Scope and Contents Annotated draft of LSA's chapter on the industrial prospect, with comments from individuals including: Sir Desmond Morton, Treasury; 3rd Lord Halsbury, Managing Director of the Research Development Corporation [earlier Lord Tiverton] (2); Ernest Lever, Chairman of Richard Thomas and Baldwins Limited and of the Steel Company of Wales, Limited; Sir Ben Lockspeiser, Secretary to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; Sir Harry Railing [Vice-President of the...

Scope and Contents Includes: cuttings; trade figures; paper by LSA on the future policy of the Empire Industries Association; essay on the pound sterling by Roy Harrod; text of a speech by LSA on the economic crisis, 1947; article by LSA on non-discrimination, customs union and preference; memorandum by LSA on the sterling situation; text of an address by Sir Douglas Copland, Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, on Australian foreign policy; figures from [Edwin] Hartley Leather on the...

Scope and Contents Includes: cuttings; text of a speech by [James] Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, on British trade with the sterling area; articles by LSA on non-discrimination, customs union and preference, and the United States and the Commonwealth; text of a speech by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] on ruin or recovery; copies of Hansard covering debates on the economic situation (particularly GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and closer co-operation...

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Includes: cuttings; a paper by Sir Hubert Henderson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford, on the emerging pattern of international trade; text of a speech by 1st Lord Layton on the exchange value of the pound; short economic survey; policy memorandum of the Empire Industries Association; reprint of articles from the Times on the dollar gap.

Scope and Contents Includes: text of a speech by Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, on Australian import restrictions; excerpts from the report of the American President's Materials Policy Commission; correspondence with Reginald Winter, Secretary of the British Empire Producers' Organisation, on American subsidies; memorandum presented to the American State Department by the British Embassy in Washington on difficulties in trade with the United States; draft memorandum by LSA on attempting to form...

Scope and Contents Includes: cuttings; text of article by LSA on taxation and economic policy; letter from [George] Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, on using subsidies in domestic and export production; Empire Industries Association policy memorandum on the economic crisis; proof and draft of memoranda for Cabinet by LSA, including "Towards a Balanced Economy: the present mischief"; Empire Industries Association and British Empire League bulletins, with the texts of speeches by LSA as...

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Cuttings of articles about WSC’s career, with illustrations; WSC’s speeches and articles on Unionism, The Fourth Party, Tariff Reform, Marriage Bill; WSC on Welsh Tour.

Scope and Contents Texts of papers by LSA on subjects including: the economic crisis and trade policy (1952); Pakistan; the case for Commonwealth Preference; Jawaharlal Nehru; the nature of British Parliamentary government; forms of colonial self-government; the state of the Commonwealth and Empire (1951); the Most Favoured Nation clause; the 1951 Commonwealth conference; the condition of sterling; the Liberal Party and electoral reform; Empire Day; devaluation of sterling; the theory of [Sally] Herbert...

Scope and Contents Texts and cuttings of articles by LSA on subjects including: Central African Federation; Kenya (as LSA's foreword to "Before the White Man in Kenya", by Christopher Wilson); tribute to David Lloyd George and Sir Winston Churchill as war leaders (as LSA's contribution to "Winston Spencer Churchill, Servant of Crown and Commonwealth"); Commonwealth trade (as LSA's reply to an article by Roy Harrod on Commonwealth co-operation); some elementary notes on trade and production; LSA's review of...

Scope and Contents Texts of articles by LSA on subjects including: the future of Cyprus, with a suggested draft constitution; LSA's review of "Government by Committee", by Kenneth Wheare [Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Oxford]; racism and the colour problem, particularly in South Africa; tributes to Sir Winston Churchill, including LSA's foreword to "The Young Winston Churchill" by John Marsh; the change in Conservative policy on Imperial economic...

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Texts of articles by LSA on subjects including: tribute to Sir Winston Churchill; racism and the colour problem, particularly in South Africa; GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] and Imperial Preference (article for the Empire Industries Association).

Scope and Contents Includes: news-letter and issue of the BEPO journal, the Empire Producer; correspondence with Reginald Winter, Secretary of BEPO, and Charles Ponsonby, Chairman; reports from the preparatory committee of the United Nations Trade and Employment Conference at Geneva [Switzerland]; memorandum on BEPO's post-war programme; memorandum by BEPO and the Tobacco Federation of the British Empire on the importance of preferences in the Dominion and colonial sugar, wines and spirits, canned and dried...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre provides a good picture of Wilfred Brown's varied career. It includes material on his work at the Glacier Metal Company and in the field of management, his career as a politician and his involvement with Brunel University (BRWN 3). There is a substantial series of correspondence, both personal and on political subjects (BRWN 2), and a series of drafts and typescripts of some of his many books, articles and lectures on management techniques...

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Cartoons of WSC on Tariff Reform, Budget, Navy debate, Unemployment insurance, Female Suffrage, Labour Exchanges, electoral reform (WSC appearing in Parliament in pyjamas); photos of CSC.

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WSC supporting reform to win Boer war, Tariff Reform and Liberalism.

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Includes paper by John Cope MP on the proprietary company, for the Smaller Businesses Policy Group, February 1976; and paper by Professor M. Chisholm for the Regional Policy Group on "Regional policies in an era of slow population growth and higher unemployment", July 1976

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams on LSA's "Empire and Prosperity"; 1st Lord Athlone [Governor-General of South Africa] on working with LSA; 1st Lord Passfield [Secretary of State for the Colonies, earlier Sidney Webb]; Edmund Boyd [Principal Private Secretary to Lord Passfield]; Stanley Baldwin [Leader of the Conservative Party, and Lord President of the Council] on subjects including the new Cabinet and his failure to find a place for LSA (4); Lucy Baldwin on how...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Edward Arnold, Edward Arnold and Company, publishers, on distributing LSA's Empire Tour speeches, "The Empire in the New Era" to schools; Stanley Baldwin [Leader of the Conservative Party] on subjects including LSA having made his position more difficult over Imperial Preference (3); Sir Robert Baden-Powell; Sir Abe Bailey; Richard Baggallay; John Davidson, Chairman of the Conservative Party (2); Sir Hesketh Bell on the report of the Colonial Appointments ...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] disapproving of LSA's attending the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa [Canada] as representative of the Chamber of Agriculture, and on iron and steel duties (2); 9th Lord Bessborough [Governor-General of Canada, earlier Lord Duncannon] on the benefits to Canada from the Ottawa Conference and British debt payments to the United States; Sir William Birdwood, regretting that neither LSA nor Winston Churchill had become...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir [Leslie] Patrick Abercrombie; A V Alexander, Minister of Defence on subjects including LSA's ideas on the National Service Bill (2); [Albert] Spenser Allberry (2); Carleton Allen; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Sir Algernon Aspinall; Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees, on subjects including the chances of civil war in Palestine; [William] Bankes Amery [Head of British Food Mission to Australia] on the food parcels sent to...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis; [Syed] Waris Ameer Ali; Nancy, Lady Astor, thanking LSA for his sympathy on the death of 2nd Lord Astor; Jacques Bardoux; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst] on helping LSA with agricultural policy questions (4); P Clavell Blount (3); 1st Lord Brand on the disadvantages of financial aid from the United States; Leonard Brockington; Arthur Bryant (2); 1st Lord Bruce, Chairman of the Finance Corporation for Industry Limited; James...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Henry Lewin, supporting LSA's position on tariffs (3); 1st Lord Lloyd on subjects including his disagreement with LSA on Indian constitutional affairs (4); [Herbert] Paul Latham, thanking LSA for his help in his election campaign; Sir Roderick Jones [Chairman and Managing Director of Reuters]; Sir Arthur Crosfield; Sir Robert Vansittart [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; Sir Samuel Wilson [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies] on...

Scope and Contents Conservative Research Department pamphlets and other publications on subjects including: the Conservative Party Conference, 1949; the Iron and Steel Bill, 1948; finance, trade and industry under the Labour Government; the earnings of industry; nationalization; Conservative policy in the 1950 General Election; the housing shortage; social and general policy under the Labour Government; Conservative Imperial policy; recent developments in the Empire (1949); points on trade and Imperial...

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Cuttings of WSC’s speeches as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; photos of WSC’s Polo-playing and WSC at Manchester Garden party; articles on WSC’s African Tour, General Election and WSC as President of Board of Trade.

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Contains newspaper index. Cuttings on expenditure: (cuttings, speeches and cartoons), especially the Road Fund; coal (strikes and subsidy); the gold standard; war debts (France and Italy); Trade.
Cuttings on international and national affairs: WSC’s speech (propaganda, gold standard, war debts); Locarno Treaty; Baldwin’s speech (Food and Housing, Pacification of Europe, Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq] etc.) Religion, Ulster Unionism. Views on socialism and communism.