Identity area
Reference code
4.
Title
Liberal Party papers
Date(s)
- 1983-1989 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 folder (1.25 cm.).
Context area
Name of creator
(1957-)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Original file of letters and other papers relating to the Rainbow Cirle, 1984; Leighton Andrews as the Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate for Gillingham, co. Kent, including relating to the Channel Tunnel and campaigning against the dumping of nuclear waste at MOD Gillingham, 1985-1987; and the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to form the Liberal Democrats, 1987-1988. Includes letters from David Alton, Paddy Ashdown, Frank Field, Clement Freud, Laura Grimond, John Macdonald QC, David Steel and Des Wilson, and a long letter (6 pp.) from David Marquand, 1989. Also Leighton Andrews's staff badge as a member of the Liberal Democrats general election campaign HQ team, [1992?].