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Description: | The collections cover the last two hundred years of working class life and & institutions in Britain relating to the organised Labour Movement. There is a strong collection of ephemera relating to trade unions and also trade union emblems. Ephemera also includes trade societies, political parties and modern campaigns, the Co-operative Movement, early radicalism, the Clarion Movement and the suffrage campaigns. The collection of 1500 political posters includes examples from the Spanish Civil War. Of importance amongst recent acquisitions are the Women's Social and Political Union posters dated from 1908 and 400 Communist Party of Great Britain posters dated 1936-1980 and 600 Labour Party posters of 1904-1992. There are also items such as collecting tins and tools. | Subjects: | People (political) Society Industry & commerce Social History Archives Political & social cultures | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | The Pump House
Bridge Street,
M3 3ER | FAX: | 0161 839 6027 | Telephone: | 0161 839 6061 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:1250 | Go to resource |
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