CLAPHAM LABOUR PARTY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4284
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: CLAPHAM LABOUR PARTY
Date(s)	: 1922-1948
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.45 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Labour Party Clapham Labour Party London Labour Party

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Clapham Labour Party was formed in 1918, three years after the formation of the London Labour Party. Prior to that date it had been a branch of the Independant Labour Party.

These papers were originally those of John Rose Battley F.R.S.A., J.P., member of the Clapham Labour Party and President in 1939. He was also a member of the London County Council. In 1936-37 he was nominated for the London Labour Party Executive Committee Local Trade's Councils and Labour Parties section and he was the first Labour Parliamentary Candidate for the Clapham Labour Party in 1940. Battley owned Battley Brother Printers business in Queenstown, established in 1923. This company undertook the majority of the printing work for the Clapham Labour Party during Battley's involvement with it and still exists today.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relating to Clapham Labour Party. The collection includes minutes of Clapham Labour Party's executive committee and general management committee as well as information on borough and LCC elections. The correspondence referring to Dr MacGregor Reid (President of the Clapham Labour Party in 1926, d 1946), his alleged attack on other Labour and Socialist Parties and ensuing enquiry is especially engaging. However, the records also mention the Battersea Division and contain correspondence of the London Labour Party and national Labour Party. Of particular note are the official Labour Party posters reflecting policy on topics such as farming, coal strikes and the family and its publications about issues such as refugees, Soviet wartime policy and Palestinians in Israel.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records have been arranged into the following series: LMA/4284/01 Administration; LMA/4284/02 The Labour Party.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

These records arrived with the Michael Ward collection, LMA/4282, accession number B00/100.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession gifted to the Archive in September 2000.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Other records of interest deposited at London Metropolitan Archives are: ACC/2417 London Labour Party; ACC/2784 Labour Party; ACC/3814 Labour Party; A/HHL Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party; A/HVH Havering-Hornchurch Constituency Labour Party; ACC/1267 Southall Labour Party; ACC/1972 Ealing Labour Party; LMA/4023 Ealing North Labour Party; ACC/2527 Ilford South Labour Party.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
June to August 2010.