Papers and correspondence relating to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), 1981-1983

File

MS. 21332/26

Held in our offsite storage facility

Comprises:

SDP Draft Alliance Statement with annotations, 1983.
SDP meeting minutes, correspondence and maps of the Derbyshire area boundaries, 1981. Correspondents include John Lawrance Vernon, among others. Includes an SDP newsletter (1981) and newspaper cuttings.
Papers, correspondence and minutes relating to the SDP North and West Derbyshire Area Party, 1981-1982. Correspondents include Bill Rodgers and Richard Newby, among others. Also includes, a press release "High Peak Social Democratic Party to be formed in May", and maps of Derbyshire.
SDP papers relating to the High Peak Constituency, c.1981.
SDP Decentralisation Group papers and minutes, 1981-1982. Includes copies of pages from a book relating to government expenditure, appendix "A Financial and Economic Scheme", paper "What it's all about" by Jack Longland, paper "Local Government", paper "Regional Policy and Urban Policy: A Memorandum" by Alan Evans, and paper "Financial Policy and the Inner Cities" by Richard Jackman.