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Richard Croucher Deposit

Catalogue reference: MSS.180

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This record is about the Richard Croucher Deposit dating from 1920-1971.

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Reference: MSS.180
Title: Richard Croucher Deposit
Date: 1920-1971
Description: William Stokes' notes on lectures, 1920-1; National Minority Movement, minutes, 1925; minutes and correspondence re: war-time production in the Midlands, 1940-1944; Midland Regional Board minutes, 1939-1945; subject files of G.B. King, Regional Controller, Ministry of Production, 1943-1945; William Stokes, personal miscellanea, 1950-4; file re: Coventry Toolroom dispute, 1971.
Related material: <p>The Centre also holds the personal papers of William Henry Stokes (MSS.289). Authority files exist for Richard Croucher (GBR 0152 AAR0809) and William Stokes (GBR 0152 AAR0810).</p>
Held by: Warwick University: Modern Records Centre
Language: English
Creator(s): <persname>Croucher, Richard, fl 1978, of Warwickshire</persname>
Physical description: 8 series
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition: The collection was deposited with the Centre by Richard Croucher in 1978.
Administrative / biographical background: Richard Croucher is a Labour historian, as well as being a Workers Educational Association organiser, in Milton Keynes. This collection derives from his research, and the majority of it concerns William Henry Stokes (1894-1978), AEU divisional organiser from 1937 and a member of the Iron and Steel Corporation from 1950.
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/fbe1997d-a70c-461d-89e3-058dad5fb4a9/