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Photo of a busy street scene [in Essex]. WSC and CSC are standing in the back of an open topped car, surrounded by a small crowd of people. A line of people are holding a rope ?possibly attached to the car.

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Photograph of WSC [? during the General Election campaign in Epping, Essex], standing up in the back of a semi-open topped car, hanging on to the roof of the car with one hand, and waving his hat in the other. He is wearing a light-coloured suit, with a spotted bow tie and a flower in his button hole.

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Photograph of WSC [? during the General Election campaign in Epping, Essex], standing on an outside stage with a line of other people, speaking to a crowd. He is wearing a light-coloured suit, with a spotted bow tie and a flower in his button hole, while a man in the middle of the line is holding a broadsheet with the headline "Epping Division, [?] Declaration of Poll".

Scope and Contents Photograph of WSC [? during the General Election campaign in Epping, Essex], standing on an outside stage, speaking to a crowd. He is wearing a dark overcoat with a velvet collar, and a spotted bow tie, and has one hand in his pocket, and there are several men seated behind him, and to the left, CSC is sitting in a long light-coloured skirt and jacket, with a close hat adorned with a bow to the side. On the platform just to the side of WSC is a poster saying "Donoghue's tip for the...

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Full-length photograph of WSC [during the General Election campaign in Epping, Essex], standing among a group of smiling, waving women, smiling at the camera, with his hands in his pockets. He is wearing a dark overcoat, with a spotted bow tie and tall bowler hat, and has a rosette in his button hole.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre includes correspondence (including general, official, political, constituency, parliamentary and family correspondence); speeches; Liberal Organisation and Scottish Liberal organisation and Federation material; press cuttings; business papers; and Scottish Office, Scottish Board of Health and Secretary of State for Scotland material. For the most part, the collection is made up of constituency, parliamentary and Liberal party...

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The minute books include the date and location of meetings, names of guests and members in attendance (ordinary and honorary), titles and details of papers read, accounts of discussions and elections, and details of arrangements made for social activities and excursions. Many of the minute books from the 1920s include printed cards listing the talks and speakers for the entire academic term. Some volumes include letters from members or their families.

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Includes a photograph of the courtroom of the Nuremberg Trials, [1945-6].

Scope and Contents Includes: print of AFB's election address for the Westminster (Abbey) division by-election, 1924; press cuttings relating to AFB's visit to India in 1927, particularly his being in a car accident; press cutting on the bombing of AFB's former home 10 Nevill's Court in London, 1941, and an earlier cartoon of the house, 1906; profile of [Evelyn] John Strachey, Minister of Food, 1946; cuttings on AFB's resignation from the Independent Labour Party, 1946; rough notes for AFB's speech on Tunisia...

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Includes: Government House staff lists; lists of election supervisors, election commissioner's staff and observers; list of British MPs visiting Rhodesia [Southern Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe] to observe the election, Feb 1980; administrative arrangements for staff.

Scope and Contents Minutes on subjects including: disclosing information about Czech intelligence activities and [James] Harold Wilson [Leader of the Opposition] during the election campaign; foreign affairs and the General Election campaign, with minutes between JA and Sir Alexander Douglas-Home [Foreign Secretary, earlier 14th Lord Home, later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; policy towards Latin America; the supply of Buccaneer military aircraft to South Africa (including correspondence with Patrick Wall) and...

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Photo of WSC at the 1951 General Election. The photo is taken from a high vantage point and shows WSC next to a car and surrounded by a ring of policemen and a dense crowd. WSC is smiling and looking up at the camera as he raises his hand to give a victory salute.

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Press conference and interviews for the launch of Labour’s European Election campaign, on plans for joining the European Union and the Exchange Rate Mechanism, including speeches by NK and Roy Hattersley.

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Includes: briefing for meeting; minutes of previous meetings of the NEC and the Organisation, Home Policy and International sub-committees; note on the membership campaign; reports on the Epping Forest [Essex] and Hampshire European by-elections and local government by-elections; note on the balloting of constituency members; regional office report on the role of the regions.

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Includes: briefing notes for meetings; agenda; minutes of previous meeting and sub-committees, including the Organisation committee; memorandum on selection and reselection of parliamentary candidates; report on Birmingham Small Heath constituency; paper on procedure for selecting candidates for the 1994 European elections; analysis of local election results; paper on organisation for the General Election.

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Papers mainly on the result of General Election, including: briefing notes; agenda; reports on the election by David Blunkett, Larry Whitty, General Secretary, David Hill, Director of Campaigns and Communications, Tony Benn and others.

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Speeches by Sked and by JEP in support of Sked [candidate for the United Kingdom Independence Party].

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Footage of NK at a Labour rally, for [?] the European election campaign.

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Book of press cuttings on JEP's campaign, including general loose cuttings on the Normanton Division.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre includes correspondence (including general, official, political, constituency, parliamentary and family correspondence); speeches; Liberal Organisation and Scottish Liberal organisation and Federation material; press cuttings; business papers; and Scottish Office, Scottish Board of Health and Secretary of State for Scotland material. For the most part, the collection is made up of constituency, parliamentary and Liberal party...

Scope and Contents Papers on the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Law, (on Northern Ireland's representation at Westminster), including: copies of letters from the Speaker, [Thomas] George Thomas [later 1st Lord Tonypandy], to the Prime Minister [Leonard] James Callaghan, on the conference; copy of the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Bill; papers by the joint secretaries to the conference, David Chesterton [Principal, Northern Ireland Office] and James Willcox [Clerk of Private Bills]; summary of...

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Memoranda by Charles Clarke [Head of NK’s office] on the establishment and organisation of NK’s office and more general strategy, in 1983, 1985, and for the periods leading up to the 1987 and 1992 General Elections. Also includes a job description for Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary].

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of statements made by [1st] Lord Hailsham [earlier Sir Douglas Hogg] Lord Chancellor; [4th Lord] Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Lord Privy Seal; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade; Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health; Walter Guinness [later 1st Lord Moyne], Minister of Agriculture; Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education; Sir Arthur...

Scope and Contents Includes an election address by Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister on government policy (on colonial development, inter-imperial relations, economic affairs, agriculture and education) and a statement by WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on co-operative societies and income tax. Also includes suggested replies to questions put to Conservative candidates on a variety of issues including the merchandise marks act, prosecution of spiritualist mediums (in response to a question by Sir Arthur Conan...

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Includes suggested replies to questions put to Conservative candidates on a variety of issues including: employment conditions; importation of dyestuffs; agriculture; taxation of motor vehicles; war pensions; migration; sea defence works; the rent restriction act; education policy regarding women teachers; and old age pensions.