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Additions to labour history archive collections 2025

The annual guide for 2025 to new labour history material in UK archives is now available here on the Society for the Study of Labour History website. Compiled by the SSLH Archives and Resources Committee (SSLH-ARC), the guide records new accessions and where they might be found for the benefit of researchers. Significant additions to the archives in 2025 included: The political papers of Jim … Continue reading Additions to labour history archive collections 2025

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Additions to labour history archive collections 2024

UK archives take in new labour history accessions every year. The SSLH-Archives and Resources Committee tracks these and publishes an annual guide for researchers. The latest guide, for 2024, has now been published and can be freely downloaded here. This year’s largest accession is of the National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers’ records from 1910 to the 2000s, which now occupies 36 liner … Continue reading Additions to labour history archive collections 2024

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Additions to labour history archive collections 2023

Every year the SSLH-Archives and Resources Committee publishes a guide to new labour history accessions in UK archives for the previous twelve months. The latest guide, for 2023, has now been published and can be freely downloaded below. Among the largest new additions to the archives this year is a collection of 100 boxes of material on political songs, including songsheets, vinyl records, journals and … Continue reading Additions to labour history archive collections 2023

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Additions to labour history archive collections 2022

This has been a bumper year for new additions to labour history archives around the country. Almost certainly the largest collection to find a place in the archives during 2022 were administrative, financial, legal and other records of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and its predecessors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that now occupy some 300 linear metres of shelf space, promising to … Continue reading Additions to labour history archive collections 2022

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Additions to labour history archive collections 2021

The PDF document below includes an overview of new collections which were reported by archives to the Society for the Study of Labour History’s Archive and Resources sub-committee (SSLH-ARC) and which may be of interest to labour historians. Among the numerous collections noted by the SSLH-ARC are: Communist Party of Great Britain papers re. Inner Party Democracy at the People’s History Museum Michael Foot Personal … Continue reading Additions to labour history archive collections 2021

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Additions to labour history archive collections 2020

The PDF document below includes an overview of new collections which were reported by archives to the Society for the Study of Labour History’s Archive and Resources sub-committee (SSLH-ARC) and which may be of interest to labour historians. Among the numerous collections noted by the SSLH-ARC are: Archive material relating to the Pilkington strike and to pottery workers – now in the Working Class Movement … Continue reading Additions to labour history archive collections 2020

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Additions to labour history archive collections 2019

The PDF document below includes an overview of new collections which were reported by archives to the Society for the Study of Labour History’s Archive and Resources sub-committee (SSLH-ARC) and which may be of interest to labour historians. New acquisitions 2019 (PDF format). Among the numerous collections noted by the SSLH-ARC are: Papers of the Scottish Committees of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Communist … Continue reading Additions to labour history archive collections 2019

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