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Includes papers, publications, photographs, posters, leaflets, booklets, correspondence and press cuttings regarding squatting and housing protests in the UK and internationally. 34 files/folders. Predominantly late 1970s/early 1980s, [1970-2012].

Papers of Michael Cecil John Barnes (b 1932), including: handwritten notes and photographs taken by Barnes during War-on-Want mission to India and West Bengal shortly after the Pakistani 'crackdown', May 1971; handwritten notes and photographs taken by Barnes on a Parliamentary Delegation visit to Bangladesh, November 1973; miscellaneous papers relating to Bangladesh and Bengali politics, including newsletters, photographs of a visit by Sheikh Hasina to the United Kingdom Immigrant Advisory Service (UKIAS) and press cuttings, 1971-1989.

Papers of activist and historian Noreen Branson (1910-2003), including: wartime correspondence between Noreen and husband Clive Branson regarding miscellaneous and personal topics, 1941-1943; photographs of artwork and paintings by Clive Branson, n.d.; miscellaneous papers, press cuttings and correspondence regarding Clive Branson's death in 1944 and papers concerning Branson's art career, 1941-1944; typescript Communist Party of Great Britain papers of various classes and publications, possibly compiled by Noreen Branson, c1945; handwritten notes on books, pamphlets and conferences, possibly by Branson or Emile Burns, c1945 -1950; press cuttings regarding the stock exchange and the economy, 1967.

Papers of Colin Campbell, 1957-1970, including: papers and minutes of the British Humanist Association, 1959-1969; papers, minutes and promotional material regarding the University Humanist Federation, 1959-1970; papers, reports and ephemera regarding the National Secular Society, 1957-1964; completed questionnaire forms from and papers relating to a survey of Humanist groups conducted by Campbell and the BHA, 1963; completed questionnaire forms from and papers concerning a BHA/NSS survey, 'Who are the Humanists?', 1964; copy of Colin Campbell's PhD thesis, 'Humanism and the culture of the professions: a study of the rise of the British humanist movement, 1954-1963' (435pp), 1967.

Papers concerning the personal archive of Anna Coote (1954-1983), including: notes about a reappraisal of a case of a woman's dismissal from work and the industrial tribunal hearing; the labour situation; papers concerning various cases of dismissial of female employees from various employers, including testimonials; articles on a range of topics, including industry and the law, women at work, outside work schemes, the duties of a Personnel Officer; transcripts of interviews with various secretaries and employers, as well as letters describing personal experience of being a secretary; and typescripts of chapters from a proposed book on secretaries (1954-975). Also included are government publications and documents that relate to the personal archives (1971-1983), including: material relating to a decision of industrial tribunals and court cases; documents relating to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975; copies of parliamentary debates on the Sex Equality Bill, 1983; Social Security Pensions Act 1975; second review of the Race Relations Act 1976; documents relating to the Abortion Act 1967, and the Abortion (Amendment) Bill 1975; "How M.P.s vote on abortion"; Abortion, 1976; Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Bill; Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; Equal Pay Act 1970; Anti-Discrimination Bill 1971; Employment Protection Bill 1975; Children Bill 1975; report on the circumstances of families 1967; survey of women's employment 1968; proposals for a tax-credit system, 1972; proposals for a new pensions scheme 1974; government proposals on employment and training, 1973; equality for women, 1974; the select committee on violence in marriage, 1975; select committee on the Anti-Discrimination (No 2) Bill, 1972-1973; sixth report from the expenditure committee on the employment of women, 1972-1973; and the report of the committee on one-parent families, 1974.

Papers of co-operator and Christian socialist Paul Derrick, 1947-1987, including pamphlets and publications by Derrick concerning socialism, co-operation, economics, Christian socialism and other subjects, 1947-1987; papers and correspondence concerning common ownership, 1968-1975; typescripts drafts by and correspondence with R.H.Glover, 1969-1974; correspondence and papers concerning the Robert Owen Bicentenary Association, 1970-1974; papers, correspondence and minutes of the Christian Socialist Movement, 1962-1981; miscellaneous correspondence regarding political, co-operative and general issues with politicians, colleagues and others, 1952-1974; typescript and handwritten drafts of published and unpublished articles, c1950-1975; personal papers and correspondence, 1967-1971.

Papers of socialist and academic John Dore (1930-2006), including: press cuttings regarding various aspects of Dore's career including the 1962 local election result, his (unsuccessful) 1964 parliamentary candidature for Heston and Isleworth, 1962-1964; copies of various newspapers covering details of Dore's political activities, including the Richmond and Barnes Clarion, Heston and Isleworth Clarion, Twickenham Courier, The Voice of Malta, Wembley South Citizen, Socialist Outlook and FACT Newspaper, 1935-1963; election ephemera, notes for speeches and papers relating to Richmond and Barnes CLP, Heston and Isleworth CLP, Labour League of Youth, Greater London Council and concerning early Labour Party membership, 1948-1981; correspondence regarding Dore's candidature in Heston and Isleworth, with Richmond and Barnes Labour Party, and the Fabian Society, 1956-1975; papers, press cuttings, reports and ephemera from Dore's employment by the Malayan Government concerning Malaya, its political and social conditions and rice production, 1954-1959.

Papers of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (1978-2005), including: accounts and financial records, 1980-2005; chair and annual reports, 1979-2007; annual general meeting minutes and papers, 1980-1997; nomination forms, membership and attendance records, 1985-1996; legislative submissions, 1980-2001; papers, press cuttings and other material regarding various GALHA campaigns concerning "cures" for homosexuality, Coventry County Council and their ban on a Campaign for Homosexual Equality meeting, the armed forces, Section 28 and the age of consent, 1978-2000; press releases, 1990-1993; papers deposited by founder members George Broadhead and Jim Herrick including papers, journals, photographs and other material, 1979-1995.

Papers of engineer and socialist Reg H.Glover, 1962-1973, including typescript and handwritten drafts of the autobiography, Thimble Pie by Glover, n.d.; correspondence to and manuscripts by Glover regarding the Coventry 'Gang' System, the engineering trade, strikes and other matters, 1962-1973.

Papers of librarian and bibliographer Charles Goss (1864-1946) including: personal material concerning the life and family of Charles Goss, including typescript chronology, information regarding his home in Kevington, birth and marriage certificates, articles on Goss by C.W.J.Harris and photographs of Goss at various stages of his career, c1891 - 2001; papers concerning the professional career of Goss, including papers concerning his appointment as librarian at the Bishopsgate Institute, annotated copies of his books Crosby Hall: A Chapter in the History of London and The London Directories, 1677-1855 with correpondence used in their completion and letters concerning Goss's activities, 1832 - 1968; press cuttings of letters, articles and book reviews by Goss from various newspapers on topics including librarianship, biography, Christmas and the benefits of novel reading, along with cuttings of reviews of Goss' works Crosby Hall: A Chapter in the History of London, The London Directories, 1677-1855 and A Descriptive Bibliography of the Writings of George Jacob Holyoake, 1889 - 1936.

Papers of educationalist, writer and humanist (Clifford) James Hemming (1909-2007), including: curriculum vitae and obituary notices, 2007-2008; personal material, including texts of interviews, cartoons and poems/jottings, 1987-2008; miscellaneous articles, papers and published letters, 1951-1999; correspondence, 1962-2000; press cuttings and ephemera, 1945-1960; papers regarding involvement with the World Education Fellowship, 1969-2008; programme for the James Hemming Essay Prize, 2009; copy of Hemming's PhD, Some Problems of Adolescent Girls, 1957; photographs, 1977-2007.

Papers of co-operator and secularist George Jacob Holyoake, 1831-1985, including correspondence to and from Holyoake regarding various topics at all stages of his career, including press cuttings of correspondence with Dr Kalley and correspondence between Holyoake, Austin Holyoake and Thomas Cooper, 1837-1943; series of engagement diaries kept by Holyoake, including brief handwritten notes on daily events and ephemera, including handbills, press cuttings and letters concerning meetings, lectures and public and political events pasted into pages, 1847-1905; printed material relating to all aspects of Holyoake's career, including handbills for lectures and addresses by Holyoake and meetings of co-operative societies, secularist organisations and other political movements, press cuttings of letters by Holyoake to the national and local press, various articles by Holyoake and others, and reviews of addresses and works, circulars and miscellaneous ephemera produced by Holyoake and supported movements, and various handwritten documents regarding Holyoake's political and personal life, 1831-1978; press cuttings of serialised articles and columns written by Holyoake for various national, local and international newspapers and periodicals, including London Correspondence, Town Talk, Private Correspondence, Our London Letter and other articles produced for the Brighton Guardian, Agricultural Economist, The Sun and the Co-operative News, along with press cuttings regarding the opening of Holyoake House in Manchester and the unveiling of the Holyoake Memorial at Highgate Cemetery, London, 1867-1911; loose press cuttings collected and compiled by Holyoake and relating to his life and work, including cuttings concerning visits to America and Canada, co-operation, co-operative congresses and festivals, co-operative societies, parliamentary reform and other miscellaneous cuttings concerning lectures and letters by Holyoake, secularism, republicanism, atheism and other various topics, 1857-1911; miscellaneous publications and notebooks by Holyoake, including manuscript drafts of works, early notes on lectures and their content, predominantly at the Birmingham Mechanics Institute, log books containing diary notes and thoughts, papers relating to the London Atheistical Society, accounts relating to Fleet Street House, London and press cuttings of letters by Holyoake written under the name `Ion', 1838-1861; miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Holyoake's life and career, co-operation and secularism, along with press cuttings and ephemera, including material relating to mathematics, Brighton, spiritualism, trade unions, grammar, the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee, the Social Economist, along with papers relating to Holyoake's arrest in 1842, Fleet Street House, London, the Congress of Social Reformers, Leeds Secular Society, the Thomas Allsop Prize Essay Competition and the Polish Legion, 1839-1978; galley proofs of printed copies of articles by Holyoake on various topics, 1893; press cuttings and extracts from journals concerning biographical details of Holyoake, his life and work, along with articles and obituary material published following his death in 1906, 1875-1917; minute books of the Travelling Tax Abolition Committee, of which Holyoake was Chairman, including handwritten minutes and printed statements, circulars and Committee documents pasted into each volume, along with loose circulars, ephemera and press cuttings concerning the Committee and its work, 1877-1901; minutes and papers of the Garibaldi Special Fund Committee, including Central Committee minutes, muster roll, ephemera, press cuttings and fund certificates recording members of the British Legion of excursionists to Italy, along with more general material relating to Garibaldi, Italian Unification and reaction in England, including cuttings from the Illustrated London News and secondary articles, 1860-1985; circulars, ephemera and press cuttings regarding to the Holyoake Testimonial Fund, including letters to subscribers, fund reports and a programme for a performance by the Victoria Dramatic Club in aid of the Fund, 1853-1889; four photographs of Holyoake taken late in his life, n.d.

Administrative papers of the History Workshop Journal, including: minutes of the HWJ Editorial Board, 1997-2008; accounts and papers regarding financial matters, 1998-2007; HWJ editorial log files, 2001-2008; copyright agreements, log sheets, abstracts, biographies, licenses and editorial critiques for issues of History Workshop Journal, 2002-2004; accounts and other financial and publication papers concerning Oxford University Press, 1994-2006; HWJ editorial timetables, 1999-2006; papers regarding the Raphael Samuel memorial and HWJ Workshop and events, 1999.

Records of James Ince and Sons, umbrella makers (1871-2005), including: accounts and account books, 1925-1998; miscellaneous account books, including wages books, stocktaking, petty cash, share certificate, insurance and sales/purchase books, 1931-1997; order books, 1972-1990; miscellaneous photographs of James Ince umbrellas, displays at trade fairs, properties and Geoffrey Ince and Wilfred Sears Ince at professional engagements, c1950-1995; promotional material, price lists, catalogues, brochures and umbrella material samples for James Ince and Sons products and other manufacturers, 1900-1995; scrapbooks compiled by Geoffrey Ince concerning his chairmanship of the Bishopsgate Ward Club, the Ward Club's centenary, business history and self employment/tax issues, 1984-1993; Geoffrey Ince's engagement diaries, 1987-1994; papers and correspondence regarding business properties at 298/300 Bishopsgate, 9/10 The Oval and 37 Spital Square, 1946-1986; business leases, wills and property deeds, 1871-1972; private account book of James Ince, Brighton, 1883-1900; copper printing blocks and copper logo plates, n.d.

DVD, 'The story of Unity Theatre: the theatre of the labour and trade union movement', produced by the Unity Theatre Trust, c 2008.

Includes:

• candidate booklet for Labour Party internal elections (including leader, treasurer, National Executive Committee and National Policy Forum) (31pp) (2010)

• candidate booklet for selection of Labour candidate for the London Mayor elections 2012 (3pp) (2010)

• ballot paper (1p) (2010)

• Labour Today (27pp) (Autumn 2010)

• flyer for the Co-operative Party (2pp) (2010)

• tickets for the Labour Party leadership draw (n.d.)

Ephemera collected at SlutWalk, London 11th June 2011, including leaflets produced by Women Against Rape, Marxism Festival, Revolution Socialist Youth and London Feminist Network.

Ephemera collected from the anti-EDL protest in the East End of London, Saturday 3rd September 2011. Including material from Defend the Right to Protest, Unite the Union, London Health Worker Network, Right to Work Campaign, Keep Our NHS Public, East London Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Party, National Shop Stewards Network, Save KEMP, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, British Muslim Initiative, Sikhs Against the English Defence League, East London Mosque, Resistance, Tamil Solidarity, International Bolshevik Tendency.

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.

Papers, minutes and other material regarding meetings and actions of Stop the War against Mozambique (SWAM)/Mozambique and Angola Solidarity (1977-1994).

Material relating to the Occupy London movement:

• Initial statement of Occupy LSX

• Press cuttings relating to the movement and occupation at St Paul's.

Records of the Saffron Bloom Lodge of the Manchester Unity Oddfellows Society, including: National Insurance cash books, 1927-1939; group photograph of Lodge members (4 copies), c 1925; framed photograph of J M Turner, n.d.; minute books, 1883-1936; contribution registers, 1913-1931; National Health Insurance sickness and disablement registers, 1926.

Papers, newsletters and ephemera concerning CND and the peace movement in West London, 1982-1997, including: newsletters, ephemera, minutes and reports of Acton CND, 1983-1997; newsletters of CND branches in Shepherd's Bush, Fulham, Pimlico, Hillingdon, Chiswick, Bromley and Twickenham, 1984-1990; newsletters and papers regarding the activities and protests of Hounslow CND, 1983-1989; papers regarding Hounslow Nuclear Free Zone and Anti-Nuclear week, 1983-1987.

Typescript notes on a Trade Union Workshop held as part of the Transport and Employment Conference at the GLC, County Hall, London (20pp) (18 June 1985).

Papers of Leon Freeman of Finchley Road 1937-1938. Album of press cuttings regarding the candidacy of Leon Freedman, Labour’s candidate for Dudley. Charting the period from when he made his first public appearance 'in the borough' as the new Labour candidate in June of 1937 to his 'attack on ''Jelly Fish Government''' and his 'biting similes' in reply to 'Premier’s Birmingham Speech' [Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain], taking part in 'Labour’s Peace Crusade' in the years leading up to the Second World War, with reported speeches against 'Britain [as] an arms profiteers' paradise' and criticising Government policy. A headline from 20 May 1939 reads, 'Challenging Speech at Netherton Labour Bazaar: Prospective Candidate Attacks Budget, Declares Conscription Unnecessary'. Several letters to the editor of the Dudley Herald. In June of 1940 Freedman resigned his candidature, citing 'his reason being that he is now unable to devote any attention to the borough. Mr Freedman, who is a barrister and has secured an appointment under the War Office, was a military representative in the northern district of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the last war'. In a manuscript letter marked 'Copy' written by Freedman to a Mr Connolly, Freedman states that '… my withdrawal of my Candidature at Dudley, was the only proper thing to do. It may have the result of eventually brining them to some sort of unity and a more common sense attitude towards the real situation … a house divided against itself, makes both the positions almost impossible'. Most clippings from the Dudley Herald, Birmingham Express and Star, but also Essex and Thurrock Gazette and Grays and Tilbury Gazette. The final item details legal proceedings of a case for slander that seems to have nothing to do with Leon Freedman, dated April 1945, [22pp] [June 1937- April 1945].

Depositors book No. 36180 for St. Pancras, St Mary-le-Bone and Noth West London Provident Institution or Bank for Savings, No. 50, Upper Charlotte Street, includes society rules and records of London Tin Plate Workers' Society deposits and repayments (6pp) (1861-1873).

Minutes, papers and correspondence of the Hampstead and Highgate/Holborn and St Pancras constituency Socialist Labour Party (1996-1997).

Papers, books, press cuttings, notes, publications regarding feminist politics, education, gender issues, academic publishing, teaching materials, distance learning.

The collection consists of correspondence, diaries and autobiographical notes, scrapbooks, photographs and drafts, produced by Muriel Lester as founder of Kingsley Hall and as Secretary for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. This second role, as well as promotion of Christian pacificism, led Muriel to travel widely, including several visits to Japan and China. Also included are leaflets, reports, pamphlets, documents and photographs of Kingsley Halls and Children's House Bow, and Kingsley Hall Dagenham. Further material includes Doris Lester's personal papers, the files collected by Sydney Russell as Minister Warden of Kingsley Hall Dagenham, Winifred Barnard's material and publications collected by Lester and others, (1878-1991).

Papers of the London Co-operative Society, c 1870-1995, including papers and correspondence relating to all areas of LCS political, educational, trading and financial activity, and material relating to the Co-operative Retail Society, c1920-1995; minutes of all LCS Committees, including its Political Committee, Education Committee, General Manager, Chief Accountant and Secretary's reports on accounts and other matters, c1920-1975; minutes and reports of LCS Sub Committees, 1920-c1975; minutes, papers, accounts and balance sheets of the following local societies: Aylesbury Co-operative Society, Barking Co-operative Society, Berkhamsted Co-operative Society, Brentwood Co-operative Society, Canterbury and District Co-operative Society, Chadwell Heath Co-operative Society, Chesham Equitable Co-operative Society, Croxley Co-operative Society, Edmonton Co-operative Society, Epping Forest/Longton Branch of the National Guild of Co-operators, Grays Co-operative Society, Harrow Road and Queen's Park Co-operative Society, Hendon Co-operative Society, High Wycombe Co-operative Society, Hitchin Co-operative Society, Kingston and District Co-operative Society, Newmarket Co-operative Society, North Battersea Co-operative Party, North Ilford Co-operative Party, North West London Co-operative Society, Radlett Industrial Society, Seven Kings Co-operative Party, South Western Industrial Co-operative Society, Southend Co-operative Party, Staines Co-operative Society, Stratford Co-operative Society, Tring Co-operative Industrial and Provident Society, Upminster Men's Co-operative Guild, Watford Co-operative Society, West London Industrial Co-operative Society, Willesden and District Co-operative Society and Wood Green Co-operative Society, c1870-1970; photographs of LCS and individual branch activities, retail outlets, personalities and educational and cultural events, c1875-1990.

Miscellaneous receipts to Ann Bowler, resident of the Bishopsgate area for miscellaneous goods and services, including receipt for one quarter's rent for the Thames water, 25 June 1821; receipt for 2 quarter payments for the paving, cleansing and lighting of London, 29 September 1821; receipt for one quarter's rate for the relief of the poor, paid to Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, 6 October 1821; receipt for two quarters rent for the Thames water, 26 December 1821; receipt for one quarter's rate for the relief of the poor, paid to Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, 6 January 1822; receipt for one quarter's rate for the relief of the poor, paid to Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, 1 April 1821; receipt for one quarter's rate for the relief of the poor, paid to Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, 6 January 1823; receipt for one year's church rate, paid to Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, 6 October 1823; receipt for Quarter's Watch on Lady Day from John Harper, boot maker, 26 March 1827; receipt for one quarter's rate for the relief of the poor, paid to Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, 2 April 1827; receipt for rent for water, paid to the New River Company, 14 May 1827; receipt for Quarter's Watch on Lady Day from John Harper, boot maker, 26 June 1827.

Collection comprises correspondence and text, [1963], specifically a typescript draft, 'Bishopsgate Wards Within and Without (A Modern Survey of the City of London)' by E.F.St John Lyburn, dedicated to John Stow (107pp) (n.d.);letter to Sir James Miller from E.F.St John Lyburn regarding the latter's work on Bishopsgate, with enclosed extract (10pp) (12 October 1963); letter to Sir James Miller from E.F.St John Lyburn regarding the latter's work on Bishopsgate, with enclosed extract (5pp) (18 November 1963).

Transcriptions of three scribbling diaries kept by footman Arthur Newbury with biographical essay of Newbury, modern photographs of addresses mentioned in the diaries, maps, index and note on sources, all compiled by David Jackson, who may have obtained the diary at a car boot sale in Cheshire (115pp), February 1997.

Material relating to Thomas Hugo pasted into book, 'Walks in the City: No.1. Bishopsgate Ward', including upper body photograph of a seated Thomas Hugo; letter from Hugo to 'HJW' regarding the sale of a document (1p), 12 June 1858; letter from Hugo to unknown recipient regarding attempts to locate 'a treasure' (1p), November 1858.

Material regarding the funds and Infant School belonging to St Botolph's Parish, Bishopsgate, London including printed report of the Committee appointed by the Vestry to enquire into the Ecclesiastical funds of the Parish (annotated) (4pp), Nov 1900; printed report of the Committee appointed by the Vestry to enquire into the Ecclesiastical funds of the Parish (5pp), 6 Dec 1900; handwritten report of the St Botolph's Parish Vestry Committee set up to consider the ownership, users and disposition of the land and buildings known as the Infant School, Bishopsgate Churchyard (annotated) (7pp), 1906; typescript analysis of the poor rate for St Botolph's Parish, Bishopsgate (1p), 1894-1905.

Minute books of the Little Ilford Ward of the North East Ham Labour Party, including, 1936-1962.

Papers of the National Miners Support Network, 1992-1993, including correspondence and notes, notebooks regarding general matters and speaker's requests and meetings, post book, cash book, lists of individuals and groups affiliated, publicity material and papers regarding Trade Union News (1992 - 1993).

Papers, correspondence, press clippings regarding energy issues and consumer rights.

Photographs and artwork from Red Pepper magazine, 1992-2001.

Papers of Peter Sedgwick (1934-1983), including: correspondence with contemporaries and friends including Raphael Samuel, Jean McCrindle, Anna Davin, Luke Hodgkin, Stanley and Hannah Mitchell, Steven Lukes and others, 1953-1983; photocopies of Sedgwick's handwritten diaries, 1980-1983; family, biographical and personal papers, 1934-1952; published articles, reviews and papers regarding politics, psychology and Victor Serge, 1963-1984.

Papers of Water SavingTrust (1997), including: steering group minutes and agendas, 1997; papers regarding Water Saving Trust conference, correspondence with various government bodies and organisations, 1997-1998; notes for talk for conference; British Water Saving Forum press Releases, 1997-1998; Water Efficiency Seminar correspondence and programmes, 1998; Anglian Water Efficiency Plan 1997 Presentation, 1997.

Papers and correspondence of the Anti-Racist Alliance, [1990-1994].

Papers of Action on Youth Rights and Opportunities (AYRO) (1985-1987), including: YTS Training flyers; 1985, correspondence with various organisations and government bodies such as Greater London Council and The Advertising Standards Authority, 1985-1986; conference papers, 1985-1986; Workshop Bulletin for Training and Employment, 1985-1987.

Papers of Tony Brierley [b 1935], including: papers regarding Tony Brierley's activities with the Oxford University Humanist Group, 1958-1966; papers regarding Tony Brierley's involvement with the Birmingham Humanist Group, 1965-1972; miscellaneous papers relating to Tony Brierley's involvement in humanism and humanist groups, 1904-2000; and photographs of members of Oxford University Humanist Group and the Rationalist Press Association, 1963-1999. (1904-2000).

Papers of the Campaign Against Museum Charges (1970-1972), including: file of papers, correspondence and press cuttings regarding CAMAC and the campaign against museum admission charges, 1970-1972; posters for the campaign against museum charges, produced by CAMAC, including poster designed by Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes, winner of a British Poster Design Award for 1971-72, n.d.

Records of the Evening Standard Outside Chapel (1924-2005), including: committee minute books of the Evening Standard Outside Chapel, 1928 - 2005; minute books of half yearly meetings of the Evening Standard Outside Chapel, 1924 - 1972; miscellaneous records of the Evening Standard Outside Chapel, including minute books of the Combined Chapel, records of the Sick Club, attendance records, subscription book and delegate name books, 1959-1974.

Papers of the Eton Manor Boys' Club (1911-1980), including: minute books of the Eton Manor Boys' Club, 1911-1951; photographs and photograph albums of Eton Manor Boys' Club grounds (including Riseholme Street and the 'Wilderness'), sporting teams and activities, special events, Eton Manor Old Boys' events and several framed items, 1911-1980; copies of Chin-wag, the magazine of the Eton Manor Boys' Club (incomplete), 1913-1966; books, many signed with dedications, from the Eton Manor Boys' Club library, n.d.

Papers of William J Fishman (b 1921), including: photographs of East End walks by Fishman, locations and street scenes in the East End of London, 1922-1980s; papers, press cuttings and correspondence regarding the Battle of Cable Street, 19 Princelet Street and East End history, 1995-2006.

Papers of Caroline Selena Ganley, 1916-1966, including typescript autobiography, c1955; miscellaneous papers concerning her career and work, including desk diary and miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1916-1966.

Papers of Jack Gaster (1907-2007), including: quarter-inch tape reels featuring music recordings by Rufus John and speeches by George Lansbury, Ramsay MacDonald, Willie Gallacher, James Maxton, etc., n.d.; papers, press cuttings and notes relating to social issues in London and Gaster's service on the London County Council, 1946-1961; press cuttings and miscellaneous notes regarding China, Poland, Guiana, Communism and international affairs, 1953-1982; selection of Communist and peace badges, n.d.; metal paper stamp of the British Soviet Friendly Houses Limited, n.d.; festschrift for Jack Gaster on his 95th birthday and order for memorial service, 2002-2007.