial press; notes on voting figures; transcript of "Face the Press" programme with Sir Terence Beckett, Director-General of the CBI, on the state of the economy; briefing for Perth; briefing for a press conference at Aberdeen South.

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Papers and correspondence on Labour policy on Scotland, including devolution, the Scottish Constitutional Convention, the Poll Tax and the 1992 General Election.

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Press interviews on subjects including Labour in Scotland, Poll Tax, Militant and the European Single Market.

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Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

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Includes: note from Eric Heffer; extract from NK’s speech to the Scottish Region Labour Party Conference, with notes on a resolution by Scottish MPs against the National Coal Board’s pursuing a different policy on sacking miners in Scotland to the rest of Britain; draft of NK’s speech to the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers’ lobby of Parliament; text of NK’s speech to the Gala of Scottish Miners.

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Includes: recordings from radio interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings from press conferences and Labour Party events, particularly election rallies and Party Conferences; recordings taken from newspaper interviews; recordings of various speeches by NK.

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A series of drawings in watercolour, sepia and pen-and-ink of views in Great Britain and Ireland, 32 folios. The drawings are of locations in Ireland, Scotland, the Lake District, Cambridge and Fen Ditton, and Alderley Park (possibly in Cheshire).

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: JEP's decision not to stand as a candidate in the 1974 General Election over the Conservative policy on Britain and the Common Market (including his 'Vote Labour' speech in Birmingham [Warwickshire], 23 February); strikes; inflation, the Conservative wage and price control policy and 'managed capitalism'; immigration, particularly the New Commonwealth population in Britain; the oil shortage; a European Parliament; international...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Britain's membership of the Common Market, particularly over the common fisheries policy, a European Parliament, the Common Agricultural Policy and the 1975 referendum; the trade deficit; Government borrowing; the labour market; immigration and the Asian population; unemployment; JEP's decision to leave the Conservative Party; JEP's decision to stand as an Ulster Unionist, the aims of Unionism, relations between Ulster and...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Common Market, including the European Monetary System, the views of David Owen, Foreign Secretary, on the Common Agricultural Policy, a directly elected European Parliament, fisheries policy and human rights policy; the Gospels; the Orange Order; the marriage of the heir to the throne to a Catholic; North Sea gas and oil; the representation of Northern Ireland in government, its constitution, the use of the Irish currency,...

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Subjects include: foreign policy and defence; Berlin, symbol of détente or confrontation; the civil war in Angola; the economic crisis; Britain's and Europe's interests in Central and Southern Africa; Sir Winston Churchill's political philosophy; Home Rule for Scotland; the sale of council houses; Romania; the future of the European aviation industry; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; Britain's decline.

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Subjects include: Joseph Chamberlain; the threat from the Soviet Union; Scottish and Welsh devolution; the Labour leadership crisis; the situation in China; Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; the crisis in Southern Africa; the success of Concorde.