Noreen and Clive Branson

The Branson Archive

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THE BRANSON ARCHIVE The motions had been carried and the meeting had gone on even as the shadows lengthened across the floor of Conway Hall. Reports of the Nazi book burnings in Berlin had been discussed and condemned but talk is ever cheap and something needed to be done right away. It had already been agreed to establish a library in the honour of Karl Marx, as a permanent centre for socialist research, but a suitable property just could not be found. Even in 1933, his earliest address in affluent Chelsea was beyond the means of the fund raised from donations by working people. His homes bordering Camden were not for sale, and the series of dismal rooms he had lodged his family in, around Soho, had been as unsuitable, then, for human habitation, as they were, now, for the establishment of a major library. Somewhere else would have to be found.

The meeting broke up, and a young couple present, Clive and Noreen Branson, headed home across Clerkenwell Green. They passed by a substantial building, “neglected and almost ruinous”, that had once been the site of the Twentieth Century Press. The upper floor was for rent and, on their bus ride back to Battersea, the couple recalled the names of all those who had worked there and been associated with its development: William Morris, Eleanor Marx, Walter Crane, Harry Quelch, Lenin and Krupskaya. Here was a property whose history already embraced the history of the British Labour Movement, where theory and practice, the writing of prose and the production of print, already combined. What better place, they thought, for the Marx Memorial Library?

Within days a decision had been taken to attempt to purchase the property and, as autumn approached, Clive and Noreen were instrumental in negotiating the sale on behalf of the Movement. This process marked not just the beginnings of the Marx House, but also the start of a lifelong commitment to the Library and all its work on behalf of the couple that would help to define both the institution and the careers of these enormously talented individuals.

Their decision not to stand idly at the sidelines, while fascism threatened at home and abroad, came at a price. They were prominent in organising demonstrations against Moseley’s Blackshirts in the poorer districts of Battersea, and Clive took part in the recruitment and despatch of volunteers to fight fascism in Spain. He, himself, joined the International Brigade in 1938 was captured in the dying days of the Spanish Republic and spent eight months inside one of Franco’s jails before being repatriated to Britain. During the Second World War, he volunteered for active service and fought in the Burma Campaign. His letters, notes and sketchbooks, from that time, reveal his interest in the indigenous cultures he experienced; his unswerving commitment to the battle against fascism on all fronts; and his commitment to the struggles of national liberation being waged by the peoples of the Far East.

Indeed, his book British Soldier in India became influential among both Congress and Communist Party members in their struggles against colonialism after 1945. Tragically, Clive would not live to see either its publication, or the independence achieved by India and Pakistan. The life of this accomplished poet and painter was cut short by a Japanese bullet during the battle for Arakan in 1944.

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Noreen, too, had been prominent in the anti-colonial movement, acting as a courier for the Comintern to the Communist Party of India in Bombay. Post War, she specialised in writing on the social services and the provision of welfare in Britain. From 1944 to 1972, she was the editor of the Labour Research journal and did much to guide the development of the Labour Research Department from September 1938 up until her death in October 2003. Her devotion to the Marx Memorial Library remained as a constant throughout her life. She held office as Vice-President and, in 1999, at her last major public engagement, she welcomed Bill Morris, the General Secretary of the T&G Union, to the building and thanked him for the donation of the new front doors from his membership.

As in the beginning, the interdependence of the unions and a theoretical institute was stressed and a life of passion, commitment and creativity had come full-circle.

Upon her death, her political papers were donated by her family to the Marx Memorial Library. They comprise material gathered in the process of research for her books – most notably her third and fourth volumes of the official History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, published by Lawrence & Wishart, in 1985 and 1997; and her account of Poplarism, chronicling the revolt of London councillors in that borough, in favour of better living conditions, from 1919 to 1925 – together with runs of her correspondence and work for the Labour Research Department.

In addition, the archive also includes material and correspondence relating to the life of Clive Branson, from his boyhood onwards. Together with his sketches and reproductions of some of his better known paintings, now in the Tate Gallery, there are the manuscripts of his poems and his notes on Marxism.

For the sake of clarity, the papers relating to Clive and Noreen have been ordered into two separate, yet complimentary collections. Both are fully indexed within this single catalogue.

The need for this catalogue was recognised by the Committee of the Marx Library, on receiving the bulk of the archival material in the Easter of 2004, and it is the work of a collective effort and a continuing commitment to make Library materials available to the widest number of students, academics and researchers. The archival work was begun by Muriel Hevey, a trained archivist and Librarian, and member of the Marx Library Committee, who worked on the papers from 2004-2006. The task was completed by Jonna Laine, and the catalogue, itself, was designed and edited, in the spring of 2008, by Hayley Murphy. Thanks are also due to Rosa Branson, an accomplished artist and the daughter of Clive and Noreen, for all of her help and the gift of the papers to the Library.

It is to be hoped that, in time, this collection will be supplemented by Clive’s other notebooks from his time in Spain, and that it will inspire fresh generations of writers and researchers to revisit the struggles and sacrifices of the 1930s40s. It provides ample testimony of the power of the British Labour Movement to change social and political conditions for the better; and of two individuals, within it, who shared in those struggles and experienced lives that were welllived.

John Callow, Director of the Marx Memorial Library 22 September 2008

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CONTENTS The list of numbered files forming the Noreen Branson Archive is followed by the Clive Branson Collection, the file numbers of which are preceded by ‘C’.

A. PUBLICATIONS, WRITINGS

80 81 82 83 84

’Our History’ ’Our History’ Journal Public meetings Source material – pre 1939 to 2000 Source material 1893 – 1990s

85

CPGB History Group and Socialist History Society

86 – 91

Socialist History Society

92

Notices of meetings etc.

93

London Socialist Historian’s Group Arthur Horner Collection and J.S. Williams’ papers

1 – 15 1 – 13 14 15

History of the CPGB 1927 – 1941 and 1941 – 1951 Notes and other material supporting these two publications Source material 1844 – 1996 Resources material 1941

16 – 30 16 – 30

Poplarism Notes and other material

94

31 – 32 31 32

Book reviews Reviews about Noreen Branson’s books Reviews by Noreen Branson

D. ’DOCUMENTS’ FILES

33 – 39 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

Correspondence 1940s to 1960s 1978 – 1979 1980 – 1989 1990 – 1993 1994, 1995, 1996 1997 – 1999 2000

40

Diaries

41 – 58

Notebooks

59

Personal papers

60

Publishing

95 96 97 98 99 100

1940s File 1 1940s File 2 1940s File 3 1940s File 4 More 1940s 1941

E. OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES (Excluding the Labour Party. See file no. 133) 101

Green Socialist

102

Democratic Left

103

Green Socialist Network

104

Green Socialist Newsletter

105

Green Socialist Network continued

B. COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN

106

New Politics Network 2000 – 2002

107

New Times Network 1996 – 2000

61 – 62

Congress reports

108

Green Left

63

Leadership

64

Party organisation

65

Rules

66

Affiliation of the Communist Party to the Labour Party

67

Dissolution of the Communist International

68

Immediate post – war campaign

C. COMMUNIST PARTY AND POST CP HISTORY GROUPS 69

Communist History Network

70

Communist Oral History Project

71

Communist Party of Great Britain Historians’ Group and History Group

72 – 84 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79

Communist Party of Great Britain History Group Committee meetings Conference material Correspondence List of publications for sale Membership survey Committee members The CP and the armed forces – meeting 1956 Labour Committee relations

F. REMAINING FILES A – Z 109

Archive Trust of the CPGB 1920 – 1991

110

Biographical material

111

British Road to Socialism

112

Burns, John

113

Cabinet Office. Committee on Communist activities

114

Colonies and Colonial questions

115

Comintern and the CPGB microfilms

116

Comintern Archives

117

Comintern congresses

118

Education

119

Electoral Reform

120

Fascism and Anti – Fascism

121

German re – armament

122

Germany

123

Heinemann, Margot

124

Hinton, James

125 – 130 Highgate, Hornsey, Hampstead, Haringey and Muswell Hill

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125 – 127 Documents 1960s. Issues; Housing, transport, homeless, the elderly, education etc 128 – 130 Documents 1960s, 1990s, 2000s

176

The Rent Acts. Documents 1950s – 1980s

131

Intellectuals

177 – 178 Housing documents 177 1940s and 1950s 178 1970s

132

Interviews

179

Gardens for the working class – CP’s housing policy

133

Labour Party

180

Building industry

134

Labour Research Department

181 – 182 Building trades

135

League against Imperialism

183 – 184 Buildings and land

136

Lenin School

137 – 151 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145

Manuscripts Arthur Clegg Andy Croft Arthur Exell Jim Fyrth Kate Hudson J. B. Jones Marjorie Pollitt Sheelah Treherne Richard C. Wallhead

146

National Minority Movement

147

Northern Ireland

148

Peace

149

Squatters

150

Squires, Mike

151

Stevens, Richard

152 – 163 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163

Talks by Noreen Branson Report of the Borrie Commission on Social Justice The contribution made by Poplar Councillors The Budget 1995 Class against class Anti – Fascist and Anti – War struggles ’Aid to Spain’ movement in Battersea Battle of Cable Street Work with National Liberation movements Thatcherism and the fight against it The CP’s first 25 years The CPGB and Moscow State of the Nation. Post 1961

164 – 166 164 165 166

Talks by others Fine, Ben: Imperialism Francis, Hywel: Arthur Horner Clegg, Arthur: The China Campaign Committee

167

The Week

168

Wrigley, Chris

G. HOUSING 169

Rents. Documents 1970s

170

Differential rents. Documents 1960s, 1970s

171

District heating (1948). Documents 1948

172

’Home Front’. Documents 1940 – 1941

173

Housing policy, council house sales. Documents 1970s

174

Mobile homes (caravans). Documents 1970s

175

Housing. Documents 1980

H. WELFARE 185

Equal pay, tuberculosis. Documents 1940s

186

Home helps. Documents 1946

187

Achievements of Labour Authorities. Documents 1940s

188

Municipal meals. Documents 1948

189

Outdoor relief. Documents 1946

190

Social Security. Documents 1960s, 1970s, 1980s

191

Social Security, welfare payments. Documents 1990s

BRANSON, Noreen ARCHIVE A. PUBLICATIONS, WRITINGS 1 – 15

HISTORY of the CPGB 1927 – 1941 and 1941 – 1951

Notes and other material The notes for these publications are filed in Ring Binders. The contents are similar to Noreen Branson’s Notebooks, see ‘Notebooks’ files 41 – 45, handwritten pages of notes, torn from Red Notebooks, punched and filed.

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1926, 1927, 1928, 1929 2.

1930, 1931 3.

1931, 1932 4.

1932, 1933, 1934 5.

1938 – 1939 January – August 6.

1941 7.

1945, 1946, 1947 8.

1946 – 1949 9.

1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 History of the CPGB 1927 – 1941 10.

References, correspondence, drafts List of James Klugmann’s folders List of Central Committee members History of the CPGB 1941 – 1951 11.

Comments, correspondence, mss. work and typescript on notes and index for the published work List of Labour Party proscribed organisations List of communist Party (numbers) List of Executive Committee members 12.

Reviews 13.

Top copy of typescript – work still in preparation 14.

Source material 1844 – 1996 1844 Baxter, John: We’ll be masters now…1844 miners strike, Sheffield …Holberry Society, 1896 1922 Points for speakers, no 1. CPGB 21.7.1922.

Honours for money 1926 Worker’s bulletin. CPGB (Barrow) Strike special 10.5.1926

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Pit and factory papers issued by the CPGB 1927 – 1934;

by Edmund and Ruth Frow 1996 Discussion no.5. June 1936 CPGB The political and social doctrine of communism; by R.P.Dutt.

Hogarth Press 1938. (Day to day pamphlets no.39) 1938 Let’s be proud of our city. CPGB (Nottingham) 1943 Brieux, Eugene: Damaged goods ( Play dealing with syphilis, written in 1919).This edition performed in Britain in the 1940s 1944 Coal. CPGB 1943 How long will it last? Speech by W.Gallagher, House of Commons 21 September 1943 1943 British soldier looks at India; letters of Clive Branson.

Indian abridged edition 1946 Greeknews v.1 no’s 5, 6, 7, 8 July – October 1946 1950(?)Darragh, John: The closed shop and 100% trade unionism 1920- Matthews, George: All for the cause: The CP. 1920 – 1980 1980 1980 Roberts, Geoff: How the peace was lost: British Communism 1941 – 1945. Draft article 1980- Selden, Anthony: Making the Downing Street years.

1990s Reprinted from ‘Contemporary Record v.8 no.1, summer 1994 pp.84 – 102 1987 The re-exploration of Soviet history. Letter from Monty Johnstone in ‘Seven Days’, 3 October 1987. (Biographies of J. Stalin) 1991 Capital Communist. No date. London District CPGB 1990 Letter from the Executive Committee CPGB to the members. Programme for the year.

1991 Statement from the Political Committee, CPGB, on Reuben Falber’s revelations. (Money from Moscow) 1992 Davies, Catrin: Free and equal in dignity and rights? Quarter council for European affairs. (Trafficking of women to Europe) 1990s 150 years of the Co-op. New Statesman supplement.17.June1994 1995 Moscow gold? The true story of the Kremlin, British Communism and the Left. New Statesman supplement 7.April 1995 1995 - Up against the odds: An account of the J.J. Fast Food 1996 workers’ strike, Tottenham 1995 – 1996; by John McArthur. (Revolutions per minute pamphlet no.6) 1927 1934 1936 1938

15.

Resources material 1941 No date Manchester and war: A.R.P. sensation: Labour’s demand. (No date, no publisher) No date Phillips, Morgan: The Communists: We have been warned. Labour Party.(No date, post war) No date Y.C.L.. A national policy and programme for British youth. Draft 1926 Organising report of the Central Committee of the CPGB 1926 1930’s Fagan, Hymie: England for all. Key books no.12. Fore publications1930’s 1936 Discussion May 1936. CPGB. Photocopy 1937 Pollitt, Harry: How to win the war. CPGB September 1930 1938 Burns, Emile: Mr Keynes answered. Lawrence and Wishart.

1940 1940 Arnot, R.Page: 20 years. Lawrence and Wishart. 1940 1940 McShane, Harry: John MacLean. CPGB September 1940 1940 Pollitt. Harry: Wages; a policy. (Communist Party series no.4) December 1940 1940 Springhall, D.F.: Fairplay for servicemen and their families.

(Communist Party series no.3) November 1940 1941 Food, what must be done. (Communist Party series no.6)

February 1941 1941 Campbell, J.R: Doing well out of the war? (Letters to Bill no.3) January 1941 1943 C.P.G.B. The Communist Party and the Labour Party. 1943.

(Affiliation) 1944 Kerrigan, Peter: The Communist Party CPGB. August 1944 16 – 30 POPLARISM Abbreviations used in Noreen Branson’s material BGM Poplar Board of Guardians material DH Daily Herald EEN East Era News ELA East London Advertiser ELO East London Observer LLC London Labour Chronicle MAB Metropolitan Asylum Board Metropolitan Common Poor Fund MCPF PCB Poplar Borough Council Minutes PRO Public Record Office THL Tower Hamlets Library. Local history Collection Notes and other material Notes for ‘Poplarism’ are found in: a.

Files – hard cover ring binders 16 – 20 b.

Spirally bound A4 (+) notebooks 21 – 27 c.

Folders containing documentary material a. Ring binders: 16. 1.

1918 – 1922 17. 2.

1919 – 1921 18. 3.

1921

28 – 30

19. 4. 1921 – 1922 20. 5. 1923 – 1927

b. Spirally bound notebooks: 21. 1.

Biographical notes 22. 2.

London Labour Party 1922 23. 3.

Notes from newspapers, press etc. Municipal Alliance. 1921 – 1923 24. 4.

Board of Guardians, mainly. 1923 – 1924 25. 5.

PRO, Cabinet and Parliamentary papers, various sources and journals. 1921 26. 6.

Various sources, mainly Poplar B.C.. 1919 – 1922 27. 7.

Various sources, chiefly L.S.E. Lansbury Collection and PRO for Cabinet papers Dates covered in these two sequences are not exclusive. In every binder or folder, odd items from other dates appear c. Folders 28. 1.

Notes for Poplar talk. ‘Reviews of Poplarism’. Correspondence.

Requests for help. Photocopy of the ‘Record of proceedings in Brixton Prison’. Copy of ‘Labour in power and not in power: The story of the Metropolitan Borough Councils 1919 – 1922. London Labour Party. Municipal Circular no.91 London Labour Party. 5 August 1921.

29. 2.

Collection of photocopies and typescripts of articles and pamphlets about the events in Poplar, including a copy of the play ‘Guilty and proud of it: Poplar’s answer…’ with the original of the Lord Chancellor’s licence to perform 1953. Official reports on the re-issue of the ‘Poplar Order’ 1924; unemployment relief; destitution and unemployment conference 1910; enquiry into the expenditure of the Guardians 1922. Memories of old Poplar, by John Blake.

30. 3.

Documentary biographical material. Death certificates, correspondence and photocopies 31 – 32 BOOK REVIEWS 31.

Letters, notes, press cuttings about Noreen Branson’s books, mainly the ‘History of the CPGB 1927 – 1941’ Many letters arising from the ‘History of the CPGB’ 32 Book reviews by Noreen Branson

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in wartime -Kingsford, Robert: Discrimination at work and in the army -Watkins, Nat: Biographical material -Fyrth, J: Paper on ‘Stalin and an alternative’

33 – 39 CORRESPONDENCE Noreen kept this correspondence in bundles, largely in date order. These bundles have been retained, and each has a file number. A selection from each file has been listed, to show the material to be found.

33.

34.

35.

36.

37.

38.

1940s to 1960s. Including letters from D.N.Pritt, Roy Welensky, Andrew Rothstein 1978 – 1979. Including: -Typescript of the life of Kay Beauchamp and the Lenin School -Typescript of ‘The building societies, the ‘pool’ arrangements and mortgage commission’ 1928 – 1941 -Typescript of a critique of John Sommerfield and his novel ‘Mayday’ -Draft of article or talk on ‘class against class’ -Items dealing with the preparation of the history of the CPGB -Correspondence with J.Saville, R.P.Arnot and many others -Correspondence with James Hinton on the Labour Unity Campaign and Evelyn Denington: Critical material on M.Dobb’s publication on ‘Marxism today’ -Biographical material on Idris Cox, Leo McGree, C.Hoyle, plus information about party members known to him (C.H.) 1980 – 1989. Including: -A copy of Kate Hudson’s speech to the 1997 London District Congress -Communist Party Archive. List of surplus CP pamphlets 1950s and 1960s for sale -Turner, D: Public Order -Carrit, M: ‘Mad dogs and Englishmen’ synopsis.

-Wilson, Alistair; his CP activities, including Cambridge in the 1930s -copy of letter from Saklatvala regarding the attitude of the Communist Party to the Labour Party.

-Typed copy of ’60 years of the CPGB: the struggle for Communist Labour Unity -Correspondence and biographical material: Larry O’Connor Alun Lewis – the peoples poet Correspondence about Trevor Stallard, Dick Belsay and Eve Reckitt -Monty Johnstone – Archives of the CPSUB Institute of Marxism – Leninism, Moscow 1990 – 1993 -Cable Street – Witness seminar. Yvonne Kapp’s memoir -Monty Johnstone -Morgan, Marguerite – Part of main. Notes for a review -Andy Croft and Randall Swingler -The first Communist M.P. Arena correspondence -Durkin, Tony: Squatters -Jackson, Angela: Women in the Spanish Civil war 1994, 1995, 1996 -Labours contact for a new Britain. Photocopy with Noreen Branson’s notes on it -Copy of D.Turner’s ‘CP and the armed forces’ -King, Francis: Archival sources on the CPGB; by -More correspondence and reviews of the ‘History of the CPGB 1927 – 1941' -Lewis Grassic Gibson -Andy Croft -Opening the books. (CP seminar) -List of microfilms (CPGB material) See COMINTERN file 1997 – 1999 -Robert Fyson on Stephen Swingler -Jean Jones on the History of the CPGB 1951 – 1968 -Fyson, references to Clive Branson in Stephen Swingler’s letters

39.

2000 -J.Saville -Bill Rust’s daughter -Many requests for help

40. DIARIES 1986-1989 1989-1993 1992-1994 1993-1996 1996-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 1985-2001, Log book of the flowers in her garden, when they bloomed and died.

41 – 58 NOTEBOOKS Red covers, no. 14 in green.

These are working notebooks, 17 in number. All contains miscellanies of different records: drafts of letters, articles, addresses, telephone numbers, notes, references, fragments of verse, aides – memoirs, statistics, tables and so on.

There is no order in the notebooks, items are added without any necessary connection.

The handwriting is difficult.

Large sections have been torn out and removed to other files.

Many new publications are annotated or reviewed in draft. It is not possible to identify all the books mentioned; most of these notes probably form part of published pieces.

Of each notebook, only the more important or well represented contents have been listed. In the case of draft reviews or other notes about books, the details of only the most clearly identified have been given.

The identification of others must wait for an editor to untangle.

41. 1.

Notes for Jack Gaster’s birthday book, 2003

42. 2.

Susan Lawrence; ‘Labours first century’ by Duncan Tanners and others; Welfare Benefits Handbook

43. 3.

Autobiographical notes by Noreen Branson; preparation of name index. (See also file 48)

44. 4.

‘Benefits and work’ an A.C.A.B. perspective on the welfare to work debate.

N.A.C.A.B. other publications dealing with the same theme; answers to questions about the CP; notes about Anne Godwin and changes in the leadership of various unions; notes on ‘Getting the balance right’.

Numbers of M.P.’s by party (1997 election)

45. 5.

Walter Newbold; ‘Chemsford Star’: a co-operative history; by Malcolm Wallace; Eddie Frow; new Labour and Thatcherism; by Richard Hefferman

46. 6.

Quotes from press on benefits system; copious notes from Hansard on House of Commons debate 28th January 1999 on benefits system. Plus Noreen Branson’s own comments; review of ‘The case for abolishing nuclear weapon’; By Jonathan Schell.

Granta Books

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47. 7.

Largely deals with Colonial matters and the CPGB

48. 8.

Part of review of ‘ Musk, Silk and Society’; by J.Platts – Mills.

Preparation of name index. (See also file 43)

49. 9.

Notes for Noreen Branson’s autobiography

50.10.

Notes about Jack Gaster

51.11.

Godwin, Anne; Notes about anti – communists; Labour Research Dept A.G.M; T.U.C. 1968, 1969; Family credit, income related benefits, council tax, disability payments etc. Quotations from the press about the Welfare State

52.12.

Review of ‘Making votes count: the case reform’; by Martin Linton and M.S.Southcott. Profile Books.

Review notes for ‘The political tragedy of J.T.Murphy’; by Ralph Darlingoton and the autobiography ‘Molly Murphy: Suffragette and Socialist.’ Introduction by Ralph Darlington

53.13.

John Mortimer’s autobiography; Sylvia Pankhurst’s autobiography

54.14.

List of articles by Margot Heinmann; correspondence with Andy Croft; correspondence with W.Thomson about L.R.D.; notes for books on the twenties and thirties

55.15.

‘Frank Allaun 1913 – 2002'. Review and the copy of book; copious notes on ‘Paving the third way’; edited by David Coates

56.16.

Review notes for ‘Labours first century’; essays by various authors; edited by Duncan Taylor, Pat Thane and Nick Tiratsoo. (see also file 57). Tom Wintringham; Biographical notes; John Platts – Mills; Autobiography; CPGB since 1920; Poverty in Scotland 2000; more notes on poverty

57.17.

58.18.

(Unnumbered by Noreen Branson) The Tottenham bookshop; more about ‘Labours first century’. ( See also file 56) (This notebook was adrift in the files, and unnumbered by Noreen Branson) Notes on various publications 1946 – 1949

59. PERSONAL PAPERS 60. PUBLISHING Accounts and correspondence with publishers 1965 – 2003

18th 1945 November. Resolutions and agenda 19th 1945- December – November. Report of the Executive 1946 Committee 21st 1948- February – July. Report of the Executive Committee.

1949 ‘Communist policy to meet the crisis’. Congress report 22nd 1949- November – December. Report of the Executive 1951 Committee 27th 1959- January – December. Report of the Executive 1960 Committee 30th 1960 25 – 28 November. Resolutions and amendments 32nd 1969- August – July. Report of the Executive Committee 1971 33rd 1971- August – July. Report of the Executive Committee 1973 34th 1973- August – July. Report of the Executive Committee 1975 35th 1975- August – July. Report of the Executive Committee 1977 36th 1977- August – July. Report of the Executive Committee 1979 62.

Congress reports 43rd 1991 22 – 24 November. “Special Congress 91". Election addresses from Executive Committee and Appeals Committee nominees. Plus supplement to above.

Amendments [to the draft constitution] Executive Committee comments on amendments to rule

63. LEADERSHIP Lists of membership of leading committees 64. PARTY ORGANISATION Documents, 17 December 1944, March 1945 and 10 September 1946 Report of the Commission on Inner-Party Democracy. 25 Special congress 19 – 22 April 1957 Correspondence with Dave Morgan on factory branches. 1988 65. RULES CPGB Statutes and Rules adopted at 1932 Congress, Battersea Draft rules, April 1943, to be presented to the 16th National Congress Revised draft rules, June 1943 Draft constitution of the CPGB…16th Congress, London 7 – 9 October 1939

B. COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN 61 – 62 CONGRESS REPORTS 61.

Congress reports 1922 7 October. Report on organisation presented to the Annual Conference 10th 1929 19 – 22 January. The ‘new line’ covers only 12th 1932 12 – 15 November. Resolutions adopted 13th 1935 2 – 5 February. Draft programme ‘For Soviet Power’.

Draft resolution on the CP and economic struggles ‘A call to all workers’; by Harry Pollitt with the resolutions of congress 14th 1937 Report of the Central Committee; draft resolution; complete report without cover 15th 1938 16 – 19 September. ‘For peace and plenty’. Report of congress 16th 1939 7 – 9 October. Report of the Central Committee; draft programme. This congress was abandoned 1942 National conference: ‘The CP on the way to win’, decisions of the National Conference May 1942 1943 ’Unity and Victory’. Report of congress 17th 1944 28 – 30 October. ‘Victory, Peace, security’. Report of congress

Rules adopted by national Congress, July 1943 Pamphlet – Organise to mobilise millions. March 1943. (Includes draft Party rules) 66. AFFILIATION OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY TO THE LABOUR PARTY Affiliation of the Communist Party to the Labour Party. CP statements and Labour Anti-communist statements.

The tactics of disruption: Communist methods exposed. T.U.C. March 1949 The Labour Party and Communist affiliation. Labour Party, March 1946.

Leaflet Labour Party. Notes for speakers: 1. The CP and affiliation. March 1946. Set of cards 2. The CP and the war. March 1946. Set of cards The same as a pamphlet. April 1946.

Laski’s mistake. CP April 1946. (Professor Laski’s case against affiliation.

Dimitrov’s speech, Sofia 7 February 1946 in rebuttal.)

Laski, Harald J. The secret battalion: An examination of the Communist attitude to the Labour Party. April 1946 Union leaders vindicated…(Libel action, Sir Walter Citrine against

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proprietors of The Daily Worker, Monday 29 April 1940). Published by the T.U.C. 109p.

Stocks of History Group publications This file includes; Socialist History Society lists of items for sale.

Communist Party of Great Britain. Notes for speakers: Service questions, food and farming, housing. Set of cards 1945.

20 questions and answers. Set of cards 1945 (Both set are supplements to ‘Information for speakers’ CP 1945)

76.

Membership survey 1983 – 1984

77.

Names and addresses of committee members

78.

‘The Communist Party and the Armed Forces’ meeting 1986 Many accounts of personal experience, letters from: George Barnsby Joe Berry Bill Carritt Hymie Fagan Harry Fuller Jim Fyrth Jack Gaster Alfred Jenkin Wally McFarlane Fred Westacott Copies of publications, articles, photocopies of relevant passages from Hansard

79.

Labour Communist relations List of materials, prepared by Bill Moore, together with copies of some of the items

80.

Our History: no. 5 Pamphlet no. 12 40 41 46 47

67. DISSOLUTION OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ‘The Communist Party and the Comintern’ 26 May 1943. CP document covering resolutions etc., including one on CP affiliation to the Labour Party.

‘Proposal for the dissolution of the ‘Communist International’ as published in ‘Pravda’, 22 May, 1943 68. IMMEDIATE POST – WAR CAMPAIGN Political letter from H.Pollitt ‘Now we face the future’, 1 August, 1945 London District Committee bulletin, 24 and 31 August 1945, dealing with the Municipal Election Conference The National Conference on Municipal and social questions. 1947

C. COMMUNIST PARTY AND POST CP HISTORY GROUPS 69. COMMUNIST HISTORY NETWORK Newsletters: no. 1 Missing 2 October 1996 3 April 1997 4 October 1997 5 April 1998 6 October 1998 7 April 1999 8 July 2000 - Special notice 9 Autumn 2000 10 Spring 2001 11 Autumn 2001 12 Spring 2002 70. COMMUNIST ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ‘Talking Red’: Newsletter of the COHP; V.1 no. 1 Winter 1995 – 1996 V.2 no. 1 Spring 1997 V.2 no. 2 Winter 1997 71. COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN HISTORIANS’ GROUP AND HISTORY GROUP Archive 1946 – 1991 Listings and correspondence 72 – 84 COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN HISTORY CLUB 72.

Committee meetings: Notices, agenda, minutes, AGM material 73.

Conference material

74.

Correspondence and other communications between Committee members and others, additional to Committee meetings file. Up to 1992 Lists of publications for sale Early issues of ‘Our History’ 2 copies ‘Our History’ Numbers out of print. 3 copies Pamphlets of the Communist Party, the Labour Party and related organisations Rare pamphlets. 2 copies Select bibliographies of the History of the ‘British Labour movement’ 1760 – 1939. 1 copy

75.

1957 Winter 1958 Winter 1965 – 1966 Summer 1966 June 1967 September 1967

81.

Our History Journal: no. 1 December 1977 2 July 1978 3 October 1978 5 June 1979 6 July 1980 7 Winter 1983 – 1983 8 April 1984 9 March 1985 11 January 1987 12 January 1988 13 December 1988

82.

Public meetings; Notices

83.

Source material Miscellaneous papers, mainly pre 1939 to 2000.

History of May Day. Correspondence relating to the records of a family named Hawtrey, some of whom were residents in Moscow.

Page of information about working conditions in the USA, and the job facing the Red Trade Unions organisation.

Letter (No date, must have been written in 1914 – 1918) from Luton Shop Stewards’ Committee to G.Lansbury. It deals with ‘ industrial conscription’ and penalties for bad time keeping.

Letter (as a handbill) from Isabel Brown, workers’ international relief, asking for help to the Chinese Trade Unionists attempting to fight against Japanese occupation and forced labour. 4 May 1932 Letter from Chelsea Trades council and Labour Party Left Wing Group calling for attendance at a meeting to establish a left wing presence on the council.

11 December 1925.

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84.

Source material Miscellaneous texts 1893 – 1990s 1. An appeal to the manhood of the men in uniform of the ‘Brooklyn’ and ‘Suffolk’. Vladivostok 23 March 1918.

1 page. Duplicated typescript. (Origin unknown, US?) 2. Committee appointed to inquire into the disturbances at Featherstone on the 7 September 1893. Report. H.M.S.O.1893.

12p. Photocopy C7234. (Striking miners) 3. History today. Photocopies of a series of articles published in 1991. Eminent historians discuss whether in the light of dramatic upheavals in Eastern Europe, Marxism or other-isms retain any validity as tools for interpreting history.

4. Kiernan, Victor. On treason. Reprinted from London Review of books, 25 June 1987 and Diary. 2p. (Source unknown) 5. Moore, Bill. All out! The dramatic story of the Sheffield demonstration against dole cuts on 6 February 1935. Plus the four page leaflet published by the Holberry Society.

6. Moore, Bill. Address given at the dedication of the Holberry Plaque, Sheffield, 18 December 1998. 4p.

7. Moore, Bill. Cold war in Sheffield: The story of the Second World Peace Congress, November 1950.

8. Morgan, Dave. Notes on Stalinism. 13p. Duplicated typescript.

(Post 1996).

9. Morris, William. Selected quotations from lectures. 5p.

no.8 no.9 no.10 no.11 no.12 75.

Spring 1995 Summer 1995 Autumn 1995 Spring 1996 Autumn 1996 Spring / Summer 1997 Autumn / Winter 1997 Summer 1998 Spring 1999

June 2001 December 2001 January 2002 Stop Press May 2002 June 2002 August 2002 October 2002 December 2002

Publications [List of items for sale] This is included in file 75 – Lists of publications for sale. CPGB. History Group

92. NOTICES OF MEETINGS, ETC. (Not Socialist History Society or CPGB History Group) Publicity leaflets. Notices of forthcoming books and other publications. Socialist History Society and others 93. LONDON SOCIALIST HISTORIAN’S GROUP Leaflets, newsletter 94. ARTHUR HORNER COLLECTION AND J.S.WILLIAMS’ PAPERS Arthur Horner collection: Papers of Arthur Horner listed in detail, including pamphlets and photographs. (No indication of where these records are held) Williams, J.S: Schedule of the J.S.Williams’ (Dowlais) papers. South Wales Miners’ Library, K / 80 Very detailed listing of the collection

10. Radical statistics, no.52. Autumn 1992.

11. Saklatvala, Shapurji: A few thoughts on party work. 18p.

Photostat form the Communist international Archive.

12. Secret diplomacy of the triple alliance. 2p. Duplicated copy, origin unknown. (Industrial action by miners, April 1921).

13. Sheffield charter ’88. Leaflet. 2p.

14. The struggle must continue. London District CP. Leaflet to recruit from the Dock industry, together with preparatory copy.

No date.

15. Turner, David. British Communism and Soviet espionage: The case of Dave Springhall. 9p. Source Unknown.

85. CPGB HISTORY GROUP AND SOCIALIST HISTORY SOCIETY Manuscript notes and notebook, found loose in the files of the above two groups. (Noreen Branson’s material) 86 – 91 SOCIALIST HISTORY SOCIETY 86.

87.

Socialist History Society: Annual programmes Public meetings, notices Committee meetings: Notices Agenda Minutes AGM material

88.

Conference materials

89.

Correspondence and notices between committee members (Additional to notices of meetings, agenda etc.) 1992 – 2002

90.

Names and addresses of committee members

91.

Socialist history Society newsletter November 1993 June 2000 January 1994 January 2001 Autumn 1994 May 2001

D. ‘DOCUMENTS’ FILES 1940 – 1941 The term covers all manner and documents. Notes, correspondence, cuttings, articles, political notes of the time. Notes on the various party conferences, TUC conferences, etc. Statistics on CP membership and circulation of the Daily Worker.

The documents are grouped in bundles with a date span – this seems to refer to the period of interest of the material, and not to when it appeared.

Each bundle or folder is not in any helpful order and contains stray items, which to the user may appear misfiled.

Any substantial document has been noted, but this is no indication of its relative importance among the collected items.

95. 1940s File 1 Photocopy of pages 186 – 211 (Stealing the thunder of the Left) from ‘Ministry of Morale’; by Ian MacLaine.

Britain; (By Lon Elliott?) An account of the Spanish Civil war and the work of the International Brigade Association.

‘The Communist Party of Great Britain’ 14 January 1939 (Translation of 16 page Russian document prepared by the Cadres Committee of the E.C.C.I.).

Information about leading personnel, among other matters.

Notes about London Women’s Parliament, Hitler, Soldiers, the CP and the Co-Ops. Biographical information about: John Campbell Finlay Hart M.Cornforth Maria Jessop Wm.Cow Peter Kerrigan Idris Cox Hymie Lee George Crane H.Pollitt Palme Dutt J.Roche

W.Rust J.Shields D.Springhall R.Steward W.Whittaker Bert Williams

96. 1940s File 2 Political freedom in the Civil Service.

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Cold War and the atom bomb.

Moore, Bill: Medical personnel in Spain; Samuel Raphael. Class politics: The last world of British Communism. 3 parts.

Arms and the men: Conference of the shop floor engineering workers to support arms production.

97. 1940s File 3 Communists in the T.U.C. 98. 1940s File 4 Agreement to publish ‘British Coal’; by Margot Heinemann.

Publisher Gollancz.

Women’s Parliament Union affiliations to the Minority Movement Vetting in the Labour Party and T.U.C. Purging the Civil Service ‘War: Women, Work and Wages’.

Report of the proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference 1942, on the organisation of women. Plus miscellaneous material 99. More 1940s T.U.C. and Communism T.U.C. and WFTU T.U.C. and Women Annual reports of London Regional Advisory Committee.

War time support to the Soviet Union Joint works production committees – Quiz.

Wright, Peter. Working partners: A study of British Trade Unionism. ABCA current affairs no 105 (A). 6 October 1945.

100. 1941

E. OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES Post CPGB political parties, some green. Excluding the Labour Party. See file no. 133 Green parties represented in Noreen Branson’s files: Green Left Network (November 1996 – ) Way ahead (The Left in the Green Party) Green Socialist Network Alliance for Green Socialism. October 2002.

Socialist Movement (Green Socialist Network and Left Alliance) Red Green Network Red Green Study Group 101. GREEN SOCIALIST (Including COUNTRY STANDARD) Nos. 1 – 22 March 1995 – Autumn 2002 Missing no.8. Winter 1997 or Spring 1998 Nos. 1 – 10 11 22

As ‘Greensocs’ Onwards as ‘Green Socialist’ As journal of the Alliance for Green Socialism.

(Green Socialist Network and the Left Alliance)

102. DEMOCRATIC LEFT 1992 – 1999 Communications with members Conference material Constitution Issues of ‘In touch’, ‘Perspectives’ etc.

Voting reform campaign material C4E (Citizens for Europe) network 103. GREEN SOCIALIST NETWORK 1993 – 2001 Correspondence Leaflets Material for AGM’s Miscellaneous Notices

Free press campaign special ‘Lift this ban’ (Post ban, post People’s Convention)

104. GREEN SOCIALIST NEWSLETTER December 1995 – September 2002 succeeded by ALLIANCE FOR GREEN SOCIALISM NEWSLETTER October 2002 – February 2003 Whole series incomplete

Leaflet: ‘On land, sea and in the air; Strike now in the west’. 8 August 1941

105. GREEN SOCIALIST NETWORK continued Miscellaneous leaflets

Leaflet; ‘For people’s victory over fascism’. 4th July 1941. Calling for the utmost co-operation with Soviet Union, clearing out fascist at home and organising production for maximum war effort. Photocopy.

106. NEW POLITICS NETWORK 2000 – 2002 AGM notices Annual reports Constitution and standing orders Election to committees Members forum Notices of meetings Setting up of trust Communications with members Miscellaneous leaflets New Politics bulleting: nos. 1 – 4 No date No number April 2002 No number May 2002 New Politics Network (Periodical): October 2002

Mainly CPGB publications

Leaflet: ‘The people must act’. 21 June 1940. (IBA). (A people’s government, unlike France) CPGB. Political letter to membership: The campaign for a people’s government and a people’s peace. 15 July 1940. Leaflet 4p.

Leaflet: Trade Unionists – your freedom is in peril. Published by Seven Trade Unionists; Defence Council.

CPGB: Political letter…(Members’ duties in war situation) 19 May 1941.

Mass prosecutions in wartime. Written evidence of Sir Harold Emmerson. [Events around 1940 – 1942]. Photocopy. P. 340 – 341.

Source unidentified.

Ministry of Fuel and Power. Guide to pit production committees.

April 1945.

107. NEW TIMES NETWORK 1996 – 2000 Communications with members Notices of meetings Draft constitution Constitution New Times No. 111. 12 October 1996 Correspondence. January – February 1999 Notices to members (Combined with circulation wrapper)

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108. GREEN LEFT Newsletter v.1 no.1 March 1997 Green Left: The newsletter of the Red – Green network no 18.

November 1995 Various notices and leaflets, details of meetings Red – Green Newsletter: No.13 October 1994 No.17 September 1995

F. REMAINING FILES A – Z 109. ARCHIVE TRUST OF THE CPGB (1920 – 1991) Minutes of the Trust meetings 14 September 1995 19 January 1996 Archival sources on the CPGB; by Francis King 110. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL Including obituaries Freida Knight Ted Bramley Frieda Brewster Susan Lawrence Arthur Clegg Albert Matthews Thora Craig Lord Milford (Wogan Phillips) Kath Duncan Max Morris Betty England William Morris C.Desmond Greaves A.L.Morton William Gallacher Diana Pym David Guest Bill Rust Denny Hurst Roger Simon Douglas Hyde J.Walron Yvonne Kapp Fred Ward Bill Keable The Communist Party in Manchester 1920 – 1926 Bromley Communists in the thirties. (Bromley, Kent) 111. BRITISH ROAD TO SOCIALISM Communist International The programme of the C.I. together with the statutes of the C.I. February 1929. Modern Books Communist Party of Great Britain British Road to Socialism. 1st edition. January 1951 British Road to Socialism. 5th edition. 1978 Britain for the people – proposals for post-war policy for discussion. May 1944. 2 copies Executive Committee. Political letter on the British Road to Socialism. 30 January 1951 Tony Gilbert. Obituary Ms. 4 January 1992 Changes no. 23, 14 – 27. September 1991. Stalin’s British Road.

(Supplement p.1 – 3, Memories) Morning Star. Draft of ‘Stalin and the British Road to Socialism’;

by George Matthews. 19 August 1991 Correspondence between George Matthews and Noreen Branson about the draft Notes by Noreen Branson about CPGB’s earlier programmes

113. CABINET OFFICE. Committee on Communist Activities Cabinet discussions 1941 Photocopy of deliberations as released by P.R.O. 39 sheets P.R.O. Leaflet 59: The records of Cabinet Office Chronology of the activities of the committee. (Noreen Branson’s construction) Committee membership Typewritten annotation of the photocopies Noreen Branson’s notebook dealing with this Cabinet activity; Analysis of the reports, further research of her own to follow up and amplify her notes List of chapter headings from CPGB history 1927 – 1941 114. COLONIES AND COLONIAL QUESTIONS Labour Research Department Annual report 1928 – 1929 p.2 – 3 Annual report 1929 – 1930 p.2 – 3 Monthly circular April 1929(?)

Arrests and suppression in India The Meerut trial: A national appeal Communist Party London District bulletin. 16 August 1946.(Indonesian anniversary) General election 1931. S.E. St Pancras. 27 October 1931.

Election address, Shankar Ushmani What is the British Empire? CPGB (Post 1929) 3 copies Peace and the colonial question. CPGB. (1930s?)

Noreen Branson: Manuscript notes on the colonies West Indian newsletter v.2 no.1 January 1949 v.2 no.2 February 1949 Pamphlets: Reginald Bridgeman, anti-imperialist. Biographical information Draft paper for the National Conference 1942: ‘The Colonial question’ Discussion statement for the International Committee (CPGB).

‘British West Indies’. 2 March 1948 West Africans and the Communist Party in the 1950s; by Hakim Adi 1994. 12p.

Adhikari, G. Pakistan and Indian national unity. Labour monthly Audit, George. Egypt and the Labour government. CPGB 1947 Bradley, Ben; Colonies and the future. Study syllabus. 1944 Colonies, mandates and peace. Peace Library 1936 India’s famine: The facts. CPGB 1943 Burns, Emile. Imperialism…Course for students. Labour Research Department 1927 Carritt, Michael. India. Communist Party series no.6. 1940 Communisme et la question national et coloniale pour Lenin, Stalin et Boukharine. Bureau d’editions. n.d.

Priscott, Dave; From Soviet Britain 1935 to British Road 1977.

(Notes for lecture. Liverpool April 1985)

Communist Party of Great Britain The colonies: The way forward. 1944 The Empire and the war. (War Library no 10) 1940

CPGB. For Soviet Britain. Draft programme. 13th Congress. 2 February 1935

Cripps, Stafford. Empire. The India League. 1940

112. BURNS, John Newspaper cuttings. Post 1900. Unsorted

Dutt, Clemens; ‘Conspiracy against the king’. National Meerut prisoners defence committee. June 1930 Labour and the Empire. CPGB. (1930?)

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India League. The Indian demand and British policy: Correspondence between Mahatma Gandhi and the Viceroy…10 February 1943 Jones, Jean. Ben Bradley: Fighter for India’s freedom. (Socialist History Society. Occasional papers series no.1) Labour Research Department; British Guiana. 1953. 2 copies Race in Britain: The facts.1976(?). 4p.

Immigration; Facts and myths. 1 October 1968 Labour Monthly. Korea handbook. 1950 League against Imperialism. The British Empire. 1936(?) 2 copies Lewis, W.Arthur. Labour in the West Indies. Fabian Society Research. Series no.44. May 1939 Macdonald, Murray. Notes on the constitutional reconstruction of the Empire. P.S.King. 1917. 32p.

MacIntyre, Stuart. The Marxist theory of imperialism and the British Labour movement. Our History pamphlet no.64. Autumn 1975 Marx, Karl. Letters on India. Contemporary India Publication. 1937 Marx House. The colour bar-a barrier to progress. Educational commentary. Second series no.10 Miller, Ralph. The right to live. 1953 New Fabian Research Bureau. The protection of colonial peoples.

N.F.R.B. and Gollanz. 1930s Pacifist Research Bureau. New tendencies in colonial policy.1939 Pratt, Sir John. Korea: The lie that led to war.

British China Friendship Association. December 1951.

Photocopy Pritt, D.N. Light on Korea. Labour Monthly. n.d.

Seretse Khama Campaign Committee. Seretse Khama and the Bamangwato people. n.d. (1953?)

Woddis, Jack; Stop the war in Malaya. CPGB. 1950 (?)

The mask is off! An examination of the activities of trade union advisers in the British colonies. Thames Publications.

1954 Woolf, Leonard: Mandates and empire. League of Nations Union.

1920 Yates, Mary: Discrimination against coloured people. W.F.T.U. Publications 1950(?)

115. COMINTERN and the CPGB Microfilms from Moscow Note by M. Johnstone, accompanied by typed list of brief contents of reels received from Moscow 19 January 1995. No full titles of these microfilms, only numbers.

Note from M.Johnstone detailing material required from the Comintern archives List of the Comintern’s OMS British personnel; Transcribed by Bill Moore. (OMS-Organisation of International Links) Typed summaries of reels and their contents, apparently dealing with the National Committees of the CPGB Noreen Branson’s manuscript notes, 1 large notebook and papers torn from other notebooks

List of James Klugmann’s folders 116. COMINTERN ARCHIVES Communist Wartime Central Committee Debate: A detailed report by Monty Johnstone on the verbatim report of the CPGB’s central committee meeting of 24 September to 3 October 1939. This report was locked away in archives in the USSR until ‘Glasnost’. 20p.

Report by Monty Johnstone on the archives, their battered state and arrangements for viewing. From Comintern conference 1 – 3 October 1992 Piece from Soviet Weekly 21 October 1989; Examining the role of the Comintern in the twenties and thirties Extract from John Carswell – a life of the exile: Ivy Litvinov. Faber 1983. Appendix 2 – Rose Cohen What the Comintern’s archives will reveal; by Fridrikh Firsov. From World Marxist Review. January 1989 Report by Monty Johnstone of a discussion with Georgi Smirnov, director of the Institute of Marxism – Leninism, Moscow, and member of the Central Committee CPSU, 15 October 1987, asking for access to our party’s history 117. COMINTERN CONGRESSES Programme of the Communist International together with the statutes of the C.I. 1929 adopted by the 6th World Congress. 1 September 1928 7th World Congress Dimitrov, G. The working class against fascism. Report delivered to the congress 2 August 1935 Pollitt, Harry: Unity against the National Government. Speech Hart, Finlay: Looking back on 1935 and the 7th Congress of the C.I. 118. EDUCATION Socialist Education Association Educational politics No.47 December 1999 No.48 February 2000 No.49 April 2000 Issue no.47 contains ‘Privatisation on the march’; by Francis Beckett.p.3 – 4 Essex County Council. Education Committee.

Development plan (Primary and secondary education) 1947 119. ELECTORAL REFORM Pamphlets and articles about the reorganisation of local government, parliamentary seats and abolition of the Houses of Lords. 1940 – 1960 Electoral Reform Society. Annual report 2001/2 Weech, Ken; East Anglia: The great vote robbery. Published by the London Campaign for Electoral Reform. April 1987 120. FASCISM AND ANTI – FASCISM Facing the threat; Fascism, racism and the Labour movement.

Tyne & Wear Anti-fascist association. 1988 Candour-the British views letter; No. 408 – 409. 18 and 25 August 1961. (Candour league of Empire Loyalists) To the Trades Union Congress! September 1964. Common Cause 121. GERMAN RE-ARMAMENT See also file 122 Articles from journals and pamphlets; from various sources. 1960s

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122. GERMANY Aeroplane v.98 no.2520. 6 February 1960 p 160 – 167: West Germany’s aircraft industry at work; by J.R.Cownie Flight. Special number. 19 October 1961 p. 611 – 621 The German industry: The air frame makers - from licensed building to projects Industry directory p. 621 p. 622 – 628 Super Star Fighter p. 629 – 632 Aircraft engines, missiles Peace News. 23 May 1958 Committee for German Unity, Berlin. Colonialism in action…April 1960 League of the GDR. For friendship among the peoples. Introducing the GDR.1963 (?)

123. HEINEMANN, Margot Chronology Funeral programme List and copies of articles Copies of contributions to published volumes Correspondence with Mary Joannu and Andy Croft Copies of work by Andy Croft, with Noreen Branson’s comments: 1. The end of socialist realism; review of Margot Heinemann’s ‘The adventurers’ 2. Writers, the CP and the battle of ideas 3. Betrayed Spring: 1945 – 1950 Labour government and British culture 124. HINTON, James Draft of: The citizen on the shop floor: Joint production committees in the British engineering industries during the Second World War. June 1990

GDR, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. An imminent danger to peace.

1965. 2nd edition Foreign Affairs bulletin. v.4 no.10. 8 April 1964

Correspondence: Request for help from J.H.; replies from N.B. Mention of project women’s campaign around consumption issues in the war and during the Labour government

Democratic German Report: v.9 no.26 23 December 1961 v.10 no 20 13 October 1961 v.11 no.23 23 November 1962 v.13 no. 5 6 March 1964 Wheeler, George S; Who split Germany? Wall Street and the West German trade union leaders.

Verlag Tribune Current documents from the GDR no.2. 1962 Polish reports no.3. 1962

Coventry Communism; A Study of factory politics in the Second World War. History workshop journal Self help and Socialism: The Squatters’ movement of 1946.

History workshop journal 125 – 130 HIGHGATE, HORNSEY, HAMPSTEAD, HARINGEY and MUSWELL HILL 125 – 127 DOCUMENTS 1960’s – Issues: Housing, transport, homeless, the elderly 125.

From Potsdam to the multilateral force. Verlag Zeit im Bild.

Dresden. 1964 The prosecution since 1945 of National Socialist crimes by public prosecutors and courts…in the Federal Republic of Germany United States Information Service and Agency Press releases of texts of speeches by Johnson, Kennedy, Rusk etc.. and texts of other documents on Nuclear test ban treaty.

21, 23, 28, 31 August, 6, 8 September 1961

Hornsey Star No.1 No.2 No.3 No.4 No.5

Davidson, Basil; Look back in anger…after nine years of Adenauer. UDC. 1959 Two sides in Germany – which is yours? UDC. 1955 Who wants peace? UDC. April 1960 Let Britain lead: The case for Labour’s new defence policy. CDN. 1960

File 1 Cuttings – local issues Local elections material, some CP Parliamentary constituency: Correspondence of the Constituency Committee Correspondence of the CPGB Correspondence of the London District of the CPGB Correspondence between London district and Muriel and Peter Seltman Correspondence from Hornsey CP, Highgate CP, Save Highgate Committee, Highgate Preservation Society December 1962 February 1963 April 1963 (2 copies) July 1963 December 1963 (2 copies)

Draft Labour Party document ‘New needs in social policy’ n.d.

126.

File 2 and 3 Election material – CPGB candidates Local elections – Highgate, Hornsey and Haringey Parliamentary constituency (Some of the contents of these files: Housing and transport in Hornsey, other local matters – Branch CP)

127.

British Peace Committee; West German bases in Britain (Speaker’s notes on Germany) 1961

File 2 and 3 continued Memo of the Buchanan report Memo from CP to Ministry of Transport Memo of Social Services Committee – Land Nationalisation Speakers notes on London’s homeless families

Daily Telegraph; Germany’s growing navy; by Nowell Hall. Cutting

CP Pamphlets:

Swinger, Stephen: Warning to the West! On the consequence of German rearmament.

Gladiator Books. 1960(?)

Parkin, Ben; In defence of Europe’s peace and against German rearmament. UDC.

Pritt, D.N.: Germany, peace or war? New Central European Observer pamphlet. June 1952 Henri, Ernest; The strategy of revenge. CP. September 1961

Homes for Hornsey Education in Britain The nation’s health Homes for people

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End monopoly rule Transport

1963 1964

CP reregistration letter 1962 Archway Road Campaign 1991; follow up correspondence with MP

Women in war jobs Bussey, E.W. Electricity: Public versus private Works canteens and the catering trades. 1943 A guide to unemployment benefit. November 1959

128 – 130 DOCUMENTS 1960s, 1990s, 2000s

Facts on the nuclear arms race. June 1958

128.

Social insurance. November 1944

Documents 1960s, 1990s: Campaign for Nuclear disarmament.

Highgate Branch. Newsletters, periodicals, correspondence, leaflets et.

129.

Documents 1990s: Highgate Library Action Group

130.

Documents 1990’s, 2000s: Muswell Hill and Highgate Groups New Times Network 2000 New Politics Network 2000 Democratic Left 1993 – 1999

131. INTELLECTUALS Notes, cuttings, photocopied articles; among them articles on Gordon Childe, Edgele Rickwood, J.B.S. Haldane Notes on ‘The Communist answer to the challenge of our time’ Notes about intellectual victims of the government’s anti – communist drive 132. INTERVIEWS Notebook, gathering of information 133. LABOUR PARTY This is a publications file, some photocopies: Opposition to the affiliation of the Communist Party and foreign policy ARP: Labour’s policy. January 1939 The CP and the war. March 1943 Address by D.N.Pritt (1947) to Labour members, asking for support in his campaign for readmittance to the Labour Party ‘Pritt reports 1947' Let us face the future (labour policy) April 1945 Trade unions and the war situation. Summary of Southport Congress discussion. 1943 ‘Cards on the table’. Interpretation of Labours foreign policy. May 1947 Photocopies of reviews of ‘Cards on the table’: Daily Worker, 27 March 1947, R.P.Dutt Russia Today newsletter,14 June 1947 Letter (To Daily Worker?) by William Warby, MP The Communist solar system. September 1933 Lists of proscribed organisations. 1951, 1954 134. LABOUR RESEARCH DEPARTMENT Manuscript notes by Noreen Branson Anniversary supplement July 1987: The origin of the Labour Research Department Photograph LRD school 1922, with correspondence Worker’s pocket series: No. 1: Fire-watching – the worker’s rights No. 5: Canteens in industry No.11: A complete guide to the call-up of women No.13: Indian famine Better shelters Best, Michael. War industry and war damage. F.T.R.A. and LRD

Powell and his allies. June 1969 Health of the war worker: A handbook. LRD and SMA Health and the Blitz. 1941 Beveridge report; what it means. 1943 Where the right road twisted: Tory record on social services..November 1949 Wages questions. 1956 The rent bill explained. November 1956 Allen Hutt, Gordon Schaffer and George Darling. Peace for our time. October 1938 Land and land owners. August 1944 What is the Economic League? 1955 Labour research v.42 no. 6 v.50 no. 2 v.50 no. 5 v.50 no.11 v.51 no. 1 v.52 no. 4 v.52 no. 6 v.52 no. 7 v.53 no. 5 v.53 no.11

June 1953 February 1961 May 1961 November 1961 January 1962 April 1963 June 1963 July 1963 May 1964 November 1964

LRD Fact Service v.16 no.29 v.16 no.30 v.19 no. 2 v.62 no.47

17 July 1954 24 July 1954 12 January 1957 23 November 2000

LRD Annual Report no.30 1941 – 1942 no.44 1955 – 1956 31 1941 – 1943 45 1957 32 1943 – 1944 46 1958 33 1944 – 1945 47 1959 (34) 1945 – 1946 draft 48 1960 35 1946 – 1947 49 1961 36 1947 – 1948 50 1962 38 1949 – 1959 60 1972 39 1950 – 1951 61 1973 41 1952 – 1953 62 1974 42 1953 – 1954 63 1975 43 1944 – 1955 64 1976 135. LEAGUE AGAINST IMPERIALISM (Succeeded in 1937 by the Colonial Information Bureau) Two extracts from long work, no author or title, typescript; p. 78 – 127 Chapter entitled ‘League against Imperialism’ p.135 – 150 List of notes, referred to in the text by number Missing pages 1 – 77 and 128 – 134 Labour Party, TUC and Parliamentary Labour Party. (N.J.C) Meerut: Release the prisoners. May 1933

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Ben Bradley and Lester Hutchinson; India against imperialism. 1930s (?)

The British Empire. 1935 League against Imperialism and for National Independence Relations passed at the session of the General Council, held in Brussels. 9, 10, 11 December 1927 League against Imperialism The colonies and oppressed nations in the struggle for freedom…resolutions adopted by the Executive Committee. Berlin, 2 June 1931 Report of the National Conference (British Section). February 1931 Anti – Imperialist review. July 1928 136. LENIN SCHOOL 1920s and 1930s. List of students with some details 137 – 145 MANUSCRIPTS 137.

Clegg, Arthur The China campaign Committee 138.

Croft, Andy Sections of Andy Croft’s book on Randall Swingler

139.

Exell, Arthur Memoirs of car factory work in Oxford Part 2: Morris Motors in the 1930s, politics and trade unions Part 3: Morris Motors in the 1940

140.

Fyrth, Jim Second half of his memoir, plus another manuscript, which includes part of same text – An Indian landscape. 1940s

141.

Hudson, Kate The double blow – 1956 and the CPGB. Thesis

142.

Jones, J.B Tales from factory life. 1987

143.

Pollitt, Marjorie Memoirs; with notes etc.

144.

Treherne, Sheelah Looking back. 1975

145.

Wallhead, Richard C. Biography, 1869 – 1934

146. NATIONAL MINORITY MOVEMENT The Co-operative and trade unions Piatnisky,O: Problems of the International Trade Union Movement To all tobacco workers. Leaflet Leaflet urging all workers to send delegates to the National Workers’ Charter Convention, Bermondsey Town Hall, April 1931 Circulars: Unemployment and the tasks of the NUWM. 20 November 1930.

To all E.C. members The fight against domestic slavery. To all Minority Movement Groups and supporting organisations. 8 December 1930 147. NORTHERN IRELAND Government publications on the economy. Statistical and economic reports

Miscellaneous publications: Poverty no.45 April 1980: Northern Ireland – depriving the deprived Poverty research series no.8: Ends that won’t meet; a study of poverty in Belfast; by Eileen Evasson Smyth, Denis: Days of unity in the docklands of sailor town 1907 – 1969. (Belfast) 148. PEACE Kennedy Press Conference transcript. 21 November 1962. (Cuban crisis) One world (NPC) v.3 no.8 February – March 1950 Our generation against nuclear war v.2 no.4 1963 (?) v.3 no.2 1964 (?)

World Peace Council: Bulletin no. 7 15 March 1951 16 30 October 1951 17 27 December 1951. 2 copies 18 27 December 1951. 2 copies Pamphlets: The hope of peace. n.d.

Bernal, J.D: The way to peace. Labour Monthly 1951. no.2 Disarmament. British Peace Committee. February 1951 Sharp, Gene: Which way to freedom. Plaid Cymru. 1959 150. SOCIALISM IN BATTERSEA Photocopies of proof copy of a pre – centenary history of Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council. ‘Builders of Borough: 100 years of achievement’; by Battersea and Wandsworth TUC 2 letters (accompanying the above) to Labour Research asking for Noreen Branson to review it. 8 pages of notes by Noreen Branson about the book Typed MSS of ‘The aid to Spain movement in Battersea’; a transcript of a talk given by Noreen Branson to Wandsworth History Workshop 12 May 1992. p. 1 – 10 talk, p.11 – 12 discussion, plus 3 pages typescript describing the delivery of the talk. From Wandsworth History Workshop. 21p. See also 157 ‘Mobilising the masses: Town’s meetings in the London Borough of Battersea 1900 – 1945' 1 draft copy. 2 Photostat of published paper. (British Association for Local History). From The Local Historian.

August 1997. p. 163 – 182 Photocopy of a press cutting – Mrs Saklatvala opening a Spanish Aid bazaar Notes from Clive Branson’s records, around the time of the Spanish Civil War Draft of ‘Aid to Spain movement in Battersea 1936 – 1939' plus drafts of ‘Battersea background’ (2 copies) and ‘Political background’ Photocopy of National Democratic League programme for Sunday evening concert…Battersea Town hall 14 April 1901 Photocopy of Battersea Trades and Labour Council programme for Labour Week meetings 5 – 11 October 1913

Trade Union Information. (Irish Congress of Trade Unions) February – March 1967 to October 1970 (Incomplete) (Issue for April contains Chronology of Connolly’s life, list of Connolly’s writings, books on Connolly)

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(a) Rough sketch by Clive Branson of a man painting on the ground. The date is unknown. (C.14) (b) Small pencil sketch by Clive Branson of fellow soldier Sam Thompson, dated 11th August. The year is not given though it is almost certainly 1937. (C.14) (c) Preliminary pencil sketch in preparation for a painting found in Branson’s notebook. It shows soldiers around a gun receiving instruction during the Spanish Civil War, with descriptions of colours written directly onto the sketch. (C.14)

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149. SQUATTERS Material used to support various publications about squatters, and the London Conference on Squatters, 1984 Letters: Accounts of people’s experiences as squatters Drafts of articles for publication Press cuttings Accounts of court proceedings Photocopies of articles; including one by James Hilton – Politics and popular initiative: The Squatters’ movement of 1946 Squatters, their leaders and other correspondents: Annie Tayler Ted Bramley Ivor Sepal H. Chapman Jack Gaster K. Beauchamp Stan Henderson Bert Ward Hilda and Barney Lewis Stephen Sedley Len Smith Jack Spector Bill Carritt James Hinton Tess Gorringe Joyce Smith Peggy Venes Joseph, Marjorie and Ivan Siddall Joan McMichael Renate Simpson Lou Kenton Joyce Alergant 151. STEVENS, Richard Richard Stevens was preparing a book on trades councils and asked for Noreen Branson’s help Correspondence between them, and notes by Noreen Branson Typescript of Noreen Branson’s own recollections of work with trades councils, particularly St Pancras Photocopies of sections from TUC annual reports, and a chapter from ‘Trade Union problems’ Photocopies of certain issues of the LRD’s ‘Fact Service’ containing ‘Trades Council Notes’. 10 December 1943 – 3 November 1950 Barnsley, George A history of Wolverhampton, Bilston and district Trades Union Council.

1865 – 1990 Publications of various Trades Councils 152 – 163 TALKS by Noreen Branson Mainly typescripts. Seldom any indication of where and when they were delivered. Some have preparatory drafts.

152

1. Report of the Borrie commission on Social Justice.

23 November 1994

153. 2.

The contribution made by Poplar councillors

154. 3.

The Budget. 1995

155. 4.

Class against class. 3 scripts. (One headed CP History Group)

156. 5

Anti-fascist and anti-war struggles

157.

6. Aid to Spain movement in Battersea. With press cutting

158. 7.

Battle of Cable Street

159. 8.

Work with National Liberation Movements

160. 10.

Thatcherism and the fight against it

161. 10.

The CP’s first 25 years

162. 11.

The CPGB and Moscow. Cynthia Street Conference. 19 November 1991 New stage of the war War 1939 – 1941 CP and the war 1939 – 1941 After the attack on Russia The war 1939 – 1945

163. 12.

State of the nation. Post 1991

164 – 166 TALKS by others 164. 13. Fine, Ben: Imperialism 165. 14.

Francis, Hywel: Arthur Horner and the third period.

Communist Party History Group. 28 February 1987

166. 15.

Clegg, Arthur: The China Campaign Committee.

CP History Group. 3 October 1987

167. THE WEEK no.1 23 October 1942 – no.61. 31 December 1943 Missing no.8. 10 December 1942 168. WRIGLEY, Chris The government and industrial relations in Britain 1910 – 1921.

Loughborough University. 1979 Municipal socialism in London. From ’1837 – 1901: Journal of the Loughborough Victorian Studies Group’.no.5. October 1980. p.52 – 60 Battersea republicans and the 1902 coronations. From ‘Crosscurrents: A journal of combined studies’ no.1. n.d. p.29 – 31 Liberals and the desire for working class representatives in Battersea, 1886 – 1922. Chapter 6 of ‘Essays in anti-labour history: Responses to the rise of Labour in Britain’; edited by Kenneth D. Brown. MacMillan 1974.pp.126 – 158 plus notes. p.364 – 368 Review of ‘John Burns’ by K.D. Brown. RHS. 1977.

From The London Journal v.6 no.1 Summer 1980. pp.109 – 110

G. HOUSING 169. RENTS Documents 1970s Branson, Noreen Council rents and British capitalism. Essay for inclusion in a publication ‘Housing and class in Britain’. 1973 Correspondence, etc. relating to the above publication Typed copy of ‘Chapter 4: Housing’. 21p.

No indication of author or title of the publication which includes this chapter 170. DIFFERENTIAL RENTS Documents 1960s, 1970s Pamphlets discussing the case for differential rents. Information about the situation in Thamesmead, Scotland, Glasgow, Edinburgh 171. DISTRICT HEATING Documents 1948 Small correspondence 172. HOME FRONT Documents 1940 – 1941 Home front: Bulletin of the Federation of Tenants’ and Residents’ associations Unnumbered 1940 January, February, April v.2 no.2 1941 February 2 copies 3 1941 March 4 1941 April 2 copies 5 1941 May 2 copies

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1941 1941 1941

June July August

3 copies

173. HOUSING POLICY, COUNCIL HOUSE SALES Documents 1970s Pamphlets and reports from various bodies

182.

Direct Labour: Questionnaire to local authorities from the LRD. 1944 – 1945 183 – 184 BUILDINGS AND LAND 183.

Documents 1970s

174. MOBILE HOMES (Caravans) Documents 1970s Pamphlets Notes Mobile Home act 1975

Estate agent’s list of available housing (1958 – 1959) with prices.

Saxton and Co Fabian tract 22: Labour and land; by Daniel Libsey. April 1973

175. HOUSING Documents 1980 Pamphlets, reports of various bodies and local authorities: Dampness Tenants rights Noise

Department of the Environment. Land. HMSO September 1974.

Cmnd 5730 Commercial property development: 1st report of the Advisory group on commercial property development. HMSO November 1975

Many notes by Noreen Branson: Empty properties Letters to her requesting help Community action Homelessness Squatters’ handbook Building of homes Private building of homes 176. THE RENT ACTS Documents 1950s – 1980s NATR material, pamphlets and articles from various sources, including: ‘Hornsey Labour Party Study Group on Housing’. Housing in Hornsey. Autumn 1970 177. HOUSING Documents 1940s and 1950s Reports and memoranda Lack of housing, problem of requisitioned homes, stare of the building industry, how to get homes we need CPGB…Evidence to the Working Party of building Collection of letters from Mr Barney Lewis, relating to the wage freeze; wages policy; and unofficial action; between Mr Lewis and the General secretary. US DAW 1950 178. HOUSING Documents 1970s Reports and pamphlets dealing with various aspects of housing, shelter, etc.

Some correspondence, dealing with rents and rent tribunals 179. GARDENS FOR THE WORKING CLASS – CP’S HOUSING POLICY Gaskell, S.Martin Gardens for the working class: Victorian practical pleasure.

Victorian studies, Summer 1980. p.479 – 501. Photocopy 180. BUILDING INDUSTRY This is a large file dealing with the immediate post-war conditions in the industry. It includes many reports from national and local bodies, many reports from the NFBTO. Subjects covered include the role of building contractors and their efficiency and profitably; wage claims; PBR; the supply of building materials and their shortages; some information about the situation in the 1930s 181 – 182 BUILDING TRADES 181.

Documents 1947 Direct Labour. Answers from various local authorities to a questionnaire or letter from LRD. 1947 Pamphlet-St Pancras Borough Council first ‘Direct Labour’ housing scheme: Hurdwick House. 1947

Documents 1944 – 1945

Land Campaign Working Party. Lie of the land: The Community Land Act…1976. Plus press release 184.

Barras, Richard, Broadbent, Andrew and Massey, Doreen Labour must take over land. Reprinted from Socialist Commentary. July 1973 Barras, Richard, Broadbent, Andrew and Massey Doreen Planning and the public ownership of land. New Society.

21 June 1973. p.676 Catalano, Alex and Barras, Richard The financial structure of property companies. Centre for Environmental Studies. April 1975. (CES working note 412) 50p.

H. WELFARE 185. EQUAL PAY, TUBERCULOSIS Documents 1940s Extracts from submission to the Royal Commission of Equal Pay. (Medical and Economic evidence) Public health: Tuberculosis 1952 St Pancras health report 1948(?)

186. HOME HELPS Documents 1946 The LRD sent a small questionnaire to various local authorities in May 1946.

The replies are here-memos, letters, duplicated reports 187. ACHIEVEMENTS OF LABOUR AUTHORITIES Documents 1940s Local government: Achievements of Labour authorities LRD questionnaire July – August 1945 Replies, memos, etc 188. MUNICIPAL MEALS Documents 1948 Local provision of meals on wheels for the elderly 189. OUTDOOR RELIEF – Public assistance Documents 1946 Replies from various local authorities answering questionnaire or letters from LRD about local provision National Insurance 190. SOCIAL SECURITY Documents 1960s, 1970s, 1980s National assistance Benefits for the elderly Pensions Pamphlets, reports from various bodies on provision of health care.

Housing and other needs of the elderly Jeffreys, Margaret and Wood, C.H:

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A survey of small factories. British Journal of Industrial Medicine. v. 17. 1960. p.10 191. SOCIAL SECURITY, WELFARE PAYMENTS Documents 1990s Social security, welfare payments, 1997, 1998 + Articles, press cuttings, photocopies This index covers names and subjects appearing in the descriptions of the files in this guide. Many of the names appear more than once in a file DOCUMENTS files These files contain material related primarily by date.

For a description of ‘documents’ files, go to the text preceding file 95; and for the content of any file, look at the entry of for the file number in the preceding pages of this guide.

Pre 1939 – 2000..............................................................................83 1893 – 1990s ..................................................................................84 1940s...............................................................................................77

1940 .......................................95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 172, 180, 185, 187 1941 ......................................................................................100, 172 1944 ..............................................................................................182 1945 ..............................................................................................182 1946 ......................................................................................186, 189 1947 ..............................................................................................181 1948 ......................................................................................171, 188 1950s ....................................................................................176, 177 1960s............................................125, 126, 127, 128, 170, 176, 190 1970s.............................................169, 170, 174,176, 178, 183, 190 1980s ......................................................................75, 176, 180, 190 1990s ....................................................................128, 129, 130, 191 2000s.............................................................................................130

INDEX Name File number A call to workers ...............................................................................................61 Abbreviations – Poplarism ...........................................................preceding p.16 Adenauer, Konrad............................................................................................122 Adi, Hakim.......................................................................................................114 Aerograms......................................................................................................C 11 Africa – see West Africa Aid to Spain.............................................................................................150, 157 Air Raid precautions..........................................................................................15 Aircraft Industry, West Germany....................................................................122 Allaun, Frank .....................................................................................................55 Allegant, Joyce ...............................................................................................149 Alliance for Green Socialism newsletter .......................................................104 Alliance for Green Socialism..........................................................................101 Anti – Fascism.................................................................................................156 Anti – Communist drive.............................................................................98,131 Anti – Communists ...........................................................................................51 Anti – Imperialist Review ...............................................................................135 Anti – war Struggles.......................................................................................156 Archive Trust of the CPGB (1920 – 1991).......................................................109 Archway Road Campaign ...............................................................................127 Arena .................................................................................................................36 Arms and the Men Conference ........................................................................96 Arms production................................................................................................96 Army Bureau of Current Affairs........................................................................99 Army – see Services and Servicemen Arnot, Robin Page .......................................................................................15, 34 Art...................................................................................................................C 13 Atom bomb........................................................................................................96 Bamangwato people.......................................................................................114 Barnsby, George........................................................................................78, 151 Barrow ...............................................................................................................14 Battersea......................................................................150, 157, 168, C 14, C 20 Battersea Communist Party...........................................................................C 20 Battersea Trades and Labour Council.............................................................150 Baxter, John.......................................................................................................14 Beauchamp, Kay .......................................................................................34, 149 Beckett, Francis...............................................................................................118

Bedford Public School....................................................................................C 18 Bedfordshire Times........................................................................................C 21 Belfast dockyards............................................................................................147 Belfast Nesletter............................................................................................C 21 Belsay, Dick .......................................................................................................35 Belsey, John...................................................................................................C 13 Benefits system ................................................................42, 44, 46, 51, 84, 134 Bernal, J.D.......................................................................................................148 Berry, Joe...........................................................................................................78 Best, Michael ..................................................................................................134 Biographies .......................................................................................................75 Bickley, St Hugh’s School ..............................................................................C 18 Bilston..............................................................................................................151 Blacklisting..........................................................................................51, 98, 131 Blake, John........................................................................................................29 Book reviews...............................................................................................31, 32 Borrie Commission on Social Justice.............................................................152 Bosman, Suzanne ..........................................................................................C 13 Bradley, Ben ....................................................................................................135 Bramley, Ted............................................................................................110, 149 Branson, Clive .......................................................................................14, 38, 50 Branson, Cyril.................................................................................................C 20 Branson, Noreen ...........................................................111, 123, 150 C 11, C 12 Autobiographical notes.............................................................43,49 Correspondence .....................................................................33 – 39 Diaries ............................................................................................40 Personal papers ..............................................................................59 Publishing .......................................................................................60 Branson, Rosa ................................................................................................C 18 Branson, Tony.................................................................................................C 18 Brewster, Frieda ..............................................................................................110 Bridgeman, Reginald.......................................................................................114 Brieux, Eugene ..................................................................................................14 Britain’s coal......................................................................................................98 British Empire..................................................................................................114 British Peace Committee ................................................................................122 British Road to socialism ................................................................................111 British Soldier in India ................................................................C 11, C 12, C 21 Brixton Prison ....................................................................................................28

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Bromley, Kent – Communist Party..................................................................110 Brooklyn.............................................................................................................84 Brown, Isabel ....................................................................................................83 Brown, Kenneth D...........................................................................................168 Browne, Lord Alfred Eden, Lieut. Col............................................................C 18 Buchanan Report.............................................................................................127 Budget 1945 ....................................................................................................154 Building societes...............................................................................................34 Building trades........................................................................................181, 182 Buildings and land ..................................................................................183, 184 Burns, Emile ......................................................................................................15 Burns, John .............................................................................................112, 168 Bussey. E.W.....................................................................................................134 C 4 E (Citizens for Europe)...............................................................................102 Cabinet ..............................................................................................................25 Cabinet Office – discussions on Communist activities .................................113 Cable Street ..............................................................................................36, 158 Cambridge .........................................................................................................35 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Highgate Branch................................128 Campbell, John R........................................................................................15, 95 Candour League of Empire Loyalists..............................................................120 Car industry .....................................................................................................139 Cards on the table...........................................................................................133 Carritt, Bill .................................................................................................78, 149 Carritt, M ...........................................................................................................35 Carswell, John ................................................................................................116 Cavalcade.......................................................................................................C 21 Challenge .......................................................................................................C 21 Changes...........................................................................................................111 Chapman, H.....................................................................................................149 Chari, A.S .......................................................................................................C 22 Chelmsford ........................................................................................................45 Chelsea Trades Council.....................................................................................83 Childe, Gordon.................................................................................................131 China – occupation by Japan ..........................................................................83 China Campaign Committee...................................................................137, 166 Chinese Trade Unionist ....................................................................................83 Citizens for Europe (C 4 E)...............................................................................102 Citrine, Sir Walter .............................................................................................66 Civil Service.......................................................................................................96 Purging ............................................................................................98 Class against class ..................................................................................34, 155 Class politics; the lost world of British Communism.......................................96 Clegg, Arthur...................................................................................110, 137, 166 Closed shop.......................................................................................................14 Coal ...................................................................................................................14 Coates, David ....................................................................................................55 Cold War............................................................................................................96 Colonial Information Bureau...........................................................................135 Colonies and Colonial Questions .............................................................47, 114 Colour bar........................................................................................................114 Comintern – Congresses ................................................................................117 Dissolution......................................................................................67 ECCI.................................................................................................95 Microfilms...............................................................................37, 115 OMS..............................................................................................115 Programme....................................................................................111 Comintern Archives.........................................................................................116 Comintern Conference ....................................................................................116 Commonwealth War Grave Commission......................................................C 18 Communism ................................................................................................14, 51 Communist answer to the challenge of our time ..........................................131 Communist History Network – newsletter ......................................................69 Communist International – see Comintern Communist Oral History Project .......................................................................70

Communist Party – Labour Party affiliation ..........................15, 66, 67, 79, 133 Communist Party – Labour Unity......................................................................35 Communist Party and the war (WW2) ...........................................................162 Communist Party and the armed forces.....................................................37, 78 Communist Party of Great Britain – archival sources......................................37 Archive Trust ................................................................................109 Central Committee membership....................................................10 Congresses .....................................................................................61 Executive Committee .....................................................................11 History ...........................................................14, 38, 141 (1956), 161 Housing policy ..............................................................................179 Inner Party Democracy ...................................................................64 Leadership .....................................................................63, 95 (1939) Members duties in the war time .................................................100 Membership....................................................................................11 Party organisation...........................................................................64 Rules ...............................................................................................85 Speaker’s notes ........................................................................14, 66 Surplus pamphlets for sale ............................................................35 Communist Party of Great Britain Archive Trust .........................109 Communist Party of Great Britain Historians and History Group..........72 – 82 Archive 1946 – 1991 ......................................................................71 Communist Party of Great Britain, London District Committee Bulletin.........................................................................68 Communist Party of the Soviet Union Institute of Marxism – Leninism, Moscow ...................................35 Communist Party on the way to win ................................................................61 Connolly, James..............................................................................................147 Co – operation with the Soviet Union............................................................100 Co – operative movement ....................................................................14, 45, 95 Cornford, J .....................................................................................................C 10 Cornforth, M......................................................................................................95 Correspondence............................................................33 – 39, C 11, C 12, C 20 Coventry...........................................................................................................124 Cow, William.....................................................................................................95 Cownie, J.R .....................................................................................................122 Cox, Idris......................................................................................................34, 95 Craig, Thora.....................................................................................................110 Crane, George ...................................................................................................95 Croft, Andy ............................................................................36, 37, 54, 123, 138 Cross Currents journal ............................................................................167, 168 Cuban crisis.....................................................................................................148 Cunningham, Valentine .................................................................................C 10 Current Affairs A.B.C.A.....................................................................................99 Daily Telegraph ..............................................................................................C 22 Daily Worker......................................................................................................66 Darling, George ...............................................................................................134 Darlington, Ralph ..............................................................................................52 Darragh, John....................................................................................................14 Davidson, Basil................................................................................................122 Democratic German Republic.........................................................................122 Democratic Left.......................................................................................102, 130 Denington, Evelyn .............................................................................................34 Dictionary of Labour Biography ....................................................................C 16 Dimitrov, G.................................................................................................66, 117 Disarmament...................................................................................................148 Discrimination by colour .................................................................................114 Discrimination in the Army ...............................................................................38 Discussion (CPGB) .............................................................................................15 Dobb, Maurice...................................................................................................34 Dock industry.....................................................................................................84 Dole cuts............................................................................................................84 Domestic slavery.............................................................................................146 Dowlais..............................................................................................................94 Duncan, Kath...................................................................................................110

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Durkin, Tony.......................................................................................................36 Dutt, R. Palme .............................................................................................14, 95 East Anglia ......................................................................................................119 Eastern Europe ..................................................................................................84 Economic Committee of the Communist International....................................95 Economic League ............................................................................................134 Education.........................................................................................................118 Educational politics.........................................................................................118 Elections, local ..................................................................................................68 Electoral reform.........................................................................................52, 119 Elliot, Lon...........................................................................................................95 Emmerson, Sir Harold .....................................................................................100 Empire..............................................................................................................114 England, Betty .................................................................................................110 Espionage..........................................................................................................84 Essex County Council......................................................................................118 Europe – see Eastern Europe Everywoman...................................................................................................C 21 Exell, Arthur.....................................................................................................139 Factory politics in war time ............................................................................124 Factory work............................................................................................142, 190 Fagan, Hymie...............................................................................................15, 78 Falber, Reuben...................................................................................................14 Farming..............................................................................................................66 Fascism and anti – fascism....................................................117, 118, 120, 156 Featherstone (Miner’s strike)............................................................................84 Fellowship of the Cross .................................................................................C 21 Fine, Ben..........................................................................................................164 Firsov, Fridrikh .................................................................................................116 Food ...................................................................................................................15 For peace and plenty.........................................................................................61 For Soviet power ...............................................................................................61 Foreign Affairs Bulletin...................................................................................122 Francis, Hywel.................................................................................................165 Free Press Campaign ......................................................................................100 Frow, Eddie and Ruth ..................................................................................14, 45 Fuller, Harry .......................................................................................................78 Fyrth, Jim.............................................................................................38, 78, 140 Fyson, Robert.....................................................................................................38 Gallacher, William ....................................................................................14, 110 Gaster, Jack .........................................................................41, 50, 78, 149, C 20 German Democratic Republic.........................................................................122 German rearmament...............................................................................121, 122 Germany – West German aircraft industry....................................................122 Gibbon, Lewis Grassic ......................................................................................37 Gilbert, Tony ....................................................................................................111 Godwin, Anne..............................................................................................44, 51 Gorringe, Tess .................................................................................................149 Greaves, C.Desmond.......................................................................................110 Greece ...............................................................................................................14 Green Left........................................................................................................108 Green Socialist................................................................................................101 Green Socialist Network ................................................................101, 103, 105 Green Socialist Newsletter ............................................................................104 GreenSocs .......................................................................................................101 Grubb, Frederick.............................................................................................C 10 Guest, David....................................................................................................110 Haden – Guest, David....................................................................................C 22 Hakim, Adi.......................................................................................................114 Haldane, J.B.S.................................................................................................131 Hall, Novell......................................................................................................122 Hampshire Chronicle .....................................................................................C 21

Hampstead............................................................................................125 – 130 Haringey................................................................................................125 – 130 Hart, Celia ......................................................................................................C 13 Hart, Finlay ................................................................................................95, 117 Hawtery family..................................................................................................83 Health care......................................................................................................190 Hefferman, Richard...........................................................................................45 Heinemann, Margot ..................................................................54, 98, 123, C 10 Heisler, Ron...........................................................................................C 10, C 13 Henderson, Stan..............................................................................................149 Henri, Ernest....................................................................................................122 Highgate................................................................................................125 – 130 Highgate Library Action Group .......................................................................129 Highgate, Hornsey, Hampstead, Haringey and Muswell Hill local issues, elections, parliamentary constituency, CP candidate, transport, social services .....................................................................125 – 130 Hinton, James ..................................................................................34, 124, 149 Hitler..................................................................................................................95 Holberry Society..........................................................................................14, 84 Home Front......................................................................................................172 Honours system.................................................................................................14 Homer, Arthur............................................................................................94, 165 Hornsey .................................................................................................125 – 130 Hornsey Star....................................................................................................125 Housing...........................................................................................66, 169 – 184 Housing policy.................................................................................................173 Hoyle, C .............................................................................................................34 Hudson, Kate.............................................................................................35, 141 Hurst, Denny....................................................................................................110 Hutchinson, Lester ..........................................................................................135 Hutt, Allan .......................................................................................................134 Hyde, Douglas .................................................................................................110 Imperialism .....................................................................................114, 135, 164 In touch............................................................................................................102 India..........................................................................14, 114,134, 135, 140, C 13 Indonesia.........................................................................................................114 Industrial Conscription......................................................................................83 Industrial relations ..........................................................................................168 Institute of Marxism – Leninism, Moscow....................................................116 Intellectuals.....................................................................................................131 International Brigade ........................................................................................95 Interviews........................................................................................................132 Ireland – see Northern Ireland J J Fast Food strike ...........................................................................................14 Jackson, Angela................................................................................................36 Japanese occupation of China .........................................................................83 Jenkin, Alfred....................................................................................................78 Jessop, Maria ...................................................................................................95 Johnson, Lyndon .............................................................................................122 Johnstone, Monty.................................................................14, 35, 36, 115, 116 Joint Production Committees .........................................................................124 Jones, J.B........................................................................................................142 Jones, Jean.......................................................................................................38 Journal of the Alliance for Green Socialism..................................................101 Juellope, Pascale...........................................................................................C 13 Kapp, Yvonne ............................................................................................36, 110 Keable, Bill ......................................................................................................110 Kelkar, R.D...................................................................................C 12, C 13, C 20 Kennedy, John F......................................................................................122, 148 Kenton, Lon .....................................................................................................144 Kerrigan, Peter ............................................................................................15, 95 Kettle, Arnold.................................................................................................C 10 Keynes, J.M ......................................................................................................15

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Kiernan, Victor...................................................................................................84 King, Frances.............................................................................................37, 109 Kingsford, Robert ..............................................................................................38 Klugmann, James .....................................................................................10, 115 Knight, Frieda ..................................................................................................110 Korea ...............................................................................................................114 Labour Movement – bibliography ....................................................................75 Labour Party ....................................................................................................133 London ......................................................................................22, 28 Notes for speakers .........................................................................66 Policy...............................................................................................37 Proscribed organisations........................................................11, 133 Vetting.............................................................................................98 Labour Research Department.............................................................51, 54, 134 School, 1922 .................................................................................134 Labour Research..............................................................................................134 Labour Unity Campaign.....................................................................................34 Labour / Communist relations ..........................................................................79 Labour’s First Century..................................................................................56, 57 Land.........................................................................................................183, 184 Lansbury ......................................................................................................27, 83 Laski, Harold J...................................................................................................66 Lawrence, Susan........................................................................................42,110 League Against Imperialism...................................................................114, 135 Lee, Hymie.........................................................................................................95 Left Alliance ....................................................................................................101 Lenin School..............................................................................................34, 136 Lewis, Alun........................................................................................................35 Lewis, Hilda and Barney .................................................................................149 Lewis, W. Arthur .............................................................................................114 Libel action ........................................................................................................66 Liberals ............................................................................................................168 Linton, Martin....................................................................................................52 Litvinov, Ivy......................................................................................................116 Livingstone, Marco...............................................................................C 13, C 14 London (municipal socialism) .........................................................................168 London Regional Advisory Committee .............................................................94 London School of Economics – Lansbury Collection .......................................27 London Socialist Historians’ Group ..................................................................93 London homeless families – speaker’s notes ................................................127 Lord Chancellor .................................................................................................29 Luton Shop Stewards’ Committee ...................................................................83 MacIntyre, Stuart ...........................................................................................114 MacLean, John..................................................................................................15 MacNeice, Louis............................................................................................C 10 Mad dogs and Englishmen ...............................................................................35 Malaya.............................................................................................................114 Manchester .......................................................................................................15 Manchester Communist Party ........................................................................110 Manchester Guardian....................................................................................C 21 Manuscripts..........................................................................................137 – 145 Maratha, R.Y..................................................................................................C 13 Marx, Karl........................................................................................................114 Marxism ....................................................................................................84, 114 Marxist theory of Imperialism ........................................................................114 Matthews, Albert............................................................................................110 Matthews, George....................................................................................14, 111 May Day – history.............................................................................................83 Mayday; by John Sommerfield.........................................................................34 McArthur, John .................................................................................................14 McDonald, Murray..........................................................................................114 McFarlane, Wally..............................................................................................78 McGree, Leo......................................................................................................34 McLaine, Ian......................................................................................................95

McMichael, Joan............................................................................................149 McShane, Harry ................................................................................................15 Meehan, J.W .................................................................................................C 11 Meerut.....................................................................................................114, 135 Members of Parliament – Communist .............................................................36 Number by Party................................................................................................44 Microfilms (Moscow)......................................................................................115 Milford, Lord (Wogan Phillips)........................................................................110 Milner, Ralph...................................................................................................114 Miner’s strikes.............................................................................................14, 84 Ministry of Morale ............................................................................................95 Minority Movement ..........................................................................................98 Mobile homes ................................................................................................174 Moore, Bill ....................................................................................79, 84, 96, 115 Morgan, Dave....................................................................................................84 Morgan, Marguerite .........................................................................................36 Morning Star ..................................................................................................111 Morris Motors, Oxford ....................................................................................139 Morris, Lynda .................................................................................................C 13 Morris, Max.....................................................................................................110 Morris, William ........................................................................................84, 110 Mortimer, John..................................................................................................53 Morton, A.L .....................................................................................................110 Moscow...........................................................................................................116 Moscow gold.....................................................................................................14 Muck, silk and society ......................................................................................48 Municipal Alliance ............................................................................................23 Municipal Socialism .......................................................................................168 Murphy, J.T .......................................................................................................52 Murphy, Molly ...................................................................................................52 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford....................................................................C 13 Muswell Hill .........................................................................................125 – 130 National Congress on Municipal and Social Questions, 1947........................68 National Democratic League..........................................................................150 National Liberation movements .....................................................................159 National Minority Movement.........................................................................146 National Peace Council...................................................................................148 National Socialist crimes – prosecutions in the Federal Republic of Germany...................122 National Workers’ Charter Convention..........................................................146 New Fabian Research Bureau ........................................................................114 New Labour and Thatcherism ..........................................................................45 New Politics Bulletin ......................................................................................106 New Politics Network.....................................................................105, 106, 130 New Statesman.............................................................................................C 21 New Times Network...............................................................................107, 130 New Times ......................................................................................................107 Newbold, Walter...............................................................................................45 Northern Ireland..............................................................................................147 Notebooks (Noreen Branson series) .......................................................41 – 58 Nottingham .......................................................................................................14 Now we face the future....................................................................................68 Nuclear arms race...........................................................................................134 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty..................................................................................122 Nuclear war.....................................................................................................148 O’Casey, Sean ................................................................................................C 10 O’Connor, Larry..................................................................................................35 Obituaries – see person’s name OMS – Organisation of International Links ...................................................115 Open University ....................................................................................C 10, C 13 Our History ..................................................................................................75, 80 Journal ............................................................................................81 Oxford.....................................................................................................139, C 13

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Pacifist Research Bureau................................................................................114 Pankhurst, Sylvia...............................................................................................53 Parkin, Ben ......................................................................................................122 Paving the third way .........................................................................................55 Peace...............................................................................................114, 122, 148 Peebles-shire news .......................................................................................C 21 People’s government campaign......................................................................100 People’s War ..................................................................................................C 22 Perham Down ................................................................................................C 10 Perspectives ....................................................................................................102 Phillips, Morgan ................................................................................................15 Pianitsky, O......................................................................................................146 Pit production committees..............................................................................100 Platts – Mills, John...........................................................................................48 Poetry and the People....................................................................................C 10 Polish reports ..................................................................................................122 Political freedom ...............................................................................................96 Political parties, other than the CPGB and the Labour Party ..............101 – 108 Pollitt, Harry ............................................................................51, 61, 68, 95, 117 Pollitt, Marjorie ...............................................................................................143 Poplar Board of Guardians................................................................................24 Poplar councillors............................................................................................153 Poplarism ..................................................................................................28 – 30 PovertyNorthern Ireland ...........................................................................147 Scotland..........................................................................................56 Powell, Enoch..................................................................................................134 Pratt, Sir John .................................................................................................114 Priscott, Dave ..................................................................................................111 Pritt, D.N ...................................................................................33, 114, 122, 133 Proscribed organisations ................................................................................133 Prosecutions in war time ................................................................................100 Public order........................................................................................................35 Public Record Office..................................................................................25, 113 Publications for sale ...................................................................................35, 75 Purcell, Albert A.............................................................................................C 16 Purging ................................................................................................51, 98, 131 Pym, Diana .............................................................................................110, C 11 Quaker Council ..................................................................................................14 Radical Statistics ..............................................................................................84 Raphael, Samuel ...............................................................................................96 Reckitt, Eve........................................................................................................35 Red – Green Newsletter.................................................................................108 Red Trade Unions organisation (USA) ..............................................................83 Rents .......................................................................................................170, 176 Rickword, Edgell..............................................................................................131 Roberts, Geoff ...................................................................................................14 Roche, J.............................................................................................................95 Rodrigues, Christopher ..................................................................................C 13 Rothstein, Andrew ............................................................................................33 Rusk, Dean ......................................................................................................122 Rust, William (Bill)...........................................................................95, 110, C 10 Daughter .........................................................................................39 Saklatvala, Mrs ...............................................................................................150 Saklatvala, Shapurji....................................................................................35, 84 Sander, Frances..............................................................................................C 13 Saville, John..............................................................................34, 39, C10, C 16 Schaffer, Gordon .............................................................................................134 Schell, Jonathan ...............................................................................................46 Sedley, Stephen ..............................................................................................149 Selden, Anthony................................................................................................14 Seltman, Muriel and Peter .............................................................................125 Sepal, Ivor........................................................................................................149

Seretse Khama................................................................................................114 Service and Servicemen .......................................................................15, 66, 95 Sharpe, Gene...................................................................................................148 Sheffield......................................................................................................14, 84 Shields, J...........................................................................................................95 Siddall, Joseph, Marjorie and Ian ..................................................................149 Simon, Roger...................................................................................................110 Simpson, Renate.............................................................................................149 Smimov, Georgi...............................................................................................116 Smith, Joyce....................................................................................................149 Socialist Educational Association ..................................................................118 Socialist History Society ....................................................................75, 85 – 91 Soldiers – see Service and servicemen Sommerfield, John............................................................................................34 Source material – specific collections...........................................14, 15, 83, 84 South Wales Miners’ Library............................................................................94 Southcott, M.S ..................................................................................................52 Soviet Union – support .....................................................................................99 Spanish Civil War................................................................36, 95, 96, C 10, C18 Spector, Jack...................................................................................................149 Squatters...................................................................................36, 124, 149, 175 St Hugh’s School, Bickley ..............................................................................C 18 St Pancras – 1931 Election.............................................................................114 St Pancras Trades Council ..............................................................................151 Stalin, J.V............................................................................................14, 38, 111 Stalinism............................................................................................................84 Stallard, Trevor ..................................................................................................35 Stevens, Richard .............................................................................................151 Stewart, R..........................................................................................................95 Strikes – Featherstone, Sheffield, Tottenham and Vladivostok................14, 84 Suffolk ...............................................................................................................84 Suffragettes ......................................................................................................52 Sunday Express..............................................................................................C 21 Sussex University ..........................................................................................C 13 Swingler, Randall......................................................................................36, 138 Swingler, Stephen.....................................................................................38, 122 Syphilis ..............................................................................................................14 Talking Red: Newsletter of the Communist Oral History Project ....................70 Talks ......................................................................................................152 – 166 Tanner, Duncan............................................................................................42, 56 Tayler, Annie....................................................................................................149 Thames and Hudson ......................................................................................C 13 Thane, Pat..........................................................................................................56 Thatcherism...............................................................................................45, 160 The Week ........................................................................................................167 Tiratsoo, Nick ....................................................................................................56 Tottenham..........................................................................................................14 Tottenham Bookshop ........................................................................................57 Trade Union Information (Irish) .......................................................................147 Trade unionists – Chinese ................................................................................83 Trade unionists freedom .................................................................................100 Trade unions and trade union movement ..........................................44, 99, 146 Trades Councils ...............................................................................................151 Trades Union Congress.................................................................51, 97, 99, 120 And Communists ............................................................................97 Vetting.............................................................................................98 Treason ..............................................................................................................84 Treherne, Sheelah ...........................................................................................144 Tribe, Hubert...................................................................................................C 20 Triple Alliance....................................................................................................84 Turner, David .........................................................................................35, 37, 85 Twenties and thirties ........................................................................................34 Tyne and Wear Anti – Fascist Association ....................................................120 Unavane, S.....................................................................................................C 13

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Unemployment................................................................................................146 United Kingdom – state of the nation post 1991 ..........................................163 United States of America – working conditions..............................................83 Unity and victory ...............................................................................................61 Usmani, Shankar.............................................................................................114 Venes, Peggy ...................................................................................................149 Vetting .........................................................................................................58, 98 Victory, peace, security .....................................................................................61 Wages .......................................................................................................15, 177 Wales – see South Wales Wallace, Malcolm.............................................................................................45 Wallhead, Richard C .......................................................................................145 Walton, J.........................................................................................................110 Wandsworth....................................................................................................150 War......................................................................................................96, 98, 131 War – anti-war struggles ...............................................................................156 War – conduct of ............................................................................................100 War effort........................................................................................................100 War time – conditions for the people ............................................................134 War time – industry ........................................................................................124 War time – security ..........................................................................................98 Ward, Bert .......................................................................................................149 Ward, Fred.......................................................................................................110 Wartime – Clive Branson’s paintings............................................................C 14 Watkins, Nat .....................................................................................................38

Weetch, Ken....................................................................................................119 Welensky, Roy...................................................................................................33 West Africa .....................................................................................................114 West Indies .....................................................................................................114 Westacott, Fred.................................................................................................78 Wheeler, George S..........................................................................................122 Whittaker, W.....................................................................................................95 Williams, Bert ...................................................................................................95 Williams, J.S.....................................................................................................94 Wilson, Alistair .................................................................................................35 Wilson, John..................................................................................................C 16 Woddis, Jack...................................................................................................114 Wolverhampton...............................................................................................151 Women – exploitation ......................................................................................14 Women – organisation .....................................................................................98 Women – Spanish Civil War ............................................................................36 Women and war .....................................................................................124, 134 Women’s Parliament...................................................................................95, 98 Woolf, Leonard................................................................................................114 Workers’ International Relief ...........................................................................83 Works production committees .........................................................................99 World Federation of Trade Unions ...................................................................99 World Peace Congress – 2nd ...........................................................................84 Wright, Peter.....................................................................................................99 Wrigley, Chris..................................................................................................168 Yeates, Mary ...................................................................................................114 Young Communist League ................................................................................15

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THE CLIVE BRANSON COLLECTION

Volume 1 November 1935

This list of files by number, giving brief contents, is followed by sheets showing the contents in detail. All important items are shown, but not always in complete contents.

INDEX ACCIDENTS

At the end of this guide is a short alphabetical index of names and subjects mentioned in this guide.

File Number Contents C1 – C9 Notes These are 5 leather bound volumes, plus material for a 6th volume awaiting binding. There is no volume 5; perhaps the unbound material was intended to be this missing number.

The notebooks contain essays on language, maths, dialectics, philosophy, book reviews, the current political situation, etc.

C1 – C5

Bound volumes, 1 – 6

C6 and C7

Unbound material. 2 paged sequences of typewritten notes

C8

Typed drafts of notes for prospective publications

C9

Folder of notes, destination unsure

C10

Clive Branson’s poetry

C11 and C12

Correspondence with Noreen Branson about Clive’s death, and the publication of ‘British Soldier in India’

C13

Art. Clive’s writings on art. Correspondence with Frances Sander, who researched Clive Branson

31.32

Marx treatment of…

26 24 27 35 67 40 52 67.37

as opposed to agit – prop and good intentions ’thing in itself’ conscious and development and the inevitable the bourgeoisie

AGITATION

21 44 24

way to test its quality for influence and action

ALLIES

30 52 51

and the Party and the Proletariat and partial demands

ARMY, the

45

in revolution

BOURGEOISIE

5 11 39 50

’internationalism’ against the proletariat conditions for rule by proletariat learns from and the petit-bourgeoisie

3 11

coming and defeat

CHANGE

38 40.49 40.39 65

as fight against decline the Proletariat transformation through struggle

ACTIONS

CAVAIGNAC

C14

Reproductions of Clive Branson’s paintings

C15

Drafts of accounts of Clive Branson’s life

C16

John Saville and the Dictionary of Labour Biography.

Preparation of entry for Clive Branson

C17

Personal documents. Oversize items – birth and infancy

CHAUVINISM

32

C18

Personal documents

CLASS STRUGGLE

C19

Photographs

4 9 41

C20

Correspondence – souvenirs, miscellanea, 1945+

COMMUNE, the Paris

3.31.32 33.

C21

Book reviews (British Soldier)

CONCENTRATION

C22

Copies of ‘Peoples war’ (India) and notes about David Haden-Guest

59.60 61

of forces the Party of the Proletariat

CONCRETENESS

30

Marx

CONSCIOUSNESS

37.38 38.39

purpose of

CRITICISM DECLINE

4.2 38

self (German CP) law of

DEFEAT

5.1.30 20

development by through lack of day-to-day work

DEMOCRACY

48

defence of

DEMONSTRATIONS

19.67

character of

DEVELOPMENT

1 1.2.48 40 38.40

by defeat by strengthening of opposition not passive through change

DISCIPLINE

46

EMPHASIS

36.44.47 66. (note 1 page 9)

FACTORIES

4. 51 19 21.62.27 62

Files in number order, contents in detail BOUND MATERIAL C.1

NOTES

VOLUME 1

NOVEMBER 1935

Preface Most books are written from the standpoint of ‘one who knows’. This book is not. This book is written with a double motif; one; to investigate certain works of Marx and Engels, and two; to put forward certain fundamental points to the CPGB to-day. The reason why this book may be difficult to read is because these two motifs are interwoven throughout and are not presented separately.

Why I do not intend to publish this book now is because I do not believe that in its presentation it can act as a guide to action for anyone except myself.

The points in it have yet to be brought back in to real life by me before they can be passed to others – I have yet to learn how to explain them in the language and actions of the real proletariat to-day.

Branson, November 1935

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politico-military development bourgeoisie enforces clarity in clarity in

ground for the revolutionary battle and demonstrations and the party and the streets

28

FAITH

1. 39 7

in the revolution will to win

FORM

8.35.37 44

and content of struggle

FREEDOM

10

and property

GERMANY

2.23 22 44 63 64 65

consciousness and spontaneity lesson from Engels about leadership and the factories and the United Front

GOOD INTENTIONS

27

and actions

HISTORY

29 3. 14 5. 7 16.39.40

as it is individuals unity of the opposites man makes

3. 14 12.23 66 36. 37

history (page 38 note 1) theory and the party

LABOUR PARTY

30. 56 59

the mass and the CP

LAW

9. 10

class weapon

LEADERSHIP

44.57.58 3 4 44 27 26.57 25 23.43

of class by Party the Paris Commune to fight a politico-military struggle and influence special kind and consciousness to win – a new type by proletariat conditioned by ITS Party

MARXISM

28

use of

MASS, the

4.60 43 43

secondary modes of exploitation modern revolution and the Party

MATERIALISM

3

Marxism

METHODS OF WORK

62

MILITARY

32. 33 42 4

Marx as military leader …side of revolution Marx’s method of dealing with

ORGANISATION

29. 62 2 26. 61. 63 27

workers as a class of ones forces a political question for training

PARTY, the

60. 61 55 and Lenin 27 and consciousness 2.11.35.43.51.64 and class 9 petit-bourgeois influence in 9.29.30.33.43.49 a new type 20 need for steady work 58 the hegemony of the Proletariat 33 and the Paris Commune 17 turning inwards 18.43 members 20 struggle inside between old and…

21 a factory

INDIVIDUALS

MISTAKES

PEACE

24

and war

PERSONAL CONTACT

45 44

and the army Party and class

PRACTICE

12.13.21.24 23 15 20

unity with theory and persons the United Front no theory

60 8 50 9.47 10 22

independent action the bourgeoisie in the CP property of… their revolution

PRINCIPLES

17

Lenin and the masses

PROGRESS

47

basic of….

PROLETARIAT

40 2.43.49.51.52.

53.56.58 2.42.44.60 2.9 5.47 6.48 8 8.52.56 8.9.11 9 12 4.5

abolition of… hegemony of… large-scale industrial the Party Lenin’s fight for hegemony of… surrender of its hegemony revolutionary allies petit-bourgeoisie and weapons social and political emancipation victory bought through defeat

PROPERTY

10 10 10

and freedom and being petit-bourgeois

RESPONSIBILITY

22 23

and Marxism of Party to class

REVOLUTION

5.43 7.9 65.8 45 20 29 24

in towns and villages side-by-side a war permanent the army need to organise particular training for modern…

SITUATION, the

15.16.34

how to assess

SPONTANEITY

3 16 27 36 37 22.26.30.34.36

Marx emphasises leave nothing to it difference with consciousness and historical laws and mass demands and consciousness

STATE

3 4 8 12 12.14

PETIT – BOURGEOISIE

18

politico-military struggle liquidation of… concentration of… the class struggle and socialdemocracy and spontaneity

STREETS

62

work in the

STRIKES

13.14

a training ground for Party members and demonstrations

19

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The Labour Party’s new role Notes on Ercoli’s report The Soviet Union and the October Revolution

TACTICS

28.50

TECHNICIANS

13.14 20 20 21

and demonstrations struggle in the Party and Party structure

TECHNIQUE

44

of revolution

THING-IN-ITSELF

35

and action

THEORY

1 12.17.21.24 20 1.60 22 23 29.28 28.37

and defeats unity with practice all practice, no… consistent revolutionary use of and persons to predict 31 able to select

TIME

18 28.37

failure to understand by CPGB long and short

TRADE UNIONS

56

and the Party, Class, Mass

TRAINING

7 27 13 24 TRUTH

of Party and Class by organisation of cadres-technicians for modern revolution 29 Marx

UNEMPLOYED

2 61 56.60

loss of proletarian status and employed leadership of

UNITED FRONT

15 35

its meaning to each participant to-day

66 6 7 7 36

of unequal surrender of one side its prerogative to struggle equilibrium in solution to the struggle of the bourgeoisie

VICTORY

5 25

conditions for preparation for

WAR

6 24

National enemy rallies the revolutionary forces and peace

9 12 49 2.9.30 2 9.10

use of theory as a…. need for certain kinds choice of Germany Law a weapon

UNITY OF OPPOSITES

WEAPONS

C. 2

NOTES

VOLUME 2

22 to 27 28 to 30 31 to 33

Fascism and war Memorandum on Gas Protection policy 1 to 4 Security?; by Major General Rowan Robinson 1 to 14 1 to 3 The Coming War; by Ludendorff Air Defence; by Major General E.B.Ashmore 1 to 6 The future of Infantry; by Liddell Hart 1 to 2 War from the air – past-present-future;

by Air Commodore L.E.O. Charlton 1 to 5 The Army in my time; by Major General J.F.C.Fuller 1 to 9 Statement relating to defence 1 to 3 Appendix I – Author’s draft for sub-district resolution Appendix II – The New Line: a. May First b. New Methods of Work, of Organisation, of Party Life Published in ‘Discussion’. May 1936 C.3 NOTES VOLUME 3 NOVEMBER 1936 CONTENTS 1.

1. Speech made at the Labour Monthly Conference. 19 March 1933 12.

2. Notes on tactics and strategy. Autumn 1935 15.

3. Revolution and Counter-Revolution; F.Engels 35.

4. The Peasant War in Germany (Preface); by F.Engels 40.

5. The factory workers in the fight against the war. 20 May 1936 47.

6. Two Tactics (Preface); by V.I.Lenin 50.

7. The Communist Manifesto; by Marx and Engels 61.

8. Address to the Red Army Graduates; by J.Stalin 74.

9. Speech to the Conference of Stakhanovites; by J.Stalin 98.

10. On Dialectics; by V.I.Lenin 108.

11. Tenants versus a Labour Council. 14 June 1936 111.

12. Liquidation of the Proletariat. Notes from Marx 115.

13. More on May First. 29 June 1936 121.

14. Notes on the London District Party Congress. 28 June 1936 124.

15. Three Letters by F.Engels 136.

16. The Current Link concept. 10 September 1936 140.

17. Marx’s theses on Feuerbach I, ll and lll 18. Military: 144.

Can Britain be defended?

168.

We are not recruiting sergeants. 26 May 1936 171.

Fascism and war 19. Science 190.

Exploring the Stratosphere; by Gerald Heard 197.

On the Method of theoretical physics; by Albert Einstein 209.

20. Notes on Marxism (Movement). 16 October 1936 212.

21. Report to the Branch Committee. 22 October 1936 218.

22. Ourselves and the Labour Party. 29 October 1936 223.

23. Marxism and Practice. 1 November 1936 228.

24. Spotlight on Spain; by I.L.Per C. 4

NOTES

VOLUME 4

AUGUST 1937

The Red Air Force

APRIL 1936

CONTENTS

Preface Party Organisation Notes CONTENTS London District Congress Materials 1935 Draft preamble for a sub-district resolution Resolution submitted to the London District Congress Notes for ‘Appeal to the Central Committee’

page 1 2 to 5 6 to 19

VII World Congress of the Communist International Notes on Dimitrov’s report

1 to 21

Language Objectivity and Words Malinowski: The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages Schlaugh, M: The Social Basis of Linguistics Crisis and Criticism; by A.West Notes on the Origin of Speech 70 Philosophy Time Change and purpose. Dialectics

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1–3 11 – 20 22 – 25 26 – 29

21 74

30

Note from poverty of Philosophy Mathematics and Materialism Freud and Marx; by R.Osborn Dialectics. A.Spoon Letter to Noreen Branson Dialectical Materialism; by E.F.Carritt Marx and Materialism. (Hegel) Trotskyism I.L.P. Policy Trotskyism on trial Trotskyism, the Policy of the Petit Bourgeoisie The essence of Trotskyism (Method) The Basis of Revolutionary Socialism; by F.Brockway Dishonesty; by F.Brockway Trotskyism. A local meeting Science Muller, H.J: Out of the Night Military Democratisation of the Army Democracy in the Army and the fight for peace Military question of Morale Politics Editorial for ‘Discussion’ no.11 Opposite directions lead to the same end To return to Bert Sines Distances between Events Relativity and Politics Another ‘Event’ Two and two make…Foreign Policy Fascism. A formulation The XlV Party Congress. Discussion material The London District Congress. Notes Retrospect Trade Unions and Politics The State and Spain Letter to A.Richardson Speech at the London District Congress Strikes and Lockouts in 1936 An Act of Provocation Which Way? Spain The State (A programme of action) Political Leadership Infeld, Leopold: The World in Modern Science Hook, Sidney: A critique of Dialectic and Nature.

Marxist quarterly v.1 no.2.

74 88 a and b 123 – 133 137 – 138 142 – 143 147 – 149 150 – 154 30 – 41 44 – 45 46 – 47 48 – 49 50 – 59 75 – 77 84 – 87 155 – 162 61 – 69 78 – 83 99 – 104 4 5–6 7 8 – 10 42 – 43 60 71 – 72 73 89 – 93 94 – 98 105 – 108 109 – 110 111 – 118 119 120 – 122 134 – 136 139 – 140 141 144 – 146 163 – 165

NOTES VOLUME 6b AUGUST 1939 General articles Culture and Working Class Movement; Notes for speech given 28 April 1939 Notes on the Unity of Opposites Geological table Thesis on culture The dawn of the human mind. Notes Idealism History Notes on Painting The difference between Man and Animal Notes on speech Art as a process of Organisation In the Beginning was the Deed Sight Notes on Culture Military: Modern training Manual, notes on.

Wintringham; ‘How to reform the Army’ Notes from Liddel Hart. 1936 War and Western Civilisation. Extracts from Major Gen Fuller Notes on a criticism Economic basis for Alliance between Landlords and Capitalists A Letter on Spain. 16 June 1939 Hanson, Jack; Lyly Constable. The Pre-Raphaelites. A letter to ‘Picture Post’ on looking at paintings

1–2 3–6 7 – 88 89 – 92 93 – 94a 95 – 113 114 – 116

117 – 126 127 – 131 132 133 – 144

27 – 29 30 – 35 36 – 44 45 46 47 48 49

UNBOUND MATERIAL C. 6 – 9 NOTES 2 paged sequences: C.6 a) C.7 b)

Late 1939 – March 1940. iii + pages 1 – 66 missing 25 – 26, 33, 38, 45 – 46, 55, 58, 61 – 62 Late 1939 – February 1940. Pages 1 – 100 + I Missing 1 – 3, 13 – 18, 19 – 70, 89 – 100, +I [Contents of folders (a) and (b): Arms manufacture, profiles of war, Empire and war, big business and the war, Hitler’s friends in Britain, the Finnish War, Labour Party and the war, conduct of the Government, non-intervention, Balkans – Germany and the Soviet Union, Democracy, India – Congress and the Moslem League, profiteering, many cuttings from the press. Coal shortage, what communists would do to end the war, end of the rule of the landlords and the rich, working class economics, art and the proletariat. Neville Chamberlain, the Daladier cabinet, propaganda notes. Poem – the People’s Flag. 27 February 1940].

C. 5 NOTES VOLUME 6a AUGUST 1939 Politics The situation in Spain How to build a Counter-Revolutionary Party;

by Fenner Brockway The Polish Crisis. Notes written from 31 March to 14 April 1939 A Battersea Pamphlet. 1937 What do the People think?

Conscription. Notes for speeches. 14 May 1939 Letter to Harry Pollitt Statement submitted to the C.C. after the London District Congress of June 1935. ( For points of the discussion, see notes vol 2) Why do publish Street Papers? Article from The Party Fighter no.3 October 1933. My first published article Letter to Emile Burns on The Current Link History of the CPSU (B)

1–7 8–9 10 11 12 – 13 14 – 15 16 17 18 19 – 20 21 – 22 23 – 24 25 26

C.8 c)

Typed drafts of notes for prospective publications; Fascism and war Concerned? What about?

The proletariat in Norway Notes for a lecture on the development of the army under capitalism

C.9 d)

Folder of notes, destination unsure Anti – Duhring Dialectical Materialism Quotations from Marx, Engels, Lenin

C. 10 POETRY 1.

‘Clouds’, a poem by Clive Branson; – 7931780, written in Perham Down. (Notebook) 2.

Poems by 739180 written at Perham Down. [To a Red Soldier; 2.

Zero Hour] (Notebook)

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3.

For N. [Eyes; Time wasted; To a soldiers wife; To Rupert Brooke; Bugle call; Reveille; The Soviet people speak; Mathematical certainty; Clouds; The cloud; Turn up the lights.]

Poems by Clive Branson 7931780. Written at Perham Down 1941.

(Notebook)

4.

Poems by 7931780 to Noreen Branson. Perham Down 1941.

[1. To a Red Soldier, 2. Zero Hour] Earlier drafts. (Notebook)

5.

Typed sheets. ’18 Poems’ 1. Paris 1929 2. To Noreen 1931 3. Red Air Force (Camb. Left v.11 no.1) 4. The Asturian miners. 8 October 1934 5. Thaelmann. 25 November 1934 6. December 1936 7.Prisoners in San Pedro de Cardena (New writing, New series no.2) 8. Prisoners 9. Valencia 11. Death sentence commuted to thirty years 12. – 13. The International 14. (?) Thinking 15. Blackout. 27 April 1939 16. Thoughts while lying on the grass in St. James Park.

7 July 1939 17. War and revolution 18. May Day 1940

6.

Notebook – Poems by Clive Branson. June 1940. ‘For Noreen from Clive’.

Typed + 1 handwritten poem ‘Time wasted’

7.

List of poems by Clive Branson. 1934 and 1935

8.

Typed copy of ‘Forward’

9.

List of poems by Clive Branson. 1939 – 1942

10.

List of poems by Clive Branson on Spain. 1p.

11.

List of poems by Clive Branson on Spain. Typed copies. 20p.

12.

List of poems by Clive Branson on Spain. Typed copies.

Second set

13.

Typed copies of 5 of Clive Branson’s poems

14.

O.U. Text. Unit 17. 1 – English poetry of the Civil War; by Arnold Kettle. Proof copy O’Casey, Sean: The Red grave in Burma

15.

Typescript of a review by Sean O’Casey of’ ‘British Soldier in India’, with letter from Bill Rust

16.

Cutting of the review published in the Daily Worker. 21 October 1944. p.2

17.

Article by John Saville ‘Valentine Cunningham and the poetry of the Spanish Civil War’

18.

Copy of ‘Marxism Today’. November 1976 v.20 no.11 pp.343 – 354 containing ‘Three left wing poets’; by Margot Heinemann.

(L.MacNeice, J.Cornford, C.Branson)

19.

Coverless issue of ‘Party and People’ Cover only for ‘Party and the People’ no.17. February 1940

20.

Correspondence with Noreen Branson (about Clive and his poetry) between November 1975 and May 2003. [Valentine Cunningham, Fredrick Grubb, Arnold Kettle, The Open University, Ron Heisler.]

In date order

21.

Branson, Clive: Poems. Privately printed. 1932. 61 pages Hardback, bound in red cotton, and printed on handmade paper

by Cranley and Day Ltd., London SW7 On the fly leaf there is a note in pencil: ’50 copies’ and a note in ink: ‘To Joe and Muriel’, apparently in Clive Branson’s handwriting On the half title page appears a poem in the author’s own hand, untitled, beginning: ‘”Though now we say our paths of thoughts diverge…”

Dedication on the page facing the verso of the title page: ‘Dedicated to the Communists of the World’ [In manuscript] Fifty printed poems follow, many untitled. The first group is called ‘London’ Titles where given: Dawn, The Barrel Organ, The Doors on the Tube, In the Park, The Thames, Charing Cross, The Serpentine Evening (three poems) To Gabriel, Lopez, Night, The Lord’s Prayer, Night (two poems), Dirge, To Gabriel Lopez, Music, Danae, Evening, Tulips, Snow, Parable

C. 11 – 12 CORRESPONDENCE with Noreen Branson about Clive Branson’s death and the publication of ‘British Soldier in India’ C.11 VOLUME 1 Aero grams – magnifying glass required Correspondence between Diana Pym and L.A.C. J.W.Meehan, stationed in India Some undateable letters Correspondence from February 1944 to April 1944 C.12 VOLUME 2 These letters are in date order, one sequence for all correspondence, private and official May 1944 – January 1946 + 1 letter from Kelkar. 5 September 1972 C. 13 ART CORRESPONDENCE with Frances Sander, who was researching Clive Branson, his paintings, poetry and prose writings Clive Branson’s writings on art: a) Small notebook ‘How it all began’; notes on the history of culture b) Indian peasant art. 6p. c) The self-movement of a painting. 15p. 3 typewritten copies, 1 handwritten copy (22 sheets) d) Philosophy of art Requests to reproduce or exhibit Clive Branson’s work (painted and written) (Kelkar and Indian publishing) from: R.B. Kelkar S.I. Unarahe R.Y. Maratha Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. (Marco Livingstone) University of Sussex (Christopher Rodriguez) Lynda Morris John Belsey Thames and Hudson (Suzanne Bosman) Pascale Juellope Open University (Celia Hart) Ron Heisler

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C. 14 REPRODUCTIONS of Clive Branson’s paintings Set of mounted photographs, colour. 12 sheets 21 colour photographs of framed paintings, postcard size Envelope containing 4 black and white photographs of paintings.

(Returned by Marco Livingstone) 11 brown and white photographs of paintings 6 black and white photographs of framed paintings. 195 x 245 mm Sketches and watercolours; 11 wallets, plus 2 blue exercise books: 1 – Instruction in the use of guns, Bren etc.

2 – Pencil sketch of soldiers around a gun during instruction These photographs are the only copies of paintings with their titles in the collection: 87 – Demonstration in Battersea 77 – Battersea station and tram – Blitz – planes overhead 104 – Bombed! Women and searchlights BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL C. 15 DRAFTS of Clive Branson’s Life 2 typescripts ‘Clive Branson’ (With corrections) 1 typescript ‘Clive Branson’ (Final copy?)

1 typescript ‘BRANSON, Clive Ali Chimmo’, 1907 – 1944, Artist and Communist 2 manuscript drafts, one headed ‘For the Indian Party 1946' C. 16 John Saville and the Dictionary of Labour Biography Correspondence, commencing in 1971, between Noreen Branson and John Saville regarding Clive Branson’s entry in the dictionary.

Specimen copies of entries for John Wilson and Albert A. Purcell are included; and some correspondence about names of other people who ought to appear in the compilation PERSONAL DOCUMENTS C. 17 Birth and infancy, oversize pages First photo, first smile, birth telegrams, christening invitations, list of locations of birthdays for years 1 to 8, first words, list of other firsts.

Photos of bungalow in India (1), first bed, basket (2), naked and lying on cushions(5), First photos sheet (3), cuttings of birth announcements 2 drawings – wax crayon and watercolour (4) (No indication of artist, could be Rosa Branson) C. 18 Personal documents Telegrams, invitations, photographs of childhood, 2 – 4.

School in England: reports, athletic and sports reports, souvenirs of happenings at St Hugh’s School Bickley, 5 – 17. Photo – cricket Xl. 1925. Bedford Public school, 19.

Correspondence with Tony (younger brother) some of which was written in a Spanish Concentration camp, 20 – 28. Draft poem, 21. Letter to Noreen from India, 29.

Correspondence from Rosa to her father and mother, 30 – 32.

Studio portrait of Clive (Enlargement of Polyfoto), 33. Photograph of scene of parkland or common, 34.

Watercolour of scene in library with pencil drawing on reverse (Rosa’s or Clive’s?), 35.

Clive’s will, 36. Official letter advising that Noreen may apply for Clive’s medals, 38. Pictures from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission of Clive’s grave, 39, and that of Lt. Col. Lord Alfred Eden Browne (Noreen’s father), 40.

Leaflet on the care and marking of the graves

Large party of ladies and children with Indian staff outside bungalow, 3 Cricket Xl, Bedford School 1925, 19 Large Polyfoto portrait, 33 Scene of parkland or common, 34 C. 19 PHOTOGRAPHS 4 Polyfoto images 1 Circular head and shoulders, front facing 3 Circular head and shoulders, front facing 3 of Clive Branson at work with his brushes The last 6 taken in October 1943. 1 sheet of Polyfotos, 7 missing C. 20 CORRESPONDENCE, SOUVENIRS, MISCELLANEA… Including among other items: Ticket for Clive Branson memorial meeting at Battersea Town hall Long communication from L.A.C. Hubert Tribe about Clive Branson and the Battersea CP Letters between Noreen and Cyril Branson about Clive’s early life and family matters Letter from J.Gaster, Solicitor Letter from R.B.Kelkar, still missing Clive after thirty years C. 21 BOOK REVIEWS – BRITISH SOLDIER IN INDIA Bedfordshire Times 3 November 1944 Belfast Newsletter 27 October 1944 Cavalcade 30 September 1944 Challenge Everywoman February 1945 Fellowship of the Cross February 1945 Hampshire Chronicle 28 October 1944 Manchester Guardian 18 October 1944 New Statesman 25 November 1944 Peebles-shire News 28 September 1944 Sunday Express 29 October 1944 C. 22 COPIES of ‘PEOPLES WAR’ and notes about DAVID HADEN – GUEST a) People’s War vol 3 no.31. 28 January 1945 pp.1, 7 – A.S.Chari – Red grave in Burma; Honest British soldier writes the truth about Amery’s India. p.6 – 7 The first of these articles tells of Clive’s death; and the second reprints ‘British Soldier in India’. (3 photocopies of these pages) People’s War v.3 no. 38 18 March 1945 no. 39 25 March 1945 no. 40 1 April 1945 no. 41 8 April 1945 Plus 2 copies of v.3 no. 31. 28 January 1945 b) Copy of letter to Daily Telegraph (13 July 1973) giving an outline of the life of David Haden – Guest with two accompanying letters to Noreen Branson. (Letter to Daily Telegraph is from Victor West)

Photographs: Clive Branson at 9 months. 2 photos. p.2 Clive Branson, around 3 or 4 years with younger brother, 3

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INDEX Aerograms......................................................................................................C 11 Art...................................................................................................................C 13 Battersea ..............................................................................................C 14, C 20 Battersea Communist Party...........................................................................C 20 Bedford Public School....................................................................................C 18 ‘Bedfordshire Times’......................................................................................C 21 ‘Belfast Newsletter’ ......................................................................................C 21 Belsey, John...................................................................................................C 13 Bickley, St Hugh’s School ..............................................................................C 18 Bosman, Suzanne ..........................................................................................C 13 Branson, Cyril.................................................................................................C 20 Branson, Noreen...................................................................................C 11, C 12 Branson, Rosa ................................................................................................C 18 Branson, Tony.................................................................................................C 18 ‘British Soldier in India’ ..............................................................C 11, C 12, C 21 Browne, Lord Alfred Eden, Lieut. Col............................................................C 18 ‘Cavalcade’.....................................................................................................C 21 ‘Challenge’ .....................................................................................................C 21 Chari, A.S .......................................................................................................C 22 Commonwealth War Graves Commission....................................................C 18 Cornford, J .....................................................................................................C 10 Correspondence ..........................................................................C 11, C 12, C 20 Cunningham, Valentine .................................................................................C 10 ‘Daily Telegraph’ ............................................................................................C 22 Dictionary of Labour Biography.....................................................................C 16 ‘Everywoman’.................................................................................................C 21 ‘Fellowship of the Cross ................................................................................C 21 Gaster, Jack ...................................................................................................C 20 Grubb, Frederick.............................................................................................C 10 Haden – Guest, David....................................................................................C 22 ‘Hampshire Chronicle’ ...................................................................................C 21 Hart, Celia ......................................................................................................C 13 Heinemann, Margot.......................................................................................C 10 Heisler, Ron...........................................................................................C 10, C 13 India................................................................................................................C 13

Juellope, Pascale...........................................................................................C 13 Kelkar, R.D...................................................................................C 12, C 13, C 20 Kettle, Arnold.................................................................................................C 10 Livingstone, Marco...............................................................................C 13, C 14 MacNeice, Louis............................................................................................C 10 ‘Manchester Guardian’..................................................................................C 21 Maratha, R.Y..................................................................................................C 13 Meehan, J.W .................................................................................................C 11 Morris, Lynda .................................................................................................C 13 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford....................................................................C 13 ‘New Statesman’...........................................................................................C 21 Oxford.............................................................................................................C 13 O’Casey, Sean ................................................................................................C 10 Open University ....................................................................................C 10, C 13 ‘Peebles-shire news’ .....................................................................................C 21 ‘People’s War’ ................................................................................................C 22 Perham Down ................................................................................................C 10 ‘Poetry and the People’..................................................................................C 10 Purcell, Albert A.............................................................................................C 16 Pym, Diana .....................................................................................................C 11 Rodrigues, Christopher ..................................................................................C 13 Rust, Bill .........................................................................................................C 10 St Hugh’s School, Bickley ..............................................................................C 18 Sander, Frances..............................................................................................C 13 Saville, John .........................................................................................C 10, C 16 Spanish Civil War.................................................................................C 10, C 18 ‘Sunday Express’............................................................................................C 21 Sussex University ..........................................................................................C 13 Thames and Hudson ......................................................................................C 13 Tribe, Hubert...................................................................................................C 20 Unavane, S.....................................................................................................C 13 Wartime – C.Branson’s paintings .................................................................C 14 West, Victor ...................................................................................................C 22 Wilson, John..................................................................................................C 16

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