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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, manuscripts of books, articles, lectures, broadcasts, preparatory notes, copies of original papers used in research, card indexes, subject files for the official naval history of the Second World War, press cuttings, microfilms and photographs.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands War. Correspondents include: Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister (copies of her correspondence with David Owen, Leader of the Social Democrats, NK, Denzil Davies, defence spokesman and George Foulkes); Tam Dalyell (3); Kenneth Coates, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. Also includes: NK’s remarks to a parliamentary party meeting on timing a Motion in the House of Commons on the sinking...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on 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 to the MP Tam Dalyell. Includes: statements and press releases on the campaign for reform of the Official Secrets Act; press-cuttings on the case; rough speech notes [?] for Prime Minister’s Questions; correspondence with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister;...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence, mainly between NK and Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on 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 to the MP Tam Dalyell. Also includes: rough notes; press sources; a transcript of a Brian Walden Weekend World interview with Denzil Davies, defence spokesman, and Eldon Griffiths, former member of the...

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Camera script for a Channel 4 programme, Court Report, on the trial of the Ministry of Defence official Clive Ponting.

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Correspondence and papers on 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 to the MP Tam Dalyell. Includes: script of Twenty Twenty Vision programme "MI5’s Official Secrets"; press cuttings; chronology of events; texts of interviews; letters from Tam Dalyell (3); issues of the New Statesman.

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Correspondence, mainly with Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, but also with Chris Smith, John Morris [Shadow Attorney General] and Sir [Robert] Michael Havers, Attorney General, on 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 to the MP Tam Dalyell.

Scope and Contents Papers on the political controversy surrounding the sinking of the "General Belgrano", mostly relating to the publication of the 'minority report' on the events of 1-2 May 1982 [The Third Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee of Session 1984-85 (HC 11)] compiled by Spearing and three other Labour members of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs. Including a poem 'written on the Thames at Hampton' on the Falklands War entitled 'Poem at Easter 1982', with covering note to Austen...

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Letters from NK’s constituents (mainly with relatives in the Falklands) and other local Labour parties and groups on the Falklands War, with other correspondents including: Francis Pym, Foreign Secretary; Richard Luce, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Cranley Onslow, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister.
Includes texts of statements and an article by NK for Tribune on the war.

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Includes a copy of the White Paper "The Falklands Campaign: The Lessons", by the Secretary of State for Defence [John Nott], with a copy of the House of Lords Hansard covering the debate on the White Paper.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Admiral Sir Charles Lambe; Davis's view of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Mountbatten of Burma, including an extract from Davis's 1974 diary about him; opinions of Sir Winston Churchill, Field Marsha 1st Lord Slim and Field Marshal 1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein; the loss of HMSS Prince of Wales and Repulse, 1941; Roskill's dispute with his fellow-historian Arthur Marder; views of the wartime admirals, particularly Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Cunningham; the results of the...

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Scope and Contents Two copies of Private Eye 14/01/1983 and 28/01/1983; Hansard 25/01/1983 and 26/01/1983; Copy of the Falkland Islands Review chaired by Lord Franks; Excerpt from Hansard 02/12/1980 - statement on the Falkland isles; Hansard - House of Lords Official report 'Falkland Islands Review' 25/01/1983; ‘Weekend section’ covering the Falkland Isles from The Guardian, 19/06/1982; ‘Falkland Islands - Will peace prove harder than war?’, The Economist, 19/06/1982; ‘Fumbling Foot is Thatcher’s finest...

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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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Letters, mainly from the general public in response to remarks by NK during the General Election campaign on soldiers killed at Goose Green. Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Trefgarne, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces; Janet Fookes.

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Letters, mainly from the general public in response to remarks by NK during the General Election campaign on soldiers killed at Goose Green.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series describes the contents of the personal filing kept by Margaret Thatcher’s while at No 10 Downing Street and are items which were of particular interest or importance to her. Many of these papers complement or are duplicated in other series. This personal files series was added to after her departure from Downing Street in 1990. There are some papers from Margaret Thatcher's early political career (1949-), but generally very little before she became Prime Minister in 1979....

Scope and Contents Correspondents (many commenting on the Falklands War) include: Sir Antony Acland, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Philosophy Group (2); Humphrey Atkins [later Lord Colnbrook] on his resignation from the Government [over the Falklands War]; John Baker, Central Electricity Generating Board, on the case for building a nuclear power station at Sizewell [Suffolk]; Keith Best, commenting on JA's speech on the Falklands War and the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Philosophy Group; Robert Banks on raising civil defence in the Consolidated Fund Bill; Sir John Biggs-Davison; Peter Blaker, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, on subjects including the Sakarov Free University (2); Lord Boothby, on the effects of the Falklands War and lessons for the Navy; John Nott, Secretary of State for Defence, on a suggestion that the Government might replace the Queen's Flight with modern aircraft from British...

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Correspondence, statements and papers on subjects including: Tony Benn’s Deputy Leadership bid; Labour’s reaction to the Falklands War; action against Militant; reform of the party electoral system, particularly the election of the party leader and the reselection process.

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Includes: CS's speech notes for the debate [into the Franks Report on the Falklands]; correspondence with Sir Antony Acland [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Head of the Diplomatic Service] thanking CS for his support, and 1st Lord Gladwyn on his own former references to leasing-back the islands [from Argentina], and whether the wishes of the islanders were to be regarded as paramount; extract from Hansard covering CS's speech.