Working Class Movement Library
Location
- Advice on accessing these materials
- Web
- Telephone
- +44 (0)161 736 3601
- Address
- 51 Crescent, Salford M5 4WX, England, United Kingdom
- Opening Hours
- Tuesday-Friday - 10.00am to 5.00pm / Third Saturday in the month (by appointment only) - 10.00am to 4.00pm
- Photographs Allowed
- no
- Reproduction Services
- Photocopying service
- Facilities for Disabled Persons
- Ramp access to ground floor only
- Archival and Other Holdings
Our collection tells the story of Britain's working classes from the earliest days of industrialisation to the present day.
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- The Air of Freedom - the Derbyshire Boot and Shoemakers' Strike 1918-20
- Alliance Cabinet Makers Association
- Amalgamated Association of Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives
- Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners and Twiners
- Amalgamated Engineering Union
- Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers
- Amalgamated Society of Gilders
- Amalgamated Society of India Rubber, Cable and Asbestos Workers
- Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses
- Amalgamated Society of Wire Drawers and Kindred Workers
- Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists
- Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers
- Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers
- Amalgamated Union of Clothiers Operatives
- Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers
- Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers
- Amalgamated Weavers' Association
- Angela Tuckett archive
- Associated Blacksmiths', Forge and Smithy Workers' Society
- Associated Iron Moulders of Scotland
- Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries (AWCS)
- Bakers' Union
- Benny Rothman collection
- Blackburn and District Amalgamated Powerloom Overlookers' Association
- Brushmakers' Unions
- Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
- Ceramic and Allied Trades Union (CATU)
- Clarion collection
- Clerks' Unions
- Communist Party of Great Britain
- Coopers' Unions
- Electrical Trades Union
- Ernie Roberts papers
- Ewan MacColl
- Fire Brigades Union
- Friendly Society of Iron Founders
- Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons of England, Ireland and Wales
- Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union
- General Union of Associations of Loom Overlookers
- GMB
- Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (GMD CND)
- Grunwick Dispute collection
- Invisible Histories - Salford oral history project
- Jim Allen collection
- Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures (LWAPC)
- Len Johnson collection
- Managers' and Overlookers' Society
- Manchester and Salford Film Society
- Manchester Early Dwellings Research Group
- Manchester Mirror Pensioners' Action Group
- Mick Jenkins collection
- Municipal Employees' Association
- National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association
- National Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators
- National Amalgamated Union of Labour
- National Association of Operative Plasterers
- National Association of Power Loom Overlookers
- National League for the Blind and Disabled
- National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants
- National Unemployed Workers Movement collection
- National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers
- National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives
- National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers
- National Union of General and Municipal Workers
- National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers
- National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
- National Union of Musical Instrument Makers and Organ Builders Trade Society
- National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers
- National Union of Railwaymen
- National Union of Seamen
- National Union of Stove Grate and General Metal Workers
- National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
- National Union of the Footwear, Leather and Allied Trades
- No-Conscription Fellowship (NCF)
- Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation
- Pattern Weavers' Society
- Plumbing Trades Union
- Posters from the civil rights era - an online exhibition
- Roberts-Arundel Strike Committee papers
- Scottish National Association of Tailors
- Shipconstructors and Shipwrights Association
- Silk Workers' Unions
- Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1975
- Society of Graphical and Allied Trades 1982
- Spanish Civil War and International Brigades
- Steam Engine Makers Society
- Tameside Care Group
- Typographical Association
- United Association of Powerloom Overlookers
- United French Polishers Society
- United Textile Factory Workers' Association
- Unity Theatre
- Wallpaper Workers' Union
- Ward and Goldstone; Volex collection
- Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union
- Welsh Iron Founders Trade Union
- Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers