Correspondence

Title

Correspondence

Shelfmark

CCO 500/65/2

Summary

Comprises:

CCO 500/65/2/1 - Correspondence (fols. 137-207), Nov 1937-Jun 1964;

CCO 500/65/2/2 - Correspondence (fols. 208-275), Feb 1941-Aug 1962;

CCO 500/65/2/3 - Correspondence (fols. 276-350), Feb 1938-Dec 1964;

CCO 500/65/2/4 - Correspondence and papers (fols. 351-451), Feb 1938-Nov 1959.

Correspondents include:

Assheton, Ralph, Chairman of the Conservative Party;

Butler, Rab, Chairman of the Conservative Research Department;

Chapman-Walker, Mark, Chief Publicity Officer;

Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, Prime Minister;

Dugdale, Thomas, Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party;

Eden, Anthony, Leader of the House of Commons and Foreign Secretary;

Gretton, Lord John, MP for Burton;

Hacking, Sir Douglas, Chairman of the Conservative Party;

Hare, John (Lord Blakenham), Chairman of the Conservative Party;

Hogg, Quintin (2nd Viscount Hailsham), Lord President of the Council;

Macleod, Iain, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer;

Macmillan, Harold, Prime Minister;

Marples, Ernest, Member of Parliament for Wallasey and Minister of Transport;

Morrison, William, Minister of Food;

Maxse, Marjorie, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party;

Mitchell, Sir Harold, Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party;

Nabarro, Gerald, MP for Kidderminster;

O'Neill, Terence, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland;

Osborne, Cyril, MP for Louth;

Pierssené, Sir Stephen, General Director of the Conservative Central Office;

Poole, Oliver, Chairman of the Conservative Party;

Profumo, John, Secretary of State for War;

5th Marquess of Salisbury, Leader of the House of Lords;

Schofield, Guy, Director of Publicity for the Conservative Party;

Simon, John, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain;

Stanley, Oliver, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for the Colonies;

Stuart, James, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury;

Thomas, James (Lord Cilcennin), MP for Hereford and First Lord of the Admiralty;

Topping, Sir Robert, General Director of the Conservative Party;

Lord Windlesham, Vice Chairman (Candidates);

Woolton, Lord Frederick, Chairman of the Conservative Party.

Subjects include:

Prospective Conservative candidates for Parliament;

Young Conservatives;

Conservative policy throughout the 1930s-1960s, including during the Second World War;

Anthony Eden's decision about which constituency to run in (Warwick and Leamington or Stratford), 1948

The Convention on the Political Rights of Women;

Opencast mining;

Anthony Eden addressing a Unionist Demonstration/Conservative meeting in Bristol, 1944;

Educational Reform White Paper, impact on Catholic schools of, 1943;

Shipping and Shipbuilding, including the new Shipping Advisory Panel, 1962;

Harold Macmillan addressing a Conservative meeting in Sheffield, 1946;

Feeding-Stuffs (Maximum Prices) Order, 1939;

Randolph Churchill, specifically his book on Anthony Eden, 1959;

Profumo's correspondence as Chief of Staff to the British Mission to Japan, 1945;

Retention of National Servicemen in response to Soviet threats to West Berlin, 1961;

Concerns about inadequate food supplies for troops during the Second World War;

Increasing numbers of Members of the House of Commons describing themselves as "Independent".

CCO 500/65/2/4 also includes:

Liberty Restoration League poster, 'The A.R.P. Danger', 1939;

Liberty Restoration League poster, 'Who does taxation benefit?', 1939;

Liberty Restoration League poster, 'Livestock Industry Bill', 1939;

Copy of The Times Letter to the Editor titled 'Man-Power', by Roderick Jones, 25/06/1941;

'Brief details of the business experience of Captain A.W. Freeman', 20/06/1942;

Report for 1943-44 of The Leicestershire Branch of The English-Speaking Union;

Election Address from A.P. Herbert to the electors of Oxford University, July 1945;

Paper titled 'The Future of Industry', nd;

Paper titled 'Industrial Partnership', nd;

Paper titled 'Industrial Democracy', by Bernard Shattock, nd;

Details on the present and proposed divisions of Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, and Leamington, June 1948;

Municipal Election Results in Stratford, Leamington, Warwick, and Kenilworth, 1947;

Newspaper clipping from the Daily Express on workers' replies to the questionnaire 'How's Business?', 16/09/1946.

Date

Nov 1937-Dec 1964

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (4 folders)