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  <dc:title>Papers of Mark Adams, community activist and local government officer</dc:title>
  <dc:description>This collection consists of papers relate to community campaigns and local government responses mainly around housing.

CATALOGUE STATUS: This collection is currently uncatalogued, consisting of two deposits as listed. Access is by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Accession reference TH/9474:

TH/9474/	Category/organisation Mark is working for	Title	Publisher/author	Scope	Date	Extent if known
1	Holloway Tenant Co-operative Housing Association Limited (Mark Adams is a Director)	Annual Report: 1994/1995'	Holloway Tenant Co-operative Housing Association Limited		1995	
2	Conference of Socialist Planners	London Workshop'	Conference of Socialist Planners	Project on Race and Planning'; Economy and Jobs; 'Draft of conference paper; Photocopies with handwritten notes	1978	
3	Labour Party	Labour Leaflets	Labour Party	Voting Leaflets; Labour news	1980s	
4	St. Mary's Centre	Action Plan and Resource Project	St. Mary's Centre		1986-1987	
5	Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service (SHARPS)	Reports	Former Federation of Advice Giving Agencies in Tower Hamlets; Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service; Catholic Housing Aid Society	Law surrounding homelessness and the Council; Annual Reports (1980 and 1981); 'Survey on Housing Conditions'; 'Bengalis and Housing Allocations'	1980-1982	
6	Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service (SHARPS)	General	Mainly Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service (SHARPS)	Includes 'Campaign for Homes in Central London'; 'Save the housing rights service'; 'Why are we demonstrating?'	1980s	
7	Tower Hamlets Homeless Families Service (THHFS) linked to SHARPS	Leaflets and reports	Tower Hamlets Homeless Families Campaign	Out in the cold'; 'Defend the homeless supporters'; 'Challenge the racist Tower Hamlets Council'; Annual Report 1986-1987; 'Just Part of The Wall: Report on the services for Homeless Bangladeshi women in Tower Hamlets' and leaflets	1980s	
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	Jewish Eastenders: Life in a Stepney Household in the 1920s'	Tower Hamlets Environment Trust	Booklet	1987	
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	Jewish East End Education Pack'		Pack	Sealed	
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	Mardyke Estate Design and Access Statement'; 'Old Ford Housing'		Booklet	2008	
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	Taken Bad: The State of Health in Tower Hamlets'		Booklet		
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	Priced Out of Town: The Problems for Housing Associations working in Central London'		Booklet		
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	The People's Plan for the Royal Docks'		Magazine	1980	
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	Docklands Forum (Facts, Fiction in the 1990s)'		Booklet	1990s	
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	Greater London Council (GLC) Working for London: A Record of Achievement'	Greater London Council	Booklet	1985	
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	Ideas Towards an Alternative Strategy for Tower Hamlets'	Tower Hamlets Alternative Strategy Group			
8	Collected General Reference Books/Pamphlets	Tower Hamlets Empty Property Group: Filling The Empties'	Tower Hamlets Empty Property Group. Funded by the Greater London Council	Booklet	1985	
9	Housing Finance/Policy Reports	BRAG Report - 'Sell the best, Stuff the Rest' - 'Tory Housing Policy'		Pamphlet		
9	Housing Finance/Policy Reports	Housing Finance'	Battersea Redevelopment	Pamphlet	1979	
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	Local Council Election May 1986 leaflets: Independent Councillors Standing, M. H. Huque and S. F. Islam, Independent candidates		Leaflets	1986	
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	Focus': Magazine for Liberals	B. C. Duffy	Magazine		
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	Child Care in Tower Hamlets'	Tower Hamlets Under Fives Working Group	Leaflet		
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	Child Care Crisis in Tower Hamlets: Closing of Day Nursery: Urgent Meeting at Oxford House; Child Care in Tower Hamlets		Leaflets/Poster/Multiple Leaflets	1970s-1980s	
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	Limehouse Declaration MKII' (Liberal Democrats/Social Democratic Party Alliance)	Community Sector of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Paper		
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	BRAG Regarding Battersea Waterfront Morgan Site		Postcard Set		
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	Power to the Hamlets: Decentralisation - What it will mean for you' (New Council system)	Planning Department, Directorate of Development, London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Leaflet		
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	Greater London Council Thames Barrier'	Greater London Council	Guide with map	1984	
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	Demonstration against Le Pen'	Socialist Worker	Leaflet	1970s-1980s	
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	People's March for Jobs'		Paper	May 1981	
10	Loose Leaflets/Items	Briar Bulletin: Let's Get the Best for The Briar'	Havering Council	Bulletin		
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Turning The Tide, In and Around the Ocean Estate, Stepney'	London Borough of Tower Hamlets		1998/1999	
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Domestic Violence': Isle of Dogs Housing Procedures Tenancy Administration Manual, Procedural Note 1.9	London Borough of Tower Hamlets/ Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood	Procedural Note		
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Regulations and Conditions of Tenancy 	London Borough of Tower Hamlets Directorate of Housing	Conditions of Tenancy		
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	How to get a transfer of tenancy'	London Borough of Tower Hamlets Directorate of Housing	Transfer of tenancy		
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Before They're 5'	London Borough of Tower Hamlets			
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Decentralisation'	London Borough of Tower Hamlets			
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Borough Plan'	London Borough of Tower Hamlets		1984	
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	For Richer or Poorer?'	Peter Ambrose and Dee McDonald		2001	
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	The Urban Intiative in the United Kingdom: A Case Study of the East End of London'	Mark Adams	Case Study	1998	
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Can regeneration deliver affordable homes and good jobs for all local residents?'	Mark Adams and Julia Davies			
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Obstacles to the effective involvement of faith communities in urban regeneration and how these could be overcome'	Luzita Ball			
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Housing and community based regeneration in the Central Stepney Area of Tower Hamlets'	Mark Adams		2021: check date	
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Community Housing Struggles against Racism and Fascism in the East End of London'	Mark Adams		1995	
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Migrants, community power and city development in Tower Hamlets, East London'	Mark Adams		2000	
12	Periodicals	Tower Hamlets Local Trade Development', 	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	Numbers 1, 3 and 4. December 1979, April 1980 and July 1980	1978-1979	3 documents
12	Periodicals	Spitalfields News'	Montefiore Centre, Deal Street	Autumn 1983; Spring 1984; November 1985	1983-1985	3 documents
12	Periodicals	Focus', 		Numbers 127; 143-145	1980s	4 documents
12	Periodicals	Stepney Neighbourhood News'		Numbers 1-3		3 documents
12	Periodicals	Stepney Voice News'		24 March 2003; 25 April 2003	2003	2 documents
12	Periodicals	Tower Hamlets Information Research Resource Centre (THIRRC Oxford House)	Tower Hamlets Information Research Resource Centre (THIRRC)	Numbers 1 and 2. March - April 1981-1982; June -July 1981-1982	1981-1982	2 documents
12	Periodicals	Monthly Jubo Barta' (National Journal of Bengali Youth)		Issue 1 - January-February 1987; Issue 3 - April-May 1987; Issue 8 October-November 1986	1986-1987	3 documents
12	Periodicals	Tower Hamlets News'	London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Council Public Relations Department	December 1984 (Volume 3, Number 5)	1984	1 document
12	Periodicals	Labour Herald News'		24 November 1982 (Volume 2, Number 13)	1982	1 document
12	Periodicals	Public Service Action'. The anti-privatisaion magazine for Labour movement Housing Action Trusts'	SCAT Publications	Number 37, August 1988	1988	1 document
12	Periodicals	Tower Hamlets Against Poll Tax (THAPT) - Poll Tax Headlines'	Tower Hamlets Against Poll Tax (THAPT)	August 1989	1989	1 document
12	Periodicals	Street Level': Newsletter of the National Housing Liaison Committee (NHLC)	National Housing Liaison Committee (NHLC)	Issue Number 2		1 document
12	Periodicals	'Spitalfields Defender News'				1 document
12	Periodicals	This and Tharj' (Tower Hamlets Association for Racial Justice)	Tower Hamlets Association for Racial Justice	February 1983, Issue Number 3	1983	1 document
12	Periodicals	All Their Promises'		Part I: 1945-1977 news	1970s-1980s	1 document
12	Periodicals	The Islander'	Association of Island Communities	May-June 1988	1988	1 document
13	Conferences / Mark Adams attending under which capacity?	Threats and Resistance', Tower Hamlets Association for Racial Equality (THARE) Conference 	Written post-conference by Mark Adams; Also covers: 'Threats to Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets'; 'White working class racism'; 'What pressures are facing the Bangladeshi community now'; 'Divisions among community'; loose papers regarding properties	Conference Report/Loose papers	1987-1988	
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Group's Racist Terror'		Cuttings	Oct-81	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Fury as nursery is axed'		Cuttings	July 17, 1981	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Fury as nursery number 2 is axed'		Cuttings	Aug-81	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Homeless Issues'		Cuttings	July 1985; 1986 and 1987	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Save Our Estates'	The Guardian 3 April 1987, 20 July 1987, 31 July 1987	Cuttings	1987	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Council wants another £120 million'		Cuttings	Jul-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Council on the telly'		Cuttings	Jul-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Tenants fear deadly dust'		Cuttings	Aug-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Protests'	31 July 1987	Cuttings	Jul-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Racist'	31 July 1987	Cuttings	Jul-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Trouble'	9 April 1987	Cuttings	Apr-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Extra Help for Homes'	Daily News	Cuttings	Mar-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Dr Owens'	London Daily News 7 April 1987	Cuttings	Apr-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Protesters Mob David Steel'	Daily News. Election 1987	Cuttings	1987	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Housing Issues'	05-Jun-87	Cuttings	1987	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Council News'	Guardian 7 July 1987	Cuttings	Jul-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Protest'	London Essex Newspapers 5 June 1987	Cuttings	Jun-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Homeless Issues'		Cuttings	Aug-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Spitalfields Issues'	City Limits 21 August 1987	Cuttings	Aug-87	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Law Report Homelessness'		Cuttings. August 1987-15 September 1988	1988	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Big City News: 'The Hijacking'	City Limits 18-24 May 1984	Cuttings	May-84	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Derelict Houses: Hackney Project'	30 May 2003	Cuttings	May-03	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Liberal Democrat tricks'	The Guardian	Cuttings	1992	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Job Adverts Tower Hamlets'		Cuttings	1987	1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Deprived Boroughs'	Peter Townsend	Article/Cutting		1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Horror Homes in Spitalfields'	Hackney Gazette	Cuttings		1 item
14	Cuttings from Mark Adams, relating to housing and racism	Bengali New Wave Youth in East London'		Cuttings		1 item
15	Newspaper Cuttings file compiled by Mark Adams	Housing News'	Multiple sources	Original cuttings file compiled by Mark Adams. Arranged in labelled pages	1985-1988	1 file


TH/9474/16

Loose annual reports and other publications	Title	Description including publisher	Year	Extent
16/1	Annual Report	Stepney Housing and Development Agency (SHADA), including "Working With Local People" and "Community Development".	1997/1998	1 volume
16/2	Annual Report	Stepney Housing and Development Agency (SHADA), including "Transforming Limehouse Fields"	2000/2001	1 volume
16/3	Homelessness and Discrimination	Report of a formal investigation by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) into the allocation of housing by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, published by the CRE	1988	1 volume
16/4	Tower Hamlets Empty Property Group Report	Proposed alternatives from a group of organisations of methods of dealing with empty properties in the Borough (of Tower Hamlets), published by the Tower Hamlets Property Group	1982	1 volume
16/5 	"Bangladeshis in Britain": Action Tower Hamlets" : programme for A Decade	 Housing Workshop, including House of Commons Select Committee Report and The Government's Reply	1987	1 volume
16/6	Homing In: Providing for the Health and Resettlement Needs of Rehoused Homeless Families	Summary report of the Health of Rehoused Families Project (HERFA) (A Joint City and East London FHSA and Tower Hamlets Health Strategy Group Venture)	1991/1994: 1995	1 volume
16/7 	Annual Report	Tower Hamlets Law Centre, including articles on Estate Sales; Housing Repairs; Low Pay Campaign; Racial Harassment and Legal Advice Sessions	1985/1986	1 volume
16/8 	Annual Report	Spitalfields Community Housing Association: Providing Family Homes	1994/1995	1 volume
16/9	"Speaking Out"	Report of the London Housing Inquiry (Published by the London Housing Forum)	1988	1 volume
16/10	"Homes for Rent"	A Report from The Workshop on the Future of Rented Housing (Published by the Campaign for Homes in Central London - ChiCL)	1987	1 volume
16/11	Annual Report	Campaign for Homes in Central London (CHiCL)	1983	1 volume
16/12	"Save Our Sites"	A Report on the Need for New Houses in Spitalfields (Produced by Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service, for the Greater London Council Housing Policy Committee)	1979	1 volume
16/13	'Docklands in the 80's'	Including the Docklands Forum's Role in Planning Consultation, and Specific Sites and Issues mentioned By Area, published by Docklands Forum	1981	1 volume
16/14	"Ten Years of Community Housing"	The Story of Spitalfields Housing Co-operative (Printed and Published by Spitalfields Housing Co-operative)	1989	1 volume
16/15	"Our Future In Docklands"	The East London File: Mark 2 (Greater London Council)	1983	1 volume
16/16	"Bangladeshis in Britain" - "Action Tower Hamlets" - Programme for A Decade	Health and Social Services Workshop, including House of Commons Select Committee report and The Government's Reply	1980s	1 volume
16/17	Department of The Environment DOE): Proposed Use of the former Poplar Hospital	Correspondence from the DOE to the Chief Executive, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, including report of Inquiry into a Proposal to Use the former Poplar Hospital as a Resettlement Unit (1977)	1977/1978	1 volume
16/18	"Co-ops Caught In the Crossfire"	Report on potential consequences of cuts in capital funding for housing co-operatives (Solon Co-operative Housing Services Limited)	1984	1 volume
16/19	Annual Report	No Fixed Abode, including list of member agencies and reports on housing issues, Tower House and training opportunities (Financial Support from the Greater London Council; The Nuffield Foundation and others)	1982/1983	
16/20	Annual Report	Tower Hamlets Association for Racial Equality (THARE), including reports from Race and Immigration, Education and Housing Sub-committees; Tower Hamlets Chinese Youth Organisation - A Project of THARE	1986/1987	1 volume
16/21	Annual Report	Federation of Bangladeshi Youth Organisations (FBYO), including FBYO Collective Report, and list of affiliated youth groups	1982	1 volume


TH/9474/17 - Tower Hamlets Council and Stepney SRB related

17/1	'The Lawrence Action Plan'	Viewpoints on Tower Hamlets Council's potential to improve its performance on racial equality in the light of the McPherson Inquiry Report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence	2000	1 volume
17/2	'Rehousing Homeless Families - The Next Steps'	A Report to Tower Hamlets Housing Management Committee by Tower Hamlets Homeless Families Committee, including recommendations on the prevention of homelessness; utilising available stock and shortage of larger accommodation	1984	1 volume
17/3	"Urban Regeneration in a Multi-Cultural Setting"	"Developing a Cultural Urban Design Strategy for Spitalfields, London Borough of Tower Hamlets" - M. H. Majid, MA Urban Design Dissertation, University of Westminster	1996	1 volume
17/4 	Draft Final Report	Impact on Black and Minority Ethnic Communities (BME) and Future Direction of Regeneration Programmes (Potential Impact of Regeneration Activities on BME communities) (Greater London Enterprise)	2000	1 volume
17/5	"Some Way Short of Holism"	United Kingdom Urban Regeneration and Non-Housing Outcomes (Peter Ambrose: Paper for presentation at the Australian National Housing Conference, Brisbane)	2001	1 volume
17/6	Globe Town Neighbourhood (Document)	Summary of reports on the promotion of equality of opportunity and good race relations, and agreed by the Globe Town Standing Neighbourhood	1980s	1 volume
17/7 	'Meeting The Needs of Bangladeshis in Stepney'	Report of Neighbourhood Chief Executive to Stepney Neighbourhood Committee, commenting on the recommendations of the Home Affairs on racial attacks and harassment	1987	1 volume
17/8	Management of The Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood	Myth and Reality - An analysis by the Neighbourhood Chief Executive	1991	1 volume
17/9	Central Stepney Single Regeneration Budget (SRB): Final Evaluation	End-of-project evaluation assessing whether  the SRB, in conjunction with the workings of the Stepney Housing and Development Agency and the government, has met its strategic objectives geared towards area-based regeneration initiatives;  the potential effectiveness of the SRB Housing programme and Economic Development programmes and whether private sector stakeholders, such as British Gas; Thames Water and Railtrack may have assisted or held back these objectives	2003	1 volume

TH/9474/

(note: 18-19 are single large development plans)	Title	Description	Mark Adams' function and publisher details	Date range	Extent
18	'Stepney on the Waterfront'	'An environmental and community development plan for improvement	Stepney Housing and Development Association, with London Waterways Partnership and Free Form Arts Trust

(Mark Adams worked in LBTH Regeneration)	2000	1 volume

19	'Ocean New Deal for Communities' (Housing Masterplan, Turning the Tide)	'Ocean Housing Masterplan recommendations which will improve housing conditions and tackle overcrowding'	New Deal for Communities Partnership Board, HTA Architects and others

(Mark Adams worked in LBTH Regeneration)	February 2002	1 volume

20	'Labour Party: General Management Committee Minutes/ ? Standing Orders/Rule Book/ACTSS Report and Conduct'	Documents including:
Tower Hamlets Fabian Society.
Correspondence for Target '82.
Proposed Wards Number of Councillors (Map).
Correspondence received by the Secretary.
'Mobilisation for Labour Policies' (September 1981)
'Decentralisation of Housing' and 'Housing Need/Stress in Tower Hamlets' (Papers from Housing Working Group).
Proceedings of the General Management Committee, including minutes of recalled Annual General Meeting, and Branch organisations; Labour's Programme 1982.
Correspondence concerning Greater London Labour Party; Transport and General Workers Union, and others; Resolutions for Annual Conference 1982 and Tower Hamlets Labour Party; Local Elections 1982; Correspondence relating to Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service;	Tower Hamlets Labour Party

(Mark Adams worked for the Party)	1979-1983	1 file

21	'Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service'	Reports, including:
'New Houses in Spitalfields: The Big Sleep - A Report to Tower Hamlets Council October 1979'; Evidence to be submitted to the Coin Street Public Inquiry: Introduction.
'What's Happening to West Spitalfields' (Report May 1980).
'The Law, The Homeless and The Council in Tower Hamlets' (Report June1981).
'Rehousing Homeless Families - The Next Steps' (Report to Tower Hamlets Housing Management Committee by Tower Hamlets Homeless Families Committee).
Annual Report 1982.
	Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service

(Mark Adams, Worker at SHAPRS)	1979-1982	1 file

22	'Local Government Crisis'	Documents/Publications, including:
Tower Hamlets News -
October 1983 Volume 12 Number 4.
December 1983 Volume 12 Number 5.
February 1985 Volume 13 Number 6.
'Housing In Docklands' (Paper by the Joint Docklands Action Group).
'Angry Homeless Demonstrate as Liberals Debate Housing', in Jubo Barta, National Journal of Bengali Youth, August-September 1986.
Race Today: Voice of the Black Community in Britain -
November/December 1977.
February 1978.
July/August 1978.
Training In Housing Allocations.
Homeless Families - Further Report on Six Matters (Director of Housing).
'Rehousing Homeless Families - The Next Steps' (Report to Tower Hamlets Housing Management Committee.
Spitalfields News (October 1985).
Investigation into Allocation of Neighbourhood Homes (Report).
Deputation to the Secretary of State for the Environment concerning Block Grant Allocation.
Conference on the Fightback Against Cuts in Local Government (Report back by Charlie Forman)

Kept by Mark Adams for reference	1978-1986	1 file

23	Newham Seven	Material via CAPA (Community Alliance for Police Accountability) and East London Campaign Against Racism relating to campaigns on behalf of the Newham 7 and the Pryce family, covering public protests and press coverage thereof; promotional material; campaigning material from East London Against Racist Attacks and Police Harassment; Policing London (GLC Working for London)	Newham 7 Defence Campaign

Kept by Mark Adams for reference 1984-1985	1 file

24	Women United Against Racism
(WUAR)	Documents, including:
'Speaking With Confidence - The Six Essential Steps of Preparation'. 
Minutes of Meetings of WUAR.
'Women Vote' (Campaign Leaflet)	Women United Against Racism

Kept by Mark Adams for reference	1994	1  file

25	Roach Family Support Committee/Newham 8	Note/s concerning contact with potential witnesses, plus request/s to 'get Delroy's notes to Lance for appeal' and 'check photos for all? defendants and cases.'
(ITEM CLOSED)
 Materials relating to the case/s of the Newham 8 and Colin Roach, and including:
Bulletins of the Roach Family Support Committee.
Newham 8 Defence Campaign.
Bulletins from the Stoke Newington and Hackney Defence Campaign.
'Policing London' (Greater London Council Police Committee Support Unit) -
July/August 1982 Number 1;
September 1982 Number 2;
November 1982 Number 4;
January 1983 Special Issue;
February/March 1983 Number 6.
Press Cuttings Roach Family Support Committee

Kept by Mark Adams for reference	1982-1984	1 file

26 [former Box 2 contents]:  Background papers and supporting documents to the report he co-authored 'The Race for Power: an investigation into the racist housing policies of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets', April 1994 (published by Tower Hamlets Unison); and also a collection of internal Tower Hamlets Labour Party documents from the period 1981-85 during which the party was in transition. 1 expansion file with divider sections. 
This file has not been listed in detail.

Accession reference TH/10702: mainly printed material.
6 boxes. A box list is available as follows:

Boxed in newspaper box as TH/10702: BAG 1 Box 1 of 2 (including further amalgamated issues from first deposit TH/9474):

His incomplete set of 'East End News' (from East End News Cooperative) 48 issues 1979-1985: 
[These complement a tightly bound reference series in our Local History Library]
Issue 1 24 February 1979
Issue 1 13 March 1981 (missing pages)
Issue 2 20 March 1981 - Issue 12 29 May 1981
Issue 15 19 June 1981 - Issue 16 26 June 1981
Issue 21 31 July 1981 - Issue 30 16 October 1981
Issue 32 30 October 1981
Issue 36 27 November 1981
Issue 38 11 December 1981 - Issue 39 18 December 1981
Issue 41 5 February 1982 - Issue 46 9 July 1982
Issue 48 September 1982
Issue 53 April 1983
Issue 55 June 1983
Issue 57 August 1983 - Issue 60 December 1983
Issue 61 February 1984 - Issue 62 March 1984
Issue 63 May 1984 - Issue 69 December 1984
Issue 71 May 1985
One sheet of pages loose from issue to be reunited

Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 1 Box 2 of 2:

'Jewish East End Education Pack' 
Auschwitz and East London booklet by Tower Hamlets Arts Project 1983
Community Alliance for Police Accountability (CAPA) Annual Reports 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987/88.

Newham Monitoring Project - as follows:
Annual Reports 1985,1988, 1989, 1990, 10 Years of Report, 1994/95,1995/96
Racism and Racist Violence in Schools - Ten Years of Newham Monitoring Project 1990
Policing the Police by Newham Monitoring Project 1995
Wallet including:
'The Docklands Voice' Issue 2, March/April 1995 relating to Newham area
Newham Monitor Spring 1995
The Enemy in Our Midst 1995 by Newham Monitoring Project

Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 2 Box 1:

'Ocean New Deal for Communities Delivery Plan 2000-2010' by London Borough of Tower Hamlets.1999: report, House of Commons programme 29 March Oona King MP. 'What is New Deal' information sheet; Invitation to 'Shaping Your Future. The Ocean Estate New Deal Community Conference' 11 March, Stepney Green School. 1999.1 file
'Ocean New Deal for Communities Phase 1 Bid Submission' December 1998
'Stepney New Deal for Communities Household Baseline Survey' March 2000 by User Research
'Ocean Health and Social Care Plan' by Taylor Made Solutions April 2001
'Ocean New Deal for Communities Community Engagement Strategy' by CSC Consultants 2001
'Limehouse Fields - Estate Racial Harassment and Regeneration ' - internal London Borough of Tower Hamlets officer's report by Mark Adams SRB Co-ordinator sent to London Borough of Tower Hamlets legal Department. 1998
'Final Evaluation of Heart of the East End Urban Initiative' (EU) Report published by CSC Consultants February 2002. Photocopy (1 envelope)
'Stepney Voice' community newspaper - 12 issues from c2000 to June 2003
including Visit of Prime Minister and Cabinet to Stepney in 2001, and residents opposition to invasion of Iraq in 2003
Issues: 
1 circa 2000 
4 July 2000
7 December 2000
8 February 2001
9 March 2001
10 May 2001
12 September 2001
13 October 2001
16 April 2002
23 February 2003
26 May 2003
27 June 2003
Stepney Housing and Development Agency (SHADA):
SHADA Newsletter Aug/Sep 1998
SHADA Annual Reports 1997/98 and 1998/99
'Central Stepney SRB Delivery Plan - Year 7 : 2001-2002' London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Mark Adams contact as Central Stepney SRB Co-Ordinator
Central Stepney SRB Audit and Evaluation - LBTH Scrutiny Committee Agenda Item 5.2 Report 6 March 2001 by Mark Adams [Central Stepney SRB Co-Ordinator]
Series of Central Stepney SRB Health and Regeneration Reports, as follows:
'I Mustn't Laugh Too Much - Housing and Health in the Limehouse Fields and Ocean Estates in Stepney' by Peter Ambrose, Centre for Urban and Regional Research, University of Sussex November 1996. Covers 'London Borough of Tower Hamlets SRB Programme First Report of Project HC4 - The 'Health Gain' Survey' 1 volume
'A Drop in the Ocean - The Health Gain from the Central Stepney SRB in the context of national health inequalities' by Peter Ambrose, The Health and Social Policy Research Centre, University of Brighton June 2000 1 volume
'For Richer for Poorer - Counting the costs of regeneration in Stepney' by Peter Ambrose and Dee MacDonald, University of Brighton June 2001 1 volume
'Second Best Value - The Central Stepney SRB and how non-joined up Government policies undermine the cost effectiveness of regeneration' by Peter Ambrose, University of Brighton May 2002
Mark Adams, Central Stepney SRB Co-ordinator's correspondence, briefings and press coverage on the above 4 reports, 1997-2000
Map of 'Community Resource Centres and Regeneration Projects' in Central Stepney and Locksley - by London Borough of Tower Hamlets 2000. Includes list of regeneration projects and contact details. Mark Adams listed as LBTH contact. 1 map

Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 2 Box 2 (Extra Batch):

Regeneration and Black and Minority Ethnic Communities Conference  2000 - Notice and Programme 1 file. Arranged by Mark Adams, Stepney SRB, sponsored by London Borough of Tower Hamlets 
Homeless Families Campaign Poster 1987 Plus 'Out in the Cold' Briefing Pack and Racist Authorities Attach Homeless Families Note.
Ocean Youth 'Annual Report 1991-93' 1 volume
Stepney Festival 'Bandig' Poster 2001. 'Oasis presents' Held at Stepney Green, Stepney Way 5 August
Tower Power (NALGO Newsletter) Number 240 April 2001
NALGO 1984 Strike Documents including cuttings, open letter and Tower Power (NALGO Newsletter) Number 101 July 1984. Relates to 50 library workers sent home without pay
NALGO Strike 1978 memorandum letter relating to social workers in Tower Hamlets. 2 pages
Reports from Bow and Poplar Labour Party (by Mark Adams) 1983 1 file
Mohammed Abdur Rob Obituary from Guardian 4 May 2000. Photocopy
Tower Hamlets Housing cuttings and documents includes 'Development Progress' on Greater London Council housing and manuscript 'Report back from Tower Hamlets Fightback Housing Sub-committee'. 1980 1 file
BBC 'Open Door' Programme. Original correspondence of Mrs B Powis, Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service, Spitalfields Centre with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). 1982. 1 file
Series of Black and white photographs of development sites, housing demonstrations including residents with placards - Great Eastern Buildings Slum Clearance area; and Hulton Picture Library image of East End Slum dwelling
Tower Hamlets Community Workers Report July 1979 titled 'London Borough of Tower Hamlets Working Party on Social Services Re-organisation. A Report by the Community Workers Team'
'Tower Hamlets News' Volume 4 Number 7 February 1969

Also:
'Local Struggles in Tower Hamlets 1985-1986 press cuttings and reports' - press cuttings and reports on Tower Hamlets, Housing and Politics 1 file [formerly in blue lever arch file]

Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 3: 1 of 2:

Evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on Race and Immigration by Tower Hamlets Association for Racial Equality - June 1986 1 file
Employment in Docklands - by Docklands Forum and Birkbeck College 1990 1 volume
30 Reasons why Tower Hamlets Social and Liberal Democrats Council is Racist - unpublished draft Report by Gary Hewett 1994 1 wallet
'Race for Power II used information': Housing and Anti Racist reports, press articles and other documents - 1970s-1980s 1 file
'Local Housing Struggles' cuttings and other articles, with manuscript bibliography of relevant reports 1980s 1 file
'Local Housing Struggles 2' cuttings and other articles, with manuscript bibliography of relevant reports 1980s 1 file

Boxed as TH/10702: BAG 3: 2 of 2:

Housing Issues on the Isle of Dogs (Background information) - published by Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Committee of LBTH - Date ? 1 volume
42-66 Hanbury Street Closing Orders File including interviews with residents - compiled by Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service and Spitalfields Housing Cooperative. 1 folder
Princes Lodge Hostel Campaign ('Living Hell' ) - various press cuttings (including national Daily Mirror coverage by John Pilger) and campaign documents.   1 wallet
Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood Committee Reports - 1990 1 bundle. Includes other material to sort
'Speaking Out' Report of London Housing Inquiry by London Housing Forum- features Tower Hamlets pages 70-75 . Date ? 1 volume
'Urban Development Corporations - 6 Years in London Docklands ' report by Docklands Consultative Committee 1988 1 volume
'Taking Stock - the State of Housing in Tower Hamlets' published by THIRRC 1985 1 pamphlet
Also enclosing: 'Housing Halted - a Special Report' by Association of Island Communities (island Resource Centre) Date ? 1 volume
London Borough of Tower Hamlets Annual Housing Report to Residents 1994. 1 folder
'Out in the Cold' report and briefing pack by Tower Hamlets Homeless Families Campaign on use of 'intentionality', 1987 1 briefing pack
Spitalfields a Housing and Planning Rights Service Annual Report 1983 1 booklet
'Race and Housing Policy in Tower Hamlets' - by Rushanara Ali, unpublished Oxford University thesis 1 wallet
The Match Girls Strike 1880 by Reg Beer - Labour History Museum 1 volume
London County Council's Reconstruction of Stepney and Poplar 1945-65 by Andrew Moye - Central London Polytechnic. 1 volume
'Save Spitalfields' - A Photographic Exhibition Phil Maxwell 1989 1 pamphlet
St Mary's Centre, Whitechapel reports 1 bundle
Unsorted - cuttings, newsletters and annual reports [to be listed]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1960s-2000s</dc:date>
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