Strikes
Subject
Subject Source: Ukat
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Agnes McLean Collection, 1943-2008.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/28
Clydeside Apprentices Collection., 1937-1986.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 3/2
Scope and Contents
Collection contains papers of, and concerning, the Clydeside Apprentices' strikes of the 1930s. These include an original mounted photograph labelled 'Engineering and Shipbuilding Apprentices' Strike', showing young workers (1937); an original pamphlet entitled 'Clydeside Apprentices' Strike: Full Story', published by the Young Communist League in c.1937; an original typescript 'Report of Proceedings' of an inquiry held into wage disputes raised by the Clydeside Apprentices in 1941;...
Dates:
1937-1986.
General Strike (1926) Collection., circa 1920s-2000s.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 3/4
Helen Crawfurd-Anderson Collection., 1917-2010.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/9
James Miller Collection., 1931-1991.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/32
Jessie Findlay Collection, circa 2003-2006.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/13
Scope and Contents
Collection contains one folder of papers concerning WGML librarian Audrey Canning's biographical profile of Jessie Findlay.Folder contains manuscript and typescript drafts of the profile Canning produced on Findlay for the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women in 2006, with additional handwritten notes. Also present are reproduced images of Findlay as a young woman and in her later life, alongside original and reproduced press cuttings and articles on her life and work....
Dates:
circa 2003-2006.
Joe Harrison Maxwell & Kathleen Tinney Collection, 1909-?1924.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/16
Scope and Contents
Harrison Maxwell and Tinney were both teachers, social intellectuals and active members in the Red Clydeside movement of the pre-war period. This collection primarily contains correspondence between the couple in the early years of their courtship and marriage, with one small folder of letters pertaining to letters from James C. Welsh to the pair. The collection also contains Harrison Maxwell's schoolteacher's briefcase, from his time teaching at Airdrie Academy, and a folder of his...
Dates:
1909-?1924.
John Maclean Collection, circa 1918-2008.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/27
Mary Barbour Collection., 1920-2017.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/4
Mary Docherty Collection., 1920-2000.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/12
Mary Macarthur Collection., circa 1990s-2005.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/22
Scope and Contents
Collection contains one folder of papers concerning Macarthur, including inventory lists of material held by the WGML and the STUC archive pertaining to Macarthur, alongside photocopied images, secondary source articles, biographical profiles, and reproduced cuttings from the Women Worker newspaper recording aspects of her activism in the labour movement. Reproduced examples of her published writings are also present, as is her funeral tribute to Keir Hardie in 1915. Folder also contains a...
Dates:
circa 1990s-2005.
Pat Devine and Gloria Findlay Collection., 1910-2017.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/11
Rose Kerrigan Collection., 1938-1996.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/21
WGML Photographic Archive., circa 1920s-2000s
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 3/15
Scope and Contents
Photographs within the WGML have not been fully catalogued but are summarised below for ease of access. Researchers and visitors are welcome to consult these items upon request. For further information, please contact manuscripts@nls.uk directly.Acc.14114/2/3/15
15/1 Envelope containing photographs labelled by Audrey Canning as ‘photographs to be returned to photo case’ (c.1920s-1930s)
[All photographs are labelled individually]
15/2 Green plastic box of...
Dates:
circa 1920s-2000s