Scope and Contents Correspondence with the general public on defence topics. Correspondents include: [Philip] Warren Hawksley on contracting out administration of Armed Forces central depots (2); Roger Freeman, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces; Stuart Young, Chairman of the BBC, on portrayals of Japanese prisoner-of-war camps on the BBC; Michael Heseltine, Secretary of State for Defence, on subjects including registering Irish recruits and security arrangements at American bases in...

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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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Papers and speeches by JEP on defence issues, including: Britain's military role in the 1970's; Conservative Party Leader's Consultative Committee paper on the changing background of defence policy (1968); the defence of Europe; lack of investment; Labour defence policy; cuts in defence spending; NATO.

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Correspondence between Davies, spokesman on defence and disarmament and NK on Davies’s resignation over defence policy.

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches from Canada on subjects including: nationhood, and rights and responsibilities for the Dominions; the development of the Empire; Imperial defence strategy, including cuts in the Army and possible future trouble with the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the success of air power in Iraq and the case for a separate air strategy, the shifting of naval power from the North Sea, the establishment of the Singapore naval base and the break-down of naval...

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English and French papers and correspondence on the European Defence Community, German rearmament and the European Army.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on AFB's pamphlet, "The Test for Belgrade", relating to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), disarmament and arms control, including: correspondence with Lord Goronwy-Roberts, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with FCO comments on the pamphlet and briefing papers on CSCE, particularly the Final Act signed at Helsinki [Finland] in 1975 and follow-up meetings in Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia], 1977; draft foreword to the...

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Cuttings and prints of articles and papers written by LSA on subjects including: military tactical policy; defence from the imperial standpoint; the Australian tariff; South Africa and Imperial Preference; some practical steps towards an Imperial Constitution; cavalry equipment and training; Hudson Bay [Canada] and its coasts.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Humphry Berkeley, enclosing an open letter on his attempted murder by Transkei [later part of South Africa] security forces; Lord Boothby on bringing back National Service and his health; Harold Braham, comparing the situation in Zimbabwe Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe] with Spain, following Britain's failure to back to new administration; Sir Bernard Braine on the justice for the Banaban islanders campaign; 6th Lord Carrington, Foreign Secretary, on subjects including JA's...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough; Sir Frederic Bennett, Chairman of the Institute of Foreign Affairs; Keith Best; Rhodes Boyson (2); Marshal of the RAF Sir Neil Cameron [former Chief of the Defence Staff]; Edward du Cann; Brian Crozier (2), enclosing the text of an unpublished article on the elections in Zimbabwe Rhodesia; Sir Horace Cutler, Leader of the Greater London Council, on whether a similar constitutional system would work for Jerusalem [Israel];...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Air Vice-Marshal Norman Hoad, Director of the Air League, on the defence estimates debate, and Britain's defence requirements, enclosing a note on an airborne task force; Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Philosophy Group (2); William Gutteridge, Professor of International Studies and Director of Complementary Studies, University of Aston, asking JA to speak at a Joseph Chamberlain memorial event (4); Correlli Barnett, Keeper of Churchill Archives Centre, on Leo Amery's...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on the 1987 election, with correspondents including: Scilla McLean, Research Director, Oxford Research Group (5) on an article by JEP on a non-nuclear defence policy; James Molyneaux [Leader, Ulster Unionist Party] circulating material on absent voting, and writing to the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland, and on the authority of the Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Party, and (writing to the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher), on the rise in terrorist...

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Public responses to Labour’s defence policy.

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Launch of Labour's campaign on foreign and defence policy, with statements by NK, [David] Denzil Davies [chief opposition spokesman on defence and disarmament] and Denis Healey [opposition spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs] and questions from the audience.

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Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

Scope and Contents Questions answered by NK on subjects including: Labour's decision making process, relating to non-nuclear defence and arms reduction; town planning and the reconstruction of inner cities; Soviet and American attitudes to nuclear disarmament and common security; making Labour more open, democratic and attractive; improving relations between the membership, leadership and trades unions; regional policy development; non-payment of the Poll Tax and Labour's proposed replacement for it; racism...

Scope and Contents This series contains a vast array of correspondents from both the Royal Household and political and military notables of the period. Some of the key correspondents have been noted here, with additional information about the topics discussed, which are mainly related to the war effort and to politics. Many of the volumes have a brief contents page at the back. Most of the volumes contain copies of outgoing correspondence, although several have original incoming letters, inparticular from...

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Typescripts, drafts and proofs.

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Typescripts, notes and material for speeches.

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Photocopied articles, press releases and interviews on subjects including: the practice of freedom; defence and nuclear disarmament; NK’s green credentials; and the rights of immigrants in Europe. Includes a letter from Hanif Kureishi explaining that he had been set up into giving an interview critical of NK; NK’s interview with NME; text of Mikhail Gorbachev’s address to the UN on nuclear disarmament.

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Notebook from a meeting between NK and the ambassador on nuclear defence, and other subjects including the European Monetary System.

Scope and Contents Copies of minutes by JA, mainly to Harold Watkinson, Minister of Defence, but also to the Prime Minister [(Maurice) Harold Macmillan, later 1st Lord Stockton] and Edward Heath [Lord Privy Seal], on subjects including: space flight; the RAF base on Addu Atoll, in the Maldives; long term requirements of the RAF; JA's impressions of the American and Canadian Air Forces; Malaysia; future defence requirements; defence of Kuwait; the airborne deterrent after 1970; RAF forces in Muscat [Masqat] and...

Scope and Contents Includes: briefing on Europe and the Inter-Governmental Conferences from [William] Tristan Garel-Jones, 1991; submission by James Molyneaux, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, to the Strand I talks on Northern Ireland, 1991; press material from the Information Committee for the Iraqi Opposition, 1991; speech by Ion Iliescu, President of Romania, to the last meeting of the Warsaw Treaty Political Consultative Committee, 1991; transcript of a witness seminar on the building of the Berlin...

Scope and Contents Hand-written and typed drafts for AFB's pamphlet "The Test for Belgrade" [see also FEBR 2/38], on the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), disarmament and arms control, with the text of a foreword by Lord Noel-Baker [earlier Philip Baker], and a hand-written draft for AFB's survey "One Hundred Nations call for a New International Economic Order", May 1978, on the appointment of a Director-General for Economic Affairs by the United Nations, and the economic challenges...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on defence policy, with correspondents including: Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Chatfield [First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff] on the Singapore naval base; Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, commenting on LSA's scheme for forming garrison battalions of older men for overseas service; General Sir Robert Whigham, on LSA's proposals for combining short and long service; General Sir John Burnett-Stuart, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern...