Undergraduate module guides

20627 The 1960s

Full catalogues for the archives listed below can be searched online at http://archives.hull.ac.uk/.

  • Anne Kerr (1925-1973), Labour MP: Including files on the anti-Vietnam War movement, containing correspondence with individuals and protest organisations, minutes and newsletters of the British Council for Peace in Vietnam and Vietnam Medical Aid, papers for peace conferences in Paris and Stockholm, and petitions, 1965-73; files on the peace movement (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and international peace conferences), 1966-73; files on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the abolition of capital punishment in Britain and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago [DMK]
  • National Council for Civil Liberties (1934-to date), pressure group: Including files on capital punishment, censorship (and the Oz trial), abortion, demonstrations (including anti-Vietnam War demonstrations), civil liberties in United States of America, student radicalism, the peace movement and women's rights [DCL]
  • John Saville (b.1916), member of the New Left and economic historian: Including files on the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1958-65 [DJS]
  • Sir Patrick Wall (1916-1998), Conservative MP: Including files on 'the permissive society' (abortion, divorce etc.); records of the Monday Club (Universities Group), and files on individual Higher Education Institutions, student unrest and radical student organisations, 1968-70 [DPW]
  • Amicia Young (b.1914), Communist and trade unionist: papers about the anti-Vietnam War movement, including minutes, reports, conference papers, financial records, leaflets and other publicity material of the British Council for Peace in Vietnam, correspondence as secretary and member of the BCPV, material issued by other protest groups, anti-Vietnam War posters and statements issued by Vietnamese organisations, mainly 1965-70 [DYO/12]

Archives can be viewed by appointment in the Archives Reading Room, on the first floor of the Brynmor Jones Library, between 9am-1pm and 2pm-5pm Mondays to Thursdays.  Appointments can be made by email, telephone or in person (please see contact details).