Some career details of Mrs Annie (Longton) Thomas (b. Chorley, 1888)

• 1908 - 1919
  Certificated Teacher at St George’s School, Chorley, Lancashire
• 1911 - 1918
  Honorary Secretary K.H.A. College, Chorley
• 1918
  Certificated Teacher, Swansea Education Authority
• 1918-1925
  Member of the Womens Labour Advisory Council, South Wales
  Chairman and founder member of the West Wales Womens Labour Movement
• 1925 - 1939
  WEA Lecturer in Economics and International Relations.
  Chairman, Stoke-on-Trent WEA Branch
  Member of the Executive of the North Staffordshire Womens Council, Stoke-on-Trent
  Chairman of Nurses School Association.
• 1930 - 1939
  Member of the City of Stoke-on-Trent Education Committee, representing Manchester University
  Member of the Technical Committee of the North Staffordshire Technical College
  Member of the Art Committee of the Typographical Association
  Member of the Art Committee for the School of Art, Burslem
  Member of the Juvenile Employment Committee for Stoke-on-Trent
  Member of the Court of Referees, Stoke-on-Trent
  Member of the the Unemployment Centres Committee for the Pottery and Mining Industries
  Member of the Stoke-on-Trent Publicity Committee for the Pottery Industry, N. Staffs Council of the Pottery Industry
  Lecturer to Womens Institutes of North Staffordshire
  Lecturer to the Rotary Clubs in North Staffordshire
• 1930-33
  Research Scholar at Manchester University under Professors Fleure and Redford
• 1936
  British Association Meeting, Blackpool: delivered paper on ‘The Duke of Bridgewater, His Canals as a Contribution to British Industry’
• 1948
  Lecturer to League of Nations and United Nations Associations on international problems, with special reference to European and American countries
• 1908 - 1938
  Extensive travel abroad studying industrial, economic and educational institutes throughout Western Europe, the USA, Canada and the USSR.
• 1948 - 1960
  Chairman of the National Assistance Board Tribunal for Manchester and Salford. Retired on reaching the age limit for Tribunal Chairmen.

In addition to her service on public bodies she lectured on the following topics whilst living in Staffordshire in the period between the two World Wars:

• The League of Nations from 1919—1936
• Italy, Abyssinia and the League of Nations
• What Japan is up to in the Far East
• Women and War
• The Charm of Oxford and its Colleges
• The Educational System of England
• Wedgwood Ware—Its Charm and Art
• Old England in the Mail Coach Era
• Miles Standish of Duxbury, Od England
• The Famous Wedgwood Ware of Catherine II, Empress of Russia
• The Changing Map of Russia
• The New Towns of Russia
• The Economic Geography of Russia’s Arctic Activities
• Transport and the Conquest of Distance in Soviet Russia.