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Defence

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 170 Collections and/or Records:

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Speeches and articles, 1974-06 - 1975-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/53
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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.

Dates: 1974-06 - 1975-02
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, 1983-04 - 1983-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/7
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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.

Dates: 1983-04 - 1983-05
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1983-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/8
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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.

Dates: 1983-06
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1983-07 - 1983-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/9
Scope and Contents Includes the William Cardwell Memorial Lecture, "Socialism and Technology: Allies or Enemies?". Other subjects include: NK’s statement of views for the party leadership election; cuts to public services; education and training; the welfare state; the state of the economy; provision for special educational needs; damage done to Labour by the Social Democrats; reasons for defeat in the General Election and the need for reform; Labour policy on Europe and the Common Market; defence policy,...
Dates: 1983-07 - 1983-09
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1984-01 - 1984-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/13
Scope and Contents Includes: reprint of a series of articles by NK in the Daily Mirror, Jan 84; NK’s speech for the 150th anniversary of William Morris’s birth, Feb 84. Other subjects include: the National Health Service; the practice of freedom, and foreign policy, particularly relating to NATO and nuclear defence (speeches given on NK’s visit to the United States, Feb 84); the decline in industry; Margaret Thatcher’s arrogant leadership style; the Budget; Democratic Socialism; ownership of the press and...
Dates: 1984-01 - 1984-03
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1985-06 - 1985-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/19
Scope and Contents Includes NK’s speech to the Plymouth rally [Devon] and his speech to the Parliamentary Party and Party staff on Labour’s position midway between General Elections and the development of campaigning, July 85. Other subjects include: industrial strategy in London; the treatment of Scottish miners following the miners’ strike; results from the United Nations Decade for Women; the teaching of science; the Government’s review of social security and pensions; the National Health Service; nuclear...
Dates: 1985-06 - 1985-07
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1985-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/22
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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.

Dates: 1985-11
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1986-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/28
Scope and Contents Includes: notes on the publication of "Making Our Way", with comments and drafts of the introduction; NK’s Party Conference speech on non-nuclear defence policy; speech for the launch of the Investing in People campaign; address to the Royal Society of Arts on education for capability; speech at the launch of Students for a Labour Victory; speech for the Pensioners’ consultative conference. Other subjects include: paralysis in international affairs, particularly on nuclear...
Dates: 1986-10
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1987-04 - 1987-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/32
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1987-04 - 1987-05
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1988-04 - 1988-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/37
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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.

Dates: 1988-04 - 1988-05
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1988-06 - 1988-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/38
Scope and Contents Includes: tribute to Lord Brockway; speech to a Fabian conference on the Aims and Values of socialism; speeches for the fortieth anniversary of the National Health Service; speeches from NK’s visit to Botswana and Zimbabwe; speech to the Trades Union Congress; speech for Socialist International Study Days in Glasgow [Scotland]; Conference speeches; speech for an anti-apartheid rally; speech for a rally in support of the trade unions banned from GCHQ; speech on the Tercentenary of the...
Dates: 1988-06 - 1988-11
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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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1990-10 - 1990-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/48
Scope and Contents Includes: text of a party political broadcast for BBC Radio 4; speech for the launch of Labour’s environmental policy document, "An Earthly Chance"; speech for a debate on the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM); speech for a debate on Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait; response to a Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe statement on the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and the end of the Cold War; speech to the NATO assembly; speech to the Confederation of European...
Dates: 1990-10 - 1990-12
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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"Sure and Secure", 1986-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/78
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Labour Party video on a non-nuclear defence policy (programme breaks then restarts).

Dates: 1986-10
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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Territorial Army Video: "Hidden Assets", 1990-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/195
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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.

Dates: 1990-08
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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Territorial Army Video: "The Prime Minister", 1990-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/196
Scope and Contents

Presentation by Margaret Thatcher.

Dates: 1990-08
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 League of Nations, 1917-05 - 1951-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/3/29
Scope and Contents Memoranda and cabinet papers on the League, including: minutes of a meeting of the Imperial Conference (1923), with an annotated statement by LSA on naval defence; letters from LSA to [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health and Chancellor of the Exchequer] and the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] on protectionism, safeguarding industry and Imperial Preference; report of the Cabinet committee on Iraq (1923); report of the French committee on the constitution of a League of Nations;...
Dates: 1917-05 - 1951-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of 1st Lord Gladwyn

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GLAD
Scope and Contents The material at Churchill Archives Centre begins with Lord Gladwyn's school and college notebooks, and runs to his final articles, but with the exception of his personal and family correspondence, was chiefly created after Lord Gladwyn's retirement from the Diplomatic Service. A large proportion of the papers consists of notes, reports, articles, speeches and correspondence amassed from Lord Gladwyn's work as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords and Liberal spokesman...
Dates: 1875 - 2002
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 Captain Godfrey Alexander French

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/GDFR
Scope and Contents

The papers cover Captain French's career from 1930, when he attended the R.N. Staff College at Greenwich, until his retirement in 1978.

Dates: 1914 - 1987
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 Ian and Cecil Jacob

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/JACB
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1899 - 1993
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 Peter Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HLNN
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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.

Dates: 1968 - 2003
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 John Nott

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NOTT
Scope and Contents The papers chiefly relate to Sir John Nott's time in Margaret Thatcher's government, particularly his tenure as Secretary of State for Defence during the Falklands War. They include: papers relating to Nott's search for employment, 1975; papers collected for the production of Sir John's memoirs, including annotated drafts, original correspondence and dictation tapes; personal correspondence and other papers, 1982-1998; papers relating to his career with Lazards, mid 1980s onwards; material...
Dates: 1936-08 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access: Most of this collection is open for consultation by readers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR, CHUR and CHAQ
Scope and Contents The papers consist of original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill throughout his life (1874-1965). They have been divided into three sections: the Chartwell Papers (CHAR) and the Churchill Papers (CHUR), with some additional material (CHAQ). Together, the three sets of papers cover the following major areas: Personal (CHAR 1, CHUR 1 and CHAQ 1/1 and 2/1), 1884-1965 The papers of Churchill as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his...
Dates: The majority of files date from the 1870s to 1965.
Conditions Governing Access: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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The Papers of Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNT
Scope and Contents

Personal, political and literary papers

Dates: 1927 - 2005
Conditions Governing Access: Closed until catalogued (please contact Archives Centre to enquire about progress)
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Transcript of interview: Dame Mariot Leslie, 2017

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 162
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2017
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Transcript of interview: Lord Gillmore of Thamesfield, 1996

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 1996
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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.