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Papers relating to attempts to form an affiliation or electoral pact between the Common Wealth Party and the Labour Party including memorandum on the Common Wealth Party and the Labour Party, by Richard Acland for the working committee, 20 May 1943; draft letter to the Labour Party by Tom Wintringham, 24 May 1943; draft letters with accompanying notes to executive of the Labour Party by Richard Acland, (President of Common Wealth), May 1943; article 'An appeal to the Labour Party', by Wintringham, written for the national committee and the Common Wealth Review ; alternative drafts of the appeal to the Labour Party, 10 May 1944; leaflet 'Open letter to members of the Labour Party from the working committee of Common Wealth', 7 Jun 1943, with various drafts; papers relating to the Common Wealth Party's Special Conference on 'Left unity' and the relation of the Common Wealth Party to the Labour Party, held 8 Oct 1944, including agenda, timetable and report; letter on formation of a committee to negotiate with the Labour Party, 17 Nov 1944; draft for discussion at the negotiating committee meeting, Dec 1944; paper titled 'the coalition, socialism and the general election'; paper titled Labour Party crisis'; copy of letter from Acland to Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay) on terms of affiliation with the Labour Party, 11 Sep 1944; papers for the Labour Party conference, 1944, and copy of letter from Kenneth Ingram to Harry Roff on Labour Party's refusal to affiliate with or make an electoral pact with the Common Wealth Party, 13 Dec 1944.

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's election campaign as the Common Wealth Party candidate for North Midlothian in the 1943 by-election, including letters of support and messages to be used in the campaign for North Midlothian, including from John Boynton Priestley, Sir Charles Trevelyan and Henry Noel Brailsford; Wintringham's script for 'Answering You', a discussion on the BBC's North America Service, London, 1942 (for photographs in the studio see 3/7); Communist Party statement on their position on the Common Wealth Party in North Midlothian; reprint from Forward 'Why I fight Scots By-election: our challenge to the Tories' by Wintringham, 2 Jan 1943; press cutting 'Tom Wintringham stands for parliament', in Picture Post, 6 Feb 1943; campaign leaflets for Wintringham and press cuttings relating to Wintringham's campaign. 1 file

Papers relating to the Common Wealth Party's policy on British industry including speech given by Tom Wintringham at a discussion on 'How to democratise industry here and now', 4 Mar 1942; the Amalgamated Engineering Union enquiry into production committees, May 1942; Barlow and Scott PEP reports on industry, 5 Nov 1942; the West Midland regional 1941 Committee programme for the reform of British industry; paper on setting up of a works advisory committee for the Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd and its subsidiaries; draft paper on 'The future of industry' and leaflet, 'Industry and the Future', Oct 1943. 8 items.

Papers relating to a book by Lt Ferdinand Otto Miksche of the Czecho-Slovak army, Blitzkrieg , originally published in Czech, (Tom Wintringham co-translated it into English and wrote an introduction), including summary of part of the book titled 'Defence against Blitzkrieg'; letter from Wintringham to Col [Maurice Somerville] Chilton, Deputy Director of Military Training, Horse Guards, on the importance of Miksche's theories and enclosing a brief outline of the book; draft script for Gerald Bullett, BBC overseas service, promoting Blitzkrieg ; reviews of Blitzkrieg in The Observer , The Manchester Guardian , The Scotsman , Time and Tide , New Statesman and Nation and the Yorkshire Post , 7 Dec 1941-10 Jan 1942; letter from Miksche to Wintringham on a review of Blitzkrieg in Army Quarterly , 27 Feb 1942; letter from Quincy Howe, American journalist to Henry Wise Miller on Blitzkrieg , 6 Mar 1942; signed photograph of Miksche and correspondence between Wintringham and Basil Liddell Hart on the difficulties of working with Miksche, Aug 1942. See also the LHCMA Miksche collection]. 14 items

Papers relating to a book by Tom Wintringham entitled Weapons and Tactics (published 1943) including draft of chapter 11 for the Czech edition titled 'Epilogue in 1946'; draft blurb, synopsis of the book; preface to the Czech edition, Nov 1945 and serialised articles by Wintringham in the Picture Post on the history of weapons, 1940. 1 file

Papers relating to military training, possibly for the Home Guard, including papers on a ULC/ULF course on warfare by Tom Wintringham including draft course bibliography and notes and synopsis of lectures; lecture on a battle, 8 Aug 1918, possibly the Battle of Amiens, entitled 'Exploits of "Musical Box"' given 8 Aug 1940; and timetable for Army Officers' experimental course at Gilwell Park, 5-10 Feb 1940. 1 file

Papers describing Home Guard training exercises including letter from Tom Wintringham to the War Office outlining various training games entitled 'Instruction by competition'; descriptions of French training games; letter from Wintringham to Sir John Brown outlining training games, 9 May 1939; booklet in Spanish, 'Hay que evitar ser tan bruto como el soldado canuto' and paper on proposed training teams for battle drill and fieldcraft, 25 Jul 1941. 1 file

Papers relating to English Captain by Tom Wintringham including typescript synopsis of English Captain and draft introduction and frontispiece for second edition of English Captain . 3 items

Papers related to a book by Tom Wintringham entitled The Coming World War including introduction by John Strachey and draft of additional material on a year's changes for the second edition, 1936. 2 items

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's time at Balliol College, Oxford, including certificate for his school examinations, Jul 1914, questions for the entrance examination; press cutting announcing Wintringham's scholarship to read modern history at Balliol College, telegrams of congratulations for acceptance, 14 Dec 1915; essay by Wintringham on 'General history 1800-1810' and letter from [Arthur Lionel] Smith, Master of Balliol, on Wintringham leaving Balliol, 11 Sep 1920. 1 file

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's early life including copy of Gresham School's alternative magazine The Merman, edited by Wintringham and class lists, 1915-1916; and personal correspondence with Christina Roberts, his sister Margaret Wintringham and others. 1 file

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's work as a radio critic including as radio critic for the New Statesman and Nation titled 'Radio Notes' comprising cuttings of 'Radio Notes', 6 Sep 1947, 13 Sep 1947, 20 Sep 1947, 27 Sep 1947, 4 Oct 1947, letter to the editor on Wintringham's column, 4 Oct 1947; drafts of 'Radio Notes', 8 Sep 1947, 28 Sep 1947, 9 Oct 1947 and undated [1947]; letter from the editor of the New Statesman and Nation terminating Wintringham's column, 9 Oct 1947, and papers relating to 'The Critics Programme' for the BBC Home Service, including the programme's mandate; correspondence with the producer, T B Radley, 22 Oct-5 Dec 1947; manuscript notes by Wintringham on radio programmes and four typescript drafts of scripts for 'The Critics Programme' undated and 15-16 Nov 1947. 1 file

Papers relating to the British economic crisis of 1947, including 'Memorandum on Britain's economic future', by Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay), 14 Jul 1947; transcript of speech by Mackay in the House of Commons, 6 Aug 1947; correspondence between Tom Wintringham and Mackay, 13 -28 Aug 1947; letter to The Times by Wintringham with manuscript draft article on the United States, [1945-1948]; press cuttings 'Cripps to launch his crisis plan today', 12 Sep 1947; letter to The Times by Mackay, 20 Jun 1947; and Soviet News, 3 Jul 1947, 16 Jul 1947 and 7 Aug 1947. 1 file

Typescript papers relating to the position of the Socialist Party in Spain during and after the collapse of the Popular Front government of Francisco Largo Caballero, 1937 including typescript copies of speech delivered by Jesus Hernandez, Spanish Minister of Education and Health, 28 May 1937. 1 file.

Papers relating to the 1943 by-election including campaign leaflets for Common Wealth Party candidates; campaign leaflets for other political parties, Common Wealth Party instructions to canvassers and campaign leaflet for Tom Driberg running as an independent candidate with his draft address to electors to the Maldon Division. 1 file

Transcript of an address by Henry Wallace, Vice President of the USA on the price of Free World Victory, 8 May 1942; minutes of the delegate meeting of the IBA, 18 Jan [1942]; synopsis of six lectures to be held by Volunteer for Liberty and Marx House, and report on the Fabian Society conference on national defence, 18-19 Feb 1939. 1 file

Papers relating to Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's election campaign for the Common Wealth Party in North Midlothian, 1945, including campaign leaflets, draft election address and correspondence with Tom Wintringham, Anne McGregor and others on topics including the Labour Party's late decision to put a candidate up for the North Midlothian constituency and the possibility of Kitty withdrawing so as not to split the left vote. Also campaign leaflet for Ernest Rogers Millington, the only Common Wealth candidate to win a post in the 1945 election and copy of the Times with election results for Scotland, 27 Jul 1945. 1 file

Obituaries, biography and posthumous press cuttings on Tom Wintringham including obituaries of Wintringham collected by his sister Elizabeth 'Jim' Neale ( née Wintringham); a short biography by his brother John Wintringham, privately published in 1982; letters to Elizabeth Neale on Wintringham, 15 Jan 1976 and 16 Sep 1980, and press cuttings referring to Wintringham on topics including the Home Guard: 'A new look at Dad's Army'; 'The strategies of speculation', in the Daily Telegraph Magazine, 10 May 1974; 'What did you do in the Home Guard, Daddy?; 'Captain Mainwaring does battle again…', in the Communist Weekly, 26 Sep 1987; and the Spanish Civil War: 'Yesterday's horrors, today's memories', in the Evening Telegraph, 21 Nov 1975 and article on an ex-girlfriend of Wintringham's, Rose Smith, 'Unforgettable Rose of Beijing', in the Morning Star, 19 Aug 1985. 1 file

Tom Wintringham's typescript and manuscript notes on landing and launching aeroplanes, a new type of aircraft engine and the armament of aeroplanes. 1 file

Typescript notes written by Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) from her trip to the USSR as a foreign correspondent, 1936, consisting primarily of observations about the economic, cultural and social atmosphere in the Soviet Union, 1936. 1 file