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Mattison Collection
Mattison, Alfred (1868-1944)
1790s-1963
The Alf Mattison collection is the archive of Leeds socialist and local historian Alf Mattison (1868-1944). His major achievement was to amass a collection documenting the development of British soci...
Alf Mattison
1874-1960
Contains Mattison's personal notebooks, transcribed copies of letters sent to him from c.1885-1933, volumes of 'personalia' dating from the 1890s-1930s, photographs, notebooks and cuttings relating to...
Philip Snowden
1926-1937
Contains loose news cuttings, Mattison's compilations of cuttings on Philip Snowden, a political cartoon of Snowden, a photograph of Snowden and his wife and a copy of his obituary.
Independent Labour Party
1893-1932
Documents relating to the Independent Labour Party (I.L.P.), including a copy of the party manifesto, minutes and agenda for the first I.L.P. conference, 'Hail to the Chief - a commemorative booklet o...
Social Democratic Federation
1931
Records of the Social Democratic Federation Jubilee Conference in 1931. Alf Mattison attended as a delegate.
News Cuttings
1892-1933
Collections of news cuttings, including many relating to the First and Second Labour Governments, taken from natonal and regional publications. Including cuttings from: Reynold's News; Punch; The Tim...
Handbills and Broadsides
1790s-1933
1 folder of handbills and broadsides, containing: 'To the Parliament and People of Great Britain an Explicit Declaration of the Principles and Views of the London Corresponding Society', 1790s; 'Licen...
Election Literature
1910-1929
Election literature, mainly produced by the Labour Party as part of the 1929 election campaign.
Political Cartoons
1886-1932
Contains copies of cartoons by Walter Crane, Will Dyson, Sidney Conrad Strube and from Punch magazine.
Gramophone Records
1929-1930
Gramophone records (released by Columbia) of speeches by Ramsay MacDonald, Philip Snowden and Margaret Bondfield and Labour songs mainly sung by Rufus Jones.
Photographs and Slides
1920s-1940s
Photographic print of the first Labour cabinet and glass plate slides created by Alf Mattison.
John Francis Bray
1802-1942
Contains Bray's family letters, mainly written by his brother Charles, Mattison's collected memoranda on Bray (2 volumes), articles on Bray, letters from Max Beer, Esther Lowenthal, Henry Raymond Muss...