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76 podcast interviews collated for the publication 'When There's a Woman in the Room - #Vote 100 year January 2018 to January 2019' and written with journalists Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother. Sones' focus was primarily on recording interviews with MPs who champion public policy reforms through debates in Westminster Hall or by asking questions at PMQs.

For most podcasts, both 'raw' and 'edited' versions exist.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre provides a good picture of Wilfred Brown's varied career. It includes material on his work at the Glacier Metal Company and in the field of management, his career as a politician and his involvement with Brunel University (BRWN 3). There is a substantial series of correspondence, both personal and on political subjects (BRWN 2), and a series of drafts and typescripts of some of his many books, articles and lectures on management techniques...

Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: immigration; defence, particularly cuts in the Middle East, British withdrawal from Singapore (in interviews with Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1967), and retaining use of nuclear weapons; floating exchange rates; JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics; Parliamentary privilege and...

Scope and Contents Memoranda and minutes on strategy for campaigns, mainly by Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications, and also Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary] and Philip Gould, including: communications; women’s seminars; the Defence Campaign; the Caring Community and Personal Freedom campaign; the Jobs and Industry Campaign. Also includes: minutes of the Campaign Strategy Committee; correspondence including a letter from Robin Cook, Campaigns Co-ordinator, on his...

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Minutes and memoranda, mainly by Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications and also Robert Worcester, Market and Opinion Research International Limited (MORI), on strategy for campaigns, including: general strategy for 1987; the Jobs and Industry Campaign; the Freedom and Fairness Campaign; local elections and by-elections, including the West Derbyshire by-election; Labour and young people; international and defence policies; the Social Policy Campaign.

Scope and Contents Memoranda and minutes on strategy for campaigns, including: the Social Policy Campaign; the Defence Campaign; the Caring Community and Personal Freedom campaign; Freedom and Fairness; housing and the local elections; the Jobs and Industry Campaign. Also includes a memorandum on proposed public relations activities by Lynne Franks Limited, a report on the Brecon and Radnor by-election, a paper on the decline of class politics and a paper on the presentation of Labour’s approach to suburban...

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Papers on Labour's economic policy, including: the 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1994 Budgets; the Party of Production lecture series, and book "Making Our Way"; the Westland Helicopter Company; the motor and steel industries; the effect of the European Internal Market, 1992; taxation; the Industry 2000 programme of meetings with regional business managers; the Minimum Wage.

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Including Dartington & Co Ltd, Dartington Hall Corporation Ltd, Dartington Glass Ltd, Dartington Textiles Ltd (later Dartington Hall Tweeds Ltd), Staverton Joinery Ltd, Dartington Trading Co Ltd and Dartington Hall Farms Ltd.

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Correspondence on the difficulties faced by the Lancashire textile industry due to unrestricted cotton imports. Other correspondents include [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the Exchequer [later 1st Lord Stockton].

Scope and Contents Conservative Research Department pamphlets and other publications on subjects including: the Conservative Party Conference, 1949; the Iron and Steel Bill, 1948; finance, trade and industry under the Labour Government; the earnings of industry; nationalization; Conservative policy in the 1950 General Election; the housing shortage; social and general policy under the Labour Government; Conservative Imperial policy; recent developments in the Empire (1949); points on trade and Imperial...

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Notes and correspondence on the closure of Dalzell Steel Plate Mill by British Steel, including: speech notes for NK; briefing for a meeting with the Dalzell union representatives; correspondence with Dalzell Action Committee.

Scope and Contents Papers on taxation and industry, particularly relating to free trade and the McKenna duties [tax on luxury imports], including: notes by LSA on unemployment and the resulting Labour election victory [? of 1924]; pamphlets on free trade, protectionism, the problems of industry, Empire trade figures and tariff reform; Silk Association enquiry into the silk industry and report of evidence given to the Board of Trade into the industry; trade figures, including iron and steel output; papers from...

Scope and Contents Includes: paper given at the conference of the League of Nations Union, by [William] Lionel Hichens, Chairman of Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, on hours and wages in relation to unemployment; press-cutting of an article by LSA on wage-fixing; abbreviated draft by LSA of the King's speech, on foreign and colonial policy, unemployment, agriculture and pensions; prints of articles by LSA for the National Review on free trade and socialism, how Britain won and lost industrial supremacy, and...

Scope and Contents Includes: Unionist Central Office hints for speakers on the budget (April 1924 and May 1925), general progress from November 1924 to spring 1925, unemployment, general progress from November 1924 to August 1925, the coal dispute, General Strike and the Unemployment Insurance Act; copy of Hansard on debates over the frontiers of Iraq, naval commitments to the League of Nations, and a vote of censure against the Government; report and notes on the appointment of ex-servicemen to the civil...

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Correspondence with various ITV television companies and briefings, on television interviews with NK, particularly a World in Action programme on Labour’s policies for employment and reindustrialisation, and also interviews on the miners’ strike, the state of the economy and NK’s record as Labour leader.

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Includes: association pamphlets; correspondence on profit-sharing schemes and employee representation in industry, with representatives of the British Gas Staff Association and the cotton industry from JA's Preston constituency, Lancashire, and other correspondents including Geoffrey Lloyd, Minister of Fuel and Power and John Biggs-Davison (2).

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Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.

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Outline for NK’s programme of meetings with business managers, including mailing lists etc.

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Regional meetings with business managers in Norwich [Norfolk], Cambridge and Harlow [Essex], May 1990.

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Regional meetings with business managers in Nottingham, Feb 1990.

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Notes for meeting with businessmen in Nottingham, Feb 1990, including figures on British exports and earlier economic press cuttings from 1986-87.

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Regional meetings with business managers in Bristol, particularly on a visit to British Aerospace and to Rolls Royce, Jan 1991.

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Regional meetings with business managers in Birmingham, Feb 1990

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Regional meetings with business managers in Yorkshire and Manchester, Mar 1990.

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Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.