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Includes campaign papers, minutes of meetings of the Council for Freedom of Information, publicity material and copies of the newspaper "Secrets".

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Minutes of a meeting and the director’s report from the civil liberties charity.

Scope and Contents Includes notes on policy work during opposition by Sir Keith Joseph MP and Christopher Patten and James Douglas (Conservative Research Department), February-April 1975; various lists of policy and other related groups, March, May & December 1975; correspondence with Sir Keith Joseph MP (co-ordinator of the groups), and Professor Daniel O'Connell, concerning a bill of rights Also includes copy of a paper on Industrial Policy Options by Michael Heseltine MP for discussion by the Shadow...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with David Howell MP and Sir Keith Joseph MP; and papers for the Group from Patrick Jenkin MP on the future organisation of the Treasury, June 1976, and Sir Philip Rogers, July 1976 Also includes copy minutes and papers of the Policy Group on a Bill of Rights, February-May 1976; and a copy of a guidance note for the Shadow Cabinet from the Conservative Research Department on (an attached) draft submission to the Committee on Political Activities of Civil Servants,...

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Correspondence with representatives of the campaign for press and broadcasting freedom.

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A selection of cases submitted to the Association since the imposition of internment in Northern Ireland.

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Correspondence, mainly with Patricia McCluskey, on the work of the campaign, with an action sheet on AFB's Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland.

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Correspondence with the association on AFB's Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly on support for AFB's Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland and the increase in sectarian violence, with correspondents including: Martin Ennals, Secretary General of Amnesty International, on their report into the Compton Commission [regarding allegations of brutality carried out by the security forces, August 1971]; 3rd Lord Windlesham [Minister of State for Northern Ireland, earlier David Hennessy]; Lord Shackleton [Opposition Leader, House of Lords] on AFB's request...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with [Clifford] Tony Smythe, General Secretary of the NCCL, and papers from the NCCL on Northern Ireland, including: cutting of an article by AFB for Tribune on the Widgery Report into Bloody Sunday; open letter to Edward Heath, Prime Minister, on civil liberties in Northern Ireland; message of support from the East German Committee for Human Rights; copy of the report by Professor Samuel Dash for the International League for the Rights of Man, "Justice Denied - a Challenge to...

Scope and Contents Includes: Government communiqué issued in August 1969 following the visit by [Leonard] James Callaghan, Home Secretary, to Northern Ireland, to restore public confidence; newsletter of the Campaign for Social Justice in Northern Ireland, December 1970; pamphlet of the Central Citizens' Defence Committee; pamphlets of the New Ulster Movement on subjects including the election of Ian Paisley as MP for North Antrim; Government of Northern Ireland pamphlet of facts and figures; print of Thomas...

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Statements from various sources on the alleged ill-treatment of "political" prisoners at Holywood Palace and Girdwood Barracks, Belfast.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Kypros Tofallis, Director of the Greek Institute, on interviewing AFB for his history of Cyprus; Peter Cadogan, General Secretary of South Place Ethical Society, on recording a discussion with AFB and the BBC Open Door programme on the society; Louise Ouwerkerk, asking AFB to write the preface for her book "I Too Was a Jailbird" (synopsis enclosed) on her experiences as an internee in India, 1940-41; Nigel Siederer on the National Council for Civil Liberties campaign...

Scope and Contents Notes, press statements and correspondence on the accountability of the security services, during the ‘Spycatcher’ case [the Government’s attempt to ban memoirs written by Peter Wright, a former MI5 officer]. Includes: notes for Prime Minister’s Questions; briefing for a meeting with James Callaghan, former Prime Minister, on his own inquiry into the security services in 1977; copies of correspondence between Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, and John Morris [legal affairs spokesman];...

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Rough notes and text of a statement to Parliament by NK on the ‘Spycatcher’ case [the Government’s attempt to ban memoirs written by Peter Wright, a former MI5 officer].

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Includes: notes for convenors, policy criteria for phase 2 and papers and rough notes of NK’s remarks to meetings of convenor groups; papers for a meeting of the group secretaries, particularly on phase 2; annotated draft reports of the Productive and Competitive Economy group, Economic Equality group, People at Work group and Democracy for the Individual and the Community group; drafts of introduction to the Statement of Democratic Socialist Aims and Values.

Scope and Contents Publications on the Emergency Powers and the Proposed Civil Rights Bill for Northern Ireland, including: issues of Hansard for the House of Commons and House of Lords, covering debates on AFB's Northern Ireland Bill of Rights, June 1971, the security situation, September 1971 and June 1972, and the Northern Ireland (Exported Animals) Bill, June 1972; papers published by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, on Unionist discrimination against Catholics, the Special Powers Act and the...