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Confederation of Health Service Employees
Catalogue reference: MSS.229/CO
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This record is about the Confederation of Health Service Employees dating from 1871 - 1986.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MSS.229/CO
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Title (The name of the record)
- Confederation of Health Service Employees
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1871 - 1986
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Warwick University: Modern Records Centre
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>Confederation of Health Service Employees, 1946</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 10 series
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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The following restriction on access should be noted : no document less than 20 years old may be consulted.
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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The Centre's thanks are due to the National Executive Committee, General Secretary and Research Officer/PRO of COHSE for their agreement to and co-operation with deposit, and to Mick Carpenter, historian of COHSE.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Confederation was founded in 1946 by the amalgamation of the Hospitals & Welfare Services Union and the Mental Hospital & Institutional Workers Union, which had been established in 1910 as the National Asylum Workers Union. The HWSU was founded in 1918 is the Poor Law Workers Trade Union, changing its name to Poor Law Officers Union in 1922, to National Union of County Officers in 1930, and to HWSU in 1943.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/be3fcdfc-992f-468d-87b6-2e4731117c9a/
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Confederation of Health Service Employees