ILP (UK) Archives

Period 1888-1950
Total size  494 microfiches and 21 microfilms
Consultation Not restricted

History

Founded in 1893; disaffiliated from the Labour Party in 1932; worked independently for the promotion of socialist ideas.

Content

Pamphlets and leaflets 1893-1924; minutes of and other documents related to meetings of the National Administrative Council and of branches of the ILP 1892-1950; collection of Francis Johnson consisting of his correspondence with W.C. Anderson, August Bebel, James Keir Hardie, Camille Huysmans, Albert Inkpin, Tom Mann, Phillip Snowden, Beatrice Webb and others.

NB. Originals at the British Library of Political and Economic Science, London; microform publication by Research Publications, Brighton, 1980.

Location of originals

Originals at the British Library of Political and Economic Science, London

Finding aid

Guide, only on paper in the reading room.