Workers' Education Trade Union Committee

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1924 WEA WETUC
Held at	: Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://student.londonmet.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/special-collections/trades-union-congress-library-collections/ ›
Full title	: Workers' Education Trade Union Committee
Date(s)	: 1919-1964
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of WEA Collection View parent record
Extent	: 1.5m
Name of creator(s)	: Workers' Education Association | Workers Education Trade Union Committee

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Workers' Education Trade Union Committee (WETUC) was founded in 1919 by the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) and the Iron and Steel Trade Union Confederation to strengthen and give cohesion to the WEA's education work with the trade unions. WEA provided the secretariat at district and national level whilst trade union representatives formed the majority of the Committee.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Workers Education Trade Union Committee comprising minutes, 1919-1964; annual reports, 1920-1959; and books and pamphlets, 1921-1957.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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.

Finding aids:

List, 1998.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was transferred from the WEA headquarters in Bethnal Green to the custody of the TUC Library Collections at the University of North London in August 1998.

Allied Materials

Related material:

University of North London TUC Library Collections and WEA Collection.

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Janet Foster as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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:
December, 2000