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Industrial policy

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

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Committees and Policy Groups: administration of policy groups, January 1975-May 1976, 1975-01 - 1976-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/27
Scope and Contents Includes notes on policy work during opposition by Sir Keith Joseph MP and Christopher Patten and James Douglas (Conservative Research Department), February-April 1975; various lists of policy and other related groups, March, May & December 1975; correspondence with Sir Keith Joseph MP (co-ordinator of the groups), and Professor Daniel O'Connell, concerning a bill of rights Also includes copy of a paper on Industrial Policy Options by Michael Heseltine MP for discussion by the Shadow...
Dates: 1975-01 - 1976-05
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Conservative Policy Documents: Consultative Committee, 1960-05 - 1965-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/7
Scope and Contents Leader's Consultative Committee papers on subjects including: nationalisation of steel, by Iain Macleod, including a minute to Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Leader of the Conservative Party, earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; relations with the trade unions, by Joseph Godber [former Minister of Labour] and Sir John Hobson [former Attorney-General]; general policy on the economy, Europe, industry, social security, education, law and order, defence and foreign affairs, by...
Dates: 1960-05 - 1965-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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House of Commons industrial relations speech, 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 3/2/103
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

Dates: 1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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House of Lords in the Middle Ages: correspondence with Garter, 1955-01 - 1986-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/4/17
Scope and Contents Correspondence and notes on research for The House of Lords in the Middle Ages by JEP and Keith Wallis. Correspondents include: Thomas Bridges [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms (earlier Richmond Herald) (20). Also includes: note by the Lord Chancellor for the House of Lords Reform Inter-Party Conference, on an outline structure for a reformed House of Lords; prints for illustrations; summary of meeting at...
Dates: 1955-01 - 1986-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Industrial relations speeches, 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 3/2/15
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

Dates: 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Industry, 1926 - 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 3/131-141
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers cover every aspect of Lord Noel-Baker's very full and varied career and include constituency papers, Labour Party material, extensive sections on domestic and international affairs, peace and disarmament, sport, books and articles, speeches and correspondence.

Dates: 1926 - 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of two files which are still closed, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Papers relating to industry, April 1975- September 1976, 1975-04 - 1976-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/144
Scope and Contents Includes printed paper on "The outer limits and beyond", Foundation for Business Responsibilities, Discussion Paper, by Professor A. A. [Alan Arthur] Walters, April 1976 Also includes Conservative Research Department briefing note on British Leyland, 20 May 1975 Also includes correspondence with Sir John Clark (Plessey), Kenneth James William Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape (President, General Council of British Shipping), Sir Emmanuel Kaye (Unquoted Companies Group), John...
Dates: 1975-04 - 1976-09
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to industry, British Leyland, February-May 1975, 1975-02 - 1975-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/152
Scope and Contents

Includes MT’s handwritten notes
Also includes note from Michael Heseltine MP on British Leyland, April 1975; and note from Christopher Patten (Director General, Conservative Research Department), on the Shadow Cabinet discussion concerning British Leyland, 30 April 1975

Dates: 1975-02 - 1975-05
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to industry, February 1975-May 1976, 1975-02 - 1976-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/143
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...
Dates: 1975-02 - 1976-05
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to industry, February 1977-May 1978, 1977-02 - 1978-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/146
Scope and Contents Includes notes on meeting of the Industry Committee, 21 February 1978 [attended by Sir Michael Edwardes, Chairman, British Leyland]; and notes of the Nationalised Industries meeting (attended by MT), 10 May 1978 Also includes notes from MT relating to nationalisation in correspondence with Sir Ralph Bateman (Chairman, British United Industrialists), March 1977; correspondence with James Prior MP; and bulletin from Rowe Rudd & Co, "Exchange control: the case for abolition"...
Dates: 1977-02 - 1978-05
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to industry, sanctions on industry, August 1977-December 1978, 1977-08 - 1978-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/154
Scope and Contents Includes handwritten annotations by MT Also includes copies of correspondence between Denis Healey MP to James Prior MP, August 1977; a letter to John Stanley MP (MT's Parliamentary Private Secretary) from Sir Terence Beckett (Chairman, Ford Motor Company), 5 December 1978; and paper for MT, "Note on policy for the Unions and its presentation" from Alfred Sherman (Centre for Policy Studies), 8 December 1978 Also includes copy of Lord (Arthur) Cockfield's lecture to the...
Dates: 1977-08 - 1978-12
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to industry, September 1976-July 1977, 1976-09 - 1977-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/145
Scope and Contents Includes notes of meeting between representatives of the Conservative Party and of commerce and industry, 29 October 1976 (MT did not attend); and minutes of Transport Policy Group meeting, 18 January 1977 (MT did not attend) Also includes correspondence with Alan Campbell QC, Nicholas Goodison (Stock Exchange), Sir Geoffrey Howe MP, Hector Laing (United Biscuits), Sir William Lithgow (Kingston Shipbuilding Yard), Jack Peel CBE (includes copy of MT’s handwritten reply, ca. 8 March 1977)...
Dates: 1976-09 - 1977-07
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to industry, Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, October 1974-May 1975, 1974-10 - 1975-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/151
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with John Davies MP and copies of correspondence between Michael Heseltine MP and Sir Geoffrey Howe MP

Dates: 1974-10 - 1975-05
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to the CBI [Confederation of British Industry], January 1975-November 1977, 1975-01 - 1977-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/19
Scope and Contents Includes publications, press releases etc issued by the CBI. The "CBI Review" (Autumn 1975) features an article on "The year ahead" by MT Also includes records of meetings between Conservative Party groups and the CBI, including 20 January 1976 (attended by MT) by "A.B." [Adam Butler MP, MT's Parliamentary Secretary] and 13 June 1977 (attended by MT) by "A.R." [Adam Ridley, Conservative Research Department] Also includes correspondence with Sir...
Dates: 1975-01 - 1977-11
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Papers relating to the CBI [Confederation of British Industry], March 1977-February 1979, 1977-03 - 1979-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/6/1/21
Scope and Contents Includes MT's handwritten notes Also includes material collected in March 1977 by John Methven (Director General, CBI) from leading industrialists on their hopes for the early days of a new Conservative administration; with copies of papers from: Terence Beckett (Chairman, Ford Motor Company Ltd), Sir George Burton (Chairman, Fisons plc), Sir John Clark (Chairman, Plessey Company Ltd), Michael Edwardes (Executive Director, Chloride Group plc), R.W. Holder (Chairman, Fairey Company Ltd),...
Dates: 1977-03 - 1979-02
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in January 2010 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Personal correspondence, 1977-11-10 - 1981-01-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/1/30
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Frank Hooley on unemployment amongst men and women; William Deedes [Editor of the Daily Telegraph; Sir Stephen McAdden on support for JEP after his Birmingham speech ["Rivers of blood", April 1968]; Michael Kinchin Smith, Lay Assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury; Harold Soref; Ian Gow [Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister] (6); Andrew Elliot [Chairman of Elliot Right Way Books] on the economic policy of Margaret Thatcher [Prime...
Dates: 1977-11-10 - 1981-01-14
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Policy, 1950's, 1953-01 - 1957-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/2
Scope and Contents Minutes, papers and correspondence of the Conservative Policy Study Group on subjects including: education (including memorandum by 2nd Lord Hailsham, [Minister of Education, earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]); agriculture; industrial policy; national insurance; taxation; defence regulations; social services; pensions; nationalised industries; the structure of the Social Services Ministries; the People's League for the Defence of Freedom and the Middle Class...
Dates: 1953-01 - 1957-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Policy Review: industrial legislation, 1989-03 - 1990-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/2/10
Scope and Contents Includes: text of a statement by Tony Blair on the social charter and the rights of people at work; note by Michael Meacher, employment secretary, and Eddie Haigh, Assistant General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, on the People at Work review group and legislative protection for the unions; notes on Labour’s policy on union immunity; note by Lord Irvine [legal and home affairs spokesman] on weaknesses in the Review on strike ballots and secondary action; draft note on...
Dates: 1989-03 - 1990-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Preparations for 1978 manifesto: papers relating to the draft of the section for industry, March 1978, 1978-02 - 1978-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 2/7/1/14
Scope and Contents

Includes press release by Conservative Central Office of MT's speech to the Engineering Employers Federation, Dorchester Hotel, London, 21 February 1978
Also includes copy of letter from Sir Keith Joseph MP to Angus Maude MP (manifesto co-ordinator), March 1978

Dates: 1978-02 - 1978-03
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in November 2003 It may be possible to access a digital version of the file in PDF format at Churchill Archives Centre. Advance notice is essential so please contact us to make a request.
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Shadow Cabinet Papers, 1966-05 - 1968-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/1/8
Scope and Contents Leader's Consultative Committee papers and minutes on subjects including: powers to control incomes, by [Leonard] Robert Carr and Iain Macleod; regional government; Greater London Council rent policy; the effects of devaluation, by Iain Macleod; family poverty, by [Irene] Mervyn Pike; the Speaker's Conference on electoral reform, by the Chairman of the Conservative Party [Anthony Barber], and also by Edward du Cann; redistribution of seats, by [Anthony Barber] and also by Edward du Cann;...
Dates: 1966-05 - 1968-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Speeches, 1970-01 - 1971-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 4/1/6
Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: agricultural policy; industrial relations and trade union law reform; immigration; political violence, particularly in Northern Ireland and in the universities; inflation; nationalised industry; Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe and Zambia]; exports and productivity; industrial safety legislation; the General Election; Britain's entry into the Common Market; Vietnam; taxation; housing; the free market; teachers' strikes; the nuclear deterrent;...
Dates: 1970-01 - 1971-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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Speeches and articles, 1968-08 - 1974-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/49
Scope and Contents Subjects include: the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia] [following the "Prague Spring"]; the state of the economy following devaluation; relations with southern Africa, particularly South Africa and Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; finding a successor to Antonio Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal; the 1969 Budget; youth and Britain's future; Vietnam; the Arab summit, Rabat [Morocco], 1969; Joseph Chamberlain, including lessons for a United Europe...
Dates: 1968-08 - 1974-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1987-06 - 1987-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/35
Scope and Contents

Includes: speech for the G7 Summit, Venice [Italy], June 1987; speeches for the Scottish, Yorkshire and Durham Miners’ galas; speech for the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) conference (see also KNNK 26/2/50); speech to the Parliamentary party; speech to the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); Party Conference speech; speech to the British Institute of Management on the need to develop manufacturing industry.
Other subjects include: lessons from the General Election.

Dates: 1987-06 - 1987-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Jeremy Bray

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRAY
Scope and Contents The papers of Jeremy Bray consist of a wide range of political, scientific and economic material. There are a large number of political subject files, often resulting from Bray's work in various Parliamentary committees, and these cover areas including: economic policy; scientific and technical policy; the steel industry (particularly relating to the Ravenscraig steelworks in Bray's own Lanarkshire constituency); Scottish affairs in general; education; Hong Kong and China; Africa; mental...
Dates: 1953 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Donald MacDougall

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MACD
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to economic policy, including correspondence, diaries, notes, articles, speeches, a draft autobiography and photographs.

Dates: 1928 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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