GREEN, Ernest, Workers Education Association (WEA) Papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1924 WEA E.G.
Held at	: Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://student.londonmet.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/special-collections/trades-union-congress-library-collections/ ›
Full title	: GREEN, Ernest, Workers Education Association (WEA) Papers
Date(s)	: 1920s-1960s
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of WEA Collection View parent record
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Green | Ernest | 1885-1977 | General Secretary of the Workers' Education Association (WEA)

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Ernest Green (1885-1977) was Secretary of the Yorkshire District of the Workers' Education Association (WEA) from 1923 to 1928 when he moved to London to take up the post of national Assistant General Secretary. In 1931 he became the Organising Secretary with responsibility for dealing with WEA districts, branches, affiliated societies and the Workers' Education Trade Union Committee (WETUC). He was appointed General Secretary in 1934 and retired in 1950.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Ernest Green relating to the Workers' Education Association (WEA), comprising correspondence files, 1920s-1960s, and publications containing articles by him, 1934-1960s.

Access & 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

Finding aids:

Lists available in the TUC Library.

Archival Information

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

Related material:

University of North London TUC Library Collections and WEA Collection

Publication note:

Description Notes

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