The Platen Machine Minders' Society archive was deposited in the Modern Records Centre on the 5th March 1998 by G.F. Holmes.
The records form part of the wider printing unions' archives and within that have been listed as part of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, the Platen Machine Minders' Society being a predecessor of the larger union. An authority file exists for this corporate body (GB 152 AAR50).
Platen Machine Minders' Society (MSS.39, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
The Platen Machine Minders' Society was established in 1890. In 1924 it joined the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers but continued to exist as a separate branch. In 1992 the branch amalgamated with the London Region of the Graphical, Paper and Media Union.
Committee minutes, 1880-1984; council minutes, 1916-48; minutes of annual and general quarterly meetings, 1904-19; Printers' Pension Reform Association, minutes 1898-9.