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Catalogue description Records of the Bristol Typographical Society and the Typographical Association
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| Reference: | 34463 |
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| Title: | Records of the Bristol Typographical Society and the Typographical Association |
| Description: |
Bristol Typographical Society: Reports Minutes Membership Accounts General Material Printed Material Chapel Records T.A. Approved Society: Bristol branch Typographical Association: Regional Records South West South Wales Midlands Typographical Association: National Records Reports Duplicated Minutes Membership General Material Printed Material General Printed Works: Related to Printing Printing Periodicals Unrelated to Printing The earliest records, dating from 1838 are the minutes of the printers' chapel at the Bristol Gazette. The Bristol Typographical Society's own minutes run from 1869, its rules from 1861 and its accounts, with two earlier statements of 1832 and 1852, from 1875. The registers of members' subscriptions, generally grouped by chapel, begin in 1870. The collection includes a considerable amount of printed material, some of it concerned with the printing trade in general and some of it with the Association's role as a member of the T.U.C. |
| Date: | 1832 - 1969 |
| Related material: |
Article re Society see BRO pamphlet 1152. Dissertation : an examination of the organisation and policy of the Society in the second half of the 19th century see non-printed material in B.R.O. No.A42. |
| Held by: | Bristol Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 161 files |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Deposited in the Bristol Record Office, November 1974 by Mr. Cleverly, Assistant Secretary of the Bristol Branch of the Typographical Association. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Bristol Typographical Society had already been in existence for several years by 1832, when it had 58 members working in printing shops as compositors and letterpress machinists. For reasons not clear from the records, the Society was refounded in 1852 when membership had fallen to 39. Most large cities and many smaller towns had similar friendly societies among the printing industry, whose members were generally better educated and better paid than in the majority of industries. After an ill-starred attempt in the early 1840s to found a National Typographical Association embracing all printers who had served a seven-year apprenticeship, a less ambitious Provincial Typographical Association was founded in 1849, which, beginning mainly with northern societies, gradually expanded to include most provincial societies and became the Typographical Association. When the growing Association divided itself into regions, Bristol became the centre of the South Western area, which held annual conferences from 1894. The region elected representatives to the Association's executive council, and in the late 1950s, the Bristol branch secretary, Mr. Barwood, became the Association's General Secretary. His previous membership of the executive council seems to be responsible for the duplicated minutes of the council and its various committees preserved in the collection. |
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