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BETHNAL GREEN CONSTITUENCY
ACC/2662 · Collection · 1964-1966

Register of electors for Bethnal Green Constituency compiled October 1964, in force February 1965 - February 1966.

Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
BOOTH, Hartley (b 1946)
GB 0074 LMA/4021 · Collection · 1988-1997

Personal papers of Hartley Booth, MP. The majority of the archive is concerned with Hartley Booth's parliamentary career. LMA/4021/01 relates to Booth's parliamentary responsibilities, in particular European affairs. In addition there are files containing correspondence and background material which relate to Private Members' Bills promoted by Booth. LMA/4021/01 also contains subject files on national issues that emanated from constituents' cases.

LMA/4021/02 contains constituents' correspondence and case files as well as subject files relating to local issues. LMA/4021/03 contains Conservative Party material and subject files which relate to the period when Booth was a prospective parliamentary candidate. These files relate to both local and national issues.

As the collection consists of parliamentary and constituency material, there is a closure period of 30 years. There is no closure period on the published material in LMA/4021/04.

Booth , Hartley , b 1946 , politician
GB 0074 B/GLCC · Collection · 1812-1949

Records of the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company, 1812-1949, including Director's meeting minutes; Proprietors' Meeting minutes; Committee of Accounts, Finance and Audit minutes; Committee of Works minutes; Committee of Works and Products minutes; Committee of Chemistry and Machinery minutes; Committee of Light and Experiments minutes; Committee on Machinery and Works minutes; Committee on the Provision for Wear and Tear minutes; financial accounts; map of London Gas Companies' Districts; evidence presented to various Committees including Select Committees; proceedings in Parliament relating to the gas companies; and Gas Light and Coke Company's Acts, Charter and Bye-Laws.

Gas Light and Coke Company , 1812-1949 x Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company
CITY OF LONDON LIVERY
GB 0074 CLC/277 · Collection · 1781

Poll of the livery of the City of London for a member of Parliament, listing the voters' names, livery company, address and vote, 1781.

Unknown.
CLAPHAM LABOUR PARTY
GB 0074 LMA/4284 · Collection · 1922-1948

Records relating to Clapham Labour Party. The collection includes minutes of Clapham Labour Party's executive committee and general management committee as well as information on borough and LCC elections. The correspondence referring to Dr MacGregor Reid (President of the Clapham Labour Party in 1926, d 1946), his alleged attack on other Labour and Socialist Parties and ensuing enquiry is especially engaging. However, the records also mention the Battersea Division and contain correspondence of the London Labour Party and national Labour Party. Of particular note are the official Labour Party posters reflecting policy on topics such as farming, coal strikes and the family and its publications about issues such as refugees, Soviet wartime policy and Palestinians in Israel.

Labour Party Clapham Labour Party London Labour Party
CRIPPLEGATE WARD
GB 0074 CLC/W/HG · Collection · 1825-1978

Records of Cripplegate Ward, Corporation of London, comprising wardmote agenda papers and petitions to the Court of Common Council. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Cripplegate Ward , Corporation of London
GB 0074 F/DCK · Collection · 1886-1949

Personal papers of Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, Lord Dickinson of Painwick. These papers reflect Dickinson's interests as a London County Councillor, an MP and a peer, and also his involvement in the London Liberal Federation, of which he was Chairman 1896-1918, the World Alliance for promoting International Friendship through the Churches and the League of Nations Union.

Dickinson , Willoughby Hyett , 1859-1943 , 1st Baron Painswick , politician
EALING LABOUR PARTY
GB 0074 ACC/1972 · Collection · 1930-1976

Records of the Ealing Labour Party, comprising minutes of the General Committee; Trades Council; Dormers Wells Ward; Ealing Council Labour Group and the Greenford Labour Party branch.

Ealing Labour Party
EALING NORTH LABOUR PARTY
GB 0074 LMA/4023 · Collection · 1932-1987

Records of the Ealing North Divisional/Constituency Labour Party, including attendance books, annual reports, accounts and subject files on election campaigns. Though these files are mainly concerned with finance, many also include campaign material. Also ward/branch material. Each ward or branch had its own committee. Of particular interest are the early minute books of Northolt Labour Party.

Ealing North Divisional/Constituency Labour Party
ELECTORAL REGISTERS
PER/B · Collection · 1987-1998

Registers of electors for London boroughs including Barking and Dagenham; Barnet; Bexley; Brent; Bromley; Camden; Croydon; Enfield; Greenwich; Hackney; Hammersmith; Haringey; Harrow; Havering; Hillingdon; Hounslow; Islington; Kensington; Lambeth; Lewisham; Westminster; Merton; Newham; Redbridge; Richmond; Southwark; Sutton; Tower Hamlets; Waltham Forest and Wandsworth, 1987-1998.

Registers are created and maintained by borough councils.
GB 0074 LMA/4562 · Collection · 1999-2001

The Enfield Southgate Constituency Labour Party collection consists of papers and correspondence of the co-ordinating group, papers and correspondence relating to the structure review, and campaign papers and video.

Enfield Southgate Constituency Labour Party
GB 0074 F/GMS · Collection · 1926-1956

Records of Sir David Gammans, MP for Hornsey. The records consist of press cuttings stuck into four series of scrapbooks, with the occasional invitation card, menu or photograph included, and a small group of files containing election addresses, typescript articles, and correspondence.

Gammans , Sir , Leonard David , 1895-1957 , Baronet , politician
GB 0074 B/NTG-12 · Collection · 1825-1948

General records relating to the supply of gas, 1825-1948, collected by the North Thames Gas Board and predecessor companies. Includes draft Parliamentary reports leading up to the Act for better regulating the supply of gas to the metropolis, 1860; minutes of weekly meetings of a Committee of Chairmen of the Metropolitan Gas Companies in connection with the Parliamentary Committee inquiring into the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860; Bill and relevant papers concerning the proposed amalgamation of all or some of the metropolitan gas companies; drafts, petitions and briefs concerning the London Corporation Gas Bill; report from the Board of Trade on the current Railway, Tramway, Gas and Water Bills, 1870; Gas and Water Facilities Bill, 1870; press cuttings; statistical information about gas companies, 1865.

Also papers relating to individual gas companies including Bill to establish a company for illuminating London and Westminster with oil gas (the London and Westminster Oil Gas Company), 1825; minutes of evidence before the House of Lords' select committee on the Phoenix Gas Bill, 1864; half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Phoenix Gas Light and Coke Co. to the Proprietors; Bills and Acts affecting the powers of the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company; Bill amending powers of the Surrey Consumers' Gas Light and Coke Association; annual reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Surrey Consumers' Gas Company to the Shareholders.

North Thames Gas Board , 1949-1973
GB 0074 A/HVH · Collection · 1957-1984

Records of the Havering-Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party, including minutes of the General Management, Executive and Committees; annual reports and statements of account.

Records of the Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party comprising ward and branch minutes.

Records of the Havering Council Labour (Administration) Group comprising minute book.

Havering-Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party Havering Council Labour (Administration) Group
GB 0074 CLC/253 · Collection · 1768-1780

A supplement, in manuscript, to English Liberty: A Collection of Interesting Tracts ... of John Wilkes, Esq (1769), compiled by Isaac Hitchcock of Stafford; comprising the printed text of English Liberty... annotated by Hitchcock, and copies of further speeches, letters, verses, newspaper cuttings, etc relating to Wilkes and his political career, with some illustrations and engravings tipped in.

Hitchcock , Isaac , fl 1768-1780 , historian
HOOD, LORD (1724-1816)
GB 0074 ACC/0664 · Collection · 1790

Printed resolution of Lord Hood's Election Committee, 29 June 1790. The Committee resolves that since the "National Business at this present Crisis" occupies all Lord Hood's attention, preventing him from addressing the electors in person, his conduct is to be rewarded by the Committee's "most animated Exertions in his Lordship's Favor". It is resolved that by supporting Lord Hood in the poll, other public figures will be encouraged to emulate his example of devotion to duty, the virtue which has made the British Navy terrible to their enemies.

Also Royal Aquarium and Summer and Winter Garden, Westminster, programme for week ending 5 March 1887; listing Mr. Jules Levy and the Viennese Lady Orchestra; the Bozza Troupe, "Musical Knife Grinders", and announcing, for March 2nd, 3rd and 4th, the second great Terrier Show, applications for entry forms to Mr. G. Cruft.

Hood , Samuel , 1724-1816 , Viscount Hood , naval officer
GB 0074 A/HHL · Collection · 1932-1974

Records of the Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party, also known as the Hornchurch Divisional Labour Party. The collection includes Executive Committee minutes; General Management Committee minutes; North West Ward Hornchurch Labour Party Women's Section Committee minutes; financial accounts; newsletters; election addresses; annual reports and press cuttings.

Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party x Hornchurch Divisional Labour Party
GB 0074 LMA/4463 · Collection · 1940s - 2012

Personal records of Eric and Jessica Huntley relating to non-publishing businesses, political campaigns, community and heritage initiatives, education work, concerns with the environment in the Caribbean and papers relating to their personal lives including family and friends.

Please see individual sections for further information.

Huntley , Jessica Elleisse , b 1927 , political campaigner and publisher Huntley , Eric Lindbergh , b 1929 , political campaigner and publisher
ILFORD SOUTH LABOUR PARTY
GB 0074 ACC/2527 · Collection · 1930-1980

Records of the Central Women's Section of the Ilford South Labour Party, comprising minutes and a register of members.

Ilford South Labour Party , Central Women's Section
ISLEWORTH (SYON)
GB 0074 ACC/0010 · Collection · 1656

Copy of the enrolment of a decree of the Court of Chancery in a dispute between copyhold tenants of the Manor of Isleworth Syon and the Earl of Northumberland and others, concerning heriots and customs of the manor, 1656.

Petition from certain ratepayers of Ealing against the formation of a police force, 1830.

Various.
LABOUR PARTY
GB 0074 ACC/2784 · Collection · 1904-1970

Papers of the Enfield East Constituency Labour Party relating to elections and policy. Also nominations books for the Stratford Cooperative and Industrial Society and the Yiewsley and West Drayton District Cooperative Society.

Enfield East Constituency Labour Party
LIBERATION SOCIETY
GB 0074 A/LIB · Collection · 1554-1956

Records of the British Anti-State Church Association, later known as the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State-Patronage and Control or the Liberation Society. Records include minutes of the Executive Committee and the Parliamentary Committee; reports and memoranda; annual reports; lists of members, officers and executive; correspondence relating to legacies; financial records; leases for offices; legal opinions; papers relating to burial grounds; copies of relevant Acts of Parliament; printed material such as publications, magazines, addresses, circulars and pamphlets; photographs; and press cuttings.

British Anti-State Church Association , 1844-1853 Society for the Liberation of Religion from State-Patronage and Control x Liberation Society
ACC/3307 · Collection · 1910

Printed election address by George Craik and Cyril Jackson, Municipal Reform candidates seeking election to the London County Council for the Limehouse, Ratcliffe and Shadwell Division, 1910.

Jackson , Sir , Cyril , 1863-1924 , Knight , educationalist
GB 0074 ACC/1632 · Collection · 1890-1900

Records of the London County Council (LCC) Progressive Society, comprising minutes of the Society, including agendas and lists of candidates.

London County Council , Progressive Society
LONDON ELECTIONS
GB 0074 ACC/3606 · Collection · 1906-1907

Election literature and newspaper cuttings from the 1906 General Election, the 1907 London County Council election, and the 1906 borough elections.

Various.
LONDON LABOUR PARTY
GB 0074 ACC/2417 · Collection · 1889-1979

Records of the London Labour Party, reflecting the activity of the central body of the Party, the executive committee, and its relation to the affiliated organisations. Records relating to individual parties are the central body's dealings with the parties rather than being the records of the individual parties themselves. There is much printed material, including a fine series of journals, especially the London Labour Chronicle (later, London News) from 1915-1964. The majority of the records are post World War II.

London Labour Party x Greater London Labour Party
LONDON LIBERAL PARTY
GB 0074 LMA/4445 · Collection · 1964-1988

The records of the London Liberal Party are of interest to anyone wishing to study local and/or national politics with reference to London. The working mechanisms of the LLP and achievements of its staff can be assessed, whilst the varying fortunes of the Local Associations and Liberal Party as a whole can be observed. Much of the material gives a fascinating insight into a range of London-wide and national issues, both familiar and contemporary. The records can also provide a useful commentary on the activities of the Greater London Council, Inner London Education Authority and others.

London Liberal Federation x London Liberal Party
GB 0074 ACC/1446 · Collection · 1903-1975

Records of the London Liberal Party, including minutes and accounts of the London Liberal Foundation; minutes of the Holborn Liberal Association; minutes of the Peckham and Camberwell Liberal Association; and financial accounts of the Willesden East Liberal Association.

London Liberal Federation x London Liberal Party
LONDON MUNICIPAL SOCIETY
GB 0074 CLC/088 · Collection · 1894-1963

London Municipal Society records comprising annual general meetings minutes, 1894-1962 (Ms 19526); council meetings minutes, 1894-1950 (Ms 19527); and executive committee meetings minutes, 1894-1963 (Ms 19528).

London Municipal Society
MIDDLESEX ELECTION
ACC/0993 · Collection · 1784

Protest of John Wilkes and W Mainwaring to the sheriff of Middlesex against holding a "scrubing" following the election of 23rd April 1784 for Knights of the Shire (county representatives in the House of Commons).

Wilkes , John , 1725-1797 , politician
GB 0074 ACC/1055 · Collection · 1802

Records deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, comprising a parochial list of the poll for the County of Middlesex at the General Election 1802; printed in 1803 with minor handwritten additions, including the signature of Edward Knight, former owner.

Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace
GB 0074 LMA/4427 · Collection · 1930-1977

Personal papers of Millie Miller, Member of Parliament. The collection consists mostly of official parliamentary incoming and outgoing correspondence when Miller held office as MP for Ilford North. There are also maps, plans, brochures, and newspaper cuttings relating to housing in Stoke Newington from the 1930s, and during the late 1950s when Miller chaired the Housing Committee. The correspondence files are varied. Letters include those from; interest groups, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Socialist Medical Association, the Married Women's Association, the Association of Jewish Women's Organisations in the UK, and National Council of Women of Great Britain; local authorities, including Camden and Redbridge Borough Councils and Waltham Forest Area Health Authority; businesses local to the Ilford North constituency, including Thorn Electrical Industries Limited; Ilford North constituents; and letters from other MPs and Ministers.

The material reflects Millie Miller's keen interest in the promotion of women's rights, her membership on various committees and councils, delivery of speeches to women's associations, and her campaigns against girl slavery in the sex industry, battered wives, and sex discrimination. The material also details Miller's involvement in the World Conference of International Women's Year 1975. The correspondence touches on the Government's relations with Israel and the difficulties facing ethnic minorities, particularly Jewish communities. A large proportion of letters relate to Miller's constituency in Ilford North, Redbridge LB, with particular reference to housing, immigrants, and the views of constituents on local and national issues.

Miller , Millie , 1923-1977 , politician and social worker
MUNICIPAL REFORM PARTY
GB 0074 ACC/3561 · Collection · 1919

Record of the Municipal Reform Party, comprising campaign speech given to the electors of Norwood Division, Lambeth.

Municipal Reform Party
GB 0074 A/NEA · Collection · 1887-1959

Records of the National Education Association, including minutes; papers relating to the formation and endowment of the Association; financial accounts; annual reports; correspondence; case files; NEA publications; other publications; Parliamentary publications; circulars from the Ministry of Education; education pamphlets and reference papers.

National Education Association , 1888-1959
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/06 · Collection · 1849-1904

Records of the New River Company relating to Parliamentary proceedings, including papers regarding relevant Select Committees and Bills; memoranda of proceedings; reports; and correspondence, statistics and reports relating to the Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Water Supply.

New River Company
NEWDEGATE FAMILY
GB 0074 ACC/1085 · Collection · 1509-1925

Records of the Newdigate [later Newdegate] family relating to their manors of Harefield, Moorhall and Brackenbury, including court rolls, rentals and rent rolls, lists of tenants, surveys, financial accounts, surveys, maps and plans, and legal case papers (cases in Chancery and Common Pleas). Also papers regarding a visit to Harefield by Queen Elizabeth I in 1602; election diary of Sir Roger Newdigate, MP for Middlesex 1741-47; papers relating to the lecturer's house at Uxbridge; papers relating to the Uxbridge Yeomanry, captained by Charles Newdigate; and papers relating to Harefield Church. Also some papers relating to family property in Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Hampton, Ickenham and Hillingdon.

Newdigate , family , of Harefield x Newdegate , family , of Harefield
RAISIN, J.W.
GB 0074 ACC/2783 · Collection · 1946-1969

Records of James Raisin, Labour Party agent, consisting mainly of Organisers' reports on Labour party meetings and events in both the London District from 1946-1969 and the Northern Home Counties Region from 1958-1969.

Raisin , James , d 1974 , Labour Party agent
GB 0074 P92/SAV · Collection · 1443-1962

Records relating to the parish of Saint Saviour, Borough High Street, Southwark; also known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Saviour and Saint Mary Overy. This is a large and extensive collection and it is recommended that researchers consult the detailed catalogue. Summary of some of the major holdings:

  • papers relating to the maintenance of the church building including bills for work and repairs done in the church, contracts, and faculties;
  • token books;
  • marriage licences and registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials;
  • financial records;
  • records of the Vestry including minute books and papers of the clerks;
  • minutes of other committees;
  • legal documents relating to parish properties including leases, agreements, conveyances and deeds;
  • papers relating to legal cases;
  • papers relating to poor relief including petitions to the wardens from the poor and sick asking for assistance;
  • plans and drawings of parish properties;
  • records of constables and other parish officers;
  • records relating to local taxation including poor rates and church rates;
  • papers of parochial charities;
  • papers relating to Saint Saviour's Free Grammar School;
  • registers of apprenticeship indentures;
  • papers relating to Parliamentary elections for the Borough of Southwark, including lists of persons entitled to vote;
  • papers relating to Borough Market;
  • records of the parish of Saint Margaret, Southwark, including financial accounts and depositions.
Parish of St Saviour, Southwark , Church of England Cathedral Church of Saint Saviour and Saint Mary Overy
SAVOY PRECINCT
LMA/4037 · Collection · 1811

Petition of the inhabitants of Savoy Precinct to the House of Commons protesting against the Strand Bridge Bill, 1811.

Residents of Savoy Precinct
SMALL NATIONAL COLLECTIONS
GB 0074 CLC/539 · Collection · 1556-1943

Collection of documents relating to national events or institutions. The documents relate to varied subjects including Parliamentary elections and proceedings; taxation including tax assessments, tax agents and accounts; military commissions; the Tower of London; excise; military orders; passwords issued by royalty; bankruptcies; militia; licences; warrants; petitions; and patents.

Various.
GB 0074 CLC/103 · Collection · 1783-1790

Papers of the Society for the Benefit of the Widows of the Clergy, comprising petitions to the Society and letters patent.

Society for the Benefit of the Widows of the Clergy
GB 0074 ACC/1338 · Collection · 1915-1954

Records of the South Ealing Conservative Association, comprising minute books; minutes and reports of the Young Britons club; and minutes of the Junior branch (later the Young Conservatives).

South Ealing Conservative Association
SOUTH MIMMS
ACC/0427 · Collection · 1888

Overseers' List (Occupiers List) of persons entitled to be registered as parliamentary voters and as county electors in the parish of South Mimms in the Hadley Polling District of the Enfield Parliamentary Division, at this date part of the County of Middlesex; and also as county electors only in the Barnet Urban Polling District in respect of property in South Mimms, 1888.

MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
SOUTHALL LABOUR PARTY
GB 0074 ACC/1267 · Collection · 1923-1971

Records of the Southall Labour Party, comprising minutes, financial accounts and membership records for the Uxbridge Divisional Labour Party, the Southall and Norwood Trades Council and Labour Party, and the Southall Divisional/Constituency Labour Party.

Southall Constituency Labour Party
TATCHELL, Peter (b 1952)
GB 0074 LMA/4466 · Collection · 1971-2004

The papers of Peter Tatchell includes correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, press releases, posters, leaflets and publications on the following topics: Aids/HIV research, vivisection and animal rights, homophobic violence and policing, the age of consent, media portrayal of homosexuality, negative comments on sexuality by 'personalities', homophobic lyrics and the music industry, international politics, green socialism, Labour and politics, Members of Parliament and 'outing', the Bermondsey By-election, the Greater London Assembly, Christian, Jewish and Islamic leaders' stances on homosexuality, the law and sexuality, the prosecution of homosexual acts, and the employment of homosexuals in the armed forces.

Tatchell , Peter , b 1952 , gay and HIV/AIDS activist, social worker, journalist and author
GB 0074 ACC/0006 · Collection · 1796

Printed pamphlet containing the speeches and addresses of John Horne Tooke, 27 May-14 June, candidate in the Westminster election, 1796.

Tooke , John Horne , 1736-1812 , radical and philologist
Wilkes, John (1725-1797)
ACC/0967 · Collection · 1769

Address by John Wilkes to voters in Middlesex where he was standing for Parliamentary election, delievered from the Kings Bench Prison where he was imprisoned for seditious libel, 1769.

Wilkes , John , 1725-1797 , politician
GB 0074 ACC/1158 · Collection · 1906-1968

Records of the Wood Green and Lower Tottenham Conservative Association, including minutes of the Southgate Conservative and Unionist Association; Executive Committee and Entertainments Committee minutes of the Palmers Green Unionist Association; financial accounts for the Wood Green Constitutional Association; Executive and General Purposes Committee minutes for the Women's Constitutional Association Wood Green Branch; and minutes, correspondence and papers relating to ward organisation for the Wood Green and Tottenham Conservative Association.

Wood Green and Lower Tottenham Conservative Association
GB 0074 O/529 · Collection · 1876-1878

Minute book of Workman's Neutrality Committee, includes address on School Board Election from the General Political Vigilance Committee.

Labour Representation League , Workman's Neutrality Committee