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Including: reviews of 'Days of Fresh Air'; details of LSA's mountaineering; the situation in India and Burma [later Myanmar]; the 1945 British General Election; United States loans.

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Subjects include: devolution for Scotland; Conservative "zealots"; elections to the Shadow Cabinet and NK’s battle against the hard left, led by Tony Benn; the miners’ strike; the Chesterfield by-election [Derbyshire]; NK’s visit to Plymouth [Devon], Sept 1984.

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Subjects include: unemployment; Labour’s relations with the trades unions; the miners’ strike, particularly the blockade of the Ravenscraig steel works [Lanarkshire, Scotland] by striking miners; NK’s mother; the European elections; black Labour sections; the Portsmouth South by-election [Hampshire]. Includes cuttings of NK dancing with Bill Owen and Clive Dunn.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: NK’s visit to Ethiopia; calls for an amnesty for miners sacked or convicted during the miners’ strike; Labour’s attitude to the Nottinghamshire miners breaking away from the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM); Michael Cocks’s resignation as Labour Chief Whip; the Brecon and Radnor by-election [Wales]; effects of the miners’ strike on Labour and the rift between NK and Arthur Scargill [President of the NUM]; black sections; Ken Livingstone’s bid for election as party...

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Subjects include: expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; clashes between NK and Norman Tebbit, Conservative Party chairman; the Tyne Bridge by-election, Newcastle; Militant and Liverpool City Council; the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM).

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Subjects include: expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; the Fulham by-election, London; Labour’s pledge to create a million more jobs; NK’s visit to the Broadwater Farm estate, Tottenham, London, with Bernie Grant, leader of Haringey Council; the debate between NK and Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on the Westland affair.

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Subjects include: NK’s visit to the United States, Dec 1986; expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; the launch of the Freedom and Fairness campaign; Britain’s support for an American bombing raid on Libya; the Fulham by-election, London.

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Cuttings on ELS's unsuccessful by-election campaign at Bosworth [Leicestershire].

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Cuttings on subjects including ELS's successful campaign for re-election at Carlisle [Cumberland].

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Cuttings on ELS's unsuccessful election campaign for Carlisle [Cumberland].

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Cuttings and constituency leaflets on ELS's election and work as MP for Loughborough [Leicestershire] and his campaign in support of Winston Churchill in Dundee [Scotland].

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Subjects include: Militant in Liverpool; the 1984 Party Conference; the Fulham by-election [London], 1986; the Brecon and Radnor by-election, [Wales], 1985; the miners’ strike; reselection of parliamentary candidates.

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Statement (marked "confidential") of the Conservative Party's "General Principles" on domestic and international affairs. Subjects include: free society and socialist states; the power of the state; duty of government; the welfare state; need for housing; economic policy including taxation; international relations including the increasing power of Russia, the Korean war and the British empire.Typescript. Includes covering letter from R A Butler.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir William Anson [Warden of All Souls’ College, University of Oxford] on the Beit Imperial History professorship at Oxford (2); [?] William Hewins on putting LSA up as a possible parliamentary candidate for South Manchester (2); P F S Amery (3); Edward Arnold on sales of LSA's "The Problem of the Army"; [Charles] Moberly Bell [Assistant Manager of the Times] on arrangements with the New York Times and Canadian press, sales of the Times History of the South...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Charles] Moberly Bell [Managing Director of the Times]; Henry Birchenough, sympathising with LSA's defeat as candidate for East Wolverhampton [Staffordshire]; Charles Boyd; Thomas Brassey on LSA's ideas for an Imperial Constitution; [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain on LSA's defeat at Wolverhampton and an Imperial Constitution (3); Joseph Chamberlain on LSA's campaign for Bow and Bromley [London] (2); [Robert] Erskine Childers on his book [? "War and the Arme Blanche"] and...

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Printed copies of letters from LSA to 1st Lord Wavell (and to Sir [David] John Colville, Acting Viceroy [later 1st Lord Clydesmuir]) on subjects including: the constitution and the India Committee; Governorships; the General Election and the effects of a new Government.

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Correspondence, particularly with John Fitzgerald, Secretary of the Proportional Representation Society and Thomas Harvey, with pamphlets on proportional representation, including quotations from Winston Churchill, 1931-43, and an analysis of the 1945 General Election.

Scope and Contents Parliamentary Candidates WSC's correspondence and papers on Parliamentary Candidates, including letters to his Parliamentary Private Secretary, George Harvie Watt.File includes copy of minute by WSC on arrangements for serving servicemen to be adopted as candidates, and to take part in political activities; note on Major Thomas Harvey, Scots Guards, who wished to stand as Conservative candidate for West Norfolk; correspondence and papers on Air Commodore A Vere Harvey, (later Lord Harvey of...

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General Public Correspondence A-B Correspondence dealt with by Kathleen Hill, and Elizabeth Layton, WSC's Personal Private Secretaries, with some notes and replies by Private Office Staff including John Colville, Leslie Rowan, John Peck, Commander Charles Thompson, and Miss E M Watson.Subjects include correspondence on gifts (particularly books, cigars, wines and spirits); requests for signed books and photographs and the General Election campaign and result.

Scope and Contents General Public Correspondence C-D Correspondence dealt with by Kathleen Hill, and Elizabeth Layton, WSC's Personal Private Secretaries, with some notes and replies by Private Office Staff including John Colville, Commander Charles Thompson, Anthony Bevir, and Miss E M Watson.Correspondents include Captain James Caulfield RN; Baroness Cederstrom and Douglas Chandor, on gift of volume of his portraits; Subjects include correspondence on gifts (particularly books, cigars, wines and spirits),...

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General Public Correspondence E-G Correspondence dealt with by Kathleen Hill, and Elizabeth Layton, WSC's Personal Private Secretaries, with some notes and replies by Private Office Staff including John Peck, John Colville, Leslie Rowan, and Miss E M Watson Subjects include correspondence on gifts (particularly books, cigars, wines and spirits), requests for patronage, requests for signed books and photographs, Victory in Europe and the General Election campaign and result.

Scope and Contents General Public Correspondence H-K Correspondence dealt with by Kathleen Hill, and Elizabeth Layton, WSC's Personal Private Secretaries, with some notes and replies by Private Office Staff including Miss E M Watson, John Colville, George Harvie Watt and Commander Charles Thompson.Correspondents include Walter Hutchinson,Hutchinson & Co., (Publishers) Ltd, (11) on gifts of books, 1942-45; The Ministry of Information, (16) particularly Charles Gibbs-Smith, B C Sendall, and A S Hodge on...

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General Election (14 Nov 1935) - correspondence and papers.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on Parliamentary By-Elections File includes: Correspondence and papers on the Brighton By-Election, Feb 1944, won by William Teeling (Conservative) with a majority of 1959, including notes of telephone messages from Lord Beaverbrook on the campaign, drafts of WSC's message of support for Teeling, cutting from The Times, on controversy caused by WSC's letter of support, letter from A V Alexander (later Lord Alexander of Hillsborough) on the definition of an...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on Parliamentary By-Elections File includes: Correspondence and papers on the Chelmsford By-Election, Apr 1945, including notes by Ralph Assheton, Chairman of the Conservative Party (3), on selection of candidate, draft of message by the four party leaders WSC, Ernest Brown, Clement Attlee and Archibald Sinclair (later Lord Thurso), asking for support for the National Government Candidate, Brian Cook, letter from Cook, thanking WSC for support, draft of WSC's...