Channel Tunnel, 1882-1883, 1907; chiefly relating to the proceedings of the Select Committee on the Channel Tunnel (1883) which Lansdowne chaired. Mostly printed, with some related correspondence.
Land Policy, including papers on the Small Ownership and National Land Bank Bill (1911) and the unofficial Land Inquiry Committee (1912). Mostly printed and typewritten, chiefly parliamentary papers and newspaper cuttings, with some related correspondence. The newspaper cuttings include referenc...
Taxation of Land Values, including papers on the Land Values (Scotland) Bill (1908) and the land taxes introduced by Lloyd George in the 1910 Budget. Mostly printed, with related letters from Robert Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown, Michael Hicks-Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, and others.
Licensing Bill. Mostly printed and typewritten, including parliamentary papers, newspaper cuttings and published pamphlets, with letters from Henry Kimber, M.P., J.S. Sandars (private secretary to Balfour), and Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland.
Welsh Church Disestablishment, including papers on the Established Church (Wales) Bill, 1912, with a letter from John Owen, Bishop of St David’s, and the Welsh Church (Postponement) Bill, 1915, with a letter from William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, the Bill’s promoter. Mostly printed, chiefly par...
National Insurance, including papers on the National Insurance Bill (1911) and the National Insurance (Amendment) Bill (1913), Mostly printed, chiefly parliamentary papers, with a file of correspondence relating to local Friendly Societies in and around Lansdowne’s Wiltshire estates.
Pamphlets on National Insurance, including L. Worthington Evans, The National Insurance Act, 1911 (1912) and Sir John Pilter, A Scheme for Old Age Pensions (n.d.). Printed.
Corn Production Bill. Printed and typewritten, with notes by Lansdowne, and copies of correspondence between Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, and Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner, on Lansdowne’s amendment to the Bill.
Confidential Reports and Memoranda prepared by the Board of Trade, relative to Trade, Employment, Immigration, etc. Printed government papers, with a note that ‘these were issued at the time of the Free Trade controversy following Mr Chamberlain’s resignation of office’.
Fiscal Question, 1877, 1900, 1903-1905. Printed, mostly Cabinet memoranda on international trade and commercial treaties, with a typewritten list of contents (including several items not present).