This project is sponsored by The Foyle Foundation and endeavours to widen access to a wealth of previously unseen social and political heritage. This three year project has produced detailed catalogues of eight political archives, opening up over 500 boxes of previously unseen material on a wide range of topics including:
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the development of UK local government after World War II
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UK administration of World War II
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UK's involvement and entry into Europe
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Conservative Party policy and 'One Nation' conservatism
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advocacy of disability rights.
The catalogues of the following collections have been completed as part of this project and are available via the Archives catalogue| (reference codes to the documents are in brackets):
Andrew Matthew William Faulds|, 1923-2000, politician, actor (FAULDS)
Federal Union, 1938-, and Federal Trust for Education and Research, 1945-| (FEDERAL TRUST)
Geoffrey Finsberg|, 1926-1996, Baron, politician (FINSBERG)
Sir Gilbert James Morley Longden|, 1902-1997, knight, politician (LONGDEN)
Ronald William Gordon Mackay|, 1902-1960, politician (MACKAY)
Sir Andrew McFadyean|, 1887-1974, knight, civil servant (MCFADYEAN)
Alfred Morris|, 1928-, Baron Morris, politician (MORRIS)
John Primatt Redcliffe-Maud|, 1906-1982, Baron, civil servant and diplomat (REDCLIFFE-MAUD)
An exhibition using material from these eight archives is now available online: Foyle Foundation exhibition on Europe and international relations|. The focus of the exhibition is international relations and it features items relating to the European Union, the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
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In the final stage of the project, 24 archival catalogues - including the papers of Bert Oram, Hugh Jenkins, Henry Broadhurst and the North Lambeth Labour Party - will be published and made available on the Archives catalogue|. Each new catalogue will be included on our list of completed catalogues| when it is available online.
To find out about other political archives at LSE see Government and politics|.