Rochdale Pioneers 150th Anniversary Celebrations

The collection comprises correspondence, photographs, financial information and printed material

This collection contains material created for the 150th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Rochdale Pioneers Equitable Co-operative Society in 1844, which is known as the first modern co-operative society. Various events took place in and around the town of Rochdale.

The collection has been catalogued in accordance with the original order in which the files were placed. The title of each file is the title given by the person or organisation who put the collection together. They are in alphabetical order within each file.

The collection is open to any accredited reader by appointment, subject to the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).

The collection includes material which is subject to the DPA. Under Section 33 of the DPA, The Co-operative Heritage Trust (CHT) holds the right to process personal data for research purposes. The Data Protection (Processing of Sensitive Personal Data) Order 2000 enables the CHT to process sensitive personal data for research purposes. In accordance with the DPA, the CHT has made every attempt to ensure that all personal and sensitive personal data has been processed fairly, lawfully and accurately. Users of the archive are expected to comply with the DPA 2018, and will be required to sign a form acknowledging that they will abide by the requirements of the Act in any further processing of the material by themselves.

Open parts of this collection, and the catalogue descriptions, may also contain personal data about living individuals. Some of the material in the archive has not been checked by an archivist for Data Protection issues. It is therefore essential that researchers contact the archive in advance with a list of the material they wish to consult; the archivist will then check the items to determine whether any further closures are necessary.

These items were collected by the Co-operative Union Library which now forms part of the National Co-operative Archive.

This description was compiled by Sophie Stewart, Assistant Archivist, May 2010

No further accruals are expected