Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton, President of the Board of Trade] on the level of trade; Abe [Bailey]; Admiral Sir Roger Keyes (6) on subjects including his tax position, the naval officers' marriage allowance, and Admiralty matters; Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister]; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith, Secretary of State for India] (2) including one on Indian financial matters; Walter Runciman; Frederick Guest;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Leo Amery [Secretary of State for the Dominions] (2); Sir Thomas Davies MP on road relief; Sir Ernest Gowers [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue] on his health; Neville Chamberlain [Minister of Health] (3) on subjects including him giving an interview to John Bull magazine; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); Herbert Spender-Clay MP; 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Sir Douglas Hogg, Lord Chancellor]; Sir Austen Chamberlain...

Scope and Contents Recipients include: President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (3); F Stanley Jackson [Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party]; Count Guiseppe Volpi [Italian Minister of Finance] (2); Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple, Minister of Transport] (2); Sir Robert Horne [later 1st Lord Slamannan]; Leo Amery [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (4); Sir James Craig [later 1st Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister...

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Correspondents include: Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller, Treasury]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes cutting from the Daily Telegraph.Subjects covered by the file include: civil servants joining the General Strike and being affiliated to the TUC; proposed legislation on the affiliation of civil service associations to outside industrial and political bodies.

Scope and Contents Includes memoranda on: unemployment and the state of the coal mining industry by ?Ernest Gowers [Permanent Under-Secretary for Mines]; import prohibition and legislation by Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance, Treasury] and Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; notes of a meeting between Treasury officials and various bankers on agricultural credit, and between employers and the TUC General Council (with a cutting from the Daily Herald).Also includes notes by...

Scope and Contents Includes copies of: the Labour Magazine for September 1925 containing an article by Walter Citrine [Assistant Secretary, TUC] on "Lessons from the mining dispute"; the Unemployment Insurance Act; "Trade, currency, industry and unemployment" and "The remedy for unemployment: get the workers back to work" by Sir Alfred Mond [later 1st Lord Melchett]; "The co-operative movement and party politics", published by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.Also includes...

Scope and Contents Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller]; Sir Warren Fisher...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: King Manuel II on the "future of Portugal"; General Sir William Robertson [General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the Forces in Great Britain] (3); 1st Lord Milner [Secretary of State for the Colonies] on appointing neither Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard or General Sir John Cowans as Governor of Nigeria (2); Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal] passing on a copy of a letter from Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Lawson on a decline in his pay and position; Philip Kerr [later...

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of a meeting of the Committee on the Limitation of Armaments; a War Office memorandum on WSC's and other appointments; copy of Army Orders for 1919; copies of telegrams from the Adjutant-General [Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh] on potential police strikes; RAF demobilisation form; precis on the Roger Casement letters; outline of scheme of army reorganisation; notes from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso], Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary...

Scope and Contents Includes carbon copies of minutes (and telegrams) from WSC to various individuals including: Secretary [War Office, Sir Reginald Brade]; 1st Lord Peel [Under-Secretary of State for War]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Sir Herbert Creedy; Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Chief of the Air Staff [Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Major-General Fabian Ware; [David Lloyd George]; Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal]; Director of...

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Subjects include the Trades Union Congress, Conservative Party, House of Lords and pension reform, also including correspondence with Sir Tufton Beamish on "One Europe".

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Includes: notes on average earnings, unemployment, industrial production, prices and money supply, GDP and the balance of payments

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Papers mainly comprising correspondence, diaries, articles, speeches, press cuttings and photographs.

Scope and Contents Part 1, 1979: includes a note for the record of a conversation between the Secretary of State for Employment (James Prior MP) and MT relating to "... the proposed extension of Mr. [Jim] Mortimer’s term as Chairman of ACAS", 15 May 1979; and statistics relating to the membership and political levy payments of the major trade unions, year to December 1979 Part 2, 1980: includes briefing notes for MT from Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary) and his handwritten notes...

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Part 1, 1979: includes briefing note for MT from Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary), "European convention on human rights", 24 December 1979
Part 2, 1980
Part 3, 1981

Scope and Contents Includes handwritten annotations by MT Also includes copies of correspondence between Denis Healey MP to James Prior MP, August 1977; a letter to John Stanley MP (MT's Parliamentary Private Secretary) from Sir Terence Beckett (Chairman, Ford Motor Company), 5 December 1978; and paper for MT, "Note on policy for the Unions and its presentation" from Alfred Sherman (Centre for Policy Studies), 8 December 1978 Also includes copy of Lord (Arthur) Cockfield's lecture to the...

Scope and Contents Includes MT's handwritten notes Also includes material collected in March 1977 by John Methven (Director General, CBI) from leading industrialists on their hopes for the early days of a new Conservative administration; with copies of papers from: Terence Beckett (Chairman, Ford Motor Company Ltd), Sir George Burton (Chairman, Fisons plc), Sir John Clark (Chairman, Plessey Company Ltd), Michael Edwardes (Executive Director, Chloride Group plc), R.W. Holder (Chairman, Fairey Company Ltd),...

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Includes MT's handwritten annotations.
Also includes briefing notes for MT from Adam Ridley and Robbie Gilbert (Conservative Research Department).

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Includes selection of press cuttings collected for MT by John Stanley (her Parliamentary Private Secretary), with attached note, August 1977; and note to MT from Adam Ridley (Conservative Research Department), "Public opinion on the closed shop", February 1979, attaching papers from an opinion poll survey conducted in November 1977

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Includes correspondence with Robert Adley MP, James Prior MP and Sir Frank Taylor

Scope and Contents Includes MT's handwritten annotations. Also includes correspondence with John Bowis (National Organiser, Conservative Trade Unionists), James Prior MP, Sir Frank Taylor and Sir John Taylor. Also includes copy of paper by Robbie Gilbert (Conservative Research Department), "Relations with the Unions: the next steps", ca. November 1976; transcript by "DH" [Derek Howe, MT's Press Secretary] of her remarks on incomes policy at Wrexham and Prestatyn, 27 November 1976;...

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Includes MT’s handwritten annotations

Includes copy of a note by David Nicholson (Conservative Research Department) to members of the Shadow Cabinet, “Concordat and the social contract”, 14 February 1979

Scope and Contents Part 1: includes copy of briefing note to MT from 'J.P. [James Prior MP, Secretary of State for Employment]', "... how I have it in mind to handle our proposals for industrial relations legislation", 14 May 1979 Part 2, 1980: includes note for MT from Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary) on "Steel Strike", 17 January 1980; paper by Lord (Peter) Thorneycroft (Chairman, Conservative Party) on "The unions and public opinion", January 1980; and paper...

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Includes correspondence with Robert Adley MP, Geoffrey Finsberg MP and John Gouriet (National Association for Freedom); and situation reports for 22 June 1977 and 11 July 1977, including one for 11 July by Robbie Gilbert (Conservative Research Department)
Also includes a letter to MT from Edward du Cann MP about "liaison between the Parliamentary Party and our colleagues who are Members of the European Parliament", 12 May 1977 (possibly filed in error)

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Summary of a submission by the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) on reform of Conference, the block vote and the National Executive Committee.