Ramsay MacDonald papers
Date range: 1893-1937.Correspondence and papers of the Labour and National Government Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937). The correspondence relates to a wide range of subjects, political and personal. There are discussions upon political questions with colleagues, instructions on government policy during his premiership, affectionate notes to family and friends and day-to-day working correspondence. There are files relating to the Independent Labour Party, the Union of Democratic Control, the Coal Dispute and General Strike of 1926, the Zinoviev Letter, Communism, Palestine, China, India and Egypt. There are also appointment diaries, notebooks and Cabinet papers from 1934-1937.
Finding aids
- Online catalogue
- See also D. Howell, `The Ramsay MacDonald Papers in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester: an Initial Discussion', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 72, no. 2 (1990), pp. 101-20.
Location
JRUL (Deansgate)
