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16 March 2011: Christine Coates, "TUC Library Collections: union history on the Holloway Road" |
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TUC Library Collections: union history on the Holloway Road
Speaker: Christine Coates MA MCLIP Time: 8:00 PM Venue: Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1
Christine Coates MA MCLIP started work with
the Trades Union Congress in 1967 and became Librarian in 1972. She
transferred with the TUC Library Collections to the London
Metropolitan University in 1996. A member of the Archives and
Resources Committee of the Society for the Study of Labour History
since the 1970s, she was its Chair 1992 – 2008.
Christine has managed several cataloguing,
conservation and digitisation projects in recent years including the
history websites:
The Union Makes Us Strong: TUC History On-Line
The Workers War
Winning Equal Pay: the value of women’s work
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