Scope and Contents Correspondence on and drafts and final texts of articles by AFB sent to overseas newspapers and journals, mostly from the African and Asian press. Subjects of the articles include: revisiting Lincoln prison; Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; AFB's visit to the Soviet Union, 1965 [see also FEBR 2/10]; the Bou Saada project to grow crops in the Algerian desert [see also FEBR 2/10, 3/1 and 7/9]; the Vietnam War; the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation; the responsibilities of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: David Sheppard [Bishop Suffragan of Woolwich] on his final lecture as chairman of the Martin Luther King Fund; Barbara Castle, Secretary of State for Social Services, on special benefit payments; Lord Harris of Greenwich, Minister of State, Home Office, on setting the broadcasting licence fee; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway on her joy in having AFB for a brother and her memories of their childhood in Pitlochry [Scotland]; Lord Goronwy-Roberts, Parliamentary Under-Secretary...

Scope and Contents All letters marked up for publication, with transcripts. Subjects include: Shaw's advice to AFB not to appeal against the ban on his play "The Devil's Business"; the work of the Fabian Society's Prison System Inquiry Committee and Shaw's preface to "English Prisons under Local Government", by Sidney and Beatrice Webb [see FEBR 7/3]; a planned lecture by Shaw at Lancaster, November 1920; Shaw's resignation from the Labour Research Department, 1921; a book by AFB on India and Shaw's view on...

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Correspondence, partly with representatives of Radical Alternatives to Prison, on penal reform, and also relating to some individual prisoners.