Defence
Found in 170 Collections and/or Records:
Speeches and articles, 1974-06 - 1975-02
Subjects include: a tribute to Desmond Donnelly; economic policy; the philosophy of Toryism; Britain's place in Europe; the [? Oct 1974] General Election; foreign policy; Cyprus; defence; Northern Ireland; the miners' strike.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1983-04 - 1983-05
Subjects include: the teaching of English; the future of the welfare state; the "Victorian values" of Thatcherism; Labour’s education policy; unemployment and the economy; cuts to local services; the future of higher education; private education; the Conservative election manifesto; the suppression of an unfavourable report by the National Economic Development Office and the subsequent calling of the General Election; Labour’s non-nuclear defence policy.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1983-06
Includes "the Bridgend speech" (Glamorgan, Wales), 7 June 83 and the John P. Mackintosh Memorial Lecture, at Edinburgh University, "Democratic Socialism or Social Democracy?". Other subjects include: the General Election campaign; non-nuclear defence; the need for a public enquiry into the sinking of the Argentine warship the General Belgrano, during the Falklands War; Labour’s economic programme; the threat to Labour from the Social Democrats.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1983-07 - 1983-09
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1984-01 - 1984-03
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1985-06 - 1985-07
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1985-11
Includes: NK’s Fabian Society lecture "Democratic Socialism - Now" on the future of socialism; NK’s speech in Sweden on Europe and the future, particularly relating to the New Right; NK’s speech to the Royal College of Defence Studies on the priorities for British defence policy. Other subjects include: the Star Wars programme; South Africa; race relations; Northern Ireland and the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1986-10
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1987-04 - 1987-05
Includes: speech for the launch of Labour’s Agenda for Women; speech to the Northampton rally; speech for the launch of Labour’s General Election manifesto; speech to the Welsh Party Conference, Llandudno; speech to the Welsh Trades Union Congress. Other subjects include: lessons from the Japanese economic experience; themes for the election; economic and industrial policy; Labour’s Policy Review, particularly relating to defence and nuclear disarmament; unemployment.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1988-04 - 1988-05
Includes: speech to the Scottish Trades Union Congress (see also KNNK 26/2/59); speech for the local elections campaign; speech to a Socialist International meeting, Madrid [Spain] on East-West relations; speeches for the launch of Labour’s campaign on foreign and defence policy, "Modern Britain in a Modern World"; speech to the Welsh Labour Party conference. Other subjects include: rail transport; the Common Market.
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1988-06 - 1988-11
Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1990-10 - 1990-12
"Sure and Secure", 1986-10
Labour Party video on a non-nuclear defence policy (programme breaks then restarts).
Territorial Army Video: "Hidden Assets", 1990-08
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.
Territorial Army Video: "The Prime Minister", 1990-08
Presentation by Margaret Thatcher.
The League of Nations, 1917-05 - 1951-03
The Papers of 1st Lord Gladwyn
The Papers of Captain Godfrey Alexander French
The papers cover Captain French's career from 1930, when he attended the R.N. Staff College at Greenwich, until his retirement in 1978.
The Papers of Ian and Cecil Jacob
The papers cover Jacob's adult life from his early army career, his work as Assistant Military Secretary to the War Cabinet and as Director General of the BBC, to his retirement where he remained active in many important public services. Also included are some Boer War papers which were kept by Jacob's father-in-law.
The Papers of Peter Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton
The collection of Hill-Norton's papers held at Churchill Archives Centre relate to the later part of Hill-Norton's career. It includes personal and official correspondence, letters to the press, speeches and articles covering defence and military issues and controversial political issues, such as the repeal of section 28 and the ordination of women.
The Papers of Sir John Nott
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
The Papers of Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet
Personal, political and literary papers
Transcript of interview: Dame Mariot Leslie, 2017
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.
Transcript of interview: Lord Gillmore of Thamesfield, 1996
The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.