Minutes of the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1958-1969

International relations form a core part of these items, from reaction to the Hola Massacre in Kenya; to racial tensions and their impact upon the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland;...

Pages:252
Date:1958-1959
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259G-01
Europe 1950s Northern Europe Western Europe Southern Africa East Africa Statistics Print Media Minutes Reports Ledgers Registers Diaries 1959 1958 UK Schools Mau Mau Uprising Nuclear Weapons Hola Massacre Harold Wilson Herbert Morrison Hugh Gaitskell

These papers explore issues including the UK entering the European Union; German re-armament, and the relations between different bodies within the Labour Party under the Party's Constitution.

Pages:318
Date:1959-1960
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259G-02
Europe 1950s Northern Europe Western Europe Speeches Cold War Africa 1960s Southern Africa Southern Europe East Africa The Balkans Housing Public Health Statistics Pamphlets Print Media Minutes Reports Flyers/Posters Registers Diaries Correspondence 1959 1960 Miners By-elections General Election German Rearmament Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Disarmament Cyprus Emergency (Greek Cypriot War of Independence) Monckton Commission Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Blue Streak Missile Six Bells Colliery Disaster European Common Market Harold Wilson Aneurin Bevan Hugh Gaitskell Barbara Castle

Issues explored in these papers include a detailed call for NATO reform; the impact of land price deregulation; and a Government motion on House of Lords reform.

Pages:303
Date:1960-1961
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259G-03
Europe Asia North America Northern Europe Western Europe Latin America Speeches Cold War The Caribbean Eastern Europe West Africa Soviet Asia The Americas 1960s Southern Africa East Africa Southeast Asia Maghreb Transport Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Housing Statistics Pamphlets Minutes Reports Registers Diaries Correspondence 1960 1961 UK Schools Public Ownership National Insurance Reform of House of Lords Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Disarmament European Common Market Algerian War of Independence (Algerian Revolution) Motor Car Industry Newspaper Industry Independence of Sierra Leone Laotian Civil War 1960 Laotian Coups Bay of Pigs Invasion Angolan War of Independence Tax Avoidance Hugh Gaitskell Frank Cousins

Warfare and trade were core concerns in these years and those concerns are reflected in these papers. Discussions upon warfare include official policies on nuclear non-proliferation and a more equal...

Pages:264
Date:1961-1962
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259G-04
Europe Asia North America Northern Europe Western Europe Speeches Cold War Africa Eastern Europe Soviet Asia The Americas 1960s Southern Africa East Africa Central Africa Statistics Pamphlets Trade Unions Minutes Reports Ledgers Registers Diaries Immigration 1961 1962 Miners Unemployment Ports and Docks Pensions Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Disarmament Monckton Commission Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland European Common Market Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 Strikes Congo Crisis Commitee of 100 Hugh Gaitskell George Brown

These items discuss the effect of the Commonwealth Immigrants' Bill relative to the status of European Migrants; the questions raised by the death of a British serviceman in Vietnam, and...

Pages:111
Date:1963-1964
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259G-05
Europe Northern Europe Western Europe Cold War Africa The Americas 1960s Southern Africa East Africa South America Housing Statistics Minutes Reports Ledgers Registers Diaries Correspondence Immigration 1963 1964 Pensions General Election Nuclear Weapons Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 Policing Polaris Apartheid Typhoid James Callaghan Harold Wilson George Brown

Concerns explored in these papers include nuclear non-proliferation talks between NATO and Russia; iron and steel nationalisation; housing supply and house pricing.

Pages:126
Date:1964-1965
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259G-06
Europe Asia North America Northern Europe Western Europe Cold War Africa Eastern Europe Soviet Asia The Americas 1960s Southern Africa Southeast Asia Housing Minutes Reports Registers Correspondence 1964 1965 Nationalisation Public Ownership Pensions Nuclear Weapons Tax Avoidance Polaris Corporation Tax Vietnam War Harold Wilson

Among concerns about the confidentiality of meetings, when contents were being leaked to the press, were discussions upon whether the Government should continue to have military personnel to the 'East...

Pages:101
Date:1965-1966
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259G-07
Europe Asia North America Northern Europe Western Europe Speeches Cold War Eastern Europe Soviet Asia The Americas 1960s Southeast Asia Statistics Print Media Minutes Reports Registers Michael Foot 1966 Vietnam War Military Bases Edward Heath

These papers include the 1966 Labour Party Constitution; a discussion on entry to the European Common Market; concerns around the value of sterling; policy with regard to Greece following its...

Pages:281
Date:1966-1967
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre
Identifier:73259G-08
Europe Asia Northern Europe Western Europe Cold War Africa Middle East Eastern Europe Soviet Asia 1960s Southern Africa Southern Europe East Africa Southeast Asia Transport Gulf States Public Health Statistics Pamphlets Trade Unions Minutes Reports Ledgers Correspondence Michael Foot 1966 1967 Gibraltar Unemployment Public Ownership Civil Aviation Reform of House of Lords Nuclear Weapons European Common Market Vietnam War Militant Tendency (Militant) British Forces in Germany Committee of Inquiry on Demical Currency (Halsbury Committee) Decimal Currency Stansted Airport Aden Emergency