| Description | The scrapbooks mostly contain newspaper cuttings, which are interspersed with William Beighton's personal comments, reflections and poems. These cover various subjects of local, national and international interest, including mining, the National Health Service (NHS), education, industry, unemployment, trade union activity, war, business and privatisation, the environment, parliamentary elections, etc.
The scrapbooks are broadly listed in chronological order (according to the dates of the newspaper cuttings) but there are overlaps between dates. |