ICS Elections Project -CATALOGUING IN PROGRESS PLEASE CONTACT ARCHIVES@FXPLUS.AC.UK This Collection includes newscuttings and election propaganda relating to the 1979 and 1983 General Elections in Cornwall and intervening years collected by The Institute of Cornish Studies. Materials are largely organised by election year and then mostly by constituency with some non-constituency specific files where appropriate. Specific topics covered by press cuttings include: boundary changes, English immigration and second homes, high unemployment, closure of Falmouth ship yard, and the rise and criticism of the Social Democratic Party in Cornwall. Examples of campaign flyers - listed below - are included by constituency. Please note that some files seem to be absent on deposit. St Ives constituency is not represented in the 1979 sequence, and only Truro and North Cornwall are present for 1983. It is unclear if these materials were collected at and subsequenlty lost. Some evidence for these absent constituencies are available through other files. Box 1 (1979): - Cornwall Liberal and Labour materials c.1976-1982 Includes: candidate flyers, internal letters re new candidates, resurrecting branches, newsletter, agenda for Cornwall County Labour Party manifesto conference Nov 1982, Minutes of Truro Labour party General Management committee. - Press cuttings from 1979 General Election, not constituency specific Includes: materials relating to 1979 winners, election build up, Tony Benn visits Cornwall, election same day as district council elections, National Front candidates - General Election 1979 - Falmouth and Camborne Includes: An Werryn election special, candidate flyers for Tebbut, Nigel Knowles (Labour), Liberal flyer, Len Truan (Mebyon Kernow), press clippings re: election build up and results, proposed closure of Falmouth ship yard, proposed SDP party - General Election 1979 - North Cornwall Includes: candidate flyers for Rod Tremlett (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Labour newsletter, press clippings re: Newquay taxi legislation, 'Overspill' English migration to Cornwall, Pardoe on Northern Island troops, Edward Heath visits Launceston, controversy over 'immigrant workers' in Cornwall, Pardoe defeat by Neale - General Election 1979 - Bodmin Includes: campaign flyers for Paul Tyler (Liberal), Ecology party, press cuttings on Hicks victory, High Court and Crown Court move from Bodmin to Truro. - General Election 1979 - Truro Includes: a letter re: collecting election ephemera, campaign flyers for David Penhalion (Liberal), Mike Curtis (Labour), Bruce Tidy (Labour), press cuttings re; election build up and results, Wheal Jane, Margaret Thatcher visit, small businesses - General Elections Project letters Includes: letters re: collection of election ephemera between Charles Woolf, Professor Thomas and others - Press clippings re: General Election from 1979 - Election 1979 outside of Cornwall Includes: campaign flyers for Bobbie Vincent (Liberal) from Kensington, Peter Frings (Ecology) from Exeter, Liberals, The Green Alliance, Cornwall related press cuttings from Western Morning News and national newspapers - Envelope addressed to Prof Charles Thomas Includes: The Conservative Manifesto, Ecology Party manifesto, polling station sign. Non-General election materials comprise of campaign flyers for Betty Barnard (Conservative) for County Council, Christopher Beazley (Conservative) for European Elections, George Cocks for District Council election. Box 2 (1983) - Press cuttings from 1983 General Election and 1982 Boundary changes c.1980-1983 Includes: press cuttings re: electoral roll mistakes, candidates tyres slashed in Cornwall, first night-time electoral count in Cornwall - General Election 1983 - Truro - 3 files spanning 1979-1983 Includes: campaign flyers for Jan Beecroft (Labour), David Penhaligon (Liberal), Philip Buddell (Conservative), press cuttings re unemployment, mundic housing, 'Cornwall has been unfairly treated', mining revival promises, energy debates, urges to end SDP alliance, Cornish schools, fishing - General Election 1983 - North Cornwall - 3 files spanning 1979-1983 Includes: press cuttings re: tenants to buy council houses, Plymouth/Cornwall boundary changes, calls to reduce prison-made manufacturing, unemployment, Neale backs bringing back hanging for certain offenses, 'milk for schools fight on', limits on road signs in Cornwall, misuse of licencing laws in rural communities, Court moving from Bodmin to Truro - Loose campaign flyer for Roger Holmes (Mebyon Kernow). 1979-1983