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© Sheffield Libraries Archives and Information 2011-2015 (v.1.1)

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Communist Party

Conservative Party

Green Party

Labour Party

Liberal Party

Liberal Democrat Party

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Note: The Local Studies Library has an extensive collection of local election material for the 20 th - 21 st centuries. You can search online for items from 1997 https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/archives-and-local-studies/catalogues.html

(use the phrase ‘election literature’). You will need to search the card index in the library for items before 1997.

Information contained in some of these records may be subject to restricted access; please refer to Sheffield Archives for advice on how to access restricted items.

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Co-operative Party

Albert Ballard ( - 1969), Alderman and Lord Mayor of Sheffield, papers, 1908 - 1969

(Sheffield Archives: ABC)

Brightside and Carbrook Co - operative Society Political Council minutes, 1918 -

1963

(Sheffield Archives: CPR)

Sheffield Co - operative Party, correspondence files relating to various wards / divisions, including Attercliffe, Brightside, Hillsborough, Neepsend, Cathedral Ward,

Park, Ecclesall, Handsworth; Woodhouse Co - operative Party, and other papers,

1930s - 1960s

(Sheffield Archives: CPR)

Sheffield Co - operative Party, Governing Council minutes, financial papers, membership cards, 1960 - 1979

(Sheffield Archives: MD8112)

Sheffield Co - operative Party, Sheffield Co - operator (later Sheffield Co - operator

Bulletin ), 1922 - 1943

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: 352.042 SF)

Sheffield Co - operative Party, payment book, 1923 - 1946

(Sheffield Archives: X168)

Communist Party

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) Sheffield Branch, Special Strike Bulletin,

1926

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: 331.8 SF and 942.74 SSTQ)

C.P.G.B. [Communist Party of Great Britain], International Brigade of Anti - Fascist

Fighters in Spain: whist drive and dance in the Cutlers' Hall, 1937: souvenir programme; [prepared by the Daily Worker Bazaar Committee]

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: 327.172 SSTQ)

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) Sheffield Branch, North Midlands District,

Sheffield: the People’s Policy for the City, [1938]

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets, vol. 136 no. 8 (042 S))

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) Sheffield Branch, North Midlands District,

Sheffield Workers Gazette , 1949


Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) Heeley Branch sub - committee minutes and papers, 1974 - 1979



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Communist Party, Sheffield and Rotherham Area Committee, Education in Sheffield ,

[1954]

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 845 M)

Communist Party, Sheffield and Rotherham Area Committee, Do you remember this?; published by The Communist Party, Sheffield and Rotherham Area Committee

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: in Some anti - war movements in a world arsenal /

[compiled by] Bill Moore, 327.172 SSTQ)

Sheffield Communist Party, Sheffield jubilee special: twenty five years a king by the grace of God - at the expense of the workers


Sheffield Communist Party, May Day 1928: Workers of all Lands Unite!


Sheffield Communist Party, Party Life newsletter, 20 th cent.

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: journals)

Sheffield Communist Party, The Sheffield Workers Vanguard , 20 th cent.


Yorkshire District Committee minutes and papers, c. 1970 - 1978


Yorkshire District Congress papers 1976


Yorkshire District Southern Africa Group papers, 1970s


Yorkshire Communist newsletter, 1971 - 1972 and 1975 - 1978


Bill Moore, political activist, papers, 1915 - 2001

(Sheffield Archives: X274)

Conservative Party

A souvenir of the visit of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional

Associations and Constitutional Associations to Sheffield, 1892

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: 329.942 SST)

Torch of Freedom : the journal of the Sheffield Conservative and Liberal Federation,

1949

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 634 S)


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Brightside Division minutes (including Brightside Ladies Conservative Association

Executive Committee minute book), 1908 - 1923

(Sheffield Archives: LD 2100 - 2102)

Burngreave Conservative Association, minutes, 1962 - 1970 and cash / bank books,

1960 - 1970

(Sheffield Archives: LD2220 - 2222)

Carbrook Conservative Working Men's Club, records from 1880


Central Division, records, 1904 - 1948


City of Sheffield Conservative & Unionist Association records, 1913 - 1947 and

Citizens' Group minutes, 1920 - 1935


Ecclesall Division, Executive Committee minutes, 1895 - 1946


Nether Edge: Women's Branch of Nether Edge Ward, minute books, 1948 - 1991;

Nether Edge Women's Branch annual programmes of events, 1963 - 1990; Nether

Edge Branch annual reports, 1982 - 1986; attendance sheets; list of officers

(Sheffield Archives: LD2528)

Ecclesall Primrose League: table cover; competition leaflet 1925; letter; information leaflet, c.1880


Hallam Conservative Association, minutes, etc c. 1918 - 2007


Hallam Conservative Association Hallam Matters newsletter, 1996 onwards


Hallam Conservative Association Women's Constituency Committee minutes and attendances, 1963 - 1990, news cuttings, 1910 - 1946


Moor Conservative Association, minutes and bank book, 1949 - 1968


Park Conservative Association, minutes, etc., c. 1906 - 1969


Sheffield Conservative Party, statement of policy, [1972]

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: 329.94274 SSTQ)


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Sheffield Conservative Party, Tory Times journal, 1970

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: 329.94274 SQ)

Sheffield Conservatives, In Touch , 1991 onwards


City of Sheffield Women’s Conservative Bazaar souvenir handbook, 1936

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: 329.942 SST)

Sir John Osborn, Conservative MP for Sheffield Hallam, 1959 - 1987, papers

(Sheffield Archives: MP3)

Canvassers' notebooks, instructions, pamphlets and handbills, 1874 - 1885; routine papers concerning registration and voters' claims and printed voters' lists, 1877 -

1885 (places include Bolton - on - Dearne, Wath, Swinton, Barnborough,

Conisbrough and Mexborough)

(Sheffield Archives: NP)

Green Party

Sheffield Green Party, manifesto, 1990

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 445)

Sheffield Green Party, Green News (various districts), 1991 onwards


Sheffield Green Party, Greensheaf newsletter,1991 onwards

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: 329.942 S)

Labour Party

Sheffield Trades and Labour Council (later Sheffield Trades Council), annual reports, 1903 - 1916 and 1975 - 1982 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 331.88 S ); minutes, 1903 - 1975 (Sheffield Archives: LD1625 - 1654 and LD2318 - 2319);

Secretary's correspondence files, 1936 - 1982 (Sheffield Archives: LD2320 - 2327); yearbooks 1970s - 1980s, newspapers (incomplete) 1960s, various pamphlets,

1960s - 1990s (Sheffield Archives: MD7611 and MD7861)

Sheffield Trades and Labour Council, The Origins and Development of the Labour

Party in Britain at Local Level, c.1885 - 1945

(Sheffield Archives: microfilm A155 - A169)

Sheffield Trades and Labour Council, General Strike papers, 1926


Sheffield Trades and Labour Council, Sheffield Forward newsletter, 1921 onwards

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 505 L, MP 308 L; 331.88 SF and 942.74 SSTQ)


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Sheffield Trades Council, Working Women’s Charter Committee,

Double Shift newsletter, 1979 - 1986


Sheffield Trades and Labour Council, 1859 - 1958


Sheffield Trades and Labour Council and Labour Representation Committee, minutes of executive and delegate meetings, 1903 - 1941

(Sheffield Archives: LD1625 - 1654, A155 - 169)

Stocksbridge Trades Council, minutes, 1949 - 1988


Sheffield Labour Representation Committee, letter appealing for funds, 1906


Sheffield Labour Representation Committee, notices and agendas of special

General Delegate meetings, 1904, 1906

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP749 - 2 S and MP749 - 5 S)

Sheffield Labour Representation Committee, rules, 1903, 1906

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP749 - 1 S and MP733 S)

Independent Labour Party, Sheffield Branch, minutes, 1910 - 1923

(Sheffield Archives: MD3467 - 3470)

Labour Party and Sheffield Forward Limited Company, ledger and articles of association together with District Borough Labour Party cash book and register of delegates to trades council and district labour party, 20 th cent.


Sheffield Labour Party, Sheffield Forward newsletters, 1996 onwards


Sheffield Labour Party, Sheffield Labour News newsletters, 1993 onwards


Sheffield Labour Party, Sheffield Labour Rose, 20 th cent.


Sheffield Labour Party, Sheffield Today newsletters, 1994 onwards


Sheffield Labour Party , Labour accomplishes: what has been done, what will be done, [1945]



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Sheffield Labour Party, 6 years of Labour Rule in Sheffield, 1926 - 1932 [1932]

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: local pamphlets, vol. 211 no. 7; another copy at local pamphlets, vol. 98 no. 10; (042 S))

Sheffield Labour Party, election manifesto, 1972


Independent Labour Party, minutes and subscription books, 1903 - 1923, and plans for Labour Hall, 1903 - 1923

(Sheffield Archives: MD 3354 - 3361, A 164)

Sheffield Labour Party, papers regarding municipal elections (?mainly Brightside) and other matters, 1933 - 1980s


Sheffield District Labour Party, Rate - Capping Campaign papers, 1984 - 1985


Sheffield Central Constituency Labour Party, General Committee and Executive

Committee minutes and associated papers, 1983 - 1992


Sheffield District Labour Party papers, including minutes of the General, Executive and Joint Executive committees, 1983 - 1988


Sheffield City Council, Labour Group, Executive Committee minutes, 1977 - 1994


South Yorkshire County Council Labour Group, correspondence and papers, 1974 -

1977

(Sheffield Archives: SY783 and SYCC)

Labour leadership election, [cassettes] (Neil Kinnock, Roy Hattersley, Eric Heffer and Peter Shore speaking to and answering questions at a members meeting in

Sheffield during the election for the Labour leadership), 1983

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: CAS 10, 26, 28 and 34)

Sheffield Labour Party, Attercliffe branch, Attercliffe Update newsletters, 1994 - 1995


Attercliffe Labour News , May 1961


Independent Labour Party, Attercliffe Branch Executive Committee minutes, 1903 -

1923; subscription books, 1903 - 1922; Building Committee minutes and cash book,

1903 - 1905



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Birley Ward and Gleadless Labour Party, Sheffield , minutes, 1953 - 1979


Brightside Constituency Labour Party, minutes, papers, correspondence and accounts, c. 1918 - 1991

(Sheffield Archives: LP(B) 1 - 27)

Brightside and Burngreave Labour Party records 1919 - 1966; Shiregreen Women's

Section minute book 1923 - 1961 (with gaps); Firth Park Ward Meeting minute book

1975 - 1980

(Sheffield Archives: LD2280 - 2286, LP (B) 1 - 27)

Darnall Ward Committee minutes, 1906 - 1909

(Sheffield Archives: MD3354; microfilm A164)

Dore Ward Labour Party , correspondence and papers, 1979 - c. 1985

(Sheffield Archives: LD2355 and MD7471)

Firth Park Labour Party, minutes, 1967 - 1975

(Sheffield Archives: LD2386 and LD2280 - 2286, LP (B) 1 - 27))

Hallam Constituency Labour Party, Management Committee minutes, 1933 - 1964


Hallam (Sheffield) Labour Party, minutes, 1933 - 1964


Hallam Ward Labour Party, minute boo ks of general meetings; Women’s section minutes, 1941 - 1954


High Green Labour Party, minutes, 1950 - 1959

(Sheffield Archives: X110/1)

Nether Edge Labour Party, Sheffield, minutes,1989 - 1997, correspondence, 1992 -

1998, newsletters, correspondence and minutes from Nether Edge & Hallam

Constituency, 1985 - 1987; correspondence, 1997, newsletters, briefs, etc., 1997 -

1999


Netherthorpe ward, Labour in Netherthorpe newsletters, 1991 - 1995


Netherthorpe ward, Sparks newsletters, 1993 onwards (Sheffield Local Studies

Library: 329.94274 SQ and MP 3369 (A) M)

Park Labour News , 1959

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 368 L)


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Park and Central constituency parties and District Labour Party records including minutes of meetings, events and campaign literature, c. 1980 - 1989


Park and Heeley Constituency and Woodseats Divisional Labour Party, minutes, correspondence and accounts, etc., 1928 - 1980


Sharrow Ward Labour Messenger , [1932]

(Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 560 L)

Stocksbridge Constituency Labour Party minutes, 1964 - 1983; accounts, 1924 -

1954; membership and subscription list, 1943 - 1946; attendance register, 1980 -

1985


Stocksbridge ward election items (printed), 1970s


William Beighton, Labour Councillor on Sheffield City Council, papers, 1942 - 1993


Clive Betts, Labour Councillor on Sheffield City Council, 1976 - 1992; MP for

Sheffield Attercliffe, 1992 - 2010 and Sheffield South East from 2010, papers as councillor


David Blunkett, Labour Councillor on Sheffield City Council and South Yorkshire

County Council, c. 1970 - 1988; MP for Sheffield Brightside, later Brightside and

Hillsborough from 1987, papers as local councillor


Mike Bower, Leader, Sheffield City Council, 1997 - 1999, papers


Richard Caborn, Labour MEP for Sheffield, 1979 - 1984, MP for Sheffield Central,

1983 - 2010, papers as an MP and MEP


Martin Flannery, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough, 1974 - 1992, papers

(Sheffield Archives: MPD)

Frank Hooley, Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley, 1950 - 1970 and 1974 - 1983, papers, 1976 - 1983

(Sheffield Archives: MPB)

Peter Horton, Labour Councillor on Sheffield City Council, papers, c. 1966 - 1982



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Helen Jackson, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough, 1992 - 2005, papers


W T Jordan, Labour Councillor on Sheffield City Council, papers 1984 - 1999


Howard Knight, Labour Councillor on Sheffield City Council, papers, c. 1966 - 1982


Joan Maynard, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside, 1974 - 1987, papers

(Sheffield Archives: MPA)

Bill Michie, Labour Councillor on Sheffield City Council, later MP for Sheffield

Heeley, 1983 - 2001, papers as local councillor and then MP


Joseph Pointer, Labour Councillor on Sheffield City Council and MP for the

Attercliffe Division, papers, 1909 - 1914

(Sheffield Archives: MD6134 - 6137) see also Sources for the Study of the Election of Sheffield's First Labour MP, 1909 ( Sheffield Archives and Local Studies, 2009) https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/SCC-Home/libraries/archives-and-localstudies/research-guides

Peter Price, Labour Councillor on Sheffield City Council, papers, 1978 - 1987


Liberal Party

The Liberal, 1832


Sheffield Municipal Elections Committee, manifesto, 1904


Sheffield Liberal Federation, The Sheffield Liberal , 1934 - 1936


Brightside Liberal Association, Burngreave and District and Ward minutes, 1886 -

1916


Ecclesall Liberal Association, letter book, 1902 - 1906


Liberal Association, Ecclesall Ward, minute book, 1983 - 1988


Ecclesall Liberal Club Building Co. Ltd., minutes, 1887 - 1953

(Sheffield Archives: SY565)


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Hallam Liberal News , 1986


Heeley Constituency Liberal Association, minutes c.1961 - 1975


Papers of May Mirfin, including Sheffield & District Liberal Council records 1951 -

1972; Southey & District Liberal Association, records 1960 - 1962


Sheffield and Brightside Women's Liberal Association, minutes, 1924 - 1964


Stocksbridge Liberal Association, Liberal Democrats' election and campaign notices on issues regarding South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, c. 1991 - 1994


Robert Styring, Liberal Councillor on Sheffield City Council, papers, 1894 - 1915


H J Wilson, Liberal MP for Holmfirth (Yorkshire), papers, 19 th cent - 20 th cent.

(Sheffield Archives: MD1998 - 2015, MD2017, MD2019 - 2026, MD3983, MD5690 -

5710, MD5889 - 6059)

Liberal Democrat Party

Hallam Liberal Democrats, Hallam Liberal news , 20 th cent.


Sheffield Liberal Democrat Party, papers, late 20 th cent.


Sheffield Liberal Democrat Party, Hallamshire Herald newsletter, 1993 onwards


Sheffield Liberal Democrat Party, Hillsborough Focus newsletter, 1994 onwards


Sheffield Liberal Democrat Party, Focus newsletter (various districts), 1989 onwards


Sylvia Anginotti, Liberal Democrat Councillor on Sheffield City Council, miscellaneous papers, including correspondence, Social Democratic Party / Liberal

Alliance Strategy Group papers (including minutes), SDP Area Party Committee minutes, Social and Liberal Democrats Heeley and Central Local Party papers

(including correspondence and minutes), 1986 - 2002



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Peter Moore, Liberal Democrat Councillor on Sheffield City Council, papers, late 20 th cent.

(Sheffield Archives: LD2529 and X8)

Respect Party

Respect: The Unity Coalition Respect, 20 th cent.


Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party, Sheffield Branch, V anguard: the organ of the Social

Democrat Party , 1911


Social Democrat Party (SDP)

Miscellaneous documents relating to the merger of the Social Democrat Party and

Liberal Party in Sheffield, 1988


Sylvia Anginotti, Democrat Councillor on Sheffield City Council, miscellaneous papers, including correspondence, Social Democratic Party / Liberal Alliance

Strategy Group papers (including minutes), SDP Area Party Committee minutes,

Social and Liberal Democrats Heeley and Central Local Party papers (including correspondence and minutes), 1986 - 2002



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