Papers of Peter Shore MP This collection consists of Peter Shore's local Labour Party papers, constituency correspondence and subject files. THE FOLLOWING ARE CATALOGUED and described in this catalogue: P/SHR/1: local Labour Party papers THE FOLLOWING ARE UNCATALOGUED: constituency correspondence and subject files. Please contact staff for further details on access. The constituency correspondence consists of letters with local people and about cases arranged into periods of office, by type of case or subject as follows: Benefits, business, development, Docklands, employment, education, health, housing, immigration - Bangladeshi, immigration - other and immigration - applications for citizenship, international, legal (including police and prisoners), Local / Tower Hamlets issues (arranged chronologically, 1992-1996), London, London Borough of Tower Hamlets; miscellaneous, national, organisations (local organisations and facilities), party politics, race relations, Spitalfields (covering 1975-1991); social services, tax, telecommunications and post office; transport; waste. Also general invitations; further constituents' correspondence arranged A-Z by surname. The files provide: -detailed history of housing cases, education needs, immigration support, race relations, transport infrastructure developments and Labour party politics in the borough of Tower Hamlets -document a rich tapestry of changes in the ethnic demographic of the borough including an era of heightened activism against state discrimination and racism -cover social histories and communities who are underrepresented. Click the PDF icon to browse descriptions to this collection in PDF 1959-1998