Scope and Contents Letters and minutes between LSA and Milner on subjects including: policy on Ireland; the lack of organisation for recruitment and training on the outbreak of war; the campaign for conscription or National Service; the stalemate on the Western Front; the Dardanelles Campaign and the situation in the Balkans; the need for a change in Government and more concentration on the Empire, rather than Britain's place in Europe; David Lloyd-George's new coalition Government, and reasons for Milner not...

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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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.

Scope and Contents Includes: articles on free trade and the currency, 1847-57; offprint of an article on the history of London government; report on the polls and the 1970 election by Richard Rose, Professor of Politics, Strathclyde University; copies of immigration and nationality legislation, 1948-80; correspondence on immigration statistics with David Ennals, Secretary of State for Social Services and Jennifer Tanfield, Head of Statistical Section, House of Commons Library, with tables for the 1976...

Scope and Contents Includes: copies of telegrams between Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, and Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States, on American aid being given to Egypt, 1953; correspondence on the Community Charge, including a letter from Sir Peter Hordern on local government finance; memorandum on protecting the West's sources of oil in the Gulf; paper by Sir Philip Goodhart [Chairman of the Anglo-Taiwan Parliamentary Group] on relations with Taiwan; correspondence on a speech by JA at...

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Visits and meetings, mostly relating to European transport policy and trans-European network issues.

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Papers and correspondence on Labour policy on Northern Ireland and also Ireland, including the shooting of IRA members in Gibraltar, 1988 and the formation of the British-Irish Inter Parliamentary Body.

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Press photographs of a Sinn Fein rally, broken up by the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

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Copies of speeches by JA, mainly in debates on the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Northern Ireland Bill and devolution.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The Plowden Papers include: engagement diaries (1947-93); a wide range of political and personal correspondence (1946-94); copies of speeches (1960-90); working papers and correspondence on Plowden's autobiography "An Industrialist in the Treasury"; a large amount of papers relating to public commitments such as atomic energy, Plowden's various committees, political groups and business interests, enquiries into the police, the review board on top salaries etc (1957-95); press cuttings and...

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Manuscript drafts of speeches by LSA on subjects including: brotherhood; Canada as an Imperial nation; support for election candidates; terrorism in Ireland; the appeal by Field Marshal 1st Lord Haig for volunteers to join the British Legion; the constitution of Britain and the Empire.

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Includes: letters and press reports on the Selborne scheme for the entry and training of naval officers; lecture notes on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5; letters and papers on the Curragh Mutiny, 1914; letters on Wemyss's possible promotion to Flag Rank or retirement; miscellaneous letters.

Scope and Contents Papers for the meeting of the Radio Astronomy Planning Committee of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at State House, London, on 15 May 1963. The documents include minutes and matters arising from the third meeting of the committee on 22 June 1962; a draft report of the committee; Dr J.S. Hey, 'Summary of a Survey Paper on Radio Telescopes'; copies of two items of correspondence between the Minister of Finance, Northern Ireland, and the Lord President of the Council...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with Hon John Baring (Baring Bros), Raymond Brook (GKN), Sir Arnold Hall (Chairman, Hawker Siddeley), Hector Laing (Chairman, United Biscuits); and copies of correspondence between Michael Heseltine MP and Harold Wilson MP, and Kenneth Baker MP and John Sacher (relating to his industrial dining group) Also includes notes on a meeting between Sir Sydney Thomas Franklin ("Don") Ryder (Chairman, National Enterprise Board) and the Conservative Industry...

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Includes correspondence between Ian Gow MP (MT's Parliamentary Private Secretary) and Eamon Kennedy (Irish Ambassador to the UK); and Gow and J. Enoch Powell MP

Scope and Contents Part 1, 1979: includes letter to MT from Tom Pendry (Department of Finances, Stormont) replying to questions asked by the late Airey Neave MP, 30 April 1979; copies of the communiqués issued after Anglo-Irish summits on 5 September 1979 and 5 October 1979; briefing note for MT from Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary), "Ulster", 27 November 1979; and briefing note for MT from T.E. (Peter) Utley, "Thoughts on Ulster", November 1979 Part 2, 1980: includes...

Scope and Contents Part 1, 1980: includes correspondence between Ian Gow MP (MT's Parliamentary Private Secretary) and J. Enoch Powell MP; record of meeting between MT, Gow and Powell on 1 May 1980; and copies of the communiqués issued after Anglo-Irish summits on 21 May 1980, 8 December 1980 Part 2, 1981 Part 3, 1982: includes briefing notes for MT from Gow; paper of Cabinet Defence and Oversea Policy Committee "Northern Ireland: constitutional report", a memorandum by the Secretary of State...

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Includes MT’s handwritten notes
Includes correspondence with Philip Goodhart MP, Airey Neave MP, Gordon Reece and Ian Trethowan (BBC)
Also includes a note comprising copy of a statement to Parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Denis Healey MP] on the Interim Committee of the International Monetary Fund in Jamaica on 7-8 January 1976, presumably mis-filed

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Includes correspondence with Airey Neave MP and James Molyneaux MP
Also includes copies of speeches by Airey Neave MP, 7 April 1978, and Ian Gow MP, 5 May 1978; notes of a meeting attended by Airey Neave MP and others [but not MT] of a meeting of the Ulster Regional Council, 12 June 1978; and circular notes by Shorts Aircraft and Missiles on, "The Northern Ireland Situation", January 1978

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Part 1, 1980
Part 2, 1981
Part 3, 1982
Part 4, 1983

Scope and Contents Correspondence from and concerning political agents in South Down [Northern Ireland], particularly: speeches by Alexander Kane, Organiser of the South Down Imperial Unionist Association, on blunders at Westminster, and on his resignation; a speech by James Dillon, chairman of the Iveagh Unionist Association, criticising the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party; E Paul Baxter, Organiser of the South Down Unionist Association on subjects including his appointment. Other...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Lord Charles Beresford; Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada on the panic in the Conservative Party over food taxes, on preferential trade within the Empire and the Canadian political situation (3); [?] Charles Boyd; Sir Edward Carson (2); Lord [Edgar] Robert Cecil [later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood] on subjects including an enquiry into the Dublin Police, the involvement of Sir Harold Harmsworth [later 1st Lord Rothermere] in the Marconi Affair and Conservative...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Jonathan Guinness [later 3rd Lord Moyne] on Conservative Central Office's cancellation of JEP's visit to speak at his by-election for Lincoln [Lincolnshire]; Patrick Wall (2); [James] Colin Welch [Deputy Editor, Daily Telegraph]; Francis Pym [Government Chief Whip] on JEP's differences from the party line (6); Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms (4); Reginald Prentice; Richard Dring, Editor of Hansard; Robert Jenkins (4); Richard Body; Henry Croly; 6th...

Scope and Contents The majority of correspondents write on JEP's decision to stand down as MP for Wolverhampton South West [Staffordshire], and his adoption and subsequent election as MP for Down South, Ulster [Northern Ireland]. Correspondents include: Robin Pollard, Secretary and Agent to JEP, on opposition to him in the Wolverhampton Conservative Association (8); George Wilkes, Wolverhampton Conservative Association constituency chairman, on opposition to JEP and his decision to stand down (3); Sir Peter...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: John Selwyn-Lloyd, Speaker of the House of Commons (2); John Peyton; Douglas Kennedy (13); J Lunt (6); Edward Short, Lord President of the Council [later Lord Glenamara] on subjects including the Select Committee on Procedure (5); [Charles] Patrick Wall; Herbert Pickering, Agent-General for Alberta, Canada; Ian Gow (4); Barbara Stonehouse 4); Andrew Freeth on his latest portrait of JEP; Lord Pannell on his view of [James] Harold Wilson [Prime Minister]; 7th Lord...