| Title |
Press cuttings |
| Reference |
KNNK 18 |
| Covering Dates |
1983–1994 (The majority of folios date from 1983-87.) |
| Extent and Medium |
6 archive boxes |
|
| Content and context |
Subjects include NK's career, the miners' strike, NK's dealings with the hard Left and Militant, and various by-elections. |
| Churchill/KNNK 18 contains: |
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1
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General articles. Includes an article on Glenys Kinnock, a copy of Marxism Today with an article by Eric Hobsbawm on the loss of the General Election and an article by Simon Hoggart on NK's life and times.
1 file. |
Sep 1983-Oct 1983 |
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2
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Press cuttings. Subjects include the selection of the new party leadership and a visit by NK to Hackney, London.
1 file. |
Oct 1983-Dec 1983 |
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3
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: devolution for Scotland; Conservative "zealots"; elections to the Shadow Cabinet and NK's battle against the hard left, led by Tony Benn; the miners' strike; the Chesterfield by-election [Derbyshire]; NK's visit to Plymouth [Devon], Sept 1984.
1 file. |
Sep 1983-Nov 1984 |
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4
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Press cuttings: US cuttings. Cuttings from NK's visit to the United States.
1 file. |
Jan 1984-Feb 1984 |
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5
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Press cuttings. Subjects include NK's visit to the United States.
1 file. |
Jan 1984-Feb 1984 |
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6
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: NK's poll rating; the National Pensioners' Convention; NK's visit to Sheffield [Yorkshire]; NK's early life and political career; the miners' strike.
1 file. |
Mar 1984-Apr 1984 |
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7
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Press cuttings. Press review of a European Parliament Socialist Bureau meeting in London, a pensioners' rally and a European textiles forum in Bradford, Yorkshire.
1 file. |
Apr 1984 |
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8
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: unemployment; Labour's relations with the trades unions; the miners' strike, particularly the blockade of the Ravenscraig steel works [Lanarkshire, Scotland] by striking miners; NK's mother; the European elections; black Labour sections; the Portsmouth South by-election [Hampshire]. Includes cuttings of NK dancing with Bill Owen and Clive Dunn.
1 file. |
May 1984-Jun 1984 |
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9
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: the miners' strike; attempts to expel a member of Militant from the party; NK's visit to the Soviet Union and talks with President Konstantin Chernenko on nuclear disarmament; disruption in Parliament from the hard Left; talks between the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Libya; Shadow Cabinet elections.
1 file. |
Sep 1984-Nov 1984 |
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10
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: battles with the Left; the miners' strike; NK's visit to the Soviet Union and talks with President Konstantin Chernenko on nuclear disarmament;.
1 file. |
Dec 1984 |
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11
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Press cuttings: Party general and political general. Subjects include: Militant in Liverpool; the 1984 Party Conference; the Fulham by-election [London], 1986; the Brecon and Radnor by-election, [Wales], 1985; the miners' strike; reselection of parliamentary candidates.
2 files. |
Sep 1984-Mar 1986 |
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12
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: Larry Whitty's election as General Secretary of the Labour Party; a motion of censure on the economy; the miners' strike; battles with the Left, particularly Eric Heffer and Tony Benn; NK's visit to Nicaragua.
1 file. |
Jan 1985 |
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13
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Press cuttings: local and foreign press. Subjects include: the miners' strike; visit to Bradford City football ground [Yorkshire] after a fire; visit to Lancashire; visit to Bristol; visit to Loughborough and Leicester; rate-capping of local government budgets; visit to Swindon [Wiltshire]; visit to Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth; nuclear disarmament.
1 file. |
Jan 1984-Jul 1985 |
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14
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: Labour's relations with the miners' unions; a call from Tony Benn and Eric Heffer to withdraw Britain from NATO; the miners' strike; strikes by the National Union of Teachers (NUT), supported by Glenys Kinnock; the prosecution of the Ministry of Defence official Clive Ponting for breaking the Official Secrets Act [after he leaked documents on the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands War]; rate-capping of local government budgets.
1 file. |
Feb 1985-Mar 1985 |
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15
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: relations with the SDP-Liberal Alliance, particularly an attack by NK against David Owen, leader of the SDP; Ken Livingstone standing as a parliamentary candidate; Labour's support for a pay rise for nurses; allegations of vote rigging in the election for the Transport and General Workers' Union's General Secretary; attacks on NK from the Left; unemployment and Labour's jobs and industry campaign.
1 file. |
Apr 1985-May 1985 |
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16
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: NK's visit to Ethiopia; calls for an amnesty for miners sacked or convicted during the miners' strike; Labour's attitude to the Nottinghamshire miners breaking away from the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM); Michael Cocks's resignation as Labour Chief Whip; the Brecon and Radnor by-election [Wales]; effects of the miners' strike on Labour and the rift between NK and Arthur Scargill [President of the NUM]; black sections; Ken Livingstone's bid for election as party treasurer.
1 file. |
Jun 1985-Jul 1985 |
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17
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: the rift between NK and Arthur Scargill [President of the National Union of Mineworkers, NUM]; state funding for trades union ballots; NK's meeting with Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina, over the Falkland Islands; divisions in the Social Democrat/Liberal Alliance; Scargill's victory in a Trades Union Congress ballot on a reimbursement of NUM funds confiscated during the miners' strike; launch of a joint Labour/TUC policy document, "A New Partnership - A New Britain".
1 file. |
Aug 1985-Sep 1985 |
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18
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Press cuttings. Labour Party press cutting service cuttings on the Party Conference, particularly: votes on a reimbursement of National Union of Mineworkers' funds confiscated during the miners' strike; NK's speech against Militant and Liverpool City Council; NK's success against the Left.
1 file. |
Sep 1985-Oct 1985 |
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19
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: Militant and Liverpool City Council; Derek Foster's election as Labour Chief Whip; protests against Bernie Grant, leader of Haringey Council, London, following his remarks about the Tottenham riots; NK's success against the Left at the Party Conference.
1 file. |
Oct 1985-Nov 1985 |
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20
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; clashes between NK and Norman Tebbit, Conservative Party chairman; the Tyne Bridge by-election, Newcastle; Militant and Liverpool City Council; the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM).
1 file. |
Oct 1985-Dec 1985 |
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21
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; the Fulham by-election, London; Labour's pledge to create a million more jobs; NK's visit to the Broadwater Farm estate, Tottenham, London, with Bernie Grant, leader of Haringey Council; the debate between NK and Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on the Westland affair.
1 file. |
Jan 1986-Mar 1986 |
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22
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: NK's visit to the United States, Dec 1986; expulsions of members of Militant from the Labour Party; the launch of the Freedom and Fairness campaign; Britain's support for an American bombing raid on Libya; the Fulham by-election, London.
1 file. |
Apr 1986-Mar 1987 |
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23
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General articles. Summaries of articles from the New York Times on the General Election and Margaret Thatcher's victory, and press cuttings not specifically referring to NK.
1 file. |
Apr 1987-Jun 1987 |
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24
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Press cuttings. Labour Party press cutting service cuttings on general subjects, not specifically referring to NK.
1 file. |
Mar 1988 |
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25
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Evening Standard Mori poll poster, "Kinnock catching up with Maggie".
1 file. |
c 1989-c 1990 |
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26
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Press cuttings. Subjects include: NK joining the European Commission; the General Election campaign.
1 file. |
Apr 1992-Jun 1994 |
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