The Archive of the Stoke-on-Trent (South) Constituency Labour Party

Four bound volumes of Committee minutes, 1949-1979; Fighting Fund Football Competition Register, c1956-1960; Labour Party Speakers Handbook, 1959.

Stoke-on-Trent has tended to be very loyal to the Labour Party; its three seats have all returned Labour MPs at every single election since 1945. The city of Stoke-on-Trent has its administrative headquarters in the Central constituency, although the whole town is an amalgamation of several distinct communities, each of which grew up as a discrete entity due to the pottery industry.

Reference: BBC News Vote 2001: Results and Constituencies (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/542.stm). Accessed February 2002.

The collection is uncatalogued.

Open. Special Collections viewing is by prior appointment, requiring 24 hours notice on a 2 hourly basis between the hours of 9.00am-1.00pm and 2.00-5.00pm.

This collection was deposited in 1998 by the former Librarian of the Thompson Library. It came originally from the Stoke-on-Trent (South) Constituency Labour Party itself.

The archive is uncatalogued. A brief description of the collection is available on the Staffordshire University Library website.

An authority record exists for the Stoke-on-Trent (South) Constituency Labour Party (GB 152 AAR1874).

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

Further deposits are not expected.