Major accessions to repositories in 2011 relating to Labour Movement

Local

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

• Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd, printers, Aylesbury: additional records incl minutes of the Readers Department Chapel, and accident report book for Composing Room 1922-84 (D-HWV)
• National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers: Aylesbury branch minutes (1957-68) and Slough branch minutes (1947-66) 1947-68 (D-X 1768)

Denbighshire Record Office

• Corwen Tradesmen's Association: minutes 1907-1936 (DD/DM/1771)

Derbyshire Record Office

• Workers Educational Association: Derbyshire branches records incl course material, corresp, annual reports, accounts, minutes (c1966-2010); East Midlands region records incl course materials, minutes, reports, papers re Tawney House, Matlock (1967-2009) c1966-2010 (D7433)

Dorset History Centre

• Collection of material assimilated by Fred Cole (1913-2009), trade unionist and organiser of the Tolpuddle Festival 20th cent (D/FCL)

Essex Record Office

• Braintree District Council Labour Group: minutes, attendance register and other papers 1974-2011 (A13301)

Gwent Archives

• Gwent Trade Unions Council: corresp, registers of attendance, agendas and reports 1985-1996 (D5295)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

• National and Local Government Officers Association, Fareham branch: minutes 1933-48 (152A11)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• National Union of Teachers, Hitchin District: minutes and records 1894-1982 (Acc 5122)
• St Albans Typographical Society: minutes 1899-1949 (Acc 5141)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Leicester Labour Party League of Youth: minute book 1933-1939 (DE8167)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

• National and Local Government Officers Association, City of London Branch: minutes, corresp, leaflets and cash books 1938-1989 (B11/112)

Midlothian Council Archives

• Mid and East Lothian Miners Association, Arniston branch treasurer's book, Gorebridge and Arniston District Silver Band Committee minutes (1922-58); National Union of Mineworkers, Arniston branch committee ledger (1955-65), Gorebridge Special Lighting and Scavenging District cash book (1914-45) 1914-1965 (LSA89)

Norfolk Record Office

• North Norfolk Constituency Labour Party: additional records c 2009-2011 (ACC 2011/95)

Northumberland Archives

• Thomas Burt, MP Trade Unionist: personal papers incl autobiographical notes and photographs c 1890-1922 (NRO 07655)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Notts and District Miners' Federated Union: pensions contribution book 1940-1947 (7912)

Somerset Heritage Centre

• Wellington Trades Council: minutes and corresp 1980-1999 (A\DGM)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

• Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, Ipswich branch: further minutes 1932-1937 (GG416)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

• Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, Northern District: minutes, member lists and contributions, income and expenditure accounts 1889-1990s (WYL2341)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

• Swindon Trades Council: additional minutes, corresp and papers 1986-2010 (3969)

Special

Labour History Archive and Study Centre (People's History Museum/University of Central Lancashire)

• James Larkin Jack Jones, trade unionist: misc corresp and papers 1890-2009 (Acc 1332)
• Socialist Christian League: minutes and publications 1933-71 (Acc 1343)
• South Wales Income Maintenance Campaign: benefits robbery conference papers 1980-81 (Acc 1331)

University

Warwick University: Modern Records Centre

• R H Fryer, professor, industrial relations specialist: records rel to work on behalf of National Union of Public Employees and Unison 1970s-1990s (827)
• National Union of Basket, Cane, Wicker and Fibre Furniture Makers of Great Britain and Ireland: minutes of general and other meetings 1921-1959 (773)
• National Union of Mineworkers, Midlands area: minutes of midlands area executive committee, midlands area council; papers rel to coal mining conciliation scheme 1943-1987 (822)
• National Union of Teachers, Cambridge Borough/City Association: minutes, financial records, subject files, membership register, press cuttings, publications 1920s-2000s (804)
• Unison, trade union: candidates' statements for elections to national executive, general secretaryship and other offices 2002-2008 (774)
• Unison, trade union: video recordings of conferences for women members, black members, disabled members and "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender" members 1998-2005 (792)
• Unite, trade union: records concerning national pay negotiations with car manufacturers 1977-2008 (795)
• United Pattern Makers Association, Manchester/Openshaw Branch: admission registers, application forms for membership, rule books, journal 1874 - 1925 (814)