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Includes copy minutes and papers of the Group, including some papers of the Oil and Gas [Policy] Sub-Group and the Rational Use and Supply of Energy [Policy] Group
Also includes “Energy strategy, a consultative paper for the Conservative Energy Policy, Study Group” by Peter Rost MP, June 1975

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Includes: a copy of the constitution and rules of the Group; papers relating to meetings to discuss the use of revenue from North Sea Oil on 16 February 1978 & 4 April 1978; draft note by Price, "Educational exchanges between Civil Service and manufacturing industry", 7 May 1978; and letters to Price from Lord (Wilfred) Brown, undated

Scope and Contents Subjects include: energy policy; the prosecution of the Ministry of Defence official Clive Ponting under the Official Secrets Act after he sent documents on the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands War; an inquiry chaired by Lord Bridge on interception of postal and telephone communications by the security services; commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the end of the war; publication of an official history of nuclear testing; human rights in Indonesia;...

Scope and Contents Includes: MT’s handwritten annotations Includes correspondence with: Sir Keith Joseph MP (includes: copy of a note from Joseph to William Whitelaw MP on ".. the lack of training for the [police] in handling demonstrations", 24 February 1978; note from Joseph to MT, "Leslie Chapman’s book, "Your disobedient civil servant" on the saving of public money", 15 May 1978; Joseph’s letter to MT forwarding the report of the Conservative Working Group on Public...

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The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.

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Minutes on subjects including: the energy crisis; Concorde; relations between Europe and the United States; oil supplies and European foreign policy; a meeting with Egon Bahr; JA's visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and meeting with President Josip Tito; progress towards European Monetary Union; European policy on the Mediterranean.

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Papers from CS's visit to Washington, February 1974, including the itinerary and programme and the schedule for CS's previous visit, 1973.

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Questions answered by NK on subjects including: Welsh nationalism; a national minimum wage; the electricity industry; nuclear disarmament.

The interview at Gwynedd Hospital (and also at a station where the recording is partially drowned out by platform announcements) is on subjects including local housing and health funding issues, including an arson campaign in north Wales, and the ban on trades unions at GCHQ.

Scope and Contents Includes MT's handwritten notes Includes draft speech material for MT from Ronald Millar and Christopher Patten (Director General, Conservative Research Department), December 1878; and annotated drafts of MT's "trade union speech", ca. 29 November 1978 (see also THCR 2/6/1/154) and her speech to Central Council meeting, Solihull, West Midlands, 24 March 1979 (see also THCR 5/1/2/257); and a press release by Conservative Central Office of MT's intended speech on receiving the...

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Rough notes of NK’s meetings with the Taoiseach of Ireland [Charles Haughey] and with Alan Dukes [leader of Fine Gael] on Ireland’s presidency of the European Community, the political situation in Ireland, relations with the British Government and energy policy.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The records relate chiefly to the erection and administration of the laboratory buildings and their contents. Indeed, the earliest records are vouchers for equipment purchased by James Clerk Maxwell, first Professor, in 1876-9. There are also smaller quantities of records relating to laboratory clubs, 1902-72, the celebration of the Clerk Maxwell centenary, 1931, research programmes, 1960-92, including the Cambridge Energy Research Group, and applications to work and study at the laboratory,...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with Conservative academics and memoranda setting out policy objectives for establishing better links with the world of Higher Education. Also includes notes for MT by Adam Butler MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary) of a discussion on energy policy with academics (at a lunch attended by MT), 8 November 1977. Also includes correspondence with: Vernon Bogdanor; Leon Brittan MP; Dr Keith Hampson MP; Professor Sir William Hawthorne; Professor John Harold...

Scope and Contents Includes copy of a handwritten letter by MT to "Jubie" [Colonel Claude Granville Lancaster] relating to energy, 30 October 1975 Includes correspondence with 1st Lord ("Toby") Aldington, Tony Benn MP, Leslie Grainger (National Coal Board) Professor John Harold Horlock, Sally Oppenheim MP, John Sparrow and Sir Arnold Weinstock Also includes correspondence with Sir Brian Flowers after he forwarded a copy of a report by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution,...

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Includes correspondence with John King (Babcock & Wilcox Ltd), Tom King MP (with notes on his visit to Washington DC, 19-23 June 1977), Walter Marshall (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) and Rear Admiral David Dunbar-Nasmith (Highlands and Islands Development Board)

Scope and Contents Part 1, 1979: includes note from ‘T.P. [Tim] Lankester (MT's Private Secretary for Economic Affairs)' to 'Mr [Martin] Vile [Cabinet Office]’, "Energy issues", 8 May 1979 Part 2, 1980 Part 3, 1981 Part 4, 1982: includes extensive material on the National Coal Board's applications to mine the Vale of Belvoir, their rejection in March 1982 by the Department of the Environment and likely impact of rejection on handling of possible strike action by the National Union of...

Scope and Contents Reports by members of the Shadow Cabinet on policy proposals and their projected costs, including: Denzil Davies on defence; [Giles Radice] on education; Stan Orme on energy; John Prescott on employment; Michael Meacher on social security; [George Foulkes] on foreign affairs; Roy Hattersley on home affairs; Robert Hughes on transport; John Smith on trade and industry; Donald Dewar on Scotland; Barry Jones on Wales; Peter Archer on Northern Ireland; Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting...

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Includes copy of letter from Tom King MP to Angus Maude MP (manifesto co-ordinator), April 1978

Scope and Contents Briefings for visits including: a pensioners’ press conference and sheltered housing project, Islington South, and a visit to Ealing, [London], June 1989; women taxi drivers in Islington, Oct 1989; Nottingham and the East Midlands, including visits to GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) and Boots and a meeting with local manufacturers, and Reading [Berkshire], Feb 1990; meeting with manufacturers, Cambridge, May 1990; Barnsley [Yorkshire], to open the Metrodome Leisure Centre, July 1990;...

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Includes: speech for the Welsh Labour Party Conference, on the Freedom and Fairness campaign; speech to the lobby for sanctions against South Africa and for a conference on the Front Line states in Africa; speech for the launch of the Coalition against Star Wars. Other subjects include: the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU); divisions within the Conservatives; energy policy; the Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election [Staffordshire].

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Photographs, press cuttings and promotional material on the work of Dracone Developments Limited, with an album on the National Research Development Corporation's Mechanical Engineering Group.

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Papers relating to Redwood's membership of the Conservative Party's Public Sector Policy Group, his work on gas for the Department of Energy, his membership of the Nationalised Industries Study Group of the Centre for Policy Studies

Also includes various publications by or about Redwood.

Scope and Contents The papers include: diaries and engagement books; personal and general correspondence; early scientific papers and laboratory notebooks; papers and correspondence relating to Balliol College; papers relating to Hartley's chemical warfare work in the First World War; papers of the Axis Oil Committees, concerned with the problem of oil supplies to the Axis in the Second World War; the FIDO papers, from a committee headed by Hartley on Fog Investigation Dispersal Operations, also during the...

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Papers relating to Sir Ian Lloyd's personal life, career, work for Parliamentary Science and Technology Committees, speeches, articles and press cuttings.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.