Women's Trade Union League

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1924 WTUL
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	: Women's Trade Union League
Date(s)	: 1891-1921
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 4 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Women's Trade Union League Women's Protective and Provident League

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Women's Trade Union League was established by Mrs Emma Patterson in 1874, as the Women's Protective and Provident League. By the 1890s ten London Unions, and over thirty provincial unions were affiliated, from Bookbinding, Shirt and Collar Making, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Milinery, Cigar Making, Match and Matchbox Making, Ropemaking, Weaving, Laundry, Boot and Shoe Making, Silk Working, Upholstery, Lace Making, Pottery, Paper Making and Shop Working. The League was absorbed into the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1921.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Women's Trade Union League, 1875-1921, comprising:
Annual Report [printed], 1875-1921; Minutes 1904-1908, 1911-1921; Women's Union Journal, 1876-1890; Women's Trades Union Review 1891-1919; correspondence on merger with Trades Union Congress, 1921.

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:

Unlisted

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The WTUL Library was transferred to the TUC Library when the League was absorbed into the TUC in 1921.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Library also holds the papers of Gertrude Tuckwell, Secretary and later President of the WTUL, and a notebook of Emilia, Lady Dilke, an active member of the WTUL.

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Alan Kucia 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 forthe Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2002