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Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Politics |
Local
- Bexley Constituency Labour Party: minutes 1938-1950 (CSBLP)
- Scottish Parliament Election Communications: Ross, Skye & Lochaber constituency and Highland Region list 2021 (D1695)
- George Blucher Heneage Marton (1839-1905), Conservative politician: papers incl corresp, diaries, scrapbooks of news cuttings and photograph albums c1830-1904 (DDX 3625/ACC13150)
- Rt Hon Dame Margaret Mary Beckett (nee Jackson), (b1943), Labour MP: large photographs (7) of her interacting with potential constituents in Lincoln for the second General Election in Oct 1974 1974 (MISC DON 2112)
- Yeovil Liberal Democrat Party: documents, incl minutes, reports, membership records and correspondence, as well as leaflets, posters, newsletters, newspaper cuttings and other papers 1966-2017 (A/DUH)
- David Anthony Laws (b1965), Liberal Democrat politician, MP for Yeovil: files rel to his work, on various topics, incl Post Offices (mainly closures, systems, services offered, payment problems and access), roads, schools, health, Westlands, housing, police and fire services, flooding, broadband, sport c1980-2019 (A/EUU)
- Taunton Labour Party: account books 1923-1965 (DD/TLP)
- Sir Jeremy John Durham Ashdown (1941-2018), Baron Ashdown, MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats: personal papers, incl personal diaries rel to Balkans visits, files rel to Kosovo, 'standing down' documents; High Representative Bosnia Herzegovina papers; personal diary entitled 'The End'; transcripts of speeches; MP constituency files 1984-2005 (A/BHI)
- Steve Dawber (fl 2020-2021), Councillor Wigan West and Mayor of Wigan: records rel to Mayoral year incl extended appointment during COVID pandemic 2019-2021 (Acc. 2021/1)
National
- Gary Matthews (d2022), Deputy in the States Assembly: archive, incl material rel to his work, radical political activity in Jersey and the UK, the finance industry, coverage of the Haut de la Garenne scandal, historical research into Jersey especially the Occupation and the Proscrits, press cuttings, and correspondence nd (JA/3807)
- Scottish Green Party: further records of the Scottish Green Party, with papers of the UK Green Party and predecessor organisations c1980-2017 (Acc.14224)
- Colin Fox (b1969), politician: papers rel to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and to Yes Scotland 2009-2014 (Acc.14271)
- Robert Addison Smith (d 1925), secretary, Scottish Conservative Club, Edinburgh: papers rel to his work as Treasurer of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Association 1886-1912 (Acc.14279)
- Allan Barns-Graham (1874-1957), landowner: letters to R E Muirhead on Scottish Home Rule 1920-1925 (Acc.14277)
- Andrew Cameron (b1929), SNP activist: papers rel to the Scottish National Party 1956-1986 (Acc.14292)
- Gwynoro Glyndwr Jones (b1942), Welsh politician: papers rel to Labour Party Wales, Welsh Assembly and devolution, Campaign for Welsh Assembly, voting reform, local election results, seat negotiations, Alliance Committee Wales, merged party Welsh Social and Liberal Democrats WSLD 1980-1986
- Edward Glynne Millward (1930-2020), Welsh nationalist politician: political and literary papers 1960-1970 (MILLWARD)
- Seán Farren (b1939), Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician and academic: compiled papers rel to his membership of the SDLP, incl briefing papers, minutes, reports, speeches, talks and some correspondence, printed material and copy newspaper cuttings 1970-2010 (D4799/UNL/1-3)
Special
- Arthur Stanley Newens (1930-2021), politician: papers regarding involvement with the co-operative movement 1950s-1990s (NEWENS)
- Michael Mackintosh Foot (1913-2010), politician and Labour Party leader: personal and literary corresp 1960-2000 (Acc 1619)
- Sir John Scott (1751-1838), 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor: letters from the physicians of King George III rel to the King's condition, treatment and daily activities during his periods of illness, to allow Scott, as Lord Chancellor, to decide whether the King was fit to carry out his duties 1801-1811 (MS-GEORG/C)
University
- Robert Potter (1721-1804), poet and politician: commonplace book 1754-1787 (GBR/0012/MS Add.10370)
- Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell (1947-2018), Baroness Jowell, politician: papers 20th-21st cent (JWLL, accession 2176, 2191)
- Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake (1897-1958), Knight, diplomat: diaries and other papers 20th cent (PEAK, accession 2189)
- Richard Napier Luce (b1936), Baron Luce, politician: papers and correspondence 20th-21st cent (LUCE, accession 2175, 2179, 2182)
- Patrick Richard Henry Wright (1931-2020), Baron Wright of Richmond, diplomat: papers and diaries Late 20th cent (WRGT, accession 2174)
- Clare Druce, (fl 1970-2010) political campaigner: papers incl letters and campaigning material for Chickens' Lib, representing the active years of a small voluntary pressure group co-founded by Clare Druce and her mother Violet Spalding 1970-2010 (CKL)
- Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai (b1940), Baron Desai, economist and politician: material incl personal papers, academic outputs, speeches and newspaper articles c1950-2020 (DESAI)
- Jonathon Espie Porritt (b1950), sustainability campaigner and writer: papers rel to the Ecology Party (later the Green Party), incl Council minutes, conference papers, election material, speeches and correspondence c1974-1990 (PORRITT)
- Institute for Workers' Control: records including minutes, correspondence, conference papers, pamphlets and bulletins c1970-1989 (IWC)
- Feminist Archive East Midlands: papers incl correspondence, conference proceedings, posters, newsletters and magazines rel to individuals, organisations and campaigns involved in the women's movement in Nottingham and the East Midlands c1970-1989 (FME)
- Ken Tarbuck (1930-1995), Trotskyist writer and activist: political correspondence and publications; sound recordings of interviews and discussions 1911-1998 (TAR)
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