Mostrar 2 resultados

Personal papers of Mary Gray, nee Rogers, comprising:

birth certificate, 11 Jan 1854; marriage certificate, 16 Sep 1876; membership card of Social Democratic Federation, Mar 1890-1891; membership card for International Socialist and Trade Union Congress, 1896;

printed copy of resolutions including one relating to the action of Dr Blandford in certifying Edith Lanchester, (undated); agenda, and programme and rules of the SDF 12th Annual Conference, 1892; Programme and Rules of the Social Democratic Federation, 1892;

printed notices for a public meeting concerning votes for women, 1892; SDF London School Board Election, Nov 1894, West Lambeth Division; International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress London, SDF demonstration, 1896;

papers relating to Gray as a speaker including printed notice of SDF meeting of the Coventry Branch, advertising Gray on Socialism, the only hope of the worker' andThe economic position of women' [1896]; news cutting reporting Gray's speech at the SDF Ilkeston Branch, 1897;

invitations for various events including one from Emmeline Pankhurst, 1892; a Mayoral reception, Leicester, 1899; meeting with Louis Botha, and De Le Rey and Mr Schalk Burger of South Africa, 1902;

miscellaneous receipts, 1895, 1998; ticket to Women's suffrage public meeting, Piccadilly 1893; typescript poem `to my grand daughter Olive, on her first birthday', 1903; manuscript music for the alto part of the 'Song of the Lower Classes';

letters to Gray, 1891-1899 from family members, as well as Herbert Burrows, 1893, Charles Heneags, 1896, Eleanor Marx Aveling, 1896, 1898, Duncan Milligan, H Percy Thompson, 1897, and H C Phillips, 1899;

material relating to Socialist Sunday Schools including a letter from National Council of British Socialist Sunday Schools, 1935; three photographs, including the Brixton Socialist Sunday School, and unidentified scene and group of people; The Socialist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1910; manuscript report of Battersea Socialist Sunday School, Sydney Hall, Nov 1892; Cutting from The New Leader relating to Socialist Sunday Schools, 1932;

and photocopies of articles from journals, 1895 and related news papers.

Records of the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) comprising:

minutes of the Executive Committee, 1904-1998; (53 vols, 3 files)

minutes of committees for Ballots, 1942-1952; Editorial, 1942-1953; Overseas Secretary, 1942-1950; Paid Officials, 1943-1944; Standing Orders, 1950-1952; Membership Cards, 1952-1953; Full Time Posts, 1949-1952; Violence, 1948; Backward Countries, 1952; Class Struggle, 1952; Propaganda, 1950-1955; Education, 1952-1953; Literature, 1945-1952; Propaganda Research, 1950-1951; Weekly News, 1950; Speakers test, 1945-1953; Summer School, 1952; Declaration of Principles, 1951-1952; Book Department, 1943-1952; Provincial Propaganda, 1943-1949; Publicity, 1947-1952; Socials, 1945-1952; Socialist Standard, 1945-1946; Trade Union Advisor, 1944-1946; miscellaneous committees, 1943-1946, and sub-committees 1952; (4 boxes)

papers relating to Annual Conferences of the Party, including Executive Committee Report to the Annual Conference, 1911-1995; reports of Annual Conferences, 1936-1995; and Conference agenda and papers, 1957-1995; (3 boxes)

papers relating to Delegate Meetings including Executive Committee reports to the Meetings, 1914-1995; reports of the Meetings, 1914-1995; and Meeting agenda and papers, 1957-1995; (3 boxes)

Party General Secretary's files including correspondence, 1941-1977; and case files, 1911-1985 (5 boxes, 7 files)

membership records including registers and forms, 1904-1950; lists, 1980s-1990s; (16 boxes, 1 bundle)

papers distributed to members including circulars, 1943-1995; discussion reports, 1955-1995; (1 box)

news cuttings relating to the Party compiled for distribution as a quarterly newsletter, 1998-2003; (1 box)

printed publications of the Education Committee, 1970-1995; (1 box)

material relating to General and Local elections, including leaflets, 1905-2003 and papers, 1945-2003; (5 boxes, 10 files)

records of SPGB branches and groups including: branch minute books of Bloomsbury / Camden, 1937-1978; Camberwell / South West London, 1947-1994; Marylebone, 1942-1951; Paddington, 1946-1954; Croydon, 1954-1955; Greenford / Ealing, 1967-1974; Hamilton, 1942-1945; South West London, 1944-1950; Hampstead, 1957-1960; Manchester, 1954-1957; Battersea, 1911-1939; Wood Green, 1910-1914; (33 vols); branch journals from branches including Dagenham and Romford, 1935-1936; Brighton Line, 1969-1972; Islington, 1979-1980; Dundee, 1988; Eccles, 1988-1991; Edinburgh, 1993; West London, 1990; group journal from Colchester; the Campaign for the Abolition of Money, 1993; and Socialist Comment, 1979-1980; (1 box)

papers, pamphlets, photos, journals, relating to companion parties including the World Socialist Party of the US 1930-1985; Socialist Party of Canada, 1914-2003; Socialist Party of New Zealand, 1934-1970; Socialist Party of Australia, 1934-1970; Socialist Party of Ireland, 1949-1993; Bund Demokratischer Sozialisten, 1966-2000; World Socialist Party of India, 1995-1998; also Africa, Sweden, Jamaica, Belgium; and the Workers Literature Bureau (J A Dawson, Australia), 1945-1948 (6 boxes); copies of minutes of companion parties, 1965-1995 (incomplete) (1 box);

papers relating to Libertarian Communism (a splinter group of the SPGB) including journals and miscellaneous correspondence, 1970-1980 (1 box);

papers relating to relations with other oranisations, 1903-1963 (1 box);

subject files relating to World Wars One and Two (1 box); 'Form C' - branch returns, 1956-1962 (1 box); Turkish Group, 1990 (1 file);

accounts, 1944-1958 (1 box);

unpublished manuscripts of Francis Hawkins [1950s] (2 boxes); Sydney Merry, (2 files); David Finlay, 1989-1990 (1 box);

'The principal contributions of the Socialist Party of Great Britain to the development of Marxian political and economic theory', David Anthony Perrin, 1993, PhD Thesis, University of Liverpool; The origins and meaning of the Political theory of Impossibilism, Stephen Coleman, 1984, PhD Thesis, University College London; The paper war conflict and democracy in the Socialist Party of Canada, 1960-1970, Ronald Elbert, Jun 2001, MA Thesis, University of Massachusetts;

notebook of unidentified author [1930s] containing notes for lectures and cuttings re socialism; record of Party Decisions, 1932-1958 (1 vol); minutes of the History and Economics Class, 1941-1943 (1 vol); Record of Motorcycle journeys, 1934-1936, by unidentified Party member (1 vol);

photographs relating to members, meetings, conferences, rallies and event, 1904-2003 (3 boxes and 10 framed prints);

posters advertising the Party, 1945, 1980s-1990s (1 bundle);

ephemera, 1950-2003 (1 box);

Publications including:
Yes Utopia - we have the technology, Ron Cook, 1997; The futility of Reformism, Samuel Leight; Social Democrat, 1897-1903 (14 vols); Justice, 1894-1902 (8 vols).