The trade union story

Finding your trade union ancestor in the records left by their trade union can be a difficult process. It can

On a cold night in February 1809, a group of working men in the fast-growing industrial Lancashire town of Bolton

With the formation of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1851, a new force emerged in trade unionism which would

Over the first two decades of the twentieth century, the trade union movement grew at a faster rate than at

The election of a majority Labour government in 1945 appeared to herald what a later historian of the Labour Party