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Includes: United States Council of Productivity report on the British electricity system; corrected proofs of LSA's papers on the need for a coal revolution and on Britain's neglected mineral wealth; cuttings.

Scope and Contents Includes: a paper on lead-zinc mining; report of the Ministry of Fuel and Power mineral development committee; drafts of a paper by LSA on Britain's neglected mineral wealth, with correspondence with individuals including Sir William Larke, Sir [James] Arthur Salter, Minister of Materials and Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton]; paper by Alexander Fleck [Deputy Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited] on...

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Papers relating to ELS's chairmanship (and later life presidency) of Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited, Gold Coast [later Ghana], and its allied companies, including the gold-mining Bibiani (1927) Limited, the Ashanti-Obuasi Trading Company and the West African Finance Corporation. Includes papers on the economic and political situation in Ghana.

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This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

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Miscellaneous papers.

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Manuscript and typescript copy of JA's diary, including visiting Uganda and various mines in South Africa, Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe] and the Congo, and meetings with the Oppenheimers and political leaders. Includes photographs of the Owen Falls hydro-electric plant, Uganda.

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Photographs of: Perak, Malaya [later Malaysia], including work at a hydraulic tin mine at Chenderiang and various rural and social scenes; local people and scenes in Khartoum [Sudan], particularly local women, horses, camel racing, prison gangs, native troops and local sheikhs; popular views of Italian cities and works of art; scenes from Oxford.

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Journal of ELS's visit to South Africa and the mines of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited, Gold Coast [later Ghana].

Scope and Contents Accounts and other records of a Derbyshire lead-mining concern, March 1674 - January 1688 (4v-97r, 216r-221r, 225v-236v), written in Steven Flamsteed's hand, and featuring his signature and that of Cornelius Vermuyden. The book was used subsequently by John Flamsteed for copies, written in various hands, of letters dating from 10 July 1688 onwards, chiefly January 1698 - 25 April 1719. There are notes about negotiations over the publication of Flamsteed's works (passim between 121r and 132r,...

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An undated fair copy of the medieval privileges, laws and customs bestowed upon miners by Edward I.

Scope and Contents Includes: background papers; meetings, negotiations and correspondence with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the National Coal Board (NCB), particularly with Arthur Scargill, President of the NUM, and Ian MacGregor, Chairman of NCB; speeches, statements and press releases from both sides of the dispute and the Labour Party; papers relating to the effect of the strike in Wales, particularly in NK's Islwyn constituency, the Llanwern Steelworks, and on the closure of St John's...

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Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.

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This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

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On gems and other subjects.

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The Portsmouth Collection is the principal collection of Isaac Newton's scientific and mathematical papers, including early drafts of the Principia, and his correspondence with Oldenburg, Halley Flamsteed and many of the other most prominent scientists of his day.

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Under the subject headings: astronomy, geography, navigation, mechanics and minerology.

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the Anglo-Irish Agreement, calling for Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, to counter the influence of the United States on Ulster, preserving the Union, assistance for the IRA and Ulster's parity of status with Britain; the Channel Tunnel; ethnic minorities; Christianity and science, studying the Gospels and resurrection; legal reform; the influence of the United States in British policy, particularly the economy, Europe, NATO and...

Scope and Contents Annotated texts of speeches by JEP on subjects including: the uses of education; ending direct rule in Ulster, the Anglo-Irish Council, the past attitudes of the British Government to Ulster, interventions by the United States and representation for Ulster in Parliament; the results of past immigration policy; NATO defence policy; international exchange rates, the floating pound, the international monetary system and international monetary fund; British membership of the European Economic...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and cuttings on Nottingham and the union, including: letter from John Concannon on Nottinghamshire miners’ being removed from local Labour Party committees as the UDM was not affiliated to the Party; text of an address by Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), at their annual conference; issues of the Nottinghamshire Miner newsletter; copies of correspondence between Scargill and the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International...

Scope and Contents Papers for an article by AFB, including: rough notes on a Mining Group, chiefly on South Africa; report of the United Nations sub-committee on implications of the mining industry's activities in South West Africa; drafts of AFB's article "Who Owns Africa? The Economic Empire in Africa's Minerals"; memoranda on the diamond industry and on setting up a Pan African Diamond Corporation; various articles on mining interests in Africa, particularly South Africa and Zambia, including a reprint of...