National Co-operative Archive
Location
- Advice on accessing these materials
- Archives Hub Features
- Web
- Telephone
- +44 (0)161 214 0861
- Address
- Holyoake House, Hanover Street, Manchester, M60 0AS, England, U.K
- Opening Hours
- Mon-Fri; 10:00-17:00
- History
In 2000 the archive collections of the Co-operative Union in Manchester and the Co-operative College in Loughborough were brought together to create a National Co-operative Archive. Following the merger, further collections were deposited by co-operative societies and work began on integration.
The Co-operative College and the Archive relocated to Manchester in 2001. Work is under way to improve access for researchers to the collections, both in the provision of facilities for visitors and by digitisation of items on the Archive web site.
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- Adlington Industrial Co-operative Society
- Artwork of James Vincent Glover
- Associated Co-operative Creameries
- Bamfurlong Co-operative Society
- Beechwood College
- Beswick Co-operative Society
- Bolton Co-operative Society Employee Register
- CFC: Co-operative Wholesale Society Furniture Catalogues
- Co-operative Coal Federation Limited
- Co-operative Educational Fellowship: Southport Branch
- Co-operative Party Papers
- Co-operative Press
- Co-operative Press Photographic Collection
- Co-operative Productive Federation
- Co-operative Retail Services (Northern Region)
- Co-operative Union Photographic Collection
- Co-operative Union: Submissions to the Independent Commission (1958)
- Co-operative Wholesale Society Tobacco Factory Photographs
- Co-operative Wholesale Society South Midlands Region
- Co-operative Women's Guild Posters
- Co-operative Women's Guild, Lancashire Region
- Co-operative Women's Guild, Lea Valley District Papers
- Co-operative Women's Guild, Yorkshire Region Papers
- Co-operative Youth Centres
- Co-operative Youth Centres Photographs
- Collection of co-operative society receipts collected by R Kennedy
- Computercraft Ltd
- COPE News
- Crumpsall Biscuit Works (CWS)
- Cumbrian Co-operative Society stationery
- Delta-T Devices
- Dyke Acland Scholarship Fund
- Escrick and District Co-operative Society
- Failsworth Industrial Society Limited
- Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives
- The Gilsland Convalescent Home Society Ltd
- Glasgow and District Co-operative Association
- Goliath Footwear
- Harlow/Playhouse Co-operative Film Society Collection
- Heckmondwike and District Co-operative Society
- Historical Notes of the Manchester and Salford Equitable Co-operative Society
- Hollingworth Industrial Co-operative Society
- Humberside Co-operative Development Agency
- In The Making
- Industrial Common Ownership Finance (ICOF)
- The International Co-operative Self Service Conference
- Inverness Co-operative Society
- James Rigby Correspondence Collection
- John Tilley Tie Collection
- Leicester Co-operative Printing Society Limited
- Letters of Edward Vansittart Neale
- Longwood Industrial Co-operative Society
- Lothian and Borders Co-operative Society
- Lynx Training Ltd
- Manchester Co-operative Development Agency
- Metropolitan Co-operative Political Federation
- Metropolitan Motor Cab Co-operative Society
- Michael Jones Jeweller
- Middleton & Tonge Industrial Society: Branch Managers Association
- Midlands Co-operative Society
- Mills & Moors Tours
- National Guild of Co-operators: Hyde Branch
- Network of Wholefood Worker Co-operatives
- New Mills Co-operative Society
- Newhey Co-operative Society
- North Wales Co-operative Managers' Association
- North Western Co-operative Convalescent Homes Association
- North Western Section Co-operative Music Association
- North Western Section Co-operative Farming Society
- North Yorkshire Co-operative Society
- North-West Durham Co-operative Dairies Ltd
- Oakleaf Books
- Papers of Albert Victor Alexander
- Papers of Blanche Taylor (Secretary and typist for the CWS)
- Papers of Dorothy Greaves (Museum Warden at the Rochdale Pioneers Museum)
- Papers of Edgar H. Topley - Ten Acres & Stirchley and Blackley Co-operative Societies
- Papers of George and Ethel Piper (Earlestown and St Helens Co-operative Societies)
- Papers of George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906)
- Papers of George R. Mack. Stoddart (Northampton, London and Cambridge Societies)
- Papers of Gwen Cherrell Gordon, actress in The Rochdale Pioneers play by James R Gregson
- Papers of James Norman Tattersall (Middleton and Tonge Industrial Society)
- Papers of John James Dent (Co-operative Permanent Building Society)
- Papers of Joseph Reeves (Education Secretary of Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society 1918-1938)
- Papers of Joshua Nicholas (member of Barry and District Co-operative Industrial Society)
- Papers of Kenneth George Blackmore (Trowbridge Co-operative Society)
- Papers of Lord Rusholme, Robert Alexander Palmer
- Papers of Marjorie Porter
- Papers of Norman Chadwick (New Mills Co-operative Society and Norwest Music Festival)
- Papers of Percy Beard (Whaley Bridge & Buxton Co-operative Society)
- Papers of Robert Lancaster
- Papers of Roger Sawtell
- Papers of Sydney Alfred Wretham, CWS London Audit Department
- Papers of T W Mercer
- Papers of the Co-operative Commission 2000
- Papers of the Co-operative Independent Commission
- Papers of the Derby Co-operative Provident Society - Undertaking Department
- Papers of United Co-operative Society, High Peak Area, Buxton Entertainments Contest
- Papers of William Bernard Evison, (Royal Arsenal, Brighton, Luton Industrial and Enfield Highway Co-operative Societies)
- Papers of William Fisher (Barrow and Dalton co-operative societies)
- Papers of William Henry Brown (1868-1950)
- Papers of William P. Watkins B.A. (Director of the International Co-operative Alliance 1951-1963)
- The People's Entertainment Society
- Periodical Collection
- Political Ecology Research Group (PERG)
- Printing Plates of Coventry and District Co-operative Society
- Printing Plates of TRAVCO Hotels and Co-operative News
- Promotional material for CWS Defiant products
- RAP Ltd (Rochdale Alternative Press)
- Receipts of the Hepworth Industrial Co-operative Society
- Records of Preston Industrial Co-operative Society Travelling Butchers Shop
- Records of the Co-operative Holidays Association and Holiday Fellowship
- Records of the National Association of Co-operative Officials
- Retail Furnishing and Allied Trades Wages Council
- Robert Owen Collection
- Robert Salmon Artwork
- Rochdale District Co-operative Association
- Rochdale Pioneers 150th Anniversary Celebrations
- Rutherglen Old Co-operative Victualling Society
- South East Retail Group (CWS)
- South Western Section Co-operative Convalescent Fund
- The Southern Co-operative Convalescent Fund
- Stalybridge Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd
- Stanford Hall Library International Collection
- Stockport Great Moor Co-operative Society
- Telegrams sent to Rochdale Pioneers Society on their Centenary
- Thomas and Mary Hughes Letters
- Treforest Aerated Water Factory (CWS)
- Trojan Printing Services
- Unicorn Grocery
- USDAW: The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
- Wax rubbings of CWS Crumpsall Biscuit Works windows
- Wheelton Prospect & Industrial Co-operative Society
- Wigan Co-operative Stores
- Windemere District Industrial Co-operative Society
- Working Together: Oral History Interviews