Political Party Records: Labour
The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available.
WYAS Bradford
The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Bradford.
| Description | Date | WYAS Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford parliamentary election papers. Includes Keir Hardie election addresses for Independent Labour Party | 1832-1910 | DB6/C19 |
| BRADFORD CITY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including minutes for City Labour Party 1960-1974 and for various wards and constituencies 1948-1980, also with Bradford Trades Council balance sheets 1888-1897. | 1888-1980 | 60D84 |
| Bradford parliamentary election papers of Ben Tillet, Independent Labour Party candidate for the Bradford Eastern Division, including statement of principles, elections addresses, and handbills. Some mention the London Dock Strike of 1889 | 1889-1895 | DB13/C53 |
| Labour and election journals | 1892-1902 | DB13/C52 |
| Letter from Southward Labour Club making allegations against the Mayor of Bradford relating to collection sheets and letter request for meeting with the Mayor | 18 Jul 1893 | BBD1/1/117/11 |
| BRADFORD LABOUR MOVEMENT, MANIFESTO Of the Trades and Labour Council, Independent Labour Party, Social Reform Union, Fabian Society and Unemployed Emergency Committee for Board of Guardians election | 1894 | 52D81/33 |
| INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, MANNINGHAM WARD COMMITTEE, MINUTES Also with election manifestos for municipal and School Board elections | 1899 | 7D78 |
| MR KING, INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY MEMBER AND TRADE UNIONIST, DIARIES | 1907-1909 | 87D81 |
| JOSEPH HAYHURST, BRADFORD, MISCELLANEOUS PAMPHLETS RELATING TO THE LABOUR MOVEMENT | 1910-1948 | 89D85 |
| BRADFORD INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including Heaton ILP minutes 1928-1932, cash books 1923-1950, membership 1924-1970, files 1904-1962 with Fred Jowett election manifestos 1910 and references to general strike 1926, printed matter 1911-1957 | 1910-1970 | 5D87 |
| Election leaflet of Thomas Blythe for the Shipley Urban District Council Election, Central Ward 'Vote for Blythe - the Independent Labour Party candidate' | 1912 | WYB341/1/1 |
| SANCTUARY AND HYDE FAMILY PAPERS Independent Labour Party and conscientious objector papers of a member of the Sanctuary family, 1914-1918, with Salt's High School Old Girls' Guild minutes and records 1912-2000 | 1912-2000 | WYB8 |
| 'INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY COMING OF AGE', SOUVENIR PROGRAMME For conference held at Bradford | 1914 | 5D78 |
| BRADFORD CITY COUNCIL LABOUR GROUP, MINUTES | 1919-1946 | 10D93 |
| BRADFORD INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, SOUVENIR PROGRAMME For international fair | 1925 | 59D89 |
| Souvenir booklet on the Bradford Independent Labour Party's 'International Fancy Fair' held at the King's and Queen's Hall, Bradford. On different days, the entertainment was opened by J Ramsay MacDonald, Margaret McMillan, Dr Hector Munro and Fred Jowett. The booklet names all the stallholders and members of various musical and theatrical entertainments. It also contains many quotations and recipes | Apr 1925 | DB71/C6/41 |
| 'BRADFORD LABOUR RECORD' NEWSPAPER | 1926 | 54D79 |
| BATLEY, MORLEY AND OSSETT DIVISIONAL LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES | 1931-1933 | 13D84/11 |
| QUEENSBURY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including minutes 1956-1965 and accounts 1935-1977 | 1935-1977 | 33D81 |
| BRADFORD CITY LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES For City Labour Party 1962-1967, Council Labour Group 1960-1974 and East Division 1946-1952 | 1946-1974 | 49D84 |
| SHIPLEY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including minutes 1950-1977 | 1950-1970 | 37D83 |
| List of numbers of membership of the Bradford Conservative and National Liberal Association and Bradford Labour Party, ward by ward | 1956 | 28D94/6/1/4 |
| BRADFORD EAST CONSTITUENCY YOUNG SOCIALIST BRANCH, NEWSLETTER | 1964 | 72D95 |
| Programme for the Bradford Labour Party's annual dinner and ball, at Thornton Labour Club | 30 Jan 1970 | 3D84/10/180 |
| Invitation by Bradford Labour Party to the annual dinner and cabaret and ball, in Thornton Labour Club | 30 Jan 1970 | 3D84/6/314 |
| Notes on the life of E R Hartley, the early years of the Labour Party and the Clarion Van Movement | 1976 | 11D85/8/3 |
| QUEENSBURY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS | 1982-1988 | 39D89 |
| COUNCILLOR J WOMERSLEY, CORRESPONDENCE AS LABOUR COUNCILLOR, QUEENSBURY WARD Correspondence as Labour councillor, Queensbury ward | 1991-1999 | 25D99 |
| Receipt for £6 from Roundhay Wood Labour Party for Mrs R Gillinson | 24 Mar 1956 | 33D91/26/20 |
WYAS Calderdale
The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Calderdale.
| Description | Date | WYAS Reference |
|---|---|---|
| HALIFAX CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Minutes, accounts, etc | 1855-1971 | TU:28 |
| Lockwood and District Labour Club: welcome to John Lister | 11 Mar 1893 | SH:3/L/110 |
| INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, HALIFAX BRANCH, RECORDS. | 1895-1953 | TU:93 |
| HALIFAX CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Comprising Halifax Workers' Municipal Election committee minutes of meetings 1903-1906; National Council of Labour Colleges, Halifax Branch, minutes of meetings 1924-1935; Halifax Constituency Labour Party minutes of meetings 1932-1935 | 1903-1935 | TU:114 |
| Independent Labour Party (Sowerby Division Branch) Amendment of rules | 1904 | SPL:393 |
| HALIFAX INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, ACCOUNTS. | 1904-1928 | TU:73 |
| SOWERBY DIVISION LABOUR REPRESENTATION ASSOCIATION/SOWERBY CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Minutes, etc | 1907-1946 | TU:51 |
| BRIGHOUSE AND SPENBOROUGH LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES Minutes of meetings for Elland Divisional Labour Party and sub-committees 1921-1938, Brighouse Labour Party 1933-1962, Clifton Ward Committee 1948-1958, Brighouse and Spenborough Divisional Labour Party 1952-1964 | 1918-1964 | MISC:912 |
| HALIFAX AND DISTRICT LABOUR PARTY, AKROYDEN AND ILLINGWORTH WARDS, RECORDS. Papers of Councillor H Woodhead. Also Halifax Association for the Solution to Unemployment, objects and aims, Halifax Belle View Veterans' Association, records 1946 | 1920-1954 | TU:64 |
| ELLAND LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES | 1925-1958 | TU:60 |
| SOWERBY CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including local government elections records 1935-1981, parliamentary elections records 1945-1980, correspondence, circulars, and other documents 1935-1980, constitutents' individual case files 1949-c1955. Also including papers of Douglas Houghton M P c1949-c1966 | 1930-1981 | TU:112 |
| HALIFAX INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Correspondence. etc | 1935-1952 | TU:29 |
| HALIFAX LABOUR PARTY/HALIFAX CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Including Halifax Labour Party minutes of meetings 1960-1987, membership records 1938-1984, financial records 1939-1985, correspondence 1945-1987, election records 1952-1985, Calderdale Labour Group/Calderdale District Labour Party newscuttings and minutes of meetings 1972-1984, Halifax Labour Party, Rooms Letting Committee pass book 1973-1976, Sowerby Constituency Labour Party/Calder Valley Consituency Labour Party records 1974-1987 and the National Union of Public Employees, Todmorden Branch memo book and notes 1981 | 1938-1988 | HLP |
| TODMORDEN TRADES COUNCIL AND TODMORDEN LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Records include minutes 1965-1980 and correspondence 1947-1981 | 1947-1981 | TU:92 |
| Photograph of Dr Shirley Summerskill. Labour Member of Parliament for Halifax 1964-1983. | nd [1960s-1970s] | WYC:1268/1 |
| Dr Shirley Summerskill. Labour MP for Halifax 1964-1983 | nd [1960s-1970s] | WYC:1268/23 |
| HALIFAX INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including correspondence 1968-1979, election leaflets 1968-1971and publications 1967-1973 | 1968-1979 | MISC:658 |
| HEBDEN BRIDGE LABOUR PARTY, WEST END WARD, RECORDS Papers of C J Parkin | 1970-1975 | TU:49 |
| HALIFAX CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, CALDER WARD GROUP/SKIRCOAT BRANCH, MINUTE BOOK | 1970-1981 | TU:105 |
| SOWERBY DIVISION LABOUR PARTY, WOMEN'S SECTION, RECORDS Minute books 1970-1987; accounts 1977-1997. Also Sowerby Bridge Local Labour Party minutes 1971-1984. | 1970-1997 | WYC:1096 |
| Labour Party Conference, Blackpool | 28 Sep 1980 | HND:97 |
| CALDERDALE DISTRICT LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Comprising minutes of meetings 1985-1991, nomination forms for the Calderdale District Labour Party Panel of Local Government 1985-1992, Annual General Meeting papers 1986-1991 | 1985-1992 | MISC:860 |
| Labour Party - Yorkshire Region | 1986-1990 | HND:232-233 |
| Alice Mahon. Labour MP for Halifax 1987-2005 | 1987 | WYC:1268/29 |
| Labour Party Policy Review | 1989-1990 | HND:233 |
WYAS Kirkless
The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Kirklees.
| Description | Date | WYAS Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Rules for Constituency Labour Parties | nd | KC770/4/7 |
| LITTLEWOOD FAMILY, GROVE MILLS, HONLEY, RECORDS Containing Thomas Littlewood, will 1891; request from ILP to open account with Halifax Joint Stock Banking Company 1895; photograph of ILP National Administrative Council 1898, and of Victor Grayson with by-election helpers 1907 | 1891-1907 | KX243 |
| Independent Labour Party, Huddersfield Branch | 1906-1912 | S/HTC/9 |
| Huddersfield Labour and Socialist Election Committee | 1909-c1918 | S/HTC/8 |
| ALDERMAN BEN RICHARDSON, BATLEY, RECORDS Scrapbooks and photographs, some relating to Ben Turner MP. Also Batley Trades Council and Labour Party minutes 1923-1928 | 1917-1974 | DD/BR |
| History of the Colne Valley Labour Party, 1891-1941, Jubilee Souvenir, by Sam Eastwood includes photographs of Tom Mann,Victor Grayson, Wilfred Whiteley, Philip Snowden, W C Hall , Colne Valley officials and executive committee and Colne Valley Labour League on Demonstration
Saturday 1907 |
1941 | WYK1077/3/4 |
| MIRFIELD LABOUR PARTY Minutes | 1972-1987 | KC481 |
| BERRY FAMILY, KIRKHEATON, RECORDS, 1846-1977, (PHOTOCOPIES) Including Kirkheaton Field Head Co-operative Industrial Provident Society Ltd, records 1908-1965; Kirkheaton Labour and Socialist Club hymn sheet early 20 cent. | 1977 | KX292 |
| MIKE WOOD, MP, BATLEY AND SPENBOROUGH RECORDS Comprises of correspondence, marked registers, diaries | 1996-2004 | WYK1207 |
WYAS Leeds
The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Leeds.
| Description | Date | WYAS Reference |
|---|---|---|
| (Publisher and Leeds Weekly Citizen records) Includes Minutes, 1911-1988; Annual returns (incomplete), 1914-1942; Rules of Leeds Labour Publishing Society, 1912; Ledgers, 1953-1988; selection of last issues of the Leeds Citizen. | 1911-1988 | WYL2000 |
| City of Leeds Labour Party, Records. Including minutes, financial records, correspondence etc 1911-1971; Leeds Labour Publishing Society records 1911-1969 with 'Leeds Weekly Citizen' 1913-1969; Central Leeds Division minutes 1923-1955; North Leeds Division minutes 1922-1925; records of various wards including minutes for Blenheim 1948-1974, Harehills 1930-1934, Hawksworth 1935-1963, Hunslet polling district committee 1920-1926, Hunslet Carr 1950-1963, Hyde Park 1929-1967, Meanwood 1953-1963 Woodhouse later Scott Hall 1963-1972; records of Labour Women's groups including Advisory Council for Labour Women for the West Riding of Yorkshire 1919-1923, National Conference of Labour Women 1919-1932, Bramley Women's Guild 1926-1929, Hunslet Carr Women's Meeting 1929-1955, Women's Advisory Council minutes 1932-1965; records of youth groups including Youth Advisory Committee and Leeds Young Socialists 1929-1965; printed items, pamphlets, election addresses etc. | 1911-c1980 | WYL853 |
| South Leeds Labour Party, Records. Including minutes 1924-1967, financial records 1918-1969, correspondence between Hugh Gaitskell M.P. and George Murray, Secretary. | 1918-1974 | WYL1257 |
| Sunday Worker, Labour Party Newspaper (Photocopy) | 12 Dec 1926 | WYL1006 |
| City of Leeds Labour Party Harehills Ward, Records. | 1937-1980 | WYL1048 |
| Leeds City Labour Party, Hyde Park Ward, Records. Including minutes 1940-1965, correspondence 1961-1967 includes personal correspondence of A Kenworthy, ward secretary, with Harold Wilson and Dennis Healey; also personal files of J P Roche 1965-1984 on education and housing matters, trade unions and National Referendum Campaign against membership of EEC. | 1940-1984 | WYL966 |
| Pudsey constituency labour party, records. Including minutes 1948-1972, secretaries' papers 1967-1976. | 1948-1976 | WYL1176 |
| Swain, Harry, Decd, Leeds, Papers. Papers including minutes books of Labour Party Ward Committees. | c1950-1997 | WYL1917 |
| Records transferred from Leeds Local Studies Library. Including Labour Party candidates election publicity cards 1950s-1973, rules and constitution of City of Leeds Labour Party 1954, General Management Committee of Leeds City Labour Party minutes 1967-1974 and the Executive Committee of the Temporary Co-Ordination Committee minutes 1972-1975, Executive Committee of the Leeds City Labour Party minutes 1968-1974 | 1950’s-1975 | WYL2160 |
| Rothwell Labour Party, minutes and other records | 1958-1975 | WYL1161 |
| Leeds Labour Womens Luncheon Club Records | 1960-1980 | WYL1642 |
| Rothwell Labour Party. Report of organisation and finances of local Labour Party, with news cuttings and draft history. Newspaper obituaries of local councillors. | 1968-1982 | WYL5021/10 |
| Barkston Ash Labour Party, Records | 1970-1981 | WYL1179 |
| Labour Party. Cuttings, correspondence and articles for Big Flame about the Labour Party. | 1970s-1980s | WYL5041/41/31 |
| Leeds North East Constituency Labour Party, Records. Including Chapel Allerton and Scott Hall Ward minutes 1972-1979; North East Leeds Labour Party minutes 1975-1982 and correspondence 1973-1988. | 1972-1988 | WYL1457 |
| Weekly Citizen, Labour's Voice in Leeds, produced by the Labour Party. | Sep 1984 | WYL5041/30/1 |
| J Howes, 'Twenty Five Year Fight With The Tories' (Photocopied Extracts) | n.d. | LX50 |
WYAS Wakefield
The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Wakefield.
| Description | Date | WYAS Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Printing Commissions and Samples Political parties and trade unions Includes rules and regulations of the Ossett Liberal Club, 1907, 2 copies Rules of the Horbury and District Labour Party (1900s)
Dewsbury and District Carpenters' and Joiners' Working rules and scale of Wages, 1917 |
nd [c1904-1935] | C101/95 |
| Labour Party: Canvass cards in holder (blank) | 20th century | C99/641 |
| Labour Party, 'How To Build Up the Postal Vote' | 20th century | C99/733 |
| Halifax Labour Party | 1915-1962 | C99/631-639 |
| LEEDS LABOUR PARTY, PRINTED CARTOON Entitled 'Unemployment and the Rates when winter comes'. Published as Labour Leaflet no 20 by the Labour Party and Trades Union Congress | 1922 | C297 |
| The Joint Research and Information Department of the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party: Local Government Handbook | 1924 | C99/647 |
| Pontefract Medical Charities Committee Shield Presented by the mayor, Councillor C. Johnson at the pageant. Won by the Pontefract Labour Party | 1928 | C199/7/2 |
| Correspondence file relating to Christmas parcels distributed by Yorkshire Post to poor families in Whitwood Includes letter from Whitwood Labour Party re scheme, 1937; Correspondence re. Bairns Christmas Fund, 1937; List of recipients of Yorkshire Post Christmas Parcels inc names and addresses, 1937 | 1937 | WMT/WH/2/2/4/5 |
| MRS JESSIE SMITH CBE OF MARSDEN, WEST RIDING COUNTY COUNCILLOR, PAPERS Mainly printed material on education, health, Yorkshire Arts Association, and the Labour Party | 1937-1985 | C603 |
| WAKEFIELD CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including Belle Vue ward minutes 1942-1950; minutes of executive and general management committees; papers re West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council elections 1981, signed and copy minutes 1955-1979, subject files 1969-1983, annual files 1969-1983, finance and administration 1957-1980, social club accounts
1974-1978, minutes and correspondence 1974-1982 |
1942-1983 | C466 |
| CASTLEFORD LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Comprising Whitwood Mere Ward minutes of branch meetings 1953-1974 and accounts 1944-1971; Smawthorne Ward minutes of branch meetings 1973-1974 | 1944-1974 | C589 |
| Batley and Morley Divisional Labour Party | 1949-1950 | C149/1031 |
| Labour party group funds correspondence with Mr Bambridge | 1951 – 1952 | WRD/1/39/13 |
| Labour Party, Problems of Foreign Policy | 1952 | C99/695 |
| 'Our Daily Bread - Labour Party' By H.D Waltson | 1952 | C99/696 |
| HEADINGLEY BRANCH LABOUR PARTY, TREASURER'S PAPERS The Meanwood Ward account book 1953-1980 records the accounts of the Ward before and after it became the Headingley Ward. The boundaries are not totally interchangeable but on the whole Headingley Ward can be regarded as Meanwood's successive area. | 1953-1980 | C494 |
| 'How the Labour Party Works' By Sara Barker | 1955 | C99/697 |
| Halifax labour party correspondence Schedule of rents of labour hall | 1956 | C767/31 |
| Labour Party, 'Party Organisation' | 1957 | C99/701 |
| Labour Party: List of Affiliated Organisations, Membership, Affiliation and By-Election Fees for 1956 with Secretaries, and with Delegates appointed to attend the Brighton Conference, 1957, and Ex-Office members of the conference | 1957 | C99/683 |
| Labour Party, Rent Act Guide | 1957 | C99/702 |
| Huddersfield and Kirkburton Central Labour Party | 1958 | C99/640 |
| Labour Party, 70 Questions Asked and Answered on Labour's Education Policy | n.d. [1958] | C99/703 |
| Bristol Borough Labour Party, Executive Committee, Report for year | 1959 | C99/704 |
| Report of the 58th Annual Conference of the Labour Party | 1959 | C99/685 |
| Report of the National Executive Committee to the 58th Annual Conference of the Labour Party | Oct 1959 | C99/684 |
| Labour Party, 'Steel and the Nation: Labour's plan' | c.1960 | C99/734 |
| Labour Party, 'How, When and Why: a guide for the Young Socialists' | n.d. [1960] | C99/706 |
| Labour Party, 'Towns for our Times' | 1961 | C99/708 |
| Brighouse Labour Party | 1961 | C99/630 |
| Labour Party, Campaign Notes for the Local Elections: 'Housing in England and Wales' | 1961 | C99/710 |
| Labour Party, 'Towns for our Times' | 1961 | C99/707 |
| Labour Party, 'First Things Last?' | 1961 | C99/731 |
| Labour Party, Campaign notes for the Local Elections: 'Health and Graded Pensions' | 1961 | C99/709 |
| Correspondence, press cuttings and statement Regarding Eric Dignan, former secretary and agent for Halifax Labour Party, who contested the Southowram ward by-election, 1961 against the Labour candidate. | 1961-1962 | C99/637 |
| Britain and the Common Market: texts of speeches made at the 1962 Labour Party Conference together with the policy statement accepted by Conference | 1962 | C99/689 |
| Report of the 61st Annual Conference of the Labour Party | 1962 | C99/687 |
| Labour's Policy for Halifax: Statement by the Executive Committee of the Halifax Labour Party for discussion by the General Committee | 1962 | C99/638 |
| Report of the National Executive Committee to the 61st Annual Conference of the Labour Party with agenda and other associated items | Oct 1962 | C99/686 |
| Agenda for the 62nd Annual Conference of the Labour Party | 1963 | C99/688 |
| Labour Party, Yorkshire Regional Council | 1964-1970 | C99/628-629 |
| GOOLE CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY Records | 1964-1983 | C635 |
| HORBURY LABOUR PARTY RECORDS comprising minute books (1965-1973 - 2 volumes, signed), attendance book (1971-1981) and correspondence (1978-1979) | 1965-1981 | WYW1579 |
| Labour Party, National Executive Committee, Britain: progress and change | 1968 | C99/691 |
| Labour Party, Labour Organiser | Feb 1968-Aug 1969 | C99/712-730 |
| Labour Party, 'Economic Brief' | Oct 1968 | C99/735 |
| DEWSBURY LOCAL LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES With miscellaneous Dewsbury items 1962-1973 | 1969-1973 | C314 |
| Folder - article to Mr Roy Hattersley MP to be included in ‘Radical Alternative’, a book of collected essays on education promoted by Labour Party MPs, letter re political stance of Alec Clegg, drafts of Labour Party policy document on housing, Clegg commenting on draft, letter from Shirley Williams MP | 1972-1973 | WRD5/6/Box21 |
| The Observer – article ‘Jenkins:how to abolish poverty’ by Roy Jenkins MP deputy leader of Labour Party | 12 Mar 1972 | WRD5/6/Box26 |
| CRIGGLESTONE BRANCH LABOUR PARTY RECORDS Including minutes, correspondence, constituency Labour Party records, publicity and campaign leaflets | 1976-1998 | C1195 |
| TOM MCGAHEY MEP PAPERS Including contituent enquiries 1979-1988, British Labour Group correspondence 1979-1988, Press releases and questions 1979-c1991, European Parliamentary Labour Party papers 1991, papers re 1984 EEC elections. | 1979-1993 | C976 |
| COUNCILLOR D MOORE PAPERS papers re local Labour Party, South Kirkby school govenors, South Elmsall, South Kirkby regeneration and festival, Hemsworth Road Safety Committee signed minutes 1989 - 1995 and associated papers | 1980 - 2000 | C1302 |
| OSSETT AND DISTRICT LABOUR PARTY MINUTES Ossett and District Labour Party minutes | 1982-1995 | C1077 |
| WAKEFIELD LABOUR GROUP MINUTES AND PAPERS | 1997-1998 | C1113 |
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