Catalogue Number
NMLH.2024.33.4
Object Name
book
Title
'Soviet Russia, An Investigation by British Women Trade Unionists April-July 1925'
Place
Heywood, Manchester, Russia, Soviet Union
People
Lydia Ann Aspinall
Events
1925 Women's Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia trip
Description
A book holding a report titled 'Soviet Russia, An Investigation by British Women Trade Unionists April-July 1925'.
This report was written by women from a delegation of women trade unionists investigating women's work and roles in Soviet Russia in 1925, including the trade unionist Lydia Aspinall. The group travelled the country observing working practices to see what they could learn from the communist regime to improve workers wellbeing in their own work places in Britain. On their return they published this report.
Lydia Ann Aspinall (3/9/1875-17/3/1955) was born in Stalybridge, and lived in Heywood where she became a textile worker, a trade union activist for weavers unions including the Heywood Weavers Association and the Weavers, Winders and Reelers Association. In 1926 she became a Magistrate.
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