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Includes correspondence with Sir (Charles) Henry Plumb (President, National Farmers' Union), George Cattell (Director General, NFU), Peter Mills MP, Tim Raison MP and Alick Buchanan-Smith MP
Also includes a paper for MT by James Prior MP proposing a Conservative Industrial Relations Department of Central Office, which appears to have been mis-filed, November 1975

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Includes correspondence with John Clement (Chairman, Unigate Group)

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of Lloyds Bank, including Geoffrey Mason and T E R Harris, (3); representatives of Massey-Harris Limited, including its President James Duncan, (4); Percy Cox [agent for WSC's farms] (12); Major Reginald Marnham [WSC's neighbour] (9); Robert Hudson; representatives of the Sevenoaks [Kent] and District Electricity Company Limited (4); "Top" [ 3rd Lord Selborne, earlier Lord Wolmer]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of the Commonwealth Relations Office, including Eric Vines and John Morrison [later 2nd Lord Dunrossil, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations], on collecting acorns from Chartwell for Melbourne [Australia] Botanic Gardens (6); Percy Cox, Manager of the Chartwell Estate (10); General Sir Ian Hamilton (2); representatives of Fladgate and Company, including Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (19); Richard Cave...

Scope and Contents Minutes, papers and correspondence of the Conservative Policy Study Group on subjects including: education (including memorandum by 2nd Lord Hailsham, [Minister of Education, earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]); agriculture; industrial policy; national insurance; taxation; defence regulations; social services; pensions; nationalised industries; the structure of the Social Services Ministries; the People's League for the Defence of Freedom and the Middle Class...

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Papers on agriculture and food safety issues, including: the fishing industry; salmonella in eggs; mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE); the Food Safety Bill; reform of the Common Agricultural Policy; the establishment of the Food Standards Agency.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Rowland Arnison (4); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (5); H Reginald Beck (4); A M Bex (4); C S Ketchen (4).Subjects include: a conscription query from a constituent; the local Canning & Food Industries Club and Dairy & Ice Cream Equipment Club; local sewerage rates; the marking of imports from Axis countries; criticism by local Conservatives of WSC's "Neglect of Constituency"; protests about London transport fares;...

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Correspondents include: D J Capper (4); Keith Catmur (12).Subjects include: animal feed; local rates; fuel rationing;.

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Correspondents include: George Elliston [MP for Blackburn, Lancashire] on speaking in WSC's constituency; B Hiscott [Clerk to Epping Council] (4).Other subjects include: equal job opportunities for women; requests for WSC to become patron of local groups; Sunday trading; local transport matters; licensing laws; a pension query from a constituent; farming issues; general constituency business.Also includes: a map of the Epping area indicating the position of a crossing over a railway line.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association]; Mrs S Gould (7); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (7).Subjects include: reparations to Jews; loss of SS Almeda Star; Conservative Central Office guidance to candidates in the 1945 General Election on opticians; Women's Land Army; bomb damage repair and rehousing; war widows' pensions; land reclamation for agriculture;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Clement Holdstock (5); G J Holtham (9); Joyce Howard (6); Reginald Hucks (4); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (5).Subjects include: Merchant Navy clothing; land requisition; rehousing bombing victims; the place of religion in probation work (amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill, 1939); British residents in unoccupied France (1941); BBC messages to France.Also includes: a petition for...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Gilbert Gledhill, MP for Halifax [West Yorkshire]; Sir John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on mortgage interest rates; Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Charles Newman; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6).Other subjects include: housing shortages; the employment of children on the land; house requisitioning; relief for oil tanker crews; the supply of machine gunners to the Merchant Navy;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sylvia Pankhurst on activities by fascists in the constituency and the case of a British transport firm in Casablanca [Morocco] (3); Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association; Dinah Pratt, Honorary Secretary of Epping Division Conservative Association (10).Other subjects include: ophthalmic benefit; WSC's support for local causes; local land development; international affairs, particularly Spain and the League of Nations; air raid...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association.Subjects include: local transport issues; housing, employment, rating and pension queries from WSC's constituents; the duty on sparkling wine; the preservation of Epping Forest; divorce law; the provision of telephone facilities; executive unemployment; licensing laws; arms dealing; budgetary matters; a dinner invitation; a legal case involving the North Charterland [Northern Rhodesia, later...

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Correspondents include: David Skyrme-Jones (5); Frederick Bellenger.Subjects include: war damage claims; service pay enquiries; tax enquiries; rehousing bombing victims; naval pensions; prevention of foot-and-mouth disease; local air raid shelter provision.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Mary, Lady Blandford [later Mary, Duchess of Marlborough]; 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, on the bookmakers' opposition to the Conservatives because of the Tote Bill; Stanley Baldwin; John Walton Newbold; Arthur Duffes on Liberal wrecking tactics; Sir Percy Girouard.Other subjects include: the sale of the Casino and Hotel Napoleon, St Raphael [France]; Chingford [Essex] telephone system; recollections of Sir Henry Hozier; David Lloyd George's disappointing performance...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: A E Hine, Private Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service (4); Frederick Mummery, Assistant Secretary, Woodford Conservative Association (12); Sir Godfrey Thomas, Equerry to the Duke of Gloucester; [Theresa] Brewster, Private Secretary, War Damage Commission (8); Ralph Bury on Nigel Davies, prospective Conservative candidate for the Epping Division [Essex]; Lena Prescott of the Ministry of Health (8); Stuart Mallinson on Anglo-American goodwill; [Anthony]...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Percy Cohen [Joint Director] (2) and [Richard] Michael Fraser [later Lord Fraser of Kilmorack] of the Conservative Research Department; Edith [Summerskill, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food]; Frederick Mummery, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (12); [David] Nenk, Ministry of Education (2); [Valentine] McEntee; constituent Dr G B Kirkland (4). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries "E G" [Elizabeth...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (13); J R Jameson, Ministry of Education (7); I H Slee, Private Secretary, War Damage Commission (4); [Sherard] Falkner Allison, Bishop of Chelmsford [Essex]; G D Gooden, Chairman, Chigwell [Essex] County Primary School Parent-Teachers Association (4); Norman Calvert, [Assistant Principal], Ministry of Housing and Local Government; Stella Fisher, Assistant Private Secretary to the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Thomas] Williams, Minister of Agriculture; Frederick Mummery, Assistant Secretary, Woodford Conservative Association (4); J H Hughes of the Air Ministry (7); [Arthur] Peterson [Principal Private Secretary to the Home Secretary]; [Harold] Copeman, Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary, HM Treasury (2); Iain MacLeod, Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Christine Taylor, Elizabeth Gilliatt,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association, including W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (4); James Carruthers, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air; Beatrice Ingall, Principal, Woodford Green Nursery School for Deaf Children (6); 1st Lord Coleraine [earlier Richard Law]; Charles Regan, Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance; S W G Ives, constituent (14); [Richard] Michael...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent, Woodford Conservative Association (8); F J Sharman, constituent (4); John Langland, County Education Officer for Dorset; Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War; Terence Grady, [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]; Stuart Gilbert, Private Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Local Government (2); [Walter] Leonard Allinson, Assistant Private Secretary to...

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Includes correspondence with John Peyton MP

Scope and Contents Correspondents on defence issues include: Sir Thomas Inskip [Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, later 1st Lord Caldecote]; Harry Sellar, Private Secretary to Inskip (2); Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, on subjects including the arming of the Guards Battalions; Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, on showing WSC [air construction graphs]; 1st Lord Swinton [former Secretary of State for Air, earlier Philip Cunliffe-Lister and Philip Lloyd-Greame] on the formation...

Scope and Contents Includes drafts and printed versions of the 1945 Conservative Party manifesto entitled "Mr Churchill's declaration of policy to the electors"; a printed version of the Labour Party manifesto entitled "Let us face the future: a declaration of Labour policy for the consideration of the Nation"; and a newspaper cutting detailing the Liberal Party manifesto. All the manifestos cover issues including foreign policy, defence, housing, unemployment, agriculture and food, and education.Also includes...