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News cuttings on Socialism and Labour, June-December 1926
1926
One hardback book covered with brown paper displaying on the spine the title 'Socialism and Labour – Miscellaneous Cuttings', from July to December 1926. Written on front page 'Alf Mattison – Soc...
Letters from John Lister to Alf Mattison: 1926
1926
1926 (4 postcards of Shibden Hall in envelope, 1 telegram and 4 letters) 4 postcards of Shibden Hall. One has a note written to Florence Mattison from Alf while she was visiting Venice and one has a...
News cuttings from 1926, mainly written by Ramsay MacDonald
6th February 1926-4th September 1926
1 envelope containing 7 articles by Ramsay MacDonald from Forward covering the period from February 6th to September 4th 1926.
Cartoon of Philip Snowden
1926
Cartoon published in a supplement to The New Statesman dated 3rd April 1926.
General Strike cuttings
1926
News cuttings relating to the General Strike of 1926, also includes a large poster requesting volunteers during the strike, a booklet entitled 'The General Strike, Extracts from Speeches by the Prime ...
News cuttings
1926-1933
Folder of news cuttings containing articles on the visit of the Prince of Wales to Shibden Hall in October 1926 and relating to John Lister's death in 1933.
Letter from Mrs Brooke
01/03/1926
Letter dated March 1st 1926 from Mrs Brooke (John Francis Bray’s cousin) to Alf Mattison presenting the Bray family letters.
Letters from John Lister to Alf Mattison, 1894-1933
1894-1933
Letters from John Lister to Alf Mattison covering years 1894, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, ...
Letters from Edward Carpenter to Alf Mattison
No date [1931-1944]
Volume of transcribed letters entitled 'Letters from Edward Carpenter to Alf Mattison', also contains some news cuttings, photographs and leaflets. At the back of the volume are transcribed copies of...
NOTEBOOK No 1 renamed Note Book ‘A’ – The Note Book of Alf Mattison – Leeds
No date [Late 1930s - early 1940s]
Notebook, no date, but probably written by Mattison in later life. Contains diary entries and extracts from newspapers, journals, poems and letters. Diary entries in this volume cover the years 189...
Booklet of the official opening of Transport House
15th May 1928
1 book entitled Transport House – Official Opening, May 15, 1928 includes: A photo of Ramsay MacDonald . The story of the transport and general worker’s union. A photo of the Amalgamation C...
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...