On-line finding aids

• Warwick University Library

  Including access to its Library Catalogue, listing books, periodicals, Warwick theses and many of the trade union publications held by the MRC, including the Board of Trade Library. The site also contains information on the Library's history collections.

• ARCHON Directory of UK archive repositories
  
• National Register of Archives Searchable information about sources for British history held throughout the UK and overseas.
• Access to Archives (A2A) project
  This project aims to create a virtual national archives catalogue. The historical records to be covered by A2A are of national, regional and local importance and date from periods between the twelfth and twentieth centuries. They are held in geographically dispersed archives offices in England, and many have been comparatively under-recognised in the past.
• Archives Hub

  Descriptions of major collections within many UK higher education institutions - including the Modern Records Centre. The finding aids are fully searchable - across repositories as well as by repository. All of the Modern Records Centre's collection-level descriptions (accessible from our catalogues page) are included.

• BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service)
  You can use this web site to search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995. You can also read abstracts, and view detailed consistent subject indexing, of key documents. You can then read the digitised full-text version of a limited number of these documents. BOPCRIS currently contains 23,279 references to key British Official Publications 1688-1995.
• CASBAH
  CASBAH is a demonstrator project that is identifying and mapping national research resources for Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian people in Britain.
• DANGO (Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations)
  The database provides information on the availability of records relating to non-governmental organisations and pressure groups active in the UK since 1945.
• Genesis Project
  Includes a list of web resources on women's history and a database which holds descriptions of women's history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles.
• Intute

  Intute is a freely available internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in all fields, including social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.

• Australian Trade Union Archives
  ATUA is an online gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, designed to link together historical detail, archival resources, published material and current information about Australian industrial organisations, mainly including trade unions and also employer bodies.

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Repositories with related holdings

• National Archives Catalogue

  The National Archives is the repository of the national archives for England, Wales and the United Kingdom. Its online catalogue contains over 9,000,000 entries to the archives of central government, courts of law and other national bodies.

• British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
  The Archives Division of the British Library of Political and Economic Science holds unique primary source material of outstanding value for research into British political, social and economic history and the history of anthropology and philosophy. There are core specialisms in twentieth century British political history including labour history, social data from the nineteenth and twentieth century, the European movement and gender politics. Military, scientific and literary archives are not collected.
• British Library Newspaper Library

  The Newspaper Library web catalogue includes entries for over 52,000 newspaper and periodical titles which are held from all over the world, dating from the 17th to the 21st century. Each entry in the web catalogue contains full details of the title (including any title changes), the place of publication (the town or city and the country), and the dates which are held.

• Labour History Archive and Study Centre
  The archives of the Labour History Archive and Study Centre are managed by the John Rylands University Library of Manchester and are located at the People's History Museum's head office at 103 Princess Street, Manchester. LHASC is the only specialist repository for the political wing of the labour movement. Among its records of working-class political organisations are those of the Chartists, the Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain. It also holds the records of radical politicians, writers and left-wing organisations.
• London Metropolitan University - Library of the TUC
  The TUC Library is a major research library for the study of all aspects of trade unions and collective bargaining with both historical and contemporary coverage. The emphasis is on Britain, but many other countries are represented, especially Europe and the Commonwealth. The library holds printed material and some archival material formerly in the TUC's library, an on-line library catalogue is available. Material in the TUC Library Collections is for reference and access is by appointment only. Some digitised material from the collections, including the TUC reports of Congress, is available through the TUC History Online website. The TUC's own archive (comprising the records from its central registry (1920-1989)) is held at the Modern Records Centre (ref. MSS.292).
• Swansea University Library and Information Services
  Swansea University LIS holds collections relating to the South Wales coalfields, including the South Wales Miners' Library, South Wales Coalfield Collection and Coalfield Web Materials.
• Working Class Movement Library
  The Working Class Movement Library (WCML) holds a collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, archives and artefacts concerning the history of the labour movement, including substantial collections of material on trade unions.

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Other relevant organisations

• Society for the Study of Labour History
  The Society is the UK's principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history. It organises meetings and conferences and publishes the Labour History Review.
• Railway and Canal Historical Society
  The Society covers the history of every mode of transport — not just inland waterways and railways, but also tramroads, roads, aviation, coastal shipping, ports and pipelines.
• Sturmey-Archer Heritage
  A website devoted to the history of Sturmey-Archer Ltd, a company which produced bicycle gears and other components.

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