TitleEddie and Ruth Frow, 1983
ReferenceTAPE/534
Date
7 Jan 1983
Production date 1983-01-07 - 1983-07-01
Scope and ContentEddie talking about his family background, working and activist life – Battle of Bexley Square and his injury, National Unemployed Workers' Movement, unemployment, various activists inc. Ben Tillett, Harry Pollitt, Foodships for Spain and Spanish Civil War, British Workers' Sports Federation, Mosley and the Blackshirts, Clem Beckett, and Benny Rothman, rambling, Clarion movement.
Ruth talks about the library collection and how they built it up. The papers and collections they have acquired and special items such as banners and posters. Coverage of the library.
A digital recording of this tape is available to listen to at the library
Ruth talks about the library collection and how they built it up. The papers and collections they have acquired and special items such as banners and posters. Coverage of the library.
A digital recording of this tape is available to listen to at the library
Extent1 cassette tape and 2 digital recordings
Physical descriptionDuration: 1 hr. 21 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.
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 keywordFrow, Eddie, Frow, Ruth, National Unemployed Workers' Movement, British Workers' Sports Federation, Working Class Movement Library
SubjectUnemployment, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Rambling, Clarion movement, Libraries, Oral history
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal locationZ (Room 24)