Letters from NK to H van den Broek, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Sir Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary, on an upcoming meeting of European Foreign Ministers to discuss South Africa, also including a letter from Charles Haughey, Irish Taoiseach, to NK.

Cuttings from the South African and British press on NK’s support for the African National Congress following his meeting with Oliver Tambo, President of the ANC.

Overseas tours by JEP.

Press-cuttings of articles by LSA for the Times on the South African War.

Press-cuttings of articles by LSA for the Times on the South African War.

Visit where NK acted as an independent observer, chairing a joint Commonwealth Parliamentary Association/Inter-Parliamentary Union delegation to monitor the elections. Includes: election briefings; handbook and other papers for independent observers; notes for NK’s reports and text of reports by 3rd Lord Astor of Hever, Robert Hughes, Lord Chitnis and Eileen Sudworth; papers from delegation meetings.

Correspondence, mainly with representatives of the South African Financial Mail, on JEP's visit to South Africa, particularly his speech on development between Britain and the European Economic Community for the Financial Mail Annual Investment Conference.

Also includes: papers from the conference; press cuttings from the British and South African press, including an article by JEP on his impressions of South Africa.

Includes: tributes to Jan Smuts; paper on future policy towards Central and Southern Africa under a Conservative Government; note by JA on general areas of agreement and doubt over future policy; paper on the advantages to a Conservative Government in planning an economic and political strategy in Central and Southern Africa.

This collection of photographs spans the whole of LSA’s life. It contains both personal photographs of family and friends, and official and press photographs from his political career.

Draft; by Sir George Howard Darwin; written at [South Africa]

(Draft)

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.

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.

Includes: NK’s speech for the Scottish Miners’ gala, on miners dismissed following the miners’ strike; NK’s speech at a Socialist International conference on nuclear disarmament; NK’s speech for the launch of the joint Labour Party and Trades Union Congress economic and social policy document, "A New Partnership, A New Britain". Other subjects include: world poverty; South Africa; the 40th anniversary of the United Nations; reform of the world trading and financial system.

Includes: NK’s Fabian Society lecture "Democratic Socialism - Now" on the future of socialism; NK’s speech in Sweden on Europe and the future, particularly relating to the New Right; NK’s speech to the Royal College of Defence Studies on the priorities for British defence policy. Other subjects include: the Star Wars programme; South Africa; race relations; Northern Ireland and the Anglo-Irish Agreement.

Includes: speech for the Welsh Labour Party Conference, on the Freedom and Fairness campaign; speech to the lobby for sanctions against South Africa and for a conference on the Front Line states in Africa; speech for the launch of the Coalition against Star Wars. Other subjects include: the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU); divisions within the Conservatives; energy policy; the Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election [Staffordshire].

Transcripts summarising letters from LSA to Chirol [Director of the Foreign Department of the Times] on LSA's work as the Times war correspondent in South Africa, particularly his discussions with Sir Alfred Milner [British High Commissioner for South Africa] and on Cecil Rhodes.