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Handbills, leaflets, posters and publications concerning anti-vivisection, factory farming, bloodsports and general animal rights campaigns produced by a variety of organisations, including the Animal Liberation Front, Hunt Saboteurs Association, Manchester Meat-Free Zone Campaign, Compassion in World Farming, the National Anti-Vivisection Society, Manchester Animal Protection Group, Chicken's Lib, Vale and Valleys Hunt Saboteurs, the Vegan Action Group, League Against Cruel Sports, Earth Rights, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, CAMPRAS (Campaign to Promote Respect for Animals in Schools), Animal Aid and the Bradford Animal Rights Group (1982 - 1996).

Includes:

• Richmond Labour Party Young Socialists agenda 1st October 1979 and report on the first meeting held at Star House on 13th September

• Advertisement for Zimbabwe National Demonstration Sunday, November 11, London. Produced by the Zimbabwe Emergency Campaign Committee

• Leaflet entitled 'Animals in Laboratories' by Animal Aid

• Membership application card for Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS)

• Moscow News, No. 23, Sunday June 4, 1989.

The archive consists of Mary Beatrice Crowle's annotated scrapbook entitled 'women pioneers'. This contains correspondence, photographs, leaflets, press cuttings, etc. It relates mainly to her family; Lady Astor, and the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association; Women Police; Australians in First World War; vivisection; natural healing. Below are given selected detailed item descriptions for visual material, the references indicate the page numbers.

Letter from William Henry Rowlestone Jessop of Grove House, St David's, Haverfordwest, [Pembrokeshire] to an unidentified correspondent, 17 Oct 1855. Accompanying a copy of his work on the decimal system: '... it is the first book which embraces the whole System of Money and Measures that has yet appeared ... You will perceive that this system is very superior to that in France [i.e. to the metric system]'.

Autograph, with signature.