Transcripts of speeches and extracts of speeches made by David Owen between June and December 1979; include:

• Speech transcripts on subjects including issues surrounding the European Community; energy policy; the dangers of selling off British oil assets; North/South divide of Labour and Conservative voters in Britain; the liberation of Southern African countries; the Cooperative movement; election of the Labour Party leadership; the effects of the Iranian revolution on international oil supply; industrial policies for developing countries; the Children Act and child welfare; NATO and nuclear weapon systems
• Transcripts of lectures including the Richard Feetham Memorial Lecture, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 12 Sep 1979, on South Africa and apartheid; the Trevor Lloyd Hughes Memorial Lecture, Liverpool Medical Institution, 25 Oct 1979: `Reflections on the Royal Commission' [ Royal Commission on the National Health Service]
• David Owen's MS draft of `Election diary' - recording defeat of Labour government and D.O's last day as Foreign Secretary, May 1979
• Copies of Labour Party leaflets on the European Assembly elections, 1979