Joe Kenyon, A Passion for Justice

• Drafts of stories that form a basis for A Passion for Justice, with variations to the published versions.
• Photocopies of political articles and cartoons by Joe Kenyon.
• Letters from Joe Kenyon expounding his political views.
• Photographs of Joe Kenyon.
• Correspondence between Joe Kenyon and David Donnison regarding the proposed volume of Kenyon's stories.
• Correspondence between Dick Ellis of Trent Editions and Joe's son, Frank R. Kenyon, agreeing to terms of publication.
• A 2004 article by Austin Mitchell in the House Magazine about Joe Kenyon and A Passion for Justice.
• A letter from James Kissane thanking David Donnison for sending him a copy of the book.

Joe Kenyon, A Passion for Justice: The Stories of Joe Kenyon was published by Trent Editions in 2003. It is the recollections of Kenyon, as told to his dying wife, Irene, and later committed to paper. The book is edited by David Donnison, who also provides an introduction and postscript.

Joseph Kenyon (1915-2000) was born and raised near Barnsley, Yorkshire in a close-knit mining community. He showed educational promise but poverty meant that he was unable to attend school for long stretches of time. His family's suffering and the injustices of the school system helped foster a lifelong disdain for authority and officialdom. At the age of fourteen he started working down the pit and was a miner for much of his working life until tuberculosis forced him to stop in 1960. It was in the mines that his lifelong campaigning for employment rights began. He brought his expertise to, amongst others, the Unemployed Workers Union, the Left Book Club, the Claimants and Unemployed Workers Union, Equity and the National Council of Labour Colleges. A measure of his success as a poor people's advocate was the high volume of enquiries he received and the official unease he aroused. He met his wife, Irene, whilst on leave during the second world war and they remained devoted to each other until Irene's death from cancer in 1996.