- WD 3/6
- File
- 1964-1985
The file includes details of a financial bequest to the Communist Party, 1983, and related papers.
The file includes details of a financial bequest to the Communist Party, 1983, and related papers.
The file includes a memorial leaflet to Bert Pearce, and also newspaper cuttings relating to his retirement.
Pearce, Bert
Bert Pearce (Welsh Communist Party) Papers
The fonds comprises papers accumulated by Bert Pearce including the minutes and papers of the Communist Party Great Britain, 1921-1998, Communist Party Wales, 1884-2002, and the Democratic Left, 1978-1999. Also included are papers relating to elections, devolution in Wales and Scotland, industry, miners strikes, anti-apartheid, international affairs, peace movement, Peoples March for Jobs, and the poll tax campaign. The accumulated papers reflect Bert Pearce's life work for the Communist Party in Birmingham and Wales, as well as the active part he played in the campaigns listed above. The archive does not contain personal material.
Pearce, Bert
The file includes a souvenir copy of the minutes of the Birmingham Trade Union emergency committee during the General Strike of 1926, and extracts from the Birmingham Trades Council annual reports, 1892-1937.
The file includes lists of books on Communism and related topics, and a survey of miners' institute and welfare hall libraries by Hywel Francis, 1973.
Francis, Hywel
'BP files to be sorted, mostly 1966-1976'
The file includes papers relating to the People's March for Jobs, Pit closures and miners, with the CPGB Midlands District Bulletin, 1959-1960.
People's March for Jobs
The file includes papers relating to the seventh world congress of the Communist International, 1935, democracy, and elections.
Communist International
The file contains miscellaneous copies of 'Campaign News', 1963, 'Campaign Bulletin', 1973, and 'Bulletin' 1973.
The file includes newspaper cuttings relating to devolution, local government, the assembly and the Welsh language.
The file includes agenda and minutes of the Campaign for a Welsh Assembly, and papers relating to the founding of the campaign.
The file includes agenda, minutes, and newsletters of the Campaign for a Welsh Assembly.
The file includes papers relating to the Campaign for a Welsh Assembly, and to local government in Wales.
Campaign for a Welsh Assembly papers
The series includes minutes, agenda and papers relating to the Campaign for a Welsh Assembly, with related newspaper cuttings.
Parliament for Wales Campaign
The group comprises papers relating to international affairs, 1919-1978, racism and the anti-apartheid movement, 1955-1995, the peace movement and CND, 1960-1992, the People's March for Jobs, 1981-1983, and the poll tax campaign, 1988-1990.
'Cardiff Miners' Co-ordinating Committee'
The file contains papers relating to the miners' strike, the Wales Congress in Support of Mining Communities, and to Cardiff and South Wales Coalfield support groups.
The file contains mainly Bert Pearce's membership cards of the CPGB, 1976-1991 (with gaps), and of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, USDAW, 1972-1992 (with gaps).
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Great Britain)
The file includes central education department syllabuses, central propaganda department speakers' notes, with related correspondence, including a letter and article from Bill Lockwood.
Lockwood, W. B. (William Burley)
The file contains Communist Party papers relating to pit closures, booklets and newspaper cuttings relating to the mining industry, and a poster relating to a public meeting in 1963 against unemployment.
The file comprises assorted copies of magazines including News and Views, Socialist Europe, Eurored, Comment, Focus, 7 days, Morning Star and Tribune.
The series comprises mainly Communist Party pamphlets, 1921-1996, publications relating to Wales, 1937-1998, and assorted Communist Party magazines, 1965-1997.