Scope and Contents Includes draft and final copies of minutes of statements made by: General Jan Smuts; Austen Chamberlain; George Barnes; [Sir] Edwin Montagu; Christopher Addison [Minister in Charge of Reconstruction]; George Roberts, Minister of Labour; Sir Stephenson Kent [Controller-General of Civil Demobilisation and Resettlement] and Sir David Shackleton [Permanent Secretary Ministry of Labour]. Subjects discussed include: the organisation and accommodation of government offices; the regulation of war...

Scope and Contents Part 1, 1986: includes copy of a speech given by John Biffen MP, 7 November 1986; a note for MT from 'W.W. [Lord (Woodrow) Wyatt]' on trade union elections, December 1986 Part 2, 1987: briefing paper for MT from Norman Blackwell and John Wybrew (Members of PM's Policy Unit) on "Health of manufacturing industry", January 1987; papers on "Motivation of the unemployed" by Blackwell, February 1987, and "Publicising the facts about unemployment" by Blackwell,...

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Correspondents include: Sir George Ritchie (5) on Liberal Party, constituency affairs, honours and patronage; Dundee City Council (2) and the Ministry of Labour on unemployment among ex-serviceman in the city, including paper of Cabinet Committee on unemployment.

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Correspondents include: Sir George Ritchie (9), on Liberal Party, constituency affairs and unemployment in Dundee; The City of Dundee Territorial Force Association and the War Office on the amalgamation of the 4th and 5th Black Watch.

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Correspondence with J C Robertson (President, Dundee Liberal Association, see CHAR 5/28A/20-30); James Allison (Liberal Agent); D J MacDonald (fellow Liberal candidate); Sir Alfred Mond (later Lord Melchett) (2) and others on the General Election campaign. Subjects include Ireland; the Government's Eastern policy; taxation; unemployment and Temperance.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (4); Clifford Heyworth, Clerk to Chingford [Essex] Council; [Ernest] Wriothesley Denny and John Maitland on selecting a candidate for the South Norfolk Division .Other subjects include: a visit to the constituency by Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the Duchess of Gloucester and Ramsay MacDonald; animal rights; the National Anthem; international affairs, particularly the bombing of civilians in...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (8); Miles Backhouse asking WSC to become Vice-President of the Waltham Abbey [Essex] Branch of the British Legion; H J Chapman, Clerk to Waltham Abbey Council (8); R Trend Binks, Clerk to Wanstead and Woodford Council (8); Austin Hudson [Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport] on trolley-buses; Frederick Wooding, Secretary of the Royal Infant Orphanage, Wanstead, Essex (4); Thomas...

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Letters and papers concerning the proposed centralisation of the printing of County Court circulars in London. Includes letters to WSC from the Federation of Master Printers, R H & J Sharp, a Manchester printing firm and A Megan & Sons, a Manchester bookbinding firm who would be adversely affected by this proposal.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (6) and "Kath", Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent (4); Thomas Caulcott, Assistant Principal, War Damage Commission (2); Jack Beddoe, Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Local Government and Planning; H E Tibbs, constituent (15); P M Ibbotson, Private Secretary, Ministry of Health (4); Jack Charles, Private Secretary to the Minister of...

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Subjects include: unemployment; Labour’s relations with the trades unions; the miners’ strike, particularly the blockade of the Ravenscraig steel works [Lanarkshire, Scotland] by striking miners; NK’s mother; the European elections; black Labour sections; the Portsmouth South by-election [Hampshire]. Includes cuttings of NK dancing with Bill Owen and Clive Dunn.

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Subjects include: relations with the SDP-Liberal Alliance, particularly an attack by NK against David Owen, leader of the SDP; Ken Livingstone standing as a parliamentary candidate; Labour’s support for a pay rise for nurses; allegations of vote rigging in the election for the Transport and General Workers’ Union’s General Secretary; attacks on NK from the Left; unemployment and Labour’s jobs and industry campaign.

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Includes pamphlets on subjects including public corporations, Liberal Party policy on national defence, employment, and food and agriculture; and memoranda circulated by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office with suggested replies to questions on issues including the League of Nations, National Peace Council, war damage, a national health service, civil servants, National Insurance and the British Legion.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Paul Reynaud; Kermit Roosevelt (2); 6th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord Dalmeny]; "Harold R", 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on subjects including putting up a prize for development of anti-mine measures (2); 1st Lord Southborough [earlier Francis Hopwood], congratulating WSC on his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty; [Henry] James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn [later 11th Lord Dundee]; [James] Vincent Sheean on subjects including WSC's appointment,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Priscilla, Lady Tweedsmuir [earlier Lady Grant] (4); Major-General Donald Bateman, Secretary of the Association of Conservative Clubs (2); Alfred Bossom on a broadcast by WSC; Sir Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office; Lady Patricia Kingsbury, Honorary Secretary of the South Buckinghamshire Conservative Association (2); Allen Molesworth of the Cambridge University Conservative Association; Colonel Sir Godfrey Llewellyn,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Mervyn Brown, 1st Secretary, Foreign Office; Thomas Iremonger (2); Bryant Godman Irvine; Eliahu Elath, Jerusalem Ambassador to Great Britain on the anniversary of the Balfour declaration; Sir Barnett Janner; [James] Idwal Jones on WSC's history of World War II; Field-Marshal Kaiser Mahal; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], Prime Minister, on subjects including a suggestion by John Kennedy, President of the United States, to name a Polaris after WSC, and the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (14); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); James Lindsay; William Woolley; Sir Arthur Young [Scottish Unionist Whip]; Anthony Fell; Sir Edward Boyle (2); Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd; Sir Albert Braithwaite (3); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] on Norman Bower resigning; Sir Arthur...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Ernest Taylor; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] on Ivor Thomas [later Ivor Bulmer-Thomas]; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (4); Sir Herbert Thompson on the Indian civil service and police; R Robinson, Lord Mayor of Cardiff, on matters including the Tonypandy riots [Glamorgan, Wales] and naming a road after WSC (7); representatives of the Conservative Research Department...

Scope and Contents Includes copies of: papers on road, rail, and London Transport, the European Recovery Programme, trade, and the 1953 conference location; Conservative "Weekend Talking Points" on prices, unemployment, the liberal vote, and the cost of living; propaganda flyers; public opinion summary; galley proofs of "We shall win through" (October 1952) on the economy, domestic and foreign policy, and defence; Weekly News Letters.Also includes correspondence from: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord...

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Includes notes, papers and reports on unemployment including a memorandum suggesting possible solutions, reprinted correspondence from the Saturday Review, letters from members of the public, papers on the price and sales of coal, juvenile unemployment, and the unemployment bill, and a paper by William Ivor Jennings on the costs of unemployment.

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: MPs' pay; exchange rates; Britain's entry into the Common Market; industry, particularly industrial research and industrial relations; unemployment; Northern Ireland; immigration; the floatation of the pound; inflation; the nationalisation of the civil aviation industry, particularly concerning the bankruptcy of Rolls Royce Limited; the role of the Church; incomes policy; the Budget; press reporting; the balance of payments;...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Britain's membership of the Common Market, particularly over the common fisheries policy, a European Parliament, the Common Agricultural Policy and the 1975 referendum; the trade deficit; Government borrowing; the labour market; immigration and the Asian population; unemployment; JEP's decision to leave the Conservative Party; JEP's decision to stand as an Ulster Unionist, the aims of Unionism, relations between Ulster and...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: Britain's membership of the European Economic Community and Common Market, including the European Convention on human rights, the views of the Prime Minister [Margaret Thatcher] and the Common Fisheries Policy; international exchange rates; inflation and interest rates; the nuclear deterrent and the role of the United Nations for peace; Government hostility against the Ulster Unionist Party, the Northern Ireland Assembly, IRA...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the uses of education; ending direct rule in Ulster, the Anglo-Irish Council, the past attitudes of the British Government to Ulster, interventions by the United States and representation for Ulster in Parliament; the results of past immigration policy; NATO defence policy; international exchange rates, the floating pound, the international monetary system and international monetary fund; British membership of the European Economic...

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Notes from JA’s library desk on subjects including: Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]; democracy or constitutional government; the failure of the Conservative economic and foreign policy, relating to the Middle East and South Africa; the crisis within the Conservative Party; unemployment; the Soviet military challenge.

Also includes a letter from Air Vice-Marshal Stewart Menaul on his article on nuclear weapons.

Scope and Contents Proof copy (2nd revise) of volume of speeches by WSC on "The Record of the Government" and "Social Organisation", with extensive manuscript annotations by WSC, containing:.Speech by WSC (5 April 1906, House of Commons) entitled "The Conciliation of South Africa". Published: Complete Speeches I, pp 607 - 14.Speech by WSC (31 July 1906, House of Commons), entitled "The Transvaal [South Africa] Consitution". Published: Complete Speeches I, pp 647 - 62.Speech by WSC (17 December, House of...