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 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 Harrison Maxwell and Tinney were both teachers, social intellectuals and active members in the Red Clydeside movement of the pre-war period. This collection primarily contains correspondence between the couple in the early years of their courtship and marriage, with one small folder of letters pertaining to letters from James C. Welsh to the pair. The collection also contains Harrison Maxwell's schoolteacher's briefcase, from his time teaching at Airdrie Academy, and a folder of his...

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 papers concerning Macarthur, including inventory lists of material held by the WGML and the STUC archive pertaining to Macarthur, alongside photocopied images, secondary source articles, biographical profiles, and reproduced cuttings from the Women Worker newspaper recording aspects of her activism in the labour movement. Reproduced examples of her published writings are also present, as is her funeral tribute to Keir Hardie in 1915. Folder also contains a...

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 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....