Scope and Contents Letters from MS to Clementine, Lady Churchill on subjects including: leaving Hamsell Manor [Kent]; a holiday in France. Also includes: order of service for the dedication of a memorial tablet commemorating Sir Winston Churchill's state funeral; letter from MS to Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp]; letters from Emma Soames and Charlotte Hambro [earlier Charlotte Soames]; letters from CS to MS from his tour of Australasia and the Far East on...

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Subjects include: a unified command in the Middle East; a European Defence Community; European federation; the Commonwealth and the Council of Europe; Britain's relations with Europe; the revolutionary role of private enterprise in Africa; Joseph Chamberlain; the Suez Canal; the liberation of Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union; relations with Europe and the Commonwealth.

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Drafts of articles written by NR, often with copies of the published edition, and related correspondence.

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Radio news bulletin and interviews with NK and Michael Heseltine on French views about Britain's place in Europe. Incorrectly labelled as 27 November 1988, but actually 27 July 1989.

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Interview on the result of the referendum in Denmark on the Maastricht Treaty.

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Coverage of NK speaking in Parliament on the Government’s policy towards the European Union and Economic and Monetary Union.

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Subjects include: talks between Iraq and the Kurds and how long British troops would remain in Iraq following the Gulf War; JM's view of Thatcherism and what his own policies would be; the introduction of the Council Tax; the state of the economy; unemployment; Britain's role in Europe; European economic and monetary union; low Conservative Party morale.

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Subjects (in the People in Politics interview) include: NK's view of Margaret Thatcher; socialism and the free market; the future of Europe; nuclear disarmament.

Subjects in the Newsnight interview include: NK's view of Margaret Thatcher's legacy and character; the failure of the opposition parties; the view of Thatcher within the Conservative Party.

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Includes a response from Edward Heath, Prime Minister.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to the Helsinki Summit Conference for European Security and Co-operation, 1975 and a British Committee for European Security, including: [?] rough speech notes; articles by AFB on Helsinki and European security; report of the 3rd Commission on European Security and Co-operation, 1974; special bulletin of the 2nd Assembly of Representatives of Public Opinion for European Security and Co-operation, 1975; correspondence with individuals including Hans Janitschek, General...

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Texts of JA's speeches to the conference, on Britain's place in Europe, and relations with South Africa, Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], Angola and Mozambique.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Leo Amery on subjects including Croft's suggestion of intervention in Russia, to restore the monarchy, tariff reform, free trade and Imperial Preference, the Socialist notion of making all colonies mandated territories, the future of Europe as some form of European Commonwealth and Amery's attempt as Secretary of State for India to steer a course between Congress and the Moslems (11); 2nd Lord Ampthill [earlier Arthur Russell]; Sir John Anderson [Home Secretary and...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos], Minister of Production; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Resident Minister at Allied Headquarters in North-West Africa [later 1st Lord Stockton]; [Robert] Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary [later 1st Lord Avon]; 1st Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States [earlier Edward Wood and 1st Lord Irwin]; William Stewart [Head of French Section, Foreign Office Research Department], enclosing a note on foreign policy by Sir Eyre...

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Subjects include: tribute to 1st Lord Stockton [earlier Harold Macmillan]; a united Europe; self-determination for the countries of Eastern Europe; the reversal of Soviet influence in Africa and the situation in South Africa; the Commonwealth and Europe.

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Includes the recorded voices of: Sir Winston Churchill; Eamon De Valera; General George Marshall; Count Carlo Sforza; Ernest Bevin; Robert Schuman; Eugen Gerstenmaier; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; André Philip; Lord Morrison of Lambeth; Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe [1st Lord Kilmuir]; Finn Moe; Paul-Henri Spaak; Konrad Adenauer; Johan Willem Beyen; Reginald Maudling; Jean Rey; Ludwig Erhard; John Edwards; [John] Selwyn Lloyd.

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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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Papers on the origin, form, functions and development of the organisation, including a letter of thanks to Gridley from Emanuel Shinwell [Minister of Fuel and Power], on his resignation as Chairman of the European Coal Organisation.

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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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Includes: text of the election manifesto; transcripts of election broadcasts, voting figures and other papers from the 1979 election; draft strategy paper by Jack Straw; papers from the Common Market Safeguards committee; papers from the Office EEC group; transcript of a World in Action programme on agricultural subsidies; opinion poll on farmers’ attitudes to the EEC; projected figures for the election.

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Includes: copy of a speech by Margaret Thatcher on welfare reform (1975), sent by Frank Dobson; copy of the campaign handbook; lists of speaking engagements for NK; text of NK’s speech on the launch of the campaign; campaign briefs and press releases; speech drafts.

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Campaign literature, including: London media information pack; draft leaflets and letters to electors; comments from election candidates on the campaign and support they received, including views from Barbara Castle on NK’s election address.

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Includes: information lists, schedules, diary dates etc; press releases; programmes and running details for rallies; minutes of campaign group meetings, including a media watch; polling presentations from Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) Limited, with a briefing paper on voter opinion; campaign briefings for candidates; texts of speeches by NK; Conference papers.

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Qualitative study for the European Parliament Socialist Group.