| Title |
Official Papers |
| Reference |
F |
| Covering Dates |
1904–68 |
| Extent and Medium |
29 boxe |
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| Trinity/RAB/F contains: |
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F1
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India, General. Folder endorsed 'India General': 2 copies of Attock-on-the-Indus by George Adam Smith, with RAB's first letter to his grandmother, Mary Butler; scale drawing of elevation of mantle clock; programme of Lord and Lady Irwin's visit to Nagpur, 1926; essay on Attock by RAB; 2 silhouette caricatures of Butler family in Central Provinces; printed and typescript reports of 1931 Round Table Conference and Committees; speech notes; various letters and papers on Indian policy including report of meeting with W.S. Morrison, letters from Samuel and Maud Hoare, correspondence with Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, congratulations on House of Commons speech of 29 March 1933 and on leaving India Office, condolences on death of Sir Harcourt Butler in March 1939.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1904–1938 |
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F2
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India, General. One bundle of loose papers; RAB's notes on franchise; note on programme of Indian provincial reforms; 2 pamphlets on the White Paper and reform proposals by Sir John Perronet Thompson; letters from Sir Harcourt Butler giving reasons for refusal to join any committee on India and views on Burma; report of meeting with R.D. Blumenfeld; leaflet explaining Union of Britain and India organisation; correspondence with Sir Claude Hill, Governor of Isle of Man, and others about succession of Sir Montagu Butler to Governorship.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1932–1934 |
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F3
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Correspondence as Under Secretary, India Office, including office memos etc. (F3/4 includes Summaries of scope of Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Reform).
1 fil. |
1932–1937 |
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F4
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'Speeches - India, while Under-Secretary'. Notes and drafts for House of Commons Burma speech of Dec 1934, speeches at Liverpool and Cambridge; India Office internal memos and papers, mainly representations concerning reforms.
1 fil. |
1932–1937 |
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F5
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'Entertaining: Round Table Conference and Joint Select Committee 1933'. Arrangements and guest lists for official functions and also 1936 cocktail party at Stanstead Hall.
1 fil. |
1933–1937 and n.d. |
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F6
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Indian Round Table Conference, 1930-31. Folder labelled 'India', containing general background material for Round Table Conference. Translation of article from Frankfurter Zeitung entitled 'India! The swaying bridge - England's greatest problem', [1929]. Statement of Policy by the Indian Empire Society [1931]. Booklet entitled 'The Daily Mail Blue Book on the Indian Crisis' 1931. Booklet entitled 'Mahatma Gandhi's movement from both sides' by Equity, 1931. Pamphlet entitled 'India. A restatement of Conservative Policy', by Sir Samuel Hoare, 1931. Speech on India given by Sir John Simon in House of Commons, 1931. 'Appreciation of the Indian Situation' by R[obert] J[emmett] S[topford], private secretary to Chairman of Indian Statutory Commission 1928-1930, 1931. Note by G.H. Baxter on Indian financial position, 1931. Letter to RAB from Eleanor Rathbone, enclosing her article in child marriage in India and memo on questions affecting status and welfare of Indian Women, 1931. Note on 'The present situation' in India by Robert Jemmett Stopford, with covering letter to RAB, 1931. Appeal by the Taluqdars of Oudh, [1931]. Note on 'The Indian situation after the second session of the India Round Table Conference' by D. Madhava Rao, [1931]. 'A forecast of the Indian situation next year: Gandhi's attitude on his arrival in India and other consequent developments' by D. Madhara Rao, [1931]..
1 fil. |
[1929], [1931], 1931, 1931–1932 |
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F7
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Indian Round Table Conference, 12 Nov 1930-19 Jan 1931. [First Session] Proceedings. 1931. Cmd 3778.
1 fil. |
1930–1931 |
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F8
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Indian Round Table Conference [Third Session] Proceedings (17 Nov-24 Dec 1932), 1933. Cmd 4238.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F9
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Indian Round Table Conference Unofficial note on the origins of the Round Table Conference by the Information Officer of the India Office, with first summary of [Second Session] proceedings. Third-Seventh summaries of proceedings of Round Table Conference. Ninth-Twelfth summaries of proceedings of Round Table Conference.
1 fil. |
1931 |
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F10
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"R.T.C. 21". Second report of the Minorities Committee to the Second Session of the Round Table Conference. Supplementary statement by Dr B.S. Moonje with reference to Appendix VI of the Second report of the Minorities Committee, with covering note of 24 Nov 1931. Supplementary memorandum by Sir Provash Chunder Mitter on the Communal Question, with reference to Appendix XV of the Second report of the Minorities Committee, with covering note of 24 Nov 1931. Criticism by Raja Narendra Nath of the Pact between Muslims, Depressed Classes, Anglo-Indians and Europeans. To form Appendix XX of the Second report of the Minorities Committee.
1 fil. |
1931 |
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F11
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Indian Round Table Conference. ConferenceComparative statement of the main recommendations of the Simon Commission Report and the Round Table Conference.
1 fil. |
[?Dec 1931] |
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F12
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Indian Round Table Conference. Notes by Sir Manubhai Mehta on railway jurisdiction in States territories and extradition, circulated to Consultative Committee of Round Table Conference.
2 doc. |
1932 |
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F13
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Indian Round Table Conference. Printed copies of letters between Mahatma Gandhi and Sir Samuel Hoare and Ramsay MacDonald about representation of the Depressed Classes and Gandhi's proposed fast to death in Yeravda Central Prison over the issue of communal electorates, together with India Office information pamphlet on the Depressed Classes in India; papers relating to allocation of States' seats.
1 fil. |
1932–1933 |
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F14
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Indian Round Table Conference. Government of India Reforms Office memo on future of the Political Department in a Federated India, in relation to Indian States; another relating to federal finance; Foreign and Political Department recommendations on Report of the Indian States Committee (Financial) 1932; draft telegram from Secretary of State for India to Government of India Foreign and Political Department on Crown's relations with the States in matters outside the federal sphere; India Office internal letter to RAB on projected nature of Instrument of Instructions in relation to Indianisation of the Army.
1 fil. |
1932–1933 |
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F15
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Indian Round Table Conference. Copy of letter from Sir Malcolm Hailey to Sir Findlater Stewart giving his views on the scheme for Federal Constitution.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F16
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Indian Round Table Conference. Note by Dr Burgin on India Cabinet Committee meeting re commercial discrimination, with two attached memos.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F17
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Indian Round Table Conference. India Office internal note on financial reasons for indirect election as given by Simon Report.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F18
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Indian Round Table Conference. Copy speech notes entitled 'Head G and H' for Round Table Conference on problem of the limitations to be imposed on competence of Federal and Provincial Legislatures.
1 fil. |
n.d. |
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F19
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Indian Round Table Conference. Copy letter to Sir Findlater Stewart about proposed powers of the Nizam in Berar.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F20
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Indian Round Table Conference. Suggested replies to questions on commercial representation arising in Round Table discussion.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F21
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Indian Round Table Conference. Printed Cabinet memo and press cutting about the 'Unity' Conference at Allahabad.
2 doc. |
1932 |
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F22
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Indian Round Table Conference. Memo and supplementary note on establishment of Reserve Bank for India; two notes on treatment in India of professional men having qualifications entitling them to practise in the U.K.; two papers on the distribution of powers in India.
6 doc. |
1932 |
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F23
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Indian Round Table Conference. Record of a meeting between States representatives and representatives of His Majesty's Government: covers State Courts, disaffection, oath of allegiance, extradition, citizenship and railway jurisdiction.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F24
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Indian Round Table Conference. Memo form the Princes embodying safeguards approved as being essential to their interests in an All-India Federation, with note by Sir Maurice Gwyer on same.
2 doc. |
1932–1933 |
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F25
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Indian Round Table Conference. Extracts from various countries' constitutional laws, circulated by Secretary of Round Table Conference Consultative Committee.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F26
|
Indian Round Table Conference. Report of the Tribunal on certain questions in regard to defence expenditure on dispute between the Government of India, the War Office and the Air Ministry.
1 fil. |
1933 |
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F27
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Indian Round Table Conference Memorandum on Fundamental Rights, probably by Sir Maurice Gwyer, as set out by Consultative Committee of Round Table Conference.
1 fil. |
1932–1933 |
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F28
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Indian Round Table Conference. Explanatory notes on the Third Session of the Round Table Conference, position of the Government on 'essential safeguards' to be embodied in future Indian constitution, debate in House of Commons on Sir Henry Page Croft's Indian Resolution, next stage of India discussions.
4 doc. |
[c.1932/1933] |
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F29
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Indian Round Table Conference. Material for House of Commons speeches answering Labour criticism of Third Round Table Conference procedure, absence of a transitory period in the White Paper, possible disappearance of anti-Congress nature of Federal Upper House, proposed amendments to Sam Hoare's Motion to appoint a Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform; Lord Zetland's criticisms that Governor-General would be overworked and that Viceroy would be drawn into party politics.
4 doc. |
n.d. [early 1933] |
|
F30
|
Indian Franchise Committee 1 'Bombay'. Printed and typescript working papers of IFC, including Report of the Government of Bombay on the Questionnaire of the IFC, statistics of population and franchise taken from censuses, written statements on the Questionnaire from private bodies and individuals, opinions of the Collectors on the group system of indirect voting, note on procedure of an election to the Bombay Legislative Council, various notes by individual Indians and organisations, report of the Provincial Franchise Committee on the Questionnaire, copy letters between Reforms Officer to Government of Bombay and IFC.
1 fil. |
1932 |
|
F31
|
Indian Franchise Committee 2 'Central Provinces and Berar' [not visited by IFC]. Similar file, including views on Report of the Indian Statutory Commission of 1930.
1 fil. |
1930–1932 |
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F32
|
Indian Franchise Committee 3 'Madras'. Including Madras Government pamphlet on the working of the Legislatures and the franchise 1928, circulars to election officials on polling procedures in Madras 1930, Report of the Committee on the method of ballot for Ceylon 1930 and additional note, memo of the grievances of the Ventatagiri Zamindari Ryots in relation to proposed amendment of Madras Estates Land Act of 1908.
1 fil. |
1928, 1930, 1932 |
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F33
|
Indian Franchise Committee 4 'Bengal'. Instructions to Presiding and Polling Officers 1930, suggestions by Professor J.B. Raju on the Indian franchise Question 1931, pamphlet by R.N. Gilchrist, Government of Bengal, Commerce Department, on Indian Labour and the Land.
1 fil. |
1930, 1931, 1932 |
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F34
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Indian Franchise Committee 5 'Assam'. Note on the system of franchise in Local Boards 1930. Dinner invitation from Sardar Ujjal Singh, Lahore, forms the base of folder.
1 fil. |
c.1930–1932 |
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F35
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Indian Franchise Committee 6 'Bihar and Orissa'.
1 fil. |
|
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F36
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Indian Franchise Committee 7 'United Provinces of Agra and Oudh'. Royal Commission on Indian Labour: supplementary memo from Government of United Provinces 1930, time table of IFC train from Lucknow to New Delhi, agenda of IFC for 18 March, instructions for Presiding or Polling Officers 1930, annual reports on the working of the Trade Unions Act in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 1929-1931.
1 fil. |
1930–1932 |
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F37
|
Indian Franchise Committee 8 'Punjab'. The Sikh Gurdwaras election rules 1925 (printed 1929), memos giving views of Government of Punjab on the recommendation of the Indian Statutory Commission 1930, annual reports on the working of the Indian Factories Act and the Indian Trade Unions Act 1926 in the Punjab, memos prepared for the use of the Indian Statutory Commission including details of franchise and electorate, catalogue of pictures, documents and all other objects of interest in the Punjab Government Record Office, IFC agenda for 4 April.
1 fil. |
1929–1932 |
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F38
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Indian Franchise Committee 9 'Delhi'. Note on the representation of Labour in India by N.M. Joshi, general note on military service as a qualification for the vote. Series of memos submitted by national bodies with an Ind. Ref. No., including All India Depressed Classes Association, Anglo-Indian and Domiciled European Association, All-India Cantonments Association, National Liberal Federation of India, the Hindu Mahasabha.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F39
|
Indian Franchise Committee 10. 'North West Frontier Province' Summary of legislative arrangements in Coorg, Delhi and Ajmere-Merwara, lists of members of NWFP Franchise Committee, electoral rules and papes relating to first Legislative Council elections, precis of meetings of IFC 7-23 March 1932, memo presented to Indian Statutory Commission on the system of administration in the NWFP, Survey of India tables for NWFP giving statistics for population, occupations, religion, education, race, language etc., The Khyber Mail for 11 April 1932.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F40
|
Indian Franchise Committee 11 'References, Questionnaire etc.'. A summary of the more salient facts respecting the status and conditions of Indian women and of some of the proposals for improving and safe-guarding their well-being [incomplete] by the Hon. Mary Pickford, Who's Who of IFC and six of the Provincial Franchise Committees, Indian constitutional reform: memo on policy the Council of the European Association, draft constitution of the Indian Trades Union Federation, summary of proceedings of the Round Table Conference 2-7 1931, Third Report of the Federal Structure Sub-Committee to Round Table Conference No 1931, statement by the Prime Minister, J. Ramsay MacDonald, at the conclusion of the Second Session of the Round Table Conference 1 Dec 1931 (Command Paper 3972), copy letter from Prime Minister to Marquess of Lothian communicating H.M. Government's wishes regarding work of Franchise Committee, notes by J.G. Laithwaite giving population of major Indian provinces and percentage of rural and urban voters to total population of Provincial Legislative Council [two versions], three copies of IFC Questionnaire, two with additional questions on extension of franchise, memo on village panchayats, notes on electoral systems of Egypt, Turkey, Iraq and Palestine, memo on women's franchise submitted to IFC by National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, precis of proceedings of IFC meetings 1 Feb 1932-4 March 1932, note by Miss Eleanor Rathbone giving her impressions on women's franchise and political status, copy telegram from Secretary of State for India to the Viceroy soliciting views of Provincial Governments on size of Provincial Legislatures and allied matters, with copy reply from the Punjab.
1 fil. |
c.1929–1932 |
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F41
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Indian Franchise Committee 12 'Immediate reference'. RAB's brief ms. notes on arguments against group voting and for a Second Chamber, note on percentage of voters to population (see also above), printed extracts from official documents with a note on franchise by the secretary to the Provincial Franchise Committee of Bihar and Orissa? Intended for use by Bihar and Orissa Committee, memo to IFC from the Proportional Representation Society, note by Miss Eleanor Rathbone (as above), note on women's franchise by the Hon. Mary Pickford, note by Miss Eleanor Rathbone (another copy above).
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1932 |
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F42
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Indian Franchise Committee 13. Uncorrected proofs of verbatim proceedings of IFC meetings 23-4 Feb, 7-15 March, extracts from precis of IFC meeting of 14 March.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F43
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Indian Franchise Committee 14. Views of Punjab Government on points referred by IFC for further consideration, note on proposals about women, notes by J.A. Dawson of Shillong on method of calculating an electorate of 15 per cent of the population and how elections could be conducted with a 15 per cent electorate, note on percentage of population recommended for enfranchisement by local governments and Provincial Franchise Committees, memo by the Hon. Mary Pickford on women's franchise and representation, uncorrected proof of verbatim proceedings of IFC meeting 23-30 March, stray page of statistics for NWFP, part of N.696 relating to depressed classes in Bengal and Bihar and Orissa. This folder originally contained a number of numbered notes relating to specific provinces which have been transferred to their respective files: details on the folders.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1932 |
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F44
|
Indian Franchise Committee. The Romanes Lecture 1912: Lord Chatham as an orator by Henry Montagu Butler, official report of House of Commons debates 5 March 1931, including statement on end of Civil Disobedience in India, report of the Proportional Representation Society 1930-1 on Parliament and electoral reform, pamphlet The cause of Indian unrest by Brig. Gen. F.D. Frost, Labour Gazettes published by Government of Bombay Nov 1931, Feb 1932, annual report 1930-1 on the working of the Indian Trade Unions Act (1926) for the Bombay Presidency, official report of Bombay Legislative Council debates 14 March 1932, including resolution on moral franchise, president's address by S. Ujjal Singh at the Sikh Political Conference, Lahore 1932, proofs of written answers to Franchise Committee Questionnaire from Bengal, precis of IFC meetings 30 March 1932-8 April 1932, proofs of oral evidence before IFC Lahore 1 April 1932, 'The R.T.C. Farce' and other articles reprinted from The Indian Daily Telegraph.
1 fil. |
1912, 1931–1932 |
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F45
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Indian Franchise Committee. Folder endorsed Electoral Reform. Copy of the Representation of the People Bill (No.2) Jan 1931, typescript notes on various clauses of the Bill, with RAB's annotations relating to Indian voting methods, various papers from groups favouring retention of University Representation, two House of Commons order papers, stray page from West India Committee Circular giving world's sugar crop estimates.
1 fil. |
1930–1931 |
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F46
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Indian Franchise Committee. Uncorrected proofs, written answers to Questionnaire, oral evidence 16-18 Feb 1932 Bengal, written answers and evidence 29 Feb 1932-4 March 1932 Madras, written answers Central Provinces, note on Second Chambers by C.Y. Chinatamani, statistical table of literacy of women by race, note on representation of Labour to be inserted into draft chapter on Federal Legislature (annotated by RAB), draft chapter of IFC Report on multi-member and single member constituencies (annotated by RAB).
9 bundle. |
1932 |
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F47
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Indian Franchise Committee. Typescript and printed notes, some relating to specific provinces, typescript and printed drafts of chapters of IFC Report, with RAB's annotations, agenda papers etc. Some duplication. Includes abstract of all written evidence. Left as found. Not in date order.
1 fil. |
1930, 1932 |
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F48
|
Indian Franchise Committee. Typescript and printed notes and drafts as above. Includes abstract of views on composition of future Provincial Legislature, precis of evidence given at Lucknow 19-21 March 1932, RAB's note on reasons for a Second Chamber in the Provinces of British India. Left as found.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1932 |
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F49
|
Indian Franchise Committee. 6 visiting cards, n.d., Hotel room notice requesting guests of lock up valuables, n.d., Indian Posts and Telegraph Department, 8 unused forms A1 for inland telegrams, 3 unused forms A1 for inland telegrams Account by RAB of Punjab Government Cattle Farm, Hissar, List of addresses and telephone numbers of members of the Indian Franchise Committee in Simla, Letter to RAB from A. Rangaswami Iyengar, enclosing a reprint from The Hindu of a lecture given by him on 1932 on 'Indian Federal Finance' 1932, Note, probably by Punjabi officials, about the communal question, Note by the Muslim members of the Franchise Committee (printed in the draft report), L1 I[ndian] F[ranchise] C[ommittee] (WOP): memoranda received in answer to a Franchise Committee Questionnaire. Appear to be related to the Punjab, 1932, Draft of Report of Indian Franchise Committee (Chapter IX and Appendixes I-IV and VI wanted) Various L and Lc code nos, IFC (WOP), Minute of dissent by Messrs S.B. Tambe, C.Y. Chintamani and R.R. Bakhale, Government House, Central Provinces, tennis list for the day. Players include the Governor, Sir Montagu Butler and R.A. Butler.
1 fil. |
n.d., [1927], [1930],1930, 1932 |
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F50
|
Report of the Indian Franchise Committee, 1932. Vol. I. Cmd 4086.
1 fil. |
1932 |
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F51
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional. Reform Pamphlets and memoranda. Includes H.S.L. Polak, Mr Gandhi's arrest and the events leading up to it (1932), notes on the Poona Pact (Removed from spring-back file).
1 fil. |
1932–1934 |
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F52
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional. Reform Memoranda and notes. Mostly re law and order, policing, Governor's anti-terrorist powers and functions of Secretaries and Head of Departments in a Provincial Government (Removed from spring-back file, label of which is illegible due to silverfish damage).
1 fil. |
1933–1934 |
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F53
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Notes, papers and memoranda. Mainly re 'relation of the Centre to the Provinces' and financial implications of federal autonomy (Removed from spring-back file).
1 fil. |
1933–1934 and n.d. |
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F54
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Government of India Finance Department memorandum on Federal finance for discussion by JSC; JSC memorandum on financial implications of (1) Provincial autonomy and (2) Federation.
2 doc. |
1933 |
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F55
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Notes and memoranda (some duplicated elsewhere) including about scope of discussions of JSC, seats in the Federal Legislature, bicameral legislature, finance, secondary election, Berar, Sind and Orissa, corruption and oppression, and composition of the Central Government of India; notes prepared for RAB's use of JSC; RAB's ms. notes on proceedings; report of proceedings 12 Oct 1933 relating to Burma; Vol. I of Report of JSC (Nov 1933) giving summarised minutes; drafts for and copies of unofficial press releases on publication of Report (21 Nov 1934) giving summaries of the history of the JSC, contents of Report etc.
1 bundl. |
n.d. and 1933–1934 |
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F56
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Official notes and memoranda on terrorism in India, procedure of House of Commons in approving the Instruments of Instructions and financial safeguards.
1 bundl. |
1033–1934 |
|
F57
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Note on Provincial franchise proposals, particularly women votes, views of Indian Local Governments on White Paper proposals relating to women's franchise, plus JSC and analysis of same, memo by Begum Shah Nawaz on women's franchise, copy telegrams between India Office and Government of India Reforms Department on franchise schedules to Government of India Bill.
1 bundl. |
[n.d., c.1933]-1935 |
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F58
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Notes on Federal franchise and election procedure and representations, including suggestions of Sir Mirza Ismail, restrictions on legislative power and distribution of seats, note on railways accounts, note of dissent by Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas on Indian Reserve Bank legislation, memoranda by Lord Rankeillour on Relations of the two Houses of the Federal Legislature in regard to supply, note on relations between Provincial and Federal Legislatures.
1 bundl. |
n.d. and 1933–1934 |
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F59
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Note by E.P. Donaldson of the Political Department, India Office, on French possessions in India, with covering note to RAB.
1 fil. |
1933 |
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F60
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Notes and memoranda about powers to make constitutional changes, the separation of Burma, commercial discrimination, financial machinery of government. RAB's note at front lists contents as 'Exploitation of Burma, future Ottawa agreement and fiscal autonomy of both'.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1933–1934 |
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F61
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Estimated balance sheet of Federal Government.
1 fil. |
[n.d., c.1934] |
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F62
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Minutes of second - eighth meetings with delegates.
1 bundl. |
1933 |
|
F63
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Minutes of the day's proceedings before the JSC, relating to Federal finance.
1 fil. |
1933 |
|
F64
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Extract from discussions with delegates.
1 fil. |
1933 |
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F65
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Discussions of the JSC [equivalent of Minutes].
3 doc. |
1933 |
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F66
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. RAB's manuscript notebook recording discussions of JSC.
1 fil. |
1933–1934 |
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F67
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Proposals for Indian Constitutional Reform [White Paper] Cmd 4268.
1 fil. |
1933 |
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F68
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Minutes of evidence [session 1932-3], vol. IIB.
1 fil. |
1934 |
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F69
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. [session 1933-4], vol. I (Part I). Report [given to Sydney Butler by RAB].
1 fil. |
1934 |
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F70
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Booklet by Sir John Perronet Thompson India: the White Paper.
1 fil. |
1933 |
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F71
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Booklet by Sir Adrian Baillie, Victor Cazalet, Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, A.W.H. James and Mark Patrick, India from a Back Bench..
1 fil. |
1934 |
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F72
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Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Booklet by Sir Henry Lawrence, The Indian White Paper: an Address ... to the India Parliamentary Committee ... 16 April 1934..
1 fil. |
1934 |
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F73
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Odd press cuttings, India Office internal memos and correspondence about Sir John Thompson's pamphlet supporting Indian Reforms, plus arrangements for publication of White Paper etc.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1933–1934 |
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F74
|
Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. India Office papers re Indian views at Birmingham Conservative Party Conference, lists of members/supporters of U.B.I. publicity leaflets, ms. Of article by Mark Patrick, M.P., for Daily Telegraph, scheme for periodical to put Government view on India, list of members of Indian Empire Society June 1933, controversy over House of Commons speech by RAB 1 March 1934. Reports from Owen Tweedy, Secretary of U.B.I., to India office on its activities at local level, especially in East Anglia; papers revealing India Office involvement in U.B.I.; arrangements for dinner including U.B.I. members to celebrate passing of India Bill July 1935.
1 bundl. |
1933–1935 |
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F75
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Ministry of Labour. 'Opening of new rope works at Leith of British Ropes Ltd. By Parliamentary Secretary ...', press cuttings and 2 internal memos re Parliamentary Labour Committee.
1 fil. |
1937 |
|
F76
|
Ministry of Labour. 'Visit of the Parliamentary Secretary to Lancashire 10th and 11th February', programme of tour, correspondence re travel and meeting arrangements, notes for speeches. Also Ministry of labour news summaries and press cuttings [see RAB E1 for correspondence].
1 fil. |
1937–1938 |
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F77
|
Foreign Affairs. Folder entitled 'Interesting papers 1935-1940'. Letter of thanks from Reginald I.R. Glancy, copy 'letter' to Stalin from Anandi Prasad?, internal Foreign Office minute from RAB re article critical of Neville Chamberlain attributed to Duff Cooper (copy article attached).
3 doc. |
1936–1940 |
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F78
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Foreign Office. Semi-official sub-file labelled 'Sir H[enry] Gidney' re proposed Anglo-Indian colony near Patna.
1 fil. |
1938 |
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F79
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Foreign Office. Folder endorsed 'odd Foreign Office papers'. General, including statement on Anglo-Italian agreement and letters from British Ambassador in Rome, League of Nations and India by RAB, RAB's account of meeting with Egyptian Ambassador, copy correspondence with Halifax re P.P.S., 'Prussianism' in Germany, family, last letter to Michael Brabourne, printed Government memos re Soviet Union, Lady Butler, North America, speech by Hitler, account of recent events in Germany (April 1938) by E.W.D. Tennant, few early Board of Education papers.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1938–1941 |
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F80
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Foreign Office. RAB's folder of personal 'records' labelled 'F. O. papers', descriptions by RAB of the Palestine Conference, life at Stanstead Hall and character studies of Lord Halifax and Sir Horace Wilson [also in G11], description of social life of British official in Rome at time of Anglo-Italian agreement April 1938 [author unknown], office memos and notes, personal letters including one from E.W.D. Tennant giving details of his friendship with von Ribbentrop, text of lectures on American characteristics by J.B.
1 fil. |
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F81
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Foreign Office. Folder endorsed 'very sundry'. Proof for Armaments and Policy 1919-1939, copy speech by Adolf Hitler 28 April 1939, various articles on British policy, including two appreciations of events by Lord Hankey; notes on 'The end of economic man' by Peter Drucker; 'Why Great Britain cannot cut herself off from the Continent' by Professor A.J. Toynbee.
1 fil. |
1939–1941 and n.d. |
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F82
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Foreign Office. File endorsed 'Miss Godley Pre Education period'. Papers and speeches on wartime issues and national aims, including post-war aims group.
1 fil. |
1940 and n.d. |
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F83
|
Foreign Office. Personal correspondence, including M.P.s. Kenneth Clark re future State support of arts, letters to Archie James indicating RAB's interest in a Scottish estate, copy letter to James Stuart re Party Committees, copy Prime Minister's statement on downfall of Mussolini, draft (not sent) to Clement Attlee re Indian situation, RAB's account of latter part of Basil Dufferin's life, account of Dr Weizmann of process of educational reform, memo on Foreign Affairs Committee of Post-War Problems, speech notes for RAB at luncheon in honour of Russian Orthodox Church delegation, odd page of poems.
1 fil. |
1940–1945 |
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F84
|
Foreign Office. Modern copies of Foreign Office Registry papers, parts of files only. Referred to by volume and document numbers. Very few originally annotated by RAB. Largely concerned with international attitudes, e.g. Anglo-Polish relations, Soviet attitude to Czechoslovakia, Anglo-Jugoslav relations (perhaps obtained by RAB for preparation of a lecture/article).
6 bundle. |
1938 |
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F85
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Ghana Independence Celebrations. Detailed programme of visit by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, menus and official programmes of functions including opening of Parliament, draft for broadcast by RAB, texts of speeches by others, information on Gold Coast .
1 folde. |
n.d. and 1957 |
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F86
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Central Africa Office. Papers re Rhodesias and Nyasaland: copy telegrams, Constitution as in 1959, Command Papers etc., advisers' proposals of c. Aug 1962 for constitutional change, press cuttings. Telegrams re honorary degree for Sir James Robertson, Governor-General in Nigeria.
1 fil. |
1959–1963 |
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F87
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Central Africa Office. Pamphlet - The progress of Africans in Southern Rhodesia, records of seminar on 'The human factor in rural development in the Federation' organised by Rhodesian Institute of Management.
1 fil. |
1959–1962 |
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F88
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Central Africa Office. File entitled 'Central Africa: Home Secretary's conference with High Commission and Governors March 1962, substantive agreed documents'. Records of proceedings, papers on functions of proposed constitutional mission to Nyasaland, minute to Prime Minister re Nyasaland plan.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F89
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Central Africa Office. Folder of copy telegrams re African affairs, largely incoming from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F90
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Central Africa Office. File entitled Secretary of State: briefs for visit to Central Africa, May 1962. Prepared by C.A.O., index at front. Covers Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, General and Federal.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F91
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Central Africa Office. Further briefs for the Secretary of State's visit to Central Africa. Programme for Salisbury visit, letter on loan for African education, brief on economic association in Central Africa.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F92
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Central Africa Office. File entitled 'Visit to Nyasaland of the Secretary of State: briefs and programme'. Index at front, briefs mainly biographical, some additional notes.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F93
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Central Africa Office. Lists of guests and notes for visit to Zomba, Nyasaland.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F94
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Central Africa Office. Folder of briefs for Northen Rhodesia visit. Index at front, briefs on various aspects of elections and political parties, some additional notes.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F95
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Central Africa Office. Tour papers, including itineraries, briefs and memos, notes for speeches and press conference, news cuttings.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F96
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Central Africa Office. Assessment of political situation on RAB's return from Africa by Paul Channon.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F97
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Central Africa Office. 'Correspondence and papers Mary-July 1962'. General file re Central Africa, including correspondence, copy telegrams, statements and memos.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F98
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Central Africa Office. 'Correspondence and papers Aug-Dec 1962'. General files as above, plus report of Nyasaland constitutional conference.
1 fil. |
1962–1963 |
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F99
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Central Africa Office. Press releases, Rhodesian newspaper cuttings, copy telegrams from January visit and Victoria Falls Conference, draft note on future of Federation.
1 fil. |
1963 |
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F100
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Central Africa Office. Accounts by RAB of talks with Roy Welensky and of Rhodesian situation in general, 3 personal letters of support, 2 from Paul Channon, article on RAB from Wall Street Journal.
1 fil. |
1963 |
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F101
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Central Africa Office. 'Engagements 1964'. Detailed list of public and some private appointments on a daily basis.
1 fil. |
1964 |
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F102
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Central Africa Office. Mrs Butler's file of correspondence and information re trip to Washington, Tokyo and Manila, including details of RAB's itinerary.
1 fil. |
1964 |
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F103
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Board of Education. Education Bill, draft clauses and schedules, 1st-16th drafts.
1 fil. |
1943 |
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F104
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Education Bill, financial memorandum.
1 fil. |
1943 |
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F105
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Education Bill as amended in Committee, arrangement of clauses, including Lords amendments.
1 fil. |
1944 |
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F106
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Education Act, 1944. 7 and 8 Geo. 6. Ch. 31.
2 doc. |
[1944] |
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F107
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Draft bill to amend and supplement the law relation to education ...
1 do. |
1945 |
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F108
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Summary of events between White Paper and Education Bill, July - Dec 1943, with copies of relevant documents forming appendices.
1 fil. |
1944 |
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F109
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Board of Education. Educational reconstruction. 1943. Cmd 6458. Board of Education. Education Bill. Explanatory memorandum. 1943. Cmd 6492. Scottish Education Department. Training of teachers. 1946. Cmd 6723.
1 fil. |
1943 |
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F110
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Board of Education. Abolition of tuition feeds in grant-aided secondary schools, special report of Committee on Public Schools ... 1943. Board of Education. The public schools and the general education system, report of Committee on Public Schools ... 1944.
1 fil. |
1943, 1944 |
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F111
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Education Act, 1946. 9 and 10 Geo. 6 Ch. 50.
1 do. |
1946 |
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F112
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Bernard Partridge, Punch magazine: 'The new boy', cartoon adapted as dinner invitation.
2 item. |
1945 |
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F113
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U.N. Information Organisation: Allied plan for education, the story of the Conference of Allied Ministers of Education. 1945.
1 do. |
1945 |
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F114
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Further education, the scope and content of its opportunities under the Education Act, 1944. Ministry of Education pamphlet no. 8. 1946.
1 do. |
1946 |
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F115
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Folder labelled Education General 1950. Committee papers, correspondence, memoranda, speech notes, pamphlets and press cuttings re voluntary schools, educational finance and teachers' salaries.
1 fil. |
1949–1950 |
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F116
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Education - R.C. schools 1951 and later. Leaflets, copy correspondence, notes and press cuttings re voluntary schools, particularly Roman Catholic, and general election policy.
1 fil. |
1951 |
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F117
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Education papers post-1944. Largely pamphlets, memos and copies of Command Papers, including article by RAB on future of Technical Colleges, RAB's messages to first issue of The Essex Teacher and to The Rayoneer (as Chairman of Courtaulds Central Education Committee). Correspondence and papers re proposed block grant funding of local authorities.
1 fil. |
1943–1957 |
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F118
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Rough copy of M.A. thesis entitled 'Dual system reform (in England and Wales): 1941-1944', by Marjorie A. Travis (later Cruickshank). Includes ms. Redrafts of certain sections. Utilises Ministry of Education files and RAB's personal archive.
1 fil. |
1949 |
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F119
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Galley proofs of book by Marjorie Cruickshank (neé Travis), to which RAB wrote foreword, correspondence re same. Galley proofs of book by Marjorie Cruickshank (neé Travis), to which RAB wrote foreword, correspondence re same.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F120
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Lady Rhys Williams's tax reform scheme. Copies of her memos on the scheme, Board of Inland Revenue's memo no. 10 on Liberal Party scheme and others association with it including Rhys Williams, Conservative Parliamentary Finance Committee brief on financial and economic situation.
1 fil. |
1951 |
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F121
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Commonwealth Economic Conference. Arrangements for a reception given by the Chancellor on 11 Dec 1952, largely lists of prospective guests.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1952 |
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F122
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Commonwealth Finance Ministers Conference, Jan 1954. Copy of communique issued by Conference at Sydney, Australia, copy inward telegrams to Commonwealth Relations Office re Conference and press reaction, printed Commonwealth Relations Office despatches re Conference and RAB's visit to India on way home, letter from RAB to Sir Michael Adeane, Queen's Assistant Private Secretary, re Australia, personal letters received during Conference.
1 fil. |
1953–1954 |
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F123
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Folder entitled 'Agriculture and the Common Market'. Correspondence and notes, including items on Berlin crisis and implications of signing Treaty of Rome for Commonwealth Free Entry. Cabinet Office papers European Economic Association Committee, The Common Market and U.K. food and agriculture E.Q.(61)14; EEC, The implications of signing the Treaty of Rome: food and agriculture E.Q.(61)17; EEAC, Commonwealth Free Entry E.Q.(61)18.
1 fil. |
1961 |
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F124
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'Common Market (agriculture) miscellaneous pamphlets, speeches, etc. 1961-2'.
1 fil. |
1957–1963 |
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F125
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Committee for the Protection of Coloured Women in the Crown Colonies [unofficial all-party parliamentary, RAB secretary]. File includes papers of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society of which RAB was a committee member, with correspondence of 1948 about material for a biography of Eleanor Rathbone.
1 fil. |
1929–1931 [1948] |
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F126
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Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Meeting papers for Executive Committee (RAB stood down, April 1957), annual reports, copy of Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth, vol. XXXVII, no. 1, Jan 1956, calendar of background papers available from Conservative Commonwealth Council.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1953–1958 |
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F127
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House of Commons papers. Papers on procedure, motions and general circulars from clubs etc.
1 fil. |
1962 |
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F128
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House of Commons papers. papers on procedure, Inter-Party Union, Hansard Society, club circulars etc.
1 fil. |
1963–1964 |
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F129
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Machinery of Government Bill. Background material on the second Reading, 19 Nov 1964 [Hansard, 5th series, vol. 702, cols 735-40]. Copy of Bill, Conservative Research Department material, ms. Notes.
1 fil. |
n.d. and 1964 |
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F130
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Stansted Airport. Papers concerned with opposition to siting the third London airport at Stansted, including Report of the Inquiry into local objections, White Paper The third London airport, documents produced by pressure groups including the Stansted Working Party and the North-West Essex and East Herts. Preservation Society, papers re case for Foulness, text of Anglia TV programme, copy of The Stansted affair by Olive Cook, press cuttings. Relates to speech in House of Lords, 11 Dec 1967 [Hansard, 5th series, vol. CCLXXXVII, House of Lords, cols 904-11].
1 fil. |
1964–1968 |
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