Library Resources
The following TUC Library project websites are available for free educational use:
The Union Makes Us Strong – An introduction to the history of the TUC and the trade union movement, including a Timeline of union history, the full text of the annual TUC Congress Reports 1868-1968, and hundreds of digitised images and documents selected from the TUC Library.
The Workers’ War – Discover the contribution working people made to the war effort during the Second World War, via oral history interviews, academic articles and hundreds of digitised images and documents.
Winning Equal Pay – Explore the history of the struggle for equal pay for women. Includes videos on the subject of prominent equal pay strikes and hundreds of digitised images and documents.
Britain at Work 1945-1995 – Discover how the British workplace has changed during the post-war period, via oral history interviews, academic articles and digitised images and documents.
The following digital exhibitions are available for free download. Hard copies are also available for loan (with the exception of Mary Macarthur)
Solidarity and the Miners’ Strike 1984-85
The Impact of the Russian Revolution on the Left in Britain 1917-1926
The Workers United – commemorating the 150 anniversary of the TUC through its Library Collections
Young Workers and Unions – agents for change
NEW (2021) The Life of Mary Macarthur – to Fight to Struggle to Right the Wrong