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Admin History:

The Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) was formed in 1851 by the collaboration of a number of separate organisations for mechanics, smiths, millwrights, engineers and machinists. A number of other, mainly local, organisations joined between 1893 and 1915. In 1920 nine other unions joined the ASE, which agreed in September 1918, to form the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU). When the Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers joined in 1967, the Union changed its name to the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers (AEF). In April 1970 the AEF amalgamated with the Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians' Association and the Constructional Engineering Union to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW). It changed its name back to the Amalgamated Engineering Union in May 1986, though several changes in name have since followed.

For a full history see http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/259umb.htm#N1954.

Description:

Includes minutes, proposition books, registers of members, declaration books, declaration of death benefits, sickness and unemployments benefit books and subscription books.