Trade Union Records

British Trade Union Membership Registers (1870-1999)

An index to and images of registers recording over 3.7 million trade union members.

Daily Worker (1930-1945)

A national newspaper published by the Communist Party of Great Britain.

London Match Workers' Strike Records (1888)

Transcriptions of documents detailing 714 individuals employed in the match industry who went on strike in 1888. The records reveal the names, addresses, occupations and wages of the strikers. They also tell you how much they were paid by the strike fund and detail their marital status and who they lived with.

Trade Union Ancestors (1799-Present)

A sprawling site that lists British trade unions, histories of some unions and outlines how to locate records relating to trade union ancestors.

Guide to Unions by Occupation (1850-1960)

An alphabetical list of occupations with a list of relevant workers' unions for each.

London Radicalism (1830-1843)

Extracts from the papers of Francis Place, a social reformer based in London.

Britain Trade Union Members, Service & Casualties (1914-1918)

Details of over 60,000 trade union members who fought in WWI, including nurses.