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MACCOLL, James Eugene, 1908-1971, Labour MP


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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Note:

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Delinquency | Social problems
Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Local government | Public administration | Government
Urban planning | Urban development
Crime
Education
Interethnic relations
Town and country planning

Personal names
Maccoll | James Eugene | 1908-1971 | Labour MP

Corporate names
Church of England
Labour Party

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Widnes | Cheshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Africa
Lancashire