Hunter, Margaret (Socialist activist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1922 - 1986
Biography
Margaret Hunter (1922-1986) was an early member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and from her time as a factory convenor at Barr and Stroud in Glasgow during World War II, she went on to become secretary of the CPGB’s Knightswood branch and subsequently acheived a place on the Communist Party Scottish Committee. She married Jimmy Hunter in 1946. She also served as the Communist Party’s Scottish organiser, and was appointed in 1963 as the National Women’s Organiser, which led the couple to London. She was the author of a number of key party policy papers and would stand unsuccessfully for election herself in 1964.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Jimmy & Margaret Hunter Collection., circa 1950s-1990s.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/20
Scope and Contents
Collection contains one folder of photographs, correspondence, notes, poems, songs, political ephemera, and speeches of both Jimmy and Margaret Hunter. Topics represented in written material include the Suffrage Movement, the poetry of Robert Burns (possibly for a Burns Supper event), and election campaigns. Notable correspondents include Christopher Grieve (also known as poet Hugh MacDiarmid). Jimmy Hunter's funeral tributes to Helen Crawfurd-Anderson and Cathie Girvan are also present, as...
Dates:
circa 1950s-1990s.