Subject File. Nottingham Labour Movement: General Strike 1926

Reference No:
U DJS/1/79
Dates:
1966-1976
Description:

Contains papers relating to Peter Wyncoll and Anthony Mason's work on the Nottingham Labour Movement and the General Strike of 1926. Contains references to: the strike; strikers' recollections of events; play 'Everybody Out' by Shane Connaughton and Andrew Manley; title of project being 'The General Strike: A Project for Group Research and Tape-Recording'; Open University research project 'The Labour Movement in Nottingham 1880-1939'.

Papers comprise: correspondence; flyer advertising play; project outline; typescript synopsis of project; typescript draft re background to the strike; typescript recollections of various persons re the strike. Correspondents include: E. Freiborough; Glen Downes; Betty Hampton-Evans; B. Roberts; G. Hall; General and Municipal Workers' Union; Communist Party of Great Britain (East Midlands); National Union of Hosiery Workers; Amalgamated Engineering Union; National Union of Railway Men; City of Nottingham Town Clerk; C.E. Mason; L.J. Malpas; G.J. Fletcher; Union of SHop Distributive and Allied Workers; Ilkeston and Eastwood Area Trades Union Council; F. Trebble; Society of Graphical and Allied Trades; C.J. Varnam; Fred Chambers for TUC; Transport and General Workers Union; Nottingham Historical Film Unit; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen; British Museum Newspaper Library; Wallace Hicking; Electrical Trades Union; C.S. Gunn.

[see also U DJS/1/78]

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of John Saville (1916-2009)