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Major accessions to repositories in 2015 relating to Labour Movement

Local

Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service

  • Midland Adult School Union: additional records 20th cent (MS 703)

Bristol Archives

  • Inland Revenue Staff Federation Valuation, Bristol: minutes, corresp, reports c1950-1969 (45603)

Bury Museum and Archives

  • Derek Boden (b 1937), Labour councillor: additional corresp 2007-2010 (GBO)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle

  • Cumbrian Co-operative Society Ltd: society records incl minutes, photographs, corresp and papers, with research for Jim Lamb's history of the societies, "The People's Store" c1890-2005 (DB 132)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Brackenfield and Wessington Women's Unionist Association: minute book 1926-1939 (D7905)
  • National Union of Mineworkers, Derbyshire area: additional records c1981-2015 (D1920)

Dorset History Centre

  • Bournemouth and Christchurch Trades Council: minutes and attendance books 1970-1990 (D-2701)
  • Bournemouth Trades Council: minutes and attendance books 1890-1971 (D-2702)
  • Poole Trades Council: minutes and attendance books 1902-1959 (D-2700)
  • Workers Educational Association, Poole branch: minute books and accounts 20th cent (D-2690)

Durham County Record Office

  • North East Labour History Society: oral history recordings and transcripts rel to Popular Politics Project 2012 (D/NELH)

Glamorgan Archives

  • National Union of Teachers, Maesteg branch: minutes 1905-1986 (D1288)
  • Vale of Glamorgan Constituency Labour Party: minutes of general management and executive committees, selection papers and corresp c1970-2010 (D1210)

Gloucestershire Archives

  • Assistant Masters Association, Gloucestershire branch: minutes, corresp and papers 1897-1973 (D13910)
  • Cheltenham and District Trades Council: additional minutes 1985-2013 (D3614)

Gwynedd Archives, Caernarfon Record Office

  • Gwynedd Trades Union Council: minutes, with records of Bangor and District Trades Council 1980-2015 (XM13344)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Letchworth Urban District Council Labour Group: minute books 1906-1974 (Acc 5718)

Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives)

  • National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers, Hull and District branch: minute books 1903-1962 (C DUNT)
  • National Society of Painters, Hull branch: minutes 1909-1959 (C DSUP)
  • Plumbing Trades Union, Hull Lodge: minutes 1984-1989 (C DSPU/1/7)

Isle of Man Public Record Office

  • Isle of Man Civil Service Commission: records, with records of the Whitley Council for the Isle of Man Public Service (Manual Workers) 1964-2007 (A42)

Lancashire Archives

  • Shipconstructors and Shipwrights Association, Fleetwood branch: accounts, membership records 1884-1926 (DDX 1856)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Leicester and District Trades Union Council: minutes, corresp, newsletters and ephemera c1980-2010 (DE8960)

Lincolnshire Archives

  • Electrical Trades Union, Sleaford Branch: minute and attendance books 1948-2004 (ETU)

Norfolk Record Office

  • Norfolk and District Nursing Federation: minutes 1898-1919 (Acc 2015/15)

Northumberland Archives

  • Robert Brown (fl 1984-1985), miner, of Ashington: copy diaries incl coverage of his involvement in the miner's strike 1984-1985 (NRO 10971)

Wigan Archives and Local Studies

  • Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Heinz Kitt Green branch: records of operations and functions c1950-1999 (Acc. 2015/59)

National

Manx National Heritage Library & Archives

  • Manx National Farmers Union: minutes 1947-1967 (MS 13861)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

  • Irish Transport and General Workers Union, Belfast branch: membership ledger 1917-1920 (D4597)
  • Workers Educational Association, Belfast branch: records 1910-2003 (D4596/UNL/1)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

  • Dawson family of London: personal papers incl suffragette ephemera and records rel to National Union of Women Teachers 1864-1971 (DAWSON)
  • Charlie Pottins (1942-2015), socialist and activist: papers, photographs and corresp rel to Jewish Socialist Group and Workers Revolutionary Party 1983-2013 (POTTINS)

Labour History Archive and Study Centre (People's History Museum)

  • Steven Bodington (fl 1959-1989), academic researcher: corresp and papers incl material rel to his review of the work of Piero Sraffa, and records rel to the Institute for Workers Control c1959-1989 (1459)
  • Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners: papers of Bruce Currie incl copy records, corresp and personal papers 1984-1985 (1442)

Working Class Movement Library

  • National Union of Railwaymen, Manchester and District area branch: minute books, conference souvenir, terms and conditions manual 20th cent (ACC236)

University

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

  • Christopher John Wrigley (b 1947), historian and local labour politician: papers rel to trade union and association membership c2000-2010 (MS 612)
  • British Association of Colliery Management: records (BCM)

Swansea University: Richard Burton Archives

  • Amalgamated Engineering Union, Merthyr branch: minutes of 2-3 MW branch 1952-1985 (2015/20)
  • National Union of Mineworkers, Cwmgorse Colliery Lodge: records incl minutes, funeral fund and other charity records 1938-1965 (2015/2)
  • National Union of Mineworkers, South Wales area, Abercrave lodge: committee minutes, secretary's corresp, Sick and Accidental Fund 1917-1945 (2015/23)

Warwick University: Modern Records Centre

  • Rodney Bickerstaffe (b 1945), General Secretary for UNISON: additional corresp and papers 1938-2014 (1074)
  • Communication Managers Association (formerly Post Office Management Staff Association): additional records, mainly executive papers with some branch records 1893-1995 (1029)
  • National Union of Railwaymen, Tredegar Junction and Pontllanfraith branch: records incl membership register and minutes 1897-1964 (1076)
  • Post Office Controlling Officers' Association: minutes of Bournemouth, Reading and Tunbridge Wells branches 1918-1970 (1029)
  • Postal Inspectors Association, South Midland Group: minutes 1949-1959 (1029)
  • Transport and General Workers Union: additional records incl minutes of general executive council, finance and general purposes committee 1986-1999 (1029)
  • Transport and General Workers Union, Kingsbury branch: minutes 1965-1979 (1052)
  • Union of Post Office Workers, Bournemouth and Poole Indoor Branch: minutes, with records of the Bournemouth Post Office Whitley Committee 1920-1944 (1029)