Politics
Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of Star Chamber decrees and censures, seventeenth century
Copy of an unpublished autobiography, 1901-45
Comprises: Preface; Chapter 1, Early Memories; Chapter 2, Into Parliament; Chapter 3, The House of Commons; Chapter 4, The Soviet Union; Chapter 5, Henry Moore, By-Election Songs, and Waterloo Bridge; Chapter 6, The Spanish Civil War; Chapter 7, Collapse of MacDonald's Government; and Chapter 8, Wartime.
Copy of an unpublished autobiography, 1945-90
Comprises: Chapter 9, Post-War; Chapter 10, Dalton and Gaitskell; Chapter 11, The Steel Industry Battle; Chapter 12, The Atomic Bomb and Soviet Spies; Chapter 13, Slaugham; Chapter 14, Bevan's Resignation; Chapter 15, Theatre Censorship; Chapter 16, Museum Charges and Clay Cross; Chapter 17, Miscreants; and Chapter 18, The Lords.
Correspondence of King James I, early seventeenth century
David Ricardo: Correspondence and Papers
The collection includes manuscripts of several of Ricardo's works, correspondence between Ricardo and James Mill, letters to Thomas Malthus ans letters to Ricardo's brother in law, J.H. Wilkinson. Also included is correspondence and papers from the twentieth-century concerning the Ricardo Papers.
Dialogue on Mary queen of Scots, late sixteenth century
A dialogue between a traveller and a civilian on the right of bringing the queen of Scots to trial, written shortly after the discovery of Babington's conspiracy; begins 'An honest gentleman, my familier friende, somtyme student in Oxforde of the civill lawe ...'.
Diaries, 1951 - 1961
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, speeches, articles, personal papers, press cuttings and photographs.
With press cuttings relating to his father, William Thompson Fyfe, 1906-7.
Digest of the laws and usage of parliament, 1689 and 1707
'Lex parliamentaria in domo superiori, or the laws and usage of parliament alphabetically digested'.
Documents chiefly relating to English domestic and foreign politics in the early seventeenth century, c 1630-1640
Documents relating to impositions, early seventeenth century
Documents relating to the public revenue, 1688 - 1691
'A brief state of the Incomes and Issues of their Majesties Publick Revenue from the 5th day of November 1688 to the 29th of September 1691 with Memorandums made by the Commissioners constituted by one Act of Parliament made in the second year of their Majestys reign, entitled An Act for appointing and enabling Commissioners to examine, take and state the Publick accounts of the Kingdom'. See also MSS Dd.13.09-16.
Edward Byles Cowell: Papers
Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.
Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford : Diary of Proceedings in Parliament
284 folios. The diary comprises two volumes which have been bound into one. The versos are mainly blank. Inside the front cover: '21888 Ph B44.563' (in pencil). There is an index to vol. 1 at fos 139v-142. Fo. i v (vol. 2) has notes in the text hand. Fo. 1: 'from Puttick sale 1849'. Fos i in both volumes have the label '268/2' (19th century).
Edward Moran: Letters to him regarding The Globe
Eighteenth-Century Political and Other Papers
Fortescue: The Papers of Hugh Fortescue
Historical Collections, consisting chiefly of Speeches and Proceedings in Parliament in the years 1625, 1626, Sixteenth century
Ff. 7 and 8 are misplaced after f. 10.
Hon. Alfred Lyttelton: correspondence, 1859 - 1912
Political and personal correspondence and other papers.
CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton
Imperial commission, 1543
Commission from the Emperor Charles V to concert measures with King Henry VIII for carrying on the war against France; with the seal attached.
John Acton, 1st Baron Acton: Papers
John Massie: Letters to him
John Ward: Correspondence and Papers
Correspondence and papers of John Ward, including letters from W.E. Gladstone; Charles, 2nd Viscount Canning; Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; and Sir William Hutt.
John Winston Spencer Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough: Political Papers
Journal of parliamentary proceedings, 1626
A journal of proceedings in the second parliament of King Charles I, written by a member of the House of Commons. The writer has made many corrections, and in two or three places has employed shorthand. At the end is 'Sic abeunt omnes et cessat gloria regni. Finis parlamenti inchoati 6o die Febr. 1625, et determinati dissolutique 15 die Junii 1626. Stante. D. B.'
Lecture notes on politics
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91