HUNT, Charles J (fl 1920-1982), writer and social credit advocate

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 HUNT
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: HUNT, Charles J (fl 1920-1982), writer and social credit advocate
Date(s)	: 1919-1980
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 25 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Hunt | Charles J | fl 1920-1982 | writer and social credit advocate

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

C J Hunt was successively Organising Secretary of the Economic Party (1929-1930), a member of the first Social Credit Party (dissolved in 1951) and of the Company of Free Men, a member and officer of the Social Credit Political League, and Treasurer of the Social Credit Political League. In 1965 the League formed itself into the second Social Credit Party, of which Hunt was Treasurer until its dissolution in 1978. Thereafter he was one of the trustees of the Douglas Literary Trust, the body formed to administer the residue of the Party's funds.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of C J Hunt, Treasurer of the (2nd) Social Credit Party, 1919-1980, including papers relating to the party, the Company of Free Men, the Social Credit Association, and the Social Credit Political League.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The papers are arranged as follows:
1-30. Correspondence, 1938-1981
31. Papers of the Economic Party, 1929-1930
32-38. Papers of the Kibbo Kift Kindred and the first Social Credit Party, 1930-1941
39. Papers of the Company of Free Men, 1954-1955
40. Papers of the Social Credit Association, 1961
41-44. Papers of the Social Credit Political League, 1956-1969
45-73. Papers of the second Social Credit Party, 1965-1982
74-79. Papers of other organisations, 1962-1982
80-82. Other papers, [1930-1980]
83-94. Periodicals, 1919-1978
95-96. Other printed and published material, [1930-1980]

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Most items can be photocopied, subject to handling and copyright restrictions. No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Originally part of the Youth Movement Archive (YMA). The Youth Movement Archive was established in 1973 at University College, Cardiff. The archives of the Kibbo Kift Kindred, the Green Shirt Movement and the Social Credit Party were placed in the College Library in 1978, with a further deposit in [1982]. The papers of the Woodcraft Folk were deposited by them in 1978. Papers of C J Hunt were deposited in 1982 by his executors and the Douglas Literary Trust. The entire Youth Movement Archive was transferred to the British Library of Political and Economic Science in 1984, with further material being given in 1986 and 1987. Further material was deposited by the Kibbo Kift Foundation in 1986 and 1989, and by C A Tacey in 1988. The archives making up the YMA were disaggregated in 2008 into separate collections in order to facilitate their management and promotion.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Copied from LSE Archives CALM database by Anna Towlson.

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:
Apr 2008