Scope and Contents Correspondence with the general public on the National Health Service, with correspondents including: Michael Alison, Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security, on licences for herbal medicines; Derek Bryce-Smith [Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Reading] on fluoridation of water; Reginald Murley [Royal College of Surgeons] on the emigration of British doctors (2); Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of State for Social Services, on the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with the general public on the National Health Service, with correspondents including: David Pollock, former Director, Action on Smoking and Health; Sir Douglas Black, former President, Royal College of Physicians; Diane Abbott on nurses from the Commonwealth; Elaine Murphy, Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London, on researching the policy of mental hospital closures (3); representatives of the Lancet (3); William Waldegrave, Secretary of...

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Papers and correspondence on human infertility services and embryo research legislation in Northern Ireland, with correspondents including Victoria Gillick.

Also includes: Department of Health and Social Security consultation paper on the legislation.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: John Toulmin, Chairman, Cambridge University Conservative Association; [Thomas] Malcolm Muggeridge on his television interview with JEP; Sir Alexander Johnston; Peter Green, Consultant Editor, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, suggesting that JEP might write on Nietzsche or write an autobiography (4); Dame Sybil Thorndike (2); Henry Koeppler; Sir William Urton, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office; [?] Lord Boothby; [George] Peter Thorneycroft,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Peter Clarke [former Private Secretary to JEP]; Sir Robin Williams, Honorary Secretary of the British Anti-Common Market Campaign, on co-opting JEP onto their committee (2); Martin Rogers, Chief Master, King Edward's School, Birmingham [Warwickshire], on JEP's endowment of a prize in Hebrew for the school (13); Iain Sproat on his literary work; Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, thanking JEP for his support for her speech at Strasbourg [France, December 1989]; Michael...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Anthony Barber, Chairman of the Conservative Party, on the distribution of JEP's speech [16 November 1968, on immigration] at Eastbourne [Sussex]; Edward Heath [Leader of the Conservative Party (2); 7th Lord Warwick [earlier Lord Brooke]; Sir Stanley Bell; Maurice Cowling, Fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge (2); Sir Tufton Beamish; Lord Chelmer [earlier Eric Edwards], Chairman of the Political Committee, Carlton Club; John Junor, Editor of the Sunday Express;...

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...

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on National Insurance, including: reports and minutes of the National Insurance Policy Sub-Committee on the finances of the National Health Service and National Insurance, on benefits (with comments by the Ministry of National Insurance), National Assistance and overlapping benefits, allowances and pensions; memorandum by Peter Cropper, Conservative Research Department, on the investment of National Insurance funds by the National Debt Office; cost of living survey...

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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: William Tatton Brown [Chief Architect, Ministry of Health] on carrying out JEP's previous suggestions in hospital design; Jasper More [Assistant Opposition Whip] on concerns about Shadow Cabinet policy, particularly setting up a Conservative Long Term Policy Group; Antony Peck; Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Prime Minister, earlier 14th Lord Home] on subjects including the General Election; Nathaniel Micklem, President of Liberal International, in support of JEP's...

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Mainly cuttings on specific events.

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Interviews on additional Government funding for nurses’ pay and privatisation of the water and coal industries.

Scope and Contents Interviews with NK on the resignation of Sir Geoffrey Howe [Deputy Prime Minister] and policy on Europe, particularly economic and monetary union (32 minutes 7 seconds).Also includes a speech by NK at [?] the Party Conference, with questions and answers on subjects including: the Poll Tax; working conditions for women, particularly childcare provision; workers' rights; electoral reform and proportional representation; decision making at the Conference; funding of the National...

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Labour Party video for the campaign to save the National Health Service.

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The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.

Scope and Contents Includes: reprint of a series of articles by NK in the Daily Mirror, Jan 84; NK’s speech for the 150th anniversary of William Morris’s birth, Feb 84. Other subjects include: the National Health Service; the practice of freedom, and foreign policy, particularly relating to NATO and nuclear defence (speeches given on NK’s visit to the United States, Feb 84); the decline in industry; Margaret Thatcher’s arrogant leadership style; the Budget; Democratic Socialism; ownership of the press and...

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Includes NK’s speech to the Royal College of Nursing, Apr 85, and to the Welsh Labour Party conference, May 85. Other subjects include: health care and welfare services; social security reforms; the Social Democrats.

Scope and Contents Includes NK’s speech to the Plymouth rally [Devon] and his speech to the Parliamentary Party and Party staff on Labour’s position midway between General Elections and the development of campaigning, July 85. Other subjects include: industrial strategy in London; the treatment of Scottish miners following the miners’ strike; results from the United Nations Decade for Women; the teaching of science; the Government’s review of social security and pensions; the National Health Service; nuclear...

Scope and Contents Includes: tribute to Lord Brockway; speech to a Fabian conference on the Aims and Values of socialism; speeches for the fortieth anniversary of the National Health Service; speeches from NK’s visit to Botswana and Zimbabwe; speech to the Trades Union Congress; speech for Socialist International Study Days in Glasgow [Scotland]; Conference speeches; speech for an anti-apartheid rally; speech for a rally in support of the trade unions banned from GCHQ; speech on the Tercentenary of the...

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Includes: speech to a NATO meeting on international security, particularly relating to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; speech for a debate on the Gulf War; lecture in Manchester on taxation and public spending; speech for a local government conference; response to the Budget; lecture on "Building out of Recession"; a speech for a Motion on the Poll Tax. Other subjects include: cuts to the National Health Service.

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Includes: speech for the launch of Labour’s arts policy document; speech to West Midlands Confederation of British Industry on the economic challenges of the 1990s [see also KNNK 26/2/174]; Party Conference speeches; speech for a rally in Birmingham, particularly on the National Health Service; speech for the launch of the sports charter; speech for a dinner in honour of Dick Spring [leader of the Irish Labour Party]; speech for the Queen’s Speech debate.

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Includes: speech for policy launch on the economy; speech for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) dinner, on the film and television industry; speech to the local government conference; speeches for policy launches on women, education and health. Other subjects include: policy towards the Soviet Union; development in the North West; modernising schools.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on the closure of the hospital and its move to Tooting, and on the launch of an appeal for a magnetic resonance scanner and cancer research support. Correspondents include: John Parker, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, St George's Hospital (who performed CS's heart bypass operation) (7); [Charles] Patrick Jenkin, Opposition front bench spokesman on Health and Social Services, then Secretary of State for Health and Social Services (6); Dr Aubrey Leatham, Honorary Consulting...

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The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

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Personal papers and memoirs