Political Party Records: Labour

The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available. Please feel free to add or update with any additional information.

WYAS Bradford

The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Bradford.

Description	Date	WYAS Reference
Bradford parliamentary election papers. Includes Keir Hardie election addresses for Independent Labour Party	1832-1910	DB6/C19
BRADFORD CITY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including minutes for City Labour Party 1960-1974 and for various wards and constituencies 1948-1980, also with Bradford Trades Council balance sheets 1888-1897.	1888-1980	60D84
Bradford parliamentary election papers of Ben Tillet, Independent Labour Party candidate for the Bradford Eastern Division, including statement of principles, elections addresses, and handbills. Some mention the London Dock Strike of 1889	1889-1895	DB13/C53
Labour and election journals	1892-1902	DB13/C52
Letter from Southward Labour Club making allegations against the Mayor of Bradford relating to collection sheets and letter request for meeting with the Mayor	18 Jul 1893	BBD1/1/117/11
BRADFORD LABOUR MOVEMENT, MANIFESTO Of the Trades and Labour Council, Independent Labour Party, Social Reform Union, Fabian Society and Unemployed Emergency Committee for Board of Guardians election	1894	52D81/33
INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, MANNINGHAM WARD COMMITTEE, MINUTES Also with election manifestos for municipal and School Board elections	1899	7D78
MR KING, INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY MEMBER AND TRADE UNIONIST, DIARIES	1907-1909	87D81
JOSEPH HAYHURST, BRADFORD, MISCELLANEOUS PAMPHLETS RELATING TO THE LABOUR MOVEMENT	1910-1948	89D85
BRADFORD INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including Heaton ILP minutes 1928-1932, cash books 1923-1950, membership 1924-1970, files 1904-1962 with Fred Jowett election manifestos 1910 and references to general strike 1926, printed matter 1911-1957	1910-1970	5D87
Election leaflet of Thomas Blythe for the Shipley Urban District Council Election, Central Ward 'Vote for Blythe - the Independent Labour Party candidate'	1912	WYB341/1/1
SANCTUARY AND HYDE FAMILY PAPERS Independent Labour Party and conscientious objector papers of a member of the Sanctuary family, 1914-1918, with Salt's High School Old Girls' Guild minutes and records 1912-2000	1912-2000	WYB8
'INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY COMING OF AGE', SOUVENIR PROGRAMME For conference held at Bradford	1914	5D78
BRADFORD CITY COUNCIL LABOUR GROUP, MINUTES	1919-1946	10D93
BRADFORD INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, SOUVENIR PROGRAMME For international fair	1925	59D89
Souvenir booklet on the Bradford Independent Labour Party's 'International Fancy Fair' held at the King's and Queen's Hall, Bradford. On different days, the entertainment was opened by J Ramsay MacDonald, Margaret McMillan, Dr Hector Munro and Fred Jowett. The booklet names all the stallholders and members of various musical and theatrical entertainments. It also contains many quotations and recipes	Apr 1925	DB71/C6/41
'BRADFORD LABOUR RECORD' NEWSPAPER	1926	54D79
BATLEY, MORLEY AND OSSETT DIVISIONAL LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES	1931-1933	13D84/11
QUEENSBURY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including minutes 1956-1965 and accounts 1935-1977	1935-1977	33D81
BRADFORD CITY LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES For City Labour Party 1962-1967, Council Labour Group 1960-1974 and East Division 1946-1952	1946-1974	49D84
SHIPLEY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including minutes 1950-1977	1950-1970	37D83
List of numbers of membership of the Bradford Conservative and National Liberal Association and Bradford Labour Party, ward by ward	1956	28D94/6/1/4
BRADFORD EAST CONSTITUENCY YOUNG SOCIALIST BRANCH, NEWSLETTER	1964	72D95
Programme for the Bradford Labour Party's annual dinner and ball, at Thornton Labour Club	30 Jan 1970	3D84/10/180
Invitation by Bradford Labour Party to the annual dinner and cabaret and ball, in Thornton Labour Club	30 Jan 1970	3D84/6/314
Notes on the life of E R Hartley, the early years of the Labour Party and the Clarion Van Movement	1976	11D85/8/3
QUEENSBURY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS	1982-1988	39D89
COUNCILLOR J WOMERSLEY, CORRESPONDENCE AS LABOUR COUNCILLOR, QUEENSBURY WARD Correspondence as Labour councillor, Queensbury ward	1991-1999	25D99
Receipt for £6 from Roundhay Wood Labour Party for Mrs R Gillinson	24 Mar 1956	33D91/26/20

WYAS Calderdale

The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Calderdale.

Description	Date	WYAS Reference
HALIFAX CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Minutes, accounts, etc	1855-1971	TU:28
Lockwood and District Labour Club: welcome to John Lister	11 Mar 1893	SH:3/L/110
INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, HALIFAX BRANCH, RECORDS.	1895-1953	TU:93
HALIFAX CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Comprising Halifax Workers' Municipal Election committee minutes of meetings 1903-1906; National Council of Labour Colleges, Halifax Branch, minutes of meetings 1924-1935; Halifax Constituency Labour Party minutes of meetings 1932-1935	1903-1935	TU:114
Independent Labour Party (Sowerby Division Branch) Amendment of rules	1904	SPL:393
HALIFAX INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, ACCOUNTS.	1904-1928	TU:73
SOWERBY DIVISION LABOUR REPRESENTATION ASSOCIATION/SOWERBY CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Minutes, etc	1907-1946	TU:51
BRIGHOUSE AND SPENBOROUGH LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES Minutes of meetings for Elland Divisional Labour Party and sub-committees 1921-1938, Brighouse Labour Party 1933-1962, Clifton Ward Committee 1948-1958, Brighouse and Spenborough Divisional Labour Party 1952-1964	1918-1964	MISC:912
HALIFAX AND DISTRICT LABOUR PARTY, AKROYDEN AND ILLINGWORTH WARDS, RECORDS. Papers of Councillor H Woodhead. Also Halifax Association for the Solution to Unemployment, objects and aims, Halifax Belle View Veterans' Association, records 1946	1920-1954	TU:64
ELLAND LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES	1925-1958	TU:60
SOWERBY CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including local government elections records 1935-1981, parliamentary elections records 1945-1980, correspondence, circulars, and other documents 1935-1980, constitutents' individual case files 1949-c1955. Also including papers of Douglas Houghton M P c1949-c1966	1930-1981	TU:112
HALIFAX INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Correspondence. etc	1935-1952	TU:29
HALIFAX LABOUR PARTY/HALIFAX CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Including Halifax Labour Party minutes of meetings 1960-1987, membership records 1938-1984, financial records 1939-1985, correspondence 1945-1987, election records 1952-1985, Calderdale Labour Group/Calderdale District Labour Party newscuttings and minutes of meetings 1972-1984, Halifax Labour Party, Rooms Letting Committee pass book 1973-1976, Sowerby Constituency Labour Party/Calder Valley Consituency Labour Party records 1974-1987 and the National Union of Public Employees, Todmorden Branch memo book and notes 1981	1938-1988	HLP
TODMORDEN TRADES COUNCIL AND TODMORDEN LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Records include minutes 1965-1980 and correspondence 1947-1981	1947-1981	TU:92
Photograph of Dr Shirley Summerskill. Labour Member of Parliament for Halifax 1964-1983.	nd [1960s-1970s]	WYC:1268/1
Dr Shirley Summerskill. Labour MP for Halifax 1964-1983	nd [1960s-1970s]	WYC:1268/23
HALIFAX INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including correspondence 1968-1979, election leaflets 1968-1971and publications 1967-1973	1968-1979	MISC:658
HEBDEN BRIDGE LABOUR PARTY, WEST END WARD, RECORDS Papers of C J Parkin	1970-1975	TU:49
HALIFAX CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, CALDER WARD GROUP/SKIRCOAT BRANCH, MINUTE BOOK	1970-1981	TU:105
SOWERBY DIVISION LABOUR PARTY, WOMEN'S SECTION, RECORDS Minute books 1970-1987; accounts 1977-1997. Also Sowerby Bridge Local Labour Party minutes 1971-1984.	1970-1997	WYC:1096
Labour Party Conference, Blackpool	28 Sep 1980	HND:97
CALDERDALE DISTRICT LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS. Comprising minutes of meetings 1985-1991, nomination forms for the Calderdale District Labour Party Panel of Local Government 1985-1992, Annual General Meeting papers 1986-1991	1985-1992	MISC:860
Labour Party - Yorkshire Region	1986-1990	HND:232-233
Alice Mahon. Labour MP for Halifax 1987-2005	1987	WYC:1268/29
Labour Party Policy Review	1989-1990	HND:233

WYAS Kirkless

The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Kirklees.

Description	Date	WYAS Reference
Rules for Constituency Labour Parties	nd	KC770/4/7
LITTLEWOOD FAMILY, GROVE MILLS, HONLEY, RECORDS Containing Thomas Littlewood, will 1891; request from ILP to open account with Halifax Joint Stock Banking Company 1895; photograph of ILP National Administrative Council 1898, and of Victor Grayson with by-election helpers 1907	1891-1907	KX243
Independent Labour Party, Huddersfield Branch	1906-1912	S/HTC/9
Huddersfield Labour and Socialist Election Committee	1909-c1918	S/HTC/8
ALDERMAN BEN RICHARDSON, BATLEY, RECORDS Scrapbooks and photographs, some relating to Ben Turner MP. Also Batley Trades Council and Labour Party minutes 1923-1928	1917-1974	DD/BR
History of the Colne Valley Labour Party, 1891-1941, Jubilee Souvenir, by Sam Eastwood includes photographs of Tom Mann,Victor Grayson, Wilfred Whiteley, Philip Snowden, W C Hall , Colne Valley officials and executive committee and Colne Valley Labour League on Demonstration Saturday 1907	1941	WYK1077/3/4
MIRFIELD LABOUR PARTY Minutes	1972-1987	KC481
BERRY FAMILY, KIRKHEATON, RECORDS, 1846-1977, (PHOTOCOPIES) Including Kirkheaton Field Head Co-operative Industrial Provident Society Ltd, records 1908-1965; Kirkheaton Labour and Socialist Club hymn sheet early 20 cent.	1977	KX292
MIKE WOOD, MP, BATLEY AND SPENBOROUGH RECORDS Comprises of correspondence, marked registers, diaries	1996-2004	WYK1207

WYAS Leeds

The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Leeds.

Description	Date	WYAS Reference
(Publisher and Leeds Weekly Citizen records) Includes Minutes, 1911-1988; Annual returns (incomplete), 1914-1942; Rules of Leeds Labour Publishing Society, 1912; Ledgers, 1953-1988; selection of last issues of the Leeds Citizen.	1911-1988	WYL2000
City of Leeds Labour Party, Records. Including minutes, financial records, correspondence etc 1911-1971; Leeds Labour Publishing Society records 1911-1969 with 'Leeds Weekly Citizen' 1913-1969; Central Leeds Division minutes 1923-1955; North Leeds Division minutes 1922-1925; records of various wards including minutes for Blenheim 1948-1974, Harehills 1930-1934, Hawksworth 1935-1963, Hunslet polling district committee 1920-1926, Hunslet Carr 1950-1963, Hyde Park 1929-1967, Meanwood 1953-1963 Woodhouse later Scott Hall 1963-1972; records of Labour Women's groups including Advisory Council for Labour Women for the West Riding of Yorkshire 1919-1923, National Conference of Labour Women 1919-1932, Bramley Women's Guild 1926-1929, Hunslet Carr Women's Meeting 1929-1955, Women's Advisory Council minutes 1932-1965; records of youth groups including Youth Advisory Committee and Leeds Young Socialists 1929-1965; printed items, pamphlets, election addresses etc.	1911-c1980	WYL853
South Leeds Labour Party, Records. Including minutes 1924-1967, financial records 1918-1969, correspondence between Hugh Gaitskell M.P. and George Murray, Secretary.	1918-1974	WYL1257
Sunday Worker, Labour Party Newspaper (Photocopy)	12 Dec 1926	WYL1006
City of Leeds Labour Party Harehills Ward, Records.	1937-1980	WYL1048
Leeds City Labour Party, Hyde Park Ward, Records. Including minutes 1940-1965, correspondence 1961-1967 includes personal correspondence of A Kenworthy, ward secretary, with Harold Wilson and Dennis Healey; also personal files of J P Roche 1965-1984 on education and housing matters, trade unions and National Referendum Campaign against membership of EEC.	1940-1984	WYL966
Pudsey constituency labour party, records. Including minutes 1948-1972, secretaries' papers 1967-1976.	1948-1976	WYL1176
Swain, Harry, Decd, Leeds, Papers. Papers including minutes books of Labour Party Ward Committees.	c1950-1997	WYL1917
Records transferred from Leeds Local Studies Library. Including Labour Party candidates election publicity cards 1950s-1973, rules and constitution of City of Leeds Labour Party 1954, General Management Committee of Leeds City Labour Party minutes 1967-1974 and the Executive Committee of the Temporary Co-Ordination Committee minutes 1972-1975, Executive Committee of the Leeds City Labour Party minutes 1968-1974	1950’s-1975	WYL2160
Rothwell Labour Party, minutes and other records	1958-1975	WYL1161
Leeds Labour Womens Luncheon Club Records	1960-1980	WYL1642
Rothwell Labour Party. Report of organisation and finances of local Labour Party, with news cuttings and draft history. Newspaper obituaries of local councillors.	1968-1982	WYL5021/10
Barkston Ash Labour Party, Records	1970-1981	WYL1179
Labour Party. Cuttings, correspondence and articles for Big Flame about the Labour Party.	1970s-1980s	WYL5041/41/31
Leeds North East Constituency Labour Party, Records. Including Chapel Allerton and Scott Hall Ward minutes 1972-1979; North East Leeds Labour Party minutes 1975-1982 and correspondence 1973-1988.	1972-1988	WYL1457
Weekly Citizen, Labour's Voice in Leeds, produced by the Labour Party.	Sep 1984	WYL5041/30/1
J Howes, 'Twenty Five Year Fight With The Tories' (Photocopied Extracts)	n.d.	LX50

WYAS Wakefield

The following is a list of records relating to the Labour Party held by WYAS Wakefield.

Description	Date	WYAS Reference
Printing Commissions and Samples Political parties and trade unions Includes rules and regulations of the Ossett Liberal Club, 1907, 2 copies Rules of the Horbury and District Labour Party (1900s) Dewsbury and District Carpenters' and Joiners' Working rules and scale of Wages, 1917	nd [c1904-1935]	C101/95
Labour Party: Canvass cards in holder (blank)	20th century	C99/641
Labour Party, 'How To Build Up the Postal Vote'	20th century	C99/733
Halifax Labour Party	1915-1962	C99/631-639
LEEDS LABOUR PARTY, PRINTED CARTOON Entitled 'Unemployment and the Rates when winter comes'. Published as Labour Leaflet no 20 by the Labour Party and Trades Union Congress	1922	C297
The Joint Research and Information Department of the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party: Local Government Handbook	1924	C99/647
Pontefract Medical Charities Committee Shield Presented by the mayor, Councillor C. Johnson at the pageant. Won by the Pontefract Labour Party	1928	C199/7/2
Correspondence file relating to Christmas parcels distributed by Yorkshire Post to poor families in Whitwood Includes letter from Whitwood Labour Party re scheme, 1937; Correspondence re. Bairns Christmas Fund, 1937; List of recipients of Yorkshire Post Christmas Parcels inc names and addresses, 1937	1937	WMT/WH/2/2/4/5
MRS JESSIE SMITH CBE OF MARSDEN, WEST RIDING COUNTY COUNCILLOR, PAPERS Mainly printed material on education, health, Yorkshire Arts Association, and the Labour Party	1937-1985	C603
WAKEFIELD CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Including Belle Vue ward minutes 1942-1950; minutes of executive and general management committees; papers re West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council elections 1981, signed and copy minutes 1955-1979, subject files 1969-1983, annual files 1969-1983, finance and administration 1957-1980, social club accounts 1974-1978, minutes and correspondence 1974-1982	1942-1983	C466
CASTLEFORD LABOUR PARTY, RECORDS Comprising Whitwood Mere Ward minutes of branch meetings 1953-1974 and accounts 1944-1971; Smawthorne Ward minutes of branch meetings 1973-1974	1944-1974	C589
Batley and Morley Divisional Labour Party	1949-1950	C149/1031
Labour party group funds correspondence with Mr Bambridge	1951 – 1952	WRD/1/39/13
Labour Party, Problems of Foreign Policy	1952	C99/695
'Our Daily Bread - Labour Party' By H.D Waltson	1952	C99/696
HEADINGLEY BRANCH LABOUR PARTY, TREASURER'S PAPERS The Meanwood Ward account book 1953-1980 records the accounts of the Ward before and after it became the Headingley Ward. The boundaries are not totally interchangeable but on the whole Headingley Ward can be regarded as Meanwood's successive area.	1953-1980	C494
'How the Labour Party Works' By Sara Barker	1955	C99/697
Halifax labour party correspondence Schedule of rents of labour hall	1956	C767/31
Labour Party, 'Party Organisation'	1957	C99/701
Labour Party: List of Affiliated Organisations, Membership, Affiliation and By-Election Fees for 1956 with Secretaries, and with Delegates appointed to attend the Brighton Conference, 1957, and Ex-Office members of the conference	1957	C99/683
Labour Party, Rent Act Guide	1957	C99/702
Huddersfield and Kirkburton Central Labour Party	1958	C99/640
Labour Party, 70 Questions Asked and Answered on Labour's Education Policy	n.d. [1958]	C99/703
Bristol Borough Labour Party, Executive Committee, Report for year	1959	C99/704
Report of the 58th Annual Conference of the Labour Party	1959	C99/685
Report of the National Executive Committee to the 58th Annual Conference of the Labour Party	Oct 1959	C99/684
Labour Party, 'Steel and the Nation: Labour's plan'	c.1960	C99/734
Labour Party, 'How, When and Why: a guide for the Young Socialists'	n.d. [1960]	C99/706
Labour Party, 'Towns for our Times'	1961	C99/708
Brighouse Labour Party	1961	C99/630
Labour Party, Campaign Notes for the Local Elections: 'Housing in England and Wales'	1961	C99/710
Labour Party, 'Towns for our Times'	1961	C99/707
Labour Party, 'First Things Last?'	1961	C99/731
Labour Party, Campaign notes for the Local Elections: 'Health and Graded Pensions'	1961	C99/709
Correspondence, press cuttings and statement Regarding Eric Dignan, former secretary and agent for Halifax Labour Party, who contested the Southowram ward by-election, 1961 against the Labour candidate.	1961-1962	C99/637
Britain and the Common Market: texts of speeches made at the 1962 Labour Party Conference together with the policy statement accepted by Conference	1962	C99/689
Report of the 61st Annual Conference of the Labour Party	1962	C99/687
Labour's Policy for Halifax: Statement by the Executive Committee of the Halifax Labour Party for discussion by the General Committee	1962	C99/638
Report of the National Executive Committee to the 61st Annual Conference of the Labour Party with agenda and other associated items	Oct 1962	C99/686
Agenda for the 62nd Annual Conference of the Labour Party	1963	C99/688
Labour Party, Yorkshire Regional Council	1964-1970	C99/628-629
GOOLE CONSTITUENCY LABOUR PARTY Records	1964-1983	C635
HORBURY LABOUR PARTY RECORDS comprising minute books (1965-1973 - 2 volumes, signed), attendance book (1971-1981) and correspondence (1978-1979)	1965-1981	WYW1579
Labour Party, National Executive Committee, Britain: progress and change	1968	C99/691
Labour Party, Labour Organiser	Feb 1968-Aug 1969	C99/712-730
Labour Party, 'Economic Brief'	Oct 1968	C99/735
DEWSBURY LOCAL LABOUR PARTY, MINUTES With miscellaneous Dewsbury items 1962-1973	1969-1973	C314
Folder - article to Mr Roy Hattersley MP to be included in ‘Radical Alternative’, a book of collected essays on education promoted by Labour Party MPs, letter re political stance of Alec Clegg, drafts of Labour Party policy document on housing, Clegg commenting on draft, letter from Shirley Williams MP	1972-1973	WRD5/6/Box21
The Observer – article ‘Jenkins:how to abolish poverty’ by Roy Jenkins MP deputy leader of Labour Party	12 Mar 1972	WRD5/6/Box26
CRIGGLESTONE BRANCH LABOUR PARTY RECORDS Including minutes, correspondence, constituency Labour Party records, publicity and campaign leaflets	1976-1998	C1195
TOM MCGAHEY MEP PAPERS Including contituent enquiries 1979-1988, British Labour Group correspondence 1979-1988, Press releases and questions 1979-c1991, European Parliamentary Labour Party papers 1991, papers re 1984 EEC elections.	1979-1993	C976
COUNCILLOR D MOORE PAPERS papers re local Labour Party, South Kirkby school govenors, South Elmsall, South Kirkby regeneration and festival, Hemsworth Road Safety Committee signed minutes 1989 - 1995 and associated papers	1980 - 2000	C1302
OSSETT AND DISTRICT LABOUR PARTY MINUTES Ossett and District Labour Party minutes	1982-1995	C1077
WAKEFIELD LABOUR GROUP MINUTES AND PAPERS	1997-1998	C1113