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ARNOLD KETTLE; A. RON HARDING; GERRY POCOCK; BRIAN PEARCE; MARJORIE POLLITT; GEORGE HOUSTON |
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Arnold Kettle; A. Ron Harding; Gerry Pocock; Brian Pearce; Marjorie Pollitt; George Houston
The papers of Arnold Kettle and Gerry Pocock chiefly relate to their own editorial positions within 'Marxism Today' and 'News & Views', respectively, 1970s and 1980s. Those of A. Ron Harding concern mainly official documents relating to the Soviet Union's relationship with the West resulting from issues such as espionage and the expulsion of Soviet diplomats from London in 1971. Other individual records comprise of debates on the origins of class society, 1948 (Pearce), personal correspondence, 1950 (Pollitt) and a satirical poem on the CPGB crisis of 1956 (Houston and Meek). |
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Labour History Archive and Study Centre |
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BROWSING 1-6 OF 6 RESULT(S) IN ARNOLD KETTLE; A. RON HARDING; GERRY POCOCK; BRIAN PEARCE; MARJORIE POLLITT; GEORGE HOUSTON |
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Arnold Kettle, lecturer, writer, literary critic |
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CP/IND/MISC/19/2: Material connected with Kettle's membership of the Marxism Today editorial board: article by Ted Bramley and correspondence thereon, article by Paul Feltham and correspondence thereon. MS and TS pieces by Kettle on questions of ideology and culture, with response by Alan Hunt, etc., 1971-1977. CP/IND/MISC/19/3: Material concerned with the posthumous re-publication of the works of Alick West, including correspondence with Elizabeth West and Maurice Cornforth, and TS's of some of Alick West's pieces, 1973-1974. |
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Papers collected by A. Ron Harding, for many years employed at Soviet Weekly |
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CP/IND/MISC/19/4: TASS news reports, photographs and documents relating to espionage cases against the USSR (1960s and 1970s), including the trial of an American U-2 spy pilot, 1960. CP/IND/MISC/19/5: Also news reports and documents relating to expulsions of Soviet diplomats from London in 1971. CP/IND/MISC/19/6: Duplicated reports made by John Jagger MP on this trips to the USSR, 1927-1936. CP/IND/MISC/19/7: TS collection of poems by "Macdobie", with inscription to Ron Harding, 1940. |
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Gerry Pocock, CPGB employee, head of International Department, editor of News and Views, etc. |
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CP/IND/MISC/19/8: File of statements, correspondence, articles and other materials collected by Pocock as News & Views editor. Includes some pre-40th-CPGB congress discussion contributions, 1987. |
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Brian Pearce, communist (after 1956, Trotskyite), writer and historian |
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CP/IND/MISC/19/9: Correspondence with Emile Burns and Georgi [no surname] about the origins of class society, 1948. |
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Marjorie Pollitt (1902-1991?), wife of Harry Pollitt |
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CP/IND/MISC/19/10: Letters from MP to Comrade Butlin, and covering note from Daphne Morgan, 1950. |
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George Houston and Ronald Meek, CPGB economists, Glasgow |
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CP/IND/MISC/19/11: The Rhyming Reasoner - a satire on the CPGB crisis of 1956. |
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