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United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Records

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
CDG-B.Great Britain.United Nations Association...
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Collected Records (CDG-B Great Britain), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1945- (inclusive)
Creator:
United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Abstract:
The UNA of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was formed in 1945 out of the League of Nations Union, to "help bring about a just, ordered and lasting peace, and better conditions of life for all mankind." It works to ensure that the United Nations is effective, efficient, and creative in all the areas on which it focuses its attention.

The United Nations Association was formed in 1945 out of the League of Nations Union, to "help bring about a just, ordered and lasting peace, and better conditions of life for all mankind." Its office was in London. Early leaders included Viscount Cecil, C.R. Attlee, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill, and Dr. Gilbert Murray. In 1946 the name of the organization was expanded to include "of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." The UNA describes itself as a "critical fan club of the United Nations," working to ensure that the United Nations is effective, efficient and creative in all the areas on which it focuses its attention. Today the UNA is a voluntary, membership-based non-governmental organization; there are over 180 local UNA branches in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The UNA is linked at the international level with over 80 UNAs through the World Federation of United Nations Associations.

This collection includes primarily printed materials such as annual reports and pamphlets documenting its work and its "Peacefinder" series. There is also material on the Council for Education in World Citizenship and the United Nations Student Association.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for these papers/records.

Mostly through mailings from the UDC and from other archival collections

For the catalog record for this collection, and to find materials on similar topics, search the library's online catalog

Processed by SCPC staff; checklist created by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, January 1999

  1. League of Nations Union Collected Records (CDG-B Great Britain)
  2. Women for World Disarmament Collected Records (CDG-B Great Britain)

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Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

None.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. History and goals.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: "First Annual Report", 1945-1946.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "The United Nations First Assembly, London", 1946.
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Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "The Charter of the United Nations".
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Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "United Nations First Assembly, New York" by Bernard Moore, 1946.
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Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "Your Last Chance".
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Annual reports, 1947-1948.
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Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "United Nations Second Assembly, New York" by Bernard Moore, 1947.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "The Charter Explained" by Maurice Fanshawe.
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Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Yearbooks, 1947-1948.
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Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Annual report, 1949.
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Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "World Front, 1949: A Survey of the United Nations at Work" by Bernard Moore and Andrew Boyd, 1949.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "An ABC of the United Nations and International Organisations" compiled by Bernard Moore.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "For This Flag . . .: Being a Report of the Executive Committee to the General Council of the United Nations Association for the Eighteen Months Ended June 1st 1951".
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "World Front, 1950: A Survey of the United Nations at Work" by Andrew Boyd and Robert Greacen, 1950.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "Uphill: Nine Leading Figures on UN's Progress and Difficulties" ed. by Stephen Pollak.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: Pamphlet "The Greatest Cause of All: A Report of the United Nations Association for the Year Ending 30th June, 1952".
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -Pamphlets "Christians and the United Nations: Why They Are Committed to Share UN's Work", 1957.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -Pamphlet "A Policy for Disarmament", 1959.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -Pamphlet "Arms and Man: A Pamphlet on Disarmament", 1971.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -Pamphlet Series "Peacefinder Series" #1-11, ca. 1947-1952.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"The Veto" by W. Arnold-Foster (#1).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"Arms and the Atom" by Andrew Boyd (#2).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"Unesco's Task" by Ritchie Calder (#3).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"Hunger Is the Enemy" by Duncan Crow (#4).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"Who Goes Home" (#5).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"World Health: The New Outlook" by Leslie R. Aldous (#6).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"Point Four: Helping to Develop Half a World" by Susan Strange (#7).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"My Brother's Keeper: An Account of Some of the Activities of the United Nations" by Gordon Evans (#8).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"The United Nations and the Colonies" by Rita Hinden (#9).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"Which Road to Peace" by Alan de Rusett (#10).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -"UN's Mutual Aid: An Introduction to the United Nations Programme of Technical and Economic Assistance" (#11).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -Council for Education and World Citizenship.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work and publications: -United Nations Student Association.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. International Service Department, 1959.
Box 1

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