Aims of the Website
This website is not intended to be a complete history of any of the subjects or persons contained within. The aim of the site is to showcase the collections of the contributing institutions through a series of case studies which are designed to encourage further investigation.
Timeline Disclaimer
Please note that the coding used to create the timeline requires the entry of a full date including day, month and year. Every effort has been made to correctly ascertain this information for each entry. However it has in some cases proved impossible to do so. Therefore, please note that in some cases where the full information has not been available a decision has been taken as to the events placement on the timeline. Unless stated, when only the year and month are known the entry will be placed on the first of the appropriate month. Where only the year is known the entry will be placed on 1 Janunary of that particular year. Please take this into account when viewing the timeline.
You will need to have javascript enables in your web browser to view the timeline.
A transcript of the timeline is available on request.
Copyright
The content of these Web pages is © Copyright National-Co-operative Archive, Working Class Movement Library, Labour History Archive and Study Centre, or the Bishopsgate Foundation and Institute.
Any content printed or downloaded from these pages may not be sold or reproduced.
Requests for permission to reproduce images or other material from these Web pages should be addressed to whichever of the organisations compiled the relevant page. These organisations have made every reasonable effort to contact and acknowledge external copyright owners, and wish to be informed by any copyright owners who are not properly acknowledged so that we can make any necessary corrections.
Accessibility
We are committed to providing an accessible website.
Wherever possible, the pages have been designed to meet the Level-AA standard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They have been tested for compliance using the Total Validator software.
However, a number of the written documents are illustrated as images taken from electronic scans. The image sizes have been chosen as a compromise for facilitate download on slower internet connections. Transcripts of some of these documents are available on request from the institution that holds the original. Please refer to the Contact Us page for details.
The pages have been written in XHTML 1.0 Transitional and have been tested for validity using the Total Validator software.
The site has been designed for viewing with a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels or greater. It has been tested in a number of different browsers on both the Windows and Mac platforms but if you experience difficulties viewing the pages please contact us.
Web Design
This website has been developed by Dickon Siddall of the Co-operative College.
