Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Labour Movement

Local

Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre

• Bexley Constituency Labour Party: minutes 1938-1950 (CSBLP)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Equity Shoes Ltd, Leicester: records incl accounts, company history, rule books, photographs, miscellaneous 1886-2009 (DE10157)

Northamptonshire Archives

• Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, Northampton branch: records 1892-1983 (2021/38)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Nottinghamshire Miners' Association: records including minutes c1904-1938 (Acc 10057)
• National Union of Journalists, Nottingham Branch: minutes 1937-1962 (Acc 9990)

National

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

• James Mearns (fl1987-2019), trade unionist and LGBT+ rights activist: papers 1987-2019 (Acc.14225)

National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services

• Gwynoro Glyndwr Jones (b1942), Welsh politician: papers rel to Labour Party Wales, Welsh Assembly and devolution, Campaign for Welsh Assembly, voting reform, local election results, seat negotiations, Alliance Committee Wales, merged party Welsh Social and Liberal Democrats WSLD 1980-1986

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

• Bob Cant (b1945) LGBT activist, author and trade unionist: papers, research materials and writings 1975-2021 (CANT)
• Corporate Watch, anti-capitalist research group: papers 1996-2016 (CORPORATEWATCH)
• Arthur Stanley Newens (1930-2021), politician: papers regarding involvement with the co-operative movement 1950s-1990s (NEWENS)

University

Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives)

• Labour Solidarity Campaign: records incl meeting minutes and recordings, financial records, corresp, subject files, publicity material and photographs 1980-1988 (U DSO)

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

• Institute for Workers' Control: records including minutes, correspondence, conference papers, pamphlets and bulletins c1970-1989 (IWC)

Strathclyde University Archives

• Philip Taylor (b.c.1954), Professor of Work and Employment Studies at University of Strathclyde: oral history project on the hazards faced by employees in the ICL/Stockline factory in the Woodside district of Maryhill, Glasgow in the period leading up to the explosion on 11 May 2004 2004-2009 (Acc 1807)