Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

File

Labour Party correspondence, circulars and press releases

Catalogue reference: MSS.154/3/LP/2/1-212

What’s it about?

This record is a file about the Labour Party correspondence, circulars and press releases dating from 1951-1973.

Access information is unavailable

Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.

Full description and record details

Reference
MSS.154/3/LP/2/1-212
Title
Labour Party correspondence, circulars and press releases
Date
1951-1973
Description

Includes: memo by RHSC on 'political education' within the LP, 1951 (/1-2); memo by 'Member of Parliament' on NEC and 1953 policy statement, 1952 (/4-5); note on Cyprus by RHSC, 1955 (/6-8); note by RHSC on Middle East, 1955, (/8-12); note by RHSC of a conversation with Col. Nasser, 1955 (/13-18); memorandum for LP Defence Sub-committee by RHSC and G. Wigg, 'Manpower and defence', 1956 (/19-23); notes by RHSC for LP's foreign affairs group '...on labour's foreign policy', 1956 (/24-7); memorandum by RHSC for the LP Home Policy Sub-committee, 'Security regulations and personal freedom,' March 1957 (/28); 'Some notes on the paper on defence policy drafted by the office' by RHSC for the Defence sub-committee of the International Committee, May 1957 (/29-30); 'Some notes on elite education with special reference to the problem of universities' by RHSC for the LP Study Group on Education, October 1957 (/31-3); 'Suggested framework of a section of the education policy statement dealing with the private sector', by RHSC for the same, November 1957 (/34-6); 'Note on national service' by RHSC for the International sub-committee of the NEC, February 1958 (/39); correspondence re use of Ministry of Education film in Conservative Party political broadcast, February 1959 (/42-8); 'The state of the party,' memorandum for NEC, 13 July 1960 [incomplete] (/49-67); letter, Frank Barlow-RHSC, 23 February 1961 re evolution of PLP Liaison Committee and PLP Standing Orders, with copies of Standing Orders (/68-73); LP press release: RHSC on the supply of teachers, 7 May 1964 (/74-85); The new Britain, LP election manifesto, 1964: draft, heavily annotated by RHSC (/86-100); suggested outline for party political broadcast, 11 September [1964] (/101-7); press release, RHSC re press attacks on H. Wilson, 10 May 1968 (108-112); press release, RHSC re Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, 25 August 1968 (/113-15); press release, A. Wedgwood Benn, 'The role of broadcasting in a participating democracy,' 18 October 1968 (/116-30); press release, RHSC re social policy, 12 June 1970 (/131a-j); draft papers for the Social Policy sub-committee, the Machinery of Government Group (Stuart Holland, 'Planning and Policy co-ordination', March 1972, /145-58; Derek Robinson, 'Machinery of Government', August 1972, /160-2); Home Policy committee on communications, May & December 1973 (/170-4, 194-212); Social Policy sub committee on pensions, October-November 1973 (/176-93).

Held by
Warwick University: Modern Records Centre
Language
English
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/8f00973a-de71-4ae1-8685-2ccbc424ea8a/

Series information

MSS.154/3

Correspondence and Subject Files

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

17,536 records
599 records

Within the fonds: MSS.154

Richard Crossman Papers

236 records

Within the series: MSS.154/3

Correspondence and Subject Files

7 records

Within the sub-series: MSS.154/3/LP/1-6

Files re Labour Party activities

You are currently looking at the file: MSS.154/3/LP/2/1-212

Labour Party correspondence, circulars and press releases