Janus: The Papers of Neil Kinnock

Churchill/KNNK contains:
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17	Broadcasts and interviews
18	Press cuttings
19	Visits and meetings
20	Constituency
21	European Commission
22	Private Office
23	Diaries and schedules
24	Literary
25	Photographs
26	Audio-visual
27	British Council

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The Papers of Neil Kinnock

Title	Photographs
Reference	KNNK 25
Covering Dates	c 1930–1996 (The majority of files date from 1983-96.)
Extent and Medium	8 archive boxes; photograph

Content and context

Mainly press photographs, including portraits of NK, photographs of various visits and events, and photographs from the 1987 General Election campaign.

Index Terms

Photographs

Churchill/KNNK 25 contains:

Childhood and family. Chiefly images from the Daily Mirror of NK as a child and teenager, also including images of his [?] parents and grandparents. Includes negatives.
1 file.

c 1930-c 1961

Family portraits. Group family photographs of NK, Glenys Kinnock and their children, mainly taken for the Kinnocks' 20th wedding anniversary, 1987.
1 file.

c 1982-c 1991

Party Conferences. Photographs including: NK with Roy Hattersley [Deputy Leader]; NK with Eric Heffer [Party Chairman]; Heffer with Tony Benn; Ian Mikardo; NK with David Blunkett; Denis Healey and Edna Healey; NK speaking.
1 file.

Oct 1983-Sep 1986

Glasgow Press Club [Scotland].
1 file.

Oct 1983

CND. Press photographs of NK and Glenys Kinnock at Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rallies. Also includes an image of NK with striking workers from Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
1 file.

Oct 1983-Dec 1984

Cenotaph. Photograph of NK at the Cenotaph, London, for the Remembrance Day ceremony, with Margaret Thatcher [Prime Minister] and David Steel [Leader of the Liberal Party].
1 file.

Nov 1983

Rugby. Photographs of NK as coach with the London Welsh under-15s rugby team.
2 files.

Oct 1983-c 1986

Health Service. Photographs of NK with various groups of patients and nurses, including: the launch of the 1983 campaign on the National Health Service; with Tony Benn while campaigning in Chesterfield, 1984; launching the Labour Party bus; launching the first International Day of the Midwife, 1991.
1 file.

Nov 1983-May 1991

World Leaders. Photographs of NK with leaders including: Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania; Garret Fitzgerald, Taoiseach of Ireland; [Sven] Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden; Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Walid Joumblatt [President of the Libyan Progressive Socialist Party]; Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party; Richard von Weizsacker, President of the Federal Republic of Germany; King Juan Carlos I of Spain; Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of Congo.
1 file.

Nov 1983-Feb 1987

Children. Photographs of NK with various groups or individual children, campaigning, in his constituency and in the House of Commons, including training the [? London Welsh under-15s rugby team] and receiving a copy of the album Jobs for the Boys from Ronnie Flood.
1 file.

Dec 1983–1989

Enfield and Strathclyde. Includes photographs of NK's visit to Enfield, London, May 1984, mainly for a League Against Cruel Sports event, and also his visit to Strathclyde Labour Group, Scotland, July 1984 and to the Professional Footballers' Association awards.
1 file.

Dec 1983-Jul 1984

Portraits of NK. Series of small photographs of NK, taken out of doors.
1 file.

c 1983-c 1984

Portraits of NK. Mainly press images, including NK in his office in the House of Commons, speaking at various conferences and rallies and a series of Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror portraits.
2 files.

c 1983-c 1986

Portraits of NK. Mainly press images, including NK in his room at the House of Commons and speaking at various events and conferences.
2 files.

1983-c 1991

Rolled contact sheets of portraits of NK.
1 file.

c 1990

Portraits of NK. Photographs of NK at the House of Commons from the Daily Mirror and Sunday People.
1 file.

Jan 1984

Visits and events. Photographs including: NK arriving at Teeside Airport; the launch of the "Thatcher's Britain" campaign, 1984; NK with the actors Prunella Scales and Ian McKellen; contact sheets of NK's visit to Co-Op '84, Greater London Enterprise Board; the London Schoolbook Exhibition, 1985; National Union of Labour Social Clubs conference, 1990.
1 file.

1984–1990

Visits and events. Photographs including: NK at a GMB conference, including many photographs with NK and Tom Burlison [GMB Regional Secretary]; the Commonwealth Trade Union Council African Trade Union Educators group, 1984; NK's visit to the joint forces' training base at Northwood, 1984; NK in Bonn with Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany, 1985; NK with David Steel, 1985; NK's visit to the West Midlands Austin Rover plant, 1986; NK at the FA Cup Final dinner, 1986; [?] Socialist International Council meeting, Madrid [Spain], 1988, including NK with Andreas Papandreou; NK with Chandra Shekhar, Prime Minister of India, c 1990-91.
1 file.

c 1984-c 1991

Aerospace industry. Photographs of NK's visit to British Aerospace, Hatfield [Hertfordshire].
1 file.

Jan 1984

Tracey Ullman video. Photographs of NK taking part in the video to Tracey Ullman's song "My Guy", with notes for filming and contact sheets.
1 file.

Feb 1984

Visits to the United States. Photographs of NK in meetings with Edward Koch, Mayor of New York, and Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1984, and in meetings at the Pentagon and the White House, with Dan Quayle, Vice-President, 1990.
1 file.

Feb 1984-Jul 1990

Transport. Photographs including: NK on a bus with David Blunkett in Sheffield [Yorkshire]; NK talking to the National Executive of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR); NK visiting [? Birmingham International Airport Maglev rail system], 1984; NK's visit to British Rail Engineering Limited, Derby, 1991 (see also KNNK 3/3/50).
1 file.

Mar 1984-Apr 1991

Workplaces. Mainly National Coal Board photographs from NK's visit to the mine at Tondu [Wales], 1985, also including a visit to Metrolite Industries, Wigan [Lancashire] and Sheffield Information Technology Centre [Yorkshire].
1 file.

Mar 1984-Jun 1985

Unions. Photographs including: a Greater London Council conference, with NK and Norman Willis, Trades Union Congress General Secretary [? possibly the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (GMBATU) conference]; slide of NK with Willis, at the launch of Labour's policy document "A New Partnership, A New Britain" at TUC headquarters; NK with Willis holding a Workers Unite banner; NK and Arthur Scargill, President, National Union of Mineworkers, at the Durham Miners' Gala, 1984; NK at the Tolpuddle Martyrs 150th anniversary rally; NK meeting Commonwealth Trades Unionists.
1 file.

Apr 1984-Aug 1985

Ethnic minorities. Press photographs including: NK with the ethnic minority press; NK with black and Asian voters and schoolchildren; NK in East Africa (see also KNNK 19/3); NK with members of the Bournemouth Community for Soviet Jewry; NK and Glenys Kinnock at the Notting Hill Carnival, London.
1 file.

Apr 1984-Jun 1987

Parliamentary by-elections. Photographs of NK campaigning, at by-elections including Chesterfield [Derbyshire] and Portsmouth [Hampshire].
1 file.

Mar 1984-May 1984

European election campaign. Photographs of NK with candidates, with elected MEPs, and at a rally in Manchester, with Clive Dunn and Bill Owen.
1 file.

Apr 1984-Jul 1984

France. Photograph of NK in a meeting in Paris with Francois Mitterand, President of France, and other [? French Socialist politicians].
1 file.

May 1984

Confederation of the Socialist Parties of EC and GLC. Photographs of NK at the Confederation of European Socialists' leaders' conference, Brussels [Belgium], 1984, the Greater London Council Pensioners' Christmas Cracker, 1985, with Ken Livingstone [Council Leader] and Jack Jones, and [?] the Socialist International Council meeting, Madrid [Spain], 1988.
1 file.

Jun 1984-c 1988

Visit to Hungary.
1 file.

c 1984

Picket lines. Press photographs of mounted police charging protestors during the miners' strike, at Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield [Yorkshire].
1 file.

Jun 1984

Northern Ireland. Press photographs of a Sinn Fein rally, broken up by the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
1 file.

Aug 1984

Visits and events. Photographs including: contact prints of NK at the Harringay Stadium for a greyhound race; NK at an anti-apartheid meeting, 1984; NK visiting a barracks [? in Berlin, Germany, 1986]; clay models of various heads, including a model of NK, 1990; NK with Mikhail Gorbachev; contact prints of NK's visit to Dublin, Ireland, 1996; portraits of NK as a European Commissioner.
1 file.

Apr 1984-Nov 1996

Visits and events. Photographs including: reopening the National Museum of Labour History, 1984 (see also KNNK 26/1/36); NK's visit to the Devonport Dockyards, Plymouth, 1984; visiting a school in Bristol; visiting Oxford University Press, 1985; contact prints of visits to Broadwater Farm, Haringey, London, including the unveiling of a memorial to Cynthia Jarrett, 1986 (see KNNK 19/2/22); opening a leisure park in Birmingham, 1986.
1 file.

Jul 1984-Mar 1987

Slides. Includes: slides of NK and GK in Ethiopia, Tanzania and also meeting Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania, 1985, supplied for use in a Labour Party election pamphlet, 1987 (see KNNK 19/3); slides of NK in his office at Westminster (see 25/13-14); slides of Patricia Hewitt [Press and Broadcasting Secretary to NK].
1 file.

Mar 1985-May 1987

Photographs of NK opening the Rockingham Triangle Sports Stadium, Northamptonshire.
1 file.

Sep 1985

Socialist International Council meeting, Bonn [Germany].
1 file.

Oct 1986

Photographs of Glenys Kinnock. Includes Glenys Kinnock in a miner's helmet and taking part in presenting an anti-apartheid petition.
1 file.

c 1986

Visit to Microbial Technology Group, University of Newcastle.
1 file.

Jan 1987

Visits and events. Photographs including: NK playing in an ensemble with Nerys Hughes; the 1987 Ravenscraig Burns Supper; a visit to Strathclyde, Scotland; contact prints of a visit to Rochester [Kent], 1987; visit to the British Forces Broadcasting Service, 1991.
1 file.

Feb 1987-Feb 1991

1987 General Election: press images. Chiefly Press Association images, with some from Pontypool local press.
1 file.

May 1987-Jun 1987

1987 General Election: press images. Chiefly press images of NK, includes NK playing with a jazz band in Birmingham, a visit to [?] the South Wales Argus, a visit to Bristol and various images of Glenys Kinnock.
1 file.

May 1987-Jun 1987

1987 General Election: press images. Photographs from the Sun of the General Election campaign.
1 file.

Jun 1987

"The world's biggest cracker". Photographs of NK at a [?] charity event, mainly pictured with children.
1 file.

c 1990

Visits and events. Photographs including: NK receiving an honorary degree [?] from the University of Wales; the History of the Guardian party; [?] press images from the 1992 General Election.
1 file.

c 1990-c 1992

Constituency. Photographs from NK's visits to his Islwyn constituency and South Wales generally, including to the Welsh Proms, Blackwood Junior School and also NK conducting Oakdale School band. Also includes a photograph of Robin Cook [Labour health spokesman] with two nurses.
2 files.

Jun 1991-Jan 1992

Visit to Tyrone Crystal. Photographs of NK's visit to Dungannon, County Tyrone [Ulster], with Ken Maginnis [MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone].
1 file.

Dec 1991

Photos of NK, Glenys Kinnock and celebrities including Stephen Fry and Claire Rayner at a Labour Party event.
1 file.

c 1991-c 1992

Michael Foot at 80. Includes photographs of NK, Foot, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, Margaret Beckett, Lord Healey, Baroness Castle and others at a dinner for Michael Foot.
1 file.

Dec 1993

Photos of NK at the launch of the ?UEFA European Football Championship.
1 file.

1996