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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8376
TitleAlfreton Townswomens Guild
Date[c1930s]-1999
DescriptionMinutes 1943-1999 (incomplete series), programmes 1993-1998, photographs [1960s], financial records 1937-1999, membership lists 1960-1999.

Also containing minutes for four meetings of the Derbyshire Federation of Townswomen's Guilds 1978-1998.
Extent0.25 box
LevelFonds
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
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Archive CreatorAlfreton Townswomens Guild
Administrative HistoryAlfreton Townswomens Guild was formed on 24 May 1937, with 76 members subscribing 2s. Due to falling membership, partly with wider societal changes offering women more education and social opportunities than had previously been the case, the Guild closed in February 1999, although many of the members continued to meet at the British Legion Hall, Alfreton.

In 1971, 31 local Guild's were affiliated to the Derbyshire Federation of Townwomen's Guilds.
Custodial HistoryThese records were donated by a descendant of a former Chair of the organisation to Derbyshire Record Office in September 2021.
AppraisalPersonal correspondence including thank you cards, financial donations, leaflets and other ephemera from possible speakers, notebook containing details of speakers' contact details for the period covered by the printed programmes (D8376/4/4), duplicates were disposed of at the time of accession.
Organisation Sub-TypeWomen's organisations
Related MaterialThe following published items were donated with this archive and are available in the Local Studies Library:
- Derbyshire Federation of Townswomen's Guilds Yearbook and List of Speakers, 1971
- 'Organisation Women: The Story of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds', by Mary Stott (1978)
- 'After the Vote: The story of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds in the year of its Diamond Jubilee', by Caroline Merz (1989)
- Incomplete series of 'The Townswoman' periodical, 1949-1976
TermWomen
Organizations
Archivist NoteCatalogued 27 September 2021, BS.

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Alfreton; Alfreton Townwomen's Guild; 1937-1999; women's organisaation
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Alfreton 
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