IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1924 WEA Districts
Held at: Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University
Title: Workers' Educational Association Districts records
Date(s): 1914-1992
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: Unknown proportion of 40m
Name of creator(s): Workers' Educational Association
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) was founded in 1903 under the title Association to Promote the Higher Education of Working Men and in 1905 the name was changed to the Workers' Educational Association. Although the WEA is a single national organisation, locally it is organised into 13 English Districts and a Scottish Association.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Workers' Educational Association (WEA) Districts comprising constitutions and minutes, 1914-1970, and publications, 1920-1992.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open to bona fide researchers at the discretion of the TUC Librarian.
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the TUC Librarian and subject to copyright conditions .
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
List, 1998.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
There may be further deposits in the future.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The collection was transferred from the WEA headquarters in Bethnal Green to the custody of the TUC Library Collections at the University of North London in August 1998.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Janet Foster as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: December, 2000