[Manuscript] National Women's Total Abstinence Union | Bitterne Park Branch Minute Book

Title above on printed label on front cover, printed except for place Bitterne Park, a suburb of Southampton, hence Minute Book, 4to, with records (minutes) of meetings, 96pp. (monthly and committee meetings, 12pp. (annual meetings). The meetings end with prayers. Subjects include: a resignation; appointments; social afternoons; financial arrangements; pianist resigned; soloist appointed; re-elections; proposal oif a "Devotional Meeting" with a collection; treasurer's report; committee listed with their specialist functions (President to Thriift Club); Tiny Tots Tea; speakers; sales; inter alia. With 5 enclosed items of printed ephemera: i. Rules [1928], one page; ii. NBWTAU Hampshire County Union, Rules for Competitions, one page; iii. [NBWTAU] Price List for 1937-9, 4pp., 12mo. (receipt books, hymn sheets, posters, blank window bills, badges, etc, with items aimed at children, students, teachers and speakers, including pamphlets with titles like "Barmaids", "Clubs and the Drink Problem", lives of temperance heroines, etc.); iv. [NBWTAU] "Littel White Ribboner Department", one page (organising "White Ribbon Baby Week"); v. Printed receipt with items bought in manuscript.Note: "The Women’s Total Abstinence Union (WTAU) was a British temperance movement founded in 1893 as a breakaway group from the British Women’s Temperance Association (BWTA). This split was due to differences in policy towards women’s suffrage and political activism against which the founding members of the WTAU wished to distance themselves. Despite this, the WTAU maintained close links with other temperance and women’s movements with common aims and objectives."