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Businesses (54)
- Achilles Heel, magazine London
- Aylesbury Co-operative Society Ltd Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Barking Co-operative Society Ltd Barking, Essex
- Berkhampsted Co-operative Society Ltd Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
- Brentwood Co-operative Society Ltd Brentwood, Essex
- Brighton Co-operative Society Ltd Brighton, Sussex
- Brightside and Carbrook (Sheffield) Co-operative Society Ltd Brightside, Yorkshire;Carbrook, Yorkshire
- Canterbury and District Co-operative Society Ltd Canterbury, Kent
- Carnforth Co-operative Society Ltd Carnforth, Lancashire
- Chadwell Heath Co-operative Society Ltd Chadwell Heath, Essex
- Chesham Equitable Co-operative Society Ltd Chesham, Buckinghamshire
- Croxley Co-operative Society Ltd Croxley Green, Hertfordshire
- Edmonton Co-operative Society Ltd Edmonton, Middlesex
- Elstree and Borehamwood Co-operative Society Ltd Elstree, Hertfordshire;Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
- Enfield Highway Co-operative Society Ltd Enfield, Middlesex
- Glasgow South Co-operative Society Ltd Glasgow, Lanarkshire
- Grays Co-operative Society Ltd Grays, Essex
- Harrow Road and Queen's Park Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd Middlesex
- Hartlepools Co-operative Society Ltd West Hartlepool, Durham
- Hemel Hempstead Co-operative Society Ltd Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
- Hendon Co-operative Society Ltd Hendon, Middlesex
- High Wycombe Co-operative Society Ltd High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- History Workshop Journal Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Hitchin United Co-operative Society Ltd Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- James Ince & Sons Ltd, umbrella manufacturers London
- Kilburn Co-operative Society Ltd Kilburn, Middlesex
- Kingston and District Co-operative Society Ltd
- Leicestershire Co-operative Society Ltd Leicestershire;Leicestershire
- Lincoln Co-operative Society Ltd Lincoln, Lincolnshire
- London Co-operative Society London
- London Provident Institution, savings bank London
- QX London's Gay Magazine London
- Mistress Absolute, lifestyle and professional Dominatrix, educator & Kink Ambassador
- Morning Star, newspaper London
- New Left Review London
- Newmarket Co-operative Society Ltd Newmarket, Suffolk
- Newport Pagnell Co-operative Society Ltd Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire
- North West London Co-operative Society Ltd London
- Parliamentary Profiles Services Ltd, research and publishing house London
- Photo-Reportage Ltd Loughton, Essex
- Radlett Industrial Society Ltd Radlett, Hertfordshire
- Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Ltd London
- Slough & District Co-operative Society Ltd Slough, Buckinghamshire
- South Western Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd
- Staines & District Co-operative Society Ltd Staines, Middlesex
- Stratford Co-operative & Industrial Society Ltd Stratford, Essex
- Tring Co-operative Society Ltd Tring, Hertfordshire
- Universities and Left Review, journal
- Watford Co-operative Society Ltd Watford, Hertfordshire
- Wealdstone Co-operative Society Ltd Wealdstone, Middlesex
- West Hendon Co-operative Society Ltd Hendon, Middlesex
- West London Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd London
- Willesden & District Co-operative Society Ltd Willesden, Middlesex
- Wood Green Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd Wood Green, Middlesex
Organisations (273)
- Action on Youth Rights and Opportunities
- Advice Services Alliance London
- Advisory Service for Squatters
- Manor Garden Allotments Campaign London
- Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths and Patternmakers
- Anti-Racist Alliance
- Bethnal Green and Stepney Trades Council
- Bethnal Green Labour and Co-operative Joint Parliamentary Committee Bethnal Green, Middlesex
- Bishopsgate Ward Club, London London
- Bloolips, LGBT performance group
- British Humanist Association London
- Brookfield Manor Girls Club Hackney, Middlesex
- Cambodia Compassion
- Campaign Against Museum Admission Charges
- Campaign Against Pornography
- Focus E15 Campaign
- Campaign for Labour Party Democracy
- Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
- Campaigners
- Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society Chelmsford, Essex
- City and University of York Humanist Society York, Yorkshire
- City Music Society London
- City of London Anti-Apartheid Group
- Clapton Football Club Forest Gate, Essex
- Clean Break Theatre Company, women's theatre company
- Club Pedestal, fetish club
- Club Rub, fetish club
- Club Subversion, fetish club
- Committee for the Freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea
- Community Development Foundation
- Community Matters
- Counterfire London
- Grace's Cricket Club, LGBTQ+ Cricket Club
- Daneford Trust, youth charity, Bethnal Green Bethnal Green, Middlesex
- Disapora: Women of Colour Defining Our World magazine, feminist magazine, London
- East Anglia bikers, fetish club
- English Collective of Prostitutes
- Ethical Church Bayswater, Middlesex
- Eton Manor Boys Club, Hackney Hackney, Middlesex
- European Network of Women
- Evening Standard Outside Chapel, London London
- Feminist Library
- Format, womens photography agency
- Free Talha Campaign
- Friends of Christ Church Spitalfields Spitalfields, Middlesex
- Garribaldi Special Fund Committee
- Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists (GLADD)
- Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association
- Gay Authors' Workshop
- Gay London Police Monitoring Group (GALOP)
- Gay Medical Association (GMA)
- General Federation of Trade Unions
- Global Trade Centre
- Greenpeace: London
- Hackney Autobiography Hackney, Middlesex
- MSC Hallamshire, gay fetish club
- Hammersmith and Fulham Co-operative Party Hammersmith, Middlesex;Fulham, Middlesex
- Hampstead Ethical Institute Hampstead, Middlesex
- Hampstead Humanist Society
- Hands Up for Peace
- Health Equality and Rights Organisation, gay mens health charity, London
- Humanist Counselling Service
- Index on Censorship London
- International Working Men's Association
- Just Friends, gay men's social group
- Fathers 4 Justice
- Justin Campaign: Campaiging Against Homophobia in Football
- Kensington Narrators Archive
- Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association
- Klub Verboten, LGBTQ+ fetish club, London
- Labour Party Black Section
- Left Unity
- Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement London
- Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive
- LGBT History Month
- Liverpool Street Station Campaign London
- London Atheistical Society London
- London Blues, gay mens club London
- London Co-operative Housing Society London
- London History Workshop Centre, London London
- London Leathermen
- London Monday Group for Homosexual Equality
- London Vagabond, artists and fetish photographers
- London Young Humanists London
- Manchester Unity Oddfellows Friendly Society: Saffron Bloom Lodge Manchester, Lancashire
- McLibel Case
- Metropolitan District Co-operative Council
- Midland Link Motor Sports Club Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Mondcivitan Republic London
- Mondcivitan Republic British Isles South East Community Camden, Middlesex
- MSC Bournemouth, fetish club
- MSC London, fetish club London
- MSC Scotland, fetish club
- National Alliance of Women's Organisations
- National Coalition for Independent Action (NICA)
- National Co-operative Mens Guild: Upminster branch Upminster, Essex
- National Guild of Co-operators: Epping Forest/Loughton branch Epping Forest, Essex;Loughton, Essex
- National Guild of Co-operators: Hollybank branch
- National Miners Support Network
- National Union of Teachers
- National Women's Network
- Newham North East Constituency Labour Party Newham, Essex
- No to Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events (NOGOE) 2012 London
- North Battersea Co-operative Party Battersea, Surrey
- North Ilford Co-operative Party Ilford, Essex
- North Paddington Community Darkroom London
- No-w-here, arts organisation
- Outrage!, LGBT rights group
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign: London branch London
- Parliamentary Black Caucus
- Platform Southwark, Surrey
- Plimsoll Seamen's Fund Committee
- Protest Against Donald Trump's Visit to London
- Public Utilities Access Forum Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- Queer Tours of London, walking tours
- Raphael Samuel History Centre Bishopsgate, London
- Rationalist Peace Association
- Rationalist Press Association London
- Red Pepper, magazine
- Reform League
- Republic, London London
- River Christian Centre London
- Rock Against Racism London
- Roman Catholic Feminists
- Sandys Row Synagogue London
- Schools Out, LGBT campaign group
- Secular Education League
- Seven Kings Co-operative Party Seven Kings, Essex
- Sheffield Ethical Society Sheffield, Yorkshire
- Shelter: National Campaign for the Homeless
- Shoreditch Co-operative Party Shoreditch, Middlesex
- Sixty Nine Club, fetish club, London London
- Society of Public Librarians, London London
- South London Business Initiative Ltd, small business development centre
- South London Ethical Society London
- Southend Co-operative Party Southend-on-Sea, Essex
- Southgate/Palmers Green Co-operative Party Southgate, Middlesex;Palmers Green, Middlesex
- Standing Conference on Racial Equality in Europe
- Stoke Newington Co-operative Party Stoke Newington, Middlesex
- Stonewall, gay rights group
- Stop the War Coalition
- Swadhinata Trust, London London
- Switchboard London
- Troops Out Movement, Irish solidarity group, London
- Unite Against Fascism London
- Urban Chick Supremacy Cell, UC-SC
- Values Education Council
- Velvet Fist, socialist feminist women’s accapella choir, London
- Water Saving Trust, London London
- Wembley Political Council Wembley, Middlesex
- West London Ethical Society London
- White Dog Benevolent Society London
- Whittington Park Community Association Islington, Middlesex
- Women in Development Europe (WIDE)
- Womens Co-operative Guild
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Abbey Wood branch Woolwich, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Addlestone branch Addlestone, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Aigburth branch Aigburth, Lancashire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Albany Park branch Bexley, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Amersham branch Amersham, Buckinghamshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Aylesbury branch Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Barnehurst branch Barnehurst, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Berkhamsted branch Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Blackhorse Road branch Waltham Forest, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Braunstone branch Braunstone, Leicestershire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Bridgemary branch Bridgemary, Hampshire;Rowner, Hampshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Brixton branch Brixton, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Brockley branch Brockley, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Brooklands branch Brooklands, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Castelnau branch Barnes, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Castlefield branch Manchester, Lancashire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Charlton branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Chatham Central branch Chatham, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Chesham branch Chesham, Buckinghamshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Chessington branch Chessington, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Chiswick Central branch Chiswick, Middlesex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Clapton branch Clapton, Middlesex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Clifton branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Coggeshall branch Coggeshall, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Colchester Central branch Colchester, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Coney Hill branch Gloucester, Gloucestershire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Corby branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Crofton branch Stubbington, Hampshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Cuxton branch Cuxton, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Deptford branch Deptford, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Doncaster Central branch Doncaster, Yorkshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Dover branch Dover, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Earlsfield branch Earlsfield, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: East Greenwich branch Greenwich, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: East Metropolitan district
- Womens Co-operative Guild: East Surrey district Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Eltham branch Eltham, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Feltham branch Feltham, Middlesex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Forton branch Forton, Hampshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Gillingham branch Gillingham, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Halling branch Halling, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Hampshire Central district Hampshire;Hampshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Haslemere branch Haslemere, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Hathern branch Hathern, Leicestershire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Hayes branch Hayes, Middlesex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: High Wycombe branch High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Higham Hill Branch Higham Hill, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Holbrook Road branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Hoo branch Hoo, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Hornchurch Park Lane branch Hornchurch, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Hounslow branch Hounslow, Middlesex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Ilford branch Ilford, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Kelvedon branch Kelvedon, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Kent and Surrey district Kent;Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Kentish Town branch Kentish Town, Middlesex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Kettering branch Kettering, Northamptonshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Kirkby in Ashfield branch Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Knaphill branch Knaphill, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Leesland branch Leesland, Hampshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Leigh on Sea Branch Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Leighton Buzzard Branch Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Lowestoft Branch Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Maidstone branch Maidstone, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Malton and Norton branch Malton, Yorkshire;Norton, Yorkshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Mid-Kent district Kent;Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Mitcham Lane branch Mitcham, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: New Cross branch New Cross, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Norbury branch Norbury, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: North East Lancashire district Lancashire;Lancashire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: North Finchley branch Finchley, Middlesex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Ordnance Place branch Chatham, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Peckham branch Peckham, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Pirbright branch Pirbright, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Plumstead branch Plumstead, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Rainham branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Ramsgate branch Ramsgate, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Rochester and Strood branch Rochester, Kent;Strood, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Royston branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Rushey Green branch Catford, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Shanklin branch Shanklin, Isle of Wight
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Sheerness branch Sheerness, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Shirley branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Sittingbourne branch Sittingbourne, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Slade Green branch Slade Green, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Snodland branch Snodland, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: South Eastern section
- Womens Co-operative Guild: South Hainault section Hainault, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: South Metropolitan district
- Womens Co-operative Guild: South West Metropolitan district
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Southern section
- Womens Co-operative Guild: St John's Lane branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Stratford branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Strood and Frindsbury branch Strood, Kent;Frindsbury, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Sunderland branch Sunderland, Durham
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Surrey district Surrey;Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Sydenham branch Sydenham, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Tang Hall branch York, Yorkshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Thirsk branch Thirsk, Yorkshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Treboeth and Brynfryd branch Tre-boeth, Glamorgan;Brynfryd, Glamorgan
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Twickenham branch Twickenham, Middlesex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Uxbridge branch Uxbridge, Middlesex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Vange district Vange, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Wallsend branch Wallsend, Northumberland
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Walthamstow branch Walthamstow, Essex
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Walton branch Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Wayfield
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Well Hall branch
- Womens Co-operative Guild: West Norwood branch West Norwood, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: West Surrey district Surrey;Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: West Wickham branch West Wickham, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Western and Welsh section
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Wickham Lane branch East Wickham, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Woking branch Woking, Surrey
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Wooburn and Bourne End branch Wooburn, Buckinghamshire;Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Woolwich branch Woolwich, Kent
- Womens Co-operative Guild: Yorkshire section Yorkshire and the Humber
- Womens Equality Party
- Womens March on London
Persons (148)
- Archer, Rodney (1940-2015), writer Spitalfields, Middlesex
- Armstrong, Keith (1950-2017), disability campaigner
- Ash, William Franklin (1917-2014), writer and activist
- Ashbrook, Penny, (fl1973-2019), film maker
- Barltrop, Robert (1922-2009), historian and author
- Barnes, Michael Cecil John (b 1932) Labour MP
- Beales, Edmond (1803-1881), political agitator
- Bedford, James (1845-1904), trade unionist
- Beesly, Edward Spencer (1831-1915), positivist and historian
- Beetlestone, Florence, (b1943), lecturer in early years education and Labour Party member Wood Green, Middlesex
- Birch, Christopher Berkeley (b 1928), journalist and activist
- Blaug, Astra (1927-2015), artist and feminist Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America;London, Ontario
- Brabrook, Sir Edward William (1839-1930), Knight anthropologist
- Bradlaugh, Charles (1833-1891), freethought advocate and politician
- Branson, Noreen (1910-2003), Communist activist, writer and historian
- Brassey, Thomas (1836-1918) 1st Earl Brassey, Governor of Victoria
- Brayshaw, Peter (1947-2014), founding member of Action for Southern Africa
- Brierley, Anthony (b 1935), humanist
- Broadhurst, Henry (1840-1911) Labour Leader MP
- Butler, Abraham Victor (1911-1992), co-operator
- Butler, Joyce Shore (1910-1992), politician Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Buxton, Edward North (1840-1924), politician author and reformer
- Campbell, Colin Barnsley (b 1940), sociologist
- Challinor, Raymond (1929-2011), historian Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
- Christofilou, Angela (fl 2017-2018), photographer
- Coit, Stanton (1857-1944), Ethical culture leader
- Colbert, John (1945-2012), member of the Woodcraft Folk
- Cole, Martin (1931-2015), sexologist London;Southampton, Hampshire
- Cooper, Anthony Ashley (1801-1885) 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist
- Cooper, Emmanuel, (1938-2012), potter and writer on the arts
- Cooper, Thomas (1805-1892) Chartist
- Corbett, Robin (1933-2012) Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, politician Australia;Smethwick, Staffordshire;Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Crichlow, Frank Gilbert (1932-2010), community activist and civil rights campaigner
- Crompton, Henry (1836-1904), Positivist and advocate of trade unions
- Dalby, John Leonard Burkitt, (1929-2017), pianist and composer
- David, Miriam (b1945), professor of education London
- Denvorgilla, Viscountess Boudica (fl2012-2014), trendsetter of Bethnal Green
- Derrick, Paul (1916-1995), co-operator and Christian socialist
- Diuguid, Nancy, (1948-2003), actress, theatre director
- Dutch, George Frederick (b1894), co-operator London;Chelmsford, Essex;France;Poland
- Emmott, Elainea (fl 2017-2018), photographer
- Eversley, David Edward Charles (1921-1995), town planner and social researcher
- Faulkner, Patricia (1949-2016), artist
- Fishman, William Jack (1921-2014), historian
- Foxwell, Herbert Somerton (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer
- Fyrth, Hubert James (1918-2010), historian Torbay, Devon
- Ganley, Caroline Selena (1879-1966), co operative movement activist and politician
- Gaster, Jacob (1907-2007), laywer, civil rights campaigner and communist
- Glover, Reg (1900-1977), engineer and socialist
- Gorst, Sir John Eldon (1835-1916) Knight, barrister and politician
- Goss, Charles William Frederick (1864-1946), librarian and bibliographer Newington, Surrey;Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland;London
- Grant, Bernard Alexander Montgomery (1944-2000), politician British Guiana;Tottenham, Middlesex
- Hall, Tony (1936-2008), graphic designer, political cartoonist and illustrator
- Hall, William George Glenvill (1887-1962), politician and lawyer
- Hallam, Paul (b1952), writer
- Hamilton, China, (1946-2017), photographer and artist Norbury, Surrey
- Harcourt, Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon (1827-1904) Knight, statesman
- Harrison, Frederic (1831-1923), author and positivist
- Haw, Brian William (1949-2011), activist and peace campaigner
- Hemming, Clifford James (1909-2007), educationalist, writer and humanist Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
- Herbert, Auberon Edward William Molyneux (1838-1906), political philosopher and author
- Holyoake, George Jacob (1817-1906), co-operator and secularist
- Hope, Emily (fl1964-1991), campaigner and activist
- Hopkins, John Victor Lindsay , (1937-2015), photographer and political activist Slough, Buckinghamshire
- Howell, George (1833-1910), trade unionist, MP, writer and historian
- Hughes, John Dennis (1927-2013), economist and teacher
- Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896), author MP
- Humphries, Martin (b 1955), poet and author
- Hunot, Peter (1914-1989), social scientist and progressive activist
- Jones, Ernest Charles (1819-1869), Chartist and poet
- Jones, John Viriamu (1856-1901), physicist
- Kean, Hilda (fl1982-2010), historian London
- Kennedy, Mary (fl 1966-2013), feminist academic and campaigner
- King, Sue (fl 1950-2016), co-operator
- Lambert, Jean Denise, (b1950), politician, Green Party MEP Orsett, Essex
- Leech, Kenneth (1939-2015), Anglican clergyman
- Lees, Paris (fl 2009-2016), transgender rights activist and campaigner Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
- Leighton, Ronald (1930-1994), politician
- Leonard, Diana Mary (1941-2010), feminist and sociologist
- Lester, Muriel (1883-1968), Christian pacifist
- Linton, William James (1812-1898), engraver, poet and political reformer
- Longmate, Norman (1925-2016), historian and author
- Makanji, Narendra, (1952-2019), politician and activist
- Mallin, Hester (1969-2018) artist and gardener
- Marshall, Robert Leckie (1913-2008), co-operative activist and educationist Chryston, Lanarkshire
- Mason, Timothy Wright (1940-1990), historian Birkenhead, Cheshire;Oxford, Oxfordshire;Italy
- Middleton, Mavis (1922-1999), peace activist and campaigner
- Milner, Alfred (1854-1925) Viscount Milner, statesman
- Moonman, Eric (b1929), politician and academic
- Morley, Arnold (1849-1916), politician
- Morley, Samuel (1809-1886), politician
- Morrison, Walter (1836-1921) Liberal MP
- Munday, Diane (b 1931), humanist and abortion rights campaigner
- Mundella, Anthony John (1825-1897), statesman
- Munnoch, Philip (fl 1998-2018), film-maker and diarist
- Murphy, Clive Hunter (b1935), author and oral historian
- O'Brien, Colin (b1940), photographer
- O'Neill, Gilda Ann (1951-2010), novelist and historian Bethnal Green, Middlesex
- Parsey, Graham Colin, (1938-2011), architect and designer
- Peck, Ron, (b1948), filmmaker and director
- Peralta, Moyra (fl 1973-1998), photographer
- Perring, Sir Ralph Edgar (1905-1998) 1st Baron Perring, public servant and businessman
- Plimsoll, Samuel (1824-1898), MP reformer of merchant shipping
- Pollock, David, (b1942), humanist
- Potter, George (1832-1893), trade unionist and journalist
- Pottins, Charlie (1942-2015), socialist and activist London
- Pratt, Hodgson (1824-1907), social reformer
- Purnell, Alice (c1950-2010), poet, counsellor and transgender activist
- Puxon, Grattan, (fl1960-2019), campaigner and Gypsy Roma Traveller activist
- Rathbone, William (1819-1902) MP Philanthropist
- Rees, John (b 1957), activist and writer
- Revell, Holly (fl 2013-2018), documenteur, photographer and artist
- Rogers, William (1819-1896), clergyman and educational reformer
- Roth, Andrew (1919-2010), journalist
- Russell, Sam (1915-2010), journalist Hackney, Middlesex
- Samuel, Raphael Elkan (1934-1996) historian
- Sanders, Sue (b 1947), LGBT rights activist London
- Sargeant, Jean (1933-2011), writer and political activist
- Scottee, (fl 2010-2018), artist and performer
- Sebestyen, Amanda (fl 1967-2013), journalist and historian
- Sedgwick, Peter Harold (1934-1983), socialist and author
- Shelley, Tony (b 1953), photographer and activist
- Smith, Goldwin (1823-1910), journalist and historian
- Smythe, Clifford Anthony , (1938-2004), human rights activist, campaigner
- Spencer, Margaret Ann (1920-2016), choreographer
- Spike, Matt (fl 2012-2018), photographer
- Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (c1970-2000), academic and sociologist
- Stone, Richard Malcolm Ellis (b 1937), physician and civil rights campaigner
- Stones, Nicky Lindsay, (1944-2017), FTM transgender person and trans advocate
- Stopes-Roe, Harry Verdun (1924-2014), humanist and philosopher
- Sumner, Sir John (1856-1934), Knight company chairman and philanthropist
- Tangye, Sir Richard (1833-1906) Knight Engineer
- Thorneycroft, Francis Edward (1926-2017), political activist and gay rights campaigner
- Thring, Henry (1818-1907) 1st Baron Thring, lawyer and jurist
- Unwin, Thomas Fisher (1848-1935), publisher
- Venezuela, Ruby, (d2018), performer and drag artiste
- Walker, Christine (c1950-2016), co-operator
- Ward, Reginald George (b1924), labour politician and activist
- Ward, William, (1927-1996), British erotic artist London
- Watkinson, David (fl 1993-1996), solicitor
- Watts, Charles Albert (1858-1946), publisher
- Wensley, Frederick Porter (1865-1948), police officer London
- Wetzel, Dave (b1942), politician and transport expert
- Widgery, David (1947-1992), socialist writer and physician Barnet, Hertfordshire
- Williams, Griffith Vaughan (1940-2010), gay activist London
- Woodward, Frederick Alan (1939-2012), socialist and activist Haringey, Middlesex
- Workman, Robert, (fl1974-1986), photographer
- Young, Elizabeth Ann (1923-2014) Lady Kennet, campaigner, poet and writer London
Families (1)
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (4)
- NRA 29894 Charles Bradlaugh, freethinker and politician: personal and family corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10203 George Jacob Holyoake, co-operator and secularist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10204 George Howell, trade unionist and author: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42112 Muriel Lester, Christian pacifist: corresp and papers
Accessions
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