Scope and Contents Collection contains letters to WGML librarian Audrey Canning from Edmund and Ruth Frow of The Working Class Movement Library in Salford concerning research on the Glasgow Labour Literature Society. Also included are photocopied articles and photocopied pamphlets relating to, or originally published by, the Society. Other reproduced items appear to touch on labour-related press of the 19th century more generally. Folder also includes handwritten notes by Canning on the history of the Society...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: The WGMLA Special Collections comprise over 60 collections relating to notable individuals, organisations, and themes in the Scottish labour, trade union, and suffrage movements. In a number of cases, collections do not contain the personal papers of the named individuals or organisations but rather comprise of primary or secondary materials collected by WGML librarian Audrey Canning, or third parties, relating to that individual or organisation and collated for public research purposes....

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: The WGMLA Special Collections comprise over 60 collections relating to notable individuals, organisations, and themes in the Scottish labour, trade union, and suffrage movements. In a number of cases, collections do not contain the personal papers of the named individuals or organisations but rather comprise of primary or secondary materials collected by WGML librarian Audrey Canning, or third parties, relating to that individual or organisation and collated for public research purposes....

Scope and Contents Collection contains one folder of letters, press cuttings, and ephemera relating to the life and writings of Tom Anderson. Letters are between WGML librarian Audrey Canning and members of the extended Anderson family regarding information on Tom's life and work. Photocopied secondary sources include an excerpt from the biography 'Tom Anderson: Apostle of Revolution'; chapters from 'Socialist and Other Sunday Schools', from the Unionist Workers' Handbooks series; and an excerpt from 'Leisure...

Scope and Contents The archive includes Gallacher's own personal papers, pamphlets, ephemera, photographs, and personal artifacts, alongside papers concerning the administration of the WGML by librarians Bob Saunders and Audrey Canning.The core of the archive comprises over 60 special collections donated by fellow activists or amassed by WGML librarian Audrey Canning in the course of her work, to facilitate future research and scholarship. These additions were primarily made to the WGML between...