Richard Stone Archive
About this Archive
Administrative/Biographical History:
Richard Stone OBE was a British medical doctor, social campaigner and philanthropist. He was best known for his association with the Runnymede Trust and the Jewish Council for Racial Equality on issues of race and politics, as well as race and society more generally in the United Kingdom. Stone was appointed to the panel of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry; a case involving a Black teenager who was murdered in London in 1993; which eventually led to the Macpherson Report, which defined the British Metropolitan Police's response to the incident as "institutionally racist." Stone was also noted for his association with the Jewish interfaith group The Woolf Institute.
Stone worked as a political activist on issues of race and politics and during the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry into racism in policing from 1997–99, he was appointed to the panel of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, which was led by Sir William Macpherson. In 2013 he published the book Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, documenting his personal experience on the Inquiry and raising concerns about the way the Inquiry was managed. In 2003–04 he sat on the panel of the NHS David Bennett Inquiry. Stone served as a Cabinet Advisor to the Mayor of London, President of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, and spent five years on the Runnymede Trust's ‘Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia’, from 2000 to 2004 as chair. He was also a trustee and vice-Chair of the Runnymede Trust and a Council and Board member of Liberty. For 14 years he was the chair of the Islamophobia Commission, set up by the Runnymede Trust in 1996, working with British Muslims.
During his time as a GP, Stone was puzzled by the number of council houses in the area being boarded up when he knew many of his patients were homeless, and in 1986 he duly called in the district auditor to investigate the Conservative council’s housing policy. This led directly to the exposure of the attempted gerrymandering of local elections being orchestrated by the then leader of Westminster council, Dame Shirley Porter.
Stone was a also member of the Home Office's Working Groups on Tackling Extremism Together. Much of his work was to bring together British Jews and British Muslims. He was a founding trustee of the Maimonides Foundation in 1985 and in 2004 he founded Alif-Aleph UK (British Muslims and British Jews). Stone was an Honorary Fellow and Inter Faith Patron of the Woolf Institute, a Centre for Muslim-Jewish Relations at the University of Cambridge and a visiting fellow in the criminology department of the University of Westminster. In 2010 Stone was appointed an OBE for "public and voluntary" service.
Scope and Content:
- Papers, correspondence, printed materials, press cuttings, speeches and editorials relating to Richard Stone's involvement in the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, which produced the Macpherson Report and found there to be Institutional Racism in the Police. This series also contains papers and correspondence relating to independent reviews of the Inquiry, Stone's book 'Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: Personal Reflections', The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, The Neville Lawrence Foundation and memorials for Stephen Lawrence. (1993-2016); Papers, correspondence, printed materials, press cuttings and court transcripts relating to the Inquiry into the death of David 'Rocky' Bennett and the Inquiry's report which declared there to be Institutional Racism within the NHS. (1980-2008); Papers and correspondence relating to Richard Stone's involvement in issues and organisations focused on race and the police, including The 1990 Trust, Stop and Search, National Black Police Association, deaths in state and police custody, Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), The Criminal Justice Race Accountability Project, Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and Police Complaints Authority (PCA), and Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) Race Hate Crimes Working Group. (1992-2015).
- Papers, correspondence and printed materials relating to Richard Stone's work as a general practitioner. (1969-2004); Papers, correspondence, printed materials and press cuttings relating to the Bayswater Hotel Homeless Families Project and homelessness in general. (1987-2009); Papers, correspondence and press cuttings relating to Westminster Homes for Votes Scandal and Shirley Porter, and includes chapters and correspondence relating to an unpublished book project by Richard Stone on the Homes for Votes Scandal and Shirley Porter. (1986-2006); Papers and correspondence relating to 190-192 Shepherds Bush Road, the site of a disused London Fire Station which Richard Stone tried to convert into housing. (1999-2001); Organisational papers and correspondence relating to the Paddington Development Trust. (1998-2002). (1969-2009).
- Papers, correspondence, press cuttings and photographs relating to Richard Stone's work with Alif-Aleph, The Maimonides Foundation, the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations and The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths, CEJI and European Conference on Jewish Muslim Dialogue and other interfaith work with various organisations and attendance at various conferences, including Pan-London Advisory Group on Faiths; International Student Conference of Jews, Christians and Muslims; The Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom, "Faith & Foreign Policy" seminar; The Interfaith Foundation International Conference, ASEM Interfaith Dialogue; 'Muslim/Jewish Relations: Status and Strategy'; 'Confronting anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: An exploration of their socio-historic and theological roots and similarities'; European Jewish Muslim Co-Operation Platform. (1994-2015); Papers, correspondence, printed materials and press cuttings relating to Richard Stone's work with Charta Mede and The Runnymede Trust. (1983-2010); Papers, correspondence and printed materials relating to The Runnymede Trust, Uniting Britain Trust (UBT), the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia (CBMI), the Threads in the Tartan Festival (which celebrated minoritised ethnic groups in Scotland) and The RAISE Project (which focused on Muslim students particularly those from Pakistani and Kashmiri heritage). (1997-2009); Papers, correspondence and press cuttings relating to Richard Stone's work with the Jewish Council for Racial Equality (J-CORE) and their work with the Black Jewish Forum and refugee doctors. (1992-2009); Papers, correspondence and press cuttings relating to Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights (JFJHR), Palestine, Israel and Zionism, including the essay, 'The bottom line on Israel - a personal view from Richard Stone' and the Young Fabian pamphlet, 'Middle East conflict : a tale of two peoples'. (1973-2018); Papers and correspondence relating to Richard Stone's work with Judaism and Anti-semitism, including the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Reform Judaism, and various conferences. (1995-2008); Papers, correspondence, and printed materials relating to Richard Stone's work around Islam and Islamophobia, including the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK (MPACUK), The Muslim Institute Trust, and various conferences. (1976-2014); Papers and correspondence relating to Richard Stone's work with Global Diversity Congress. (1973-2018).
- Papers, correspondence and reports relating to Richard Stone's work as a trustee of the Lord Ashdown Charitable Settlement (LACS), the Stone Ashdown Trust (SAT), the Noah Trust, the Coppings Trust and the Leigh Trust. (1983-2010); Papers, correspondence, press cuttings and photographs relating to Richard Stone's other charity work and miscellanea, including his work with The Mangrove Trust, the North Kensington Amenity Trust and the Notting Hill Social Council; The Foundation for the Care of Victims of Apartheid and Justice for Kitson; Pensioners Link; Cecil Todes and the Todes Parkinson's Project; Sickle Cell Society; Greater London Authority (GLA) and proposed Human Rights Centre; AGLOW (Association of Greater London Older Women); Ethnic Minority Achievement Group; David Kitson Fellowship; and Peopling of London. (1980-2018).
- VHS tapes and DVD relating to Richard Stone's work with Stephen Lawrence and institutional racism, his GP practice, Shirley Porter and the Homes for Votes Scandal. (1988-2006) (1969-2018)
Quantity:
159 folders, 120 printed works, 2 notebooks, 23 VHS, 1 DVD, [24 mp4]
