Collection

This collection contains: circulated minutes and papers of CPSA departmental sections and regional assemblies,1971-1985; records concerning 'Redder Tape' (CPSA rank and file journal) and the CPSA Broad Left, 1970s-1982; various CPSA-related records, 1976-1985; CPSA branch magazines, 1975-1981; various, mainly left-wing, campaign material, 1960s-1982; Civil Service Whitley Council Staff Side /Council of Civil Service Unions records, 1978-1985'; local Labour Party records (areas where Jacobs lived), 1960s-1980s; 'World Marxist Review', 1972-1977.

31 boxes

Norman Jacobs was a member of the Civil and Public Services Association national executive committee and of its British Museum branch. He was also involved in left-wing campaign groups within the union.

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The Centre also holds the main archives of the CPSA, the Staff Side of the National Whitley Council for the Civil Service and the Council of Civil Service Unions, and papers of other individual CPSA officials.

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