Records of the Walter Rodney Memorial Trust, including correspondence; publicity material; receipt books; and papers relating to events including photographs and programmes. Also DVD "Remembering Walter Rodney", research and commentary by Dr Margaret Andrews with contributions from Eric and Jessica Huntley, 2010.
Walter Rodney Memorial TrustRecords of the Sutton Housing Trust, consisting of a fine series of minutes and accounts. In particular there are detailed registers of tenants (including information on income and employment), hundreds of photographs of estates and developments and correspondence giving advice from people such as Octavia Hill and Charles Booth.
Sutton Dwellings Trust x Sutton Housing Trust William Sutton Housing Association LimitedSection 1: Letters from Herbert Burrows to members of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) about the Staffordshire miners strike, on which he was reporting for 'Justice', correspondence concerning 'Justice' and the SDF by various authors, articles intended for 'Justice', either undated or dated 1884.
Section 2: Letters to 'Justice' and various members of the SDF, 1884-1889.
Section 3: Manuscripts of articles for 'Justice', mainly undated.
Section 4: 4/1 Fly sheet. Eight hours demonstration at Birmingham town Hall, Herbert Burrows, Chairman, on the back pencil notes on wages in the metal trades; 4/2 Walter Crane cartoon for May Day; Appendix (M859 R (SR) ARC2) William Morris letter to "Dear Comrade of the SDF, the Labour League and Justice", 19 Dec 1885.
Records of the Peabody Trust, including corporate records, financial accounts, personnel records, property records, estate management, plans, photographs, publications, artefacts, seal books, clasp books and legal papers.
Records of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, including corporate records; financial records; correspondence; property records; tenants' records; plans; photographs; publications and artefacts.
Records of the Westminster Housing Trust including corporate records; financial accounts; administrative records; legal records; personnel papers; estate management papers; tenants' records; plans; photographs and publications.
Peabody Trust Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes x The 1830 Housing Society Westminster Housing Trust LimitedExtensive collection of records of the National Union of Women Teachers, 1904-1961, including minutes of the Council and various committees, conference reports, branch records, correspondence, press cuttings, handbills, pamphlets, posters and photographs. There is also a large series of subject files on particular issues, individuals, organisations and campaigns documenting the wide range of the Union's interests. These include, for example, papers concerning women's organisations such as the Six Point Group, the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, the Women's Freedom League, the Open Door Council, the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries and others and educational groups such as the English New Education Fellowship and the Workers Educational Association. There is also a series of collected biographical material on a wide range of individuals.
National Union of Women TeachersPapers of Professor Kate Myers, 1970s-1990s, pricipally material related to jobs as Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) co-ordinator for the Schools Council sex differentiation project; ILEA advisory teacher for equal opportunities; SCDC equal opportunities project (which resulted in Genderwatch); and gender equality inspector in Ealing (which for a time was part of a consortium of boroughs involved in an Equal Opportunities project based at the Institute of Education), chiefly comprising original booklets, committee reports and a few handwritten responses/letters. Files include: sexual harrassment; sexism and gender difference in schools; women and work; women teachers and the NUT; special needs and sex equality; equal opportunities policies in London Education Authorities, especially the ILEA; curriculum and gender (science, maths, home economics, PE, geography, history, RE, exams); Australia; careers opportunities for women; copies of Equal Opportunities resources in the ILEA; and school governors.
Myers , Kate , fl 1970-2004 , professor , educationistRecords of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. The minutes (LMA/4025/01) describe in detail the foundation of the Association, its aims and objectives. They document its development from a well-intentioned philanthropic organisation to a major provider of housing (12 substantial blocks by 1873). The activities recorded range from fund-raising to land acquisition and from collections of mortality statistics to estate management.
The visitors book (LMA/4025/03) records the important visitors to Old Pancras Road including Prince Albert, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr Gladstone, Charles Kingsley and Dr Southwood Smith.
These manuscripts have not been accessible to researchers before and are an exciting discovery. They were purchased with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious ClassesRecords of the London Union of Youth Clubs, including:
Administration LMA/4232/A: which includes the minutes of Annual General Meetings 1945-1992, Executive Committee 1943-1948, Council minutes and papers 1982-1996, Management Committee 1983-1994, Finance and General Purposes Committee 1980-1983, Participation Sub-Committee 1985, Anti-Racial and Multi-Ethnic Committee 1984-1998, Steering Committee 1982-1983, Working Group papers 1977-1990's, as well as correspondence and statistics 1960's-1990's, papers relating to the merger of the LUYC with the association of Combined Youth Clubs 1992-1995, fund-raising 1983-1995 and grants and awards 1981-1996.
Finance LMA/4232/B: which includes Accounts 1978-1995 and Investments, Legacies and Trusts 1964-1984.
Related Organisations LMA/4232/C: which are the records of the London Girls Fund 1980-1996.
Printed Material/Ephemera LMA/4232/D: consisting of Annual Reports 1948-1997, copies of the LUYC Bulletin 1971-1992 and publications relating to youth clubs dating from the 1970's to 1990's. There are also T-shirts, posters and a banner from the LUYC Young Women's Unit c.1980.
Audio-Visual/Photographs LMA/4232/E: this series contains not only a large series of photographs illustrating LUYC events but films produced by members of LUYC and cassette recordings. These date from the 1960's to the 1990's.
London Union of Youth ClubsLSPU/CS: Central Services, 1982-1988, including secretariat files, legal opinions, committee documentation, information videotapes and audiotapes, posters.
LSPU/DIR: Director's Papers, 1961-1987, including files of P Brayshaw and D Stevenson as Directors of the Policy Unit.
LSPU/EPG: Economic Policy Group, 1900-1987, including GLC Popular Planning Unit photographs, research project files, files of the Economic Policy group and files of the GLC Industry and Employment Branch.
LSPU/PMRG: Police Monitoring and Research Group, 1986-1987, comprising copies of 'Policing London' press cuttings bulletin.
LSPU/PPG: Planning Policy Group, 1965-1987, including Land Use Survey files and plans, GLC Development Planning Branch, policy division files, files of GLC Planning Studies Group on Tourism, office survey files from the GLC Central Policy Unit, files on the statistical analysis of planning decisions, planning files.
LSPU/PUB: Publications by the London Strategic Policy Unit.
LSPU/RAG: Recreation and Arts Group policy files, 1986-1987.
LSPU/REPG: Race Equality Policy Group, 1968-1987, including files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit, files of the GLC Recreation and Arts Department Race Equality Unit, files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit Irish team, files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit Industry and Employment Section, policy team files, 'Patrolling the Frontline' press cuttings bulletin, grants files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit, Development Team files, files of A Wong, Principal Race Equality Adviser, files of the GLC Ethnic Minorities Unit on the Anti-Racist Year Programme.
LSPU/TG: Transport Group, 1972-1988, including policy files, files of the GLC Public Transport Campaign Unit, and plans.
LSPU/WEG: Women's Equality Group, 1981-1988, including GLC Women's Committee Support Unit; policy files; files on childcare provision; exhibition boards; files of grant monitoring and administration files.
London Strategic Policy Unit , Greater London CouncilPapers of Martin Lightfoot, mainly relating to his career from 1981 onwards. They include papers concerning his work for the House of Commons Select Committee on Education and from his time at Brunel University. The latter include lecture and teaching notes on public and social administration, school management, equal opportunities and education, multiculturalism in education and educational politics and government; material relating to the research projects 'Expectations of Higher Education' and 'Recreating Education: London and Education Reform'; and some general papers relating to the work of Centre for the Study of Community and Race Relations and the Educational Policy Centre. Also included are papers reflecting Lightfoot's general interests in race relations, public administration and education, including a small amount of material relating to his membership of the Education Reform Group.
Lightfoot , Martin , 1942-1999 , educationistPersonal papers of Lionel and Pansy Jeffrey, political activists and race equality campaigners, including material from various organisations and committees including minutes, correspondence, brochures, newsletters, academic papers, draft speeches and reports.
Jeffrey , Lionel , 1926-1993 , political activist and race equality campaigner Jeffrey , Pansy , fl 1951-1993 , political activist and race equality campaignerMinutes, 1941-1964; balance sheets and subscription lists, 1910-1929; reports and correspondence, 1929-1957; history and newscuttings, 1905-1960; visitor's books, 1923-1960; registers of members and directors, 1950-1964; weekly dinner books, 1952-1957 and general papers, 1915-1964.
Invalid Meals for London x Invalid Kitchens of LondonRecords of the Hornsey Housing Trust, including minutes of the Committee of Management; shares prospectuses; rules of the Trust; annual reports; and financial accounts.
Hornsey Housing TrustRecords of Hansib Publications Limited, including issues of the African Times, Asian Times and Caribbean Times; and publications on a variety of topics relating to Asia, Africa, South America and the Caribbean including poetry, literary studies, history, politics, diaspora, music, sport, law, society, colonialism, racism, slavery and travel. Also some promotional and publicity material.
Hansib Publications Ltd , specialists in books covering African, Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean and Asian issuesRecords of Greater Access to Publishing, including minutes of meetings, funding applications, conference planning notes, and packs. Also press cutting from The Bookseller about the organisation and letterhead.
Greater Access to Publishing , campaign groupRecords of the Great Western (London) Housing Association, covering the association's creation in 1923 to its dissolution in 1990. They include a complete run of forty two volumes of minute books and annual reports.
Great Western (London) Housing AssociationRecords of Friends of Bogle, support group for Bogle-L'Ouverture publishing house. The minutes and agendas in LMA/4462/H/01/002 include fundraising projects such as a fun walk, funds for medical expenses for a young man from Yemen, the Walter Rodney Memorial speech by Manning Marable, 17/01/1986 minutes discuss the setting up of a constitution for Friends of Bogle. Setting up of the suplementary school, launch of the record 'Come From That Window Child' (19/07/1986 minutes), Setting up of the Saturday school at Ealing Technical College (31/10/1986).
The 'Walter Rodney Visions of Africa 1986' lecture was given by 'Ama Ata Aidoo. Contributors to the event included Mendy Joseph, Keith Waithe, Accabre Huntley, Alan Cooper, Eintou Springer and Margret and Sheila Thomas (LMA/4462/F/02/017).
Friends of Bogle , support group for Bogle-L'Ouverture publishing houseRecords of the Southwark and Lambeth Group of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. The records reflect a number of issues being dealt with by gay rights campaigners in the '70s including the trial of Gay News for blasphemy, the fight against fascism, and an involvement in women's and lesbian rights. Local matters touched on in the papers include the branch's deliberation over joining the Southwark Campaign against Rascism and Fascism, and application for recognition by the national council.
Campaign for Homosexual Equality , Southwark/Lambeth GroupRecords of the Black Experience Archive Trust (BEAT), comprising interviews with members of the black community, conducted by pupils at Park View Academy, West Green, and promotional postcard and T-Shirt.
BEAT , Black Experience Archive Trust x Black Experience Archive Trust