Item WINTRINGHAM 3/2/3 - Papers, 1943-1945, relating to Tom Wintringham's General Election campaign, 1945

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's election campaign as the Common Wealth Party candidate for Aldershot in the 1945 general election, including: Wintringham's campaign leaflet; campaign leaflets for the Common Wealth Party, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party; defamatory anonymous leaflets 'A call to all true socialists' and 'Damning the Tories' and related correspondence; flyers for public speeches; extract from minutes of Common Wealth meeting, 10 May 1944; drafts of a profile of Wintringham written by Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham for Wintringham's campaign leaflet; statement issued by the Communist Party on 'Who can beat Lyttelton?'; correspondence including letter from Wintringham to the Aldershot division of the Labour Party on forming an alliance against the Conservative Party, 27 May 1945; correspondence with the Aldershot Council on possibility of granting permission to hold public meetings in Manor Park and official papers including nomination paper and declarations of expenses. 1 file