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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 A wide range of smaller deposits are grouped here, among them an impressive collection of unpublished memoirs.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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