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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 concerning the Home Guard

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

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

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

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.