Papers of Kay Beauchamp (Papers Relating to the Movement for Colonial Freedom) - A Sub-Fond of The Communist Party of Great Britain Collection

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): CP/ IND/ KAYB/ 01/ 01 - 01/ 015

Title: Papers of Kay Beauchamp (Papers Relating to the Movement for Colonial Freedom) - A Sub-Fond of The Communist Party of Great Britain Collection

Date(s): 1961 - 1979

Level of description: sub-fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 15 files (with an additional 3 files in a related collection entitled 'Additional Papers of Kay Beauchamp' (CP/ IN/KAYB/ 02/ 01-04)

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): Kay Beauchamp

Administrative/Biographical history: Kay Beauchamp was an active member of the Movement for Colonial Freedom (later called Liberation).

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Kay Beauchamp

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: The Kay Beauchamp Papers are part of the Papers of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The following records can also be found in the collection:

Individuals' personal papers (including Palme Dutt, Harry Pollitt, Wal Hannington, Willie Gallagher and Tom Mann)

Political Bureau minutes (1924-1925)

Political Committee minutes (1946-1991)

Executive Committee minutes and papers (1943-1991)

National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM)

London District Congress Party - Draft catalogue

Journals and pamphlets

The papers of the Democratic Left - a successor of the CPGB

Microfilms from Moscow (1920s-1930s).The Papers of Kay Beauchamp relating to the Movement of Colonial Freedom/Liberation (CP/IND/KAY/01/01 - 015 consists of pamphlets, papers, memorandum, annual reports, and correspondence relating to the creation and development of the Movement of Colonial Freedom (later called Liberation).The records include the organisation's constitution, AGM minutes, annual reports, pamphlets (CP/IND/KAY/O1/01), the organisation's financial accounts (CP/IND/KAY/O1/09) and the establishment of the London and Home Counties area groups and their minutes, and. There are a number of reports covering education (the problems of 'coloured' school leavers'), and reports ESN schools with tables giving the numbers of students in ESN schools and the number of `immigrant children' in ESN schools (CP/IND/KAY/01/01). There are also reports on policing (CP/IND/KAY/O1/12) and 'race relations' in trade unions (CP/IND/KAY/01/05). A related collection of records called Additional Papers of Kay Beauchamp (CP/ IN/ KAYB/ 02/ 01- 04) contains two files of papers, articles, posters, book announcements dealing with issues such as immigration, race relations, 'racialism', apartheid and anti-imperialism.

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System of arrangement: The files are arranged under a number of subject headings.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

Conditions governing access: Access by appointment. Opening hours for the Labour History Archive: Monday - Friday, 10.00am-5.00pm. Address: 103 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6DD. Telephone: 0161 228 7212. E-mail: LHASC@fs1.li.man.ac.uk.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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ALLIED MATERIALS AREA

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 26 March 2001

Interest: Asian, Black

Specific group:

Subjects

Political movements

Liberation movements

Schools

Education

Interethnic relations

Anti-imperialism

Apartheid

Personal/Corporate names

Beauchamp, Kay

Places