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Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

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Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The most interesting items in the collection are the diaries, interleaved with letters and papers, which Lord Gordon-Walker kept throughout his political career and which shed fascinating light upon his fellow Members of Parliament and Cabinet Ministers and upon the events and personalities involved in international -and especially Commonwealth - affairs. There are numerous articles and speeches by Lord Gordon-Walker together with notes and reviews pertaining to his book ‘The Cabinet’ and a...

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Video for [?] European elections, particularly featuring Barbara Castle MEP.

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European election campaign video.

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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 From the Sub-Series:

Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

Scope and Contents Working papers on publicity, public relations, and advertising for the Labour Party, covering subjects such as election campaign strategy and communication, especially for the 1964 General Election; marginal constituencies; targeting floating voters, consumers, and women; notes on Labour party slogans and symbols; draft advice manuals for Labour Party activists; and the 1964 Smethwick by-election. Consists of correspondence between Mark Abrams and the Labour Party Publicity Department; and...

Scope and Contents Working papers and correspondence relating to meetings on publicity and public relations research for the Labour Party. Consists of correspondence between Mark Abrams and the Labour Party Press and Publicity Department, local Labour Party groups, members of the public, and external marketing consultancies; analysis of Conservative Party advertising; memoranda on reaching floating voters; and survey data, proof copies of campaign advertisements, and press cuttings. Includes draft for Mark...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes: recordings from radio interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings from press conferences and Labour Party events, particularly election rallies and Party Conferences; recordings taken from newspaper interviews; recordings of various speeches by NK.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

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Press conference for the launch of Labour's General Election campaign. Speakers include Jack Cunningham, NK, Roy Hattersley, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and John Smith, Shadow Chancellor, on subjects including: the record of the Government; Labour's plans for London; support for industry; a proposed live debate for all the party leaders; chances of a Labour coalition with other parties; Labour's position in Scotland and on the West Lothian question and Scottish devolution.

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Subjects include: the North-West Manchester by-election; Clementine's stay in Milan [Italy]; their engagement and wedding preparations; Clementine's love for Churchill; the health of Clementine's sister Nellie Hozier [later Nellie Romilly] and her brother Bill [William Hozier].

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Clementine's stay at the Villa Rêve d’Or, Cannes [France], January 1923; American serial rights to Churchill’s “The World Crisis”; plans for alterations to their new house at Chartwell [Kent]; a visit from Clementine’s mother [Lady Blanche Hozier] and Clementine’s disapproval of her gambling in the casino at Monte Carlo [Monaco]; Clementine’s stay at Lou Sueil, Eze, with Jacques Balsan and Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo Vanderbilt and Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough],...

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Includes a press conference in Cardiff [Wales], an interview and speeches by NK on the launch of the European socialist manifesto for the European elections, 1989. Includes other speakers, mainly in French.

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Questions answered by NK on subjects including: relations with the party membership; reaching ethnic minorities in Birmingham; combating the hard Left and Militant; non-nuclear defence and arms reduction; reasons for the loss of the 1987 General Election.

Also includes excerpts from a press conference, mainly on funding for health services.

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Notes, briefings and correspondence on a series of regional receptions attended by NK, particularly those held at Newcastle (North West region), Loughborough [Leicestershire] (East Midlands region), Bristol (South West region) and [? Dover, Kent, Southern region]. Includes papers on the local election campaign, a union dispute with P and O Ferries (Dover) Limited and notes for NK’s speech at the opening of Beatrice Webb House, Ruskin College.

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Includes: recordings from radio interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings from press conferences and Labour Party events, particularly election rallies and Party Conferences; recordings taken from newspaper interviews; recordings of various speeches by NK.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: William Waldegrave; Sir John Biggs-Davison; Lord Boardman; Peter Bruinvels; Lord Cranborne; Sir William Clark; Patrick Cormack; Anthony Courtney; William Cash; Terence Dicks; Lord Orr-Ewing; [James] Dennis Faulkner (2); Lucy, Lady Faulkner of Downpatrick; Sir Anthony Fell; Frank Field; Michael Foot; Sir Ian Gilmour; Christopher Gill; Lord Harris of High Cross; Eric Heffer; Peter Hennessy; Sir Peter Hordern; James Kilfedder; Michael Latham; Sir Kenneth Lewis; Norman...

Scope and Contents Correspondents sympathising with LSA on his departure from the India Office and on the loss of his constituency include: Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; Sir [John] Smedley Crooke; [Edward] Hugh Dalton; Sir Alfred Hennessy; Charles Ferguson-Davie; Sir Howard d'Egville [Secretary of the Empire Parliamentary Association] passing on the Association's vote of thanks to LSA (2); Sir John Walton [Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Burma, later Myanmar]; W S Robinson; Sir [David]...

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Correspondents include Kathleen Hill [former personal secretary to Churchill] on making Chequers [Buckinghamshire] ready for them.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...

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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Loreburn [earlier Robert Reid]; Ermine Murray [later Ermine, Lady Elibank]; Charles Murray [later 2nd Lord Elibank] Sir James Sadler; Edith Lyttelton.

Scope and Contents Copies of LSA's letters to Alfred Deakin [Prime Minister of Australia] on subjects including: the new organization of the Times; the visit of the American fleet to Australia and LSA's concern that Australia might look to the United States for defence in the Pacific; the state of Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]'s Liberal Government; a secretariat for colonial affairs; the health of Joseph Chamberlain; pension reform; constitutional changes for the Empire, making...