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Photographs of NK with candidates, with elected MEPs, and at a rally in Manchester, with Clive Dunn and Bill Owen.

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Correspondence with representatives of the BBC, Conservative Central Office and Conservative candidates including Christopher Jackson, John Butterfill and Shelagh Roberts, notes on arrangements and CS's speech notes from the campaign.

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (5 October 1946, Conservative Party conference, Blackpool) entitled "Every Dog His Day" on subjects including: criticism of the Labour government; the need for a concerted opposition to Communism; foreign policy; the deterioration of relations with the Soviet Union; post war reconstruction; the electoral system; taxation; housing; the coal industry; agriculture; nationalisation; foreign policy and Indian independence; and the need for increased Conservative...

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Subjects include: the 1918 General Election; Churchill's visit to Egypt, 1921, for the conference on the future of Palestine; the deaths of Marigold Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill [earlier Jennie Jerome]; the 1922 General Election and Churchill's campaign in Dundee [Scotland].

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Book by Randolph Churchill on the 1963 election [Wolff acted as research assistant], including: galley proofs; manuscripts of various chapters with alterations; correspondence; statement by Wolff as to Randolph Churchill's authorship of the volume stating that he was not an author but a research assistant.

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Publicity.

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Includes an article on Glenys Kinnock, a copy of Marxism Today with an article by Eric Hobsbawm on the loss of the General Election and an article by Simon Hoggart on NK’s life and times.

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Summaries of articles from the New York Times on the General Election and Margaret Thatcher’s victory, and press cuttings not specifically referring to NK.

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Correspondence and papers on NK’s reselection as a Parliamentary candidate and election as MP for Islwyn. Correspondents include Ron Davies.

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Papers relating to the 1974 election, including press cuttings, Labour Party promotional materials and correspondence, particularly relating to the Chipping Barnet constituency [London], where AFB was speaking on behalf of the Labour candidate.

Also includes some cuttings on the first control units for persistent troublemakers, set up at Wakefield Prison [Yorkshire] and Wormwood Scrubs, and on European grain exports to India, to stave off famine.

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Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.

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Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.

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These files appear to originate from the Conservative period of Opposition.

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The papers cover all Wolff's positions in the Conservative Party: his work in the Research Department, 1965-70; then as Special Adviser to the Government, 1970-74 (the files from this period are the most numerous, containing Government papers); then Director-General of the Party. Particular sequences in the papers include the reports of the Opinion Research Centre, a large number of subject files and files relating to the 1970 General Election, particularly speeches.

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Cuttings from national and local press.

Scope and Contents Indexed collection of McKenna's correspondence as First Lord of the Admiralty during the Election, with correspondents (mainly asking for naval information to assist their election campaigns) including: [William] Wedgwood Benn [later 1st Lord Stansgate]; Sir Owen Philipps [MP for Pembroke and Haverfordwest, later 1st Lord Kylsant] asking for information on the Pembroke dockyard (2); Sir Samuel Evans on the Pembroke dockyard (3); Arthur Crosfield (3); Charles Mallet [Liberal candidate for...

Scope and Contents Includes: a memorandum from Nigel Stanley and Peter Hain on NK’s leadership campaign strategy; General Election post mortems by Geoff Bish, TULV [Trade Unions for Labour Victory], Gwyneth Dunwoody [Parliamentary Campaign Coordinator], Denis Healey, Denis Howell, Sam McCluskie, Shirley Summerskill, various Labour Party regions and James Mortimer, General Secretary; notes on party recruitment, polling needs and party organisation, particularly from Jeremy Bray, Ray Green, Chris Powell and...

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Election broadcasts.

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Speeches and speech notes for election rallies at Northampton, Llandudno [Wales], Birmingham, Bolton [Lancashire], Darlington [County Durham], Bristol, Glasgow [Scotland], Leicester, Leeds [Yorkshire] and Cardiff.

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Texts and speech notes for policy launches at Newcastle (education), Leeds [Yorkshire] (crime), Bristol (housing), Birmingham (education) and Derby (industry), also including the launch of the General Election manifesto.

Scope and Contents Speeches and speech notes for election rallies and press conferences, including: conference for international press, on foreign policy, particularly international economic issues; Scottish Party conference; press conference on the recession; Birmingham rally; Manchester rally; press conference on the ambulance service; Glasgow rally [Scotland]; Sheffield rally [Yorkshire]; press launch for the final week of the campaign; press conference on unemployment; press conference on the Poll Tax;...

Scope and Contents Includes: NK’s constituency election statement; "the Bridgend speech" (Glamorgan, Wales), 7 June 83; NK’s summary of views for the Labour leadership election; the John P Mackintosh memorial lecture; the William Cardwell Memorial Lecture; NK’s acceptance speech on becoming Party leader. Other subjects include: Conservative education policy, particularly cuts; Labour education policy; higher education; the decline of industry; reasons for Labour’s defeat; future cuts to the coal industry;...

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Briefings for Neil Kinnock's 1992 election tour, briefings on marginal seats and key seats, campaign literature and statistical information.

Scope and Contents Includes: brief and agenda for campaign management team meeting; note on the campaigning framework for 1989; proposed changes to the Conference voting system and Trades Union Congress proposals on the minimum wage; question and answer brief on the Poll Tax; note on black and Asian organisation within Labour; briefs for meetings with the Whips, the Tribune Group, MPs and junior Front Bench spokesmen; paper on alternative voting systems; papers on a New Socialist conference; congratulations on...

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Includes: memorandum from Julie Hall, NK’s Press Secretary, on press strategy in the run-up to the General Election; draft paper on the Oxford East constituency party’s investigation against Robert Maxwell over various union disputes; statement by David Blunkett on stepping up Labour’s campaign profile; briefing for meeting with the European Parliamentary Labour Party; press schedule; rough notes for a meeting on Iraq.