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 or organ ...

service of the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

Coventry Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centurie ...

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

, 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

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

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 center, national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions that collectively represent most unionised workers in England and Wales. There are 48 affiliated unions with a total of ...

(TUC). Other significant collections of archives relating to British trade unions include: * Amalgamated Engineering Union / Amalgamated Society of Engineers * Amalgamated Slaters' and Tilers' Provident Society * Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners * Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and Auxiliaries *

Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers The Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers (ASW) was a British trade union representing carpenter Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materia ...

* Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers * 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 * 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 The Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX) was a Great Britain, British trade union which represented Clerk, clerical and Business administration, administrative employees. History The Clerks Union was forme ...

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 The Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians (ASSET), was a British trade union, chiefly representing supervisors in the metal working and transport industries. It was formed from the National Foremen's Association, founde ...

(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 * Civil and Public Services Association / Civil Service Clerical Association * 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 * General Union of Carpenters and Joiners * Guild of Insurance Officials * Headmasters' Association / Incorporated Association of Headmasters * Inland Revenue Staff Federation * Iron and Steel Trades Confederation * London Society of Compositors * London Typographical Society * Manchester Unity of Operative Bricklayers' Society * Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union / National Asylum Workers' Union * Midland Bank Staff Association * Monotype Casters' and Typefounders' Society / Amalgamated Typefounders' Trade Society * National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers *

National and Local Government Officers' Association The National and Local Government Officers' Association was a British trade union representing mostly local government White-collar workers, "white collar" workers. It was formed in 1905 as the National Association of Local Government Officers, ...

(NALGO) * National Association of Operative Plasterers * National Association of Schoolmasters * National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education *

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 an ...

* National League of the Blind and Disabled / National League of the Blind * National Society of Metal Mechanics / National Society of Brass and Metal Mechanics / National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers * National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (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 / Bank Officers' Guild * National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives * 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 Wor ...

National Union of General and Municipal Workers The GMB is a general union, general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 560,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution, the utilities, social care, the National He ...

* National Union of Glovers and Leather Workers * National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers *

National Union of Journalists The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is a trade union supporting journalists in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The NUJ was founded in 1907 and has 20,693 members. It is a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Trades ...

* National Union of Mineworkers * National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers * National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) / National Union of Corporation Workers *

National Union of Railwaymen The National Union of Railwaymen was a trade union of railway workers in the United Kingdom. The largest railway workers' union in the country, it was influential in the national trade union movement. History The NUR was an industrial union ...

/ 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 *

National Union of Teachers The National Union of Teachers (NUT; ) was a trade union for school teachers in Education in England, England, Education in Wales, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It was a member of the Trades Union Congress. In March 2017, NU ...

* National Union of Vehicle Builders / United Kingdom Society of Coachmakers * National Union of Wallcoverings, Decorative and Allied Trades / Wallpaper Workers' Union *

Operative Bricklayers' Society The Operative Bricklayers' Society (OBS) was a UK, 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 18 ...

* Plumbing Trades Union / United Operative Plumbers' Association * Postmen's Federation * Post Office Controlling Officers' Association * Post Office Engineering Union * Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society * Prospect * 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 Pr ...

(SOGAT) * Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers (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 The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general union, general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland—where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU)—with 900 ...

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 Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Its head office is in London, and it has regional offices in Bristol, ...

/ Railway Clerks' Association * Typographical Association * Union of Bookmakers' Employees * Union of Communication Workers / Union of Post Office Workers *

Unison Unison (stylised as UNISON) is a Great Britain, British trade union. Along with Unite the Union, Unite, Unison is one of the two largest trade unions in the United Kingdom, with over 1.2 million members who work predominantly in public servic ...

* Unite * United Commercial Travellers' Association * United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers * United Patternmakers' Association *

United Society of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders and Structural Workers The Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers (ASB) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. Many of its members worked in shipbuilding, in which industry it was the leading trade union, while over tim ...

/ 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, 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 The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a democratic global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2017 the ITF had 677 member organizations in 149 countries, representing a combined membership o ...

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 British Leyland was a British automotive engineering and manufacturing Conglomerate (company), conglomerate formed in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC), following the merger of Leyland Motors and British Motor Holdings. It wa ...

Trade Union Committee, Coventry Chain Shop Stewards' Committee, Coventry

Trades Council A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of trade union, labour unions or local union, union branches in a given area. Most commonly, they represent unions in a given geographical area, whether at the district, city, ...

, 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: *

Ernest Bevin Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 – 14 April 1951) was a British statesman, trade union leader and Labour Party politician. He co-founded and served as General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1940 and ...

, 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 Percy Henry Collick (16 November 1897 – 24 July 1984) was a British Labour Party politician and trade union official. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birkenhead West from 1945 to 1950, when the seat was abolished in boundary chan ...

, assistant general secretary of ASLEF and Labour MP * 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, general secretary of NUPE * 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, 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, 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, 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 Sir George Bain, William Brown, Colleen Chesterman, Hugh Clegg, Bob Fryer, Geoffrey Goodman, 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 (economics), industry. Through collabor ...

s. The largest of these are the archives of the

Confederation of British Industry The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is a British business interest group, which says it represents 190,000 businesses. The CBI has been described by the ''Financial Times'' as "Britain's biggest business lobby group". Incorporated by roy ...

(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 is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems. Modern engineering comprises many subfi ...

* 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 The All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation (ABAPTF), 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 (Great Britain), Poll tax (o ...

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 that it has more than ten million members a ...

* 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 * Family Service Units * Howard League for Penal Reform *

Industrial Society In sociology, an 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 ...

/ Industrial Welfare Society * Involvement and Participation Association / Industrial Co-partnership Association / Labour Co-partnership Association *

Make Poverty History Make Poverty History were organizations in a number of countries, which focused on issues relating to 8th Millennium Development Goal such as aid, trade and justice. They generally formed a coalition of aid and development agencies which worked ...

* 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 *

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 i ...

* 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, 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 Jensen Motors Limited was a England, British manufacturer of sports cars and commercial vehicles in West Bromwich, England. Brothers Alan and Richard Jensen gave the new name, Jensen Motors Limited, to the commercial- and sports car body-making ...

, the

Rover Company The Rover Company Limited was a British car manufacturing company originally founded in 1878, beginning car manufacturing in 1904. It primarily operated from its base in Solihull, Warwickshire. Rover also manufactured the Land Rover series from ...

, Rubery Owen, the

Standard Motor Company The Standard Motor Company Limited was a motor vehicle manufacturer, founded in Coventry, England, in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay. For many years, it manufactured Ferguson TE20 tractors powered by its Vanguard engine. All Standard's tracto ...

, and the Triumph Engineering Company. Archives relating to other firms include Birmingham Small Arms, the

British Steel Corporation British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and cultur ...

Victor Gollancz Ltd Victor Gollancz Ltd () was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century and continues to publish science fiction and fantasy titles as an imprint of Orion Publishing Group. Gollancz was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz, an ...

, 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. Originally founded to sell products from the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, it soon became a manufacturer using li ...

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 Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), formerly known as the Headmasters' Conference and now branded HMC (The Heads' Conference), is an association of the head teachers of 351 private fee-charging schools (both boarding schools ...

, 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 Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. Trotsky described himself as an ...

politics. Significant collections of papers relating to Trotskyist organisations include Bookmarks Publications, the International Marxist Group, the International Socialism Group, the

Militant tendency The Militant tendency, or Militant, was a Trotskyist group in the British Labour Party, organised around the ''Militant'' newspaper, which launched in 1964. In 1975, there was widespread press coverage of a Labour Party report on the infiltrat ...

, 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 th ...

, Socialist Reproduction, the Socialist Vanguard Group, and the 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, Tony Whelan, and Harry Wicks. The centre also holds the papers of several Labour Members of Parliament:

Richard Crossman Richard Howard Stafford Crossman (15 December 1907 – 5 April 1974) was a British Labour Party politician. A university classics lecturer by profession, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1945 and became a significant figure among the ...

, Maurice Edelman, Terry Fields, William Hamling, Pat Wall, and William Wilson. Other political holdings include the papers of former general secretary of the Labour Party Jim Mortimer, Conservative MP Derek Coombs, 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 A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly o ...

, the

Council for National Academic Awards The Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) was the national degree-awarding authority in the United Kingdom from 1965 until its dissolution on 20 April 1993. Background The establishment followed the recommendation of the UK government Com ...

, 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 Auto-Cycle Union (ACU) is the governing body of motorcycle sport in the British Isles, including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, excluding Northern Ireland

, 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 British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the United Kingdom, British state-owned national airline created in 1939 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. It continued operating overseas services throughout World War II ...

, the Department of Operational Research of the

, 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 Coventry College of Education existed as a separate institution until its incorporation into the University of Warwick in 1978 as the Westwood campus. It was located to the north of the university's main site. From 1948, the Principal of Coventr ...

, 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 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 Sir George Pope, general manager of ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...

''.

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