Papers of Richard Croucher, labour historian (on William Henry Stokes)

William Stokes' notes on lectures, 1920-1; National Minority Movement, minutes, 1925; minutes and correspondence re: war-time production in the Midlands, 1940-1944; Midland Regional Board minutes, 1939-1945; subject files of G.B. King, Regional Controller, Ministry of Production, 1943-1945; William Stokes, personal miscellanea, 1950-4; file re: Coventry Toolroom dispute, 1971.

Richard Croucher is a labour historian, as well as being a Workers Educational Association organiser, in Milton Keynes. This collection derives from his research, and the majority of it concerns William Henry Stokes (1894-1978), AEU divisional organiser from 1937 and a member of the Iron and Steel Corporation from 1950.

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/

The collection was deposited with the Centre by Richard Croucher in 1978.

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

There are no restrictions on the use of this archive, apart from the requirements of copyright law.

This collection has been weeded for duplicates.

Further deposits are not expected.

Papers of William Henry Stokes (MSS.289).