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Women in the First World War : resources in the TUC Library Collections Christine Coates Former Librarian TUC Collections

TUC Library Collections Founded by the Trades Union Congress in 1922 and moved to London Metropolitan University 1996 Learning Centre, London Metropolitan University, Learning Centre, London Metropolitan University, 236 Holloway Road, London N7 6PP Tel: 020 7133 3726 Email: tuclib@londonmet.ac.uk www.unionhistory.info

TUC LIBRARY COLLECTIONS • TUC Library • Workers’ Educational Association Archive • Labour Research Department Archive • Federation of Worker Writers & Community Publishers • Other archive deposits eg London Trades Council records, General Strike Collection, Marjorie Nicholson Papers • Photograph collection • Online resources

Current publications

History websites at www.unionhistory.info

WOMEN’S HISTORY

WOMEN AND INTERNATIONALISM

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Include: • Gertrude Tuckwell Collection • Women’s Trade Union League Papers • Printed papers of the National Federation of Women Workers, National Union of Women Workers, Women’s Industrial Council and other women’s organisations • Trade Board files of Mary Macarthur and J. J. Mallon • Mary Macarthur Holiday Homes Trust • Trico Equal Pay Strike archive • SOGAT Women’s Branch records • Trade union publications

WOMEN AT WORK 1900s 1910 1905 1900

WOMEN IN TRADE UNIONS National Federation of Women Workers 1906

WOMEN’S WORK?

CHAINMAKERS STRIKE 1910

WOMEN AND THE ‘GREAT UNREST’ Pinks’ Jam Factory, Bermondsey, 1911

Kilburnie Netmakers’ strike 1913

WAR SERVICE 1915

HOUSING

Cleator Moor Strike 1915

• • EQUAL PAY STRIKES

TRAM WORKERS 1918

EQUAL PAY STRIKES IN TRANSPORT 1918

WOMEN WORKERS POST-WAR Family allowance scheme 1918 Equal pay meeting 1919

UNEMPLOYMENT 1920s

Suffrage campaigns

Margaret Bondfield 1922 Election

Labour Party publications 1929

WOMEN WORKERS AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR Hull laundry strike 1920