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Comprises: Chapter 9, Post-War; Chapter 10, Dalton and Gaitskell; Chapter 11, The Steel Industry Battle; Chapter 12, The Atomic Bomb and Soviet Spies; Chapter 13, Slaugham; Chapter 14, Bevan's Resignation; Chapter 15, Theatre Censorship; Chapter 16, Museum Charges and Clay Cross; Chapter 17, Miscreants; and Chapter 18, The Lords.

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...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on meetings with the group, with correspondents including: Roy Hattersley [Treasury and economic affairs spokesman], on making a statement about Labour’s future public ownership programme, with a copy of the statement and a note from John Smith [trade and industry spokesman] on industrial policy; James Driscoll, Director of the group (2); Sir Philip Jones, Chairman, on a leaked story about their discussions. Also includes briefings for and notes of meetings with...

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Includes: MT's handwritten annotations
Includes: notes from: James Prior MP ("Some thoughts on pay policy", March 1977); James Douglas (includes his letter to MT on her Iain Macleod memorial lecture given on 4 July 1977, 18 July 1977); and Peter Cropper (including his note for MT attaching his report on a conference of the Society of Business Economists he attended in July 1977, "The re-industrialisation of Britain")

Scope and Contents Includes notes on meeting of the Industry Committee, 21 February 1978 [attended by Sir Michael Edwardes, Chairman, British Leyland]; and notes of the Nationalised Industries meeting (attended by MT), 10 May 1978 Also includes notes from MT relating to nationalisation in correspondence with Sir Ralph Bateman (Chairman, British United Industrialists), March 1977; correspondence with James Prior MP; and bulletin from Rowe Rudd & Co, "Exchange control: the case for abolition"...

Scope and Contents Includes final report of the Nationalised Industries Policy Group, ca. January 1978; papers relating to the Group’s meeting on 15 March 1978 (attended by MT); and minutes of the Policy Sub-Committee (not attended by MT), 13 March 1978 Also includes notes by Adam Butler MP (MT's Parliamentary Private Secretary) on a meeting to discuss policy towards the nationalised industries, 10 May 1978 (MT did not attend) Also includes correspondence with Tom King MP and Sir Keith Joseph...

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Includes papers relating to the port of Felixstowe and correspondence with Michael Marshall MP; and papers relating to a "10 minute Parliamentary Bill" proposed by Ian Gow MP to de-nationalise the steel industry, including correspondence with Bill Sirs of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, January 1977

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Briefings, arrangements (including correspondence with Peter Mandelson, producer) and transcripts for NK’s interviews with Brian Walden for Weekend World. Subjects include: economic policy and Labour’s attitude to the City; NK’s visits to Europe, the Stockholm Conference on arms control [Sweden] and the situation in the Lebanon; foreign policy; renationalisation; pensions; defence; energy.

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Briefings, arrangements and transcripts for NK’s interview with Brian Walden for Weekend World, Jan 1984. Subjects include: electoral strategy; economic policy; renationalisation; trade unions; defence; pensions. Includes a transcript of an earlier Weekend World interview with [William] John Biffen, Leader of the House of Commons, on Government cuts to public spending.