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BBC radio broadcast by Tom Wintringham, 'Calling New Zealand: Guerrilla warfare'. 1 item

Script for the BBC overseas service by Tom Wintringham, 'The Home Guard'. 1 item

Script of broadcast for the Pacific service, 'Calling the islands - the Home Guard'. 1 item

Scripts for public information films made by Seven League Productions, on the subjects of the railway service, 10 Feb 1944, and tuberculosis, (undated); 'There's no place like it', by Tom Wintringham [1945-1948]; and photographs of houses, possibly in Sweden, marked 'Seven League Productions'. 1 file

Short stories by Tom Wintringham including manuscript and typescript drafts of 'Candy', 8 Oct 1945; press cutting and typescript draft of 'Lady and Flag' in the News Chronicle, 27 Oct 1934; draft typescript 'First love', printed in the Left Review; draft typescript, 'It's a bohunk' printed in New Writing, [1942]; typescript draft, 'Across the languages' [1941]; typescript draft, 'The words strike' [1939-1942]; manuscript draft, 'Man in nature'; manuscript draft, 'The seven weapons'; manuscript draft, 'The gadgeteers'[1939-1942]; manuscript draft, 'The staff officer'; précis of a proposed series 'What it feels like' [1939-1942]; typescript draft, 'Ingratitude'; typescript draft, 'Something to do'[1937]; typescript draft, 'Your atom or your life'; manuscript draft, 'I believe in people', [Aug 1949]; manuscript draft, 'An Empire adopts a policy' and manuscript pieces of creative writing. 1 file

Publications in Spanish including booklets, article 'Doctrinas de los ejercitos extranjeros' and draft typescript articles 'Los bombardeos en el Museo del Prado' and 'El triste sino del Museo del Prado'. 19 items.

Action for libel by Tom Wintringham against the Daily Mail, on an article, Feb 1937, alleging that British volunteers who went to Spain to engage in non-combatant work were forced at gunpoint to go into battle. 1 item. (For press cuttings see 1/1/5).

Preface by Tom Wintringham to Modern Battle by Maj Paul Thompson. 1 item

Transcript of BBC broadcast of interview of Tom Wintringham by Elsa Knight Thompson. 1 item

Transcripts of radio broadcasts on the Home Guard. 1 file

Untitled draft article by Tom Wintringham for the Picture Post on the Auxiliary Fire Service. 1 item

Blank postcards of the Lake District, the Cerne Abbas Giant, a ski resort in Switzerland, Blue John Cavern in Castleton, Scotland, the Isle of Skye, Lulworth, a Russian ship 'Alexey Rykoff', portrait medallion of Count Michael Karolyi and detail of carving in Lincoln Cathedral. 1 file

Papers of Tom Wintringham and his second wife Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham ( née Bowler), 1891-1982. Papers of Tom Wintringham relating to the Home Guard include correspondence, articles, radio broadcasts, press cuttings, photograph, report, lecture transcripts and training exercises. Papers relating to the Common Wealth Party including correspondence, photographs, minutes, publications, papers on Common Wealth Party policy, formation, resignations, libel charges, election campaigns and conferences. Other papers relating to Tom Wintringham including papers from his time at Balliol College, Oxford, 1918-1920; Wintringham's visit to Moscow, 1920; various inventions by Wintringham, 1929-1949; the Communist Party, 1933-1944; British economic crisis, 1947, and obituaries and biographical articles. Wintringham's correspondence includes his school days, First World War, prison, Spanish Civil War, Home Guard, Common Wealth Party and general personal and professional correspondence; Kitty's correspondence includes Spanish Civil War, the Common Wealth Party and general personal and professional correspondence. Photographs notably cover the Spanish Civil War, Home Guard, Common Wealth Party, Tom and Kitty Wintringham, their children, friends and family. Writings by Wintringham include draft and published articles (chiefly for the Picture Post , the Tribune , the Daily Herald and the Daily Mirror ), drafts of published and unpublished books, scripts, reviews, notes, short stories and essays. Draft articles by Kitty. Poems by Wintringham and others on topics including World War One and the Spanish Civil War, 1910-1950 and printed material, 1923-1950.