The University of Nottingham Library
Manuscripts and Special Collections
Business and Trade Union Records
Business Records
The majority of the companies included in this category were concerned with the hosiery or lace making trades, or with engineering. Survival of the records of such firms has not been good, and in all cases these archives are very incomplete
Trade Union Records
The Trade Union records are all local in scope, and include the Nottingham Trades Council records. The most extensive are the Amalgamated Society of Operative Lace Makers and Auxiliary Workers and the Tobacco Workers Union.
Amalgamated Society of Operative Lace Makers & Auxiliary Workers, 1866-1951
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Nottingham District, 1920-1953
Hosiery Finishers Association, Nottingham and District, 1874-1956
Tobacco Workers Union, Nottingham District, 1862-1968
Minutes, reports and related papers.
Trades Council, Nottingham and District
Collection comprises minutes, correspondence, directories, rule books and miscellaneous papers; further material, as yet uncatalogued, has been deposited with the department. 1883-1989.
United Commercial Travellers Association, Nottingham Branch
Collection comprises accounts, minutes and registers, 1908-1975.
Workers Educational Association, East Midlands Region, 1937-1957
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