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Written from HMS Repulse, HMS Canopus, HMS Goliath, HMS Albemarle, HMS King Alfred and from the British Embassy, Tokyo, including England, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Morocco, Gibraltar, Sri Lanka, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malta, Sicily and Italy.
With sketches.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Andrew Alexander, Daily Mail, on a speech by JA on Northern Ireland; Humphrey Atkins, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [later Lord Colnbrook]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Kenneth Baker on asking Macmillan to take part in a conference at Ditchley Park [Oxfordshire] on the state of politics in the West; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye; 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Vernon Willey] on Sir Walter Walker's book "The Next Domino" and...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Ian Aitken; Jonathan Aitken; Jeffrey Archer, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party; Sir Robert Armstrong; Kenneth Baker, Secretary of State for Education and Science on the introduction of the GCSE exam; [Antony] Tony Baldry on Britain's forthcoming Presidency of the European Community and the establishment of the Presidency Information Unit; Sir Derek Barber, Chairman of the Countryside Commission; Sir John Barton-Townley [earlier Sir John Townley]; [John] Roy...

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Includes: press-cuttings on the political scene in Ulster; correspondence with representatives of the South Down Unionist Association on a review of the organisation; figures for the 1987 election turn-out in South Down [Northern Ireland].

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the 1987 election, with correspondents including: Scilla McLean, Research Director, Oxford Research Group (5) on an article by JEP on a non-nuclear defence policy; James Molyneaux [Leader, Ulster Unionist Party] circulating material on absent voting, and writing to the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland, and on the authority of the Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Party, and (writing to the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher), on the rise in terrorist...

Scope and Contents Correspondents, on subjects including campaign arrangements, good luck wishes and congratulations, include: Henry West [Leader, Ulster Unionist Party]; James Molyneaux [Leader, Ulster Unionist Party, House of Commons] (2); John Taylor; David Chipp, Editor in Chief, Press Association. Also includes: lists of helpers; note by JEP on the result in South Down [Northern Ireland]; election programmes; extracts from minutes of an Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Coalition...

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Minutes of a Parliamentary Committee meeting on subjects including the retrial of the Birmingham Six and the Stalker affair [John Stalker’s investigation into the alleged ‘shoot to kill’ policy of security forces in Northern Ireland]. Also includes note by Tony Benn for the National Executive Committee and Shadow Cabinet on the aims and objectives of the Labour Party.

Scope and Contents Includes: Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) paper on voting at Conference; brief for meeting with Terry Davis, Jeff Rooker and Clare Short on the timetabling of the Birmingham Road Race bill; brief for a meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe [Foreign Secretary] on the Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Tier; brief for meeting with James Molyneaux [Leader, Ulster Unionist Party]; an outline publicity strategy for children’s issues; note by [Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications]...

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Typescript and manuscript speech notes by LSA against Home Rule for Ireland, with print of an article by LSA for the Lancashire and Cheshire Junior Unionist.

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Includes: extracts from the Quarterly Review on Home Rule; published interview and correspondence between John Seely, Secretary of State for War [later 1st Lord Mottistone], General Sir Arthur Paget [Commander-in-Chief, Ireland] and Brigadier-General Hubert Gough [Commander, 3rd Cavalry Brigade at the Curragh], on resignations of officers in the Irish Command over the imposition of Home Rule; copies of Hansard covering the debate on the Government of Ireland Bill, March-April 1914.

Scope and Contents Ford speaks about her speech in the recent debate on reforming the abortion laws in Northern Ireland and amending the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861 proposed by the Labour politician Stella Creasy. The debate was brought forward after a referendum in Southern Ireland [Ireland] where the vote was in support of abortion reform leaving Northern Ireland out of step with the rest of the UK. Ford talked to Sones before Supreme Court ruled whether or not the UK in contravention of the Human...

Scope and Contents Letters from Milner to LSA on subjects including: the Compatriots [tariff reform group]; payment for LSA's work; LSA's work on the Times History of the South African War; Milner's concerns about the new South African constitution; the political situation in Australia; LSA's visit to Australia with the Empire Parliamentary Association; the death of George Wyndham; Home Rule for Ulster; LSA's poor chances of gaining a parliamentary seat at Oxford and failure at Wolverhampton [Staffordshire];...

Scope and Contents Includes: draft of a letter written by LSA to the Times on the breakdown of the inter-Party conference on Ireland and the Government's policy of breaking up the United Kingdom (1914); reprint of a Times article on a suggested Irish settlement; print of an address to Unionist MPs on the Irish boundary question, by Ronald McNeill [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, later 1st Lord Cushendun]; reprint of an article by Sir Kingsley Wood, on the case for Ulster; article on...

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

Scope and Contents Correspondence on cancelled articles and media interviews by JEP, with correspondents including: Paul Morrish (3); representatives of the Telegraph Magazine (5); representatives of the BBC (9); James MacManus, Assistant Editor, Sunday Telegraph (3); Douglas Keay, Woman's Own magazine (6); representatives of Phi Television Limited (4); Susan Raven, Assistant Editor, Sunday Times magazine (5); Gillian Fairchild, Features Editor of Good Housekeeping (3); David Skan, Commissioning Editor, the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence on articles and media interviews by JEP which were not published or shown, with correspondents including: Frank Kelly (3); representatives of Granada Television Limited (5); Robert Miller (3); representatives of Diverse Production Limited (3); Geraint Davies, Assistant Controller of Programmes, HTV Wales (2); Charles Douglas-Home, Editor of the Times; Richard Gott, Features Editor of the Guardian; Claire Tomalin [Literary Editor], Sunday Times (2); Brian Southam, Managing...

Scope and Contents Correspondence on articles and media interviews by JEP which were not published or shown, with correspondents including: John Coldstream, Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph (2); Christopher Hudson, Leader Page Editor of the Daily Telegraph (4); Timothy Hames (3); Lucy Wagner (6); representatives of BBC Scotland (3). Also includes: texts of reviews by JEP of a History of Parliament and on biblical history, and texts of articles on subjects including the current intake of MPs, the...

Scope and Contents Report of the Water Appeals Commission on the Kinnahalla Scheme (for building a reservoir at Kinnahalla [County Down, Northern Ireland]) with correspondence (mostly in protest) from individuals including: Philip Goodhart [Minister responsible for Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland) (2); L George Glasgow, Director of the Sports Council for Northern Ireland (3); representatives of the Kingdom of Mourne Revolt Against Destruction of the Environment (3); Raymond Carter...

Scope and Contents Questions answered by NK on subjects including: Black Sections and racism in the Labour Party; taking Labour voters for granted and the need for party discipline to win power; the concentration of resources on target seats; non-payment of the Poll Tax; a greater role for the membership in Party Conferences; education policy; the trades unions and the employment training scheme; the shooting of IRA terrorists in Gibraltar, counter-terrorism in Northern Ireland and Labour's policy on the...

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Relate to civil rights, deportation, censorships etc.

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Relate to civil rights, deportation, censorships etc.

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Correspondence with the general public.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on JEP's bill to bring Northern Ireland's statutory redundancy payments in line with Britain, with correspondents including: Peter Viggers [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Industry Minister), Northern Ireland Office]; Kenneth Clarke, Paymaster General (2); Tom McKee, Regional Official, NAS and UWT Northern Ireland Federation (5); Ivor Stanbrook; Derek Fatchett; Douglas Millar, Clerk in Charge of Private Members' Bills (2). Also includes: copy of the...

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Letter to Beeson, Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, and Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, on why JEP would not pray specifically for justice in Northern Ireland, and not for the rest of Britain, as this implied that Northern Ireland should not be part of the United Kingdom.

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The collection comprises a wide variety of material from a number of different sources which have been deemed too small to be considered individual collections in their own right and have been grouped together under the heading "miscellaneous". Subjects covered include First and Second World Wars, the Falklands Campaign, and recollections of Sir Winston Churchill.