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Major Accessions to Repositories 1994 relating to Labour History
National, Special and University
- Fabian Society: election leaflets of candidates for the
London County Council Election of 1892 and returns to the
questionnaire issued as Fabian Tract No 26, Questions for
London County Councillors (COLL MISC 0839)
- Sir Sydney Olivier: International Socialist Workers
Conference Zurich, minutes of the British section, notes
and drafts of a report on the conference and a list of the
delegates by organisation and name 1893 (COLL MISC 0829)
- Fabian Society: ephemera relating to School Board elections
and the 1902 Education Bill, replies to a questionnaire
about the constitution of School Boards, Town or Urban
District Councils and Boards of Guardians in 1899 (COLL
MISC 0832)
- Richard Mudie Smith: catalogue of the Daily News Sweated
Labour Exhibition at the Queens Hall May 1906;
correspondence with Cadbury Bros of Bournville about forced
labour in Angola, San Thome and Principe 1906-08 (COLL MISC
0851)
- F Keeling: correspondence, official print and statistics,
press cuttings, reports and leaflets rel to juvenile
employment, labour exchanges and employment committees in
England and Ireland 1911-21 (COLL MISC 0841)
- John Robert Riding: photocopies of papers of the Peckham
and Camberwell branches of the Independent Labour Party,
incl annual reports for Peckham 1928-30, and circular
letters for both branches, the South London Federation and
the Camberwell Branch of the Communist Party; summary list
and biographical notes on J.R.Riding and his mother, Esther
Riding 1923-30 (COLL MISC 0867)
- London and Greater London Council for the Prevention of
War: minute book 1925 (COLL MISC 0830)
- Walter McLennan Citrine, Baron Citrine of Wembley, General
Secretary of the Trades Union Congress: additional diaries,
photographs, travel guides and trade union material 1932-46
(CITRINE V)
- International Marxist Group: ephemera, conference papers
and cyclostyled journals, circulars and publications of
other organisations incl Red Camden and Am Phoblacht c1969-
86 (IMG)
- George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss, Labour MP 1929-79:
unpublished autobiography (STRS)
- Jack Brocklebank, Agricultural Workers Union leader:
papers, 1940s-80s
- Hull Communist Party: records, 1950s-80s.
- National Union of Seamen: correspondence,agreements,
minutes, press cuttings, etc rel to the Cunard Steamship
Co., 1959-90 (D 626)
- William Hamilton, Labour MP for West and Central Fife:
political, literary and personal correspondence and papers,
1936-92 (Acc 10951)
- James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister: political articles
1910, 1919 (Acc 11026)
- Megan Lloyd George: over seven hundred letters, 1940-57,
from Philip Noel-Baker, Labour politician, together with
related papers, incl letters from her father David Lloyd
George c1910-18 (NLW MSS 23254-68)
- Workers Educational Association, South Wales: annual
reports, 1916-36 (1994/35)
- Case studies in industrial relations, 1965-71 (1994/13)
- Miners strike: minutes, accounts and correspondence for
Abergwynfi, Ammanford, Blaengwynfi and Neath areas, 1984-85
(1994/30)
- Transcript of trial of miners for incident at Port Talbot
docks during miners strike 1985
(1994/32)
- Aneurin Bevan, statesman: speeches, newspaper cuttings,
interviews, collected by Prof David Smith, historian and
critic, in course of writing biography c.1945-73 (1994/7)
- Ness Edwards, MP: papers incl "A Rebels Testament", "A
Brief History of Ness
Edwards" and some Penallta miners lodge minutes, 1927-83
(1994/17)
- Alwyn Skinner: personal papers rel to the Spanish Civil War
1934-86 (1994/20)
- Cymric Federation Press: ledgers, examples of work carried
out for National Union of Mineworkers, 1920-87 (1994/1)
- Penallta and Taff Merthyr Miners Lodges: records, 1941-91
(1994/29)
- Derek John Carter (1939-1993), Post Office employee:
papers, incl some rel to the Union of Communications
Workers (POST 105/1-143)
- Political and social ephemera: topics include the General
Strike in Oxford, demarcation in shipbuilding, working
agreements in the building industry, British Union of
Fascists, the iron, steel and allied industries in 1879,
1880, 1886; Committee of 100 and other radical ephemera
(MSS 21)
- NATSOPA: Governing Council minutes, 1912-72, Journal, 1919-
75, correspondence files; London Machine Branch and chapel
minutes (MSS 39)
- Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, SOGAT 82: records
(MSS 39)
- Professor Richard Hyman: additional research and political
papers, incl Conference of Socialist Economists,
International Socialism, 1975-80, Sheffield City Council
industrial relations procedures, Coventry Toolroom
Agreement (MSS 63, 84)
- National Guild of Telephonists: papers of H.D. Hughes as
official mediator, NGT and UPW 1965-67 (MSS 90)
- Oil and Chemical Plant Constructors Association: papers of
National Joint Council for the Engineering Construction
Industry, 1987-89, National agreement papers 1982-8, files
rel to informal negotiation with unions and site agreements
1960-85 (MSS.91)
- Transport and General Workers Union: records rel to
General Strike, industrial relations in bus industry,
especially London Transport, docks, ICI, Ford Motor Co,
fisheries; relations with other unions (disputes,
negotiations, amalgamations); road haulage; J.L. Jones
Office papers as General Secretary (MSS 126)
- National Union of Seamen: records, incl general meetings
papers 1911-91, Executive Committee minutes 1959-67,
Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes 1953-68 and
other committee papers, outletters of senior officials 1975-
85, circulars 1934, 1938-39, 1946-85, branch minutes, 1947-
85, agreements, 1917-79, correspondence with selected
companies, c1960-85, The Seaman, 1912-70 (MSS 175)
- Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union: reports,
journals, bulletins 1915-40, 1948-80; papers rel to
NUFTO/Woodcutting Machinists amalgamation 1971; rules and
working agreements; additions to Boilermakers and
Shipconstructors printed series; papers rel to British
Caledonian Airways staff issues (MSS 192)
- British Clothing Industry Association: labour agreements in
the waterproof garment industry 1937-79 (MSS 222)
- Society of Civil and Public Servants: papers rel to a
review of its structure, organisation and operation,
carried out by Peter Fairbrodier and Bob Fryer, Department
of Sociology University of Warwick 1979-80 (MSS 232)
- Engineering Employers Federation: circulars 1940-69;
microfilms of correspondence with index 1960-71; wages
enquiries 1924-28, 1950-60; enquiries 1950-82 (incomplete);
statistical series 1914-70 (MSS 237)
- National Union of Public Employees: papers for Executive
Committee meetings c1975-82; ambulance service records,
incl last minute book of National Ambulance Staffs
Association; Standing Commission on Pay Comparability
cases; 1978 pay claim, 1979 strike; press releases, posters
and publications (MSS 281)
- Tom Mann, labour leader: correspondence (several hundred
items) 1906-49; diaries, notebooks, compilation albums,
pamphlets, photographs and press-cuttings (MSS 334)
- Dr A Femer, IRRU: industrial relations material rel to Post
Office Telecoms and British Rail (MSS 336)
- T Lewis: notes on militant meetings, conferences, and
seminars, pamphlets, newsheets and flysheets 1970s-80s (MSS
341)
- Joe Steele, Coventry shop steward: papers rel to the
Coventry aircraft industry c1939-1945 (MSS 344)
Local Repositories in England
- St Neots Industrial Cooperative Society: records 1883-1982
(Acc 4289)
- Electrical Association for Women, Peterborough branch:
records 1974-87 (Acc 4313)
- Derbyshire Miners Association: rules, financial records
1909-20 (D4036)
- NALGO, Derby branch: minutes and other records 1920-82
(D4046)
- Derby Municipal Officers Association: minutes 1914-24
(D4046)
- Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians:
records, 20th cent (D/X 1075)
- General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union:
minutes and papers 1918-92 (D/Z 160 addl)
- General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union:
Harwich branch records 1916-88 (D/Z 258)
- ASLEF, Hereford branch: minutes, letter books and other
records 1894-1984 (BG 95)
- F Hall, local secretary of National Union of Railwaymen,
Chatham: out-letter book, 1934-35 (DE 371)
- Blackpool and District Association of National Union of
Teachers: minutes 1891-1978 and attendance register 1972-76
(DDX 2042)
- Diane Abbott, MP: constituency correspondence c1986-90
(1994/3&13)
- Workers Circle Friendly Society: additional records 1935-60
(D/S 612/6)
- Communist Party of Great Britain: records, 1943-90
- Labour Party: records incl records on Labour and the Black
Electorate and the Militant Tendency
- Labour Party Manifesto Group: papers, minutes and
correspondence, 1976-92
- Jo Richardson, Labour MP: papers 1949-90, incl minutes and
correspondence of the Labour Party Tribune Group and the
Victory for Socialism Campaign
- Electrical Association for Women, Whitefield Branch:
additional miscellaneous correspondence 1973-84 (GEW 018)
- Paul Mackney, political activist: additional records of
International Socialist Movement, Troops Out newsletters,
papers of Birmingham United against Motorway Plans (BUMP)
1970s-80s (MS 1591, addnl.)
- Huyton Labour Party, St Bartholomews Ward: minutes,
accounts, etc 1949-75 (KA26/C)
- Northumberland Labour Party: minutes and other records 1923-
85 (NRO 4415)
- Greater Nottingham Co-operative Society: additional records
rel to branches 20th cent (DDGN; 4715, 4754, 4758)
- Factory Inspectorate: register of sickness caused by
industrial processes, Tyne and Wear 1914-55 (G/FI)
- North Eastern Co-operative and local and regional
societies: records 19th-20th cent, incl Felling Industrial
Co-op 1917-59, Gateshead Industrial Co-op 1902-71, North
Shields Industrial Co-op 1867-1972 (2844, 2852, 2866)
- Amalgamated Engineering Union, Sunderland district:
committee minutes 1947-69
- Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians, North
East Region: general admissions 1870-1945, Newcastle branch
minutes 1979-88 (2909)
- National Society of Painters, Blaydon and Newcastle
branches: records 1930s-60s (2909)
- Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, Whitburn
Branch: contribution book 1929-51 (2909)
- Rugby trade union records incl branch minutes of
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, 1865-1994; National
Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters
and Decorators 1904-13; National Society of Painters 1936-
1950
Local Repositories in Wales
- Alltwen and Pontardawe Co-operative Society records 1888-
1907 (D/D Co-op All)
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