Tag Archives: closed until 2091

BG/P/18/2/142

File documents Bernie Grant’s visit to Iraq where the central purpose of the visit was to ‘bring home hostages and to secure peace in the region’. Includes correspondence supporting Bernie Grant’s visit to Iraq on behalf of relatives of the hostages. Note letter from British Iraqi Friendship Association to Bernie Grant. See also related subject file re Palestine.

BG/P/18/1/31

File comprises correspondence with Bernie Grant primarily relating to the Commission for Racial Equality and funding concerns. Correspondents within the file include: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Michael Day (Chair of Commission for Racial Equality); John Whitmore (Legal Director of Commission for Racial Equality); Ramani Chelliah (Equalities Officer, Local Government Information Unit); and a local constituent. Also includes handwritten notes and correspondence re Bernie Grant’s conference presentation entitled “Equal Opportunities and Local Government in the 1990s”. Relates to issues such as health, nursing, equal opportunities, racial discrimination, local government, Race Relations Act.

BG/P/2/2/6

Second letter issued by Bernie Grant to MP’s enlisting support to review the cases of the ‘Tottenham Three’. Includes handwritten letter from Winston Silcott (one of the Tottenham Three’). Letter includes appeal for support from MP’s re the early day motion tabled on 8 Jun 1990.