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Archives and Special Collections: Politics and labour history
Guide to resources in Archives and Special Collections at the University of Strathclyde
Election literature for all elections to the Scottish, Westminster and European Parliaments since 1999 and a selection of donations for earlier elections.
Oral history project interviewing those who had earned their living working at Glasgow’s docks and includes some discussion relating to trade union activities.
An interview with David McLetchie, who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), from its inception in 1999, until his death in 2013, and was also leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 1999 to 2005.
Library of the National Council of Labour Colleges contains mainly 20th century publications on socialism, and includes Labour Party publications, literature and history.
Records relating to Dallas Carter's undergraduate studies in Politics and Scottish Studies at the University of Strathclyde, including: lecture notebooks; essay submissions with tutors' mark sheets; examination papers; class handbooks.
A letter dated 5 September 1939, the day on which Britain declared war on Germany, gives not only a first-hand account of that moment, but also reveals the often unspoken feelings of female political activists operating in a masculine environment. Its author, Mary Sutherland (1895-1972) was the Labour Party’s Woman Organiser for Scotland and subsequently the national Labour Party Chief Woman Officer.
In this month [July 2013] in 1707, the Act of Union between England and Scotland was passed. To commemorate this important piece of legislation as well as to fuel the ongoing debate surrounding the Scottish Referendum, our choice this month is one of our rare books: The history of the union between England and Scotland, written by Daniel Defoe and published, over fifty years after his death, in 1786.