The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist
archive
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located.
Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual ...
service of the
University of Warwick
, mottoeng = Mind moves matter
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £7.0 million (2021)
, budget = £698.2 million (2020 ...
in
Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed b ...
,
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...
, 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.
Holdings
Trade unions
The Modern Records Centre holds by far the largest collection of archives of British
trade union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ...
s in the country. The largest collection held in the centre is the archive of the
Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions. There are 48 affiliated unions, with a total of about 5.5 million members. Frances ...
(TUC).
Other significant collections of archives relating to British trade unions include:
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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 ...
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Amalgamated Society of Engineers
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Amalgamated Slaters' and Tilers' Provident Society
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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, ...
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Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and Auxiliaries
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Associated Blacksmiths', Forge and Smithy Workers' Society /
Associated Blacksmiths' Society
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Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF)
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Association of Assistant Mistresses
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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. ...
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Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen
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Association of Executive Officers /
Second Division Clerks' Association
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Association of Head Mistresses
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Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX)/
Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union /
National Union of Clerks
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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)
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Association of Scientific Workers
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Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians (ASSET) /
National Foremen's Association
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Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education
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Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions
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Association of University Teachers
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Barclays Bank Staff Association
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Communication Managers' Association /
Post Office Management Staffs Association /
Association of Post Office Controlling Officers
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Community and Youth Workers' Union
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Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE)
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Connect
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Constructional Engineering Union
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Electrical Trades Union
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Fire Brigades Union
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Friendly Society of Iron Founders
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Guild of Insurance Officials
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Headmasters' Association /
Incorporated Association of Headmasters
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Inland Revenue Staff Federation
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Iron and Steel Trades Confederation
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Manchester Unity of Operative Bricklayers' Society
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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 ...
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Midland Bank Staff Association
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Monotype Casters' and Typefounders' Society /
Amalgamated Typefounders' Trade Society
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National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers
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National and Local Government Officers' Association (NALGO)
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National Association of Operative Plasterers
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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National League of the Blind
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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 ...
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National Society of Brass and Metal Mechanics /
National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers
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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)
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National Society of Painters /
National Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators /
National Amalgamated Society of Operative House Painters and Decorators
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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 ...
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Bank Officers' Guild
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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 ...
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National Union of County Officers
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National Union of Enginemen, Firemen, Mechanics and Electrical Workers /
National Amalgamated Union of Enginemen
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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 ...
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National Union of General and Municipal Workers
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National Union of Glovers and Leather Workers
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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 ...
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National Union of Journalists
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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 ...
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National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) /
National Union of Corporation Workers
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National Union of Railwaymen /
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants
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National Union of Seamen
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National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers
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National Union of Teachers
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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 ...
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United Kingdom Society of Coachmakers
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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United Operative Plumbers' Association
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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 ...
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Post Office Controlling Officers' Association
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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 ...
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Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society
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Prospect
Prospect may refer to:
General
* Prospect (marketing), a marketing term describing a potential customer
* Prospect (sports), any player whose rights are owned by a professional team, but who has yet to play a game for the team
* Prospect (minin ...
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Prudential Staff Union
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Royal London Staff Association
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Scottish Sheet-Metal Workers' and Braziers' Friendly and Protective Society
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Sign and Display Trade Union /
National Union of Sign, Glass and Ticket Writers and Kindred Trades
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Society of Chiropodists
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Society of Civil and Public Servants /
Society of Civil Servants
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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)
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(SLADE)
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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 ...
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Society of Telecommunication Engineers /
Society of Post Office Engineering Inspectors
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Steel Industry Management Association
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Tobacco Workers' Union
The Tobacco Workers' Union (TWU) was a trade union representing workers in all areas of the tobacco industry in the United Kingdom.
History
The union was founded in 1834 in London as the Friendly Society of Operative Tobacconists. Two years ...
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Training College Association
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Transport and General Workers' Union
The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland – where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) to differentiate ...
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Transport Salaried Staffs' Association
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) is a trade union for workers in the transport and travel industries in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its head office is in London, and it has regional offices in Bristol, Derby, Dublin, ...
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Railway Clerks' Association
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) is a trade union for workers in the transport and travel industries in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its head office is in London, and it has regional offices in Bristol, Derby, Dublin, ...
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Typographical Association
The Typographical Association (TA) was a trade union representing typographers in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
History
The National Typographical Association collapsed in 1848, and delegates from across Yorkshire and Lancashire met at Ange ...
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Union of Bookmakers' Employees
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Union of Communication Workers
The Union of Communication Workers (UCW) was a trade union in the United Kingdom for workers in the post office and telecommunications industries.
History
The union was founded in 1919 as the Union of Post Office Workers (UPW) by the mer ...
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Union of Post Office Workers
The Union of Communication Workers (UCW) was a trade union in the United Kingdom for workers in the post office and telecommunications industries.
History
The union was founded in 1919 as the Union of Post Office Workers (UPW) by the merger ...
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Unison
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Unite
Unite may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Music Albums
* ''Unite'' (A Friend in London album), 2013 album by Danish band A Friend in London
* ''Unite'' (Kool & the Gang album), 1993
* ''Unite'' (The O.C. Supertones album), 2005
Songs ...
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United Commercial Travellers' Association
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United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers
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United Patternmakers' Association
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United Society of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders
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Wallpaper Trades Superannuation Society
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Workers' Union
The Workers' Union was a general union based in the United Kingdom, but with some branches in other countries. During the 1910s, it was the largest general union in the UK, but it entered a rapid decline in the 1920s, and eventually became part ...
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, 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
The Printing and Kindred Trades Federation (P&KTF) was a trade union federation in the United Kingdom.
History
The federation was established at a conference in Manchester on 8 September 1890, organised on the initiative of George D. Kelley. The ...
.
International trade union federations are represented by major collections of the
International Transport Workers' Federation and the
World Federation of Scientific Workers
The World Federation of Scientific Workers (WFSW) is an international federation of scientific associations. It is an NGO in official partnership with Unesco. Its goal is to be involved internationally in all aspects of the role of science, the ...
.
Collections relating to joint trade union committees include those of the
Alcan Foils Wembley Factory trade union committees, the
British Leyland
British Leyland was an automotive engineering and manufacturing conglomerate formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It was partly ...
Trade Union Committee, Coventry Chain Shop Stewards' Committee, Coventry
Trades Council A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area. Most commonly, they represent unions in a given geographical area, whether at the district, city, region, or provincial or ...
, the
GCHQ Trade Union Campaign Committee, and the
London Transport Aldenham Bus Overhaul Works trade union committees.
The centre also holds significant collections relating to leaders of trade unions, including:
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Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 – 14 April 1951) was a British statesman, trade union leader, and Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician. He co-founded and served as General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union in th ...
, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Minister of Labour and Foreign Secretary
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Rodney Bickerstaffe, general secretary of NUPE and Unison
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Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple of Hoxton, general secretary of the Electrical Trades Union and Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union
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Percy Collick
Percy Henry Collick (16 November 1897 – 24 July 1984) was a British Labour Party politician and trade union official.
Originally a railway fireman with the Southern Railway, he was a member of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers ...
, assistant general secretary of ASLEF and Labour MP
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Frank Cousins, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and Minister of Technology
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Frank Crump, general secretary of the National Amalgamated Union of Life Assurance Workers
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Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, general secretary of SOGAT '82
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R. A. W. Emerick, general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers
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Alan Fisher, general secretary of NUPE
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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
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Clive Jenkins, general secretary of ASSET, ASTMS and the MSF
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Jack Jones Jack Jones may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
*Jack Jones (American singer) (born 1938), American jazz and pop singer
*Jack Jones, stage name of Australian singer Irwin Thomas (born 1971)
*Jack Jones (Welsh musician) (born 1992), Welsh mu ...
, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
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Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
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Ron Todd, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
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Paul Tofahrn Paul Tofahrn (8 January 1901 – 7 February 1979) was a Belgian and international trade union leader.
Born in Manderfeld, Tofahrn grew up in Germany, France, Belgium and Italy, as his father moved to find work. During World War I, he worked ...
, assistant general secretary of the International Transport Workers' Federation and general secretary of Public Services International
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Bob Willis, general secretary of the London Society of Compositors, London Typographical Society, and National Graphical Association
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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
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Alan Thornett
Alan Thornett (born 15 June 1937) is a British Trotskyist.
Alan Thornett began his career as a car worker in Plant Oxford, Cowley, Oxford in 1959. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain there in 1960 before being recruited with other ...
, 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 :''This is about the Maritime Board in the United Kingdom. For the Board in the Philippines, see National Seamen Board.''
The National Maritime Board (NMB) was a bilateral board governing wages and working practices in the British shipping indust ...
, and the
National Whitley Council for the Civil Service.
Papers of various academics and/or conciliators concerned with industrial relations include those of
Sir George Bain,
William Brown,
Colleen Chesterman,
Hugh Clegg,
Bob Fryer,
Geoffrey Goodman
Geoffrey George Goodman (2 July 1922 – 5 September 2013Mike Molloy"Obituary: Geoffrey Goodman" theguardian.com, 6 September 2013.) was a British journalist, broadcaster and writer. Following periods on the ''News Chronicle'' and the '' Daily He ...
,
Richard Hyman,
Grigor McClelland,
Arthur Marsh,
Sir Jack Scamp, and
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 association
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry. An industry trade association partic ...
s. The largest of these are the archives of the
Confederation of British Industry
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is a UK business organisation, which in total claims to speak for 190,000 businesses, this is made up of around 1,500 direct members and 188,500 non-members. The non members are represented through the 1 ...
(CBI) and its predecessor, the
Federation of British Industries (FBI).
Other major association employers' and trade association collections include:
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Apparel and Fashion Industry Association
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Association of Professional Recording Services
The Association of Professional Recording Services (APRS) is a trade association for the audio industry in the United Kingdom.
Overview
The APRS has a strong presence within the industry and lobby on behalf of their members for the best enviro ...
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Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance
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Brewers' Society
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British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers' Association
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British Employers' Confederation
The British Employers' Confederation (BEC), formerly the National Confederation of Employers' Organisations (NCEO), was an employers' association in the United Kingdom.
It had its origins in the Employers' Advisory Council established in 1917 to ...
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National Confederation of Employers' Organisations
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British Independent Steel Producers' Association
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British Iron and Steel Consumers' Council
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British Iron and Steel Federation
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Chamber of Shipping
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Coventry and District Engineering Employers' Association
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Cycle and Motor Cycle Association /
Cycle and Motor Cycle Manufacturers' and Traders' Union
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Engineering Employers' East Midlands Association
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Engineering Employers' Federation Make UK, formerly the Engineering Employers' Federation, represents manufacturers in the United Kingdom.
Purpose
Make UK provides businesses with advice, guidance and support in employment law, employee relations, health, safety, climate and envi ...
/
Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation
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Engineering Employers' West Midlands Association
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Iron and Steel Trades Employers' Association
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Knitting Industries' Federation
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National Association of British Manufacturers
The National Association of British Manufacturers (NABM), formerly the National Union of Manufacturers (NUM), was an employers' association in the United Kingdom.
Founded in 1915 as the British Manufacturers' Association (BMA), it was renamed the ...
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National Engineering Construction Employers' Association
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National Federation of Building Trades Employers /
Association of Master Builders
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National Industrial Organisation
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Oil and Chemical Plant Constructors' Association
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Refractory Users' Federation
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Road Haulage Association
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Scottish Steel Makers' Association
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Shipping Federation
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The Shipping Federation was an association of employers in the shipping industry. It was formed in 1890 in response to the London dock strike of 1889 and the successes of the National Union of Seamen and various do ...
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Shirt, Collar and Tie Manufacturers' Federation
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Society of British Gas Industries
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Tea Council of Great Britain
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UK Fashion and Textile Association
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Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers' Federation
Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. In ...
Archives of related organisations include those of the
Dollar Exports Council,
India, Pakistan and Burma Association,
Iron and Steel Board
The Iron and Steel Board was a governmental body, originally established in 1946, to supervise the work and development of the United Kingdom iron and steel industry. It was reestablished in 1953 and was abolished in 1967.
Iron and Steel Board 1 ...
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:
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All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation
The All Britain Anti Poll Tax Federation, commonly known as "the Fed", was an organisation in Great Britain to co-ordinate the activities of local Anti-Poll Tax Unions (APTUs) campaigning against the Poll tax (officially the "Community Charge") ...
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and s ...
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Anti-Nazi League
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
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Campaign for the Advancement of State Education
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Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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Council for Educational Advance
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Economic League
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Family Service Units
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Howard League for Penal Reform
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Industrial Society
In sociology, industrial society is a society driven by the use of technology and machinery to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a structure developed in the Western world in ...
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Industrial Welfare Society
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Involvement and Participation Association /
Industrial Co-partnership Association /
Labour Co-partnership Association
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Make Poverty History
Make Poverty History are organizations in a number of countries, which focus on issues relating to 8th Millennium Development Goal such as aid, trade and justice. They generally form a coalition of aid and development agencies which work togethe ...
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National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) /
National Association of Discharged Prisoners' Aid Societies
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National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom
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National Postgraduate Committee
The National Postgraduate Committee of the United Kingdom (NPC) was a charitable organisation which represented postgraduates at UK universities. In 2009 it voted to dissolve itself and merge with the National Union of Students.
NPC was forme ...
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National Union of Students
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Release
Release may refer to:
* Art release, the public distribution of an artistic production, such as a film, album, or song
* Legal release, a legal instrument
* News release, a communication directed at the news media
* Release (ISUP), a code to iden ...
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West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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World University Service
Papers of individuals associated with campaigning and pressure groups include those of
Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood
Marjory Allen, Baroness Allen of Hurtwood (née Gill; 10 May 1897 – 11 April 1976), known to her friends as Joan, was an English landscape architect and promoter of child welfare.
Marjory Gill was born in Bexleyheath, Kent. She was a cousin ...
, landscape architect, campaigner for pre-school education and child welfare,
Sir Ernest Benn, publisher, libertarian and individualist,
Mary Brennan, peace activist and prominent member of CND,
William Driscoll, chief training officer of the Economic League,
Sir Victor Gollancz, publisher and activist,
Sir Leslie Scott, Conservative MP, judge and prominent member of the
Council for the Preservation of Rural England, and
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
The Rover Company Limited was a British car manufacturing company that operated from its base in Solihull in Warwickshire. Its lasting reputation for quality and performance was such that its first postwar model reviewed by ''Road & Track'' in ...
,
Rubery Owen, the
Standard Motor Company, and the
Triumph Engineering Company.
Archives relating to other firms include
Birmingham Small Arms
The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and m ...
, 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
Transport Development Group and of
Arthur Primrose Young, manager of the Rugby works of the
British Thomson-Houston Company
British Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British engineering and heavy industrial company, based at Rugby, Warwickshire, England, and founded as a subsidiary of the General Electric Company (GE) of Schenectady, New York, United States. They were kno ...
.
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 Association of Social Workers (ASW) was the main professional body for non-specialised social workers in the United Kingdom. It was established as the British Federation of Social Workers (BFSW) in 1935 and changed its name in 1951. From 1949 ...
, the
British Association of Social Workers
The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) is the largest professional association of registered social workers and qualified care managers in the United Kingdom. The association has a members' code of ethics that outlines best social work p ...
, the
Institute of Medical Social Workers, the
National Association of Social Workers in Education, and the
National Institute for Social Work The National Institute for Social Work Training was set up in 1961, following proposals put forward in the 1959 Eileen Younghusband report for an independent staff college for social work. Its initial funding was assured for ten years by the Nuffie ...
.
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 Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) is an association of the head teachers of 361 independent schools (both boarding schools and day schools), some traditionally described as public schools. 298 Members are based in the Un ...
, 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
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a ...
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, the
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of ...
,
Socialist Reproduction, the
Socialist Vanguard Group, and the
Spartacist League
The Spartacus League (German: ''Spartakusbund'') was a Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. It was founded in August 1914 as the "International Group" by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and othe ...
.
Papers of individuals associated with Trotskyist organisations include those of
Chris Bambery,
Colin Barker
Colin Barker (30 June 1939 – 4 February 2019) was a British sociologist as well as a Marxist historian and writer. A former long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party in Manchester, he was the author of numerous articles and works ...
,
Alan Clinton,
Jimmy Deane
Jimmy Deane (31 January 1921 – 21 August 2002) was a British Trotskyist who played a significant role in building the Revolutionary Socialist League. Along with Jock Haston and Ted Grant, he played a role during the Second World War in the ...
,
Reg Groves,
Alistair Mutch,
Geoff Pugh,
Bob Purdie,
Tony Whelan
Anthony M. Whelan (; born 20 November 1952) is an English former professional footballer who works as assistant academy director of Manchester United. He is responsible for the Under-9 to Under-16 player development programme.
Playing career E ...
, and
Harry Wicks
Harry Wicks (16 August 1905 – 26 March 1989) was a British socialist activist.
Born in Battersea, London, he went to work on the railways and joined the National Union of Railwaymen in 1919. He joined the Labour Party, but after Black Frid ...
.
The centre also holds the papers of several Labour Members of Parliament:
Richard Crossman,
Maurice Edelman
Israel Maurice Edelman (2 March 1911 – 14 December 1975) was a Wales-born British Labour Party politician and novelist who represented Coventry constituencies in the House of Commons for over 30 years.
Early life
Maurice Edelman was born i ...
,
Terry Fields
Terence Fields (8 March 1937 – 28 June 2008) was a British politician and firefighter. A member of the Militant group, he was the Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool Broadgreen from 1983 to 1992. He was expelled from the Labour Party ...
,
William Hamling,
Pat Wall
Charles Patrick Wall (6 May 1933 – 6 August 1990) was an English Trotskyist political activist who was the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford North (UK Parliament ...
, and
William Wilson.
Other political holdings include the papers of former general secretary of the Labour Party
Jim Mortimer, Conservative MP
Derek Coombs
Derek Michael Coombs (12 August 1931 – 30 December 2014) was a British Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 1970 to 1974, when he lost to Labour's Sydney Tierney. He was subsequently a businessman, ...
,
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
Universities UK (UUK) is an advocacy organisation for universities in the United Kingdom. It began life in the early 20th century through informal meetings of vice-chancellors of a number of universities and principals of university colleges and ...
, 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
Cycling UK is a trading name of the Cyclists' Touring Club (CTC), which is a charitable membership organisation supporting cyclists and promoting bicycle use. Cycling UK is registered at Companies House as "Cyclists’ Touring Club", and is cov ...
, and the
National Cyclists' Union
The National Cyclists' Union (NCU) was an association established in the Guildhall Tavern, London, on 16 February 1878 as the Bicycle Union. Its purpose was to defend cyclists and to organise and regulate bicycle racing in Great Britain. It merged ...
, 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
Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...
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.
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
Gillian Rosemary Rose (née Stone; 20 September 1947 – 9 December 1995) was a British philosopher and writer. Rose held the chair of social and political thought at the University of Warwick until 1995. Rose began her teaching career at th ...
and
Meg Stacey, and
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 Low Pay Commission (LPC) is an independent body in the United Kingdom, established in 1997, that advises the government on the National Minimum Wage. It is an advisory non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Energy and In ...
, the
Royal Commission on Legal Services, the
Royal Commission on the National Health Service
The Royal Commission on the National Health Service was set up by the Wilson government in 1975. It was to consider the "best use and management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS".
The Royal Commission reported in June 1979, by ...
, 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
Sir George Pope, general manager of ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' ( ...
''.
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