Coventry North Constituency Labour Party

AGM minutes, 1949-58; General Management Committee minutes, 1950-59, 1961; Executive Committee minutes, 1950-59; miscellaneous correspondence, 1958-59.

In 1945 Coventry was divided into two parliamentary constituencies, Coventry East and Coventry West. In 1950 this was reorganised into three, Coventry East, Coventry North and Coventry South. At this time, the Coventry North Divisional Labour Party was renamed the Coventry North Constituency Labour Party.

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

This archive was deposited in the Centre in October 1973.

Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/CNL

Permission is required from the depositor prior to any publication. Please contact the Centre's staff for further information.

This collection has been weeded for duplicates.

Further deposits are not expected.

Further minutes of Coventry North Divisional Labour Party are contained in the Coventry Borough Labour Party archive (MSS.11/3/2/72-80, 205-209). The Centre also holds the papers of Coventry East Divisional Labour Party (MSS.85), along with the records of other local Labour Parties in the Midlands area and several Coventry Labour MPs, including Richard Crossman (MSS.154), and Maurice Edelman (MSS.125).

Coventry Independent Labour Party minute book, 1944-46, and Coventry South West Constituency Labour Party files, 1980-85, are held at Coventry Archives. The records of the national Labour Party are held at the Labour History Archive and Study Centre in Manchester.