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Date(s)
- 1949 Aug 17 - 1982 (Creation)
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1 file
Scope and content
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