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Political parties

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

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Blackspot removals in Natal: papers collected by John Aitchison

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 218
Scope and Contents

Papers, news cuttings, copies of articles, correspondence, and photographs and negatives, collected by John Aitchison documenting the impact of the Blackspot Removal Campaign in Natal.

Dates: 1953 - 1965
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Lord Randolph Churchill: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9248
Scope and Contents Political and personal correspondence, including letters from most leading political figures of the time, Joseph Chamberlain, the Lord Justice Gerald Fitzgibbon, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. The correspondence with Gerald Fitzgibbon sheds much light on Churchill's own career. Comprises letters written to Churchill by political and personal associates, and copies of letters written by him, covering the period 1870 - 1895,...
Dates: 1870-1894
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers concerning Margaret Thatcher's time as Member of Parliament for the Finchley Constituency, 1948-1992.

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FINC
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Including in and copy-out constituency correspondence answered by Margaret Thatcher and her constituency office staff, 1986; constituents' cases and surgery files, 1987-91; details of Mrs Thatcher's constituency engagements, 1971-87 (incomplete); annual yearbooks of the (then) Finchley and Friern Barnet Conservative Association, 1948/9-55/6, 1983, 1985/6-89/90; and other miscellaneous material, ca. 1983-92

Dates: 1948 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: Closed while uncatalogued. Much of the material relates to individual constituents and would require closure on data protection grounds.
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Stanley Baldwin Papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Baldwin
Scope and Contents The collection now at Cambridge has certain limitations. In the first place, it comprises only Baldwin's political papers: family and personal papers are not included. Secondly, it is perhaps more revealing of Baldwin's colleagues than of the man himself. As G.M. Young observed in the preface to his biography, Baldwin "kept no diary, circulated no memoranda to his colleagues, rarely wrote a political letter, and still more rarely made a copy of anything he did write". Thirdly, there is...
Dates: 1905-1955
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Papers of Christopher Prout

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KGLD
Scope and Contents

Papers including correspondence, diaries and research material on Europe.

Dates: 1947 - 2009
Conditions Governing Access: All files are closed for 30 years at the request of the Prout family. Please see individual file descriptions for details of opening dates.
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The Papers of Neil Kinnock

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK
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The collection contains Kinnock's papers as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, 1983-92, and also from his work for the European Commission, 1995-2004.

The papers include political papers (mainly relating to Kinnock's leadership of the Labour Party), engagements diaries and visits papers, copies of his speeches and public statements, constituency correspondence, photographs and some audio-visual material.

Dates: 1947 - 2008
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Peter Rawlinson

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RWSN
Scope and Contents

Papers including correspondence, legal case papers, speeches and articles.

Dates: 1873 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Papers of Richard Thorpe

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THRP
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Papers relating to a biography of Alec Douglas-Home, comprising a manuscript of the book with drafts, notes, correspondence, transcripts of interviews, press cuttings and copies of original documents.

Dates: 1989 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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The Records of the Labour Spain Committee

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LSPC
Scope and Contents

Records comprising minutes, correspondence and papers

Dates: 1937 - 1966
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.