Includes papers relating to SDP and SDP/Liberal Alliance general policy, youth policy and youth groups, including

• copies of reports, memoranda, booklets and other reference information on SDP/Liberal Alliance organisation and policy on various issues including unemployment, defence, industry, joint selection of parliamentary candidates, constitutional reform, elections etc
• copies of memoranda and speeches concerning SDP/Liberal Alliance policy on youth, including submission of Union of Liberal Students and the SDP Students to the Department of Education and Science on the future of Higher Education; copy of David Owen's lecture to the Oxford Union to mark international youth year, 6 Feb 1985; memorandum on SDP Students and the General Election, 1987; copy of speech by Ian Wrigglesworth [Sep 1985]; `The SDP is the party of youth'
• Small amount of SDP/Liberal students promotional/campaign literature, including leaflet `Our time has come - Alliance policies for youth'; copy of Union of Liberal Students campaign poster promoting Social Democrat candidate Matt Cole; also copies of plain SDP poster
• Copy of letter originally in transparent folder labelled `MPs correspondence', from Robert Maclennan to `friends' stating his support for the SDP Students Civil Liberties Campaign, 14 Feb 1985

Originally in black box file; some duplicated items have been extracted