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Ben Bradley papers |
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CP/IND/BRAD. Benjamin Francis Bradley (1898-1957) was a communist metalworker, born in Walthamstow, who was sent to India to promote militant trade unionism in 1927 and sentenced in the infamous Meerut Conspiracy... (more...) |
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Campaigns and events |
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CP/CENT/EVTS. This small series contains seven files in a single box, and relates to one-off events organised in the same period, including the 'Marx with Sparx' day festival for the Marx... (more...) |
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Dona Torr papers |
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CP/IND/TORR. A Marxist editor and translator of the 1930s, Dona Torr became the doyenne of the party's younger historians initially through her involvement in writing a biography of Tom Mann. Begun... (more...) |
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EC commissions and suchlike bodies |
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CP/CENT/COMM. Includes materials relating to the 1951, 1958, 1968 and 1978 versions of The British road to Socialism, together with those of the later policy documents (Facing up to the future,... (more...) |
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ETU ballot-rigging trial proceedings |
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CP/MISC/ETU. This series comprises verbatim transcripts of High Court case brought by John Thomas Byrne and Frank Chapple against Frank Foulkes and other Communist Party members re alleged ballot-rigging in the... (more...) |
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Executive Committee |
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CP/CENT/EC. Parties, like the CPGB, which were affiliated to the Communist International (or Comintern), were obliged to send transcripts of the deliberations of their leading bodies to the Comintern headquarters in... (more...) |
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Harry Pollitt papers |
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CP/IND/POLL. Harry Pollitt (1890-1960) was the CPGB's general secretary from 1929 to 1939 and 1941 to 1956. In the Stalinised communist party, the general secretary's role was a crucial one, which... (more...) |
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Industrial Department |
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CP/CENT/IND. For opponents of the CPGB, one of the most disturbing features of British communism was its alleged manipulation of trade union grievances to promote economic chaos. These were bogeys that... (more...) |
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International Department, International Affairs Committee and external relations |
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CP/CENT/INT. Records relating to the CPGB's international functions are of particular interest given the unique significance such associations had for a communist party. Even after the Comintern's dissolution, there was no... (more...) |
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Ivor Montagu papers |
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CP/IND/MONT. An ebullient polymath of patrician background, Ivor Montagu was never one of the CPGB's inner circle of leaders and spent only a short spell on its executive committee during its... (more...) |
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J.T. and Molly Murphy papers |
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CP/IND/MURP. One of the most important of the CPGB's founding leaders, J.T. (John Thomas) Murphy, known as 'Jack', took on a number of key party responsibilities over the course of the... (more...) |
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John Gollan papers |
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CP/IND/GOLL. Long groomed as Pollitt's successor and attaining the general secretaryship of the CPGB in the difficult year of 1956, John Gollan (1911-1977) was to retain the position for some two... (more...) |
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Miscellaneous EC sub-committees & non-industrial advisory committees, etc. |
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CP/CENT/CTTE. Includes records for various ad hoc sub-committees or departments of the Executive Committee notably including the Parliamentary Department (CP/CENT/CTTE/01/01) which, in the late 1940s, oversaw the activities of the... (more...) |
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Miscellaneous individuals |
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CP/IND/MISC. A wide range of smaller deposits are grouped here, among them an impressive collection of unpublished memoirs. These include materials of interest to historians of trade union activism, for example... (more...) |
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National congresses and similar conferences |
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CP/CENT/CONG. According to the rules adopted in 1943, the National Congress was the 'supreme authority' of the party and responsible for laying down the 'general lines' of its work. Delegates' notes... (more...) |
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National Cultural Committee |
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CP/CENT/CULT. In 1975 the so-called Gould Report detailed the penetration of Marxists into British universities and drew particular attention to the CPGB's successful annual event, the Communist University of London. One... (more...) |
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Political Committee |
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CP/CENT/PC. The CPGB Political Bureau (PB), which was renamed Political Committee (PC) in 1944, was a subsidiary committee of the Central/Executive Committee. The role and function of the PB/PC was set... (more...) |
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William Wainwright papers |
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CP/IND/WAIN. Born in 1908, and a CPGB member from 1931, Bill Wainwright worked in a series of party and other political posts from the war years onwards. These included spells as... (more...) |
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Women's Department |
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CP/CENT/WOM. When the CPGB established its national women's advisory committee in 1944, it could look back on a quarter of a century of uneven but sometimes energetic campaigning addressed to women... (more...) |
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