Making History: Documents from the 1910s The First World War: Diary and letters of Private John Davidson Young, a British man serving with the Australian army on the Western Front, 1916-1919. [From the archives of Arthur Primrose Young; document references: MSS.242/YO/2 and MSS.242/YO/4] ‘Fragments from all the fronts’ and ‘Fragments from France’, cartoons by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, c.1917-1918 [Included in the archives of Arthur Primrose Young; document reference: MSS.242/MI/13-14] ‘The future of our disabled sailors and soldiers’: booklet promoting the rehabilitation work done at hospitals in Roehampton and Brighton, 1917. [Included in a file Disabled workers, 1914-1919, 1948-1949, from the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation; document reference: MSS.36/D24] Documents relating to the imprisonment of Rowland Barrett as a conscientious objector in 1917, including correspondence, press cuttings and ephemera. [Included in the archives of Rowland Barrett; document references: MSS.83/3/PR/1-21] Revolutionary Russia: ‘An appeal to public opinion: should the Russian refugees be deported?’, written by Russian socialists in London, 1916. It describes anti-Semitic and political persecution. [Included in a file on Russia / the Soviet Union, from the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation; document reference: MSS.36/R30 (file 1)] Circulars relating to the Leeds Convention to hail the Menshevik Revolution in Russia, 1917 [From the Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association archives; document ref.: MSS.148/PA/2/5/2] Circular letter from the Russian Government of Workmen, Peasants and Soldiers to English workers, undated [c.1919] [Included in a file on Russia / the Soviet Union, from the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation; document reference: MSS.36/R30 (file 1)] ‘A collection of reports on Bolshevism in Russia’ published by British government, 1919 [Included in a file on Russia / the Soviet Union, from the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation; document reference: MSS.36/R30 (file 1)] Britain and Empire: ‘Manifesto to the workers of India’ from the All India Trade Union Congress, [c1919] [Included in a file on India, from the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation; document reference: MSS.36/I3] Indian National Congress Presidential address, 1919; including comment on war, revolution, the Amritsar massacre by British soldiers, and proposed reforms. [Included in a file on India, from the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation; document reference: MSS.36/I3] ‘The agony of Amritsar and the reign of terror in the Punjab’, pamphlet on the Amritsar massacre published by the British Committee of the Indian National Congress, c.1920 [Included in a file on India, from the archives of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation; document reference: MSS.36/I3] ‘The rebellion in Dublin, April 1916’: postcards showing the physical effects of the Easter Rising. [Included in the Maitland Sara Hallinan collection; document reference: MSS.15X/2/566/57] ‘Two years of English atrocities in Ireland’, 1918: pro-independence pamphlet, including lists of political prisoners. [Included in the Maitland Sara Hallinan collection; document reference: MSS.15X/2/566/69] Women and society: Two circular letters about the suffrage movement from Emmeline Pankhurst of the Women’s Social and Political Union, 1914 [Included in the ‘Miscellaneous collection’; document reference: MSS.21/1815-1816] Text of two speeches by the Conservative MP Sir Leslie Scott on the subject of women’s suffrage, 1916 [Included in the archives of Sir Leslie Scott; document reference: MSS.119/3/S/LI/9-10] ‘The position of women after the war’, report of the Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women’s Organisations, 1916 [Included in the ‘Miscellaneous collection’; document reference: MSS.21/1546] Making History: Documents from the 1920s and 1930s Communism ‘To comrades and workers’: photograph album promoting the Soviet Union on the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, 1926 [Included in the archives of Henry Sara and Frank Maitland; document reference: MSS.15B/6/7] Bulletin of the Foreign Delegation of the Zionist Socialist Party in the USSR, June 1931, including reports on persecution of Jews and socialists in Russia and compulsory collectivisation [From a file on Russia, 1931-1935, included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292/947/7] ‘The Spanish Revolution’, bulletin of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), including attack on Stalinism and reference to Eric Blair’s [George Orwell’s] involvement in the Spanish Civil War, 1937 [Included in the archives of Henry Sara and Frank Maitland; document reference: MSS.15/3/8/255/9] Fascism Collection of leaflets issued by the Anti-Fascist Propaganda Bureau in London, 1934 [From a file of anti-fascist publications and ephemera, included in the archives of the National Union of Railwaymen; document reference: MSS.127/NU/GS/3/9xxx] Statements made by former members of the British Union of Fascists on use of violence, 1934: these were used as evidence for the defence in a libel action brought by the BUF leader Oswald Mosley against the General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen [From a file on the court case Mosley versus Marchbank, included in the archives of the National Union of Railwaymen; document reference: MSS.127/NU/GS/3/6] Trades Union Congress file on the use of sport in Nazi Germany as propaganda, including the 1936 Berlin Olympics [From the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292/808.91/3] Photographs of Germany at the time of the Berlin Olympics, 1936 [Included in the archives of Lady Allen of Hurtwood; document reference: MSS.121/GEN/12/1] Financial crisis and social welfare Evidence on slum housing in London submitted by the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, 1929 [From a file on Sanitary Inspectors, 1928-1935, included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292/843.5/2] ‘The national crisis explained’ by the new coalition National Government, 1931 [Included in a file on the National Government, from the archives of the British Employers' Confederation; document reference: MSS.200/B/3/2/C798/1] ‘The economic crisis foretold by the Daily Mail, 1921-1931’ [From the archives of the National Union of Railwaymen; document reference: MSS.127/NU/5/1/32] Manifesto of the National Hunger March and Congress, [1934] [Included in the ‘Miscellaneous Collection’; document reference: MSS.21/3209] Britain and Empire ‘Who burnt Cork City?’, Irish Labour Party and Trade Union Congress pamphlet, 1921 [Included in the Maitland Sara Hallinan collection; document reference: MSS.15X/2/246/1] Circulars, 1930, and memorandum, 1935, on controversies over the employment of nonwhite sailors on British ships [From a file on shipping, included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292/655/6] Booklets about the Royal Empire Society, 1928, and British Empire Union, [c1933] [Included in the archives of the Union of Post Office Workers; document references: MSS.148/UCW/6/13/42/4 & 8] Pamphlet on 'India under British terror', 1931 [Included in the Maitland Sara Hallinan collection; document reference: MSS.15X/2/566/128] Making History: Documents from the 1940s and 1950s The Second World War ‘The Swiss Cottager’: bulletin of the ‘Air Raid Shelterers at Swiss Cottage Station, London’, 1940 [Included in the archive of the Association of Building Technicians; document reference: MSS.78/BT/5/6/1-3] ‘Women in Engineering’, photo album issued by the government to promote the employment of women during the war, [1942?] [Included in the papers of George H. Cullen; document reference: 873/5/2/5] Allied Expeditionary Force report on interrogation of Prisoner of War Karbinsky, former guard at Hitler’s bunker, 1945 [From a file on SHAEF Psychological Warfare Division, included in the archives of Richard Crossman; document reference: MSS.154/3/PW/1/118-123] Report by Richard Crossman, a member of the SHAEF Psychological Warfare Division, on his journey through occupied Germany, including description of the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp, 1945 [From an autobiographical file in the archives of Richard Crossman; document reference: MSS.154/3/AU/1/106-126] The welfare state ‘The Family Circle: The story of Britain’s new age of social security’, Labour Party pamphlet, [1948] [Included in the Maitland Sara Hallinan collection; document reference: MSS.15X/2/265/170] Trades Union Congress response to attack on the new National Health Service by the American Medical Association, 1948 [From a file on the National Health Service, 1946-1952, included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: 292/847/5] ‘Remarkable statistics’: Ministry of Health report on the first months of the National Health Service, 1950 [From a file on the National Health Service, 1946-1952, included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: 292/847/5] The Cold War Leaflets of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, protesting against attacks on minorities, 1950 [From a file on ‘Trade Unions in USA’, 1948-1952, in the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292/973/13] 'Herblock looks at Communism': cartoons on Communism, the Korean War, etc., reproduced from the Washington Post, [1950?] [Included in the Maitland Sara Hallinan collection; document reference: MSS.15X/2/566/405] Internal trade union memorandum on ‘The crisis in the British Communist Party’ after the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian uprising, 1956 [From a file on Communism, 1950-1957, included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292/770/6] Government advice to the general public on ‘The hydrogen bomb’, 1957 [Included in the ‘Miscellaneous collection’; document reference: MSS.21/3657] Empire and migration Press release from the Famine Campaign of the Federation of Indian Associations in Great Britain, 1943 [From a file on the Indian Famine, included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292/954/24] ‘Fight race hatred in Hampstead!’, Revolutionary Communist Party leaflet against ‘antirefugee’ campaign, 1945 [Included in the archives of Jimmy Deane; document reference: MSS.325/43/N45(34)] ‘Kenya Notes’: ‘Special Emergency supplement’ on the British response to the Mau Mau uprising, 1954 [From a file on Kenya, 1954, included in the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292/967.1/5] Leaflets issued by the Afro-Asian West Indian Union after the racially motivated murder of Kelso Cochrane in London, 1959 [Included in the archives of Jimmy Deane; document reference: MSS.325/44/NMisc(10-11)] Making History: Documents from the 1960s and 1970s Nuclear weapons and the Cold War Photographs taking during a Trades Union Congress delegation visit to Berlin, including views of the new Berlin Wall, 1961 [Included in a file on ‘Germany: Delegation, Mr Woodcock's visit’, from the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292B/943/19] Leaflets from the Committee of 100 and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), protesting against nuclear weapons, c1962-1963 [Included in the ‘Miscellaneous collection’; document reference: MSS.21/3369/8-9, 19-21] Government publication ‘Advising the householder on protection against nuclear attack’, 1963 [Included in the ‘Miscellaneous collection’; document reference: MSS.21/3659] The Vietnam War Issues of the bulletin of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, 1967-1968 [Included in the papers of Bob Purdie; document reference: MSS.149/2/14/1] 'Vietnam': comic strip summary of the background to the war, published by Manchester Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Undated [post 1967] [Included in a file on the Vietnam War from the papers of Bob Purdie; document reference: MSS.149/2/14/3/5] ‘South Vietnam Congress of People’s Representatives for the formation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam’, 1969 [Included in the papers of Jack Askins on Anti-Vietnam War Movement; document reference: MSS.189/V/2/1/1] ‘Peace’: issues of an anti-war underground newspaper produced by US soldiers stationed in the UK, 1970-1971 [Included in the papers of Jack Askins on Anti-Vietnam War Movement; document reference: MSS.189/V/2/5/19-20] Responses to immigration Press release and proposals regarding the social survey ‘The West Indian comes to Willesden’ (London), 1963 [Included in a file on "Commonwealth workers in Great Britain (mainly coloured)", from the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS. 292B/805.91/1] ‘The employer, the trade union and the immigrant worker’: a case study, 1970 [Included in a file on ‘Commonwealth Workers in Great Britain’, from the archives of the Trades Union Congress; document reference: MSS.292D/805.91/1] Issues of the Rock Against Racism magazine 'Temporary Hoarding', 1977-1979 [Included in the papers of Alistair Mutch; document reference: MSS.284/3/1] 'Arcchhhh: An anti-racist comic' from Leeds Women Against Racism and Fascism, 1979 [Included in a collection of anarchist and alternative publications; document reference: 758/1/4/2] Examples of National Front election leaflets, 1979 [Included in a file of ‘National Front Youth and General Election Literature’, from the ‘Miscellaneous collection’; document reference: MSS.21/1571/9] Feminism Examples of International Socialists’ discussion papers on the women’s liberation movement and its relationship with the far left, early 1970s [Included in a file on "Women", in the papers of Colin Barker, member of the International Socialists; document reference: MSS.152/1/6/6] Examples of bulletins, etc., produced by the Women’s Liberation Workshop, 1974-5 [Included in a file of Women's Liberation Workshop newsletters and other papers, from the archives of the International Marxist Group; document reference: MSS.128/26] Issue of ‘Banshee’, journal of Irishwomen United, 1976 [Included in the papers of Bob Purdie; document reference: MSS.149/2/8/4/1]
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