The Public Order Bill takes centre-stage amongst these papers, the other papers having a focus upon which MPs were to respond to various Parliamentary debates and motions.

Date:1936-1937
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259D-07
Reports Europe Northern Europe Western Europe Africa Correspondence Minutes Clement Attlee East Africa Spanish Civil War Unemployment Pensions Sir Stafford Cripps Abdication of King Edward VIII Armaments

The two core themes which emerge from these papers are a continuing desire to prevent war through multilateral disarmament and concerns around the Unemployment Assistance Regulations.

Date:1935-1936
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259D-06
Transport Reports Europe Northern Europe Western Europe Africa Middle East Correspondence Minutes Southern Europe Clement Attlee East Africa Registers Spanish Civil War Unemployment George Lansburg Second Italo-Ethiopian War Death of William Adamson

As rearmament continued and the British Air Force was growing, opinion in the Party was divided; such divisions were not limited to Parliamentary Party meetings.

Date:1934-1935
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259D-05
Reports Europe Asia Northern Europe Western Europe South Asia Eastern Europe Print Media Minutes Soviet Asia Winston Churchill Unemployment By-elections Sir Stafford Cripps George Lansburg Aneurin Bevan Baroness Lee of Asheridge (Jennie Lee) Shipwrecks Anglo-German Naval Agreement Co-operative Movement

These records reveal concerns that a Second World War might be on the horizon and describe potential reasons why this might be the case. The rise of Fascism; the defection,...

Date:1933-1934
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259D-04
Housing Trade Unions Reports Europe Asia North America Northern Europe Western Europe South Asia Central Europe Minutes Soviet Asia Clement Attlee Registers the Americas Electoral Reform Miners Unemployment George Lansbury By-elections Disarmament Sir Stafford Cripps Irish Free State Fascism

Subjects discussed in these minutes include a Bill to provide assistance to blind people who wish to vote, political broadcasting with regard to the BBC, and reductions to the size...

Date:1932-1933
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259D-03
Housing Reports Europe Northern Europe Western Europe Central Europe Minutes Registers Unemployment George Lansbury Irish Free State

While these papers contain a focus on Party organisation, discussion of the Irish Duties Bill shines a light on the state of relations between Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Date:1931-1932
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259D-02
Transport Trade Unions Reports Europe Asia Northern Europe Western Europe Correspondence Print Media Minutes East Asia Registers Northeast Asia James Ramsay MacDonald Unemployment George Lansbury Disarmament Sir Stafford Cripps Japanese Invasion of Shanghai Irish Free State

These items cover disarmament and the reduction of UK military forces, alongside Ernest Bevin attending a meeting before his election, and a ruling that Labour MPs who had a moral...

Date:1928-1931
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259D-01
Trade Unions Reports Europe Asia Northern Europe Western Europe South Asia Correspondence Print Media Minutes Registers James Ramsay MacDonald Miners UK Schools Unemployment George Lansbury By-elections Pensions General Election Disarmament Bengal Ordinance Lord Arthur Balfour Sir Oswald Mosley