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Nuclear disarmament

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

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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, 1985-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/21
Scope and Contents

Includes: NK’s speech for the Scottish Miners’ gala, on miners dismissed following the miners’ strike; NK’s speech at a Socialist International conference on nuclear disarmament; NK’s speech for the launch of the joint Labour Party and Trades Union Congress economic and social policy document, "A New Partnership, A New Britain". Other subjects include: world poverty; South Africa; the 40th anniversary of the United Nations; reform of the world trading and financial system.

Dates: 1985-10
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, 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, 1988-06 - 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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Stephen Hawking Archive

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10440
Scope and Contents The Stephen Hawking Archive contains correspondence and papers relating to Hawking’s membership in the University of Cambridge; records relating to the administration of the Gravitation and Relativity Group within the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP); correspondence with academic colleagues, academic institutions and scientific organizations; correspondence and papers relating to travel to conferences and other events; correspondence with publishers, both...
Dates: 1740-2018, predominant 1942-2018
Conditions Governing Access: The Stephen Hawking Archive is generally available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Access to some files is restricted in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018. Access to some files is temporarily restricted pending conservation treatment. See individual file entries for details. Audiovisual and digital content requires further processing to make it accessible for consultation; this material does not currently appear in this catalogue. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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"Sure and Secure", 1986-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/1/78
Scope and Contents

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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The Papers of Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RTBT
Scope and Contents

Rotblat’s personal archive includes working papers, notebooks, correspondence, lectures and photographs and documents his scientific career (including his research in atomic physics at the University of Liverpool and medical physics at St Bartholomew's Hospital) and the Pugwash organisation and conferences. There is a separate section covering Rotblat’s involvement with various societies and organisations. The remainder of the collection is still being catalogued and remains closed.

Dates: 1916 - 2010
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 Cockcroft

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CKFT
Scope and Contents

Papers comprising laboratory notebooks, articles, lectures, correspondence and photographs.
Also includes records of the Kapitza Club, 1922-58 and 1966, and copy papers of the Maud Committee, 1940-1.
With offprints of papers by Ernest Rutherford, 1872-1913.

Dates: 1872 - 1985
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Tour of North East and BBC Radio 2 Jimmy Young Programme, 1989-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/97
Scope and Contents The first minute or so of side 1 is from the end of NK's Interview on the Jimmy Young Programme, 13 April 1989. The majority of side 1 consists of a discussion (with some background restaurant noise) and press interviews on subjects including: manufacturing industry; the state of the coal industry; the dock workers' dispute; the disparity between the South East and the rest of the country; investment in railway development; policy on Europe.Side 2 is the majority of NK's Jimmy...
Dates: 1989-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Tribune interview with NK, 1985-09-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/19
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: defence policy and nuclear disarmament; Europe; economic policy; trades union funding; NK's leadership; Labour Party reform; the Miners' Strike; Black Sections.

Dates: 1985-09-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, 1945 - 1966

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/STKH 3/8
Scope and Contents Comprising typescript and handwritten drafts of material for pamphlets, newspaper articles and talks about Nuclear weapons and disarmament. These include 'Defence in the nuclear age'; 'Civilian Defence'1964; 'Pugwash and disarmament, reflections by an observer'; 'Some reflections on nuclear disarmament' 1964; 'Reflections on defence'; 'Defence Policy' [House of Lords speech, March 1966]; 'Power Politics in the nuclear age' 1962; 'Common sense in defence' 1962; 'What are we trying to defend...
Dates: 1945 - 1966
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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Visit to Bradford, Yorkshire, and CND rally, 1983-09 - 1983-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/1
Scope and Contents

Schedule for the visit, including a briefing on race relations in Bradford, and also rough speech notes. Also includes notes for a speech by NK on nuclear disarmament [? given at a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protest in London, October 1983].

Dates: 1983-09 - 1983-10
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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Visit to India, 1980-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 2/52
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, press cuttings and other papers on AFB's visit, mainly relating to the Rajaji Centenary Symposium in Bombay [Mumbai] on world disarmament, including the text of AFB's Rajaji Memorial lecture, "Rajaji's Legacy for India: Democracy, Non-Alignment and Peace".

Dates: 1980-03
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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Visit to Moscow, 1984-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/11
Scope and Contents

Includes: briefings for NK’s visit to the Soviet Union, particularly on defence and human rights; notes of NK’s meeting with President Konstantin Chernenko on arms reduction; speech notes; programmes and arrangements for various visits; transcript of an interview by NK for Radio Moscow; information for press.

Dates: 1984-11
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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Visit to New York and Washington, Feb 1984, 1983-10 - 1984-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/5
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and press cuttings on NK’s visit to the United States, including correspondence with Edward Koch, Mayor of New York, and with Sir Martin Ryle on nuclear disarmament, and a summary of NK’s speech to the National Press Club, Washington, on the practice of freedom. Also includes an extract from a speech by NK to the Socialist International on arms control, Nov 1983, and NK’s preface to a report by Stuart Holland and Donald Anderson on Central America, "Kissinger’s Kingdom".

Dates: 1983-10 - 1984-07
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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Visit to United States, Nov-Dec 1986: defence policy, 1986-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/35
Scope and Contents

Includes: text of NK’s speech at the Kennedy School of Government, Boston, "Components of security: defence, democracy and development"; briefings on the launch of Labour’s non-nuclear defence policy; press release on a meeting of the European Socialist and Social Democratic parties of NATO on security policy (Oslo [Norway], Sept 1986); note on Labour and the ‘nuclear umbrella’.

Dates: 1986-12
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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Visit to West Germany [later part of Germany], 1985-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/21
Scope and Contents

Programme and briefing on defence policy, including papers and press cuttings on the summit on arms control between the United States and Soviet Union at Geneva [Switzerland], 1985 and papers and press cuttings on the German Social Democratic Party, mainly relating to European defence policy. Also includes a programme for a visit to Sweden for a European conference, and arrangements for a meeting with Bill Keys, Chairman of the Trade Union Co-Ordinating Committee.

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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Visits and meetings, 1992-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/2/130
Scope and Contents Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: a meeting with Dick Cheney, American Secretary of Defense, on European defence, NATO and nuclear disarmament, including rough notes of the meeting; a meeting with Dan Quayle, Vice-President of the United States, on defence and the Common Agricultural Policy; a meeting with Boris Yeltsin, President of the Soviet Union, on overseas aid, defence and disarmament; a meeting with Boutros Boutros Ghali, Secretary-General of the United...
Dates: 1992-01
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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Week in Politics: Kinnock, 1986-12-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 26/2/32
Scope and Contents

Interview with NK on Labour's nuclear disarmament policy.

Dates: 1986-12-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Series: Access copies available.
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World Disarmament Campaign , 1976 - 1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 4
Scope and Contents

Subjects include the inception and development of the campaign, fundraising attempts, recruitment drives and the formulation of the appeal for the signatures on the petition, which eventually reached a record 2.35 million. Because the Brockway papers came into the Archives in 1982, there are no papers relating to the activities of the reformulated Campaign WDC (UK) after the 1982 United Nations Session and the death of Lord Noel-Baker in October of that year.

Dates: 1976 - 1982
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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