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CK CULLEN; JOHN BURNS; PETER KERRIGAN |
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CK Cullen; John Burns; Peter Kerrigan
Further records within the CK Cullen papers detailing relationships with the ILP, CPGB and the Daily Worker, among other organisations during the 1920s and 1930s. There are the papers of John Burns who, among other positions, held the renowned post of strike leader during the Great Dock Strike of 1889. Finally, further papers of Peter Kerrigan give a retrospective account of his involvement during the Spanish Civil War and the International Brigade, in particular. |
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Labour History Archive and Study Centre |
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BROWSING 1-3 OF 3 RESULT(S) IN CK CULLEN; JOHN BURNS; PETER KERRIGAN |
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CK Cullen, Independent Labour Party and later Communist Party activist, Poplar |
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CP/IND/MISC/17/7: Incomplete set of the ILP Revolutionary Policy Committee's bulletin, 1932-1935. CP/IND/MISC/17/8: File of cuttings on the CPGB - ILP relations, with correspondence of Cullen with Bellamy and with the Daily Worker, 1932-1935. CP/IND/MISC/17/9: Collection of ILP leaflets, mainly produced by the Poplar or East London ILP organisations, with some other ILP material, conference papers, etc., 1920s and 1930s. CP/IND/MISC/18/1: Collection of ILP internal material, speakers' notes, congress papers, some leaflets. TS by Cullen on The ILP and the Extending Crisis; Cullen's ILP membership cards, mainly 1920s and 1930s. CP/IND/MISC/18/2: Materials about Poplar, including pamphlets and reports about the Board of Guardians in 1921-1922; Poplar election materials from Labour, ILP and Cullen as a CPGB candidate. Documents from Poplar Peace Council (Hon. Treasurer C.K. Cullen), and the Camelot Socialist Fellowship, 1906-1937. CP/IND/MISC/18/3: Materials on the presentation of the Cambridge Exhibition Against War and Fascism in Poplar, 1936. CP/IND/MISC/18/4: File of mainly electoral material concerning Cullen's candidatures in municipal elections. Also, Poplar ILP and CPGB leaflets and circulars, mainly 1920s and 1930s. |
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John Burns, 1858-1943, pioneer of British socialism, dockers' leader, MP, government minister |
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CP/IND/MISC/18/5: Materials by, relating to, collected by or otherwise somehow connected to John Burns. Correspondence with various people (2 envelopes - to 1899, after 1900) - mainly letters to Burns; newspaper cuttings collected by Burns, some of them relating directly to him, others on more general matters (up to 1900); pamphlets by Burns: speech at the Old Bailey, 1886, Trafalgar Square Speech for Defence, 1888, The Trail of the Financial Serpent, 1900, collection of Commons speeches, 1900, address to public medicine congress, 1913, London's River, opening address at the art gallery, 1936; notes in pencil by Burns, including one set from 1890 on Dock, Wharf, Riverside, etc. notepaper; election leaflet; printers' union leaflet; correspondence about Burns' library and Robin Page Arnot's Our History pamphlet describing the library, 1870-1960. |
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Peter Kerrigan, 1899-1977, CP Scottish organiser, national organiser and industrial organiser |
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CP/IND/MISC/18/6: Articles (mainly TS, for Labour Monthly, also 2 published in the AEU Journal), cuttings, notes for talks and correspondence on Spain, the civil war, the International Brigade, etc., 1951-1976. CP/IND/MISC/18/7: Notes for speeches, TS and MS articles on industrial questions, CPGB history, the British Road to Socialism, Dimitrov, the role of the CPGB, etc., with some miscellaneous published materials collected by Kerrigan, 1950s-1970s. CP/IND/MISC/19/1: Material on the treatment of the role of Kerrigan in John Mahon's biography of Harry Pollitt: notes by Kerrigan, notes by Mahon, letter from Mahon to Kerrigan, copy of letter from W. Laithwaite to Tony Chater, sent to Kerrigan, 1976. |
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