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Microform Academic Publishing List of publications for Earlier publications can be accessed by using the History On-Line Search Page American material in the archives of the USPG Complete set of letterbooks from the A, B and C series from the 18th century, together with an index, and including the journal of the travels and voyages of Rev. George Keith, the first missionary sent to North America by the SPG from 1702-1704. Forthcoming online resource (five-year licence) - ISBN: 9781851171439 - TBC - March 2009 Microform - further details for this title Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/CENT/ECON: Because of the CPGB's presence in the trade union movement, the party's understanding of current economic issues was of considerable strategic importance for the party. This was to be vigorously demonstrated in the 1970s, when the party's economic committee became the forum for fierce debates between industrial activists and functionaries committed to wage militancy, and younger academic economists seeking to look beyond the short-term pursuit of money wages. Though overt conflict was not a feature of the committee's deliberations when first established in the 1940s, the link between its perspectives and the policies of communists in industry was clearly recognised from the beginning, and may be traced here in files dating from the 1940s to the 1980s. Microfilm / CD-ROM - ISBN: 9781851171774 - April 2009 Microform - further details for this title Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/IND/HANN: Wal Hannington (1896-1966) was a London-born toolmaker and foundation member of the CPGB who became synonymous with the inter-war movement of unemployed workers. For unexplained reasons, Hannington's personal collection relating to the NUWM became divided between the CPGB archives and the Marx Memorial Library. With the NUWM's suspension of activities during the Second World War, Hannington made his way back into the engineering industry and in 1941 was elected one of the three national organisers of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU). He lost the position at the height of the Cold War, in December 1950, but three years later was elected the AEU's assistant divisional organiser for north London and retained the position until his retirement in 1961. His papers contain an extensive documentation of his activities within the AEU, including his proposals for the reorganisation of the union and the controversy over his book The Rights of Engineers (1944). They also document his resentment against those within the party apparatus and its engineering networks who several times in the 1950s vetoed his candidacies for more senior union positions, and whom he accused of 'walking over the face of honoured foundation members of the Party'. One of the outstanding militants of his generation, Hannington left two books of memoirs but still awaits the biographical treatment he deserves. Microfilm / CD-ROM - ISBN: 9781851171781 - April 2009 Microform - further details for this title Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/IND/HUTT: Allen Hutt (1901-73) was a Cambridge-educated communist who joined the CPGB in 1922 having previously been national secretary of the communist-dominated University Socialist Federation. Through a paternal lineage of master printers, Hutt took pride in a family involvement in the publishing industry dating from the seventeenth century. Translating this into a left-wing context, Hutt worked variously for the Daily herald, whose staff he joined in 1923, the communist Workers' weekly; the Soviet news agency TASS; Palme Dutt's Labour monthly; and Trade Union Unity, a short-lived venture of TUC 'lefts' like A. A. Purcell. His trade union contacts were reflected in his first book Communism and Coal (1928), a collaboration with Arthur Horner, and his voluminous correspondence with the Fife miners' leader David Proudfoot. After a spell at the International Lenin School and two years as chief sub-editor at the newly launched Daily Worker (1930-32), Hutt produced a series of books on British working-class politics, the best of them, The condition of the working class in Britain (1933), revealing a flair for the investigative side of journalism as well as its technical aspects. It was nevertheless to the latter that Hutt owed a reputation that extended well beyond the left. In 1936 he joined the co-operative-owned Reynolds news with a special brief for the paper's redesign and six years later rejoined the Daily Worker following its temporary wartime ban. These were halcyon days for British communists, whose optimism for the post-war world was focused on the ‘new' Daily Worker that would match the best that Fleet Street had to offer. Hutt as chief sub-editor made perhaps the outstanding contribution to such a goal, and earned the respect both of his colleagues and of his profession. These activities are well documented in Hutt's papers, which include an important personal correspondence going back to the 1920s. For a quarter of a century Hutt also sat on the executive of the National Union of Journalists, edited its monthly paper and in 1967 was made its president. He remained with the Daily worker until his retirement in 1966: the year in which, to his dismay and contempt, the paper changed its name to the Morning star. Microfilm / CD-ROM - ISBN: 9781851171798 - April 2009 Microform - further details for this title Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/IND/KLUG: A student communist recruit of the early 1930s, James Klugmann was to attract more controversy than almost any of his party comrades. Partly this was attributable to his alleged involvement in spy-related activities in 1930s' Cambridge; partly to his wartime role in SOE in Yugoslavia, where he is said to have favoured Tito's cause, as indeed he might have been expected to. More certainly, Klugmann did, as noted elsewhere, write the terrible tract, From Trotsky to Tito, which has often been taken as a token of how far British communists were prepared to take their Stalinist commitments. Though his work as a party historian won few admirers beyond the party's own ranks, reform-minded communists of the 1960s and 1970s did remember him as a sympathetic figure, both through his role in the party education department and as editor of Marxism today. Sundry papers and educational materials give a glimpse of these activities. For those unable to use the Moscow archives, Klugmann's notes also provide a useful indication of some of the more important materials for the so-called 'Class against Class' period. Which materials he thought to include, and which to exclude, would provide an interesting insight into the mentality of the official party historian, but not surprisingly has yet to find a historian with the time and opportunity to carry out the necessary comparison. Microfilm / CD-ROM - ISBN: 9781851171804 - April 2009 Microform - further details for this title Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/CENT/CI. The miscellaneous files collected in this series date from 1920 to 1940 and give a flavour of the CPGB's subordinate status as a section of the Communist International until its dissolution in 1943. These include materials collected by students at Moscow's International Lenin School, which between 1926 and the mid-1930s welcomed some 160 British communists to take courses of up to three years. Microfilm - ISBN: 9781851171897 - May 2009 Microform - further details for this title Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/CENT/PEA. The commitment to a form of peace politics is one that crops up again and again, and the most substantial of these holdings is that for the British Peace Committee, active from 1949 as an affiliate of the World Peace Council. This sequence also includes materials relating to a variety of local peace campaigns, often sponsored or even dominated by communists but rarely promoted under the CPGB's own official auspices. Microfilm - ISBN: 9781851171903 - May 2009 Microform - further details for this title Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/CENT/WOM. When the CPGB established its national women's advisory committee in 1944, it could look back on a quarter of a century of uneven but sometimes energetic campaigning addressed to women members and supporters. Memorably, an early party pamphlet had exhorted its intended readers to Wake up, Mrs Worker! Which doubtless betrays a somewhat restricted view of the topic. Nevertheless, in the context of the period the CPGB's record on women's issues was by no means contemptible. In the early years communists were usually hostile to anything smacking of 'bourgeois feminism' or a separate women's agenda.37 During the popular front and war years, however, such attitudes were modified; and, as it reflected and often anticipated wider social changes, the CPGB's conception of women's politics was increasingly a fluid and contested one. These developments are well documented in the sequence of Women's Department files dating from about 1950. There are also papers of Marian Ramelson relating to the Conference of Women of Asia, held in Beijing in 1949, and her later history of the women's suffrage movement. Of particular interest is the impact of the women's liberation movement in unsettling as well as energising the party in the 1970s. The magazine Red Rag, published without a King Street licence, reached beyond communist circles on a socialist-feminist platform, but at the same time antagonised some of the older activists entrenched in its Women's Department. The official women's journal Link did, however, come to embrace some of these concerns and records communist inputs into campaigns over abortion law, employment rights and the whole gamut of feminist politics. Though little in comparison survives for an earlier generation of women's activists, the important unpublished biography of Helen Crawfurd can be found at CP/IND/MISC. Microfilm - ISBN: 9781851171910 - May 2009 Microform - further details for this title Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/CENT/SUBJ. The central subject files comprise materials generated by ad hoc committees or of unclear provenance at the time that the archives were catalogued. The CPGB library and archive was not, it should be remembered, arranged according to conventional archival principles; nor were records kept of the provenance of particular groups of documents. Instead, a subject index was compiled, and items of diverse provenance were added to subject files already created. There are extensive materials relating to Labour-communist relations and in particular the CPGB's unsuccessful campaigns for affiliation to the Labour Party in 1943 and 1946. Other materials relate to the anti-fascist activities which again have given rise to a good deal of historical interest.41 From a later period there are also files relating to the Christian-Marxist dialogue, initiated in the 1960s in the aftermath of destalinisation and Vatican II; and to the Gay Liberation movement of the 1980s, when the CPGB's commitment to a 'broad democratic alliance' began to combine with the embracing of identity politics. Microfilm - ISBN: 9781851171927 - May 2009 Microform - further details for this title Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/IND/FAG. Born in 1903, Hymie Fagan was an East London communist recruit of the mid-1920s who attended the Lenin School in Moscow before taking on a variety of journalistic responsibilities within and around the CPGB. His papers include a fascinating unpublished autobiography providing a relatively rare inside glimpse of the Lenin School as well as a vivid depiction of the Jewish East End and its clothing industry. The manuscript also includes an interesting account of the history of the Peasant's Revolt which Fagan published for the Left Book Club in 1938, England Arise. Other files relate to Fagan's activities as the CPGB's national election agent in 1945, when the party reached its apogee of two MPs, and the study of nationalisation that he published in 1960. Microfilm - ISBN: 9781851171934 - May 2009 Microform - further details for this title Dissertations read to the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh 'Founded in 1737, this is the oldest student society of its kind in the United Kingdom, whose members were duty-bound to deliver a dissertation for examination by their peers. This collection comprises over 200 volumes of hand-written dissertations, providing a unique insight into the development in medical teaching and thought during the last 250 years. In subject, the dissertations range from framboesia to fear, from meningitis to mongolism and many represent the earliest original work of famous men of medicine. The linked author index is in two parts: vols. 1-95 (1751-1833), and vols. 96-215 (1834-1968). Scanned from the microfilm of the Royal Medical Society collections in the Edinburgh University Library.' Online resource - ISBN: 9781851171941 - August 2009 Microform - further details for this title Early colonial and missionary records from West Africa Part 9 of the BOA series: British records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1850. This resource comprises digitised versions of documents from a number of different microfilm collections, including: Gold Coast records from the archives of the USPG; The papers of Thomas Perronet Thompson; An account of two missionary voyages by Rev. Thomas Thompson; Online resource - ISBN: 9781851172047 - December 2009 Microform - further details for this title Ecclesiastical, court and land records in the Manchester Cathedral archives 'Manchester Cathedral is one of only a handful of Anglican cathedrals that hold their own archives on site. Dating from 1361 to the present day, its archives cover the parish functions of both the Cathedral and its predecessor, the Collegiate Church, founded in 1421, as well as of the capitular workings of the church. The collection contains the largest series of parish registers in the country, because of the peculiar coincidence of a very large parish with a huge population increase during the 18th and 19th centuries. At times of peak demand, more than a hundred couples would be wed in a single day, married in batches of 20-30. Yet not all would-be couples were married, as the Cathedral's apparently unique series of banns books starting from the Georgian period shows. These volumes provide unique insights for historians into the proportion of engagements that failed, what objections were raised, and by whom, as well as allowing detailed statistical analysis of residence and mobility in Victorian England. The Capitular Archives record the management of the Chapter Estates comprising considerable land holdings from the 17th-20th centuries in what became the world's first industrial city. Again it is possible to chart the effects of the Industrial Revolution on land use and property values in one of Britain's most important urban centres, as farms and fields were converted to roads, railways, homes and factories. Accessible through a full and detailed online catalogue of the entire archive (www.a2a.org.uk), the materials chosen for publication include highlights from across the major collections. Each document selected serves to illustrate the parochial duties of the Chaplains and Churchwardens, including charity distribution and the daily management of the church and its fabric, as well as the land and financial management of the Warden and Fellows of the Collegiate Church. Taken altogether they reveal how the established church tried to cope not just with spiritual, but also with social and economic change on an unprecedented and massive scale. Among the capitular and parish archives included in this online resource are: Manor court books, with one manor court call book, 1775-1914 Bursars books 1761-1857 Chapter registers, 1635-1870 Chaplains, minor canons and clerks' fees books, 1844-1898 Churchwardens' vouchers, 1814-1815 Annual accounts books Abstract book of leases, 1679-1869 Boundaries book of Newton, 1798 Complete runs of titles deeds for properties in Deansgate (1679-1831) and Kirkmanshulme (1675-1892) Estate plans for Deansgate, Kirkmanshulme and Newton Heath Corles Charity account book, 1848-1919 Collegiate Church Charity School account books, 1762-1893 Strangeways Charity vouchers, 1814-1815 Banns books and the banns objections register for the period 1733-1928, together with selected examples from the early 19th century from the series of baptism, burial and marriage registers.' Online resource - ISBN: 9781851172115 - August 2009 Microform - further details for this title Harry Pollitt papers 'Series CP/IND/POLL: Harry Pollitt (1890-1960) was the CPGB's general secretary from 1929 to 1939 and 1941 to 1956. In the Stalinised communist party, the general secretary's role was a crucial one, which after the manner of Stalin himself combined oversight of the party apparatus with the projection of exemplary leadership qualities. Though Pollitt took some time to establish his authority, by the mid-1930s he functioned as de facto party 'leader' and a sort of tribune of the anti-fascist left. How telling it was that when his tenure was interrupted in 1939 on account of his resistance to the Comintern's anti-war line, no other party figure attempted to combine these functions. Pollitt was therefore able to resume his old responsibilities with the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, and continued to exercise them until the immediate aftermath of the Khrushchev speech in 1956. His personal papers include extensive materials collected by his devoted disciple John Mahon, whose official biography of Pollitt was published in 1976. It is not always possible to identify which of the materials were kept by Pollitt and which were assembled by Mahon. Nevertheless, the coverage goes back to Pollitt's early years before the formation of the CPGB, including documents and recollections collected by Mahon and Pollitt's own personal memorabilia. Coverage of the inter-war years is uneven, but includes substantial correspondence with Dutt from the Class Against Class period, in which together they contrived Pollitt's accession to the party leadership. There is also an important documentation of disputes over the war and party policy during the Nazi-Soviet pact. Voluminous drafts and speech notes begin in the late 1930s, and Pollitt's visits to a number of countries in the post-war period are carefully if not always revealingly recorded. There are also draft chapters and correspondence providing insight into the production of his autobiography Serving My Time. Pollitt's sixty or so trips to the USSR are not so fully documented, and for the crisis point of 1956 one must consult the files of general secretary's correspondence (CP/CENT/SEC). As if to underline the vulnerability of the archives, two letters to Pollitt have been cut precisely where they seem to promise revelation: about early party wranglings and Moscow during the purges respectively. Given the sensitivity of these questions - and, on the CPGB history commission, Pollitt was particularly cagey about the first of them - it is easy to see why Pollitt might have wielded the scissors. Any archive is as much as anything defined by its absences; it is rare, however, that these are so clearly indicated.' Online resource - ISBN: 9781851171965 - August 2009 Microform - further details for this title Jamaican material in the Slebech papers This collection comprises a careful selection of documents from the extensive Slebech Estate archives now held in the National Library of Wales. They relate chiefly to the interests of Nathaniel Phillips, 1756?-1832, in the West Indies. The collection represents a major resource for research into the social and economic history of West Indies, slavery, plantations and trade. An introduction by Prof. Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University, accompanies the papers. Online resource (due spring 2009) - ISBN: 9781851171811 - March 2009 Microform - further details for this title John Gollan papers Series CP/IND/GOLL: Long groomed as Pollitt's successor and attaining the general secretaryship of the CPGB in the difficult year of 1956, John Gollan (1911-77) was to retain the position for some two decades - almost as long as Pollitt himself. If Gollan never made the same impression on the wider world - some communists even muttered about a 'cult of impersonality' - the high regard in which he was held by party loyalists is attested by the biographical research carried out in the last years of her life by Margot Kettle (q.v.). Long before he became party secretary, Gollan had occupied a number of key positions both in the party apparatus and at the Daily Worker. Born in Edinburgh in 1911, he had also played an important role in the 1930s youth movement, as secretary of the Young Communist League. Among the activities documented are his imprisonment for anti-militarist activities in 1931; the apprentices' strikes of 1937; and his involvement in a broader youth movement, including the preparation of an unpublished book on conscription and military service. Online resource - ISBN: 9781851171958 - July 2009 Microform - further details for this title Journal, annual sermons and reports of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 'Vols. 1-50 (1701-1870). The journal records the proceedings of the Society's meetings and often includes copies of letters. Reports and petitions which are referred to in the journal are set out in full in the appendices and each volume is indexed. Reel contents available online.Vols. 1-50 (1701-1870). The journal records the proceedings of the Society's meetings and often includes copies of letters. Reports and petitions which are referred to in the journal are set out in full in the appendices and each volume is indexed. Reel contents available online.' Online resource - ISBN: 9781851171989 - August 2009 Microform - further details for this title Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company), 1694-1709 The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies was created by Act of the Scots Parliament on 26 June 1695. The bulk of these papers date from 1696 through to 1707, including copies of the general journals for the Company, the collection also contains certain miscellaneous documents which antedate by two years the legal incorporation of the Company, and others that span the period of its dissolution up to 1709. The quality and variety of financial documents and in the amount of correspondence are remarkable, the bulk dating from the initial period to 1700, culminating in the return of survivors from the second disastrous expedition to Darien. Among the former category are numerous subscription books, dating from 1696. In addition there are account books, detailed cash books and receipts, trading ledgers and promissory notes, the book of the Company's storekeeper at the port in Leith, together with lists of goods shipped. The minute books and journals of the principal of the Company's committees also survive: the committee for improvements, for equipping ships, the board of directors in Glasgow. Online resource - ISBN: 9781851171873 - June 2009 Microform - further details for this title Papers relating to the Jamaican estates of the Goulburn family of Betchworth House These documents deal with the history of Amity Hall plantation, a sugar estate in Vere Parish, Jamaica, and some associated properties (principally Bogue livestock pen) while they were in the hands of the Goulburn family. Most of the papers concern these properties when they were administered by Henry Goulburn between 1805, after he had attained his majority, and 1856, when he died, though there are also documents relating to the late seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. Comprising the entire 304/J series, together with two short files relating to the issue of slavery in the general election of 1826 (304/A1/box 22/7 & /box 23/8), from the collections of the Surrey History Centre, Woking, the manuscripts contained in this microfilm edition include letterbooks, extensive loose estate correspondence, accounts, some of the title deeds, land conveyances, wills, letters of administration, mortgages, supply lists, expenditure abstracts, lists of the increase and decrease of stock and slaves, monthly journals of the daily employment of slaves, sales accounts for sugar and rum shipped from Jamaica to London and Liverpool, circulars for the improvement of sugar manufacture, and letters relating to antislavery agitation in Britain. The manuscripts throw light on the management of a sugar estate by attorneys on behalf of an absentee owner, on the work undertaken by slaves and apprentices, and on the social, economic and political context of life in the British Caribbean in the nineteenth century. Published with an introduction by Professor Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University. Online resource - ISBN: 9781851171842 - May 2009 Microform - further details for this title South American Missionary Society records Includes most of the material held in the SAMS archives for the period up to 1919. When originally founded in 1844, this Church of England-affiliated organisation was called the Patagonian Mission. This collection reproduces the minute books, reports from the mission field, articles and photographs on the geography, anthropology, natural history and economic development for the society's magazine, launched in 1867, as well as the journals of its Anglican founder, Captain Allen Gardiner, and two others of its missionaries, Edward Bernau and Adolfo Henriksen. Introductory notes and reel contents available online. Online resource - ISBN: 9781851172009 - August 2009 Microform - further details for this title The archives of the Associates of Dr Bray to 1900 The body of records consists primarily of correspondence files, minute books and financial reports for the institution established by Dr Thomas Bray and his associates. The files concern the organisation of the Associates up to 1900, and include annual reports. Of particular interest in this collection is the material on the Associates' activities in North America, including Canada, and in the Bahamas, both in the establishment and running of their Negro Schools and in the grant of library books. This work was funded in part by 'Mr D'Allone's Charitable Bequest for the Conversion of Negroes'. This archive forms part of the USPG archive, which is now held at the Rhodes House Library, Oxford. Microfilm / CD-ROM - ISBN: 9781851171880 - April 2009 Microform - further details for this title The Australia, New Zealand & Asia records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Primarily correspondence files, including between the SPG and the Colonial Office in London, relating to dioceses in the provinces of Australia, New Zealand and Asia from the mid-19th century, the records also contain printed reports, annual returns, financial statements, and the journals and private letters of early Anglican missionaries and bishops. Online resource - ISBN: 9781851172030 - November 2009 Microform - further details for this title The Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/IND/GOLL: Long groomed as Pollitt's successor and attaining the general secretaryship of the CPGB in the difficult year of 1956, John Gollan (1911-77) was to retain the position for some two decades -almost as long as Pollitt himself. If Gollan never made the same impression on the wider world - some communists even muttered about a 'cult of impersonality' - the high regard in which he was held by party loyalists is attested by the biographical research carried out in the last years of her life by Margot Kettle (q.v.). Long before he became party secretary, Gollan had occupied a number of key positions both in the party apparatus and at the Daily Worker. Born in Edinburgh in 1911, he had also played an important role in the 1930s youth movement, as secretary of the Young Communist League. Among the activities documented are his imprisonment for anti-militarist activities in 1931; the apprentices' strikes of 1937; and his involvement in a broader youth movement, including the preparation of an unpublished book on conscription and military service. 4 reels - ISBN: 9781851171699 - £320 - January 2009 Microform - further details for this title The Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/IND/MATH: George Matthews was the son of a Bedfordshire farmer who joined the CPGB, initially as an undercover activist in the Labour Party and the University Labour Federation, around 1938. After coming out as an open communist in 1940, Matthews's party career made rapid progress, and he joined the CPGB's Executive Committee in 1943, remaining a member until 1979. From 1950-7 he was the party's assistant secretary, and then editor of the Daily Worker/Morning star (1957-74) and head of press and publicity (1974-9). In the estimation of some of his colleagues, he would have made an obvious and competent secretary of the Party -but according to Harry Pollitt himself was ruled out on grounds of his middle-class, farming background. After retiring from his other party responsibilities, Matthews continued to work part-time in the library and played a significant role in the discussions which led to the archives being made publicly accessible in Manchester. Perhaps for this reason, his are among the notes and papers that can be found scattered in other files and classes through the archives. Though Matthews was regarded as one of the CPGB's experts on agriculture, his papers cover the broader range of political and industrial activities that he encountered in the course of his responsibilities. There is little, however, of a personal character. Microfilm reels TBA - ISBN: 9781851171705 - TBC - January 2009 Microform - further details for this title The Communist Party of Great Britain archive Series CP/IND/GALL: The CPGB archive has extensive papers of William Gallacher (1883-1965), described by Andrew Thorpe as 'one of the most significant public figures the party ever produced' and second only to Pollitt in this respect. The basis for such a claim is clear: already a well-known figure in his native Scotland, between 1935 and 1950 Gallacher served as the CPGB's longest-serving MP for the constituency of West Fife. The profile this gave him within the party led, amongst other things, to several volumes of autobiography, the first of which, Revolt on the Clyde (1936), has been seen as a prototype of the genre internationally. Gallacher's papers include files relating both to his parliamentary work and to his later spell as party chairman between 1950 and 1956. He also preserved copies of his poetic efforts, whose appearance in print is explicable only by reference to his personal standing, and a series of detective stories which not even this was sufficient to see into print. In one of his books of memoirs Gallacher described how, as a matter of revolutionary vigilance, he had acquired the habit of destroying all notes of meetings he attended, even those sent him by Lenin himself. For this earlier period of Gallacher activities in the party's inner leadership, which date from the CPGB's foundation, there is consequently little trace in his papers, though an important, unguarded memoir survives in the papers of the CPGB history commission (q.v.). 3 reels - ISBN: 9781851171712 - £240 - January 2009 Microform - further details for this title The Communist Party of Great Britain archive 'Series CP/PPPS: The CPGB was nothing if not a massive publishing enterprise. Overshadowed by the Labour Party when it came to votes or members, the communists in many periods maintained a more vigorous or publishing activity, whether directly or through such bodies as the Left Book Club. This series, along with CP/CENT/PUB, contains materials relating to a range of other publishing activities, including materials relating to the monthly Marxism Today through which the party's modernising wing enjoyed a considerable succès d'estime under the editorship of Martin Jacques in the 1980s. By this time, the communist newspaper, the Morning star, was falling out of the Party's control as a result of factional conflicts between the modernising (or 'Eurocommunist') wing associated with Marxism Today, and the traditionalist or 'hard-line' elements sometimes referred to as 'tankies'. Established as the Daily worker on 1 January 1930, the paper had been transferred to the ownership of the People's Press Printing Society in the 1940s, when the CPGB's division into warring factions could hardly even have been imagined. Other important materials relating to the paper can be found in the personal deposits of Allen Hutt and Ernie Pountney. 4 reels - ISBN: 9781851171729 - £320 - January 2009 Microform - further details for this title The Crompton papers 'This collection contains the correspondence and papers of Samuel Crompton, including the survey of spindles versus handlooms produced in 1811 for the ill-fated petition to Parliament on the patent for the Mule. It sheds light on the impact the invention had on textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, as well as on the parliamentary lobbying process in the early 19th century. The archive also covers his family and spiritual life, ranging from household accounts to his active membership of the New Jerusalem Church, founded by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), and details of the transportation of goods within England and for shipment to foreign ports. As well as numerous genealogical documents on Crompton, and claims of descent, contained within the latter series of this fonds are the papers of the inventor's eponymous grandson (1817-1891). These latter provide a rare insight into how Victorians sought to commemorate the lives and achievements of famous people. From the Bolton Archive and Local Studies Service. Accompanied by an introduction by Geoffrey Timmins (www.microform.co.uk/guides/R50032.pdf), with an exhaustive listing of contents on the Access to Archives website (www.a2a.org.uk). Summary contents: reel 1: ZCR/1-25; reel 2: ZCR/26-60; reel 3: ZCR/61-81; reel 4: ZCR/82-100; reel 5: ZCR/101-103.' Online resource - ISBN: 9781851172023 - December 2009 Microform - further details for this title The Indian papers of Colonel Clive and Brigadier-General Carnac This fascinating online resource combines the papers of two leading actors in the East India Company in mid-18th century Bengal from the collections of the National Library of Wales. Chiefly in English, but with an array of original correspondence with local figures in Persian and occasionally Bengali, Marathi and Tamil, this resource allows researchers to understand the complex political web in the subcontinent as the power of the Mughal Empire began to wane. Online resource - ISBN: 9781851171859 - June 2009 Microform - further details for this title The International Department of the CPGB 'Series CP/CENT/INT: Records of the CPGB's International Department or otherwise relating to its international functions are of particular interest given the unique significance such associations had for a communist party. The miscellaneous files collected in CP/CENT/CI series give a flavour of the CPGB's subordinate status as a section of the Communist International until its dissolution in 1943. These include materials collected by students at Moscow's International Lenin School, which between 1926 and the mid-1930s welcomed some 160 British communists to take courses of up to three years. Even after the Comintern's formal dissolution, there was no doubting either the significance of communism as an international movement, the critical position that Britain held in its conception of world affairs or the close interrelationship between them. Apart from the brief interlude of the Anglo-Soviet wartime alliance, Britain was more or less consistently depicted as a bulwark of world reaction, hostile to socialism, partial to fascism, beholden to American imperialism and an oppressor of its own colonies. The CPGB thus had a responsibility to link up with and itself promote anti-colonial struggles, a responsibility which critics alleged involved the party itself striking imperial postures in its relationships with colonial communists. Evidence both for this and for a more generous reading of colonial solidarity can be found in the archives. Pre-eminent in the earlier period was the party's interest in India, exemplified by R. Palme Dutt's position both as an authority on the sub-continent's affairs and as a contact with leading Indian nationalists. Of Dutt's reportedly extensive correspondence with Jawaharlal Nehru, nothing survives in the archive. Likewise there is little relating to the League Against Imperialism, an international front organisation based in London from 1933, and interested researchers will have to consult either the relevant Moscow archives or the papers of the league's secretary, Reginald Bridgeman, at the University of Hull. The archive does, however, contain two priceless individual deposits, namely those of Ben Bradley and Glyn Evans. Even after its independence, with Nehru now premier, India remained a central concern. Key sections of the Indian communist party resisted moderating their opposition to Nehru to conform to Moscow's anti-American priorities. The CPGB, it appears, was called upon to try to straighten them out. These efforts are well documented, but again in personal deposits: both in Dutt's files on his interventions of 1950-1 and Pollitt's papers from his Indian tour of 1953-4. In the same period, the party's wider co-ordinating role was most visibly demonstrated by the conferences of Empire communist parties that it organized in London in 1947 and 1954. The International Department's records include numerous files on such international gatherings as well as an impressive documentation of the party's relations with individual fraternal parties. Among the department's other functions was the development of promising contacts in Britain, particularly among colonial students. These provided a valuable source of possible cadres in countries previously lacking strong indigenous communist movements. Again, however, tensions could arise from a perception of the British party's 'colonialist' attitudes, and these are well attested in the files on West African students. One area in which the British party could not be accused of colonialist arrogance was in its relations with the socialist bloc countries. Nor, however, was the CPGB's position wholly an obeisant one, particularly as the fragmentation of world communism gradually permitted a greater degree of autonomy to its smaller sections. At the time of the Sino-Soviet split of the 1960s, for example, British communist leaders had discussions with both the Soviet and Chinese parties, and a fairly full documentation survives. There are also useful materials relating to the later phenomenon of Eurocommunism.' Online resource - ISBN: 9781851171972 - December 2009 Microform - further details for this title The Liverpool street and trade directories The city's importance began to grow following Parliament's decision in 1698 to end London-based Royal African Company's official monopoly in England on the triangular slave trade. By 1750, 43% of all British slave ships were setting sail from Liverpool, rising to 79% by the time the trade was abolished in 1807. These directories, which were most published on an annual basis, enable the researcher to chart the expansion of Liverpool as a commercial centre in the later 18th century, the effects of the cessation of the slave trade on the economic life of the city, and the revival of its fortunes in the Victorian era, as a major port bringing raw materials from the Empire to the industrial heartlands of North West England. From the Liverpool Record Office. Forthcoming online resource (five-year licence) - ISBN: 9781851171484 - TBC - March 2009 Microform - further details for this title The papers of Sir Mark Sykes, 1879-1919 Born in 1879, an only son, Sir Mark Sykes succeeded his father in 1913 as 6th Baronet with large estates in Sledmere, East Yorkshire. By then he had already distinguished himself in military affairs, and as an amateur diplomat, a writer, linguist, politician and keen traveller, particularly in the Middle East. As MP for the Central Hull constituency from 1911, Sir Mark built up a considerable reputation in the House, due in large part to his Middle Eastern expertise. Indeed, many of his contemporaries saw in him the potential to rise to the highest levels of political office. However, in February 1919, at the age of only 39, he succumbed to the H1N1 strain of avian influenza whilst attending the Paris Peace Conference and died. The papers left by Sir Mark together comprise over 4,000 items, now held in the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull, and cover all aspects of his relatively brief, but nevertheless distinguished career. The present publication focuses on Sykes' experience in military intelligence and diplomacy in the Middle East both before and during the First World War. Indeed, on account of his part in the Sykes-Picot Agreement of May 9th, 1916, which laid down the basis for the subsequent carving up of the predominantly Arab countries of the region between British and French mandates following the anticipated collapse of the Ottoman Empire, it is no exaggeration to say that his influence continues to this day. Including all of the documents in the series relating to his early and later travels in the Levant and Mesopotamia and from the negotiations surrounding the final secret Anglo-French deal, as well as other related documents selected from this important fonds, this collection is of particular interest to research into the roots and role of European colonial powers in the emergence of nation-states from the Arab Revolts of the immediate post-War period, and also includes materials on the early 20th century massacres of the Armenians. As well as allowing the subsequent division of the region into the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, the Sykes-Picot Agreement has also been seen as a harbinger of the Balfour Declaration, which in turn led ultimately to 'the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people' in 1948. What Sir Mark's thinking might have been on that outcome can be found in his surviving writings of the Jews and in support of Zionism, which are also included in this collection. The following series from the fonds are included in their entirety: * DDSY2/4 (1888-1919): Foreign affairs and travel; * DDSY2/11 (1914-1918): Papers relating to the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Zionist movement and the British policy in Islamic countries; and, * DDSY2/12 (1915-1917): Papers of Sir Mark Sykes formerly on display at Sledmere House. In addition, a selection appears of miscellaneous related documents, for example: account books for travel expenses in the Middle East; notes for Sir Mark's history of the Turkish Empire, 'The Caliphs' last heritage', and on various of his literary works such as 'The Khalif' and a fragment entitled 'The Jew'. Forthcoming online resource (five-year licence) - ISBN: 9781851171507 - TBC - February 2009 Microform - further details for this title The papers of Thomas Perronet Thompson, 1783-1869 'Born the son of a wealthy Hull banker, Thompson served in the army and navy until, partly through his connexion with William Wilberforce, the influential anti-slavery campaigner, he was appointed governor of the colony in Sierra Leone in 1808, the year following the abolition of the slave trade across the British Empire. However, Thompson's zeal in enforcing the new law appears to have contributed to the termination of this appointment. In 1812 he rejoined the army, serving in India and the Persian Gulf, including most notably, whilst political agent in Ra's al-Khaymah, leading an expedition in 1820 against the Beni Bou Ali tribe, for the failure of which he was court-martialled. Already closely associated with Jeremy Bentham and other radical reformers, and on inheriting his father's fortune in 1828, Thompson turned his attentions to politics. Vociferous in his support for the Anti-Corn Law League and for the total abolition of slavery, he was returned to Parliament for the first time in 1835, only to loose to Benjamin Disraeli at the next election. Ten years later, after numerous intervening defeats, he was finally re-elected, this time as Liberal MP for Bradford. As well as Thompson's own letters, speeches, published articles, etc., this comprehensive microfilm edition of the archive deposited with the Hull University Archives, Brynmor Jones Library, includes biographical materials gathered or produced by his son, Charles William Thompson, and granddaughter, Edith Thompson.' Online resource - ISBN: 9781851171996 - December 2009 Microform - further details for this title The papers of William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797 William Davenport was a Liverpool merchant and British slave trader. From the late 1740s till the early 1790s, he invested regularly in the African slave trade and was a partner in slaving ventures with other leading merchant Liverpool families. These papers from Keele University Library are accompanied by an introduction by Professor David Richardson, Hull University. Online resource (3,000+ images) - ISBN: 9781851171767 - March 2009 Microform - further details for this title The SPG and East Asia 'Established in 1701 by royal chapter during the reign of King William III in order ''That a maintenance for an orthodox clergy and other provision may be made for the propagation of the Gospel in the plantations beyond the sea,'' it was not until 1863 that China became the first country outside the British Empire to which the SPG sent missionaries, followed in 1873 by Japan and later by Korea. Though earlier references can be found in the minutes of Society's meetings in the Journal, also published separately on microfilm and online, this collection comprises chiefly the volumes of copies of letters received (CLR) and copies of letters sent (CLS) for the period from 1872 to 1931, and relating to activities in these three countries: Reel 1 CLR/79: China - Vol. 1 (1872-1890) CLR/80: China - Vol. 2 (1890-1906) CLR/81: China - Vol. 3 (1906-1910) Reel 2 CLR/82: China - Vol. 4 (1910-1914) CLR/83: China - Vol. 5 (1914-1920) Reel 3 CLR/84: China - Vol. 6 (1920-1926) CLR/85: China - Vol. 7 (1926-1928) CLS/60: China - Vol. 1 (1874-1906) Reel 4 CLS/61: China - Vol. 2 (1906-1911) CLS/62: China - Vol. 3 (1911-1916) Reel 5 CLS/63: China - Vol. 4 (1916-1922) CLS/64: China - Vol. 4 [i.e. 5] (1922-1926) CLS/65: China - Vol. 6 (1926-1928) Reel 6 CLR/86: Korea - Vol. 1 (1889-1904) CLR/87: Korea - Vol. 2 (1904-1913) CLR/88: Korea - Vol. 3 (1913-1928) Reel 7 CLS/66: Korea - Vol. 1 (1889-1911) CLS/67: Korea - Vol. 2 (1911-1923) CLS/68: Korea - Vol. 3 (1923-1928) Reel 8 CLR/89: Japan - Vol. 1 (1873-1883) CLR/90: Japan - Vol. 2 (1883-1894) CLR/91: Japan - Vol. 3 (1894-1906) Reel 9 CLR/92: Japan - Vol. 4 (1906-1914) CLR/93: Japan - Vol. 5 (1915-1922) Reel 10 CLR/94: Japan - Vol. 6 (1922-1927) CLS/69: Japan - Vol. 1 (1874-1908) Reel 11 CLS/70: Japan - Vol. 2 (1909-1915) CLS/71: Japan - Vol. 3 (1915-1921) Reel 12 CLS/72: Japan - Vol. 4 (1921-1925) CLS/73: Japan - Vol. 5 (1926-1928) CLS/77: Far East - [Vol. unnumbered] (1928-1931)' Microfilm - ISBN: 9781851172085 - August 2009 Microform - further details for this title The SPG and Southeast Asia 'This collection comprises chiefly the volumes of copies of letters received (CLR) and copies of letters sent (CLS) for the period from 1846 to 1928, and relating to the Society's activities in Borneo, Singapore and Thailand. Reel 1 CLR/72 - 1848-1859 - Borneo (Vol. 1) CLR/73 - 1859-1893 - Borneo (Vol. 2) Reel 2 CLR/74 - 1893-1908 - Borneo (Vol. 3) CLR/75 - 1908-1912 - Borneo (Vol. 4) Reel 3 CLR/76 - 1912-1916 - Borneo (Vol. 5) CLR/77 - 1916-1923 - Borneo (Vol. 6) Reel 4 CLR/78 - 1923-1928 - Borneo (Vol. 7) CLS/54 - 1846-1902 - Borneo & Singapore (Vol. 1) Reel 5 CLS/55 - 1902-1910 - Borneo & Singapore (Vol. 2) CLS/56 - 1910-1912 - Borneo (Vol. 3) CLS/57 - 1912-1917 - Borneo (Labuan) (Vol. 4) Reel 6 CLS/58 - 1917-1924 - Borneo (Vol. 5) CLS/59 - 1924-1928 - Borneo (Vol. 6) CLR/95 - 1901-1927 - Siam (Vol. 1) CLS/74 - 1906-1927 - Siam (Vol. 1) Reel 7 CLR/96 - 1909-1923 - Singapore (Vol. 1) CLR/97 - 1923-1927 - Singapore (Vol. 2) CLS/75 - 1910-1921 - Singapore (Vol. 1) CLS/76 - 1921-1928 - Singapore (Vol. 2)' Microfilm - ISBN: 9781851172078 - August 2009 Microform - further details for this title The SPG and the Middle East and North Africa region 'This collection comprises chiefly the volumes of copies of letters received (CLR) and copies of letters sent (CLS) for the period from 1842 to 1928, and relating to the Society's activities from Iran in the East to the Mediterranean basin and Gibraltar in the West. Included are the letters dated 1926-1928 from two volumes entitled ''Moslem works'', most of which deal with either the Society's desire to support the Abyssinian Church in the face of Muslim missionary activity, or attempts to revive relations with Christian communities in Iraq following the withdrawal of the Church Missionary Society at the end of the World War I. Other places covered, especially from the start of the 20th century, include Jerusalem, Egypt and Sudan.' Microfilm reels - ISBN: 9781851172061 - October 2009 Microform - further details for this title USPG C series records relating to Canada to c.1860 The original Diocese of Quebec (C/CAN/QUE), founded in 1793, incorporated both Upper and Lower Canada. When the Diocese of Toronto (C/CAN/TOR) was founded in 1839 out of the Upper Canada (C/CAN/QUE (UC), corresponding roughly to present-day Ontario) portion of the Quebec diocese the remaining part of the latter could then simply be referred to as Quebec. In 1850 Montreal Diocese was formed out of part of Quebec Diocese. (The records relating specifically to Upper Canada and Toronto are reproduced separately.) The USPG archive is now held at the Rhodes House Library, Oxford. Microfilm reels TBA - ISBN: 9781851171521 - TBC - January 2009 Microform - further details for this title USPG C series records relating to Canada to c.1860 Upper Canada, corresponding to present-day Ontario, was originally administered by the SPG as part of Quebec, founded in 1793. When the Diocese of Toronto (C/CAN/TOR) was founded in 1839 out of the Upper Canada (C/CAN/QUE (UC) portion of the Diocese of Quebec the remaining part of the latter could then simply be referred to as Quebec. In 1857 Huron Diocese was formed out of part of Toronto Diocese. Included in this collection are the papers of Dr John Strachan, the first bishop of Toronto. Materials relating to the merger of the Upper Canada Clergy Society with the SPG in 1840 can be found in the C/CAN/GEN series. The USPG archive is now held at the Rhodes House Library, Oxford. Microfilm reels TBA - ISBN: 9781851171552 - TBC - January 2009 Microform - further details for this title USPG C series records relating to Canada to c.1860 This set comprises the entire C/CAN series of documents from the USPG archive relating to Anglican missionary activity in the provinces of Canada from the pre-diocesan period in the mid-18th century up to 1860. (Reports for Canada during the first half of the 20th century can be found in the E series.) Microfilm reels TBA - ISBN: 9781851171569 - TBC - January 2009 Microform - further details for this title Wesleyan-Methodist periodicals 'This major resource from the special collections of the Oxford Brookes University includes: Arminian magazine, 1778-1798; Methodist magazine, 1799-1897; Wesleyan-Methodist magazine, 1898-1960; Primitive Methodist magazine, 1830-1931; Aldersgate magazine, 1932- ; Methodist recorder, 1861- ; Watchman, 1835-1883; Proceedings of the Wesleyan Conference, 1744-1932; Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1744- . Also included are images of the original photographs on glass plates used by Nehemiah Curnock for his critical editon of: The journal of the Rev. John Wesley : enlarged from original mss., with notes from unpublished diaries, annotations, maps, and illustrations.-- London : R. Culley, [1909-16].' Online resource - ISBN: 9781851172092 - November 2009 Microform - further details for this title 5 October 2009 |
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