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Bert Pearce (Welsh Communist Party) Papers
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Bert Pearce (Welsh Communist Party) Papers

  • GB 0210 PEARCE
  • Fonds
  • 1884-2002 (mainly 1940-1990) (accumulated [1950]-2002, mainly 1960-1984)

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

Campaigns and pressure groups

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.

Cards

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)

'Coal'

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.

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