Scope and Contents Source material for a published collection of essays on JEP to mark the centenary of his birth, edited by Lord Howard of Rising. Includes: transcript of an interview between JEP and David Frost [? January 1969, see POLL 5/67 for the recording] on the Birmingham speech ["Rivers of Blood"], 1968, racial discrimination and immigration; summary of JEP's immigration statistics; commentary on an article by JEP on the National Economic Development Council (NEDC or Neddy), 1963; copies from Hansard...

Scope and Contents Anonymous account of a voyage from Liverpool to New York of a British visitor, possibly a businessman, in 1815. The account includes impressions of New York, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, and Washington, with notes on American political and military history. The volume also contains a transcript from the Boston Daily Advertizer, 22 June 1815, on the treatment of Blacks in America. There is a letter from George Kitson Clark to Frank Thistlethwaite, 8 December 1959, explaining the provenance of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence on Questions raised by AFB in the House of Lords relating to the political situation in Lesotho. Correspondents include: Roger Wilson, Professor of Education, University of Bristol (2); Alexander Lyon [Opposition Spokesman on African Affairs] and 12th Lord Lothian, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office [earlier Peter Kerr], on the detention of Ntsu Mokhehle, the leader of the Opposition in Lesotho.Also includes AFB's evidence to...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence relating to AFB's visit to the Price sisters [Dolours and Marian Price], both members of the IRA, convicted for their part in the London car bombing campaign, 1973, including: hate mail, mainly on the Price sisters, but also against AFB's Private Members' Bill to amend the Race Relations Act; other letters on the Price sisters, many congratulating AFB when they abandoned their hunger strike; rough notes for AFB's statement on the sisters; the text of AFB's speech at...

Scope and Contents Includes: articles about AFB, including a biographical piece by Frank Allaun; articles by AFB himself, on the colour problem, 50 years in the Labour Movement and on a plea of mitigation for a group of youths sentenced to four years' imprisonment after the Notting Hill race riots [London], 1958; press cuttings on AFB's visit to Ghana to propose that the diamond industry should be run by Diamond Co-operative Society, 1959; reviews of his novel "Red Liner", 1962; reviews of "Outside the Right",...

Scope and Contents Papers gathered by Killie Campbell relating to the issue of race relations between the two world wars, under the nomenclature of the time referred to as the 'native question' or the 'colour question'. Includes draft and published articles, memoranda, minutes of meetings, newscuttings, notes and reports. The topics covered include government legislation, complaints from the townships, and issues to do with employment, including industry and forced labour, and the place of women. Some material...