Paper on Gorbachev and his likely impact on East-West relations, following Browne's meetings with him during Gorbachev's visit to Britain in 1984.

For the text of the speech see Oxford University Press CD Rom edition of MT’s Complete Public Statements CD Ref: 89/350

For the text of the speech see Oxford University Press CD Rom edition of MT’s Complete Public Statements CD Ref: 87/104

For the text of the speech see Oxford University Press CD Rom edition of MT’s Complete Public Statements CD Ref: 87/107

Includes: menus; briefing cards for meetings with Soviet President (Mikhail) Gorbachev; and letter to MT from Professor Richard Pollock (her interpreter)

Includes: MT's handwritten notes on the visit; with notes on her conversations with French President (Francois) Mitterrand, 23 March 1987, and Chancellor (Helmut) Kohl of Germany, 23 March 1987

Also includes briefings for MT from Robert Conquest (March 1984, August 1986 & March 1987), Immanuel Jakobovits (Chief Rabbi), Sir Keith Joseph MP and Fitzroy Maclean

Includes: copies of speeches by Soviet President (Mikhail) Gorbachev speeches, April 1985-June 1987, Foreign Office biographical note on Gorbachev, August 1985, with attached note for MT from Charles Powell (her Private Secretary for Overseas Affairs), August 1987

Also includes detailed notes from Powell on an all day seminar on the Soviet Union hosted by MT at Chequers on 27 February 1987, 1 March 1987

Includes draft speeches for MT, March 1987; and briefing for MT from Robert Conquest, March 1987

Includes MT's tour programmes; details of administrative arrangements; and menus
Also includes: notes and sketches of MT's clothes for the visit and one of her scarves; MT's handwritten notes; notes passed to MT by Charles Powell (her Private Secretary for Overseas Affairs) during the visit; and letter to MT from 'Michael [Michael Alison MP, her Parliamentary Private Secretary]'

Includes briefing notes for MT from her office staff, most regularly Richard Ryder (her Political Secretary), Adam Butler MP and John Stanley MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretaries); reports and minutes of policy groups and other committees set up under the control of Sir Keith Joseph MP; minutes and circulated papers of the Leader's Consultative Committee (Shadow Cabinet); and regular briefings from the Conservative Research Department on aspects of policy

Includes: press cutting of an interview with Milovan Djilas (Yugoslav dissident), in "Wall Street Journal", 20 October, forwarded by Lord (Hugh) Thomas of Swynnerton, 27 October 1982

Includes note to MT from Adam Butler (her Parliamentary Private Secretary) on reaction to her "foreign affairs speech", January 1976 (presumably "Britain Awake", at Kensington Town Hall, London, 19 January 1976, which prompted the "Iron Lady" tag: see also THCR 5/1/2/53-54)

The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.

The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.

Press conference on NK’s meeting with the Parliamentary delegation, particularly on the miners’ strike.

Papers mainly comprising correspondence, diaries, articles, speeches, press cuttings and photographs.