Catalogue description Bristol East Labour Party
This record is held by Bristol Archives
Reference: | 40488 |
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Title: | Bristol East Labour Party |
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Records of Bristol East (later Bristol South East) Labour Party, with records of H.E. Rogers, secretary to the party. MINUTES General meetings Executive committee General Council Women's Section Election Committee Finance Committee Building & Trustees' Committee League of Youth St. George West Ward Bristol South East Labour Party FINANCIAL RECORDS Cash books Accounts, Bristol South East Vouchers St. George Labour Club Correspondence Miscellaneous REPORTS Annual reports CORRESPONDENCE Secretary's correspondence Treasurer's correspondence Boundary changes Suspension of the party ELECTIONS AND CAMPAIGNS Parliamentary elections Municipal elections Political campaigns Non-party campaigns ADMINISTRATION Resolutions Conferences Property COUNCIL Cases PHOTOGRAPHS Individuals Groups Others PLANS Plans PRINTED MATERIAL Corporation publications Government publications City Guides Other books Newscuttings H.E. ROGERS' PERSONAL PAPERS Correspondence Employment Council papers Services and memorials MISCELLANEOUS Miscellaneous |
Date: | 1918-1990 |
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For more details on the history of the party, see 40488/PM/4/14 |
Held by: | Bristol Archives, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 12 series |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
The Bristol East Labour Party was founded on 10 May 1918 at Bethesda Schoolroom, Church Road, St. George, and contested the General Election in December of that year. The party won in 1923, with Walter Baker being M.P. until his death in 1930. In January 1931 Sir Stafford Cripps won the by-election. The National Government crisis of 1931 led to a loss of membership in the short term, but by 1933 membership levels were at their highest. In 1932 the party purchased 326 Church Road for use as headquarters and to provide a memorial hall to Walter Baker. Internal differences led to the expulsion of Sir Stafford Cripps from the Labour Party in 1939 and to the disaffiliation of the Bristol East Labour Party in 1943. The divisions were healed by the time of Labour's success in the 1945 General Election. After serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1947-1950, Sir Stafford Cripps retired from politics on health grounds. His replacement as M.P. for Bristol South East (the constituency was re-named in 1948) was Anthony Wedgwood Benn who held the seat until 1960. The death of his father in November 1960 elevated him to the peerage, but after a three year campaign and a by-election victory, Tony Benn regained his seat as M.P. for the constituency. The constituency was abolished in 1983. Herbert Rogers was a founding member of Bristol East Labour Party, acting as its secretary for very many years. He acted as election agent for Sir Stafford Cripps and was a councillor for the ward of St. George East from 1929 to 1947. Because the records reflect both official and individual sources, it was decided to list the records as though all were created by the Bristol East Labour Party, except for such records which were most obviously personal to H.E. Rogers. |
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