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Reference code
Clarke/7/159
Unique identifier
GB 275 Clarke/7/159
Title
Miscellaneous (short notes for talks, etc.)
Date(s)
- ca. 1968-2000 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 folder paper
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Scope and content
A collection of handwritten notes, mostly on cards, for talks. Most are undated. Subjects include Keynesian economics (Arkansas, Vancouver, Salford, ICBH, Carleton College); Voting/rationality (Seeley Society 12 Nov. 1996); Peculiarities of contemporary history (Caius 17 February 2000); Decline of Liberals/Rise of Labour; Rise and fall of the Labour Party; Was Britain a democratic country?; one card with no heading, but referring to Marx and Capitalism; History and biography; Biography (March 2000). The last two were enclosed in a letter of January 2000 inviting PFC to speak to the Liberal Democrat History Group on 'Liberal and SDP leaders: good and bad'. A pencil list of leaders is present.
Also includes
- a letter from James Meade from 1984 enclosing a copy of a paper by Milton Friedman which mentioned Keynes and Hayek
- an issue of Samzdat from January/February 1989 containing an article by PFC on Hayek
- confidential documents relating to a review of St John's College, University of British Columbia in 2009 for which PFC was one of the reviewers [This item is closed]