The Butler archive at Bishopsgate Institute

New addition at the Bishopsgate institution- a wealth of information on Joyce and Vic Butler who were both prominent politicians in Wood Green area for several decades.

http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/Library/Library-and-Archive-Collectio...

Plus there are links to the Wood Green social club and others in the area. In many ways they epitomise close links between the Labour Party, Unions, local councils and working men's clubs that once existed in post-war Britain. 

Joyce Butler once opened a refurbished room at the Langham and put a word in for women- ALL women, she said, are working women...