The 1984-5 miners’ strike began on 6 March 1984. 40 years on, Alison Gage (Senate House Library) explains why it remains a key date in British history.
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Manton Marble Collection
The collection
Approximately 1,000 pamphlets, 53 scrapbooks and press cuttings, ca 1844 – ca 1911, in 190 boxes, on American politics, foreign relations and economic matters, especially the bi-metallist currency controversy of the latter part of the nineteenth century. Includes material on United States politicians (including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, W. J. Bryan, William McKinley, John Sherman, Samuel J. Tilden, A.S. Hewitt, D. B. Hill, A. B. Parker, C (Carl?) Schurz), taxation, tariffs, the press, labour issues, the navy. Also includes personalia of Manton Marble.
The collector
(1834-1917), an American journalist who in 1885 was appointed special envoy to the governments of Great Britain, France and Germany to explore the possibility of adopting international bi-metallism (see George T. McJimsey, Genteel Partisan: Manton Marble, 1834-1917(Iowa State University Press, 1971).
Acquisition
Transferred from the Institute of Historical Research,1937.
Access
A hard-copy list of the pamphlets available in Special Collections; for pdf files in box order, click (boxes 102-187 searchable). The collection is stored offsite and two days’ notice is required for items to be fetched.
Related archives
(constitutes the material in the collection).
