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European cooperation

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

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European questions: personal minutes, 1972-12 - 1974-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/9/20
Scope and Contents

Minutes on subjects including: the energy crisis; Concorde; relations between Europe and the United States; oil supplies and European foreign policy; a meeting with Egon Bahr; JA's visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and meeting with President Josip Tito; progress towards European Monetary Union; European policy on the Mediterranean.

Dates: 1972-12 - 1974-02
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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European Security, 1968 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 3/24
Scope and Contents Papers on East-West relations, particularly AFB's plan for a Committee for European Security and Co-operation conference in London, 1971, with correspondents including: [Anthony] Tony Benn; Lord Chalfont [earlier Alun Gwynne Jones] (4); Denis Healey; Lord Gardiner; Sir [Herbert] Harry Nicholas, General Secretary of the Labour Party (3); Frank Allaun; 2nd Lord Kennet [earlier Wayland Young]; Lord Stonham [earlier Victor Collins]; [James] Harold Wilson [Leader of the Labour Party]; Alfred...
Dates: 1968 - 1972
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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Interview with Helen Goodman MP: supporting Labour's new Brexit Bill Reasoned Amendment, 2018-06-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/31
Scope and Contents Goodman, Labour MP for Bishop Auckland talks about the announcement that Labour will be putting forward its own reasoned amendment on the Brexit Bill when all 15 Lords amendments will be debated in one day to ensure it does not have to support membership of the European Economic Area. This would have meant that the UK would remain part of the Single Market, but would also have to accept all of the four freedoms including the freedom of movement of people. Goodman represents a constituency...
Dates: 2018-06-06
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Interview with Professor Catharine Barnard @2903cb on the Supreme Court, 2019-09-26

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 2/18
Scope and Contents

Sones speaks to Barnard as the Supreme Court ruled that the Government acted unlawfully when proroguing Parliament. Barnard discusses who takes the blame for this, she does not believe Geoffrey Cox is to blame. Barnard is not concerned about criticism of the judiciary as long as it is about their legal decision, not their 'bias'.

Dates: 2019-09-26
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Interviews and articles, 1988-11 - 1990-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 17/52
Scope and Contents Includes: briefing for an interview with the Jewish Chronicle on Labour’s attitude to the Jews and Israel, c Nov 1988; Australian article on NK, May 1989; briefings for interviews with David Frost and Julian Manion, on the economy and industry, quality of life, Europe, the Poll Tax, NK’s own view of his chances in the next General Election and party reform, c Dec 1989; transcript of Frost on Sunday interview, Dec 1989; press copy of a letter from NK to Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on...
Dates: 1988-11 - 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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Interviews with NK, 1991-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/161
Scope and Contents

Side 1 includes: press interviews during NK's visit to the European Parliament on various aspects of European political and monetary union and the British view of federalism; press interviews during a visit to the London Docklands, on development of the Thames riverside.

Side 2 (the first 30 minutes are very low volume): interview on subjects including Europe and a think tank on improving the systems of government.

Dates: 1991-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Launch of European election manifesto, 1989-01-27

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/94
Scope and Contents

Includes a press conference in Cardiff [Wales], an interview and speeches by NK on the launch of the European socialist manifesto for the European elections, 1989. Includes other speakers, mainly in French.

Dates: 1989-01-27
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Letters on resignation from the government, 1990, 1990-07 - 1990-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RIDL 2/8
Scope and Contents

Letters on NR's resignation from the government

Dates: 1990-07 - 1990-08
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Meetings with overseas leaders, 1983-11 - 1992-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/2
Scope and Contents Briefings, notes and correspondence on meetings, with individuals including: Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, Nov 1983, on human rights issues; Turgut Ozal, Prime Minister of Turkey, on human rights and Cyprus, Feb 1986; Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, on economic issues, nuclear weapons, the development of the United Nations and Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Hans-Dietrich Genscher,...
Dates: 1983-11 - 1992-02
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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Memoranda for Harold Macmillan, 1952-01 - 1953-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/86
Scope and Contents Memoranda written by JA for [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Minister of Housing and Local Government [later 1st Lord Stockton], with accompanying papers and correspondence between JA, Macmillan (3), Leo Amery and Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams (3) and Edward Beddington-Behrens, Secretary and Chairman of the European League for Economic Co-operation, on the balance of payments position, the purposes of the Soviet Union, the economic crisis, co-operation between the sterling area and Europe and the...
Dates: 1952-01 - 1953-05
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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Mss of pamphlets, 1977 - 1978

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/39
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...
Dates: 1977 - 1978
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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"My Political Life", volume IV: correspondence with Count Coudenhove-Kalergi on European unity, 1939-55, 1939 - 1975-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 8/5/43
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Correspondence, notes and draft appendix. Also includes some correspondence with [Alfred] Duff Cooper, Minister of Information, then British Ambassador to France [later 1st Lord Norwich] and Richard Law, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs [later 1st Lord Coleraine] on Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi's exaggerated ideas of the popularity of the Pan-European Union.

Dates: 1939 - 1975-08
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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National Euro Campaign Launch, Date given as Aug 1989, but more likely to be May-June.

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/127
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Press conference and interviews for the launch of Labour’s European Election campaign, on plans for joining the European Union and the Exchange Rate Mechanism, including speeches by NK and Roy Hattersley.

Dates: Date given as Aug 1989, but more likely to be May-June.
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Papers relating to Europe, 1947 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 9
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Dates: 1947 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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Podcasts for interviews conducted during the Centenary Year of Women in Parliament, 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1
Scope and Contents 76 podcast interviews collated for the publication 'When There's a Woman in the Room - #Vote 100 year January 2018 to January 2019' and written with journalists Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother. Sones' focus was primarily on recording interviews with MPs who champion public policy reforms through debates in Westminster Hall or by asking questions at PMQs.Topics include a range of issues from the centenary of women’s suffrage to Brexit debates. These...
Dates: 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31
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Policy: European Union, 1981 - 1993

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 8
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence, on subjects including: the Confederation of European Socialist Parties (and NK’s candidacy for its Presidency, 1992); Socialist International; European monetary and political union, particularly relating to the Political and Economic and the Monetary Intergovernmental Conferences and the Maastricht Treaty; the British Labour Group in the European Parliament (from June 1990 known as the European Parliamentary Labour Party, EPLP); Eastern Europe.

Dates: 1981 - 1993
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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Press conference with speeches by NK, Bryan Gould and Jack Cunningham for the European election campaign, 1989-06-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/103
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: environmental policy; the European Social Charter; the role of the European Parliament; polling; a possible rise in interest rates; Margaret Thatcher's support for Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer; joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Dates: 1989-06-14
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Press cuttings, 1984-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 18/7
Scope and Contents

Press review of a European Parliament Socialist Bureau meeting in London, a pensioners’ rally and a European textiles forum in Bradford, Yorkshire.

Dates: 1984-04
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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Prime Minister’s Questions, 1992-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/258
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Footage of Prime Minister’s Questions, mainly on Britain’s opt out from the European Social Chapter.

Dates: 1992-02
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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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence and papers on the movement towards a United Europe, 1946 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/5
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Sub-Fonds:

Comprising original documents accumulated by Sir Winston Churchill, and subsequently acquired by Martin Gilbert, including personal papers; public and political papers; literary papers; speeches; and official papers.

Dates: 1946 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: 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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Resignation of Sir [Richard] Geoffrey Howe and [?] Party Conference speech, 1990-10 - 1990-11-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/140
Scope and Contents Interviews with NK on the resignation of Sir Geoffrey Howe [Deputy Prime Minister] and policy on Europe, particularly economic and monetary union (32 minutes 7 seconds).Also includes a speech by NK at [?] the Party Conference, with questions and answers on subjects including: the Poll Tax; working conditions for women, particularly childcare provision; workers' rights; electoral reform and proportional representation; decision making at the Conference; funding of the National...
Dates: 1990-10 - 1990-11-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Shadow Cabinet, 1989-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 2/1/141
Scope and Contents

Draft notes for NK’s address to the Shadow Cabinet on subjects including the Policy Review, economic plans, policy towards Europe. Also includes rough notes from the meeting and a brief for a meeting with Jacques Delors [President, Commission of the European Economic Community] and other European commissioners.

Dates: 1989-11
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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Spectator file, 1990-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RIDL 2/7
Scope and Contents This file relates to NR's interview with Dominic Lawson, published in The Spectator, which ultimately led to his resignation. Contents include: letter from Dominic Lawson regarding NR’s resignation 16/07/1990, letter from Dominic Lawson accompanying an issue of the Spectator with NR’s interview 11/07/1990, photocopy of a transcript from the interview, photocopies of press cuttings, synopsis of the week in Europe from the Commission of the European Communities, response to a letter to...
Dates: 1990-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Mostly open, some items awaiting review
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Speeches, 1975-02 - 1975-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/54
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: the philosophy of Toryism; defence; the referendum on Britain staying in the European Community; the Government's economic policy; cuts in the housing subsidy; the procurement of fighter aircraft for NATO; inflation; the situation in Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe]; détente in southern Africa; Britain's place in Europe; the aviation industry; British policy in the Middle East.

Dates: 1975-02 - 1975-12
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, 1952-01 - 1952-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 7/1/14
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Subjects include: JA's biography of Joseph Chamberlain; Eastern Europe; the European Defence Community; the Lancashire textile industry; Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; the future of Europe.

Dates: 1952-01 - 1952-10
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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