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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.

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Statements on defence estimates.

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Transcripts of and briefings for interviews with NK on the BBC Panorama programme, on subjects including: the Welfare State; the miners’ strike; defence; the Social Democrat/Liberal Alliance; relations between NK and Roy Hattersley, Deputy Leader.

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Includes a memorandum by GJ and papers of the Liberal Defence and Disarmament panel.

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Includes: papers of the Military Education Committee; papers on the employment of Royal Engineers in the construction of barracks, etc; papers of the War Office Reconstruction Committee; papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence; Allied propaganda and military intelligence from the First World War; papers of the Army in India Committee.

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Also includes related correspondence and interviews.

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Part 1, 1979-80
Part 2, 1981
Part 3, 1982: includes a survey of Conservative Party attitudes to nuclear weapons and defence, July 1982, with associated report on the activities of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament constituency by constituency
Part 4, 1983

Scope and Contents Part 1: includes copy of the Ulster Unionist Council's paper on "Northern Ireland future terrorist trends", July 1979; memorandum on defence spending to Richard Ryder (MT's Political Secretary) from Peter Joynes (Conservative Research Department), 21 August 1979; opinion polling survey prepared by Cavenham Communications Ltd on "Britain's defence: the armed forces view", August 1979, with attached note from John Clemens (Chairman, Marplan) to Keith Britto (Conservative...

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Includes briefing notes for MT from John Stanley MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary), including his notes of a meeting for Conservative MPs to talk to John Newhouse (Assistant Director of Arms Control and the Disarmament Agency, US Government), February 1977; lists of MT's weekend reading (see also THCR 2/6/1/199 & 5/1/2/193) and copies of newspaper and journal articles etc, February 1979; and MT's correspondence with Geoffrey Pattie MP, February 1979

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The material covers much of Lord Duncan-Sandys public life. Papers, reports and correspondence document the ministries in which he served and there are also constituency correspondence, speeches, publications, press cuttings and photographs. A number of papers exist relating to his involvement in the campaign to restore Capital Punishment, the European Movement and the Civic Trust.

Scope and Contents Part 1, 1979: includes copy of a pamphlet by Ian Gow MP, "A practical approach to denationalization" (AIMS, 1977); copy of paper to MT from Sir Kenneth Berrill (Central Policy Review Staff), "The economy of the United Kingdom- problems, constraints, opportunities", 4 May 1979; copy of two letters to MT from Sir Geoffrey Howe MP (Chancellor of the Exchequer) relating to public expenditure, including one on defence expenditure, 11 May 1979; note of a record between MT and...

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Subjects include: Labour's defence policy, particularly on nuclear disarmament; the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands War and the prosecution of the Ministry of Defence official Clive Ponting under the Official Secrets Act after he sent documents on the Belgrano to the MP Tam Dalyell; the replacement of the Nimrod airborne early warning aircraft by the American Boeing E-3 AWACS.

Scope and Contents Reports by members of the Shadow Cabinet on policy proposals and their projected costs, including: Denzil Davies on defence; [Giles Radice] on education; Stan Orme on energy; John Prescott on employment; Michael Meacher on social security; [George Foulkes] on foreign affairs; Roy Hattersley on home affairs; Robert Hughes on transport; John Smith on trade and industry; Donald Dewar on Scotland; Barry Jones on Wales; Peter Archer on Northern Ireland; Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting...

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Discussion papers on subjects including European defence policy and nuclear defence, Eritrea and Ethiopia, southern Africa and the Middle East.

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Includes: report timetable; minutes; draft speech for NK on defence; paper on past policy on the Falklands; Socialist International papers; transcription of BBC On the Record interview with Sir Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Secretary on arms reductions; summary of voters’ attitudes, particularly towards politics.

Scope and Contents Includes: an analysis of Parliamentary candidates’ election addresses, mentioning aspects of defence; draft of NK’s speech on defence policy [? for the Welsh Labour Party Conference]; analysis of the Review by the Conservative Research Department; campaign briefing on the Review; annotated copy of the final report, "Meet the challenge, make the change"; background briefing on defence policy; note from Larry Whitty [General Secretary] on organising responses from the constituency parties;...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on reaction to the Review, particularly the defence report, with correspondents including: Harry Barnes on the defence report; Ron Todd, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) protesting at the defence report (2); Jack Cunningham [environment spokesman], protesting at changes to the Physical and Social Environment group report; Tony Blair protesting at changes to the Productive and Competitive Economy group report on nuclear power; Lord...

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Reports from the Productive and Competitive Economy group, Economic Equality group, Consumers and the Community group, the Democracy, the Individual and the Community group, People at Work group and Britain in the World group. Also includes a draft argument on the case for non-nuclear defence and the draft manifesto for the 1989 European elections.

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Papers including: drafts of a strategy note on phase 2; policy submissions on transport, defence and disarmament, economy, urban and regional policy, Britain in the world.

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Includes correspondence with Sir Ian Gilmour MP; and copy of letter from Gilmour to Angus Maude MP (manifesto co-ordinator), March 1978

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Subjects include: Labour's policy on nuclear disarmament (side 1); Britain's relations with Jamaica and the Commonwealth, particularly South Africa (side 2); overseas aid, international development policy and the payment of overseas debt (side 2).

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Briefings for and correspondence on NK’s visit to the Vickers factory in Leeds [Yorkshire], including a brief on the Challenger tank as a replacement for the Chieftain, a report from the House of Commons Defence Committee on defence procurement, issues of Hansard including defence debates.

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Papers of the study group set up by the RIIA (Chatham House), including: drafts of the group report; minutes and papers of meetings; biographical notes on [James] Harold Wilson.

Scope and Contents Text of a lecture by JA to the institution on Britain's military role in the 1970s, Jan 1969, including correspondence on arrangements, with Air Vice-Marshal Stewart "Paddy" Menaul, Director-General. Also includes: a RUSI case study on the TSR-2 strike and reconnaissance aircraft; a paper on men, money and war; text of a lecture by [John] Enoch Powell [to RUSI, Sept 1968, to which JA was responding], also on Britain's military role in the 1970s, with comments; report of...