Party Political Broadcast transcripts, speech transcripts and press releases, c1954-present [PPB]
[A project to index all speech transcripts in the Conservative Party Archive is currently underway and nearing completion; please contact the Archivist for speeches of individual ministers or shadow ministers. Speeches, 1954-1976 are available on microfilm. For video footage of Party Political Broadcasts, see Photographic & Audio-visual collections]
Pamphlets, c1945-present [PUB]
[Various titles published on behalf of the National Union, Conservative Central Office, Conservative Research Department, Conservative Political Centre, affiliated organisations, and think tanks]
Newsletters and magazines, 1889-present [PUB]
[Published by the National Union, Conservative Central Office, Conservative Research Department, Conservative Political Centre, affiliated organisations, and think tanks]
Conservative Party election literature, 1868-present [PUB]
[Election material produced by the National Union, Central Office, Conservative Research Department, including leaflets, pamphlets, newspapers and even some posters of varying sizes and formats, was diligently preserved by Conservative Central Office staff and bound up into more-or-less annual volumes. In many cases they are fragile and in poor condition. A project will begin soon to dismantle these volumes in order that conservation work may be carried out, and their contents indentified and catalogued in more detail. In the meantime, most of them are available on microfilm]
Election posters, 1868-present [posters]
Conservative Party, 1886-present
Labour Party, 1930-1974
Liberal Party, 1951-1974
Conservative election manifestos, 1923-2010 [PUB 155-PUB 158]
Election addressess, 1922-1983 [PUB 229]
[Includes addresses for the majority of parliamentary candidates/sitting MPs from all parties, all constituencies, for all general elections between 1922-1983; also includes by-elections, 1922-1973. Addresses were collected by Central Office staff and pasted into bound volumes arranged alphabetically in order of constituency.]
Conservative Party Archive material available on microfilm [Microform]
Conservative Party Archive On-line Catalogue
Last updated: 07 March 2012, Jeremy McIlwaine