Working Class Movement Library

• Frontline Books, publisher
• Kiernan, printer, Liverpool
• New Mills Co-operative Society Ltd New Mills, Derbyshire

• Alliance Cabinet Makers' Association London
• Amalgamated Association of Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives
• Amalgamated Association of Operative Spinnners and Twiners
• Amalgamated Engineering Union
• Amalgamated Engineering Union: Manchester no 15 branch Manchester, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Engineering Union: Manchester no 6 branch Manchester, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Engineering Union: Manchester no 9 branch Manchester, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Engineering Union: Salford no 4 branch Salford, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers
• Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers: Mersey District Liverpool, Lancashire;Birkenhead, Cheshire
• Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers: Nottingham branch Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
• Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers: South Wales District
• Amalgamated Society of Engineers: Manchester no 1 branch Manchester, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Society of Engineers: Patricroft branch Patricroft, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Society of Gilders London
• Amalgamated Society of India Rubber, Cable and Asbestos Workers
• Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers (SLADE)
• Amalgamated Society of Mill Sawyers and Wood-cutting Machinists London
• Amalgamated Society of Tailors
• Amalgamated Society of Tailors: Ipswich branch Ipswich, Suffolk
• Amalgamated Society of Tailors: Norwich branch Norwich, Norfolk
• Amalgamated Society of Wire Drawers and Kindred Trades
• Amalgamated Society of Wire Drawers and Kindred Trades: Manchester branch Manchester, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Society of Wire Drawers and Kindred Trades: Warrington district Warrington, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists
• Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists: Hull branch Hull, Yorkshire
• Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists: Nottingham Branch Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
• Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers
• Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers: Gorton branch Gorton, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers: Openshaw branch Openshaw, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers: Pendleton no 2 branch Pendleton, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen
• Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen: Blackburn and district branch Blackburn, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen: Bolton branch Bolton, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen: Bury branch Bury, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Textile Workers Union Lancashire;Lancashire
• Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers
• Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers: Hyde branch Hyde, Cheshire
• Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers: Manchester no 6 branch Manchester, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Union of Clothiers Operatives
• Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Blackpool branch Blackpool, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Manchester district victimisation fund Manchester, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Openshaw no 7 branch Openshaw, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Stockport district committee Stockport, Cheshire
• Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers
• Amalgamated Union of Machine and General Labourers
• Amalgamated Union of Machine and General Labourers: Heywood branch Heywood, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers
• Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers, Liverpool Liverpool, Lancashire
• Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers: London no 1 branch London
• Amalgamated Weavers Association
• Ashfield Labour Club Ashfield, Cheshire
• Ashton-under-Lyne and District Powerloom Weavers Association Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
• Associated Blacksmiths and Ironworkers Society
• Associated Blacksmiths, Forge and Smithy Workers Society
• Associated Blacksmiths, Forge and Smithy Workers Society: Glasgow branch Glasgow, Lanarkshire
• Associated Iron Moulders of Scotland
• Associated Ironmoulders of Scotland Scotland
• Associated Society of Moulders and Foundry Workers
• Association of Professional, Executive and Clerical Staff: London and Home Counties area joint council London
• Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX)
• Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries
• AV Roe and Co Ltd Works Committee Woodford, Cheshire
• Bakers' Union
• Belfast Furnishing Trades Joint Committee Belfast, County Antrim
• Blackburn and District Amalgamated Powerloom Overlookers' Association
• Blackburn and District Power Loom Weavers Association Blackburn, Lancashire
• Blackley Bowling Club Blackley, Lancashire
• Bolton and District Card and Ring Room Operatives Provincial Association: no 3 branch Lancashire
• Bolton and District Card and Ring-room Operatives Provincial Association: no 4 (Swinton?) branch Bolton, Lancashire;Swinton, Lancashire
• Bolton and District Card, Blowin, Ring Throstle-room Operatives Association: Leigh, Atherton and Tyldesley branch Leigh, Lancashire;Atherton, Lancashire;Tyldesley, Lancashire
• Bolton and District Cotton Doublers, Winders, Reelers etc Trade Union Bolton, Lancashire
• Bolton and District Textile Manufacturing Trades Federation Bolton, Lancashire
• Bolton and District Union of Textile and Allied Workers Bolton, Lancashire
• Bolton and District Union of Textile and Allied Workers: Atherton branch Atherton, Lancashire
• Bolton and District Union of Textile and Allied Workers: Bolton branch Bolton, Lancashire
• Bolton and District United Trades Council Bolton, Lancashire
• Bolton and District Weavers, Winders, Warpers, Loom Sweepers and Ancillary Workers Association Bolton, Lancashire
• Bolton Operative Cotton Spinners Provincial Association Bolton, Lancashire
• Bolton Strippers and Grinders Society Bolton, Lancashire
• Bookbinders and Machine Rulers Consolidated Union
• British Hospital for Vietnam
• Broadheath Labour Party Broadheath, Cheshire
• Brush Makers Benevolent Institution
• Brushmakers' Union
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Greater Manchester and District
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: North West area
• Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
• Ceramic and Allied Trades Union
• Christian Socialist Society: London district London
• Christian Socialist Society: Stepney Stepney, Middlesex
• Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union
• Clerical and Administrative Workers Union: Halifax branch Halifax, Yorkshire
• Clerical and Administrative Workers Union: Leeds branch Leeds, Yorkshire
• Cleveland Miners and Quarrymens Association Cleveland, Yorkshire
• Communist Party of Great Britain
• Communist Party of Great Britain: Middleton branch Middleton, Lancashire
• Coopers and Allied Workers Federation
• Coopers' Unions
• Darwen Textile Trades Federation Darwen, Lancashire
• Electrical and Plumbing Industries Union (EPIU) London
• Electrical Trades Union
• Fairey Engineering Ltd works committees Stockport, Cheshire
• Fire Brigades Union
• Free German League of Culture: Manchester, Salford and District branch Manchester, Lancashire;Salford, Lancashire
• Friendly Society of Ironfounders
• Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons
• Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons: Hadfield lodge Hadfield, Derbyshire
• Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union London
• General Amalgamation of Cloth Lookers and Warehousemen
• General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union: Midlands East Division East Midlands
• General Union of Associations of Loom Overlookers Lancashire;Lancashire
• General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union
• Glasgow Journeymen Coopers Trade Society Glasgow, Lanarkshire
• Great Harwood Weavers Association Great Harwood, Lancashire
• Heywood and Castleton District Weavers, Winders and Reelers Association Heywood, Lancashire;Castleton, Lancashire
• Hyde and District Textile Trades Federation Hyde, Cheshire
• Hyde Weavers Association Hyde, Cheshire
• Independent Labour Party
• Irish in Britain Representation Group Manchester, Lancashire
• Jewish Socialists’ Group
• Knutsford and Holmes Chapel Branch Labour Party Knutsford, Cheshire;Holmes Chapel, Cheshire
• L Gardner and Sons Ltd shop stewards committee Patricroft, Lancashire
• Laminated and Coil Spring Workers' Union
• Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures
• Liberation London
• Liverpool Journeymen Upholsterers Liverpool, Lancashire
• London Upholsterers' Society London
• Managers and Overlookers Society
• Manchester and Salford Film Society Manchester, Lancashire;Salford, Lancashire
• Manchester Council of Labour Manchester, Lancashire
• Manchester Salford and District Women's Trades Union Council Manchester, Lancashire
• Medical Aid for Vietnam
• Medical Practitioners Union
• Municipal Employees Association
• Musical Instrument Makers and Organ Builders Unions
• National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association
• National Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators
• National Amalgamated Union of Labour
• National Amalgamated Workers Union: Leicester no 6 (electricity workers) branch Leicester, Leicestershire
• National Association of Operative Plasterers
• National Association of Powerloom Overlookers: Swinton branch Swinton, Lancashire
• National Clarion Cycling Club
• National Clarion Cycling Club: Foleshill Branch Foleshill, Warwickshire
• National Federation of Furnishing Trade Union London
• National Federation of General Workers
• National Guild of Co-operators: Blackley branch Blackley, Lancashire
• National Guild of Co-operators: Liverpool district Liverpool, Lancashire
• National Guild of Co-operators: Manchester and Salford combi Manchester, Lancashire;Salford, Lancashire
• National Guild of Co-operators: Oakfield branch Oakfield, Lancashire
• National Guild of Co-operators: Seaforth branch Seaforth, Lancashire
• National League of the Blind and Disabled London
• National Society of Brushmakers
• National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants
• National Society of Painters: St Helens branch St Helens, Lancashire
• National Union of Clerks
• National Union of Clerks and Administrative Workers
• National Union of Clerks and Administrative Workers: Doncaster and district branch Doncaster, Yorkshire
• National Union of Clerks and Administrative Workers: North Eastern area council Northumberland;Durham;Durham;Northumberland
• National Union of Clerks: Greenock and district branch Greenock, Renfrewshire
• National Union of Clerks: London Central branch London
• National Union of Footwear, Leather and Allied Trades
• National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives
• National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers
• National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers: Barking branch Barking, Essex
• National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers: Bolton branch Bolton, Lancashire
• National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers: Bromley East branch Bromley-by-Bow, Middlesex
• National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers: Leeds district branch Leeds, Yorkshire
• National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers: Nottingham no 1 branch Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
• National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers: Reading branch Reading, Berkshire
• National Union of General and Municipal Workers
• National Union of General and Municipal Workers: Bolton no 19 branch Bolton, Lancashire
• National Union of General and Municipal Workers: Bolton no 30 branch Bolton, Lancashire
• National Union of General Workers: Bolton no 1 branch Bolton, Lancashire
• National Union of General Workers: Nottingham no 1 branch Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
• National Union of Journalists: Manchester Evening News chapel Manchester, Lancashire
• National Union of Metal Workers: Rochdale branch Rochdale, Lancashire
• National Union of Mineworkers
• National Union of Musical Instrument Makers
• National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers Castleton, Lancashire;Oldham, Lancashire;Rochdale, Lancashire
• National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Manchester branch Manchester, Lancashire
• National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Manchester Womens' branch Manchester, Lancashire
• National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers: North West branch
• National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers: Oldham branch Oldham, Lancashire
• National Union of Railwaymen
• National Union of Railwaymen: Manchester and District area branch Manchester, Lancashire
• National Union of Railworkers
• National Union of Seamen
• National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers: Ashton & Rochdale branch Rochdale, Lancashire;Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
• National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating & Domestic Engineers: Rochdale branch Rochdale, Lancashire
• National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating & Domestic Engineers: Ashton & Oldham branch Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire;Oldham, Lancashire
• National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating & Domestic Engineers: Ashton-under-Lyne branch Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
• National Union of Sheet Metalworkers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers
• National Union of Stove, Grate and General Metal Workers
• National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
• National Union of Teachers: Bolton Branch Bolton, Lancashire
• Nelson and Colne Constituency Labour Party Nelson, Lancashire;Colne, Lancashire
• Nelson Weavers Union Nelson, Lancashire
• No Conscription Fellowship
• Northern Counties Amalgamated Association of Weavers Cheshire;Lancashire;Yorkshire and the Humber
• Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation
• Occupy movement
• Oldham and District Weavers and Winders Association Oldham, Lancashire
• Operative Bakers Confectioners & Allied Workers: Almonds Branch, Wythenshawe Wythenshawe, Cheshire
• Operative Bakers Confectioners & Allied Workers: Bristol Branch Bristol, Gloucestershire
• Operative Bakers Confectioners & Allied Workers: Liverpool Branch Liverpool, Lancashire
• Operative Bakers Confectioners & Allied Workers: Manchester Branch Manchester, Lancashire
• Organ Builders' Trade Society
• Padiham and District Weavers Association Padiham, Lancashire
• Plumbing Trades Union
• Power Loom Overlookers
• Poynton Constituency Labour Party Poynton, Cheshire
• Prestwich Independent Labour Party Prestwich, Lancashire
• Red Rope Socialist Walking and Climbing Club
• Rochdale Weavers, Winders, Beamers, Reelers and Doublers Association Rochdale, Lancashire
• Rusholme Divisional League of Youth Rusholme, Lancashire
• Salford City Labour Party Salford, Lancashire
• Salford Trades Union Council Salford, Lancashire
• Scottish Brass Moulders Union
• Scottish Lace and Textile Workers' Union
• Scottish National Association of Tailors
• Sheffield Trade and Butchers Knife Hafters Trade and Provident Society Sheffield, Yorkshire
• Shell Chemicals UK Ltd, Carrington plant works and shop stewards committees Carrington, Cheshire
• Ship Constructors and Shipwrights Association
• Silk Workers Unions
• Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1975
• Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1982
• Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers & Engraving & Process Workers: Manchester branch Manchester, Lancashire
• Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers & Engraving & Process Workers: Manchester Central Manchester, Lancashire
• Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Printers: Manchester branch Manchester, Lancashire
• Solidarity socialist group Oxford Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Steam Engine Makers Society
• Stockport Weavers Association Stockport, Cheshire
• Swinton and Pendlebury Textile Holidays Joint Committee Swinton, Lancashire;Pendlebury, Lancashire
• Todmorden Weavers Association Todmorden, Yorkshire
• Transport and General Workers Union
• Typographical Association
• United Association of Powerloom Overlookers
• United French Polishers Society
• United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders: Districts Nos 2, 3 and 5
• United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders: Leeds no 1 branch Leeds, Yorkshire
• United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders: Leeds No 1 branch Leeds, Yorkshire
• United Society of Brush Makers
• United Society of Brush Makers: Birmingham society Birmingham, Warwickshire
• United Society of Brush Makers: Bristol society Bristol, Gloucestershire
• United Society of Brush Makers: London society London
• Upholsterers' Trade Society
• Upholsterers' Union, Liverpool Liverpool, Lancashire
• Wallpaper Workers Union
• Waterproof Garment Workers Trade Union
• Welsh Iron Founders Trade Union
• Womens Co-operative Guild: Anfield branch Liverpool, Lancashire
• Womens Co-operative Guild: Blackley branch Blackley, Lancashire
• Womens Co-operative Guild: Blackley joint guild council Blackley, Lancashire
• Womens Co-operative Guild: Higher Crumpsall branch Crumpsall, Lancashire
• Womens Co-operative Guild: New Mills branch New Mills, Derbyshire
• Womens Co-operative Guild: Oakfield branch Oakfield, Lancashire
• Womens Co-operative Guild: Toxteth branch Toxteth, Lancashire
• Women's Social and Political Union: Rochdale branch Rochdale, Lancashire
• Yorkshire Association of Power Loom

• Allaun, Frank, (1913-2002), Labour Politician
• Allen, Jim, (1926-1999), television and screen writer
• Bibby, Andrew, (fl 1990), journalist
• Blood, Frank, (fl 1940), conscientious objector
• Carter, Peter, (fl 2009-2013), Working Class Movement Library trustee
• Doyle, John, (1797-1868), portrait painter and caricaturist
• Griffiths, Dan, (fl 1923), teacher and author Llanelli, Carmarthenshire
• Hales, Mike, (fl 1970-2018), activist
• Johnson, Len, (1902-1969), boxer
• Mearns, George, (fl 1930), Member of National Council of Labour
• Rothman, Benny, (1911-2002), trade unionist and rambler
• Rothman, Bernard, (1911-2002), campaigner and shop steward
• Smethurst, John Blears, (1934-2010), campaigner and founder trustee of the Working Class Movement Library Eccles, Lancashire
• Taplin, Eric, (1925-2012), historian
• Tebbs, Betty, (b 1918), activist, campaigner and author Bury, Lancashire;Radcliffe, Lancashire;Prestwich, Lancashire
• Tepper, Rachel, (1915-2007), doctor, Communist and activist Manchester, Lancashire
• Tuckett, Angela, (1906-1994), political activist and writer

• Ehlert, Hermann, (d1976), German Refugee And International Brigader Manchester, Lancashire
• Granville, David, (fl c1980-2015), Communist and former editor of Irish Democrat London
• Harris, Mike, (fl 1980-2015), playwright Manchester, Lancashire
• Lutener, Paul, (fl 1970-1979), activist
• Moore, Bill, (1916-2001), Communist

• NRA 35562 Bolton and District Card and Ring-room Operatives Provincial Association: no 4 branch
• NRA 8971 Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union
• NRA 35561 National Association of Powerloom Overlookers: Swinton branch
• NRA 10063 National Society of Brushmakers
• NRA 10064 National Union of General and Municipal Workers
• NRA 35557 Salford Trades Union Council
• NRA 35565 Swinton and Pendlebury: Textile Holidays Joint Committee
• NRA 31932 Working Class Movement Library: MS collections

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