Loyalist League

Component identifier:

Series 21

Content Summary:

Herbert Brookes was convenor of the preliminary meeting at "Winwick" of the Citizens' Loyalist Committee in March 1918. This committee was the forerunner of the Loyalist League formed later that year; its functions were to prepare and publish literature to be distributed by means of its agents, mainly through the branches of the Victorian Protestant Federation.

Brookes was treasurer of both groups, and the financial statements for the period 10.4.1918-10.9.1920 are in the series.

There is a small amount of correspondence with E.D. Patterson and A. Leeper during 1918, 1919 and 1921 and copies of roneoed letters dated from 1921 until 1928 from M.J. McCarthy of the Christian Defence Effort in London. There are notes by Brookes, printed material, including the Loyalist Manifesto 1919, and press cuttings.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers of Herbert Brookes were presented to the National Library in April 1967 by his widow Ivy Deakin Brookes. In October 1967 she deposited her own extensive collection, and together they form the Brookes Papers.

Names:

Brookes, Ivy

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