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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articles (chiefly for the Picture Post , the Tribune , the Daily Herald and the Daily Mirror ), drafts of published and unpublished books, scripts, reviews, notes, short stories and essays.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.

Photographs of friends and family of Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham (née Bowler) including portrait of Kitty's mother Charlotte Everett (née Miller) Bowler [1894]; portrait of Robert Budleton Bowler, 1891; Jane Bowler, 1946; photograph of Kitty's mother, possibly on a cruise ship, [1940] and photograph of Kitty's mother holding Ben as a baby, [1947]; photograph of Wayne Tod, Honolulu, Jun 1938, sent by Kitty's mother; portraits of Wintringham's mother ('Muv'), Eliza Mapson Wintringham, [1930-1939]; portrait of Wintringham's father, John Fildes Wintringham, [1930-1940]; photograph of the Communist Party Lewisham campaign group, 1917; photograph of 'Comrade Turner', a young woman, 1934; photograph of Eden and Cedar Paul, Shere, 14 Jul 1935; photograph of Rhys Caparn (American sculptor and Kitty's close friend) with Rhys' husband, Johannes Steel, Sharp 'a gunman caricaturist' and unknown woman, 1936; photographs of Orde Charles Wingate, [1939-1942]; portrait of Oliver 'O.J.' Wintringham, aged 19, 1948 and photograph of 'O.J.' in a Northumbrian coal mine and photographs of Kitty with Ben and friends [1955]. 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.

Collection of poems by the Wintringham family including poems by Tom Wintringham, Mary Marshall Wintringham, Elizabeth Florence Waring Wintringham, Lesley Wintringham, Charles Richard Fildes Wintringham and Margaret Wintringham. 1 file

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

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

Manuscript poems by Tom Wintringham written while at Gresham's School, Holt. 1 file

Manuscript and typescript poems by Tom Wintringham compiled (possibly for publication), under four headings 'When that I was and a little tiny boy', 'Armour', 'Silk' and 'Wandering' including poems from Wintringham's school days, World War One and Moscow. 1 file

Poems by Christina Roberts, Tom Wintringham's girlfriend at Oxford University. 1 file

Manuscript poems by Tom Wintringham on World War One including notebook of poems in three sections, 'Peace, 1915-1918', 'War, 1916-1918' and 'Afterwards, 1919'. 1 file

Correspondence and other papers relating to World War One including letters to Tom Wintringham from his brother John chiefly describing his experiences in Egypt with the Lincolnshire Yeomanry; letters from Wintringham's sister Elizabeth ('Jim') to Wintringham during his time with the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front, chiefly giving news of home; letters from Wintringham to his mother, Eliza Mapson Wintringham, Apr-Jul 1918; letter to Wintringham's father John Fieldes Wintringham, as he convalesced in hospital at Newton Abbott after a motorcycle accident 26 [Nov] 1918; various official papers and French bank notes. 1 file

Essays by Tom Wintringham, possibly from his time at Balliol College, Oxford, 'Theory and practice in the French Revolution' and 'The acceptance of empire by the French people'. 2 items

Photographs of Tom Wintringham, including formal portraits; Wintringham pushing a lawnmower, possibly in 'Garden House', Grimsby, [1919-1930]; Wintringham on a motorbike in Warren Avenue, Richmond, Surrey [1936]; group photograph with Wintringham, SSSSA, New Milton, 1934; photograph of Wintringham with his first wife Elizabeth Wintringham (_née_Arkwright) and Harry Pollitt in Amersham, 1924; photographs of Wintringham with unidentified people and photographs of Wintringham punting. 1 file

Manuscript poems by Tom Wintringham on various subjects including poems written while at Balliol College, Oxford, 1919, and in Moscow, 1920. 1 file

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's visit to Russia with Esmond Higgins, 1920 including manuscript diary of his visit and official papers in Russian. 1 file