Scope and Contents Comprising: "Report from Hackney", 1981; "Bigness is the Enemy of Humanity. Local Government and Local Democracy", 1981; "Crosland's Legacy", 1981; draft chapter for a book by Eric Midwinter on mutual aid, 1983; "Hours and Work-Sharing", 1983; "A History of the Future - a Project for Human Colonies in Space", 1984; "An American Assessment of Star Wars", 1985; foreword to Paul Harrison, "Inside the Inner City", undated [1985]; with Jeffrey Adams and Simon Folkard, "Coping Strategies Used by...

Scope and Contents Comprising: "SSRC Grants - the First Three Years", undated [1990]; "Slaves of Time", 1991; article on death for the "Encyclopedia of Time", 1992; "Open University Open About Death", 1993; introduction to "Innovations in Information", 1993; comment on the Commission on Social Justice, 1994; "Moral Intelligence", 1994; "The Significance of U3A", 1994; with Chelly Halsey, "Family and Community Socialism", 1995; " Why Where?", 1995; "Threatened Americanisation of Privatised Crematoria", 1995;...

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Programme on heart disease, including a contribution from NK on his exercise regime, diet and smoking.

Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: immigration; defence, particularly cuts in the Middle East, British withdrawal from Singapore (in interviews with Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1967), and retaining use of nuclear weapons; floating exchange rates; JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics; Parliamentary privilege and...

Scope and Contents File kept by Neil Stewart [Political and Campaigns Secretary], including: target list for 1991 local elections; notes of problem areas in the party; notes for general planning meetings, Campaign Strategy Committee meetings and election planning meetings; planning timetables, 1989-91; notes by contributors including Jack Cunningham [Campaigns Co-ordinator], Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications and Colin Byrne [Chief Press and Broadcasting Officer], on specific campaigns...

Scope and Contents Briefing notes, papers and minutes by individuals including Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications, Jack Cunningham [Campaigns Co-ordinator] and Colin Byrne, Chief Press and Broadcasting Officer, on subjects including: the 1991 local elections; preparations for the next General Election; the summer campaign; the London campaign; analysis of the 1990 local elections; environmental policies; Labour’s National Health Service campaign; the Poll Tax campaign; by-election...

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Copy of a paper by Dr Alex Sakula on Churchill's attack of pneumonia while he was in Tunisia in December 1943. The paper is based on the 1943-45 war diaries of Brigadier [Davis] Evan Bedford, the cardiac specialist and Consulting Physician to Middle East Forces, who helped to treat Churchill (and was later one of Sakula's teachers). Copies of Bedford's diaries are also included, together with some correspondence on the publication of Sakula's paper.

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Head and shoulders photograph of WSC leaving London for a holiday in Monaco, with a press caption attached to the bottom, about the broken leg which he suffered two days later, caused by a fall in his hotel room. WSC is tilting his head and smiling slightly, wearing an overcoat, spotted bow tie and light-coloured homburg hat

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Medical reports and correspondence between CSC and her doctors, including Peter Ward, Richard Bayliss [Consulting Physician: Westminster Hospital], Sir Benjamin Rycroft [Ophthalmic Surgeon, King’s College Hospital Group] and [Ronald] Pitts Crick [Ophthalmic Surgeon, King’s College Hospital], on subjects including her treatment for depression in 1963, trouble with her eyes and arthritis.

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Correspondence on CSC's hearing aid, with correspondents including Winthrop Aldrich and Sir Edward Spears.

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Includes extracts from "The Struggle of Survival" by Churchill's doctor, 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson] and a letter from 'Hambone' [Grace Hamblin, private secretary to CSC], on CSC's health, 1963.

Scope and Contents Includes: a chronology of Churchill's medical history [by John Mather]; copies of medical reports and correspondence between Churchill's doctors, including Peter Ward, 1938-63, mainly relating to problems with a truss and an attack of appendicitis, 1947; copy of a memoir by 1st Lord Brain, Churchill's neurologist, "Encounters with Winston Churchill", and correspondence between Brain's son and Martin Gilbert on the ethics of publishing it, and discrepancies between that and the account by 1st...

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Correspondence on research into Churchill's medical history, also including drafts of John Mather's chronology of both Churchill's and Lord Randolph Churchill's medical histories and an article by Mather on Lord Randolph's syphilis. Other correspondents include Dr [Irving] Thomas Stuttaford, medical correspondent for the Oldie magazine.

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Meeting minutes, working papers, and newsletters from the steering committee of the Community Health Council, Centre for Studies in Social Policy, London.

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This series mainly comprises reference requests for employment and nominations for awards, including the Nobel Prize. Also included are off-prints of scientific and philosophical papers. The material relating to groups and organisations has been arranged into a separate series.

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Healthline was a telephone helpline about health.

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Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder. Michael Young's wife, Joan, suffered from the condition and was a founder member of the Society.

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The National Association for the Education of Sick Children works to ensure that children and young people with serious illnesses have access to education.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the Komodo Dragons presented to the Zoological Society of London by 1st Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness] in 1935, following his cruise on the yacht Rosaura (includes a letter from 1st Lord Zuckerman [former Resident Anatomist to the Zoological Society]); the death of Mary, Lady St Helier; Churchill's heated pool and pet swans, ducks and geese; Randolph Churchill's campaign at the Wavertree by-election [Liverpool], 1935; Churchill's attack of paratyphoid in Austria,...

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Texts and cuttings of articles and speeches by LSA on family allowance reform.

Also includes: studies by [Colin] Fraser Brockington, Medical Officer of Health, on the diet of rural and urban families; notes by Horlicks Limited on LSA's family allowance campaign; papers given by Sir Kenneth Lee, Laurence Cadbury and George Gibson at the National Nutrition Conference.

Scope and Contents Working papers on food consumption and health issues in Britain and the USA, covering subjects such as food and drink retailing and diets; consumption habits of housewives; health education in secondary schools; government and consumer spending on healthcare; research into occupational and mental health; and old age pensions. Consists of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's notes, largely for papers delivered to food manufacturers. Includes copies of raw social...

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Briefings etc on subjects including: an international rugby tour of South Africa; problems for the Conservatives over Europe, particularly over the economy; majority voting in the European Council; setting up a Policy Review group on public management; the 1991 Conference schedule; party finances; hospitals opting out of the National Health Service, particularly relating to Hinchingbrooke, in John Major’s Huntingdon constituency.

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Mainly photographs of JEP's official visits to hospitals etc as Minister of Health.

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Correspondence with Clementine's doctors and others, including Sir [Arthur] Clive Morrison-Bell, 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] and Sir Philip Morris, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol, about her health, particularly the neuritis in her arm and shoulder. Includes later notes by Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill] for her biography of Clementine.

Scope and Contents Allen asked the Prime Minister about her local hospital in Telford and the possibility about closure, Allen wants the Prime Minister's pledge for the NHS to be more than words. Sones and Allen speak about Johnson's focus on the NHS and levelling up the NHS across the country, particularly in places like Telford. Allen thinks that without a General Election, Parliament will continue to delay Brexit. Sones asks about abuse that Allen has faced, Allen speaks about how 'nasty' the 2017 General...