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, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library. It was established in October 1973 and holds the world's largest archive collection on British industrial relations, as well as archives relating to many other aspects of British social, political and economic history. The BP corporate archive is located next to the MRC, but has separate staff and facilities.

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Trade unions

The Modern Records Centre holds by far the largest collection of archives of British

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s in the country. The largest collection held in the centre is the archive of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Other significant collections of archives relating to British trade unions include: *

Amalgamated Engineering Union The Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) was a major British trade union. It merged with the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union to form the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union in 1992. History The history of t ...

/ Amalgamated Society of Engineers * Amalgamated Slaters' and Tilers' Provident Society *

Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASC&J) was a New Model Trade Union in the 1860s in the United Kingdom, representing carpenters and joiners. History The formation of the Society was spurred by the Stonemason's strike, 1859, ...

* Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and Auxiliaries *

Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers The Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers (ASW) was a British trade union representing carpenters, joiners and allied trades. The ASW was formed in 1921 by the amalgamation of two smaller unions. It was itself merged into the Union of Constructio ...

Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers The Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers (AUBTW) was a British trade union. History The AUBTW was founded in 1921 when the Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and Allied Trades of England and Wales, the Operative Bricklayers' Socie ...

* Associated Blacksmiths', Forge and Smithy Workers' Society / Associated Blacksmiths' Society * Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) * Association of Assistant Mistresses * Association of Building Technicians /

Association of Architects, Surveyors and Technical Assistants The Association of Building Technicians (ABT) was a trade union representing architects, surveyors and related workers in the United Kingdom. History The union was founded in 1919 as the Architects' and Surveyors' Assistants' Professional Union. ...

* Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen * Association of Executive Officers / Second Division Clerks' Association * Association of Head Mistresses * Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX)/ Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union / National Union of Clerks *

Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs The Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs (ASTMS) was a British trade union which existed between 1969 and 1988. History The ASTMS was created in 1969 when ASSET (the Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Techn ...

(ASTMS) * Association of Scientific Workers * Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians (ASSET) / National Foremen's Association * Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education * Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions * Association of University Teachers * Barclays Bank Staff Association *

British Airline Pilots' Association The British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) is the professional association and registered trade union for UK pilots. BALPA represents the views and interests of pilots, campaigning on contractual, legal and health issues affecting its ...

* Civil and Public Services Association /

Civil Service Clerical Association The Civil and Public Services Association (CPSA) was a trade union in the United Kingdom, representing civil servants. History The union was founded in 1921, when the Civil Service Clerical Union and the Clerical Officers' Association merged ...

* Communication Managers' Association / Post Office Management Staffs Association / Association of Post Office Controlling Officers * Community and Youth Workers' Union * Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) * Connect * Constructional Engineering Union * Electrical Trades Union * Fire Brigades Union * Friendly Society of Iron Founders *

Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons The Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and Allied Trades of England and Wales was a trade union representing stonemasons and related workers in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1833 as the Friendly Society of Operative Stonemas ...

General Union of Carpenters and Joiners {{short description, Former trade union of the United Kingdom The General Union of Carpenters and Joiners (GUC&J) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1827 by the amalgamation of various local societies in London. ...

* Guild of Insurance Officials * Headmasters' Association / Incorporated Association of Headmasters * Inland Revenue Staff Federation * Iron and Steel Trades Confederation *

London Society of Compositors The London Society of Compositors was a British trade union, representing print workers in London. History The union was founded as the London Union of Compositors in 1834 by the merger of the London Trade Society of Compositors and the Lon ...

London Typographical Society The London Society of Compositors was a British trade union, representing print workers in London. History The union was founded as the London Union of Compositors in 1834 by the merger of the London Trade Society of Compositors and the Lon ...

* Manchester Unity of Operative Bricklayers' Society * Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union /

National Asylum Workers' Union The Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. The union was established as the National Asylum Workers' Union in 1910 by asylum attendants in Lancashire. George Gibson became its General Secretar ...

* Midland Bank Staff Association * Monotype Casters' and Typefounders' Society / Amalgamated Typefounders' Trade Society * National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers * National and Local Government Officers' Association (NALGO) * National Association of Operative Plasterers *

National Association of Schoolmasters The National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS) was a trade union representing male schoolteachers in the United Kingdom. History The origins of the NAS can be traced back to the formation of the National Association of Men Teachers (NAMT) in 1919 ...

National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE) was the British trade union and professional association for people working with those above statutory school age, and primarily concerned with providing education, t ...

National Graphical Association The National Graphical Association (NGA) was a trade union representing typographers and related workers in the United Kingdom. History The union was formed in 1964 by the merger of two long-term rival unions, the Typographical Association and ...

National League of the Blind and Disabled The National League of the Blind and Disabled (NLBD), currently a section within the Community trade union, was a trade union in its own right in the United Kingdom throughout the twentieth century (1899–2000), and is said to be the oldest sur ...

/ National League of the Blind *

National Society of Metal Mechanics The National Society of Metal Mechanics (NSMM) was a trade union in the United Kingdom which existed between 1872 and 1985. History The organisation was founded in Birmingham in 1872 as the Amalgamated Brassworkers Society. Led for many yea ...

/ National Society of Brass and Metal Mechanics / National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers *

National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants The National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (NATSOPA) was a British trade union. History Formed as part of the New Unionism movement in September 1889, the union was originally named the Printers' Labourers' Union and was led ...

(Natsopa) * National Society of Painters / National Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators / National Amalgamated Society of Operative House Painters and Decorators *

National Union of Bank Employees The Banking, Insurance and Finance Union (BIFU) was a British trade union. The union was founded in 1946 as the National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE), when the Bank Officers' Guild and the Scottish Bankers' Association merged. In 1979, i ...

/ Bank Officers' Guild *

National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives The National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO) was a trade union in the United Kingdom which existed between 1873 and 1971. It represented workers in the footwear industry. History The union was founded in 1873, when many riveters and ...

* National Union of County Officers * National Union of Enginemen, Firemen, Mechanics and Electrical Workers / National Amalgamated Union of Enginemen * National Union of Foundry Workers /

Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers __NOTOC__ The Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers (AUFW) was a trade union representing workers in foundries in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1946 with the merger of the National Union of Foundry Workers, the Ironfounding Workers ...

* National Union of General and Municipal Workers * National Union of Glovers and Leather Workers *

National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

* National Union of Journalists *

National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers The National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers (NUPBPW) was a British trade union. History The union was founded in 1921 as the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers when the National Union o ...

* National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) / National Union of Corporation Workers * National Union of Railwaymen / Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants * National Union of Seamen * National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers *

National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers The National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers was a trade union in the United Kingdom and Ireland. History The union was founded in July 1920 as the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers wit ...

* National Union of Teachers *

National Union of Vehicle Builders The National Union of Vehicle Builders (NUVB) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. The NUVB represented a mixture of skilled and unskilled workers in the automotive industry. History The union was formed in 1834 as the United Kingdom Societ ...

/ United Kingdom Society of Coachmakers *

National Union of Wallcoverings, Decorative and Allied Trades The National Union of Wallcoverings, Decorative and Allied Trades (NUWDAT) was an industrial union representing workers connected with the manufacture of wallpaper in the United Kingdom. History The origins of the union lay in the Wallpaper St ...

Wallpaper Workers' Union The National Union of Wallcoverings, Decorative and Allied Trades (NUWDAT) was an industrial union representing workers connected with the manufacture of wallpaper in the United Kingdom. History The origins of the union lay in the Wallpaper St ...

Operative Bricklayers' Society The Operative Bricklayers' Society (OBS) was a British New Model Trade Union based in London. History The society was founded in 1818 as the London Bricklayers' Society, but by 1829 had developed into a national operative union. By the 1840s ...

Plumbing Trades Union The Plumbing Trades Union (PTU) was a trade union representing plumbers in Britain and Ireland. History The union was founded in 1865, when the Manchester Plumbers' Society and the Liverpool Plumbers' Society merged with small organisation ...

/ United Operative Plumbers' Association *

Postmen's Federation The Postmen's Federation was a trade union representing postal workers in the United Kingdom. In 1889, a "Postmen's Union" was founded in Clerkenwell by Tom Dredge and John Lincoln Mahon. This dissolved after many of its members were sacked, but ...

* Post Office Controlling Officers' Association *

Post Office Engineering Union The Post Office Engineering Union (POEU) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It represented engineering staff in the Post Office, mostly working in telecommunications. History The union was founded in 1915 when the Post Office Eng ...

* Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society *

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* Prudential Staff Union * Royal London Staff Association * Scottish Sheet-Metal Workers' and Braziers' Friendly and Protective Society * Sign and Display Trade Union / National Union of Sign, Glass and Ticket Writers and Kindred Trades * Society of Chiropodists * Society of Civil and Public Servants / Society of Civil Servants *

Society of Graphical and Allied Trades The Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) was a British trade union in the printing industry. History SOGAT was formed in 1966 by the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers and the National Society of Operative ...

(SOGAT) *

Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers The Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers and Engravers (SLADE) was a British trade union representing workers in the printing industry. History The union was formed in Manchester in 1885 as the National Society of Lithographic Artists, ...

(SLADE) *

Society of Radiographers The Society of Radiographers (SoR) is a professional body and trade union that represents more than 90 percent of the diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers in the United Kingdom. The College of Radiographers (CoR) is a charitable subsidiary ...

*Society of Telecommunication Engineers / Society of Post Office Engineering Inspectors *Steel Industry Management Association *Tobacco Workers' Union *Training College Association *Transport and General Workers' Union *Transport Salaried Staffs' Association / Railway Clerks' Association *Typographical Association *Union of Bookmakers' Employees *Union of Communication Workers / Union of Post Office Workers *UNISON, Unison *Unite the Union, Unite *United Commercial Travellers' Association *United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers *United Patternmakers' Association *United Society of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders and Structural Workers / United Society of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders *Wallpaper Trades Superannuation Society *Workers' Union Significant collections relating to trade union federations include the Confederation of Employee Organisations, the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, the Council of Civil Service Unions, the Federation of Post Office Supervising Officers, the General Federation of Trade Unions (UK), General Federation of Trade Unions, the National Federation of Construction Unions (formerly the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives), the National Federation of Professional Workers, the National Joint Committee of Postal and Telegraph Associations, the Post Office Engineering Federation, and the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation. International trade union federations are represented by major collections of the International Transport Workers' Federation and the World Federation of Scientific Workers. Collections relating to joint trade union committees include those of the Alcan Foils Wembley Factory trade union committees, the British Leyland Trade Union Committee, Coventry Chain Shop Stewards' Committee, Coventry Trades Council, the GCHQ Trade Union Campaign Committee, and the London Transport (brand), London Transport Aldenham Works, Aldenham Bus Overhaul Works trade union committees. The centre also holds significant collections relating to leaders of trade unions, including: *Ernest Bevin, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Minister of Labour and Foreign Secretary *Rodney Bickerstaffe, general secretary of NUPE and Unison *Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple of Hoxton, general secretary of the Electrical Trades Union and Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union *Percy Collick, assistant general secretary of ASLEF and Labour MP *Frank Cousins (British politician), Frank Cousins, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and Minister of Technology *Frank Crump, general secretary of the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers *Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, general secretary of SOGAT '82 *R. A. W. Emerick, general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers *Alan Fisher (trade unionist), Alan Fisher, general secretary of NUPE *Joseph Hallsworth, Sir Joseph Hallsworth, general secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees, National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, and Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers *Clive Jenkins, general secretary of ASSET, ASTMS and the MSF *Jack Jones (trade unionist), Jack Jones, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union *Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union *Ron Todd (trade unionist), Ron Todd, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union *Paul Tofahrn, assistant general secretary of the International Transport Workers' Federation and general secretary of Public Services International *Bob Willis (trade unionist), Bob Willis, general secretary of the London Society of Compositors, London Typographical Society, and National Graphical Association *George Woodcock, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress Large collections of papers of more junior trade unionists include: *Jon Appleton, of NALGO and Unison *Alfred Best, of the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers *Cyril Collard, of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions *John Dore, of the Association of Scientific Workers, ASTMS and the MSF *David and Tamar Edwards, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Transport and General Workers' Union respectively *Dick Etheridge, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union *R. Leonard Fagg, of the Post Office Engineering Union *Monty Hughes, of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation *Norman Jacobs, of the Civil and Public Services Association *J. C. McLauchlan, of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants *David Michaelson, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union *Peter Morgan, of NALGO *Peter Nicholas, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union *Aaron Rapoport Rollin, of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers *William Henry Stokes, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union *Alan Thornett, of the Transport and General Workers' Union *Arthur Willitt, of the Post Office Engineering Union, Society of Post Office Engineering Inspectors, Society of the Post-Office Engineering Inspectorate, Society of Telecommunication Engineers, Association of Post Office Executives, and Society of Post Office Executives *Amicia Young, of the Association of Scientific Workers

Industrial relations

The Modern Records Centre holds some collections of archives relating to joint employer/employee industrial relations negotiating committees. Significant among these are the Inland Revenue Departmental Whitley Council, the Joint Industry Board for the Electrical Contracting Industry, the Local Authorities' Conditions of Service Advisory Board (LACSAB), the National Joint Council for the Engineering Construction Industry, the National Maritime Board, and the National Whitley Council for the Civil Service. Papers of various academics and/or conciliators concerned with industrial relations include those of George Bain (academic), Sir George Bain, William Brown (academic), William Brown, Colleen Chesterman, Hugh Clegg (industrial relations), Hugh Clegg, Bob Fryer, Geoffrey Goodman, Richard Hyman (academic), Richard Hyman, Grigor McClelland, Arthur Marsh (academic), Arthur Marsh, Jack Scamp, Sir Jack Scamp, and Bert Turner (academic), Bert Turner. Archives of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association, Incomes Data Services and Industrial Relations Research Unit are also held.

Employers' and trade associations

The Modern Records Centre also collects archives of employers' associations and trade associations. The largest of these are the archives of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and its predecessor, the Federation of British Industries (FBI). Other major association employers' and trade association collections include: *Apparel and Fashion Industry Association *Association of Professional Recording Services *Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance *Brewers' Society *British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers' Association *British Employers' Confederation / National Confederation of Employers' Organisations *British Independent Steel Producers' Association *British Iron and Steel Consumers' Council *British Iron and Steel Federation *Chamber of Shipping *Coventry and District Engineering Employers' Association *Cycle and Motor Cycle Association / Cycle and Motor Cycle Manufacturers' and Traders' Union *Engineering Employers' East Midlands Association *Engineering Employers' Federation / Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation *Engineering Employers' West Midlands Association *Iron and Steel Trades Employers' Association *Knitting Industries' Federation *National Association of British Manufacturers *National Engineering Construction Employers' Association *National Federation of Building Trades Employers / Association of Master Builders *National Industrial Organisation *Oil and Chemical Plant Constructors' Association *Refractory Users' Federation *Road Haulage Association *Scottish Steel Makers' Association *Shipping Federation *Shirt, Collar and Tie Manufacturers' Federation *Society of British Gas Industries *Tea Council of Great Britain *UK Fashion and Textile Association *Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers' Federation Archives of related organisations include those of the Dollar Exports Council, India, Pakistan and Burma Association, Iron and Steel Board and Trade Board (Employers') Consultative Council, as well as those of Richard Wood, an official of the Construction Industry Training Board and the National Federation of Building Trades Employers.

Pressure and campaigning groups

A second part of the Modern Records Centre's collecting base is the archives of pressure and campaigning groups. Significant among these are the archives of the: *All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation *Amnesty International *Anti-Nazi League *Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) *Campaign for the Advancement of State Education *Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament *Council for Educational Advance *Economic League (United Kingdom), Economic League *Family Service Units *Howard League for Penal Reform *Industrial Society / Industrial Welfare Society *Involvement and Participation Association / Industrial Co-partnership Association / Labour Co-partnership Association *Make Poverty History *National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) / National Association of Discharged Prisoners' Aid Societies *National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom *National Postgraduate Committee *National Union of Students (United Kingdom), National Union of Students *Release (agency), Release *West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament *World University Service Papers of individuals associated with campaigning and pressure groups include those of Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood, landscape architect, campaigner for pre-school education and child welfare, Ernest Benn, Sir Ernest Benn, publisher, libertarian and individualist, Mary Brennan (peace activist), Mary Brennan, peace activist and prominent member of CND, William Driscoll, chief training officer of the Economic League, Victor Gollancz, Sir Victor Gollancz, publisher and activist, Leslie Scott (British politician), Sir Leslie Scott, Conservative MP, judge and prominent member of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, and Eileen Younghusband (British social worker), Dame Eileen Younghusband, social worker.

Business

The Modern Records Centre holds some archives relating to business, especially the motor industry. Archives relating to the motor industry include Jensen Motors, the Rover Company, Rubery Owen, the Standard Motor Company, and the Triumph Engineering Company. Archives relating to other firms include Birmingham Small Arms, the British Steel Corporation, Victor Gollancz Ltd, Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd, and J. Parnell & Son Ltd, builders, of Rugby. The centre also holds the archives of the TDG Limited, Transport Development Group and of Arthur Primrose Young, manager of the Rugby works of the British Thomson-Houston Company.

Professional associations

The Modern Records Centre holds a growing collection of the archives of professional associations, especially those associated with social work. Major collections in the latter area include the Association of Child Care Officers, the Association of Social Workers, the British Association of Social Workers, the Institute of Medical Social Workers, the National Association of Social Workers in Education, and the National Institute for Social Work. Other professional associations with significant representation are the Association of Teachers of Domestic Science, the British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education, the British Institute of Management, the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Institute of Administrative Management, the Institute of Management Services, and the Institute of Personnel Management.

Politics

One of the collecting specialities of the Modern Records Centre is Trotskyist politics. Significant collections of papers relating to Trotskyist organisations include Bookmarks Publications, the International Marxist Group, the International Socialism Group, the Militant tendency, the Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1957), Revolutionary Socialist League, the Socialist Party (England and Wales), Socialist Party, Socialist Reproduction, the Socialist Vanguard Group, and the Spartacist League of Britain, Spartacist League. Papers of individuals associated with Trotskyist organisations include those of Chris Bambery, Colin Barker, Alan Clinton, Jimmy Deane, Reg Groves, Alistair Mutch, Geoff Pugh, Bob Purdie (historian), Bob Purdie, Tony Whelan (Trotskyist), Tony Whelan, and Harry Wicks. The centre also holds the papers of several Labour Members of Parliament: Richard Crossman, Maurice Edelman, Terry Fields, William Hamling, Pat Wall, and William Wilson (Labour politician), William Wilson. Other political holdings include the papers of former general secretary of the Labour Party Jim Mortimer (politician), Jim Mortimer, Conservative MP Derek Coombs, National Front (United Kingdom), National Front activist Wayne Ashcroft, and the Warwick and Leamington Constituency Labour Party.

Education

A further specialisation of the Modern Records Centre is in archives concerned with education. As well as the archives of the teachers' trade unions, the Centre holds significant archive collections of the Association of Technical Institutions, the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, the Council for National Academic Awards, the Joint University Council for Social Studies, the National Council for Diplomas in Art and Design, the National Council for Technological Awards, REPLAN, the Society for Research into Higher Education, and the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning.

Cycling

The Modern Records Centre holds the National Cycle Archive, the principal archive covering all aspects of cycling history in the United Kingdom. This includes the archives of the Auto-Cycle Union, the Cyclists' Touring Club, and the National Cyclists' Union, as well as archives of many other cycling organisations and clubs, manufacturers of bicycles and accessories, and individuals connected with cycling, such as Eric Claxton, Tony Hadland, Alex Josey, Derek Roberts and Frank Rowland Whitt.

Operational research

A significant collection of material relating to operational research includes the archives of the Operational Research Branches of British Coal and the British Overseas Airways Corporation, the Department of Operational Research of the British Steel Corporation, the Institute for Operational Research, the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, the Local Government Operational Research Unit, and the Operational Research Society, as well as the papers of prominent operational researchers Ken Bowen and Stephen Cook (operational researcher), Stephen Cook.

University of Warwick

The Centre holds the organisational archives of the University of Warwick itself and also Coventry College of Education, which amalgamated with it in 1971. It also holds the papers of some individuals connected with the university, notably the sociologists Gillian Rose and Meg Stacey, and Arthur Vick, Sir Arthur Vick, who was the university's chairman of council and pro-chancellor.

Miscellaneous

Other significant collections include the Bristol Unity Players' Club, the Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers' Associations, the Commercial Vehicle and Road Transport Club, the Low Pay Commission, the Royal Commission on Legal Services, the Royal Commission on the National Health Service, the Social Workers' Benevolent Trust, the Social Workers' Educational Trust, the Society for the Study of Labour History, and the Young Women's Christian Association. Papers of individuals include those of management consultant John Goddard, Catherine Hoskyns, an expert on gender politics and the European Union, and George Pope (newspaper manager), Sir George Pope, general manager of ''The Times''.

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