Interview with Hilda Crompton
TitleInterview with Hilda Crompton
ReferenceTAPE/147
Date
MAY 1985 (?)
Scope and ContentHilda Crompton was born in Lincolnshire in May 1893, and moved to Nottinghamshire, and later to Sheffield and Derbyshire. She talks about her involvement with the Co-operative Women's Guild and the Communist Party (joined 1928), and the pensioners' association. Her husband was a miner, and was sacked because Hilda (publicly) supported nationalisation of the mines. She talks about Spain, unemployment, selling the Daily Worker, her belief in socialism. This interview took place 2 weeks before her 92nd birthday. She was the mother-in-law of Alice Crompton (tape 74). There is a Word document which gives a more detailed summary of the tape.
Extent1 Cassette tape
Physical descriptionNWSA copy
LanguageEnglish
Persons keywordCrompton, Hilda, Co-operative Women's Guild, Communist Party of Great Britain
SubjectOral history, Poverty, Pension rights, Nationalisation, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Unemployment
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal locationZ (Room 24)