The National Asylum Workers' Union was founded in 1910 and was renamed the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union in 1935. In 1946 the union merged with the Hospitals and Welfare Services Union to form the Confederation of Health Service Employees.
Reference:
National Executive Council and other committee minutes, 1919-45; income and expenditure records, 1910-21; staff wages books, 1927-46; claims book, 1921-24;
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The initial deposit was made by COHSE in October 1981. Subsequent deposits were made in 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1993.
This collection has been weeded for duplicates.
Further deposits are expected.
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There are no restrictions on the use of this archive, apart from the requirements of copyright law.
This archive has been catalogued to file level. A copy of this
catalogue is available electronically
Authority records exist for the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union (GB 152 AAR1164) and the National Asylum Workers' Union (GB 152 AAR1165).
The Modern Records Centre also holds the archives of COHSE and the Hospitals and Welfare Services Union (MSS.229).
The official history of COHSE was written using material from the
archive: