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Papers on Tom Wintringham's final articles 'Communist dilemmas' and 'Myth of the Individual', including typescript draft of 'Communist dilemmas', Jul 1949; 'Communist dilemmas' published posthumously by his widow Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham in three parts in the Picture Post, entitled 'The split in the Kremlin', 10 Dec [1949]; 'The Kremlin is divided too', 11 Mar 1950 and 'Victims of a frozen theory', 18 Mar 1950; letters in the Picture Post, 'On Wintringham and Washing', 8 Apr 1950, and 'Readers write against Wintringham', 15 Apr 1950; Soviet News, 8 Oct 1948 enclosing manuscript notes by Wintringham; letter from John MacMurray to Kitty advising against publication of 'Myth of the Individual' by Wintringham, 10 Nov 1949; and drafts of 'Myth of the Individual'. 1 file

Papers relating to the Common Wealth Party's policy towards Prime Minister Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill including policy on attitude to Churchill, by Richard Acland, Jul 1943; memorandum on 'coalition and Mr Churchill', by Tom Wintringham, Jul 1943; leaflet for private circulation only on 'Memorandum on Mr Churchill', Jul 1943; letter to Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay) from Rev James William Parkes on Churchill, 3 Jul 1943; 'The question of Winston Churchill' by Parkes and resolution of the working committee, Churchill memorandum, 18 Sep 1943. 7 items

Papers relating to the future of the Common Wealth Party following the Labour victory in the General Election, 1945, including statement by R D Best, 9 Aug 1945; statement by Common Wealth in the Middle East; memoranda on the future of Common Wealth by Richard Acland, Aug 1945 and Norman Clark, 8 Aug 1945; paper on the alternative possibilities for the Common Wealth Party with a questionnaire prepared for the Common Wealth Party national conference, 16 Sep 1945 and letter outlining the outcome of this conference. 13 items

Papers on the possibility of sending Tom Wintringham to set up a Home Guard in India including report by Wintringham 'Guerrilla warfare in India', 31 Mar 1942, sent to Gen Robert Lockhart of the India Office; correspondence on the subject with Lockhart, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, Leader of the House of Commons, Indian organisations and Lt Gen Sir Ronald Forbes Adam Adjutant General to the Forces; letters of introduction of Wintringham to the Maharajahs of Jaipur and Jodhpur from the Earl of Jersey; draft letter from Wintringham to The Times on an Indian Home Guard, 7 Apr 1942; BBC broadcast by Wintringham, 'Indian talks: starting a Home Guard', 3 Jun 1942; broadcast for BBC Hindustani Service by Wintringham, 'Guerrilla warfare', 3 Jun 1942; letter from Wintringham to the American ambassador John Gilbert Winant on an Indian Home Guard, 26 May 1942 and press cuttings 'Congress in dilemma says Nehru', in the Star , 1 Jun [1942] and 'Nehru calls millions to fight', in Reynolds , 7 Jun [1942]. 1 file

Papers relating to the 1941 Committee of which Tom Wintringham was a member and which later merged with Forward March to form the Common Wealth Party. Includes leaflets explaining the purpose of the 1941 Committee; leaflet titled 'An open letter to the new war cabinet'; letters from Richard Acland, 24 May 1942 and letter to John Boynton Priestley, 13 Jun 1942, on their concerns about the future of the 1941 Committee and papers relating to the Nine Point Plan, the basis for the policy of the 1941 Committee, including first declaration of the nine point group, 2 May 1942 and draft of the expansion of point 7 and paper on the 'Attitude to the Labour Movement' of Forward March. 13 items.

Papers on formation of the Common Wealth Party including article by Tom Wintringham, 'Notes on British politics', proposing a new political party, 23 May 1941; memorandum for joint conference of 1941 Committee and Forward March, Jul 1942; newsletter outlining Common Wealth's activities following its creation and report on the Common Wealth Party, Jul 1942-Mar 1943. 4 items

Papers relating to the setting up of the Home Guard including letter from Tom Wintringham to his brother, John outlining his plans in the case of German invasion, 22 May 1940; letter to T L Horabin outlining a plan of action for setting up a Home Guard, 18 Jun 1940; material for an all party group document on setting up a Home Guard and article for Illustrated London News on the first weeks of the Osterley Park Training School, 12 Aug 1940. 1 file

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's proposed development of the internal combustion engine including letters patent and specification for patent for 'improvements in driving gear for use with internal combustion engines', 29 Aug 1929 with correspondence with a patent agency; manuscript proposal for an experiment on the combustion engine, with accompanying diagrams; press cuttings 'Heavy-oil aircraft engine' and 'Crude oil engines'; typescript paper 'The hydraulic connecting rod and aero-engine design'; typescript paper of suggestions on high-compression engines; letter to the Automobile Engineer 'A new field of research' on methods of applying hydraulic engineering to the internal combustion engine and correspondence with Research Engines Ltd, Oct 1929. 1 file

Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's personal correspondence, chiefly 1939-1941, including one letter to her cousin Mr Spratts Post, 1921 and correspondence 1939-1941, including with Henry Wise Miller (Uncle Harry) and her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller) enclosing photographs of herself in Hawaii. 1 file

Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's personal correspondence, chiefly on the birth of her son, Ben including with her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller), Rhys Caparn, Albert 'Yank' Levy, Anne McGregor and other friends and relatives of Kitty and Tom Wintringham. 1 file

Kitty Wintringham's personal correspondence, including with her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller), Henry Wise Miller (Uncle Harry), Rhys Caparn and James Hemming. 1 file

Personal correspondence of Tom Wintringham including letter from Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham on her personal problems [1944]; correspondence with Christina Woods (née Roberts); Millie Wintringham; Elizabeth 'Jim' Neale (née Wintringham); Fred Fish; Albert 'Yank' Levy; Leslie 'Lesh' Wintringham; Ferdinand Otto Miksche; Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay); Hugh Williamson; Wintringham's nursemaid 'Nin'; Margaret Wintringham, MP; Frank Ryan, Irish commissar, International Brigade and David Crook. 1 file

Personal correspondence between Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham and James Hemming of the Common Wealth Party, chiefly on personal matters, with some mention of Common Wealth business including letter to Kitty on the Beveridge Report. 1 file

Personal letters from Elizabeth Arkwright, (later Wintringham) to Tom Wintringham throughout their courtship and marriage with letters to Wintringham in Spain including letter informing him of the death of his mother Eliza Mapson Wintringham, 13 Sep 1937, and letters following their separation on topics including their son Oliver 'O.J.' Wintringham. 1 file

Photograph of Tom Wintringham giving a lecture to the Home Guard at Osterley Park Training School. 1 item

Photographs of buildings, including 'Peartrees', Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's home in Essex, 1945-1948; series of photographs taken in 1935, including back yards of a row of terraced houses in Burnley, terraced houses and Nine Mile Point Colliery, Cwmfelinfach and Georgian cresent [in Bath]; photograph of 'The Old House' [USA] with a Christmas message; various unidentified houses and interior shots of a living room. 1 file

Photographs of children including Oliver 'O.J.' Wintringham as a baby, 1930, aged 4, Apr 1933 and aged about 8 [1937]; Ben Wintringham including playing in the garden at 'Peartrees', Essex [1948], and on holiday in Scotland, Aug 1956; Jon and David Wood, 1951; Felicity and Hilary, undated and Christina Woods' (née Roberts) children, Dec 1931.

Photographs of Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham (née Bowler) including as a baby, with her mother, [1908]; aged about three, at Bideford Port [1911]; in a park aged about 8 [1915]; aged about 10 with her brother and baby step sister, [1917]; portrait photograph, 1932; portrait aged about 24 or 25 [1932-1933]; portrait, 25 May 1938; passport photograph and portraits for her election campaign for the Common Wealth Party in North Midlothian, 1945, including printing plate of her portrait. 1 file

Photographs of Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham with children. 1 file