| Title |
Year |
Author |
Type |
| William Gallacher (sixth from right, back row) at St Mirren primary school, Paisley |
1890 |
|
Photograph |
| Diagram of plans for working class housing in Glasgow |
1899 |
|
Diagram |
| Housing of the labouring classes |
1899 |
Peter Fyfe |
Booklet cover |
| What the people sleep upon |
1904 |
Peter Fyfe |
Booklet cover |
| Socialism : what it is and what it means |
1906 |
R. Wells |
Booklet |
| Socialism or freedom? |
1906 |
Conservative and Unionist Party |
Booklet |
| What socialism really means |
1906 |
|
Leaflet |
| When the socialist millennium arrives |
1906 |
National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations |
Leaflet |
| Is drink the cause of poverty? |
1907 |
J. O'Connor Kessack |
Booklet cover |
| The capitalist wilderness and the way out |
1907 |
J. O'Connor Kessack |
Booklet cover |
| William Gallacher and young adult friends |
1907 |
|
Photograph |
| Cartoon comparing aristocratic consumption with workers poverty |
1909 |
|
Cartoon |
| Cartoon comparing the fate of politicians and working men |
1909 |
|
Cartoon |
| Cartoon depicting a greedy landlord |
1909 |
|
Cartoon |
| Cartoon depicting capitalists and landlords versus workers |
1909 |
|
Cartoon |
| Cartoon depicting twin evils of landlordism and capitalism |
1909 |
|
Cartoon |
| Solving the Irish question |
1909 |
|
Cartoon |
| The Catholic workingman |
1909 |
|
Booklet cover |
| Communism and religion |
1911 |
Guy A. Aldred |
Booklet cover |
| Karl Marx and modern socialism |
1911 |
Eden Paul |
Booklet cover |
| William Gallacher and fellow workers at Albion Motor Company |
1911 |
|
Photograph |
| Women delegates to the Scottish Trades Unions Congress in Dundee |
1911 |
|
Photograph |
| Guy Aldred during his first visit to Glasgow |
1912 |
|
Photograph |
| The socialist commandments |
1912 |
Socialist Sunday Schools |
Manifesto |
| Jail jottings |
1913 |
Richard Carlile |
Booklet cover |
| William Gallacher (second from the right, back row) in the United States |
1913 |
|
Photograph |
| Arthur MacManus, first chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain |
1914 |
|
Photograph |
| Death and the profit-ghouls |
1914 |
|
Cartoon |
| Enlist! |
1914 |
|
Cartoon |
| Glasgow's peace demonstration |
1914 |
|
Newspaper article |
| James Maxton meeting with John Maclean |
1914 |
|
Photograph |
| Letter to Forward newspaper about the attitude of the British Socialist Party |
1914 |
John Maclean |
Letter |
| Socialism exposed! |
1914 |
Anti-Socialist Union of Great Britain |
Leaflet |
| The patriot |
1914 |
|
Cartoon |
| Tom Bell, pioneer of the socialist movement on Clydeside |
1914 |
|
Photograph |
| 15-inch gun leaving the Beardmore munitions factory in Parkhead |
1915 |
|
Photograph |
| A soldier's wife in trouble |
1915 |
|
Letter |
| Business : better than usual |
1915 |
|
Cartoon |
| Cartoon depicting eviction of soldier's family |
1915 |
|
Cartoon |
| Defence of the Realm Act 1915 |
1915 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Educated women as war workers : a practical scheme |
1915 |
|
Leaflet |
| Eviction of a soldier's wife and family at Shettleston |
1915 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Female dilutees working at milling machine in Glasgow armaments factory |
1915 |
|
Photograph |
| Female munitions workers in Glasgow |
1915 |
|
Photograph |
| Fifteen thousand Glasgow tenants on strike |
1915 |
P.J. Dollan |
Newspaper article |
| Forward turns the searchlight on the robbers |
1915 |
|
Cartoon |
| Glasgow Anarchists |
1915 |
|
Photograph |
| Instances of increased rents wanted |
1915 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Letter to Forward newspaper about the British Socialist Party |
1915 |
John Maclean |
Letter |
| Memorandum containing circulars and relevant provisions of Munitions of War Acts bearing on dilution of labour |
1915 |
Ministry of Munitions of War |
Memo |
| Memorandum outlining proposals for ending Clydeside industrial disputes |
1915 |
William Weir |
Memo |
| Militarism |
1915 |
J. Bruce Glasier |
Booklet cover |
| More trouble brewing for the working class |
1915 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Munitions of War Act |
1915 |
|
Act of Parliament |
| Rent strike against increases |
1915 |
Glasgow Labour Party Housing Association |
Poster |
| Rent strikes. Serious situation |
1915 |
David Kirkwood |
Letter |
| Rules for constituting and regulating munitions tribunals made in pursuance of section 15 of the Munitions of War Act 1915 |
1915 |
Minister of Munitions of War |
Document |
| Scott for Kinning Park |
1915 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Soldiers' wives and payment of rent |
1915 |
Driver Johnstone |
Letter |
| Summary regarding "stay-in strike" in the gun mounting department of Messrs Wm Beardmore & Co Ltd, Dalmuir |
1915 |
|
Report |
| Swindling the nation |
1915 |
P.J. Dollan |
Newspaper article |
| The beginning or the end of the Labour Party |
1915 |
The editor |
Newspaper article |
| The great delusion |
1915 |
|
Cartoon |
| The Munitions Act : Further prosecutions |
1915 |
|
Newspaper article |
| The peril of conscription |
1915 |
J. Bruce Glasier |
Booklet cover |
| The red dawn |
1915 |
Albert Young |
Booklet cover |
| The rent strikes: what the commission may do |
1915 |
|
Newspaper article |
| The Shettleston eviction case |
1915 |
|
Newspaper article |
| The woman's movement and the immediate future |
1915 |
United Suffragists |
Notice |
| Warrant to summon James Maxton to appear at Central Police Court, Glasgow |
1915 |
|
Warrant |
| Weekend munition work for educated women |
1915 |
Central Office for Women |
Leaflet |
| Why Lloyd George wants conscription |
1915 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Agitators on the Clyde who desire our defeat |
1916 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Agreement for manufacture of 18-pounder 4.5-inch and 8-inch shell |
1916 |
|
Document |
| Anti-conscription meeting on Glasgow Green |
1916 |
|
Photograph |
| Banished! Kirkwood and other shop stewards expelled fom west of Scotland |
1916 |
|
Newspaper article |
| How to remedy the trouble on the Clyde |
1916 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Letter to Sissie McCallum |
1916 |
James Maxton |
Letter |
| Letter to the manager of Fairfields shipyard |
1916 |
A loyal workman |
Letter |
| Newspaper notice advertising the order of procession for May Day demonstration in Glasgow |
1916 |
|
Notice |
| Notes of lectures on economics |
1916 |
John Maclean |
Booklet cover |
| Report on the Clydeside engineering dispute and activities of the Clyde Workers' Committee |
1916 |
|
Report |
| Report on the effect of trade unionism on wartime efficiency |
1916 |
William Weir |
Report |
| Skilled engineering workers at Cowlairs locomotive workshop |
1916 |
|
Photograph |
| Summary of dilution programme as based (with modifications) on Mr Weir's memorandum |
1916 |
|
Report |
| Telegram to David Lloyd George concerning the Clydeside engineering dispute |
1916 |
William Weir |
Telegram |
| Telegram to David Lloyd George concerning the Clydeside engineering dispute |
1916 |
William Weir |
Telegram |
| Telegram to David Lloyd George concerning the Clydeside engineering dispute |
1916 |
William Weir |
Telegram |
| The dilution of labour : Mr Lloyd George in Glasgow |
1916 |
|
Newspaper article |
| The sedition trials : John Maclean (of the B.S.P.) gets 3 years |
1916 |
|
Newspaper article |
| The trouble on the Clyde |
1916 |
|
Newspaper article |
| The Worker |
1916 |
Clyde Workers' Committee |
Magazine cover |
| Warrant for the arrest of James Maxton and James McDougall |
1916 |
|
Warrant |
| Military Service Acts, 1916. Certificate of exemption |
1917 |
|
Certificate |
| Postcards depicting consciencious objectors in prison |
1917 |
|
Postcard |
| Prohibition of meeting of workers' & soldiers' council |
1917 |
City of Glasgow |
Notice |
| Telegram to John Maclean on his release from prison |
1917 |
Albert Inkpin |
Telegram |
| The war to end war |
1917 |
Union of Democratic Control |
Booklet cover |
| Election address of James Maxton, Labour candidate for Bridgeton |
1918 |
|
Election ephemera |
| John Maclean at his trial in Edinburgh |
1918 |
|
Photograph |
| Letter to John Maclean appointing him as Bolshevik Consul for Scotland |
1918 |
Maxim Litvinoff |
Letter |
| Militarism and anti-militarism |
1918 |
Karl Liebknecht |
Booklet cover |
| The collapse of the Second International |
1918 |
Lenin |
Booklet cover |
| The young worker's book of rebels |
1918 |
John S. Clarke |
Booklet cover |
| Twenty-one reasons why the new woman voter should vote Unionist |
1918 |
Scottish Unionist Association |
Leaflet |
| War or revolution |
1918 |
Leon Trotsky |
Booklet cover |
| Clyde Defence Fund |
1919 |
|
Document |
| David Kirkwood being detained by police in George Square during 'Bloody Friday' |
1919 |
|
Photograph |
| David Kirkwood on the ground after being struck by police batons |
1919 |
|
Photograph |
| Diagram of George Square used by defence lawyers in trial of Emanuel Shinwell |
1919 |
|
Diagram |
| Direct action |
1919 |
William Gallacher and J.R. Campbell |
Booklet cover |
| Direct action : an outline of workshop and social organisation |
1919 |
William Gallacher and J.R. Campbell |
Booklet cover |
| Election address of Emanuel Shinwell, Labour candidate for Govan Fairfield ward |
1919 |
Independent Labour Party |
Election ephemera |
| Forty hours strike prosecution v. Shinwell and others |
1919 |
John M. Crosthwaite |
Letter |
| George Square after police baton charge on Bloody Friday |
1919 |
|
Photograph |
| Glasgow's leading law officers in George Square following the riot |
1919 |
|
Photograph |
| Letter to Lord Weir about the need for anti-Boshevik endeavour |
1919 |
Reconstruction Society |
Letter |
| Letter to Lord Weir asking for support of an urgent national movement |
1919 |
Edmund Talbot and Frederick Guest |
Letter |
| Letter to Sir Robert Horne about propaganda |
1919 |
William Weir |
Letter |
| Manifesto of the Joint Strike Committee, Glasgow |
1919 |
|
Manifesto |
| Petition to the Secretary of State for Scotland for the release of Clyde Workers' Committee leaders |
1919 |
|
Petition |
| Sack Dalrymple sack Stevenson |
1919 |
John Maclean |
Booklet cover |
| Soldiers guarding entrance to Princes Docks, Glasgow |
1919 |
|
Photograph |
| Tanks and soldiers in Saltmarket area of Glasgow |
1919 |
|
Photograph |
| The Reconstruction Society |
1919 |
Reconstruction Society |
Manifesto |
| The red army : revolutionary poems |
1919 |
John S. Clarke, Albert Young and Tom Anderson |
Booklet cover |
| The Soviets at work |
1919 |
Lenin |
Booklet cover |
| The Strike Bulletin |
1919 |
Clyde Workers' Committee |
Magazine cover |
| William Gallacher, leader of the Clyde Workers' Committee |
1919 |
|
Photograph |
| Willie Gallacher's story |
1919 |
William Gallacher |
Booklet cover |
| Bombs or brains? Dynamite or organisation? |
1920 |
John S. Clarke |
Booklet cover |
| Communist Party members selling 'The Communist' magazine in Glasgow |
1920 |
|
Photograph |
| Delegates at the 2nd congress of the Third International in Moscow |
1920 |
|
Photograph |
| Diagram depicting organisation of working class battle front and master class battle front |
1920 |
Industrial Workers of Great Britain |
Diagram |
| Election address of three Labour candidates for Govan Fairfield ward |
1920 |
Labour Party |
Election ephemera |
| Mary Barbour, rent strike activist and Glasgow City councillor |
1920 |
|
Photograph |
| Maryhill branch of National Unemployed Workers Movement flute band |
1920 |
|
Photograph |
| Proletarian schools : poisoning the minds of children |
1920 |
|
Leaflet |
| Sir William Beardmore |
1920 |
|
Photograph |
| The Red Dawn |
1920 |
Proletarian Schools and College |
Magazine cover |
| The rent fight : past and present |
1920 |
Andrew McBride |
Leaflet |
| Election address of Agnes Dollan, Labour candidate for Springburn ward |
1921 |
Labour Party |
Election ephemera |
| Election address of Helen Crawfurd, Communist candidate for Govan ward |
1921 |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
Election ephemera |
| Election address of John Maclean, Glasgow Unemployed Group candidate for Kinning Park ward |
1921 |
Glasgow Unemployed Committee |
Election ephemera |
| The jazz period |
1921 |
Helen Crawfurd |
Magazine article |
| Communist parliamentary policy and electoral programme |
1922 |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
Booklet cover |
| Election address of James Maxton, Labour candidate for Bridgeton |
1922 |
|
Election ephemera |
| Helen Crawfurd with children in Berlin |
1922 |
|
Photograph |
| The Labour Party rescues the unemployed |
1922 |
|
Cartoon |
| The Worker |
1922 |
National Workers Committee |
Magazine cover |
| Vote for Maxton and save the children |
1922 |
|
Election ephemera |
| What is the United Front? |
1922 |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
Booklet cover |
| A new year greeting |
1923 |
Tom and Bella Anderson |
Greeting-card |
| Handbook for party members |
1923 |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
Booklet cover |
| Homes or hutches? |
1923 |
John Wheatley |
Booklet cover |
| John Maclean's casket being removed from his Pollokshaws home |
1923 |
|
Photograph |
| Proletarian song book. -- school ed. |
1923 |
|
Booklet cover |
| Can Labour govern? |
1924 |
William Gallacher |
Booklet cover |
| Election address of Emanuel Shinwell, Labour candidate for Linlithgowshire |
1924 |
|
Election ephemera |
| Election address of James Maxton, Labour candidate for Bridgeton |
1924 |
Independent Labour Party |
Election ephemera |
| Election address of John Wheatley, Labour candidate for Shettleston |
1924 |
Independent Labour Party |
Election ephemera |
| Fascism : its history and significance |
1924 |
Plebs League |
Booklet cover |
| Helen Crawfurd |
1924 |
|
Photograph |
| Helen Crawfurd with Methil Women's Communist Party |
1924 |
|
Photograph |
| Independent Labour Party delegates at Edinburgh conference |
1924 |
|
Photograph |
| The Clyde rent war |
1924 |
|
Magazine article |
| The Commune |
1924 |
Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation |
Magazine cover |
| The Communist Party and the Labour government |
1924 |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
Booklet cover |
| The Glasgow contingent of Fascisti marching on Armistice Day |
1924 |
|
Photograph |
| What the minority movement stands for |
1924 |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
Booklet cover |
| Manifesto of Scottish Workers Republican Party |
1925 |
Scottish Workers Republican Party |
Booklet cover |
| The Clyde rent war |
1925 |
P.J. Dollan |
Booklet cover |
| The great communist trial |
1925 |
|
Postcard |
| Bust of James Maxton |
1926 |
|
Photograph |
| General Strike aftermath |
1926 |
Printing Trades Joint Committee |
Leaflet |
| General Strike daily bulletin No. 2 |
1926 |
Scottish Trades Union Congress General Council |
Leaflet |
| Helen Crawfurd helping to distribute food for children of striking miners |
1926 |
|
Photograph |
| How the general strike was ended |
1926 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Letter allowing a courier freedom of movement during the General Strike |
1926 |
Trades Union Congress General Council |
Letter |
| Organization that counteracts the strike evil |
1926 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Report on the General Strike by the Associated Iron, Steel and Brass Dressers of Scotland |
1926 |
|
Report |
| Report on the General Strike by the Glasgow branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union |
1926 |
|
Report |
| Stand solid and win |
1926 |
National Minority Movement (Glasgow District) |
Leaflet |
| The Communist Party on trial |
1926 |
William Gallacher |
Booklet cover |
| The reds and the General Strike |
1926 |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
Booklet cover |
| The Scottish worker |
1926 |
Scottish Trades Union Congress |
Magazine cover |
| To all workers in all trades |
1926 |
Stanley Baldwin |
Notice |
| To the trade unionists of Scotland |
1926 |
Glasgow Printing Trade Unions |
Leaflet |
| Weirie Weir |
1926 |
William Gallacher |
Magazine article |
| Handbook on local organisation |
1927 |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
Booklet cover |
| Helen Crawfurd and delegates of the British Co-op movement with Lenin's widow Krupskaya |
1927 |
|
Photograph |
| Independent Labour Party 35th anniversary conference certificate issued to foundation member James Hall Maxwell |
1927 |
|
Certificate |
| National strike aftermath |
1927 |
Scottish Typographical Association |
Leaflet |
| Election address of John McGovern, Labour candidate for North Kelvin ward |
1928 |
|
Election ephemera |
| Our march against the starvation government |
1928 |
Wal Hannington |
Booklet cover |
| Scottish miners' march to Edinburgh |
1928 |
National Unemployed Workers Movement |
Programme |
| James Maxton, David Kirkwood and others at an Independent Labour Party summer school |
1929 |
|
Photograph |
| The means test scandal : a scathing exposure |
1929 |
David Kirkwood |
Booklet cover |
| William Gallacher, Communist Party of Great Britain parliamentarian |
1929 |
|
Photograph |
| Harry McShane (centre) with John McGovern (right) preparing for unemployment march from Glasgow |
1930 |
|
Photograph |
| May Day greetings : stern fights and victory ahead |
1932 |
|
Newspaper article |
| Why are we marching? |
1932 |
Wal Hannington |
Booklet cover |
| The proletarian catechism |
1933 |
Tom Anderson |
Booklet cover |
| The Scottish hunger march |
1933 |
|
Leaflet |
| Concentration camps for the workless |
1934 |
Workers' Open Forum |
Leaflet |
| James Maxton with John Taylor, Fenner Brockway and John McNair |
1934 |
|
Photograph |
| William Gallacher's funeral procession |
1965 |
|
Photograph |
| John Maclean centenary 1879-1979 |
1979 |
|
Poster |
| Red Clydeside 1919-1989 |
1989 |
|
Poster |