Scottish Labour History Collections
4. Papers of individuals connected with the Trade Union and Labour movement
and other Socialist groups
- AIRLIE (John McDiarmid), Labour councillor and parliamentary candidate: Acc.11566.
miscellaneous letters and papers, 1912-1933, associated with the Airlie
printed collection, including material on the Ayr Burghs parliamentary
election, 1924.
- ANNAND (J. K.), Secretary of Edinburgh University Socialist Society:
Acc.4190. copies of ten letters to Annand including letters from J.
Ramsay MacDonald, Mrs. Beatrice Webb and R. B. Cunninghame-Graham, 1928-1929.
- CLUNIE (James), Labour M.P.: Acc.4334. some correspondence, 1908-1962,
chiefly letters from John MacLean, 1921-1923.
- CRAIGEN (James Mark), Labour and Co-op M.P. and administrator: Acc.10316,
Acc.10476. papers, 1971-1991, including Scottish Trade Union Congress
papers on unemployment; M.Litt thesis on the history of the STUC; papers
on Scottish devolution, 1968-1984; papers relating to the Co-operative
Party and the Co-operative Wholesale Society, 1960-1991; and on the
Trustee Savings Banks flotation, 1983-1986.
- DUNCAN (Joseph Forbes), Independent Labour Party activist and trade
union leader: Acc.5490, Acc.5601. correspondence and papers, 1905-1908,
1914-1963.
- DUNLOP (John), member of the XV International Brigade during the
Spanish Civil War: Acc.12087. papers relating to Dunlop's time in Spain,
and more recent correspondence and papers regarding the International
Brigade Association and writings on the Spanish Civil War by John Dunlop
and others, 1937-1999.
- ELLIOT (Donald M.), member of the National Union of Journalists:
Acc.6302. some papers, 1926-1940, relating to his activities in the
National Union of Journalists, Edinburgh Branch; papers relating to
wartime press censorship in Scotland, 1939-1940.
- FLYNN (Thomas Vincent), General Secretary of the Society of Graphical
and Allied Trades: Acc.11504. correspondence and papers 1923-1991, including
material relating to politics and the theatre in Glasgow, 1943-1983,
the history of the bookbinding unions, and industrial relations in London,
1972-1976.
- GOLLAN (John), General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great
Britain: Acc.11479. drafts for a biography (unpublished) by Margot Kettle,
including tapes of interviews with friends and associates, c1990.
- GRIEVE (Christopher Murray) [Hugh MacDiarmid], poet, Scottish Nationalist
and Communist: Acc.7361, Acc.10517. political correspondence (c5000
letters), 1929-1978, some relating to his relations with the Communist
Party of Great Britain (Acc.7361); and correspondence and papers relating
to his election campaign as Communist candidate in Kinross and West
Perthshire, 1964.
- HARDIE (James Keir), M.P. and Leader of the Parliamentary Labour
Party: Dep.176, MSS.20670, ff.98-99. some personal correspondence and
papers (including photographs), 1889-1915 (Dep. 176), and minutes of
the provisional committee for the foundation of the Daily Herald
written and signed by James Keir Hardie, 1911(MSS.20670, ff.98-99).
- HUGHES (Emrys), author, journalist and Labour M.P.: Dep.176. correspondence
and papers, 1914-1969, including an unpublished autobiography, and correspondence
as editor of the Forward newspaper, Glasgow, 1931-1946.
- JOHNSTON (Thomas), journalist, Labour M.P. and Secretary of State
for Scotland: Acc.5862. a small collection of surviving personal papers
and letters, 1904-1957.
- LAWSON (George McArthur), Labour M.P.: Acc.9588. political correspondence
and papers, 1948-1978, including material relating to the Scottish steel
industry, and to the "No" campaign in the Scottish devolution referendum,
1978.
- LIVINGSTONE (Angus Cook), Independent Labour Party activist, Provost
of Bo'ness, West Lothian: Acc.9630. a small collection of political
letters and papers [photocopies of originals], 1911-1932.
- MACDONALD (J Ramsay), Labour Prime Minister: Acc 11180. a collection
of letters and telegrams of condolence following the death of his wife,
Margaret Ethel MacDonald, 1911.
- MACKAY (Benjamin Skene), Labour activist, Organising Secretary, National
Union of Vehicle Builders: Acc.9741. a small collection of personal
papers, c1910-1930.
- MACKINTOSH (John Pitcairn), historian, political scientist and Labour
M.P: Dep.323 [some files restricted]. political and academic correspondence
and papers, 1944-1978.
- MACLEAN (John), Clydeside socialist: Acc.4251, Acc.4335. family and
political correspondence and papers, 1909-1923; papers concerning him,
1924-1973.
- MATHERS (George), Labour M.P. and Deputy Chief Whip, Baron Mathers
of Newton St. Boswells: Acc.4826. personal and political correspondence
and papers, 1915-1961.
- MILLAR (James Primrose Malcolm), General Secretary, National Council
of Labour Colleges: Acc.5120, Acc.5695. correspondence and papers, 1913-1965,
in the NCLC archive; papers, 1926, relating to the General Strike in
Edinburgh (Acc.5695).
- MUIRHEAD (Roland Eugene), Independent Labour Party supporter and
Scottish Nationalist: Acc.3721. personal correspondence and records
of his Scottish Secretariat, includes correspondence with many Labour
M.P.'s, and material relating to his financial and other support of
the ILP and of the Glasgow Forward, c1900-1960.
- MURRAY (David), industrial journalist and broadcaster: Acc.7914,
Acc.7915. correspondence and papers, 1934-1974. Much of the correspondence,
1936-1942, relates to the Independent Labour Party and to its involvement
in the Spanish Civil War; and (1934-1945) to the iron and steel industry.
- MURRAY (Thomas), Communist activist: Acc.9083. correspondence and
papers, including letters from Spain, and material relating to the Spanish
Civil War, 1923-1968.
- RITCHIE-CALDER (Peter), Baron Ritchie-Calder of Balmashannar, science
writer, journalist, and Labour Life Peer: Dep. 370; Acc.10318. correspondence
and papers, 1940-1981.
- SHAW (Benjamin), Scottish Secretary of the Labour Party: Acc.6471.
a small collection of personal letters and papers, 1893-1922.
- SMALL (William), Lanarkshire miners' leader: Acc.3350. a small collection
of papers relating to his public life, including an autobiographical
memoir, 1899-1953.
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WOODBURN (Arthur), Labour M.P., Secretary of State for Scotland: Acc.7656. correspondence and papers, including drafts of an unpublished autobiography, 1907-1978.
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