Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor 1906-1963
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1906 · died 1963
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant, he was elected to Parliament in 1945 and held office in Clement Attlee's governments, notably as Minister of Fuel and Power following the bitter winter of 1946–47, and eventually joining the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Facing the need to increase military spending in 1951, he imposed National Health Service charges on dentures and spectacles, prompting the leading left-winger Aneurin Bevan to resign from the Cabinet.
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Papers including correspondence, notes, lecture notes and papers relating to his education and academic career as well as material relating to his political career.
Gaitskell Papers, University College London.
Correspondents
COLIN GRANT CLARK, Correspondence 1929-58, Clark Papers, Brasenose College Oxford
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1932-62, Meade Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
WILLIAM STUCKEY PIERCY, Correspondence and memoranda 1938-3, Piercy Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1944-54, Robbins Papers, BLPES
FABIAN SOCIETY, Memoranda and related correspondence 1930s,Fabian Society Papers, BLPES
LABOUR PARTY, Memoranda 1940s, Labour Party Archives, Museum of Labour History, Manchester
Printed material
Philip M. Williams, Hugh Gaitskell (Oxford, 1979 and 1982); The Diary of Hugh Gaitskell 1945-1956 ed Philip M. Williams (London: Jonathan Cape, 1983); Elizabeth Durbin, New Jerusalems: The Labour Party and the Economics of Democratic Socialism (London: Routledge, 1985)
ODNB; New Palgrave II 454-5
Portraits
NPG; Philip M. Williams, Hugh Gaitskell (1979 and 1982)