Catalogue description Bristol East Labour Party

This record is held by Bristol Archives

Details of 40488
Reference: 40488
Title: Bristol East Labour Party
Description:

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
Related material:

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
Creator:

Labour Party, Bristol East Constituency

Labour Party, Bristol South East Constituency

Rogers, Herbert E, fl 1936-1976, councillor of Bristol

Physical description: 12 series
Subjects:
  • Cripps, Sir Stafford, 1889-1952, politician and statesman
  • Benn, Anthony Neil Wedgwood, b 1925, formerly Viscount Stansgate
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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