IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1924 Tolpuddle
Held at: Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University
Title: National Agricultural Labourers' and Rural Workers' Union: Tolpuddle Branch
Date(s): 1917-1953
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): National Agricultural Labourers' and Rural Workers' Union
National Union of Agricultural Workers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Union was founded in 1906 as the Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers and Smallholders Union. Its objects were to enable the agricultural labourer to secure 'proper representation on all local bodies...protection from political persecution and better conditions of living', and by 1910 it had 4000 members. In 1912 the name was changed to the National Agricultural Labourers' and Rural Workers' Union. It had 180,000 members by 1920 and the name was changed yet again, to the National Union of Agricultural Workers. It became the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers (NUAAW) in 1968 in recognition of its interest in industries ancillary to agriculture. In 1981 the NUAAW amalgamated with the Transport and General Workers Union.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minute book of the Tolpuddle Branch of the National Agricultural Labourers' and Rural Workers' Union (later the National Union of Agricultural Workers), 1917-1953
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single volume
Conditions governing access:
Open to bona fide researchers at the discretion of the TUC Librarian.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the TUC Librarian and subject to copyright conditions.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
None
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred to TUC Library Collections at the University of North London, 1998.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Source: Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Volume 2 by Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, (1980).
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000 and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2002