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Documentary on the General Election campaign, including the different styles of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, and Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party, and attitudes towards them; documentary on Labour under NK’s new leadership and the task of recovery from the 1983 General Election.

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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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Interview with NK on the General Election campaign.

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Boni Sones speaking to Baroness Julie Smith and Professor Catherine Barnard

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on his Dissertation on Dining Room Furniture [CHAR 1/157/83-84], and on his election prospects in Dundee.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the election campaign in Dundee.

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Letter from W Bourke Cockran to WSC, suggesting that he should visit the United States and observe the Presidential Election.

Scope and Contents Letter from Walter Runciman, Windsor Terrace, Newcastle- Upon-Tyne, to WSC, thanks for letter of congratulation for speech on the Spion Kop despatches, also commenting on the forthcoming election, [Runciman was one of the Liberal candidates in Oldham], stating that in a double seat "the success of either us need not necessarily mean the discomfiture of the other - It would be odd to find that we were to become colleagues", but conceding that this was a remote chance and that "one of us will...

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Letter from Sir Alfred Milner, Government House, Cape Town, to WSC, on South African affairs, and on WSC's election victory at Oldham.

Scope and Contents Letter from Joseph Chamberlain [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham) to WSC, congratulating him on his election victory in Oldham [Lancashire]: "You have worked well for the Party and it will be counted to you in the future". Chamberlain states that he would be happy to act as chairman for WSC at a meeting in Birmingham on 14th November, but warns that he would probably be away at that time, as he hadn't had a holiday in three years. He adds that he would...

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Letter from Joseph Cheetham, Sereda, Central Russia, to WSC, on WSC's escape from the Boers and on WSC's election chances in Oldham.

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Letter from Arthur Balfour, 10 Downing Street, London to WSC, sympathy on By-Election defeat at Oldham.

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Letter from G W Steevens, Merton Abbey, Surrey, to WSC, on the proofs of "The River War", and on WSC's election defeat at Oldham [Lancashire].

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Letter from Lord Cromer, 12A Curzon Street, London to WSC, on use of photograph of Cromer in The River War, also offering sympathy on election defeat at Oldham.

Scope and Contents Covering letter from Harold Macmillan [[later 1st Lord Stockton](Macmillan and Co Ltd, St Martin's Street, London) to WSC enclosing his handwritten notes about the election including arguments to counter [David] Lloyd George's plans for government efforts to deal with unemployment by encouraging industry to employ more men. He suggests a slogan "Modernization at Home. Markets Abroad"; and suggests that the railways and telephones should be modernised, that an Economic General Staff under...

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Letter from Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] (Chester Square [London]) to [WSC] on WSC's budget which he describes as "an absolutely first-class fighting Budget" and making observations on policies which will support the Conservative election campaign, specifically relief for "publicans and the Bookies", and the removal of tea duty, modernisation and support for industry and the development of markets in the Empire.Signed manuscript.

Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, explaining his efforts to have a settled financial policy and discussing increased navy estimates and his calculations that they are higher than suggested. He argues that armaments expenditure paralyses government policy in social and industrial reform, tax reduction and borrowing and warns that accepting the navy estimates will lead to electoral defeat; that the Admiralty is preoccupied with unfounded and unlikely threats from...

Scope and Contents Copy of a letter from WSC to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, marked "secret and personal" on the need to "dominate events lest we be submerged by them", reflecting on achievements of the government but predicting bleak prospects for the next year as the government has not been successful, his own efforts to reduce expenditure have failed, the Factory and Poor Law Bills and Franchise will not support them, and advising that a constructive measure is needed. He seeks Baldwin's support for...

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Letter from Arthur Ponsonby (Shulbrede Priory, Lynchmere, Haslemere, [Hampshire]) to WSC expressing enthusiasm about the Liberals' success in the general election but reporting that this feeling is not shared by two members of the Cabinet, who still doubt that the Government will have a strong enough mandate. Believes most Liberals in the country wish the Government to lose no time in pursuing its policies.

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Cuttings from Manchester Evening News, Manchester Evening Mail, Glasgow Evening Citizen, Western Morning News, Morning Herald, Sussex Daily News, St James's Gazette, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Yorkshire Daily Post, Daily Mail, Liverpool Daily Courier, Manchester Guardian, and the Birmingham Daily Gazette on WSC's adoption as Conservative candidate for Oldham.

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Cutting from Oldham Daily Standard, account of Conservative Election meeting at Theatre Royal, Oldham, including speech by WSC, praising the late member Robert Ascroft, also on pensions and the need for a Church Discipline Bill.

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Cutting from the Manchester Guardian, article on the Oldham election, particularly meeting at Greenacres Co-Op Hall, addressed by WSC.

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Cutting from Manchester Evening News, article on Oldham election campaign, including account of meeting in King Street Co-Op Hall, addressed by WSC 7 July 1899 Cutting from the Birmingham Daily Gazette on WSC's defeat in Oldham 7 July 1899 Cutting from The Star, expressing pleasure at defeat of Conservative candidates, WSC and James Mawdsley.

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Cuttings from Manchester Courier and Pall Mall Gazette on election result in Oldham and defeat of WSC.