IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0097 MACCOLL
Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Title: MACCOLL, James Eugene, 1908-1971, Labour MP
Date(s): c1930-c1960
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 60 boxes
Name of creator(s): MacColl, James Eugene, 1908-1971, Labour MP
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
James Eugene MacColl, 1908-1971, was educated at Sedbergh School, Balliol College, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. He was librarian of the Oxford Union in 1930, Commonwealth Fund Fellow, 1930-1932, and became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1933. MacColl's political life began when he became a co-opted a member of the London County Council Education Committee, 1936-1946, and a member of Paddington Metropolitan Borough Council, 1934. He was a research assistant at the Political and Economic Planning Trust, 1945-1950, and Mayor of Paddington, 1947-1949. He was Labour MP for the Widnes Division of Lancashire from 1950 to 1971, and was Minister of Housing and Local Government, 1964-1969. MacColl's particular areas of interest were housing, local government and juvenile courts. He served on the Chairman's Panel, London Juvenile Courts, 1946-1964, on the Hemel Hempstead New Towns Corporation, 1946-1950, and on the Domestic Coal Consumers Council, 1947-1950.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of James Eugene MacColl MP, comprising files on subjects such as Africa, the Church, crime and delinquency, education, housing and planning, local government in theory and practice, and race relations; papers relating to the Labour Party and parliamentary matters; personal papers; writings; and correspondence with constituents.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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COPYRIGHT IS HELD BY THE DONOR
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This collection is box-listed, but no handlist is yet available.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on March 27, 2002
Date(s) of descriptions: 27 Mar 2002; 8 May 2002