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WINTRINGHAM, Capt Thomas Henry (1898-1949)
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Publications issued by the Common Wealth Party Popular Library, [1942-1945]

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, 1944-1945, relating to Tom Wintringham's General Election campaign, 1945

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.

Press cuttings, 1943-1945, relating to the Common Wealth Party

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, 1936-1945, relating to Tom Wintringham's work with the International Brigade, Spanish Civil War

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 about the Home Guard and defence of Britain, 1940-1942

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 articles by Kitty Bowler (later Kitty Wintringham), Spain, 1936-1937

Articles by Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) written for the Federated Press, the Manchester Guardian and other newspapers on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1937, including articles concerning Bowler's perceptions upon her arrival in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, as a foreign correspondent, 1936; articles relating to workers' conditions at industrial installations in Spain; her meetings with workers' unions and committees; the destruction of art works and churches during the first stages of the war; collective farming in Spain; her work with the British Medical Unit, International Brigade, Huesca Front, Spain, 21 Oct 1936; fighting on the Aragon Front, Spain, Oct 1936; work with the British Medical Unit, Aragon Front, Oct 1936; propaganda techniques; Republican relations with the Friends of the Soviet Union and various trade unions; the possibility of gas warfare being used in the war as argued by Professor John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Professor of Genetics, London University; land reforms in Spain; meetings with Dr Norman Bethune, Canadian Blood Transfusion Service, concerning the evacuation of Malaga, Spain, Feb 1937; changing money, Aug 1937; a review of Elliot Paul's Life and Death of a Spanish Town, Aug 1937; copy of People's Press, 26 Sep 1936, with article by Bowler entitled 'Brave people of Barcelona carry on', 26 Sep 1936 and a copy of The Fight containing article possibly written by Bowler under the pseudonym 'Evelyn Poole' entitled 'Harvest time in Spain', Sep 1937. 1 file

Postcards relating to the Spanish Civil War, including Republican propaganda items, [1936-1939]

Postcards including Republican photographic images issued by the Propaganda Department, Generalidad of Catalonia, [1936-1939]; Republican art deco postcards distributed by the Spanish Ministerio de Propaganda, [1936-1939]; Republican postcard depicting the Nationalists, [1936-1939]; Catalonian postcard from the Comissariat de Propaganda honouring Spaniards killed by rightist governments in Spain, 1919-1921; and photographic postcard depicting Spanish Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and Unión General de Tubajadores de España (UGT) rally for the Popular Front, possibly in France, [1936-1938]. 13 items

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