Tag Archives: closed until 2097

BG/P/18/2/163

File contains correspondence dealing with the state of human rights in Turkey. Relates to issues such as human rights, Kurdish and Turkish peoples, Amnesty International. Includes letter from constituent to Bernie Grant re human rights and Turkey.

BG/P/18/1/157

Note that this file contains language and imagery that is by its nature offensive to black and other ethnic minority groups. File includes hate mail as well as news clippings re stop and search figures and Black peoples and Ethnic minorities.

BG/P/18/1/126

File includes documents such as parliamentary speeches re ‘Caribbean (Voluntary Repatriation)’; handwritten notes re ‘return with incentive years’ options; copies of publication ‘the Returnee’; notes of meeting between Bernie Grant and P. Ruddock, dated 9 May 1995. Also contains documentation such as an advice publication re Barbados and returnees.

BG/P/18/1/119

Predominantly includes direct public enquiries addressed to Bernie Grant re resettlement in country of origin. See related items in the correspondence (for and against reparations) created as part of the African Reparations Movement records. Includes public correspondence to and from Bernie Grant.

BG/P/18/1/53

File mainly contains Bernie Grant’s parliamentary questions, statistics and correspondence investigating the number of Jamaican visitors refused leave to enter the United Kingdom. Relates to issues such as immigration; entry clearance; Ethnic minorities; racism; ethnic discrimination; Jamaican tourists. Includes correspondents such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a local constituent. File contents date back until 1987 ie statistics.

BG/P/14/1/10

Letters of predominantly favourable feedback from individuals, constituents and organisations concerning Bernie Grant’s Radio 4 interview on the programme ‘In the Psychiatrists Chair’. Provides biographical information re Bernie Grant and his personal struggle against racism and media misrepresentation.

BG/P/12/3/6

Legal papers relating to organisations and issues such as: Tottenham Conservative Association; libel actions against newspapers in connection with the police investigation into the death of PC Blakelock and the Broadwater Farm disturbance 1985; immigration clients and the Solicitors Complaints Bureau; immigration policy; Bernie Grant’s visit to Cuba.