Leaflets produced by the Common Wealth Party, [1942-1945]
Common Wealth Party leaflets, numbers 2, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 17, titled 'Constitution of Common Wealth', 'India', 'Common Wealth and the Beveridge report', 'Women in the new age', 'Open letter to the Labour Party' and 'To those who work on the land'. 5 items
Leaflets produced by the Forward March group, [1942]
Forward March leaflets including manifesto, 'The Forward March and the problem of youth', by Richard Acland and James Hemming; 'Memorandum by a managing director'; 'The Forward March in relation to the war effort'; 'How to go to work' and programme for 1942. 7 items
Letter from Tom Wintringham to the Manchester Guardian, [1939-1940], about conscription
Letter to the Manchester Guardian by Tom Wintringham on army conscription. 1 item
Letter from Tom Wintringham to the New Statesman and Nation, 1938
Letter to the New Statesman and Nation by Tom Wintringham. 1 item
Letter from Tom Wintringham to Volunteer for Liberty, [1944]
Letter by Tom Wintringham to Volunteer for Liberty, 1 item
Letters by Tom and Kitty Wintringham, 1945, about a proposed 'People's International Radio Station'
Letters from Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham to rally support for Wintringham's proposal to set up 'The People's International Radio Station' and a memorandum on an international radio service by Tom and Kitty Wintringham. 1 file
Letters from Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) to Tom Wintringham, while in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, during their separation after Bowler's expulsion from Spain and after their reunion in London following Wintringham's injury. 1 file
Letters from Tom Wintringham to his mother, Eliza Wintringham, 1936-1937
Manuscript and typescript letters from Tom Wintringham to his mother Eliza Mapson Wintringham during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, including on his decision to join Republican forces, 1936; his temporary command of the British Bn, 15 International Brigade, 1937 and letters dictated to Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) by Wintringham whilst he convalesced in hospital following a gun shot wound to the leg, Mar 1937. 1 file
Letters from Tom Wintringham to Kitty Bowler (later Kitty Wintringham), [1936-1937]
Letters and poems written during the Spanish Civil War from Tom Wintringham to Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) relating primarily to experiences during the Spanish Civil War and the growing personal relationship between Bowler and Wintringham. 1 file
Letters to Tom Wintringham in Spain, 1936-1937, from colleagues and family
Letters to Tom Wintringham during the Spanish Civil War from correspondents including Millie Wintringham, Spanish poet Inés Munoz enclosing poem 'Iberia', Albert 'Yank' Levy, Frank Ryan, Irish republican, note from Harry Fry, 13 Feb 1937, Christmas cards in honour of the International Brigade and letter from Wintringham's sister Margaret Wintringham to their mother Eliza Mapson Wintringham on photographs of Wintringham sent by Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham), 11 Feb 1937. 1 file
Letters to Tom Wintringham, 1925-1926, during his imprisonment for seditious libel
Letters to Tom Wintringham while in prison for sedition, including Christmas cards from various Communist Party members; two letters from Christina Roberts immediately following his arrest, 16 and 22 Oct 1925 and Communist Party flyer advertising a public meeting with a speech by Elizabeth Wintringham (née Arkwright) on Wintringham's imprisonment, 7 Mar 1926. 1 file
Map of Ireland, with annotations by Tom Wintringham relating to the 1921 Anglo-Irish War
Map of Ireland annotated by Tom Wintringham entitled 'Civil War 24 May 1921-22 Jun 1921'. 1 item
Meeting papers and reports, 1943-1944, relating to the Common Wealth Party's National Committee
The Common Wealth Party's National Committee papers including minutes, 20 Feb 1943; report of policy discussion, 21 Feb 1943; minutes, 11-12 Dec 1943; report, 3-4 Jun 1944; minutes and report, 2-3 Sep 1944; minutes, 2-3 Dec 1944; proposal on the character of the executive committee and draft statement, list of co-options to the national committee; proposals to the national committee on the character of the executive committee and memorandum [by the Common Wealth national committee] rejecting a document by Richard Acland (President of Common Wealth) on 'Immediate political policy', 1943 Nov 25-26. 10 items
Minutes of meetings of the Common Wealth Party Working Committee, Jul-Dec 1943
Minutes of the Common Wealth Party's Working Committee meetings 6 May, 4 Jul, 8 Aug, 26 Aug and 11 Dec 1943. 5 items
Papers relating to Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) in Spain as a foreign correspondent and reporter and honorary Colt machine gun instructor, 16 Saklatvala Bn, International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1937, including Bowler's manuscript notebooks containing notes on experiences during the Spanish Civil War and contact details of international journalists; entry visas to Spain; membership papers and press pass to the Unión General de Tubajadores de España (UGT); her membership card of the American League Against War and Fascism, 1936 and 'Somera información sobre reforma agraria'. 1 file.
Manuscript notes and fragments of articles by Tom Wintringham including: notes on military tactics; notes taken from the correspondence of Marx and Engels; maps of Britain charting unemployment in, 1938; changes in population, 1921-1931, and in the electorate, 1935; notes taken from 'Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1918' and notes on North African Union. 1 file
Notes and other items, [1936-1939], relating to the Spanish Civil War
Items and ephemera relating to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, including Tom Wintringham's International Brigade association membership card; manuscript note from Arthur Koestler, correspondent with the News Chronicle, relating to a photograph sent to him by Wintringham of two German Army 'dum-dum' bullets allegedly used by Nationalist troops, 26 Oct 1936; copy of French communist newsletter Nos Chansons, editées par 'la jeunesse communiste de Grenoble', containing lyrics for 'l'Internationale' and other songs, [1936]; manuscript notes comprised in France and including the names and telephone numbers of communist, socialist and anarchist contacts in Spain, [1936]; English-Spanish Grammar, Ediciones del Comisariado de las Brigadas Internacionales, (Volunteer for Liberty, Barcelona, Spain, 1938); silk map of Northern Spain, North Portugal and South West France, scale 1:1,000,000; booklets, 'Spain Today', numbers 1 and 2, published by the Communist Party of Spain, Sep 1937; Spanish coins and three lapel pins marked UGT, UHP and CNT/FAI. 1 file
Notes by Kitty Bowler (later Kitty Wintringham), on a visit to the USSR, 1936
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
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
Obituaries and other press cuttings relating to Tom Wintringham, 1949-1982
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