MOONMAN, Eric (b 1929)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0372 MOONMAN
Held at	: Bishopsgate Institute   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/library ›
Full title	: MOONMAN, Eric (b 1929)
Date(s)	: 1968-1979
Level of description	: Fonds
Extent	: 6 Boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Moonman, Eric | b 1929 | politician and academic

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Eric Moonman was born in Liverpool in April 1929. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Billericay 1966-70 and Basildon 1974-1979. Moonman was educated at Liverpool and Manchester Universities and became a senior research fellow in the Department of Management Science at Manchester University. He was a councillor on Stepney Borough Council, serving as Council Leader until 1965, and on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets from 1964.

Moonman contested Chigwell in 1964 without success and was elected for Billericay in the 1966 general election, losing the seat four years later. He then was elected for Basildon at the February 1974 election, but again lost his seat at the 1979 general election. In the 1980s, he joined the short-lived Social Democratic Party (SDP). Since then, he has pursued an academic career, and is currently Professor of Management at City University, London and Senior Fellow, University of Liverpool.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of politician and academic Eric Moonman, including: general papers, correpsondence and press cuttings regarding mental health, industry, local constituency issues, the Laker Skytrain and the Middle East, 1975-1979; press cuttings regarding Moonman's local and national political activities, 1968-1972; election ephemera, 1974-1979; papers regarding the energy crisis and oil policy, 1973-1974; constituency correspondence, 1976-1978.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

No further arrangement at present.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying and digital photography permitted within copyright law.

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited with Bishopsgate Institute by Eric Moonman, 11 June 2009.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
31 August 2009