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Collection: British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 1888    Volumes    Later years
The documents in this section serve two purposes: one is to chart the evolution of Bryant & May during the twentieth century in light of changing circumstances i.e. The Great War, and the other is to analyse the impact of the strike almost a century later. This latter point is no better illustrated than through attempts to reconstruct the strike through the arts. Stirke a Light (1965), a musical by Joyce Adcock and the screenplay of the intended Matchgirls (1973) by Bill Owen are cases in point. Amongst all this was still a defiance and determination by the company to play down the strike's significance eighty years after it happened.
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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.

Collection:British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 1888
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.

Collection:British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 1888
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.

Collection:British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 1888
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...

Collection:British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 1888
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.

Collection:British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 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.

Collection:British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 1888
Date:1915-1915
Contributor:C L R James Library, Hackney
Identifier:72993e-02
Archive Reference(s):D/B/BRY/1/2/542

Staff photographs

D/B/BRY/1/2/609. Mostly undated photographs of staff though appear to be from late Victorian period towards World War One and beyond.

Collection:British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May, 1888
Date:1880-1880
Contributor:C L R James Library, Hackney
Identifier:72993e-01
Archive Reference(s):D/B/BRY/1/2/609
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