Women, industry and trade unionism: the Gertrude Tuckwell Collection 1890-1920 Collection 1890-1920 (-1951).

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Women, industry and trade unionism: the Gertrude Tuckwell Collection 1890-1920 Collection 1890-1920 (-1951).

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Documents collected by Tuckwell: reports and comments on factory bills, documents relating to lead poisoning, industrial law cases, regulations, sweating and related subjects; documents concerning the Women's Trade Union League 1895-1918; documents concerning conferences on women's labour; copies of publications by Tuckwell; press clippings concerning Tuckwell. NB. Originals at the TUC Library, University of North London; microform publication by Harvester Press, Brighton, UK.

17 microfilms.

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Tuckwell, Gertrude M.

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Gertrude Tuckwell was born in Oxford in 1861, and educated at home by her father, a master at New College School, before training to be a teacher. She went to London in 1885 to start her career but became secretary to Emily Dilke (1840-1904), her aunt, wife of Sir Charles Dilke, and a writer, suffragette and trade unionist. Through this association Gertrude Tuckwell became interested in politics, becoming an early member of the Labour Party, and active as a trade union organiser and campaigner f...