Identity area
Reference code
RAB/L/107
Title
Scrapbook 'Nov 1956 - Dec 1957'
Date(s)
- 1956–1957 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 vol
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Press cuttings on Conservative split over Suez cease-fire, RAB's presiding over the Cabinet while Eden in Jamaica, RAB's review of 1956 Sessions for Essex newspapers, succession of Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister, RAB as Home Secretary including prison reform, Obscene Publications Bill, Shops Bill, telephone tapping, Wolfenden Reports, Franks Report on Administrative Tribunals and Homicide Act, Ghana independence celebrations; Economist article by Norman Macrae; photographs of RAB at 10 Downing Street as newly-appointed Home Secretary, RAb and Harold Macmillan with shooting party on Lord Swinton's estate (4 docs), RAB with the Queen and Prince Philip at a naval event (sent by Lady Elmhirst, 3 docs)