Trade Union Ancestors

Discover your family history in the trade union movement

Gallery

The gallery features a range of visual material produced by trade unions through the centuries, including banners, membership certificates and lapel badges.

Trade union membership certificates
Featuring certificates produced between the 1850s and the 1970s

Trade union membership cards
Images of trade union membership cards from the 1900s to the 1980s.

Trade union membership badges
Images of trade union membership badges and a timeline of union badge-related facts

TUC badges
Images of badges produced for annual meetings of the Trades Union Congress from 1899 to the present day, and a selection of badges produced by trades councils