Records of the Lancashire and Cheshire Association for the Abolition of the State...

Minutes of the Manchester and District Association committee and executive committee meetings (1894-1921), of the Lancashire and Cheshire Association executive committee (1923-1939) and rough minutes and accounts of joint committee meetings with the Manchester Vigilance Association (1915-1917); accounts including audited annual accounts (1928, 1930), cash-book (1923-1939), receipt book (1931-1939) and receipted accounts (1923-1932); annual reports of the Manchester and District Association (1898-1920) and the Cheshire and Lancashire Association (1924-1931), copies of circular letters on the revival of the latter in 1923 and manuscript notes on the history the Manchester and District Association (1893-1913); membership papers (1900; 1930-1932); correspondence (1926, 1938); publications (1901-1930); list of records (1941)

<p>The records of the parent body, the British Commission for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice in India and throughout the British Dominions, can be found in the collection GB 0106 3/BGF.</p>

• <corpname>Lancashire and Cheshire Association for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice</corpname>
• <corpname>Manchester and District Association for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice</corpname>

This collection is open for consultation. Intending readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

The papers of the Lancashire and Cheshire Association were received with the deposit of the Josephine Butler Society Library in 1957.

The records were deposited with the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene in 1941 and subsequently came to be stored with the records of the Josephine Butler Society.

The Lancashire and Cheshire Association for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice began in 1894 as the Manchester and District Association for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice. It had the status of a committee of the British Commission for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice in India and throughout the British Dominions, formerly the British, Continental and General Federation for the Abolition of Government Regulation of Prostitution. Until 1921 it operated as the Manchester and District Association which was formally closed at a meeting in January 1923. However, some members believed that there was a continuing need for the organisation, due to the continuation of the state regulation of prostitution in India and therefore the organisation was revived under the name of the Lancashire and Cheshire Association in October of the same year with Alison Neilans as secretary. It continued its work until March 1939 when its activities came to an end.