Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Claud] Wright, [Principal] (3) and M L Elder (8) of the War Office; J H Hughes of the Air Ministry (9); constituent R W McOwen (5); Sir James Hawkey [Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association] (8); Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee]; [Hugh] Farmar [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air] (2); Sir George Harvie Watt; Archie Moore, Surgeon to the London Hospital, on a constituent's health; Joyce Gordon...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir George Harvie Watt (2); Lena Prescott of the Ministry of Health (6); Sir James Hawkey [Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association] (20); M L Elder of the War Office (10); E Ambrose of the Ministry of National Insurance (4); A E Hine, Private Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service (6); E A Baker, Private Secretary, Ministry of Food (4); [James] McGregor, Director of Finance, War Office; Percy Cohen of Conservative and Unionist Central Office; Leah...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from Frederick Mummery, Honorary Secretary and Agent of Woodford Conservative Association (5). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: CSC (President of Woodford Conservative Association); secretaries Chips Gemmell, ["Jo"] Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford]; Charles Wood [proof reader].Also includes: drafts and prints of WSC's message to the electors of Woodford (on his time as MP, his liberal...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Charles Eade [Editor of the Sunday Dispatch]; Sir James Hawkey [Chairman of Epping [Essex] Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (4).Subjects include: campaign details such as colours to be worn, election expenses etc.; editing WSC's election addresses; restrictions on information on local rocket attacks for post war security; a reference to a photograph of WSC taken at the Albert Hall (1944); the views of WSC's opponent, Alexander...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence on the General Election in Woodford by individuals including: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (5) on subjects including election meetings, campaign workers and finances; John Biggs-Davison, candidate for Chigwell [Essex] (3); George Christ [Parliamentary Liaison Officer, Conservative Party] on helping with WSC's speeches (4); Peter Emery, candidate for Reading [Berkshire]; Harold...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, WSC's election agent (18); John Harvey, Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association (9); Stephen Pierssene, General Director, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, on a hoax letter from the "Conservative Propaganda Centre"; George Christ [Parliamentary Liaison Officer, Conservative Party, and Editor Weekly News Letter] (2); Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (2), (1) also from Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association (4); Gerald Barry, Director-General of the Festival of Britain; Victor Raikes; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin], Vice-Chairman [of Conservative and Unionist Party]; Frederick Mummery, Honorary Secretary and Agent of Woodford Conservative Association (7); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman], Conservative and Unionist Central Office. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence...

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Correspondents include: Joseph Philip (8), President, Dundee Liberal Association, on constituency affairs; Dundee Unionist Association (3) on the continuation of the Coalition between the Unionists and the National Liberals; Other subjects include the forthcoming General Election campaign and the presence of Independent Liberal and "Wee Free" candidates.

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Working papers on politics, political leadership, voting behaviours, and election campaigns.

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Includes: fact sheets and briefing notes; strategy papers; summaries of activity; trends in local government by-elections; draft question and answer guide on Labour’s alternative to the tax; group minutes and agendas.

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Full length photograph of WSC, during the General Election campaign in Essex. He is walking through a gate away from the committee rooms in Roydon [or possibly Epping] with a cigar in his mouth, adjusting his overcoat and looking almost directly at the camera, and is also wearing a homburg-type hat and gloves. There are several election posters on the fence in front of the building, and CSC (out of focus) is standing in the doorway in the background, wearing a fur coat.

Scope and Contents Photograph of WSC and CSC in a car during the General Election campaign in Essex. WSC, wearing a dark overcoat, is standing up in the back of the car, waving his hat, and holding on to the car roof with his other hand. Beside him, CSC is sitting sideways on the folded-up top of the car, smiling and wearing a fur coat with a large velvet scarf, dark hat with a feather in it and an election rosette pinned to her coat. Sir [Alfred] James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative...

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Full length photograph of WSC during the General Election campaign in Essex, shaking the hand of [a constituent], with Sir [Alfred] James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association] standing smiling in the background. WSC, standing in profile, is smiling, wearing a dark overcoat, homburg-type hat, scarf and gloves, with a cigar in his mouth, while the constituent is in a very grubby coat, hat, trousers and waistcoat, with a handkerchief round his neck.

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Includes: Market and Opinion Research International Limited (MORI) poll on local election communications; results for local by-elections, 1981-85; information on the Scottish local and European elections, 1984; memorandum by David Cowling on the results of the 1985 local elections.

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Includes: minutes and rough notes of group meetings; draft questions for baseline surveys; memoranda from individuals including Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications and Robert Worcester, Market and Opinion Research International Limited (MORI); analysis of local election results, 1986; papers on Labour’s polling tasks, 1985-86 and 1986-87 and polling research proposals; reports of the group to the Campaign Strategy Committee.

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Includes: memoranda on polling research; minutes and rough notes of group meetings; memoranda from individuals including Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications, Robert Worcester, Market and Opinion Research International Limited (MORI) and Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary]; note on producing a monthly digest of polls; research proposals for the 1987 General Election.

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Includes: records of voting intention, 1988; Gallup political surveys; proposal for research into attitudes towards taxation and notes on economic issues in the election campaign; proposal by Michael Meacher for a study into perceptions of Labour in the South or Midlands; notes from the Daily Mirror election newsdesk on why Labour lost the election.

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IFF poll on reasons for not voting Labour [note, some early pages missing].

Scope and Contents Includes: surveys among the membership of EEPTU [Electrical Electronic Telecommunication and Plumbing Union]; memoranda from Robert Worcester, Market and Opinion Research International Limited (MORI), on public attitudes to defence and disarmament, and voting intentions among black adults; memorandum from Bryan Gould, campaign co-ordinator, and poll by Weekend World, on marginals’ voting intentions; transcripts of a Weekend World interview with Bryan Gould, campaign co-ordinator, on whether...

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Includes: papers from meetings of the Polling Group, including polling summaries, notes of polling requirements, and aggregate analyses by Robert Worcester, Market and Opinion Research International Limited (MORI); polling data; Campaign Strategy Committee evaluation of the 1984 European Elections campaign.

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Includes: summary of Transport and General Workers Union poll of young people; memorandum on the use of telephone polls in the 1983 General Election campaign; correspondence between the Liberal Party and Market Research Society on the press presentation of poll results during the Brecon and Radnor by-election; pack from Market Research Society presentation on the relevance of market research to public affairs.

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The collection comprises George Leggett's diary of the Potsdam conference, souvenirs and papers connected with his time in Potsdam, and electronic transcripts of the diary.

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Subjects include: environmental policy; the European Social Charter; the role of the European Parliament; polling; a possible rise in interest rates; Margaret Thatcher's support for Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer; joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

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Subjects include: LSA's and AFA's wedding; Hamar Greenwood, his wedding and his part in the suffragette debate; LSA's election campaign for Bow and Bromley, London.

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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.