Co-operative history

The Rochdale area is famous for its historic links with the co-operative movement, including the Rochdale Pioneers and the formation of the Co-operative Wholesale Society.

We put a lot of material on the Co-operative Movement onto the old version of the Rochdale Council web site as part of our New Opportunities Fund funded digitisation project.

That material has now been successfully migrated to the Leisure Trust's Link4Life web site, which houses Rochdale's Local Studies pages.

The Local Studies Portal now includes a section providing detailed links to these pages as well as preset searches of the Library Catalogue for materials in the Co-operative Collection and the Local Studies collections and a selection of preset searches of the Newspaper Index.