Catalogue

Copy election address of Joseph H. Blackwell, Labour candidate for the Durham County Council election, 7 March 1922

Copy letters from Sidney Webb, Passfield Corner, Liphook, Hampshire, and 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, to [Joseph] Blackwell, discussing preparations for the general election of 1924, including arrangements for speaking engagements and publicity within Seaham Division, and a meeting with the Divisional [Labour Party] Council; expressing thanks for Blackwell's help at the election; and acceding to a request for a message of support for use in Blackwell's County Council election campaign, 26 August, 31 August, 28 September and 27 November 1924; 3 February 1934

Copy letters from J. Ramsay MacDonald, The Hillocks, Lossiemouth, and 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to J.H. Blackwell, 39 Wynyard Street, Dawdon, Seaham Harbour, discussing correspondence published in The Times newspaper; arrangements for a speaking engagement at Seaham; conveying Christmas greetings and saluting the heroism of women in mining areas; remarks on his record-breaking Labour majority in the 1929 Seaham election; observations on Dr. Dunston as arbitrator in the Dawdon industrial negotiations; warning against unscrupulous Communist influence; and a message to his constituents, with reference to the impending election, 21 August 1926; 21 September, 25 September and 17 December 1928; 18 June, 25 July, 2 August and 8 August 1929; March 1930

Copy letter from W. Coxon to [Joseph Blackwell] advising of a meeting of the executive committee of the Seaham Divisional Labour Party to be held on 12 September, with the intention of seeking J. Ramsay MacDonald's resignation, and supplying the text of MacDonald's letter to Coxon dated 25 August 1931, n.d. [August 1931]

Seaham Harbour Labour News, nos. 5-7, published by the local Labour Party, September 1928, December 1928 and April 1929

Copy editorial notes and comments on the general election result by J. H. Blackwell for [Seaham Harbour Labour News], 1929

The Seaham Elector, published by the local Labour Party, November 1935 and July 1945

Notes on the history of Seaham Divisional Labour Party, 1918-1949, probably compiled by Joseph Blackwell, c. 1950

Photograph of J. Dawson, Joseph Blackwell, Mrs. Wilkinson, [ ] Smith, [ ] Macchesney, Dick Lawson, Harry Lee, [ ] Goodman, and [ ] Atkins, probably members of Seaham Divisional Labour Party Executive Committee, n.d. [1920s]

Sound recording of an interview between Professor N[orman] McCord and Maureen Callcott of Newcastle Polytechnic, and Joseph Blackwell, January 1970 Audio recording from the tapes has been converted into digital format on 3 CDs for customers' use as the tapes are not available for the public.

Copy election addresses from Sidney and Beatrice Webb to the men and women electors of the Seaham division, 19 November 1923

'Letter from the Right Hon. Sidney Webb, M.P., to the devoted men and women in the Seaham Division who worked last month for the cause of Labour', 26 November 1924

Copy election address of Beatrice Webb to the women electors of the Seaham division, in support of Mr. William Coxon, 14 October 1931

Copy newspaper cuttings from the national and local press concerning Sidney Webb's election campaigns as Labour candidate for the Seaham parliamentary division, 23 June 1922 - 17 October 1924

Election address of J. Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Party candidate for Seaham Parliamentary Division in the general election, 10 May 1929

Newspaper cutting concerning the resolution of the executive committee of Seaham Division Labour Party to ask J. Ramsay MacDonald to resign his seat, September 1931

Copy election address of J. Ramsay MacDonald to the electors of the Seaham division, 12 October 1931

Copy election address of J. Ramsay MacDonald to the electors of the Seaham division, 8 November 1935

Election address of Harry Pollitt, Communist Party candidate for Seaham Parliamentary Division in the general election, 1929

Copy election address of E. Shinwell, Labour Party candidate for Seaham Parliamentary Division in the the general election, 2 November 1935

Copy account of Seaham Divisional Party election receipts and expenses, n.d. [c. 1923]

Copy photograph of the Sunderland branch of the Women's Labour League, n.d. [c. 1911]

Copy photograph of Sunderland [Labour Party] Women's Section Committee, 1926

Copy photograph of Sunderland Labour Women, c. 1926

Adventure into the Past, a history of the Sunderland Borough Labour Party, published on the occasion of opening of new party headquarters at no. 5 Grange Crescent, Sunderland, by Thomas Summerbell, J.P., and Fred T. Willey, M.P. for Sunderland North, 20 February 1954

Programme of Sedgefield Divisional Labour Party annual gala, 3 September 1949

Agenda and annual report of the thirty-fourth annual conference of the Durham Labour Women's Advisory Council, 26 February 1955 For additional records of Durham Labour Women's Advisory Council, see D/Sho and D/X 1048

Programme for the official opening of the 'History of the Labour Movement' exhibition at the Labour Hall, Park Road, West Hartlepool, by Earl Attlee, 25 May 1957

Report of the Executive Committee to the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Northern Regional Council of the Labour Party, 31 May 1969