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Press cuttings and other publications on the Home Guard and the defence of Britain including article in unknown paper on Lt Col Thornton Hy Bisgood, commander of Middlesex Home Guards who was rebuked by Anthony Eden, 21 Sep 1940, with anonymous letter in response to the article, 12 Oct 1940; 'Stone V tank', Daily Mirror , 2 Nov 1940; 'HG under the knife', Daily Mirror , 8 Nov 1940; 'Doctors for Home Guard', Daily Mirror , 25 Jan 1941; 'Home Guard arms from America', Star , 31 Jul [1941]; Army Bureau of Current Affairs final report, Apr 1942; article on Albert 'Yank' Levy, 'How to be a guerrilla', Life , 17 Aug 1942; 'The Home Guard are our masters of camouflage', Picture Post , 9 Jan 1943; article by Tom Wintringham, 'We invented modern war', Daily Mirror and Ministry of Information publication, 'If the Invader comes'. 1 file

Press cuttings of poems including 'Love me today and forever', by George Barker, 'Litany of the Lost', by Siegfried Sassoon; and 'Labor' (a worker's poem by unknown author), in the Daily Worker, 19 Feb 1938. 3 items

Press cuttings, in Spanish and English, relating to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 including articles by Walter Duranty, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent and colleague of Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham), primarily for the New York Times. 1 file.

Press cuttings of articles from journals and newsletters by various authors collected by Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham on topics including Trade Unions, the Soviet Union and the Cold War. 16 items

Press cuttings collected by Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham, chiefly on World War Two and the Cold War. 1 file

Press cuttings relating to Tom Wintringham as a member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War including photograph 'British MPs with loyalist leader', possibly with Wintringham in the background, News Chronicle, 9 Dec 1936; 'British fighters now pouring into Spain', in the Daily Worker, 15 Dec 1936; articles alleging that British prisoners were forced at gunpoint to join the International Brigade, Feb 1937, (For related libel case see 1/1/14); 'British reds' leader a Balliol man', Evening Standard, 20 Feb 1937; 'Briton's story of fighting', Times, Feb 1937; photograph of Wintringham with other members of the International Brigade (Macartney, Springhall, Kerrigan and Frank Ryan), among bomb ruins in Madrid, Daily Worker, 22 Feb 1937 and 'Franco's enemies are important men now' on various ex-members of the International Brigade including Wintringham, News Chronicle, 6 Sep 1945. 11 items

Press cuttings relating to the Common Wealth Party including 'Common Wealth puts out alliance feeler', in the Daily Worker , 26 Apr 1943; 'Common Wealth plans to fight 120 seats', in the News Chronicle , 16 Feb 1944; 'Is he Britain's baby Stalin?'(on Richard Acland), in The Week , 23 Apr 1944; 'Common Wealth', by Thomas Magnay, in the News Letter , Jul 1943; 'Unity, How?', by Acland in Left , Apr 1944; 'Richard Acland's Gravesend special' for the Gravesend by-election, 1947; and 'The Common Wealth Movement', in World News and Views . 22 items

Press cuttings relating to Tom Wintringham's election campaign as the Common Wealth Party's candidate for Aldershot in the 1945 general election, including: 'Common Wealth meeting: Sir Richard Acland talks of revolution', Aldershot News , 4 Aug 1944; 'Bring and buy sale in aid of Conservative funds', Aldershot News , 1 Sep 1944; the Aldershot News , 1 Jun 1945; 'Election campaign opens: Conservative and Common Wealth candidates views', Aldershot News , 8 Jun 1945; 'Aldershot candidates continue the campaign', Aldershot News , 15 Jun 1945; 'Views of Aldershot and rival political candidates', Aldershot News , 22 Jun 1945; 'Lively meeting in the Farnborough town hall', Aldershot News , 21 Jul 1945; 'Men with interests', Evening Standard ; 'The speeches of Col Wickham', 20 Jan 1945; 'Socialist plan is frivolous - Lyttelton', in the Daily Express , 2 Jun 1945; 'The four parties discuss monopolies', [ Daily Express ]; 'Oliver bowls a wide', [ Daily Express ], 2 Jun 1945; 'The gentle art of heckling'; 'Aldershot', Sunday Times ; 'J B Priestley writes an open letter to Mr Lyttelton', Reynolds News , 19 Nov 1944; . 'A worker's notebook' and copy of the Times with election results for England, 27 Jul 1945. 21 items.

Leaflets and flyers promoting the Common Wealth Party. 38 items

Proof of article by Tom Wintringham, 'Your job in an invasion', the Picture Post. 1 item

Proof of article by Tom Wintringham, 'How you can fight invasion' for Local Government Service. 1 item

The Common Wealth Party 'Popular Library' publications including Here are your answers , by John Boynton Priestley; The German problem , by Henry Noel Brailsford; Religion and the new society , by Kenneth Ingram; Social security and the Beveridge plan , by Barbara Wootton, Democratic education , by StJohn Reade and Dorothy Sargant; The problem of child crime , by James Hemming; Individuals and minorities , by Harry Roff; Common Wealth agricultural policy , by Richard Acland, England, Hawarth, Hemming, Sargeant and Street. 8 items

Press cuttings of Tom Wintringham's articles in the Daily Mirror comprising '…by Tom Wintringham', 20 May 1940; 'We are learning fast', 24 May 1940; 'My proposals for him, and you', 28 May 1940; 'Spare-time sport!', 31 May 1940; 'Wintringham's plan for the defence of a real English village!', 13 Jun 1940; 'We answer the muddle critics!', 25 Jun 1940; 'Winter invasion: is it possible?', 9 Sep 1940; 'Why are the wops pulling their punches?', 9 Oct 1940; 'Here's a new 'take cover' idea!', 12 Oct 1940; 'Plan this front line', 26 Oct 1940; 'This new battlefield', 29 Oct 1940; 'Da Duce, he say, everyt'ing still - a swell', 16 Nov 1940; 'What I think about things now…', 23 Nov 1940; 'Get the boot on the run', 30 Nov 1940; 'Plan your own invasion!', 4 Jan 1941; 'The swastika goes south', 31 Jan 1941; 'If the Germans use gas, they'll get more than they can give', 6 Feb 1941; 'Waiting for the wops', 13 Feb 1941; 'Eclipse of the wop moon', 27 Mar 1941; 'Mr Bevin, HALT!', 3 Apr 1941; 'It's a long way to Baghdad', 9 Apr 1941; 'Danger from the desert!', 17 Apr 1941; 'Now for an invasion rehearsal!', 1 May 1941; 'We must hold this line!', 22 May 1941; 'Crete is NOT a rehearsal', 29 May 1941; 'We're not too late in Syria', 12 Jun 1941; 'How soviet can stop the Hun', 28 Jun 1941; 'The Germans are rebuilding the Russian railways', 23 Aug 1941; 'How long can Leningrad hold out?', 6 Sep 1941; 'We should clean up Libya now', 4 Nov 1941; 'Spain may revolt against being forced to fight for the Axis', 14 Nov 1941; 'India CAN make her own arms', 11 Mar 1942; 'Germany's 'Alexander plan' is aimed at the Suez', 31 Mar 1942. 33 items

Press cuttings from the Tribune of Tom Wintringham's column as military correspondent, Mar 1940-Sep 1941 and as himself, Jan 1942-10 Jul 1942, comprising as military correspondent: 'Finland - is the Red Army inefficient?', 15 Mar 1940; 'Ending the stalemate', 22 Mar 1940; 'The bore war', 5 Apr 1940; 'Why Toryism is treason', 19 Apr 1940; 'The power of the bomber', 10 May 1940; 'Now arm the people', 17 May 1940; 'Waking up to war', 24 May 1940; 'The people can choose victory', 31 May 1940; 'France is besieged', 7 Jun 1940; 'Remember Admiral Byng', 14 Jun 1940; 'We must create a citizen army', 21 Jun 1940; 'What about Russia', 5 Jul 1940; 'A million citizen soldiers', 12 Jul 1940; 'Gibralter and the blockade', 19 Jul 1940; 'Vital changes in the Army', 26 Jul 1940; 'If invasion comes', 9 Aug 1940; 'Hands up - or the clenched fist', 16 Aug 1940; 'There has been treachery', 11 Oct 1940; 'Deep shelters are possible', 25 Oct 1940; 'Weak places in Italy's armour', 6 Dec 1940; 'How to stop the Blitz', 18 Apr 1941; 'The reward of muddle and greed', 2 May 1941; 'They shoot spies, don't they?', 23 May 1941; 'Will Nazis beat the Red Army?', 27 Jun 1941; 'The Red Army's fight to date', 11 Jul 1941; 'Turkey Next?', 25 Jul 1941; 'Guerrilla war and its lessons', 15 Aug 1941; 'The truth about 'Guerrilla' war', 19 Sep 1941 and other articles by Wintringham for the Tribune: 'They will never learn', 2 Jan 1942; 'A new model Army', 16 Jan 1942; 'The defence of Australia', 6 Feb 1942; 'Wanted, a Clemenceau', 13 Feb 1942 and 'Three ways of war', 10 Jul 1942. 33 items

Press cuttings of articles by Tom Wintringham in various newspapers including 'Mutiny' in the Left Review, Aug 1935, describing his charge of mutiny during World War One; 'Contempt of Court', in the Left Review, Oct 1934; 'The Comitern', in Controversy, Oct 1938; 'Cowardice or Worse?', in the Communist Review; letter to the Times on war in Kashmir; three part series 'Arms and Democracy' in the Daily Herald, Jul 1939; 'Saluting will never win a war', in the Daily Herald, 28 Dec 1939; letter to the New Statesman and Nation on Marxism and acrobatics, 5 Jul 1941; 'Can we invade Europe? - Yes', in the Volunteer for Liberty, Oct 1941; 'Scientific warfare', in Rotary Service, Feb 1942; 'The second front-some day', in Free World, Sep 1942; 'Dry rot and new life in Britain', in the Nation, 5 Dec 1942; 'Britain is not amused', in the Nation, 16 Jan 1943; 'Analysis of Europe', in the Left News, Sep 1943; 'The truth about Munich', in the Left News, May 1944; 'History of Weapons I: the rifle', translated into Arabic and 'Journey into Scotland', in New Scot, Dec 1948. 1 file

Report on Osterley Park Local Defence Volunteers Training School with descriptions of training including diagrams on camouflage, tank traps, knives and home made bombs. 1 item

Reviews of Tom Wintringham's books including reviews of New Ways of War in the Star and Reynolds News , Aug 1940; review of Armies of Freemen in the Daily Worker ; reviews of The Coming World War in Army, Navy and Air Force Gazette , May 1935 and reviews of English Captain . 5 items

Script of BBC broadcast 'The voice of Britain', in which Tom Wintringham talks on the Home Guard. 1 item