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Businesses (29)
- Addlestone & District Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd Addlestone, Surrey
- Balkan Holidays Ltd Woolwich, Kent
- Camberley & District Industrial Co-operative Society Camberley, Surrey
- Cliffe Co-operative Society Ltd Cliffe, Kent
- Co-operative Dairy Society Guildford, Surrey
- Dorking Co-operative Society Dorking, Surrey
- Duval & Son Ltd, coach operators Woolwich, Kent
- Faversham & Thanet Co-operative Society Ltd Faversham, Kent;Thanet, Kent
- George Penn Ltd, coach operators and house removals Woolwich, Kent
- Gillingham Co-operative Society Gillingham, Kent
- Godalming & District Co-operative Society Ltd Godalming, Surrey
- Gravesend Co-operative Society Ltd Gravesend, Kent
- Guildford & District Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd Guildford, Surrey
- Haslemere & District Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd Haslemere, Surrey
- Invicta Co-operative Society Kent;Kent
- Isle of Thanet Co-operative Society Ltd Thanet, Kent
- Kent Co-operative Dairy Gravesend, Kent
- Lanark Twist Co, cotton manufacturers New Lanark, Lanarkshire
- Progress Estates Ltd Woolwich, Kent
- Reading Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd Reading, Berkshire
- Redgrove & Kilbourn Ltd, travel agents Woolwich, Kent
- Royal Arsenal Co-operative Chemists Ltd Woolwich, Kent
- Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Ltd London
- Sheerness & District Economical Society Ltd Sheerness, Kent
- Sittingbourne Co-operative Society Ltd Sittingbourne, Kent
- Slough & District Co-operative Society Ltd Slough, Buckinghamshire
- South Surburban Co-operative Society Ltd Croydon, Surrey
- WJ Eggleton Ltd, coach operators Woolwich, Kent
- Woking Co-operative Society Ltd Woking, Surrey
Organisations (7)
- Association for the Higher Education of the Working People of Woolwich Woolwich, Kent
- Haslemere and District Co-operative Choral Society Haslemere, Surrey
- League of Co-operators: South East district council
- National Co-operative Mens Guild: Peckham and district Peckham, Surrey
- Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society guilds joint liaison committee Woolwich, Kent
- Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society united guilds council Woolwich, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild
Persons (61)
- Ashurst, William Henry, (1792-1855), Freethinker
- Blanc, Jean Joseph Charles Louis, (1811-1882), Socialist
- Bradlaugh, Charles, (1833-1891), freethought advocate and politician
- Brand, Henry Bouverie William, (1814-1892), 1st Viscount Hampden of Glynde
- Bray, Charles, (1811-1884), Author Social Reformer
- Bright, John, (1811-1889), politician Rochdale, Lancashire
- Carlile, Richard, (1790-1843), Freethinker Publisher
- Charteris, Francis Richard, (1818-1914), 10th Earl of Wemyss and March
- Clay, James, (1805-1873), MP for Hull
- Cobden, Richard, (1804-1865), statesman and businessman
- Colenso, John William, (1814-1883), Bishop of Natal
- Collet, Sophia Dobson, (1822-1894), Author and Editor
- Coningham, William, (1815-1884), MP
- Cooper, Thomas, (1805-1892), Chartist
- Cowen, Sir Joseph, (1800-1873), Knight Radical MP
- Cowen, Joseph, (1821-1900), politician and journalist Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- Darusmont, Frances, (1795-1852), philanthropist
- Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, (1843-1911), Knight, 2nd Baronet, politician and author
- Fox, William Johnson, (1786-1864), preacher, politician and journalist
- Gladstone, William Ewart, (1809-1898), statesman
- Greening, Edward Owen, (1836-1923), Agricultural Co Operator and Free Thinker
- Greg, Percy, (1836-1889), Author
- Grey, Albert Henry George, (1851-1917), 4th Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada
- Hamilton, John, (1821-1860), Editor of the Morning Star
- Hobhouse, Arthur, (1819-1904), Baron Hobhouse, judge
- Holyoake, George Jacob, (1817-1906), co-operator and secularist
- Howell, George, (1833-1910), trade unionist, MP, writer and historian
- Hughes, Thomas, (1822-1896), author MP
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh, (1784-1859), essayist and poet
- Hunt, Thornton Leigh, (1810-1873), journalist
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, (1825-1895), Scientist
- Ironside, Isaac, (1808-1870), Chartist Owenite and Anarchist
- Jones, Ernest Charles, (1819-1869), Chartist and poet
- Lewes, George Henry, (1817-1878), author
- Linton, William James, (1812-1898), engraver, poet and political reformer
- Martineau, James, (1805-1900), Unitarian minister
- Mazzini, Giuseppe, (1805-1872), Italian Patriot
- Mercer, Thomas William, (1884-1947), journalist and historian of the co-operative movement
- Mill, John Stuart, (1806-1873), philosopher, MP
- Morley, Sir John, (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, statesman
- Newman, Francis William, (1805-1897), Scholar and Man of Letters
- Owen, Robert, (1771-1858), Socialist and Philanthropist
- Owen, Robert Dale, (1801-1877), Publicist and Author
- Pare, William, (1805-1873), Cooperator
- Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry Thomas, (1816-1866), 4th Marquess of Lansdowne
- Pigott, Edward Frederick Smyth, (1824-1895), journalist
- Rigby, James, (fl 1851-1858), Co Operator
- Roebuck, John Arthur, (1801-1879), politician
- Rogers, James Edwin Thorold, (1823-1890), MP Political Economist and Historian
- Salusbury-Trelawny, Sir John Salusbury, (1816-1885), 9th Baronet MP
- Smith, Goldwin, (1823-1910), journalist and historian
- Smith, Joshua Toulmin, (1816-1869), publicist and lawyer
- Southwell, Charles, (1814-1860), Owenite
- Spencer, Herbert, (1820-1903), philosopher
- Stansfeld, Sir James, (1820-1898), Knight Statesman
- Stead, William Thomas, (1849-1912), journalist and author
- Stephen, Sir Leslie, (1832-1904), Knight, man of letters, philosopher, biographer, mountaineer
- Taylor, Peter Alfred, (1819-1891), Radical Politician
- Thomasson, Thomas, (1808-1876), manufacturer and economist
- Travis, Henry, (1807-1884), Editor and Co Operator
- Woolner, Thomas, (1825-1892), sculptor and poet
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (4)
- NRA 35851 Co-operative Wholesale Society, South East Retail Group
- NRA 35440 Edward Owen Greening, cooperator and free thinker: corresp and papers
- NRA 16403 George Jacob Holyoake, Owenite and secularist: papers
- NRA 16003 Robert Owen, socialist and philanthropist: corresp link to online catalogue