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Hansard transcript

Hansard transcript of a debate in parliament over due recognition being given to the match women, 8 October 2013.

Date:2013-2013
Contributor:Louise Raw
Identifier:72993f-02

Interview notes

TS notes made by Louise Raw following her interviews with Joan Harris, grand-daughter of one of the 'ring-leaders' of the strike, Mary Driscoll, 2004.

Date:2004-2004
Contributor:Louise Raw
Identifier:72993f-01

Self-lighting cigarettes debate

D/B/BRY/1/2/332. Correspondence and press cuttings relating to the company's reaction to the prospect of self-lighting cigarettes, 1960-1964.

Date:1960-1964
Contributor:C L R James Library, Hackney
Identifier:72993e-07
Archive Reference(s):D/B/BRY/1/2/332

Further retrospective accounts

D/B/BRY/1/2/564/8. Further correspondence and ephermera relating to musicals and plays on the strike, 1965-1973; a short history of the strike written from the company's perspective by Gilbert Bartholemew, 1959.

Date:1959-1973
Contributor:C L R James Library, Hackney
Identifier:72993e-06
Archive Reference(s):D/B/BRY/1/2/564/8

Strike a Light

D/B/BRY/1/2/564/3. Script of a musical, Strike a Light, by Joyce Adcock, c1965.

Contributor:C L R James Library, Hackney
Identifier:72993e-05
Archive Reference(s):D/B/BRY/1/2/564/3

'The Matchgirls Strike of 1888' - general enquiries

D/B/BRY/1/2/564/1. A series of correspondence and other papers relating to musicals and plays focussing on the strike, 1965. Many show Bryant & May to be none too favourable toward such...

Date:1965-1965
Contributor:C L R James Library, Hackney
Identifier:72993e-04
Archive Reference(s):D/B/BRY/1/2/564/1

BryMay Magazine

D/B/BRY/1/2/575. Includes 50 Year Service Medal photographs. These women would have been working in 1888.

Date:1924-1925
Contributor:C L R James Library, Hackney
Identifier:72993e-03
Archive Reference(s):D/B/BRY/1/2/575

'Bryant & May Workers and the War'

D/B/BRY/1/2/542. Four page address made by a 'Mr Paton' encouraging B&M workers not to join the war, 1915.

Date:1915-1915
Contributor:C L R James Library, Hackney
Identifier:72993e-02
Archive Reference(s):D/B/BRY/1/2/542
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