The Labour History Archive and Study Centre (LHASC) is the only specialist repository for the political wing of the labour movement. It holds records of working-class political organizations from the Chartists to New Labour. Our collections are used for a variety of research purposes, providing information about the social, cultural and political life of the last two centuries. The two main collections held at the LHASC are the archive of the Labour Party and the archive of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Besides housing papers of political organizations, the LHASC collects personal papers of radical politicians, writers and left-wing groups.
We have made over 20 collections available on the hub to date, these include personal papers of Labour politicians, and the records of Left wing groups and organisations such as Unity Theatre, Socialist Sunday Schools, and the British Workers Sports Association.
Our two main collections, The Labour Party archive and the Communist Party of Great Britain archive are not yet available on the Hub. we hope to remedy this at a future date. In the meantime the indexes to both of these archives can be searched online from the Access to Archives (A2A) web site.
Special features: Festivals, Manchester Histories Festival
Address: Labour History Archive and Study Centre
People's History Museum
103 Princess Street
Manchester M1 6DD
Telephone : 0161 228 7212 Fax: 0161 237 5965
Email: archive@phm.org.uk Web: http://www.phm.org.uk/archive-study-centre/
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- Beatrice Webb letters
- British Workers' Sports Association
- Consumer Council Papers
- Ellen Wilkinson Papers
- Festival of Labour
- Jo Richardson Papers
- Labour Party Archives
- Labour Party Archives: Labour Representation Committee Correspondence
- Labour Party Chief Woman Officers' Papers
- Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
- Martin Walker Papers
- Mary Middleton and Margaret MacDonald Baby Clinic and Hospital
- Papers of Michael Foot (1913-2010)
- Peter Tatchell Papers
- Socialist Sunday School Collection
- The 1984-5 Miners' Strike newspaper collection
- The Crowther Collection
- The Judith Hart Papers
- The Papers H. N. Brailsford (1873-1958)
- The Papers of Alison Macleod (1920-)
- The Papers of Eric Heffer MP (1922-1991)
- The Papers of Harry Pollitt (1890-1960)
- The Papers of Hilary Wainwright (1949-)
- The Papers of Robert Edwards, MP
- The Papers of the Chile Solidarity Campaign
- The Papers of the Communist Party of Great Britain
- The Papers of the Labour Party Manifesto Group
- The Papers of William Gallacher (1881-1965)
- Unity Theatre collection
- Walter Gregory Collection
- Women's Labour League
