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GB 0097 COLL MISC 0525 · 1839-1861

Folder 1: 24 letters from Bronteme O'Brien to Thomas Allsop, 17 June 1840-3 Dec 1861.
Folder 2: 31 letters from Feargus O'Connor to Thomas Allsop 16 July c1841-24 Aug 1849. Most letter are undated.
Folder 3: 13 letters from Richard Oastler to Thomas Allsop 1 Jan 1845-24 Jan 1851.
Folder 4: One letter from Richard Oastler to Henry Mott of Manchester.

Allsop , Thomas , 1795-1880 , radical reformer
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0821 · c1850-c1860

Scrapbook of Frederick Bernal, includes American Civil ephemera, together with a number of commissions.

Bernal, Frederick, 1828-1903, diplomat
Bethnal Green Labour Party
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0424 · 1909-1912

Records of Bethnal Green Labour Party consists of:
Minute book 1910-1911, folio 2 to folio 50.
Flyer advertising open-air demonstration at Mansford Street, Bethnal Green, 14 Aug [1910], folio 39.
Flyer advertising a procession from Mile End to Bethnal Green Road, 1910, folio 40.
Second annual report of 1909 dealing with the history and administration of the branch, folio 42 to folio 46.

Bethnal Green Labour Party
GB 0097 CAMPAIGN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT · 1958-2008

Records of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), comprising papers relating to the CND's constitution, minutes of National Council, National Executive Committee and other committees and subject files, 1958-2008; General Secretary's correspondence, 1965-1996; annual conference papers, 1959-2008; papers relating to Aldermaston marches and other Easter demonstrations, 1961-2008; London Region CND minutes, correspondence and papers, 1959-2008; London Region CND papers relating to Aldermaston marches, 1960-1988; London Region CND correspondence with local CND groups and other organisations, 1960s; papers of the Colleges and Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1960-1968; papers of the Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1961-2008; presscuttings, 1960s; press releases, 1981-2008; papers relating to Trade Union CND, 1981-2008; papers relating to demonstrations and campaigns, 1981-2008; minutes, reports and papers of regional CND groups, 1981-2008; local CND group newsletters, 1980-2008; pamphlets and publications, 1970-2008; papers of Ex-Services CND, Christian CND and other affiliated groups, 1984-2008, local group newsletters, c1985-2008; speeches and articles by Bruce Kent, 1981-1989.

CND , Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
European Nuclear Disarmament
GB 0097 END · Collection · 1950-2001

Papers of European Nuclear Disarmament, including:
Coordinating Committee records.
Papers regarding END Conventions and other events.
Documents regarding END's work with organisations and activists in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Campaign papers.
Administrative papers.
Publicity, including mailings, press releases, newsletters and leaflets.
Memos from E P Thompson and Mary Kaldor.
Papers regarding peace issues, activists and organisations in Europe and throughout the world.
Papers of END Chairperson, Lynne Jones.
Issues of the END Bulletin and END Journal.
Some of the papers have been annotated by the depositor, Patrick Burke.

European Nuclear Disarmament
Germany: Revolution of 1848
GB 0097 SR 1152 · 1848-1862

Collection of ephemera relating to the German Revolution of 1848, 1848-1862, including official announcements, party documents, posters and manuscript letters.

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HALL-CARPENTER Archives
GB 0097 HCA · 1940-2000

Records and publications of gay organisations and individuals in the UK and worldwide, notably the records of the Albany Trust and the Homosexual Law Reform Society, later the Sexual Law Reform Society, 1950-1984; the papers of Rupert Beach, 1970-1972, mainly relating to the Gay Liberation Front; the records of Body Positive, 1985-2000, a support organisation for those diagnosed as HIV positive; the records of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, 1940-1996; the papers of John Chesterman, 1970-1978, mainly relating to the Gay Liberation Front; the papers of Adam Christie, 1981-1998, concerning his work as an AIDS educator; the records of the Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality, later known as the Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality (TORCHE), 1977-1993; the papers of Robert Crossman, [1970-1990], mainly comprising material relating to his work as a Labour politician; the papers of Anthony Edward Dyson, 1958, concerning the Wolfenden Report and the formation of the HLRS; records of (National) Friend, 1970-1995, a national counselling organisation for gays and bisexuals; the records of the Gay Activists Alliance, 1977-1980; the records of the Gay Christian Movement, later known as the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, 1969-1998; records of the Gay Community Organisation, 1978-1989; the records of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-1979; the records of the Greater London Council's Gay Rights Working Party, 1976-1987; the papers of Antony Grey, 1958-1992, relating to his work in the HLRS and the Albany Trust; the records of the Joint Council for Gay Teenagers, 1970-1983; the records of the London Gay Campaign Group, 1980-1987; the papers of Christine Murray, 1972-1980, concerning women's involvement in gay activism; the records of the National Colleges of Education's Gay Rights Committee, 1971-1975; the records of the National Council for Civil Liberties, mainly relating to gay rights, 1962-1989; the papers of Robert Palmer, 1970-1983, concerning his work with CHE; the records of the Scottish Minorities Group, later known as, successively, the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group and Outright Scotland, 1970-1984; the papers of Peter Tatchell, [1970]-1999, relating to gay rights and politics; the papers of Simon Watney, [1970-1998], mainly concerning his work as an AIDS campaigner; the papers of Christopher Woods, 1983-1993, relating to gay issues. The Hall-Carpenter Archives also holds a large collection of gay, lesbian and bisexual journals, 1954-1999, collected from the UK and the rest of the world, particularly the USA; an extensive collection of ephemera, 1953-2000, relevant for the for study of gay, lesbian and bisexual history; and the administrative papers of the Archives, 1973-1994.

Hall-Carpenter Archives
GB 0097 HARRISON · 1840-1931

Correspondence to and from Frederic and Ethelberta Harrison, including family correspondence and photocopies of Harrison's correspondence with Edward Spencer Beesly; Frederic Harrison's writings and speeches, including diaries on subjects such as the cotton famine in Lancashire, essays on subjects such as positivism, peoples education and the French Revolution, autobiographical notes, and ephemera; and press cuttings.

Harrison, Frederic, 1831 - 1923, Author and Positivist
International Marxist Group
GB 0097 INTERNATIONAL MARXIST GROUP · 1969-1988

The papers of the International Marxist Group consist mainly of conference papers for the World Congress of the Fourth International, and discussion documents regarding industrial relations, Labour Government policy, and ways in which the group planned to further their aims within the class struggle. The collection also includes publications from various trade unions and the Trades Union Congress concerning unemployment, industrial relations, and legislation affecting unions; pamphlets and information sheets opposing the presence of the British in Northern Ireland including issues of An Phoblacht (Republican News); and issues of Red Camden (the newsletter of the movement known as the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign to 1970, and Camden Movement for Peoples Power thereafter), and pamphlets on abortion issues, women's right to work, Labour Party reform and the Iranian revolution.

International Marxist Group
GB 0097 MICHAEL JAMES PAPERS · Collection · 1959-2006

Papers of Michael James, 1959-2000, including correspondence, 1977-1986, notably letters sent to and written by Michael James whilst in prison, 1977-1982; journals and diaries, 1980-[1999], including material relating to the impact of AIDS on the gay community and Body Positive hospital visiting; notebooks, 1977-[2000], containing poetry and prose, diary entries, records of dreams and predictions, sketches, draft letters, notes and cuttings of articles written by James for gay publications; material relating to published and unpublished poetry, articles, reviews and interviews, 1974-1986; papers relating to Body Positive, 1984-[1994], including annual reports, minutes of the Annual General meetings, Hospital Visiting Group meetings and the Counselling Group meetings, newsletters and other publications, and correspondence; photographs, 1959-1989, including Gay Liberation Front and Body Positive events; printed material and ephemera, [1972-1986], notably copies of Come Together; the years of gay liberation, 1970-1973, and Men in frocks (GMP, London, 1984) by Kris Kirk and Ed Heath; a cassette tape and synopsis of an interview by Michael James for the AIDS Social History Programme, 1991, relating to his work with Body Positive; summary of a life history interview taped for the National Sound Archive, 1993; papers of Tarsus Sutton, 1932-1990, including personal papers, leaflets and pamphlets, letters and postcards from Michael James and a notebook relating to hospital visits for Body Positive; personal papers, memorabilia and diaries documenting gay life in Brighton, 1995-1998; audio tapes, [1988-2000], including material relating to the Gay Liberation Front, the Notting Hill commune, and Body Positive hospital visiting. M3364 (deposited February 2007): correspondence and diaries, 2006, with papers relating to community activities in Brighton and Hove, 2006 (including copies of the 'Kemptown Rag' , papers relating to the Defend Council Housing campaign and Brighton Pride photo souvenir magazine). Also CDs containing letters and diaries from 1997-2006.

James , Michael , b 1941 , gay activist
Kreisau Circle programmes
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0272 · Collection · 1944

Political drafts for a new German order after World War Two, produced by small meetings of the Kreisau Circle in 1942-1943.

Kreisau Circle
Labour Party posters
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0714 · Collection · 1938

Labour Party political posters concerning the Party programme, the threat of war, Spanish civil war and paid holidays.

Labour Party
GB 0097 LLOYD · 1906-1973

Papers of Edward Mayow Hastings Lloyd, 1906-1968, including early notebooks, essays and addresses, 1906-[1914], the latter mainly relating to economics and international trade; material relating to Lloyd's employment at the War Office and the Ministry of Food, 1915-1919, mainly comprising administrative papers concerning the supply and distribution of wool and food during World War One; material relating to Lloyd's post in the League of Nations Secretariat, 1919-[1923], mainly relating to international food control, the economic foundations and administrative organisation of the League of Nations, and international economic and financial conferences; material relating to Lloyd's employment at the Empire Marketing Board and the Market Supply Committee, 1926-1939, notably reports on the economies of Australia, Canada, the USA, Russia and South Africa, reports and memoranda for international economic conferences, memoranda and statistics relating to the international wheat trade, memoranda and correspondence on the National Food Policy, nutrition and agriculture, and correspondence with Arthur Greenwood, George Dallas and Sir George Ernest Schuster; administrative papers created during Lloyd's employment at the Ministry of Food, 1936-1944, mainly related to food supply during World War Two, notably minutes and papers of the Interdepartmental Committee on War Time Control of Food Prices, working papers on food controls, wages, and rationing, and papers of the British Food Mission, especially relating to food rationing; material relating to Lloyd's work as Economic Adviser to the Minister of State, Middle East, 1943-1944, mainly relating to the problems of inflation and rationing; material concerning Lloyd's work in the Balkans with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 1944-1946, including UNRRA administrative memoranda, papers relating to the Balkan Mission notably reports and correspondence on the economic situation in Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece, especially relating to food supplies; various economic papers, 1920-1942, on subjects including international trade and economics, unemployment, British industry, agricultural policy, Independent Labour Party views on banking, credit and living wage, and post-war trade and food supplies; post-war papers collated by Lloyd, 1947-1967, notably material relating to food economics in the Middle East, notes on the history of food control, correspondence with the Ministry of Agriculture, texts of lectures by Lloyd on British agriculture and world markets, papers of the European League for Economic Cooperation; writings by Lloyd, 1920-1967, comprising articles and essays mainly concerning economics and agriculture; personal papers, 1907-1968, including an ILP engagement diary and material relating to Lloyd's death. Papers of Margaret Frances Lloyd, 1914-1970, including material relating to POWs during World War One, 1914-1919; letters to Lloyd from James Ramsay Macdonald, David Mitrany and James Joseph Mallon, 1917; pamphlets and leaflets, 1906 and 1914-1919, on subjects including the Russian Revolutions, conscientious objection, and sweated labour; material concerning Lloyd's work as an inspector for the Czech Refugee Trust, 1939-1947, including correspondence, reports on hostels, and papers relating to conditions in internment camps; material relating to Allies Inside Germany, 1942-1969, notably Council minutes, correspondence and exhibition photographs; correspondence with Polish, Jewish, Austrian, Czech and German refugee organisations, 1940-1944; material relating to Lloyd's work on the Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey, 1942-1943; maps and accounts of prisons and concentration camps in Germany, [1945]; correspondence with the British Council for German Democracy, 1947; correspondence and papers relating to a visit by Lloyd to Romania and Hungary, in her role as the International Secretary of the International Assembly of Women, 1954-1955; material concerning the Hemel Hempstead CND, 1965-1970. Papers concerning Edward Frank Wise (1885-1933), comprising notes and drafts by Edward Lloyd for a biography of Wise, 1935, and correspondence between Margaret Lloyd and Wise's family and friends, 1969-1973.

Lloyd , Edward Mayow Hastings , 1889-1968 , civil servant and world food expert Lloyd , Margaret Frances , fl 1900-1978 , wife of Edward Mayow Hastings Lloyd
GB 0097 LONDON POSITIVIST SOCIETY · 1876-1974

Minute books, account books and annual reports; correspondence (mainly of Henry Tompkins and Donald Fincham as Secretary), with members, with other Positivists, Humanists and Historians, and concerning the August Comte Memorial Trust; notes and papers by Henry Tompkins, including a short autobiography, addresses on positivist subjects, and notes on books he had read; other positivist writings, including pamphlets, reports and the text of talks; and various ephemera and pictures, including photographs of members, broadsheets and programmes, typescripts of correspondence between August Comte and George Lewes, and notes on the history of the Society.

London Positivist Society English Positivist Committee
GB 0097 SR 0223 · 1837

Two manuscript texts, with a preface in a different hand (probably Lovett) addressed 'to my working class brethren', comprising A Petition for Universal Suffrage, No Property Qualifications, Annual Parliaments, Equal Representation, Payment of Members, and Vote by Ballot. Addressed to the House of Commons, 'agreed to at a public meeting held at the Crown and Anchor, Strand, 28 February 1837', and Letter from the Permanent and Central Committee of Montreal to the London Working Man's Association. Expressing solidarity with their fellows and desire to uphold principles of democracy in the old world and the new.

Lovett , William , 1800-1877 , chartist
GB 0097 MCINTOSH · 1960-1991

Papers of Dr Mary McIntosh, 1960-1991, mainly relating to gay and feminist politics, notably scrapbooks and correspondence relating to a House UnAmerican Activities protest made by McIntosh and others whilst at the University of California, Berkeley, 1960; material relating to the National Deviancy Conference, 1968-[1975]; magazines and cuttings relating to the international homophile movement, [1965], including Arena Three; material relating to the Women's Liberation Movement, including papers collected at Women's Liberation and Soc-Fem conferences, 1971-1981, as well as papers, newsletters and booklets concerning the Women's Liberation Independence Campaign (WLIC), 1975-1979, the Fifth Demand Group (who campaigned for the financial and legal independence of married and cohabiting women), and Rights of Women (ROW), 1979-1980; material relating to McIntosh's work with the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), 1970-1973, including minutes and notes of meetings, newsletters, and copies of Come Together, Lunch and Gay News; papers collected from conferences with feminist input, 1976-1982, notably the Socialist Feminist Forum; magazines and pamphlets relating to feminism, gay and lesbian politics and socialism, [1970]-1981, including WIRE, Red Rag and Scarlet Woman; papers relating to the Prostitutes' Safe House Project, Camden, 1984; minutes, press cuttings and mailings of the Feminists Against Censorship (FAC), 1989-1991; left and anarchist pamphlets collected within the GLF and the WLM, [1970-1973], including material relating to the Angry Brigade.

McIntosh , Mary , b 1936 , sociologist
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0494 · Collection · 1921-1930

This collection contains photocopies and photographs of original letters from Ernst Meyer; Copies of his reports to the Politburo, the Zentral Komitee and the Comintern, 1928-1930; Statements and resolutions by Ernst Meyer, 1921, 1926, 1929; letters to and from Meyer by G Zinoviev, A Thalheimer, W Ulbricht and others, 1922-1929.

Meyer, Ernst, 1887-1930, Chairman of the German Communist Party
Social Democratic Federation
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0522 · Collection · 1884-1889

Section 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.

Social Democratic Federation
Spanish Civil War
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0091 · Collection · 1936-1939

Collection of periodicals, leaflets, newsletters and other publications relating to the Spanish Civil War, comprising of a large proportion of nationalist and republican propaganda, which itself includes photographs, statistics and official statements.

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GB 0097 TAWNEY · Collection · 1890s-1961

Lecture notes, both handwritten and typescript for Tawney's courses on economic history, 1485 - 1800; on English economic history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; on the seventeenth century given at Oxford (Ford) and Chicago; on seventeenth century English history; for Denmark and Sweden, October - November 1951; for London School of Economics, January - March 1952, and lectures for Bristol; drafts of chapters for a book on Cranfield; notes and talks on the French Revolution given at Longton, 1910 - 1913; for classes or lectures on nineteenth century economic history; on nineteenth century agriculture, given at LSE; for classes or lectures on nineteenth century economic history; on early nineteenth century reform movements and handloom weavers; public lectures given in Chicago, 1939; various lectures given in the USA, 1941 - 1942; on education; regarding reform of Oxford and Cambridge; papers and memoranda on education; papers and notes on the Labour Party and education; papers for a proposed biography of Sidney Webb; papers found interleaved in books from his library sold to the University of East Anglia; and papers deposited by Dr J.M.Winter on behalf of J.M.K.Vyvyan.

Further accessions have been added to this collection:

TAWNEY/ADD. 37 boxes of research notes, correspondence and other papers, 1890s-1960s.

TAWNEY/II. 102 boxes and 2 volumes: research notes and extracts from sources by Tawney and his research assistants; a few lecture notes; draft articles; correspondence from research assistants, academics and others. Much of the material is undated, but mostly 1910s-1960s.

TAWNEY/VYVYAN. 18 boxes of personal and family papers of R H Tawney and his wife, Jeannette, 1890s-1961, including: correspondence with family, friends, associates, W H Beveridge and Albert Mansbridge; education papers; commonplace book; and, photographs.

Tawney, Richard Henry, 1880-1962, historian
GB 0097 WALLAS · c1880-1932

Personal and professional correspondence, articles, manuscripts of books, research material, reviews of books, biographical material, Ada Wallas' diaries, and Graham Wallas' engagement diaries.

Wallas, Graham, 1858-1932, political psychologist