National Co-operative Archive
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- Address
- Holyoake House, Hanover Street, Manchester, M60 0AS, England, U.K
- Opening Hours
- Wednesday to Friday 10am -4pm Close for lunch 1pm-1.45pm
- Closing Hours
- From Christmas Eve through to 2nd January inclusive
- Accessible
- Yes
- History
- In 2000 the archive collections of the Co-operative Union in Manchester and the Co-operative College in Loughborough were brought together to create a National Co-operative Archive. Following the merger, further collections were deposited by co-operative societies and work began on integration.
- Work is continuing on improving access to the collections.
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- The Gilsland Convalescent Home Society Ltd
- The International Co-operative Self Service Conference
- The People's Entertainment Society
- The Southern Co-operative Convalescent Fund
- Adlington Industrial Co-operative Society
- Artwork of James Vincent Glover
- Associated Co-operative Creameries
- Bamfurlong Co-operative Society
- Beechwood College
- Beswick Co-operative Society
- Bolton Co-operative Society Employee Register
- Caroline Ganley Collection
- CFC: Co-operative Wholesale Society Furniture Catalogues
- Co-operative Coal Federation Limited
- Co-operative Educational Fellowship: Southport Branch
- Co-operative Party Papers
- Co-operative Press
- Co-operative Press Photographic Collection
- Co-operative Productive Federation
- Co-operative Retail Services (Northern Region)
- Co-operative Union Photographic Collection
- Co-operative Union: Submissions to the Independent Commission (1958)
- Co-operative Wholesale Society Tobacco Factory Photographs
- Co-operative Wholesale Society South Midlands Region
- Co-operative Women's Guild Posters
- Co-operative Women's Guild, Lancashire Region
- Co-operative Women's Guild, Lea Valley District Papers
- Co-operative Women's Guild, Yorkshire Region Papers
- Co-operative Youth Centres
- Co-operative Youth Centres Photographs
- Collection of co-operative society receipts collected by R Kennedy
- Computercraft Ltd
- COPE News
- Crumpsall Biscuit Works (CWS)
- Cumbrian Co-operative Society stationery
- Delta-T Devices
- Dyke Acland Scholarship Fund
- Escrick and District Co-operative Society
- Failsworth Industrial Society Limited
- Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives
- Glasgow and District Co-operative Association
- Goliath Footwear
- Harlow/Playhouse Co-operative Film Society Collection
- Heckmondwike and District Co-operative Society
- Historical Notes of the Manchester and Salford Equitable Co-operative Society
- Hollingworth Industrial Co-operative Society
- Humberside Co-operative Development Agency
- In The Making
- Industrial Common Ownership Finance (ICOF)
- Inverness Co-operative Society
- James Rigby Correspondence Collection
- John Tilley Tie Collection
- Leicester Co-operative Printing Society Limited
- Letters of Edward Vansittart Neale
- Longwood Industrial Co-operative Society
- Lothian and Borders Co-operative Society
- Lynx Training Ltd
- Manchester Co-operative Development Agency
- Metropolitan Co-operative Political Federation
- Metropolitan Motor Cab Co-operative Society
- Michael Jones Jeweller
- Middleton & Tonge Industrial Society: Branch Managers Association
- Midlands Co-operative Society
- Mills & Moors Tours
- National Guild of Co-operators: Hyde Branch
- Network of Wholefood Worker Co-operatives
- New Mills Co-operative Society
- Newhey Co-operative Society
- North Wales Co-operative Managers' Association
- North Western Co-operative Convalescent Homes Association
- North Western Section Co-operative Farming Society
- North Western Section Co-operative Music Association
- North Yorkshire Co-operative Society
- North-West Durham Co-operative Dairies Ltd
- Oakleaf Books
- Papers of Albert Victor Alexander
- Papers of Blanche Taylor (Secretary and typist for the CWS)
- Papers of Dorothy Greaves (Museum Warden at the Rochdale Pioneers Museum)
- Papers of Edgar H. Topley - Ten Acres & Stirchley and Blackley Co-operative Societies
- Papers of George and Ethel Piper (Earlestown and St Helens Co-operative Societies)
- Papers of George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906)
- Papers of George R. Mack. Stoddart (Northampton, London and Cambridge Societies)
- Papers of Gwen Cherrell Gordon, actress in The Rochdale Pioneers play by James R Gregson
- Papers of James Norman Tattersall (Middleton and Tonge Industrial Society)
- Papers of John James Dent (Co-operative Permanent Building Society)
- Papers of Joseph Reeves (Education Secretary of Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society 1918-1938)
- Papers of Joshua Nicholas (member of Barry and District Co-operative Industrial Society)
- Papers of Kenneth George Blackmore (Trowbridge Co-operative Society)
- Papers of Lord Rusholme, Robert Alexander Palmer
- Papers of Marjorie Porter
- Papers of Norman Chadwick (New Mills Co-operative Society and Norwest Music Festival)
- Papers of Percy Beard (Whaley Bridge & Buxton Co-operative Society)
- Papers of Robert Lancaster
- Papers of Roger Sawtell
- Papers of Sydney Alfred Wretham, CWS London Audit Department
- Papers of T W Mercer
- Papers of the Co-operative Commission 2000
- Papers of the Co-operative Independent Commission
- Papers of the Derby Co-operative Provident Society - Undertaking Department
- Papers of United Co-operative Society, High Peak Area, Buxton Entertainments Contest
- Papers of William Bernard Evison, (Royal Arsenal, Brighton, Luton Industrial and Enfield Highway Co-operative Societies)
- Papers of William Fisher (Barrow and Dalton co-operative societies)
- Papers of William Henry Brown (1868-1950)
- Papers of William P. Watkins B.A. (Director of the International Co-operative Alliance 1951-1963)
- Periodical Collection
- Political Ecology Research Group (PERG)
- Printing Plates of Coventry and District Co-operative Society
- Printing Plates of TRAVCO Hotels and Co-operative News
- Promotional material for CWS Defiant products
- RAP Ltd (Rochdale Alternative Press)
- Receipts of the Hepworth Industrial Co-operative Society
- Records of Preston Industrial Co-operative Society Travelling Butchers Shop
- Records of the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship
- Records of the National Association of Co-operative Officials
- Retail Furnishing and Allied Trades Wages Council
- Robert Owen Collection
- Robert Salmon Artwork
- Rochdale District Co-operative Association
- Rochdale Pioneers 150th Anniversary Celebrations
- Rutherglen Old Co-operative Victualling Society
- South East Retail Group (CWS)
- South Western Section Co-operative Convalescent Fund
- Stalybridge Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd
- Stanford Hall Library International Collection
- Stockport Great Moor Co-operative Society
- Telegrams sent to Rochdale Pioneers Society on their Centenary
- Thomas and Mary Hughes Letters
- Treforest Aerated Water Factory (CWS)
- Trojan Printing Services
- Unicorn Grocery
- USDAW: The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
- Wax rubbings of CWS Crumpsall Biscuit Works windows
- Wheelton Prospect & Industrial Co-operative Society
- Wigan Co-operative Stores
- Windemere District Industrial Co-operative Society
- Working Together: Oral History Interviews