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Actions	Interview with Mary Higgins, 1984 Remove from selection Add to selection TitleInterview with Mary Higgins, 1984 ReferenceTAPE/154 Date 1984 Production date 1984 - 1984 Scope and ContentMary Higgins was born in 1914 in Failsworth. Her father and mother were secularists. At the age of 11 she joined the Labour Party, and at 14 was the ward secretary. She set up Failsworth Labour League of Youth. In 1939 she joined the Communist Party. In 1940 she married the young man who had set up the Mossley Labour League of Youth. Together they started the Red Falcons in Mossley Labour Party, for younger children. She was secretary of Manchester Communist Party during World War Two. She was active in the National Women's Assembly, Women against War, the Campaign of Nuclear Disarmament and the National Women's Caravan for Peace. There is a Word document which gives a more detailed summary of the tape. Extent1 cassette tape and 2 digital recordings Physical descriptionDuration: 59 min LanguageEnglish Archival historyThe views and opinions expressed in the interview(s) are the interviewee’s own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Working Class Movement Library. The interview may contain attitudes and/or language that some people may find offensive and may contain discussions of events that some people may find distressing. Persons keywordHiggins, Mary, Labour Party, Communist Party of Great Britain, National Assembly of Women, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Women's Caravan of Peace, Labour League of Youth SubjectOral history, Secularism, Peace movements, Politics Conditions governing accessOpen Levelfile Normal locationZ (Room 24)

TitleInterview with Mary Higgins, 1984

ReferenceTAPE/154

Date

1984

Production date 1984 - 1984

Scope and ContentMary Higgins was born in 1914 in Failsworth. Her father and mother were secularists. At the age of 11 she joined the Labour Party, and at 14 was the ward secretary. She set up Failsworth Labour League of Youth. In 1939 she joined the Communist Party. In 1940 she married the young man who had set up the Mossley Labour League of Youth. Together they started the Red Falcons in Mossley Labour Party, for younger children. She was secretary of Manchester Communist Party during World War Two. She was active in the National Women's Assembly, Women against War, the Campaign of Nuclear Disarmament and the National Women's Caravan for Peace. There is a Word document which gives a more detailed summary of the tape.

Extent1 cassette tape and 2 digital recordings

Physical descriptionDuration: 59 min

LanguageEnglish

Archival historyThe views and opinions expressed in the interview(s) are the interviewee’s own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Working Class Movement Library.
The interview may contain attitudes and/or language that some people may find offensive and may contain discussions of events that some people may find distressing.

Persons keywordHiggins, Mary, Labour Party, Communist Party of Great Britain, National Assembly of Women, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Women's Caravan of Peace, Labour League of Youth

SubjectOral history, Secularism, Peace movements, Politics

Conditions governing accessOpen

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Normal locationZ (Room 24)

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